Unopened Boxsets that I liked the look of from the Pilot: The ILX Television 51 Show Countdown Extravaganza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not all characters are loathsome. Just those you see all the time like Jack and Kate for ex. Guys like Desmond are really not loathsome.

Sayid and Sawyer not loathsome. Also, Hurley.

Don't forget Walt. And the horse.

if you hate hurley or desmond, i don't know what to tell you, brother

there is a horse? or did sarah jessica parker finally get another job post-sex and the city?

controversy time: i didn't vote for Office UK but Office US was my #25

Jack's Tattoo episode was written to be shit, to prove to the network that they needed to set an end date to tell the story instead of continually dragging on. Now the show is infinitely better (I would say it picks up about 6 episodes before the ending of season 3 and never really stops), but the downside is they lost ailsa.

(I'm only basing my non-loathsomeness on what I've seen up to the middle of season 3, obviously. They might have turned into right bastards since then)

xpost, they might get me back one day, when I stop devoting all my time to shit that no-one else watches like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Oh, I didnt know they did it on purpose, making it shit. They were really successful at achieving what they intended to!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOkxLvFQQXE

u.k. office was so great. and way better than u.s. version. sorry yankees!

Don't think they intentionally wrote a shit episode to make a studio give them less episodes. More episodes, more repeats, more syndication money to make them bazillionaires. Throwing in one or two filler episodes not really done to show that television companies don't know what they are doing - the show makers should have already been focussed if that was the case.

Re: Rose/Bernard (from the Lost, Season 6 thread)

Call me cold hearted, but I kinda hope that Rose & Bernard have been sucked into some black hole vacuum & remain there for the rest of the series.

― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Friday, February 6, 2009 7:32 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

See, I would rather watch them die, personally.

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, February 6, 2009 7:33 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'd like to see Walt fling birds at them with his mind.

― Local Garda, Friday, February 6, 2009 7:35 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark

Don't be sorry...US Office will probably place higher.

This Yank voted of UK Office but not US, fwiw.

intentional shit episode is the best theory i've ever heard about the show tbh

I like the U.S. Office more, possibly cos I don't find it as unbearably bleak as I did the U.K. version the first time I watched it.

the only reason i watch u.s. office is cuzza steve carell. everyone else is pretty much a dud.

No way only Steve Carrell is worth it. I cant remember their names but old crazy dude who steals stuff is not dud for ex.

do not be fooled by their job descriptions

There's more jokes and they have more fun with the minor characters in the U.S. version. The thing that U.K versh has going for it most is Keith.

Don't be sorry...US Office will probably place higher.

― musically, Thursday, November 5, 2009 11:13 PM (2 minutes ago)

uh unless i am confused us office already placed much further down the list?

Actually, I think the Jack's tats one might have been the last one they showed on Sky One before Virgin pulled the plug on it in the UK, and by the time I got hooked back up with Sky, I'd lost interest (yes, I know, torr3ntZors or whatever, that Jack's tats episode made me not want to bother).

The US Office better not get in above the UK one. I like it just fine, but it's not, y'know, proper great telly.

xpost, oh, did it place already? I am confused.

intentional shit episode is the best theory i've ever heard about the show tbh

looking for the interview. probs just wrote a shit ep and then said 'yeah, meant to'.

the island made it shit

The U.S. Office was number 20, guys.

shit i missed it!

Also voted for US but not UK. I like both, but I saw the UK version so long ago. Also, the characters on the US version have grown on me over dozens of episodes.

The "happy" ending of the UK Office was total Gervais trying to be ingratiating cowardice imo.

prefer Extras to UK Office, tbh.

^seems kinda challopsy, but patrick stewart scene in the trailer might be the funniest scene of the decade imo

also you get v funny Stephen Merchant (and Barry Evans). Extras second series was just too stupid tho.

6. The Daily Show (35 votes, 1 first place vote, 5245 points.)
http://www.womenandhealth.org/events/Photos/DailyShow.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ4AMtGSXrA

The "happy" ending of the UK Office was total Gervais trying to be ingratiating cowardice imo.

xxp

is this not because you found the rest of it unbearably bleak?

the ending makes sense - sometimes bleak losers have mini wins

I think my viewing of UK Office was dulled by having already seen the first season of the US, in which a lot of the same jokes/scenarios were recycled.

ok the order of this is now totally baffling to me.

great job you're doing here btw a hoy hoy

are there any really funny correspondents left? i usually just catch jon doing the headlines nowadays.

if Mad Men makes it and Arrested Development doesnt somebody is going to get cut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUVuXgy3CVY

the ending makes sense - sometimes bleak losers have mini wins

It feels like a failure of nerve in a programme that was almost wholly misanthropic all down the line.

daily show - correspondents are not great these days, interviews have been getting shittier and shittier, somebody needs to drop rob riggle out of a plane

^^^^ nonsense. yes there are plenty of funny corresponents, in fact they have better people there today than they did in the past imo.

guess I was the only 1st place voter.

i did some statistical breakdown based on safe assumptions of the top few not yet posted, for some fun analysis of the 'ilx demographic'. by network, for the US shows:

HBO: 8 (incl. Ali G )
FOX: 6
NBC: 5
UPN/WB/CW: 4
Comedy Central: 4
AMC: 2
MTV/MTV2: 2
CBS: 1
ABC: 1
FX, Starz, SyFy, Showtime, Bravo: 1 each

can't really be bothered to figure out the UK shows or if any weren't BBC or whatever, but there were 11 of those

i mean how many times have they done the "rob riggle in an inappropriate sleeveless shirt oh the laughter" joke?

xposts saying the current correspondents are better than ed helms/cobert is madness btw

MADNESS!

By genre:

Hourlong dramas and dramedies: 21
Half-hour live action sitcoms: 14
Non-fiction/reality/unscripted/nature/variety/etc.: 8
Animated: 6
Sketch: 2

ok its kinda pathetic that the top youtube results for daily show cramer are just other new shows talking about that episode and showing clips (i know you can watch it on the daily show site tho)

what from MTV made it?