GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

it's funny, if anything you could combine 3-4 of those plots and come up with a pretty good Seinfeld script--though you'd have to find a way for them all the converge at the end.

I guess you'll get back to "Girls" when a new episode is actually on right this second. Fucking internet.

Contrived silly situations are not new in sitcoms, it was the style which differentiated Seinfeld. And that it was semi-openly Jewish.

'seinfeld' made a big impact on baby dunk due to its wholehearted embrace of promiscuity and rejection of the american adult's duty to marry and have kids (it's one of the queerest shows ever to me) and feels more like 'art' in the modernist novelist sort of way (ie; expressing one person's way of seeing the world) than pretty much any other sitcom i've seen. i still can't really separate my aspirations of big city living from what i imagined real-life Seinfeld characters would live. for a sheltered home-schooled christian adolescent it was a transmission from a bigger, funner, planet, and i'll be forever glad that it was on network tv. if i was 13 now and knew how to bittorrent 'girls' would serve the same purpose.

morbs -- yeah i was thinking the relationship between the dick van dyke show and seinfeld was really a certain strain of jewish humor. carl reiner was behind the former.

its not the contrivedness of the situations, its the mundanity, exacerbated by neurosis. flipped thru some honeymooners episode descriptions otoh and none woulda worked for an A seinfeld plot, but most coulda worked for a B plot with Kramer, which i guess was his joke.

Morbs I'll discuss 'Girls' with you—just finished watching both seasons for first time!

is this thread really going to be about Seinfeld for the entire off-season?

u_u

well you're one ahead of me, and I'm probably done for now. xp

Morbs do you come down more on the "time is a rubber band" or "everybody is a dumb whore" side of the argument?

that must be "season" 2

(sorry ppl, 10 episodes is only a season for wimps)

you must hate british tv then. only six!

He'd hate the first two series of The Thick Of It

HE HATES EVERYTHING THATS HIS THING

i enjoy him anyway. that's my thing

^^Sounds like something Hannah would say about Adam.

in general my fav sitcoms tend to have the fewest number of episodes (blackadder, fawlty, honeymooners).

I Hate My Teenage Daughter...

British is a diff thing. If MTM could crank out 22-26 episodes of Mary and Newhart a year...

i mostly like this show but absolutely no one needs 25 eps of this per season

just bend over and show us how those jeans fit, sweetums

http://ris.fashion.telegraph.co.uk/RichImageService.svc/imagecontent/1/TMG10244556/m/Gap_Fall13_Denim_A_2644558a.jpg

haha morbs I am loving how in love you are with Adam

I can't narrow it down to a dozen filthy things I would do to him

<3

1. "Send him home to mommy and daddy, covered in come"

it's spelled 'cum'

also, what the hell???

the GAP deal or my repurposing of one of his better lines?

ok i didn't realize you were quoting, carry on

hahaha

I was surprised to see him staring down at me from a billboard on Canal Street.

yeah, what a sellout; trading him off my team on madden as soon as i get home

"Wanna watch Bagger Vance?...Wanna watch the Bagger Vance extras?"

I despise the spelling 'cum' and have always refused to use it btw

so have Come

the Bad Brains, not so much

I despise the spelling 'cum' and have always refused to use it btw

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^^

hahaha

I was surprised to see him staring down at me from a billboard on Canal Street.

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where? I must investigate

Good in Frances Ha.

乒乓, at the bottom of 6th Ave.

jeez, the first 3 episodes of the second season are pretty sucky.

It gets worse

Yeah thats nothing compared to the last 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlkN3ShRJtA

That's the promo for Season 3.

I felt that way about the first two, but I loved the coke episode.

terrible promo btw. They make it look like a generic *offbeat indie comedy*.

Which it happened to be, sometimes, in Season 2.

yeah, true, the Ray/Shoshana "I love you" scene was obnoxiously romcom, for example. I wonder if that's the imprint of Apatow.

Something about the cocaine bit just perfectly captured the phenomenon of doing something "for the experience" in a hilarious way.

does anyone think that "bi" ex/roomie could possibly EVER have sex with a woman, multiple times?

Jemima Kirke marriage plot is ridiculous

I just hope Dunham dedicated herself to write a good story this time. I keep wondering why I should get back to those characters.

I was just saying to H that Jessa is oddly the only character I find likable.