Want to feel really old? Watch an MST3K from the '90s and get all the references.
Want to feel really old? Watch an MST3K from the '90s and get all the references.
And the crowd roared!
I long for the days of the steady guiding hand of the Sheinhart Wig Company.
This joke right here? This is fine, and a great place to stop. Please everyone, don't make me scroll through 150 one-upping variations on it next time I check out this comment section.
If NBC was smart they'd still be using SNL as a farm team for their sitcoms. Nowadays FOX seems to be getting all the ex-SNL people.
The funny thing is, if Conan hadn't cut his ties to Lorne Michaels he'd probably still be hosting The Tonight Show.
I watched that episode of Conan dress rehearsal clips a couple of weeks ago, and the guy is still really mean. I'd hate to work for him.
I don't know if I agree with that. The first half of the first season still basically feels like a normal sitcom. It isn't until several episodes in that it discards all ties to the recognizable universe and becomes the bizarro-world punchline machine that it's known for.
I guess? I mean, Harry Dean Stanton is a character actor, and he only ever plays Harry Dean Stanton. The same is probably true of most people you associate with the term "character actor". Most of them only play Harry Dean Stanton.
it is, and I am not a family sitcom guy. I like that they're not afraid to play up the absurdity, and push the comedy really hard. I do wish they could give Anthony Anderson a note to play other than "wrong-every-time" guy. at least when Larry David gets exasperated at other people and acts like an asshole you sort of…
They kept a very strange, low-rated show on the air for three seasons. They held up their end.
British sitcoms have a similar crap-to-great ratio as American ones. At the top of the scale you have, say, Peep Show, and at the bottom you have Mrs. Brown's Boys, which makes the sitcom Ricky Gervais starred in on Extras seem like Fawlty Towers.
It's easy to take it for granted, but very often I find New Girl is the funniest show of the week.
Then I am gettin' in that van, and I am going to cuddle myself some puppies!
Alias looked like an ABC show of it's era, and SHIELD looks like an ABC show of it's era. I suppose there also might have been an intentional push initially to make the show look like a standard network procedural to attract that audience. Once they gave up on the show being the next NCIS it seems like they let things…
I'm going to contradict a bit myself and admit that I have a hard time struggling through a lot of those videotaped shows as an adult. If I was going to pick a couple that I think still hold up, though, I'd go for Doomwatch, Sapphire And Steel, and Brian Clemens' Thriller.
I was always aware that I was watching a show on ABC, and I know what those shows look like, so it was never really a thing I thought about.
10:00pm is one of the best time slots for hour-long dramas, and has been for years. I think they've just given up on trying to make AoS a family show, and have managed their expectations based on the actual viewership. If they put on Friday night, then I'd be concerned.
Also, it's not like Nick Fury called in The Avengers every time he had a problem in his own book. If you ask "Why don't they call in Iron Man/Thor/The Hulk every time a less powerful character gets in over their head, none of this works.
The original Inhumans characters have nothing to do with anything that happens in this show, which is based on more recent events in the comics. There's the Kree stuff, and the Terrigen mists, but that's all background stuff that doesn't really matter. Seriously, if the movie division cared about any of this stuff,…