I didn't like the Tina Fey plot as much as the Tracy Morgan plot. I mean, it was fine, but the show is best when both plots are great. Like the one where Jack wants to act and Tracy can't read. That one is pure gold.
― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Scrubs is more consistently funny than Arrested Development ever was.
*TRUTH ATTACK!*
― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
who are you people
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
actually, they're prolly about even, but arrested is as overrated as scrubs is underrated, so i'd call it a good solid draw.
― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Scrubs is OK (tho the 1 ep I saw this season was baaaaaaaad)Dr. Cox is awesomeAD is great30 Rock is godhead
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
It's on Oxygen. I don't know if men will find it amusing. This week, the ladies take 'shrooms. It's going to be a delight.
― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― A B C (sparklecock), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link
j/k ; P
― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link
vs.
http://www.stationave.com/lectures/alec-baldwin01%5B1%5D.jpg
― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― A B C (sparklecock), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― max (maxreax), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
1.- voice-over introduces episode's thematic topic ("in a hospital you depend on your coworkers" / "in New York we like men and shoes")- scenes establish each character's activities
2.- conflicts arise in each storyline- voice-over points out thematic questions uniting them all ("sometimes you realize your friends aren't there for you ... or your relationship isn't as strong as you thought" / "I couldn't help but wonder ... were men the new shoes?")
3.- conflicts resolve- voice-over unites all resolutions under one banner ("maybe the person you least expect is looking out for you ... or maybe you realize your girlfriend cares about you more than you thought" / "but it was summer in New York, and I had some fabulous shoes")
-- which, as above, is lame, but if you're the sort of person who can enjoy watching a Sex and the City episode and betting on whether Carrie will say "I couldn't help but wonder," "I had to ask," or "OTHER," then you can probably forgive the rigid blocks in there and just wait for Donald Faison to be awesome again.
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
here, jackie wearing jackie:
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/941/jackiege8.jpg
― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link
She's the poor man's ScarJo!
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
("Well, why do you watch it," You ask? I try not to, but sometimes we have to put friendship above taste in TV. However, I do reserve the right groan and grimace when it's on.)
― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― max (maxreax), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― A B C (sparklecock), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Also I wanted to point out that Turk is kind of the best-developed black character I know of on network television! Or at least he's not slotted into a black-character "type" or just totally racially ignored. He's a recognizable type of person who is just about never protrayed on television or in film, which I totally appreciate.
(Also I remembered the root-level parallel with That 70s Show, which is that the humor always comes back to every character being lame or geeky, as opposed to the old sitcom model where characters are blowhards or straight-men or toughs or whatever -- this is part of why it can read as too precious or cutesy sometimes, sure, but I think mostly it comes off actually lovable.)
― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:55 (seventeen years ago) link
There.
(Runs away.)
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link