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For those of you who watched The Wire, which I assume is all of you–but if some of you have not watched The Wire, please stop reading this post and go watch The Wire, jeez no duh–you remember that structurally, every season had one thing in common, which is that the second to last episode was the most intense. The finale was always more of a cool down episode, an epilogue almost, but the second to last episode was the one that was like whoa. I feel like that is where we are at with this season’s Thursday night sitcoms. There are only a few more weeks left in the season, and everything is coming together in great ways. Last night’s 30 Rock was like when [SPOILER ALERT] shot [SPOILER ALERT] in the unfinished [SPOILER ALERT], and Parks and Recreation was like when [SPOILER ALERT] stopped going to Cutty’s [SPOILER ALERT] because he had gotten too deeply involved with Marlo Stanfield’s [SPOILER ALERT]. And, of course, Community was like when Frank Sabotka [SPOILER ALERT] [SPOILER ALERT] [SPOILER ALERT] Ziggy [SPOILER ALERT] [SPOILER ALERT] and Beadie [SPOILER ALERT] so then McNulty [SPOILER ALERT] [SPOILER ALERT] [SPOILER ALERT] but Bunk is like, “Hey, [SPOILER ALERT]!”
You guys know.
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i was nervous when i saw commercials for andy sambergs appearance on p&r because it seemed too cartoony, but it turned out to be not as cartoony. also i love liz lemon’s hate boyfriend. i wish she would settle for him.
This is Cart #2, the raccoon piss one.
Frost/Lemon
Michael Sheen was long-term involved (w/ a kid) with Kate Beckinsale, and she left him for the Underworld director while they were BOTH in the movie. This is relevant b/c Michael Sheen is the best, and kind of makes me hate the Becks now.
I’ve been crushing on Michael Sheen for a while now (the Queen, League of Gentleman’s Apocolpse) and while I could see Liz and he being very married in that, ‘i love AND am stuck with you FOREVER. oh well.’ kind of way…and it would also mean that he’d be on the show from time to time (btw whatever happened to Danny?) it just didn’t seem right just yet. (I kind of want her to end up with Dennis) BUT i bet they’d have cute babies.
also their whole “in England [Spring Cleaning] is called [Sweeps]‘” running gag reminded me of the ever never ending lorry joke on vgum and made me smile
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“Gangway for the footcycle!”
“Stop calling it that!”
“You’re right. Velocipede.”
Fresh-Ass, based on the novel Tush by Assfire. The kids in NC know what I’m talking about!
Yes, Kabletown (with a K, but a very Comcast-y looking red half-circle logo) and its revenue stream revelation and today’s story about a real-life Porno Switcheroo is just too much life imitating art for me.
‘Scuse me, y’all. I’m going to cue up Assatar, followed by The Hind Side. I hear Sandra Buttock really gives a (tear)-jerking performance.
You’ll certainly need tissues. Ewwww!
He’s ghostriding the jib!
this post is really making me miss The Wire. time to re-watch all seasons, more than likely.
Have you guys seen Avatar? I wanted to read the book first but then I realized it wasn’t a book. It exceeded my expectations.
In case none of you saw Parks and Recreation this is what we call a joke. I was “forced” to see Avatar with my parents in Vegas. Very difficult experience.
Great link, Gabe.
i watched flash forward last night (the full 2 hours). which was very rewarding – especially after the first half of the season was such a waste of time. so – there will be another blackout – cool.
Dare I watch? I figure I need something to kind of replace Lost.
I like it better than Lost because I can pretend it won’t massively disappoint me on every level. Just a few levels. Also, hot John Cho is hot now. And nothing beats Joseph Fiennes’ smell the fart acting technique for pure hilarity.
Except maybe Leslie’s impression of Tom. “DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN Jerry! You’d lean into a creek for a burrito? What would you do for a Klondike Bar? Murder your wife!?”
That impression was on. point.
try it. you might like it. seems like they’re going for more clues and less confusion this time around.
I tried it. Many times. It’s over between me and Lost. AND I WANT MY PIXIES TAPE BACK! BEN! IF THAT IS YOUR REAL NAME!
Also, usually I do not like April but I found her really funny tonight. I’m warming to her.
or yesterday yeesh so many comments from me
I loved her reactions to Jerry stumbling around and embarassing himself. Whenever she breaks away from that deadpan stare, it’s hilarious.
I DVR Thursday night and watch everything on Saturday mornings This way, I feel like I still get to watch Saturday morning cartoons. The wait is worth it, except that I miss out on this thread every week.
I haven’t watched any of this yet because I was too busy wasting my time watching GEORGETOWN BLOW IT. Ugh. #Sportsgum.
ugh is right. at least monroe said he’d be back
I heard a collective palm hitting face sound last night while watching the NBC shows, fired up ESPN.com and realized it was the sound of the entire DC area (including me) watching their brackets go up in flames. Sorry, Kateness.
I was watching the numbers change on the ESPN website for the last five minutes, and it was so frustrating! (I don’t care about baseball, but I want my bracket to win!)
Touchdown!
I really wish I could say that mistake was intentional.
Oh, what’s that? Georgetown got their asses handed to them?
Love, a Syracuse fan
To be clear, I’m a Louisville fan through and through. But damn it, Georgetown! I had you going to the Elite 8! If I lose my $5 because of you…
If I had gotten around to doing a bracket this year I probably would have put them in the Elite 8 as well, so I can’t fault you for that. I’m sort of dreading the Syracuse v. Vermont game tonight – it’s hard to tell how they’ll do without Onuaku.
Even though the season is over now, I think we should be talking about Archer because it was one of the best new series so far this year.
I finally got to watch it on time, and while this goes without saying, Parks &Rec and 30 Rock were to notch this week.
Shit. Top. Top notch. My marble’s full of mouth!
I know someone complains about The Office every week now so I’m going to keep that going.
Last night Community was okay, lolz to spare but really nothing to write home about. We get it, Jeff is too cool, Pierce is a lovable bumbling idiot. Parks killed it! Leslie doing her Tom impression almost made whiskey come out my nose (and it was kind of expensive so actually, that would have pissed me off. Watch it P&R). Andy is basically the on-screen manifestation of my self-esteem, he slays me yet makes me feel
on the inside. Even Samberg was mostly funny, who better to play the most obnoxious fuck ever? No one.
Then we get to the Thursday night showstopper. As in, I wish this show would stop and the French guy would go ahead and burn down the theater now. I seriously cannot believe The Office has only been on since 2005, it feels like this is the 20th season or something. The more thing change, the more they stay the same or whatever. They just keep recycling the same jokes and situations over and over. I know this happens in most series after a while but with the shows in the surrounding time slots keep getting better and better, The Office is just regressing. Jim and Pam 2.0? Yes. Corporate who hates Michael yet inexplicably lets him keep his job 2.0? Yes. Jim doing the same facial expressions except they’re supposed to be cuter now b/c he is a dad? Yes. I could go on. I’m not a writer or an actor or anything so I don’t know what I’m talking about but the whole Thursday NBC line up was built to support The Office (and I’m sure it still get the highest rating, CREAM, etc.) but all of these shows have completely passed The Office by and it should be clear to everyone.
Oh yeah, 30 Rock. Not the best but still amazing. I loved the Wesley Snipes name bit (my name is Westley, I am white, and I have never killed a vampire and people still find it hilarious to call me Snipes in the year 2010).
Do you need a shell from a far away beach? I heard people love those.
These have become like Werttrew’s Amelia rants but for Thursday Night Open Thread to me, keep em’ coming! The Office seemed exceptionally bad this week, I mean, was Pam even in it? And Jim just seems… Too better than everyone else now. But I do love Andy. Always love Andy.
I’m the one that regularly defends The Office, but last night was profoundly sad. It was eerily appropriate that Michael and Dwight ended up in the dump, surrounded by discarded items long past their usefulness.
During the trash fight, I was really hoping that one of two things would happen: 1) the fight gets For Serious, and the show jumps full-on over into “let’s burn this motherfucker down” comedy mode, or 2) Dwight and Michael would kiss.
Obviously, neither of these things is going to happen, but the Office seems stuck in its slow, inevitable slide into oblivion. This season is better than last, but it’s still a steep decline from the show’s best. So I’m just hoping against hope that the writers say fuck it, recognize that the show only has one more season left in it, and go for broke.
I was just excited that they used a painted background for the dump. A painted background! We are doing this 20th century style people.
Sifle and Ollie!
Pretty much in agreement with you. It’s had its ups and downs so far, but I hope they took a good look at what HASN’T been working and give us a really good season before the end.
Actually, to be honest, I thought last night’s episode was alright – for this season – just off-putting since everyone was out-of-character (point of the episode, but it could have been handled better).
But the real burning question I have regarding the scene at the dump: what was with the CGI environment? Settle down, Office, no need to go all Avatar on us! Leave the cheesy green screen effects for 30 Rock.
As you wish.
Keep these rants coming. I can’t understand why I still do this to myself every week. The fact that they didn’t magically find the leads in the dump was astounding. The fact that I thought that was absolutely going to happen is sad beyond all believe.
I want to save this show the same way Walt saved Jesse’s girlfriend (season 3 this sunday!!!!!)
Last night’s episodes were a LIZaster! (in the best way possible)
P.S. I can’t believe I’ve been given an opportunity to post this again:
Thank you, 30 Rock!
At first glance, I thought that was a skate/snow board. MY INNOCENCE!
it doesn’t even look like a penis. it’s all ribbed and the top part looks like a tumor…
i find it more….elephant trunk-ish. y’know what i’m sayin?
TWSS
I thought he was holding a guitar case.
I thought The Office was pretty good last night. Andy and Erin were cute and I loved the Dwight-Michael trash fight.
My favorite part of The Office was when Erin was doing the hot/cold thing with Andy to show him where the leads were. His reaction was priceless.
This Office has gone down hill but this part had me in stitches. Erin yelling HOT HOT while Andy nervously panicked as his hands hovered? So great.
IF ANN TRIES TO GET BACK WITH ANDY I WILL LOOSE IT.
and by loose it i mean laugh because obviously Andy will pick Ann and then realize that he prefers April but then Mark and Ann will be over and after she is rejected by both Andy and Mark then Ann will either have to go for Tom (bow chica-wow-wow) OR she really will have no reason to hang around (uh…I’m still Leslie’s BFF she says, but we shall see) so then Rashida Jones can go be pretty somewhere else (Cop Out 2) and they’ll finally give Donna more screen time. Lots of Love Parks! I am addicted to you!
There are people here who haven’t watched The Wire? Is that why all my stevedore jokes get downvoted?
Well, you see, The Wire Season 2 Dics 1 has been listed as “Long Wait,” and has been positioned at the top of my queue for the past 6 weeks.
Today, seriously right after this thread was posted with all the [Spoilers], I checked my Netflix account and the first two discs are being sent out! YAY!
I’m sorry i have not gotten your stevedore jokes, Patrick M. But I’m working to remedy that!
Sorry, I’ve been holding onto Season 2 Disc 1 for a couple weeks. I got sidetracked by The Mighty Boosh and it took me a while to be ready for another season of The Wire.
CONSPIRACY!
oh. maybe they just aren’t funny.
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I just assumed Burrell was downvoting me to give Carcetti the political ammunition to fire oh wait spoiler alert
I dig the wire. In fact, Gabe listed two of my favorite moments; when Omar Little shot pool in the unfinished pool hall, and when Wallace stopped going to Cutty’s Barber Shop because he had gotten too deeply involved with Marlo Stanfield’s girlfriend.
HEY! HEY! HEY!
What do think you’re doing, man!
You’re a spoil sport!
I’m sorry, i thought everyone knew that Season 4 focused on the broken bureaucracy of Baltimore’s barbershops.
OH, wait. I just read your comment and now see it was a joke! *WHEW!*
I didn’t want to risk reading a spoiler, so as soon as I read “when Omar shot” I diverted my eyes!
lol
Awwww, how funny!
Leonard, you have no idea how relieved I am. I was really pissed for a good 15 minutes. Thank you for clarifying.
Understandable, KajusX. I assure you though, my madlib spoilers are really goofy and won’t impact your viewing experience at all. Enjoy!
Since this is clearly a thread about The Wire, and not about thursday night tv, can we just discuss my favorite character Slim Charles for a second? I mean, I think he is way underrated as a character, and I basically want that actor to start a wake up call service because I would subscribe so hard. He should have his own show where he just reads the Baltimore phonebook.
Seriously. Slim Charles is awesome. That time he had that scene with Omar? Yuss. Also: His final scene. How great? SO GREAT!
Which character from The Wire are you? Click here to find out!!
You know what they say about Snot Boogie. You got to let him play. This America, man.
The 2 best parts of Thursday night TV…
Tracy tries to commit “aduteraisin” with Liz Lemon:
http://bit.ly/digSm8
Jerry’s failed presentation on Parks and Rec:
http://bit.ly/cDZaMZ
They’ve been doing it all season, but I still love the TV metajokes on “Community”. Jeff’s comment about Abed’s voiceover: “It’s kind of a crutch.” “30 Rock” had a nice one too – “I’ll see you in May for sweeps! That’s what we call spring cleaning!”
P.S. For some reason I still can’t figure out how to change my password from the generic one assigned when you request a password reset to my standard, easy-to-remember “abc123″. Help me, Internet.
Same. Every time I change it I end up not being able to log in, so I’ve given up and accepted that I can only log in at home where my computer has remembered my password.
Thank you computer.
I have to say that my favorite part of last night was Community’s featuring of a pottery class – THAT’S WHAT I (SORTA) DO FOR A LIVING! I don’t teach but I work in pottery and ceramic art.
It’s the little things that get me through my life of being a poor artist.
Do you also disapprove of Ghost-ing?
and also: yes, that print ad was AMAZING!
Feel free to reprint it…for a small fee of course.
I accept cash, money orders or oatmeal raisin cookies.
WHAT?? god i’m such a dumbass…well, that was supposed to be posted on the Hugh Jackman thread (I think i will anyway) …I have like 8 tabs open right now because MULTI-TASKING! what a fuck.
Does anyone know where I could find the photo of Andy posing in front of the possum cage? Google images has failed me completely!
No ghosting in pottery class!
Totally forgot about the Buster Bluth cameo.
Hi guys.
I’m new. Sort of. I’ve been lurking for just a really long time. I have this new job that I really hate, but fortunately my bosses are under the impression that it legitimately and routinely takes an entire day to print a set of documents or edit a PPT, so I have lots of “me” time. I spread Videogum out for hours by reading every. single. word. I do other things too, not just stalk you. I want to make sure it’s clear that reading Videogum doesn’t HAVE to take me most of the day (it’s not printing, after all, super hard) but I like to make it last. Savor it. My point is, we are friends, even though you don’t know me.
So I have always been like look, it’s ok to spend so much time absorbed in this, because really, it’s the future and this is what people do. We have internet on planes now, which is basically space, and with space internet comes the justification for spending as much time as I want to with you guys.
And then today at 2:45 AM I flew awake to a tiny dog kicking me violently in the stomach and was like “WHAT IS HAPPENING!” which was sort of related to the dog but more related to this rare opportunity to assess whatever I was just dreaming about in a state of pretty much full consciousness.
You guys, I was dreaming in Videogum comments. Not dreaming that I was reading them. Dreaming about real life that was taking place and everything that happened was just like a comment on this website.
I think I have to quit you, and we’ve only just met! No, not really, I mean, “this economy,” “commoditization of the advanced degree” (not a thing? let’s make it a thing), means I won’t be divorcing this job or the internet any time soon. But, is this normal? Do you all dream in the voices you’ve made up for each other interspersed with random gifs, too? I feel like I’m in Videogum puberty, strange things are happenings to me and I don’t know if I LIKE it, but then I sort of maybe do?
I used to dream I was in traffic. I would wake myself up kicking my leg as I thwomped on the brakes before I rear-ended a car in my dream. I figured out the way to remedy the situation with a lucid-dreaming-ish exercise. By recognizing I’m trying to sleep and not trying to drive to work in that brief interim after being kicked awake, I would tell myself to kick the shit out of those cars and get them out of my head.
It happened every so often, and as a result when I would slip back into that space behind my eyes and found myself back behind the wheel of my car in traffic, sometimes my car would transform into a mech suit and I would start kicking cars into the air and rocket-launchering everything in front of me. Sometimes my car would disappear and I would grow to the size of a giant and start kicking cars all over the place. Really just cause mass destruction out of frustration that elements of my shitty job were seeping into my dreams.
I also played Guitar Hero 2 a lot a long time ago when it came out and would have dreams of the fret board and buttons flying at my head. So I hear you on that dreaming in VGum comments thing.
May I suggest next time it happens you try kicking the comments away in a giant mech suit?
i used to dream in french. but like 3 years worth of high school french. so mostly i dreamt in incomplete sentences.
Maybe I can somehow repurpose the dog to do this for me – the whole thing is pretty much his fault anyway.
Just this morning when I slipped back into sleep for “five more minutes, swear,” I had a dream about reading Google Reader. Finally I woke to find myself tapping the bed with my fingers, emulating the keyboard shortcuts. It was at this time I knew it was time to get out of bed…. and read stuff on GReader for real…. ugh.
Your lettuce face was in my dream the other night! OH MY GOD!
It’s okay chaka khan’s mom. After I made my first few comments, I dreamed there was a New Haven Branch of the Videogum Offices, and I hung out there with everyone in sleeping bags and we watched bad B-movies from the 70′s.
I have been waiting about two months to share than in context. You are the greatest for posting – thank you!
Dreaming in V-gum comments is way better than dreaming in code, which is what happens when I am in heavy programming mode at work. Shhh…just enjoy it. You’re a monster now. Go with it. Shhhh….
Thank you guys! What a positive first commenting experience. You have yet to convince me that comment dreams are a normal part of monster development, but I appear to at least be in good company.
Was anybody else a little annoyed by the whole “porn for women” thing? That idea is so tired and I expect more from 30 Rock, especially in an otherwise very funny episode.
Ugh, yes. I’m a woman, and I do not consider an endless stream of women chatting (is that what the channel even was? I sort of tuned out once I realized how cliche the whole thing was) on my TV to be porn.
The concept was a service where a man would listen to you complain about your day. Because, on the list of things ladies love most, that’s right ahead of Anne Geddes posters, not paying attention while driving, and Cool James.
Get out of my sex-adversed head, 30 Rock!
Also, xkcd covered this earlier this week:
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