Did you watch the pilot or another episode? The pilot is definitely not the best episode, IMO - I think the second and third might have been my favorite. It's also one of these shows where it takes a few episodes to really get into it - it's not really standard 10 jokes per minute sitcom, it's kind of all over the…

Abbi is my spirit animal:

That's probably a huge factor. Plus I think it might also be because the concept was imported from the UK, where, as some other commenters pointed out, "regular looking" people are a lot more common on tv.

That's awesome, I didn't know that. It really bothers me when female characters are always super-made-up on tv shows (like you said, wearing the "standard beauty make-up"), even when they are in a scene where it doesn't make sense at all , like, if they are literally just waking up, in their own bed, with a perfectly…

I like Coco Rocha. I feel like Ciara needs some Blerta-style advice - "Do not speak! If you speak they will know that you are simple! If they know that you are simple, they will drown you in river."

I think this movie would have felt less tired and cliche if the genders were reversed, like if Zooey Deschanel and Hannah Simone (or maybe Lizzie Caplan and Lena Dunham? Or the Broad City girls*?) played a slacker dudette and her more straight laced friend who pretend to be cops and mess with little kids and meet a…

He's actually pretty great in Safety Not Guaranteed, where he plays a total asshole that's nothing like Nick Miller (and also in Drinking Buddies, but he plays a vaguely Nick Millerish type in that).

Please tell me that the OMG in this post stands for Oh My GOOP!

I'm currently re-watching The Office, and it's just such an awesome show to watch because you really feel for these people - there are very few show with characters I really connect to, emotionally, as much as those on The Office. I think one off the reasons is how "real" the world of The Office feels, how real these…

I'm totally with you on this, but... there's this really brilliant part in Tina Fey's Bossypants that I also think applies here:

Wait - Taylor Hanson's oldest child is 11 years old?! Double digits?! How is that possible? This makes me feel so old...

When I was little, a bunch of different German childrens TV shows - like Sandmännchen, Die Sendung mit der Maus ("The show with the mouse" - this educational show that included cartoons with "the mouse and the elephant") and there was a German version of Sesame Street, which I think was a mix of dubbed scenes from…

I grew up in Germany.

Yes, you're right - like I said in my last comment, my original comment was maybe a bit too harsh. (That last sentence wasn't really meant to negate what I said in that last comment, I was just responding to your comment RE prototype or not.)

That's an awesome gif - hadn't seen that version before! Full disclosure: I have never seen an entire episode Saved by The Bell ever (in my defense: I didn't grow up in the US) - yet I use that gif frequently.

Of course PH was the victim of crime, so she's entitled to being seen as a victim by the judiciary system, she's entitled to justice in the court system etc. - though I'm not so sure whether she's not entitled to people's sympathies.
But you know what? I'll take back what I said about Paris Hilton and karma,…

Uh, now THAT's a controversial question... I'm guessing... BESTEST.

Oh, you're totally right - there's definitely much better, more important arguments to spend this much time discussing than whether or not we have the right to judge Paris Hilton (Puppies! Crimea! Game of Thrones!) - though think/hope we've transcended the Paris Hilton discussion for a more general debate on privilege…

Like I already said - yeah, other people are way more responsible for that/profit way more off of that, so maybe I was being a bit harsh on her. Nevertheless, I still think that we should see critically what people contribute to society as a whole, and Paris' impact is definitely not a positive one. That being said,…

You know what? I think I might have been a little harsh on Paris Hilton, 'cause, now that I've thought about it, there's really so many people who do so much worse things - legal or illegal - than making money by acting like an idiot on reality tv and in the tabloid press. But I still stand by my argument: I think…