don't really KNOW that guy? felt like a pastiche/strawman to me.
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't think too hard on it, it felt funny to me
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
Also valid
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
you guys are referring to some Irish comedian like he's a huge global star?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think anyone did that? He was the romantic lead in one of the biggest comedies of recent years though
― Number None, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
i had never heard of him
wouldn't have guessed he was irish even if the accent was strange
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
he's Roy on The IT Crowd!
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
i trust that worked out well for him
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
I've heard of The IT Crowd, yeah, have never seen it; prob has a devoted US cult of 50,000.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
Not much more than Britain then.
― Desire is withered away from the sons of men! (aldo), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
Well yeah, in that he was the romantic lead in one of the biggest comedies of recent years.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
haven't seen Bridesmaids either, was that a big role?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
PAGING DR MORBS: TUOMAS HAS HACKED YR ACCOUNT
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
feel like i've totally outflanked morbs cuz i haven't even heard of bridesmaids
also i suspect i have seen more hou hsaio hsien films than morbs too
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
the main thing is rory is cuet
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno i feel the big lie around tuomas was that he had some kaspar hauser level cultural deprivation rather than an innate sense of timing wrt disclosing his selective ignorances
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
sorry stevie, is it Apatow Things or Britcoms that demand universal attention?
I count 10 or 11 Hou features that I've seen, nakh, nothing before A Time to Live...
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
just rory
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
also Jessa through that whole bar scene was giving me awkward flashbacks to myself stuck in the same role with friends as they were chatted up by random skeevy dudes who thought they were cooler than they are. just abject derision from 'hello' to 'uhhhhhhhh no we're leaving and so is she'
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
that's pretty good
i have seen a summer at grandpa's a while ago....but probably fewer than ten in total
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
the bar/rug scenes were unnecessarily distended beyond that screenshot i posted which p much summarized everything better than a whole tiresome gervaisian cringe session
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Did someone say IT Crowd? Don't worry about most of it but make sure you watch "Gay! The Gay musical" episode. Yes, I need to mention this any time someone brings up that show. It's that funny.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
comedy subjects that make me cautious: Brooklyn hipsters, gays, IT
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
Wait hold up, is Tuomas past tense now?
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
"I was just trying to be free"
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
this ep was more traditional-TV than other eps but lots of good, interesting moments anywayi realized that am watching this show more as a writer than usual, it's just fascinating that way
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i feel that. like attention to its tone & continuity, &c. i wonder if it's the knowledge that it's like the auteurial vision of LD. am super impressed w/the plotting between episodes, they're very neatly cohesive as single eps but everything's moved on a lot.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
This episode made CO'D seem funny and The Vaccines seem vaguely uplifting - which is some next level televisual alchemy, rilly.
― Stevie T, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
The skeevy guy in the bar was a bit OTT but I liked how they wrote Jessa and Marnie from two opposite poles; Marnie pining for a boyfriend, esp an "important" one and Jessa not wanting anything to do with someone like that. The dude freaking about his rug did crack me up, though.
"Well, maybe you shouldn't invite 20 year old girls so as to wine them up on the floor, then, huh?"
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
serious lols at Jessa being all "Oh hey there" she thought it was the old dude at the bar that bought them the drinks and then "ugh rly" with the Chris O Dowd reveal.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
lol yes. also in being totally bored by the three-way but into kissing marnie.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
It all still seems very consequence free and I don't care anything about the individual characters, but I still really like this show which I think is a testament to the quality of the writing and acting.
― All kinds of heinous things, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 05:50 (eleven years ago) link
"Done."
― s.clover, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 05:56 (eleven years ago) link
Ok I was a bit harsh upthread. This show is significantly better than How To Make It In America. Basically because Adam and Jessa are engaging actors.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
But Adam as a character is now like 90x too much. On the other hand, he's drawn probably as broadly as most female love interests on "guy" shows. Gawker's hated roundup nailed it describing him as a sort of manic pixie dream guy. Which is, I suppose, interesting and important in a sense, or at least new. But its certainly not honest, if that was ever posed.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
or maybe it's not new, now that I think about it. it's like 2/3 of johnny depp's career, even.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 06:17 (eleven years ago) link
y u still reading gawker's shit? also don't think he's manic pixie dream guy at all
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 06:30 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno, i think adam's quite honestly drawn. i've known people like him: proudly unsocialized, driven, idealistic, gifted, narcissistic, given to wild mood swings and whimsical decision-making. the difficulties of artistic collaboration with people of that sort struck home. anway, great episode overall:
"Come on! Charlie's in the bushes! Charlie's in the bushes, come on!"
Adam trying to put the ice cream cone on the kitchen shelf
"You've come this far, wash your forehead!"
"You really look really gorgeous.""I've never been this miserable in my life.""It's totally working."
"It doesn't make sense to get out of the shower now. There's pee on you."
mashups (shudder)
"All right, now let's go fuck."
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 07:10 (eleven years ago) link
I know Chris O'Dowd from
a) Bridesmaidsb) Friends with Kids
His accent in b) was similarly tortured.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
@lenadunham @BretEastonEllis Your work probably inspired like 1/2 my conceptions of sex and romance. It's DEFINITELY why I like Odeon #thankyou
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
He's been tweeting raves about Girls.
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
uh oh
pity about Twitter enabling public asskissing, they shd do this at parties.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
dunno the internet has survived has survived endless snarky bullshit it can probably survive this
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
Your work probably inspired like 1/2 my conceptions of sex and romance. It's DEFINITELY why I like Odeon
I could care less how public the asskissing is but this reads exactly and terrifyingly like Hannah. I know I shouldn't be surprised but it's a bit dispiriting.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
Er, 'couldn't'
Its a little horrifying really, unless there are a whole bunch of BEE novels that I have never heard of which are significantly different w/r/t sex and romance from the ones that I am familiar with. Alternately, she could just be talking about the Less Than Zero film? In which case, cool cool.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
it could also be a joke
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
had a crush on Debra Lee Scott
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FGrxKMwdUu8/R554Viu_W4I/AAAAAAAACeU/NQOzBSJ2Alw/s320/scott+match.jpg
― that's why ZOG controls the radio (brownie), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
no her taste is definitely that awful (xpost)
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link