to borrow your phrase lol
― ol' Wrink P's thinkpiece (some dude), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
I miss this show so much :(
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
Showed my wife half of the second season and she wasn't impressed. Considering divorce tbh :(
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Nhex, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
if i dig pally on this show should i start watching the mindy project? ilx doesn't seem to be super stoked on the mindy project
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link
he's not as funny on mindy as he was on happy endings but he's still funny + it's a good show so yes u should watch
― Mordy , Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
Mindy Project is much, much funnier now than it originally was
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link
yeah, definitely one of the most improved new shows of the last couple seasons, don't let early ilx posts before it found its footing scare you off
― some dude, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
I still need to watch the first season of HE in full; I didn't really get into the show until season 2
I still marvel at how it morphed from being a show about relatively normal Dave and Alex and their zany friends into Dave and Alex arguably being the craziest people in the group
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
Dave is clearly unstable.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
xps - k, i'll have to give it a shot
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
Mindy Project's funny in that it can't decide whether its a wacky ensemble comedy about a ob-gyn clinic (pally's great but OMG who thought they needed another goofball?) or a show about the romantic life of the titular character from her pov. It rarely succeeds in seamlessly melding the two directions, but I find both worlds so enjoyable that the friction doesn't keep me from watching or anything.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
^^^ OTM
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
xp i agree with the first part of your assessment, but it's kind of left me indifferent more often than not. it's got some good jokes, i'll give it, but i still feels like it's "finding its footing" as a show
― Nhex, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
that's the thing - as they never stop bringing in boyfriends or wacky new employees, i don't think it ever will! But I love the goofballs (even if they're scrambling to fit them all in an episode) and find Mindy & Michael to be really rich, novel leads for the romantic angle. If one of the parts didn't work for me (which seems to be the case for a lot of people), the chafing prob would keep me from watching.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
mindy project exceptionally funny tnite
― Mordy , Wednesday, 8 January 2014 03:11 (ten years ago) link
The creator of Happy Endings has a new show that's gonna be on NBC, so this won't last long: http://tvline.com/2014/01/08/marry-me-nbc-pilot-happy-endings-david-caspe/
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
too bad Wayans Jr is already on New Girl, otherwise they could just cast him and Coupe
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
Oh, I knew Casey Wilson got engaged, but I didn't realize it was to the guy who created Happy Endings. Anyway, as inferred in the article, I hope she winds up on the show.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
otherwise they could just cast him and Coupe
That would be perfect.
Wayans is only guest starring on New Girl this season though, right?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 22:30 (ten years ago) link
http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Maebe-Funke-Marry-Me.gif
― kinder, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link
xp He's got some kind of single dad pilot in the works iirc.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
i can't remember if he's in the credits (new girl barely has credits right?) but he's in the promo stuff w/ the other cast members. i think he's a recurring guest star or whatever heather locklear was on melrose place and whether he's on the show next year depends on whether his pilot gets picked up. i hope he stays tbh, he works well on the show and there's something quietly radical about having more than one 'black guy' in the gang.
― balls, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
Hey guys, every ep is now streaming on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/HappyEndingsFull/videos
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 23 January 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Wish it was Netflix so I could bug someone to watch it - don't think YouTube's gonna cut it. But cool anyways
― Nhex, Thursday, 23 January 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
video's video
― j., Thursday, 23 January 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
thanks so much for this! I missed a bunch of earlier eps
― kinder, Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
it was on netflix a few months ago, i know because rewatched every episode
how i laughed
― Lamp, Thursday, 23 January 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
not on OUR netflix it aint
― kinder, Thursday, 23 January 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
shit this cast was so good together
― j., Friday, 24 January 2014 04:43 (ten years ago) link
I just watched the pilot for the first time, it's weeeeirdpilots are always nothing like what they eventually turn into tho
― kinder, Friday, 24 January 2014 11:15 (ten years ago) link
Coach is getting more & more Brad-esque on New Girl - totally killed it this week.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 24 January 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Saturday, 25 January 2014 04:05 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 25 January 2014 04:16 (ten years ago) link
i think it goes pretty fast. only the first one or two are a touch wacky-post-friends-sitcomy.
but s1 is short too.
― j., Saturday, 25 January 2014 04:24 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Saturday, 25 January 2014 04:25 (ten years ago) link
I guess this is...good-ish news...?
http://www.avclub.com/article/its-happy-ending-writers-happy-endings-comedy-cent-203036
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 3 April 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
Cuz-Bros??
― Nhex, Thursday, 3 April 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
But where's Eliza
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 4 April 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
good fucking question tbh
― some dude, Friday, 4 April 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
Eliza & Elisha need to stay on TV in perpetuity. maybe they can get the Letterman gig.
― some dude, Friday, 4 April 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
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.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 April 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Friday, 4 April 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
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.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 April 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Friday, 4 April 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
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.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 April 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
http://www.usanetwork.com/benched/cast/benched
pilot for the new eliza coupe vehicle on usa, a law/career woman comedy
― j., Saturday, 18 October 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
COUPE!
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 18 October 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link