just watched the last episodes of the season. so good! they make excellent villains here! it's amazing they have been able to maintain quality for this long this consistently imo.
i liked the courtroom drama one, where Charlie is a bird lawyer, and his uncle makes an appearance representing them in court, wearing gloves that look like hands. the boat one was incredible too -- one of those where the show takes a sudden turn into action movie territory and the characters play both hero and villain. "Charlie Catches A Leprechaun" was insane.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 12 March 2016 04:49 (eight years ago) link
when Charlie is doing the Pulp Fiction dance i lost it
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 12 March 2016 04:50 (eight years ago) link
so traumatic, i was panicking
― Laertiades (imago), Saturday, 12 March 2016 09:55 (eight years ago) link
i've seen tons of episodes on netflix and plane rides and stuff but i've never really watched the show in order, so i started it from episode 1 earlier this week. the first season...is not that great? no one really seems into their groove yet, and the characters aren't as distinct as they are later on. charlie in particular seems a lot more alert and normal than the foggy version of himself i'm used to in later episodes
― k3vin k., Friday, 11 November 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
charlie knows how to read in Season 1!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
just about every american sitcom is way more defined in season 2 than it is in season 1.
― Clay, Friday, 11 November 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
I remember watching s1 when it aired and not being really into it - but around the time DeVito joins the cast they really hit their stride
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah i already love the show i've seen probably half the episodes here or there, it's just interesting seeing how different it seems
― k3vin k., Friday, 11 November 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
as lagoon says upthread tho they do establish some things pretty early -- dee's acting classes, dennis and the "tranny" (and his general repressed homosexuality), charlie and the waitress, etc
― k3vin k., Friday, 11 November 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
mac, not dennis obv
― k3vin k., Friday, 11 November 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
javelin watched since s 5 or so. not sure why it was still good
― Spottie, Friday, 11 November 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
javelin=havent
yeah a LOT of the recurring characters are there from the start. Isn't there one episode that introduces like three main recurring character, incl the waitress...?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
xp
oh I see I already covered this:
I recently re-watched this show from the beginning and I had forgotten how much gets established early on. Like, in the 4th episode they introduce the waitress + Charlie's infatuation w her, Artemis, Dee's acting ambitions, and Mac's infatuation with Carmen the transexual. Almost everything the show calls back to (including most of the recurring characters) is set up by the end of the 2nd season.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, January 20, 2016 9:18 AM (nine months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
lol yes that was the post i was referring to i thought i remembered it being lagoon
― k3vin k., Friday, 11 November 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
s1 is pretty bad, i agree that devito coming in is where it improves. not necessarily bc of him but it's a good dividing line.
― na (NA), Friday, 11 November 2016 20:48 (seven years ago) link
i love their high-concept episodes, especially the one where the bar tries to win an award and the (mostly) one-take episode about fooling the health inspector
― na (NA), Friday, 11 November 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
dennis's natural leadership abilities and general sociopathic tendencies haven't really shown up too much yet either. sweet dee seems like the most fully fleshed out so far
― k3vin k., Friday, 11 November 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
dee is nicer/more reasonable at the beginning of the show, iirc kaitlyn olsen went to the dudes eventually and told them she didn't want to be the nagging woman character any more so they started making her more pathetic and weird
― na (NA), Friday, 11 November 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
"the gang finds a dead guy" is great LOL watching now
― k3vin k., Friday, 11 November 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
i don't remember dennis smoking either
― k3vin k., Friday, 11 November 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
they just made the pilot themselves for like $30, p cool
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
love how they stuck w that low budge feel throughout
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link
i just rescreened a some eps yesterday and dee gives birth and the christmas ep back to back is some serious genius
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2016 23:45 (seven years ago) link
ive prob watched the christmas ep 4 times and there are two scenes that make me lol irl srsly hard every time
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
cuttys soliloquy abt the jorts in dee gives birth is transcendent too
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
Xmas special is so unbelievably great. the stop-motion animation segment is next level. the pantsless dwarf. Mac's family stealing presents.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link
I believe this is truly the best show of our time fwiw
― Clay, Friday, 11 November 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
so many great parts but frank sewn into the couch and charlie and the mall santa are what send me over the edge
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
lol forgot about the couch
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 23:51 (seven years ago) link
have been rewatching Review, maybe I need to switch back to this
mack incensed that the toy story guy doesnt know who mike schmidt is is perfect too lmfao
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
I regularly yell out "botch toe!" (Botched?)
― dan selzer, Saturday, 12 November 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link
― Clay
Pretty sure it's my favourite US sitcom ever.
― chap, Saturday, 12 November 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
its extremely classic for sure
― lag∞n, Saturday, 12 November 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
It needs to be back on already
― plums (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 12 November 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
RIP Country Mac
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 12 November 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
he was cool
― lag∞n, Saturday, 12 November 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
I think you mean BADASS
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 13 November 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
yes
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 November 2016 05:17 (seven years ago) link
I've been laying chum up and down this plane
― ||||||||, Sunday, 13 November 2016 11:29 (seven years ago) link
lmao the boxing episode in s2
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:19 (seven years ago) link
Lol yeah just watched that one
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:22 (seven years ago) link
Favorite part of the plane episode is Dee hallucinating Boss Hogg instead of Wade Boggs
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:22 (seven years ago) link
Kaitlin Olson has a new tv show, The Mick, fyi
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link
relieved that's not a crazy paddy spin off
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 13:33 (seven years ago) link
I'm physically incapable of watching this without losing it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3BEUX5n0nY
― Number None, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
def one of my fave moments of the show.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
no comic actor has gotten more mileage out of the perfectly executed dry heave
so are these guys done, is there not gonna be another season?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link