ABC's hangout comedy Happy Endings, starring Coupe, Cuthbert, Casey, and Wayans the Younger

Coach is getting more & more Brad-esque on New Girl - totally killed it this week.

xp agreed. I just rewatched it too. My initial instinct on watching the pilot was that show was OK but not particularly special, which is still true - it really got a lot better w/season 2. Still, I might go through S1 for kicks, I wasn't watching too keenly back then

I don't remember exactly when S1 stepped up, but it was somewhere in there. Otherwise I wouldn't have been so hyped about S2 when it finally got on tv. I have the dvds. I should watch it again.

i think it goes pretty fast. only the first one or two are a touch wacky-post-friends-sitcomy.

but s1 is short too.

it feels so weird that they were trying to have genuine gravitas back then, knowing how excellent it would get when they finally ditched that business

I guess this is...good-ish news...?

http://www.avclub.com/article/its-happy-ending-writers-happy-endings-comedy-cent-203036

Cuz-Bros??

good news imo. i can see a show with a Happy Endings-ish sensibility doing better in Comedy Central's current primetime climate than on the networks.

But where's Eliza

good fucking question tbh

Eliza & Elisha need to stay on TV in perpetuity. maybe they can get the Letterman gig.

Otm, i'd watch them do a tag team talk show host as the sisters from Happy Endings. That would rule.

I'm happy Pally's ended up on The Mindy Project, he's pretty good there. It's a shame the New Girl writers have no clue what to do with Wayans.

nah Wayans is great on New Girl. imo one of the most inspiring stories in the recent history of network casting is how they went from having one token black guy in the pilot to having a different one in the series and then bringing back the original and having GASP two funny and distinct black guy characters in a network sitcom cast.

I don't think he's been awful by any means and I'm glad he's there, it just feels like the writers aren't sure what to do with him, which is why they keep going back to the well with his Cece storyline. Feel like he just kinda gets wasted in some episodes.

yeah but that's the case with everybody on that show whenever they decide to refocus on Jess/Nick/Schmidt, before that they gave him a lot of screen time/plots

Yeah, that ties into my larger problem with this recent season in that the Jess/Nick stuff was eating up way too much unfunny time and giving all of the other characters short shrift.

http://www.usanetwork.com/benched/cast/benched

pilot for the new eliza coupe vehicle on usa, a law/career woman comedy

COUPE!

And with Michaela Watkins writing! Should be good.

the Happy Endings cast member sitcom diaspora and the Women Lorne Michaels Did Not Like As Much As Kristen Wiig sitcom diaspora keep overlapping and doing good work

lol

Coupe was best thing about this show

The best thing about this show was everyone

Except Dave. I know Dave had to be there in order for the show to function, but I never liked him.

that's so Dave!

Dave won me over sometime around when the show started being consistently great... probably just after the beginning of season 2

V necks

Dave (and Dave Sr.) was (are) responsible for one of my top 5 Happy Endings things - the "Mr. Rose was the name of my father." "But... that's me." bit.

Dave's dance at the start of the very last episode, when everyone disappears from the kitchen, is amazing

ok i've been out of the loop with this show (and happy endings) ... am i the only one more than a little FREAKED OUT at how much wayans jr takes after his dad?? holy moly. at first i was like dang damon wayans is looking good these days. i mean obviously i am an idiot. but really. it is astonishing.

Dude's funnier than his dad.

his dad maybe a little more earnest? but they have really similar timing.

ok i have now confirmed via the internet that that is the general consensus. apologies for bringing such a tired observation to the table.

anyway, thank you thread for alerting me to his, and this show's existence

yeah Dave started out being the archetypal Male Sitcom Lead Who Is Not Actually Funny and then got really really funny, partly because they played off of how lame he is so well

AKA The Britta track

Haha, yeah sorta. Except I still don't like Dave most of the time except for the odd gag.

Dave's 1/16th Navajo schtick during the Thanksgiving episode was amazing

Ross was a crap character in Friends until they made his inherent lameness the joke in later seasons. See Dave as kind of the same

If you want to hear COUPE! talk about shit for half an hour (and do it hilariously), here's the podcast episode for you: http://doodiecallswithdougmand.libsyn.com/doodie-calls-eliza-coupe

Also, Adam Pally (but I haven't listened to this one yet): http://doodiecallswithdougmand.libsyn.com/doodie-calls-with-doug-mand-adam-pally

The Pally one is one of the funniest ever iirc.

It was quite good. I was trying not to just completely lose it at my desk.

Watched the first two episodes of Benched. Coupe is as lovely as ever but it's got that familiar USA veneer of mediocrity. Hope it gets better and they give Maria Bamford more to do.
Marry Me pilot was a better start, glad it's doing OK ratings-wise for NBC.

omg what does this meeeeeaaaaannnnn https://twitter.com/happywrites/status/563844694820405248

like, half of the Happy Endings cast have left their post-HE shows (Wayans, Pally) or their shows have been cancelled (Coupe)

though there's still the other three, but honestly save Wilson, who I also liked, the other two who have work lined up were the weakest so I'm fine with a new, streamlined Happy Endings with just Wayans, Coupe, and Pally

I realize I'm getting far too ahead of myself here

If anyone thinks that series Elisha Cuthbert is on will last beyond a few airings, they're mistaken. And I haven't been following Marry Me at all, but I'd have to think Casey Wilson could pull double duty since her husband's the boss and also created Happy Endings.

I haven't seen Zachery Knighton since the last episode of Happy Endings.

As one commenter pointed out, this might just be the day that Happy Endings shows up on streaming platforms.

It warms my heart to think that Wayans and Pally left their much more successful shows to do Happy Endings again

As for the show appearing on streaming platforms, it is, or was, on Netflix, at least here in Canada. I know because I tried to convert some friends with a few episodes, they weren't into it :((((

shoot, didn't know Wayans Jr. was leaving New Girl again. bummer.

Pally was one of the few revolving door supporting players on The Mindy Project who really fit into the show and was used well, shame to see him go. and New Girl w/ Wayans is so great, bummed that he's doing too. they better both be doing lots of good shit in the near future to justify all this.

this was truly a great tv show