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Night of a thousand Santas! That was exhausting! Each Christmas special was pretty funny on its own, but taken all together is too much! I need a Christmas special just to recover from all these Christmas specials! But, you know what they say, take it one Christmas special at a time. Let go and let Christmas special. Julianne Moore was funny on 30 Rock as a doohly appointed Federal ex-high school crush of Jack Donaghy. And The Office had some laughs but, no offense (none taken!), last year’s The Office Christmas special did it better. And I still think that probably the single funniest thing happening on Thursday nights these days is Chris Pratt as Andy on Parks and Recreation. It would be campy and silly to say something like, Where has he been all my life, but WHERE HAS HE BEEN ALL MY LIFE? No homo, but I am in love with him. Speaking of Christmas specials, you can now watch A Charlie Brown Christmas for free on Hulu. So there is also that.
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The sooner werttrew posts a Tracy Jordan exaggerated “what the whaaaaat!?” gif, the soon my day gets awesome.
See what I mean? I can’t even construct a grammatically correct sentence; I need that gif!
My gif-making skills are very limited. I’m better at FINDING gifs, and alas, I could not find said gif yet. But I’ll keep looking.
YAYY I’m going to go watch A Charlie Brown Christmas since I have nothing to say about these shows!
What heartless bastard could possibly MINUS SOMEONE for saying they want to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas?!
phyllis is as good at being santa as jordan is at everything
(cough, i mean): phyllis is as good at being santa as tracy jordan is at everything
GAH! I wanted to joke that joke. You’re as good at beating me to the punch as Jordan is at everything? Too late? Too late.
let’s joke that joke forever. new meme. it is so declared. ?
Surely it made your heart hurt (like mine) when Michael called her “Tranny Claus.”
You’re as good as coming up with new meme ideas as, you know. It is so declared!
Am I doing it right?
we’re as good as bandwagon as… yup, we got it! and yes, tranny claus made me laugh/frown
“Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go buy some guitar music.”
You can take Andy, I’ll stake my claim in TROY! Troy and his delicious Forrest Whitaker impression. He is the funniest man on TV right now… Andy’s got second place locked though.
Community felt a little Hey Dude/Salute Your Shorts last night.
To me that isn’t a bad thing…
Are we ever gonna talk about how one of the producers for 30 Rock is named Carlock and about how I always imagine that guy to be Dr. Spaceman? And yep. The Office needs to close up shop. Not only is it getting really sad, but it’s stealing jokes from Kids In The Hall and oh….another show. I noticed last night but can’t recall now.
OH! It was Best In Show! All the nuts….”Macadamia, Brazil nuts….”
I didn?t really see that as plagiarism. I thought the joke was that he started naming snails and other gastropods.
I considered that. And it was funny…but the premise of the joke was Guest’s. The punchline was The Office. So it wasn’t ripped off wholesale, no.
In my opinion, nothing can beat the first Office Christmas episode from the 2nd season. I remember it actually making me cry with both sadness and joy. On an unrelated note, the last line in It’s Always Sunny made me laugh for like a minute. “…I am a legend.”
Your avatar reminds me of When Worlds Collided last night: Don Draper?s doctor as Councilman Dexhart? In the syllables of Jack Donaghy, O-M-F-G!
Holy crap, it was! I knew I recognized him from somewhere. Good catch. I’m not sure why your comment got downvoted, but I’ll upvote now to balance it out.
God is punishing my persecutors, it’s a Christmas miracle (thanks)!
I share your struggle against the unholy aggressors of comment voting. I CALL AGAIN FOR METRICS!!
Good Merlinpeen to you, then.
I think it says a lot about me that for the rest of my life anytime a discussion arises about religious dietary restrictions I will tell people that Catholics don’t eat meat on Fridays because the pope owns Long John Silvers.
I actually didn’t think Julianne Moore was that funny, but I thought Jenna was actually good last night. She made me laugh! And Andy was super-great as well. And Louis C.K. had me in stitches, but he’s NOT going to be on the show anymore! MEGA-:(
And I can always watch Dee throw up. Hilarious! I sure used the word “And” a lot!
And…?
Shirley was great on Community. And I almost barfed (from too much stomach laughter?) when Pierce punched Jeff.
I cracked up when she asked Annie if she was “a Jew”. And Annie’s reaction – “Say the whole word!” Fantastic. Lots of love.
“Jew-y?”
Watching The Office is like having Depress-O-Vision installed in my eyes for half an hour.
Shark farts!
Thank you for confirming that. I got home a little late last night and turned on my TV about 9:50 and “shark farts” was the first line of dialogue I heard. I was just coming in here to ask you guys if that really happened.
fun new fact (new to me): troy on community is a writer for 30 rock… ?!?
Was. He quit the writing staff on 30 Rock and got hired on Community six days later.
http://nymag.com/movies/features/62376/
people who are that guy and not me are so talented
He’s in an episode also. “Who told?”
Flip Flip
FLIP-ADELPHIA
I have been annoying the Shit out of my gf with this phrase already.
And I concur, office is sad tv times.
All I want for Hanukkah is a Flipadelphia teeshirt!: http://foxshop.seenon.com/detail.php?p=111109&v=fx_shows_its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia
Gabe no Shiva shoutouts! Ya’ll trippin!
Can someone please explain to me Shiva? Why do they have her picture on their trophy? It feels vaguely (and in this episode especially) racist. I just don’t get it.
Can somebody please post a gif of Taco dancing to “Shiva Nagila”? That was amazing.
Non-quotable Jai-Lights:
Juliann Moore saying ?Hideki Matsui Caliente Fajitas? and April fake smoking with a cheap pen as she suggests seducing Councilman Dexhart just to see if she can.
Both The Office and 30 Rock had episodes called “Secret Santa” tonight. No one plans ahead around the holidays. Thus, debt and duplication.
weirdly enough, I run a blog called Cynical Advent Calendar(.com) and yesterday’s entry was about Secret Santa and then I turn on the TV and everyone else is talking about it too. I guess I gained clairvoyant abilities for Christmas.
Cheer up. Don’t be so cynical. K-Fed manages to keep it real: “These are my all-inclusive holiday decorations. Here’s a little Christmas tree, a menorah, a picture of President Obama (for the Muslims)…”
Kenneth can be so Right and so wrong at the same time. A Christmas Paradox.
i like how oscar is getting more attention this season on the office. but when did he break up with Gil?
Sometime last season. I just remember it because he and Andy went with Michael to Canada and Andy was trying to be Oscar’s gay wing man.
Gabe, Andy is married to Anna Feris in real life! They sext each other all the time, and she talks about it in all of the interviews.
And who could forget “Yeah, bitch, gimme some of them blood diamonds. Make ‘em extra bloody.”
*sigh* Even the liberal chicks like bing-bangs. Thanks for the truth talk, Tom.
I also think we need to give some props to Jerry on Parks and Rec. “It was just farts,” was a great sadfunny.
The League wasn’t a Christmas special… and it was HILARIOUS! Seriously… LOVE THAT SHOW. There may as well not be any female characters, because they’re oblivious, aloof Mary Sues – and one of the show’s creators is a woman, so……
Still, besides that – great show.
And Liz Lemon played a male character, John Proctor, in a high school production of The Crucible. I too played a male character, Judge Danforth, in a high school production of The Crucible. Liz Lemon and I are basically twins now.
Science!
Dreams!
I played Reverend Parris and I forgot a line and it was uncomfortable, but Reverend Parris made people uncomfortable, so I was metagood. You’re in Chicago, right? Do you want to put on a production of The Crucible? With pizza?
The female presence on “The League” does genuinely bother me, in spite of all the lulz that show delivers. The two female characters represent two polar opposites of how women are portrayed on television/in movies: one is every guy’s dream girl who loves sports and drinking and special sex, the other is an absolute uptight nightmare. i really hope they introduce a BELIEVABLE female character soon, so the budding white liberal guilt inside of me can subside and i can enjoy the show fully. preferably while sipping on some Three Penis Wine.
I think Parks and Recreation is my new favorite mocumentary, seriously. You can have Chris Pratt, I’ll take Jerry. And I will also take ‘it was just farts’ as the engraving on my tombstone and as a tattoo written in gothic script across my lower back.
I agree with you. I feel like I’m cheating on “The Office” or something, but “Parks and Recreation” is definitely the better show nowadays.
I’m sure this doesn’t show up, because I am horrible, but this was seriously lacking in P&R gifs.
“We can’t have raccoons at the Christmas thing. They will hunt the kids for sport.”
Can we all just take a moment of silence in honor of this probably being Louis CK’s last, or at least almost last, appearance on Parks?
We’ll never forget you, Louis. 4eva.
It’s time to start concentrating on Andy and Erin in The Office. Or bring back not-so-serious Jim.
“I’m sorry, is your nose bleeding?”
“Yes, because I’m so happy for you. It’s definitely not a rage stroke.”
“Didn’t you read my horrible short story ‘The Two Paths of Victoria Apple’? Was that right? That wasn’t right.
the leage was fucking great last night. seriously not to be missed.
also “you’re just a kenny rogers doll now!” was fantastic.
Pete: “I should make up new cards that say, ‘Happy Holidays from Everyone Except Jenna,’ but that would require me to have some remaining life force, Danny, so I’m gonna go have a drink alone at the oyster bar.”
Pete is basically “Kim and Jessie”: “I’m 15 and I already feel it is too late to live.” Pete’s Tombstone
Pete was on fire last night with his Christmas Vengeance. I was dying at everything he did.
Sorry to correct your M83 quote, but that’s from ‘Graveyard Girl’
?To me Religion is like Paul Rudd: I see its appeal and would never take it away from anyone, but I would never stand in line for it.”
Oh Paul Rudd…I don’t know what it is, but at least you’re pretty.
I would stand in SO many lines for Paul Rudd. Probably with Lindsay.
I love Sunny, but I’m starting to enjoy the previews for the upcoming episodes more than the actual show. The marketing is just so good! But then the episodes feel a bit anticlimactic, like all of the hilarity was perfectly summed up, to the delightful tune of “Nothing to Worry About”, in 30 seconds. Anyone feel me on this?
As a Canadian, I am glad to have had sarcasm explained to me on 30 Rock. I am now able to enjoy Videogum a lot more.
At times I’ve found myself uncomfortable about the reliance on racial-based humor on Community (seriously, in the beginning it was like every joke), which was funny but a sort of red flag. But it has grown to be one of my favorite shows. Last night’s episode was very good and showed how they make controversial humor okay.
Annie: “Everyone’s faith is weird, let’s not talk about it.” Lot’s of Love and Lots of Truth
I originally thought that “oh, everyone is of a different faith” thing seemed to be a bit convenient … but most fit most logically that it made perfect sense.
I want to have a lot of sex with Chris Pratt.
Totally homo.
Seriously, I enjoyed that 30 Rock, but Julianne Moore’s Boston accent was literally the worst I’ve heard anyone do ever, on screen or off. It wasn’t until the end of the episode that I realized she was supposed to be from Boston, I was wondering why they wrote her character to have a cheeky Australian accent.
your username has a boston accent!!
does anyone else wanna use “youface” and make Pholo’s? A photo that says hello!
Do not hyphenate youface.
Good Merlinpeen everyone!
Does nobody love Cheyenne Jackson as much as I do? The fake bad singing? Discovering sarcasm? Plus, he was wearing the hell out of that Christmas sweater.
I’ll board that train. For lack of a better cliche, he’s a breath of fresh air… a new piece of meat in a pile of meat that was maybe starting to get old. A bird that just joined a group of birds that maybe were already in a V formation, but by joining, he just made the point in the V formation that much pointier. A vampire that maybe doesn’t seem like he fits in at first but joins the crew anyway and- ok. I’m going to stop now.
All good analogies. Metaphors?
I just think he’s hot.
“…like going to the gym drunk.” It has been a week and I’m still saying this whenever I can.
if you aren’t sellin’ avant garde tracksuits like that one lady, then I’m not buyin’!
Yay for real, at least cool for sale has the finest goods.
Yeah. And she had big boobs.
Boobs are garbage in comparison to text that looks like christmas trees
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