tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308566111258293099.post5775353491357600078..comments2023-10-28T10:46:47.864-04:00Comments on The Nonsensical Ravings of a Lunatic Mind: TV Shelf AppealShanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02912061891010047846noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308566111258293099.post-1754303141827696022010-05-02T14:23:45.734-04:002010-05-02T14:23:45.734-04:00I don't know what I would call Archer other th...I don't know what I would call <i>Archer</i> other than "hilarious." I think this is the first time I've had a crush on a cartoon character since 1979.DropEdgehttp://www.dropedgeofyonder.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308566111258293099.post-2862703362220597672010-05-01T22:35:10.114-04:002010-05-01T22:35:10.114-04:00I really would recommend Modern Family. Yeah it ha...I really would recommend Modern Family. Yeah it has kids (and relatively few robots) but it's damned funny. Good writing ... well drawn characters ... like Community, it takes a bunch of sit com stereotypes and fucks with them for our amusement.<br />Also like Community, I came in about 10 episodes in - I originally had no interest in either. Now they are the two sit coms I look most forward to each week.<br />Just my opinion but, from what I know of your TV taste, I think you'll like Modern Family.Aging Hipsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05440122296969385797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308566111258293099.post-37649970481282140312010-05-01T21:40:06.896-04:002010-05-01T21:40:06.896-04:00I thought long and hard about Parenthood. I love G...I thought long and hard about Parenthood. I love Graham and Krause (SportsNight, Six Feet Under and the underrated and little seen The Lost Room), and Bonnie Bedelia will always be beloved for her turn as Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney in Heart Like a Wheel (and John McLane's wife). And Jason Katims,of FNL fame, sucked me into a show I didn't think I would like before. But there's nothing else there, beside the actors, to draw me in. Maybe I'll watch an ep on reruns and check it out sometime. (Or, if a ghost or robot shows up).<br /><br />As for "sitcoms," I was in the same boat. Now, I watch all the NBC Thursday shows, but only truly love Community and Parks and Rec (Ron Swanson is my god). Big Bang Theory still makes me laugh, as does How I Met Your Mother (though if they go down the Marshall and Lily have a baby route, I may check out). <br /><br />Are you watching Party Down? Because that is pure uncut awesome. And could you call Archer a "sitcom?" That makes me laugh harder than anything except Better Off Ted (or It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), which sadly, won't see the light of day again.<br /><br />Except BBT, most aren't getting great ratings, but the sitcom as an art form is returning a bit. And I watched one Modern Family (mainly for Judy Greer) and it was pretty damned funny. I think I'll catch up on that in reruns.Shanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02912061891010047846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308566111258293099.post-64093543121018903342010-05-01T21:21:38.914-04:002010-05-01T21:21:38.914-04:00My Shelf Appeal lists look a whole lot like yours....My Shelf Appeal lists look a whole lot like yours. Much like your experience with <i>GG</i>, I found the same thing recently with <i>Parenthood</i>. Except the opposite. Sort of. See, I'd never seen the movie but liked the commercials NBC was running; it looked to me like a comedy similar to <i>Modern Family</i>. Then I watched it, and it wasn't like that <b>AT ALL</b>; that said, I ended up liking it and still watch it on Hulu when nothing else is on.<br /><br />A year ago I'd have said that sitcoms had no Shelf Appeal for me, outside of a couple I watched occasionally like <i>The Office</i> or <i>30 Rock</i>. But then <i>Community</i> and <i>Modern Family</i> showed up, and I stopped using the term "sitcom" with general derision.<br /><br />Debra Messing is my Eric Balfour. That woman bugs the shit out of me. It's like I don't... trust her or something.DropEdgehttp://www.dropedgeofyonder.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com