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COMMUNITY: A-. This is my favorite show on TV. Meta, self-aware, and great lines. I wished they hadn’t done that live-camera documentary thing, though. Explainabrag: It’s because it’s become a cliché on television, and I am really good at spotting those sorts of things.
THE OFFICE: D. Ninjas, was this worst episode of The Office ever? Yes. Yes it was. Pretending to be in a bad movie is not charming. It’s just bad. But yes, Bug’s Life is much better than Antz.
PARKS AND RECREATION: B. Okay episode. Seems like they’re building to the Harvest Festival. Whozit and Whatshername are back together, eh? I liked the bits with Ben Wyatt the Human Disaster and the fart DJs. The fart DJs especially.
30 ROCK: A. The clear winner of the night, agreed? And even without Tracy Morgan! Plus noting how fun it is to mock Eat Pray Love? One “good job spanking” for Liz Lemon and co.
ARCHER: B. Airboat! Alligators! Awesomeness! Aisha! America! But still a B episode.
BONES: B+. Mr. and Mrs. Skeleton are concerned about Little Femur being teased in class by schoolyard bullies. Meanwhile, Mandible fights with her boyfriend Fibula. C. Everett Koop co-stars in this very special episode that dares to ask, “How is the head bone connected to the heart bone?”
AMERICAN IDOL: C. The adventures of Xzibit and Randy Jackson continue, as they search the deserts of Arizona for the Yodawg Totem of Power. Dramatic climax involves a railroad crossing, a pimped-out ride, and irradiated scorpions.
OUTSOURCED: F. Painfully unfunny glimpse into the lives of “Rogers and Clarke,” portrayed respectively by Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell, two untalented lounge singers who travel to Egypt and end up inciting riots in Freedom Square and toppling a government.
TWO AND A HALF MEN: D. The ill-advised series follow-up to The Human Centipede ponders what happens when one part of the trio (Norm MacDonald) loses everything below the neck yet not his wise-cracking sense of humor.
BIG BANG THEORY: B-. Vanna White stars as Roman Catholic priest and astronomer Georges Lemaître in a gender-bending romp. God, glamour, galaxies, and gams galore!
GREY’S ANATOMY: A-. Time-travelling English physician Henry Gray and his trusty Shiba Inu battle dinosaurs and a plot by a 21st century Brooklyn blogger to kill Hitler, thus altering the timeline for the worse. Birdie and Topher Grace star.
WIPEOUT: A-. Reality show puts real-life privileged American teens in the sweatshops of Burma and says, “You want it? You build it!” Then they are forced to kill each other in a barbaric gladiator free-for-all. Based on the Twitter account.
ANTIQUE ROADSHOW: C-. Summer Glau stars in this now-cancelled series about a psychic detective and her ex-boyfriend (Seth MacFarlane), who has been magically transformed into a priceless 18th-Century Qianlong Jade plate. Together they fight crime in the mean, meth-ridden streets of Springfield, MO.
PERFECT COUPLES: C-. A fat funny man (Gabriel Iglesias) is married to a beautiful but shrewish wife (Jessica Alba). Next door neighbors (Kim Richards and Brad Garrett) barge in at the least opportune moments. Meanwhile, the in-laws (Tom Delay and Dyan Cannon) live right across the street! Mix-ups involving misunderstood overhead conversations account for 90 percent of the “humor.”
LOS HEREDEROS DEL MONTED: ¡A! ¿Estás perdido? Porque el cielo es un largo camino desde aquí. Acabo de esta realidad, pero usted busca mucho al igual que mi próxima novia. Soy el Señor Derecho. Alguien ha dicho que estaba buscando para mí. Con Erik Estrada.
$#*! MY DAD SAYS: B-. Documentary about retired type-setters who live in an Arizona retirement home. In this episode, a proponent of Comic Sans is forcibly removed from the community.
VAMPIRE DIARIES: B-.The harrowing tale of the bloodthirsty journals continues. Guest-starring Betty White as the voice of “Queen Victoria the Vampyre’s Diary.”
CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION: A-. 17 year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) is just able to keep her family together in a dirt poor rural area, despite a catatonic mother and an absent meth-making father, Jessup. After her father’s arrest, the local sheriff tells Ree that Jessup put up their house as collateral for his bail; unless he shows up for trial in a week’s time, they will lose it all. Ree pushes on, putting her own life in danger for the sake of her family, until the truth, or enough of it, is revealed.
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there are not enough upvotes in the world for this gif. concert addict, you are my favorite monster.
This moment alone made Parks and Recreation the clear winner of the night. I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time.
Oh no! A hawk got her.
Act natural:
This is howie do it.
Can anyone tell me when The Office got really fantastic again? The last few weeks have been great, and I thought Threat Level Midnight was delightful and amazing! It even has a website! (http://www.threatlevelmidnight.com)
I also, for some reason, really enjoy that Rashida Jones was in two shows on the same night. That is just funny to me. Worlds been had colliding, etc.
looks like there’s gonna be a cleanup on aisle 5
I actually agree with werttrew’s grade on this. The bad movie concept was done infinitely better on Sunny (Lethal Weapon 5). And it was such a wasted opportunity. They should have really taken advantage of the filmed-over-several-years concept by throwing in surprise cameos by now-forgotten former employees from the first three seasons (all those random people that used to walk around in the background, the guy who got fired on Halloween, etc.) and earlier iterations of the main cast (ex: Kelly back when she was a weirdly dowdy dresser, Ryan with his goofy long hair, etc.). It could have been a lot more fun. The fact that Michael’s movie sucked was hardly sustaining, even for just 22 minutes.
I agree this season of the office is as good as it’s been in years. As I watch the Thursday sitcoms I find myself laughing at the office probably more than all the other shows. It’s not a better show than our other fav NBC shows, but for the most part they are bringing the laughs. That was this episode for me, it was hilarious and just don’t think too much about the logistics.
My head agrees with werttrew’s grade, but my heart gives this episode an A-. It was so gloriously stupid that I loved it unabashedly. Actually, I’ll give it an A+ solely for the recreation of the insanely stupid “animal crackers” scene from Armageddon.
And yeah, this season has been much more hit than miss.
Donald Glover and Adam Scott battled it out for Human Disaster of the Night. Liz Lemon is, of course, Human Disaster of the Decade, so she is excluded from competition.
Who among us hasn’t had homosexual thoughts?!
I just want to make sure everyone noticed the poster in the background: Young Amy Poehler Candy Striper Ad
My brain just melted from this.
Concert_addict…thank you for pointing it out! You are a firework.
Hahahah that’s so fantastic! It kept catching my eye but I couldn’t figure out what/who it was.
Did anyone else get really bummed at Troy’s freakout? It genuinely made me sad! He told Pierce he didn’t want to meet LaVar Burton!
Let the .gif times roll!
I wasn’t born when that song came out!
Also kill me!
I like to think of Videogum as the Community of the internet. Obviously Gabe is our grumpy old man Pierce, Werttrew is our self-aware Abed, Steve Winwood is our antagonist-who-just-wants-to-belong Chang, and Napoleon Complex is our young, idealistic Annie. As much as I’d like to put myself down as our Jeff, I’m pretty sure I fit more into the Starburns category.
sourface:
And I’m Britta.
BRITTA FOR THE WIN!
Scientists say Gabe is an old man.
Guys… I can’t find a gif of Allison Brie saying, “What does THAT mean?!” after Pierce gave her the tiara. Please someone help a monster out.
I <3 U.
Someone needs to make a gif of Michael Scott firing those guns and replace the shots of Steven Seagal in that gif where he shoots all those kids.
Also guys, I love that Community made fun of the mockumentary. IS NOTHING SACRED?!! Nope.
Oh man, Estrada was KILLING IT on Heredermont (that’s what some of us are calling it)
They’ll put the fun in funnel cake!
My married boyfriend Adam Scott, was awesome last night.
He is hot and awesome in all of these.
My dad watched Parks & Rec for the first time last night and he laughed so hard at the Human Disaster card that I think I missed the rest of the episode. For that reason alone, Parks & Rec, A+ show of my night.
Thank you all, this week’s Thursday Night TV Open Thread, heretofore renamed the Adam Scott gif recap, is truly exceptional.
See! I told you we needed it!
joke’s on you Goldenface that man was a wanted animal rapist.
<3
Gah! Race to the punchline! I lost.
Werttrew’s faux reviews read like James O. Incandenza’s filmography.
Well, if I had a guess I’d say the The Entertainment was definitely a Parks and Rec gif.
OK My favorite Lines of the night:
It’s called a complisult, part compliment, part insult. He invented them, I coined the term. See what I just did there? That was an explanabrag.
you can’t dissapoint a picture
I blew All Three….. Opportunities
Ugh. Julia Roberts in a Movie about Eating? Give me Kirstie Alley; someone who knows what she’s doing!
Werttrew, how many hours are in your day, exactly?
Oh, well now that I know all those other show reviews are fake, I might actually bother to read them. Well played.
What you wanna do?
This is how I’m going to approach my impending performance review.
My favorite part of this .gif (besides everything, duh) is how its like he’s pulling an orange slice out of thin air. Magic!
YES! Shooting!!!
Saving that bad boy for later Concert….
You sure do watch a lot of Thursday tv, werttrew! Thank you for being thorough! Great job today!
I have to say, Parks & Rec just keeps getting better for me. It’s like it took everything about The Office that I got sick of (mostly the uncomfortableness and trying to make Michael Scott the lovable goof and just coming off as stupid) and fixed it in perfect ways. I love that even though Leslie might do goofy things, shes always smart and good at her job and is actually a lovable character. And everything about her and Adam Scott is too cuuuute.
I didn’t even read all your mocu-reviews! That’s what I get. Well played, sir.
P.P.S I actually read the Big Bang Theory and CSI reviews before posting this and thought they were actual reviews. THAT’S WHAT WE ALL GET, AMERICA.
Really? Street Sharks?
I want this to be as creepy as possible: Where are you and will you marry me?
I know this is superficial, but judging solely by your picture the answer is YES!
the Grey’s Anatomy review was spot on.
Wert, last night was not the night to skip CSI:
Sweet Jesus, they shot the Biebs?!
Everything happens for a reason.
WOO!
It’s like killing a baby?
Did anyone else see the “Armageddon” rip off in the credits of “Threat Level Midnight?” I kinda died a little.
Oops meant to do it full size:
IT LOOKS EVEN COOLER THIS WAY!!
You forgot to say Enhance.
that’s what he said?
I think it’s because it’s become such a big cliche that made Community’s live-camera documentary style work. That show is all about parodic genre episodes, and they made enough direct references to the trite manipulation tactics of shows like that, while using them very effectively, that it came off as fairly charming for me.
Also, I would watch a full episode of Troy in a room by himself losing his shit.
I agree friend I think they poked enough fun at the documentary / mockumentary form to make it work.
However, the Troy thing was too much for me and the my least favorite part of the episode. It was weak and overdone like some of the worst moments of Tracy Jenna and Kenneth IMO.
Man I can’t even compete with any of this. UPVOTES FOR ALL!
why doesnt this feature ever mention daily show and colbert? Those are tv programs on thursday nights and I watch those
LOL Steve, this is for shows that happen ONLY on Thursdays, Silly! For the Nightly TV Roundup go to http://www.fart.biz
THE QU’OSBY SHOW
I don’t know why, but I feel like these belong here:
(stolen from jessica @ stereogum)
Which is Vladimir and which is Estragon?
Waiting for Godot references? God, I need to go on this site more often.
This seemed like Adam Scott’s Parks & Rec breakout episode, and that makes it the clear winner of TV to me. Bonus points for Amy Poehler’s scrunchy face and the Tom Haverford line, “Oh, really? Because Brooks Brothers Boys doesn’t make garbage.”
I’m just glad they didn’t make Aziz schill for Jos A Bank suits
“I wished they hadn’t done that live-camera documentary thing, though. Explainabrag: It’s because it’s become a cliché on television, and I am really good at spotting those sorts of things.”
They could have at least commented on the form every few minutes. You know, critically.
SORRY THAT WAS REALLY BRITTA OF ME. LOL, TV.
I almost forgot to post this one:
i think i’m gif-sick. barf.
Liz’s best line of the night… “My fanny pack is in my office in my mini fridge. I like my tampons cold”?
I’m a big defender of “30 Rock” but this season’s joke stealing is a bit out of control. last night had the cold tampon thing, which was from a 2005 episode of “American Dad.” Get it together writing staff!
My fave line was ron’s: “it’s art, anything is anything.”
Reading Rainbow?! LeVar Burton?! Childhood?! Anyone?!