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

Were Jane and Alex sisters at the beginning, or is it just a plot device they added later?

the somewhat scary thing is that, for all of the weirdness and unreality, I feel like this show captures the essence of my interactions with IRL friends more than any other show on television

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Friday, January 13, 2012 12:41 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the weirdness and unreality are all surface. the relationships are realistic.

The "rotary dial" joke killed me dead for a good couple minutes.

^^^ otm

I'm pretty sure they referenced them being sisters way early in Season 1.

Dave on the floor of his old room was pretty great, too

annoyed this isn't on Hulu

it is on hulu! that's how i've been watching it.

O_O I looked for it yesterday and couldn't find it!

stupid "smart" tv

oh -- yeah it's not available to watch on devices, only through the website interface

they're updating them though -- i remember a while back community wasn't available on devices either, but now it is

i thought the best joke in the last episode was the A. Ryan 4✧✧✧@prod✧✧✧.n✧✧ one.

lol yeah largely because of damon wayans jr <3 <3 <3

haha ilx autofilter!!

watching the lastest episode did make me realize that this show is like the epitome of everything that whiney and other sitcom classicists hate abt the modern sitcom tho like how many jokes are people making ::groans:: puns and saying things in a oddball wayyyyy out of left field with add style patter

lol @ "Room & Hoard"

omg "Blackass"

Tonight was great, loved Jane's 90s outfit.

Also nice Reckless Records t-shirt in the Blackass scene.

dope sick episode dawg

Yeah, it was cool to see Kyle from Party Down on tv again.

oh shit that's where i knew him from!

Eliza Coupe and co are making a web series about a picture of Michael Fassbender.

http://www.funnyordie.com/somelikeitcoupe

I'll be glad when new eps come back...two weeks of repeats is two weeks too many.

xp lol @ "you're not even gonna talk when I blow you?"

Each one is funnier than the last.

Yeah the slang and facial expressions are so far removed from anything actual real live people do that it makes Friends seem like a documentary by comparison,

I'd been trying to put my finger on what seemed most 'off' about this show. I think this is it.

I love that they are playing old episodes I missed the first time around, Max's coming out episode was super hilarious

I want to talk about Penny's date but it so spoils it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but oh my god the writers were on a tear in this episode

also it will never happen but a cross-show Happy Endings/New Girl meeting between Penny and Schmidt would be amahze

I think this is why I have been able to get into it? There's something very cold and detached about it. xxp

Man, I don't think "cold" applies to this show at all.

there is a definite element of surreality in the show that can generate detachment (I felt that in the first episode of it I watched, where they were going to a wedding of I think one of Penny's exes) but, as I believe I said upthread, the friend dynamics and back-and-forth in this show is scarily like the interactions between at least one circle of my friends, plus the actor chemistry really does fill in a lot of blanks for me

but then again, weird slightly surreal shows have always been my bag when it comes to modern comedy (RIP Better Off Ted)

play a little d'angelo and then pull out my peen'angelo

lol'ing heartily at damon wayans jr tnite

He was killing it

I'm starting to think he's funnier than his dad. Apples & oranges, sure, but Damon Jr. seems more adept at physical stuff and rapid-fire timing. And the fondue bit was genius.

i never found his dad funny. i remember an ep of My Wife and Kids where Damon Wayans spends the whole episode explaining to Junior how wack weed is in the uncoolest, condescending ways possible. jennifer freeman was cute tho so

I actually never saw MW&K, but remember Damon Sr.'s standup being pretty funny. He was also one of the (very, very few) high points of the 1985-86 season of SNL.

The "asthma" bit in the limo was lols for me for some reason.

if your only exposure to Damon Wayons Sr is "My Wife and Kids", you haven't really seen Damon Wayans Sr IMO

that's like saying "I've never found Tracy Morgan funny; I saw one episode of 'The Tracy Morgan Show' and it was just the worst"

haha

Damon Sr's golden hour was In Living Color.

if your only exposure to Damon Wayons Sr is "My Wife and Kids", you haven't really seen Damon Wayans Sr IMO

Srsly.

ashamed to admit i've never seen an episode of In Living Color

:O

that show was so huge it spawned careers for BOTH Shawn and Marlon Wayans, and Shawn was just the DJ and Marlon only did season 4

i have seen numerous episodes of the Wayans Bros.

laughed so much at damon wayans, jr + the chocolate fondue

When he was drooling in the dentist's waiting room...so great.

is it pretty uncontroversial at this point to say that damon wayans jr is the funniest wayans? (based on my limited experience, this seems to be true)

The only real contest is with his dad imo. They were awesome together on that episode from S1.

that show was so huge it spawned careers for BOTH Shawn and Marlon Wayans

this is the most hilariously fucked up way to state the importance of In Living Color

he has become my favorite part of happy endings.

licking his watch to see the time...

this is also much better than it has any right to be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvMZTnhHnUU

holy shit that was incredible

looking fwd to watching this, we've been re-watching recently

All I will say is there is one scene that has a fantastic use of Zoom backgrounds

"Time Out New York called it 'Bomb'!"

The Toms (shoes, toothpaste, MySpace)

that was so good that it made me look up the showrunner which made me watch half of season 1 of black monday which is... gooooood? but absolutely not same energy

"Time Out New York called it 'Bomb'!"

"Time Out NY called it 'long'" imo

Time Out Chicago iirc

I thought that but second-guessed myself on correcting too much from Simon's post

also yes, it is great, so much more a ~new episode of~ than the Parks & Rec special. (but: admire the realism of using shitty laptop audio, but the rapid-fire dialogue would have been better served by them using real mics offscreen)

I thought I’d stopped being in love with Eliza Coupe but nope

Also, it’s been said about a million times but CAST SYNERGY FOR EONS

yea this was good ~ youtube then autoplayed their cast read of an entertainment wkly festival thing, im sure yall posted that upthread but it was hysterical

https://i.gifer.com/4Yyt.gif