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Bobfromsales posted:Caroline in the city was a good sitcom, but can be added to the pile of shows that were ruined when the will-they/won't-they leads finally got together. Yeah, I remember flipping from 'like' to 'not like' pretty much on a dime once Caroline and Richard got together in Season 3? I think. It pulled a lot of similar stunts with that will-they/won't-they as Friends did with Ross/Rachel -- he loves her but she doesn't know; then she discovers that she loves him but he's moved on; enter sweeps moment where he finds out she loves him. Edit: Also, I just noticed on wikipedia that CitC only had its first two seasons ever released on DVD in the US. Weird.
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I seem to remember WGN used to air the reruns of Caroline for a long time for a while about 10 years ago in the afternoons but that I think was the last time I saw it. With all the semi-forgotten sitcoms out there, I remember the USA Network's relatively short-lived block of airing cancelled 90s sitcoms in the late mornings-early afternoons about 10 years ago, too. Things like the John Laroquette Show, Get a Life, Ned and Stacy, and a few others of that variety. I don't mind the late night hours of TV and local broadcasters having syndicated sitcoms to fill up their blocks, but I do sort of wish they'd go back to having some variety here and there and not just make it all Home Improvement, AFV and CBS comedies that ended in the last half-dozen years.
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JediTalentAgent posted:[...] Ned and Stacy [...] That was one of my favorites, though I've not seen in it since airing; I may have a VHS full at SLP speed in some distant place. The four principal cast members nailed it, Church especially.
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piratepilates posted:One of my new hobbies is going through the old lineups of TV networks and seeing the shows that no one could possibly remember. Hey lovely TV guru. I'm trying to think but was Working a prelude to the Office, and was Men Behaving Badly pretty much Two and a Half Men?
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Dec 11, 2013 09:36
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Working was more of a zany comedy than a situational workplace one. Veronica's Closet was also mostly notable for having one of the cast members killing themselves, not on the set or anything like that though. That'd be too interesting. Also the only thing that The Naked Truth ever accomplished was causing The X-Files to move production from Vancouver to LA as Duchovny wanted to stay close to Tea Leoni.
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Man, I enjoyed the hell out of the first season of The John Laroquette Show. Recovering alcoholic working the night shift at a St Louis bus depot? It practically wrote itself, but it was too "dark" and on opposite of Rosanne to gain any traction. They retooled it to be "brighter" and...well, it got two more seasons, but it never felt the same.
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Haha, Caroline in the City, Suddenly Susan and Veronica's Closet kind of morph into the same generic NBC sitcom in my head.
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By the by, I've defended Dexter for years as being knowingly daft but entertaining. Having just watched the last season I feel the need to say that yeah, in retrospect it probably should have been given a Viking funereal years ago. The entire season was an exercise in doing things for the sake of things, and suffocating the programme in an avalanche of botched attempts to provide closure and a 'fitting' end. It should have been about Dexter methodically murdering all of his colleagues while wearing his son's head as a hat. Because at least it would have been memorable, and we would have had a pay off for all those years of loving terrible supporting performances. And I hate the first name Harrison.
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muscles like this? posted:Tea Leoni. Christ, that was loving annoying.
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hope and vaseline posted:Haha, Caroline in the City, Suddenly Susan and Veronica's Closet kind of morph into the same generic NBC sitcom in my head. ...I'm pretty sure the same thing happened for me with Suddenly Susan and Veronica's Closet. Who even was in VC besides Kirstie Alley? I thought Judd Nelson was but he was in SS with Brooke Shields, wasn't he?
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Suddenly Susan, Veronica's closet, and Just Shoot Me were definitely all the same show.
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So was "The Days and Life of Molly Dodd" basically the rough sketch of New Girl then?
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precision posted:So was "The Days and Life of Molly Dodd" basically the rough sketch of New Girl then? It felt like it. At least Blair Brown got a better role on Fringe.
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Dec 11, 2013 19:18
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Bobfromsales posted:Suddenly Susan, Veronica's closet, and Just Shoot Me were definitely all the same show. Just Shoot Me is a classic sitcom, however.
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Slamhound posted:There was a period in the mid to late 90s where Hollywood was absolutely insistent on making her the Next Big Thing. And then there was her influence on the X-Files. In the latest channel rebranding news, Bio will now be known as FYI http://www.deadline.com/2013/12/ae-networks-bio-renamed-fyi-as-it-converts-into-lifestyle-network/#utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Ubiquitous_ posted:Just Shoot Me is a classic sitcom, however.
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xeria posted:...I'm pretty sure the same thing happened for me with Suddenly Susan and Veronica's Closet. Who even was in VC besides Kirstie Alley? I thought Judd Nelson was but he was in SS with Brooke Shields, wasn't he? Veronica's Closet had Ron Silver. Who was certainly brilliant, yet utterly wasted on that show. It also had one of the lab techs from CSI as a straight guy that everyone thought was gay. Which is a joke that was old half way through the first episode. "I'm not gay, what is it with you and my mother?" I have no idea how I remembered that line from the pilot.
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Bobfromsales posted:Suddenly Susan, Veronica's closet, and Just Shoot Me were definitely all the same show. They were all part of a weird trend in the 90s of setting shows at a magazine.
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muscles like this? posted:They were all part of a weird trend in the 90s of setting shows at a magazine. Work at a magazine, video store, pizza place or, in rare cases, clothing store. Truly, the 90s were a time of enlightenment.
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Just Shoot Me had that one episode where David Cross was pretending to be a disabled guy, and I think that's all I can remember about it.
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Fag Boy Jim posted:Just Shoot Me had that one episode where David Cross was pretending to be a disabled guy, and I think that's all I can remember about it. "chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie" is still a line that gets stuck in my head that my 13 year old self thought was hilarious.
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Dec 11, 2013 21:23
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Guys, soon we will receive a gift from another forum. A thread hand picked for us to cherish and nurture through the holiday season. I've already given our Christmas gift to Entertainment Weakly. It's a loss that will be felt around for hours to come I'm sure, but we'll carry on. I expect you guys to treat our new thread, whatever it may be, as if it was one of our own.
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Fag Boy Jim posted:Just Shoot Me had that one episode where David Cross was pretending to be a disabled guy, and I think that's all I can remember about it. Newsradio had David Cross as depressed magician and also as a member of Dave's a cappella group. The other members were Bob Odenkirk and Brian Posehn. I love Newsradio so much.
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Deadpool posted:Guys, soon we will receive a gift from another forum. A thread hand picked for us to cherish and nurture through the holiday season. I've already given our Christmas gift to Entertainment Weakly. It's a loss that will be felt around for hours to come I'm sure, but we'll carry on. I expect you guys to treat our new thread, whatever it may be, as if it was one of our own. So we should bicker in circles about the endings of Lost and BSG, drop a few Game Thrones spoilers, and generally be terrible?
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Deadpool posted:Guys, soon we will receive a gift from another forum. A thread hand picked for us to cherish and nurture through the holiday season. I've already given our Christmas gift to Entertainment Weakly. It's a loss that will be felt around for hours to come I'm sure, but we'll carry on. I expect you guys to treat our new thread, whatever it may be, as if it was one of our own. Aw, too bad you didn't draw ADTRW. Glad you shipped that thread off anyway.
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IRQ posted:So we should bicker in circles about the endings of Lost and BSG, drop a few Game Thrones spoilers, and generally be terrible? Well, yeah. It wouldn't be the TV/IV experience without all that.
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I was intrigued as to which thread was gifted, so I want over to check it out. I'm almost tempted to follow it now.
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Dec 11, 2013 21:39
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The thread will be neither better nor worse for it. Seriously.
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Deadpool posted:Guys, soon we will receive a gift from another forum. A thread hand picked for us to cherish and nurture through the holiday season. I've already given our Christmas gift to Entertainment Weakly. You chose... wisely.
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precision posted:You chose... wisely. Nobody's going to believe this, but I did chose it randomly between it and four other threads once I found out which forum I drew. Had I drawn the anime forum I wouldn't have done a random choice though. I did not just chose bad threads contrary to what everyone will think. Basically I just chose some threads that could do with being lightened up a bit.
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Do you mean that if you got the anime forum you wouldn't have picked Kora because it might actually fit in there so there are better choices, or do you mean you would have picked it because its guaranteed comedy watching people get mad about their not-anime being in the anime forum?
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Postal Parcel posted:Work at a magazine, video store, pizza place or, in rare cases, clothing store. Along those lines, I'm sort of half tempted to try to find and watch the Clerks live-action TV pilots that ABC did back in the 90s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdvNKT61nuM
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Dec 11, 2013 22:20
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What's the thread I can't find it.
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zoux posted:What's the thread I can't find it. He sent over the Korra thread.
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:Do you mean that if you got the anime forum you wouldn't have picked Kora because it might actually fit in there so there are better choices, or do you mean you would have picked it because its guaranteed comedy watching people get mad about their not-anime being in the anime forum? The latter. Also if I had gotten BSS I probably would have shipped over Arrow. That would have been fun. Especially on mid-season finale day.
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DivisionPost posted:He sent over the Korra thread. Oh we haven't gotten ours yet I see. Deadpool posted:The latter. What do the nerds over there think of Arrow?
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JediTalentAgent posted:Along those lines, I'm sort of half tempted to try to find and watch the Clerks live-action TV pilots that ABC did back in the 90s.  Is that Keri Russel? And why is the music so creepy
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zoux posted:Oh we haven't gotten ours yet I see. We think it's great.
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zoux posted:Oh we haven't gotten ours yet I see. They like it I think. But it would have been amusing given all the clamor over the comic talk.
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Deadpool posted:The latter.
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