Community, the tv show

you're kidding me - 2 Broke Girls is a smash hit? I honestly had no idea

Depressing but unsurprising. It's so LCD. It's of a piece with that string of awful sitcoms NBC parked between Friends and Seinfeld in the '90s.

Or after Seinfeld, even. Must See TV wasn't so Must See even back then.

NBC Thursday night lineup history

Union Square is the show that immediately came to mind. Couldn't remember the name off the top of my head.

oh god UNION SQUARE

2 Broke Girls isn't just bad, it's actually offensively bad. And not just to good taste, like the overt racism is just 0_0

What if they brought back the NBC Thursday Night Movie?

I liked Good Morning, Miami btw.

Cosby Show, Family Ties, Cheers. Done and done

And not just to good taste, like the overt racism is just 0_0

They make a lot of rape jokes too, it's so edgy.

I've watched a total of five minutes of 2 Broke Girls and that was enough to ensure I will never of my own free will watch it again; nothing should EVER make you pine for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

hahah DJP otfm

I wonder how pissed the suits are at NBC that CBS got 2BG and they got stuck with Whitney.

strange no one's mentioned fox's live action shows, all of which (afaict, i've only seen commercials) are single-camera non-laugh track shows. if mindy project and ben and kate can catch on, at least. ABC's only multi-cam show is last man standing.

that is the model for NBC, maybe. it seems like they want to ignore the other two networks that have successful (if less funny/'intelligent'/'creative') single-cam shows and shoot for CBS numbers.

what the fuck is rules of engagement and how is it on its sixth season btw

SEVENTH! i mentioned this on an SNL thread recently but David Spade has had one sitcom or another on network primetime for 16 seasons straight now o_O

oh lol i remember seeing a promo for a new david spade show but i thought that was maybe last year at the earliest

So far this season New Girl is the best sitcom.

yeah rules of engagement has been sticking around for several years by being an option cbs has plugged in whenever there's a hole in their schedule. it's been on for seven seasons but i believe last season was the first season where they actually started it in the fall and gave it it's own scheduled time. granted it was on saturday nights in some admirable attempt at bringing original programming back to saturdays but i think they scrapped that plan and moved it somewhere else as soon as there was a hole in their programming. did spade jump to 8 ways to fuck my daughter immediately after whenever just shoot me died? crazy to think he's managed that. plus if he jumped right from snl to just shoot me (which i think he did) then he's had a steady network tv gig for around twenty years. david fucking spade.

rules of just shooting my teenage daughter

the david spade story

So glad we have the internet, sounds like network TV really sucks.

i did appreciate how new girl had hipsters on but didn't feel the need to do 'ugh hipsters' pat storyline and instead just treated them as young ppl, i don't think i could've handled the cognitive dissonance of zooey deschanel show mocking tumblr whites. really enjoying mindy project.

engagement is basically half to a third a good sitcom with Krumholtz and half to two thirds some really irritating b-plots with annoying people i don't care about.

wait not krumholtz i meant warburton. warburton delivers.

oh, and mindy project is good? saw the pilot and decided it would be awful. guess it picked up?

yeah, it's nothing i'd go testifying for but it's watchable, if you have any mindy kaling tolerance you'll be ok w/ it i'd imagine.

i'm still enjoying raising hope, though it feels like it's running out of gas a bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LV7M_WeGX8

Haaaa. That kinda gives me hope. I'm looking forward to the 2015 season 4 premiere on nbc.com.

Sometimes I think Virtual Systems Analysis was kind of great.

Between this clip and 30 Rock it seems like everyone is getting their digs in regarding Animal Hospital.

Joel's been making digs at the delayed premiere on The Soup as well. He had Fred Willard on and after he left said "see Fred Willard on Community which will be premiering..." (looks at his phone) "someday!"

or something like that.

fyi http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/18/showbiz/tv/animal-practice-canceled-ew/index.html?hpt=en_c2

lol your beloved alien show continues to dodge the bullet

I haven't seen this week's episode yet, which apparently is one of the worst things ever put on television

poor Jami

I haven't watched it, but it can't be worse than Two and a Half Men.

I've actually laughed at Two and A Half Men before; I couldn't even make it through 5 minutes of Mike and Molly

ha I saw my first five minutes of 2 1/2 Men last week waiting for the Veep debate and it was so much more repellent than I had even imagined. It didn't help that it was Cryer and Kucher having a 3 way with Cryer's wife or something.

I haven't seen the Kutcher iteration of the show, seems kind of pointless

Anger Management and Kutcher-era Two And A Half Men are basically the Beady Eye and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds of stupid sitcoms

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gives me hope for the new season.

so much more repellent than I had even imagined.

My boss loves this show. And hates unions. I assume union-hating middle managers are the show's intended audience.

Stay classy Chevy.

Maybe he had an episode and thought he was back on SNL doing a sketch with Richard Pryor.

That's kinda the only thing that makes any sense, given the facts as presented.

who adds that Chase has grown increasingly unhappy with the dark direction of his character, the bigoted Pierce Hawthorne.

wait, he's grown increasingly unhappy with his character's bigotry?

i don't really hate CC like a lot of folks do (although that story isn't helping) and think his character has been plenty funny/worthwhile throughout the show, but i really don't know why they haven't just written him out of the show unless his contract makes it legally difficult. he's prob the most expensive member of the cast member, his name recognition means nothing for the show's (lack of) ratings, and it would fit fine into the show's arc for the old contentious guy to die or just finally leave the group for good.

Pretty much my thoughts. I would've preferred that he was let go before Harmon was fired, assuming their feud had anything at all to do with Sony's decision.

so I guess Harmon wasn't Chevrolet's only problem