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Henchman of Santa posted:There’s nothing to be exonerated of, he’s just a creep. The thing that worked in his favor was that the piece was horribly written and did the woman a horrible disservice. It was on what felt like a gossip blog, and when outside female journalists would criticize it the author went on a attack spree saying no one cares what old women who aren't in touch with modern fashion think.
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I appreciated Brittas change in personality. The worst role for any woman in comedy is the Kevin James' love-interest character who, despite being in a comedy, gets to tell no jokes and is completely disposable come the sequel. Britta being a hipster oddball who is a shallow soapbox-preaching know-it-all and is often the butt of the joke is what every comedy could have.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I appreciated Brittas change in personality. The worst role for any woman in comedy is the Kevin James' love-interest character who, despite being in a comedy, gets to tell no jokes and is completely disposable come the sequel. Britta being a hipster oddball who is a shallow soapbox-preaching know-it-all and is often the butt of the joke is what every comedy could have.
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Mar 22, 2019 17:15
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Calaveron posted:Over half the cast of parks and rec are people I wouldn't even want to be near in real life. April is a horrible surly teenager, Andy was fun before they paired him up with April and then he was also a horrible mentally challenged teenager, Tom is just a gigantic horrible loving rear end in a top hat, Jerry is old and useless and is the kinda person you just wanna avoid, Ron would be incredibly tedious to be around, Leslie even more so. Ben and Donna would be the only OK people to be around gently caress you, Jerry would be awesome to hang out with.
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Mar 22, 2019 17:53
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I appreciated Brittas change in personality. The worst role for any woman in comedy is the Kevin James' love-interest character who, despite being in a comedy, gets to tell no jokes and is completely disposable come the sequel. Britta being a hipster oddball who is a shallow soapbox-preaching know-it-all and is often the butt of the joke is what every comedy could have. IIRC this is exactly why they changed the role and I think she specifically wanted Britta to be dumber too. Speaking of IASIP, Dee's character basically did the same thing from season 1 to season 2.
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Mar 22, 2019 18:13
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Jeff and Annie mostly came across as weird because the character is much younger than the actress in story, but due to them (the actors) bring in a more acceptable age range from each other they gloss over it pretty hard.
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Zedd posted:Jeff and Annie mostly came across as weird because the character is much younger than the actress in story, but due to them (the actors) bring in a more acceptable age range from each other they gloss over it pretty hard.
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Mar 22, 2019 18:20
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Britta is the best. But really mostly s 2-3, since they sort of hosed up everything after that as well. Except the episode with Pierces will which is amazing.
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Mar 22, 2019 18:49
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Parks and Rec did go out of it's way to dunk on Men's Rights activist which I appreciate. I liked that show but I'm probably not gonna rewatch it anytime soon. It's such a product of it's time that it hurts it.
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OutOfPrint posted:I could never get into The Office. It reminds me too much of Always Sunny in that it's about horrible people doing horrible things, but, unlike Sunny, they never really face the horrible consequences of their horrible actions, instead being treated as misunderstood heroes. The Scott's Tots bit was the worst of it and made me a little sick after watching Michael get exonerated by the writers by singing the song the kids sang to him as a thank you in the car afterwards. Michael felt like total poo poo after the ordeal. He only felt slightly better after Erin suggested that without his empty promise, those kids may not have graduated. What did you want to happen? The kids to beat him to a bloody pulp? The only main character on The Office that I would say is a truly terrible person is Ryan.
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Leavemywife posted:gently caress you, Jerry would be awesome to hang out with. Admit it, you just want to see Jerry's hanging out.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Michael felt like total poo poo after the ordeal. He only felt slightly better after Erin suggested that without his empty promise, those kids may not have graduated. What did you want to happen? The kids to beat him to a bloody pulp? Creed was no angel.
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Andy, April, and Gerry are the only Parks and Rec characters I’d dare hang with.
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April would be absolutely exhausting to be around
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they're fun to watch, not to hang out with. geez. i don't want to hang out with captain kirk* either *i do actually
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Pick posted:they're fun to watch, not to hang out with. geez. i don't want to hang out with captain kirk* either I'll hang out on any of the Enterprises
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I literally cannot imagine preferring Ben to April. This is not a joke.
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Community holds up great. Top 3 Britta moments: Britta's new best friend is a lesbian. Everyone should just stop staring and talking about it, it's a complete non issue. Turns out the new friend is straight, only friends with Britta because she thought she was a lesbian. Britta has an activist relapse after seeing pics of some old friends on Facebook. She lashes out in protest against The Man, who happens to be new campus security guard, Chang. Britta leading the revolution against the tyranny of people with 5 Meow Meow Beanz on the new social score app.
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They gave April such a lovely ending too. She was the absolute last person that would want to take a bureaucratic career, get married, settle down and have kids. But somehow she was convinced that this is what she wanted because every character needed a perfect fairytale ending. But I guess it doesn't bother me that much because she wasn't a good character, she was just a walking quirky quote generator like most of the cast.
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Mar 22, 2019 21:20
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everything they did with chang after he was fired is terrible and the show crawled up its own rear end somewhere in the middle of season 2. still some good eps though
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somepartsareme posted:everything they did with chang after he was fired is terrible and the show crawled up its own rear end somewhere in the middle of season 2. still some good eps though The later Chang episodes where he was an actor in a school production of the Karate Kid, and the one where he does an impromptu one man show in front of a ghost theater were good. The one where he spontaneously becomes a celebrity for a commercial he starred in, with the expression Ham, Girl! is good too now that think of it.
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OutOfPrint posted:This right here. My wife put P&R on as her background noise show, and nowadays it carries that undercurrent of "If we leave things alone and not worry too much it'll all work out" that looks downright quaint these days. Someone once made a similar comment about Portlandia: it hails from a time where we thought everything was going to work out and just keep getting gradually better. In the current day, it looks a bit insular and oblivious.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I appreciated Brittas change in personality. The worst role for any woman in comedy is the Kevin James' love-interest character who, despite being in a comedy, gets to tell no jokes and is completely disposable come the sequel. Britta being a hipster oddball who is a shallow soapbox-preaching know-it-all and is often the butt of the joke is what every comedy could have. I’ve heard the change was mostly because Gillian Jacobs is good at goofy comedy and the show runners figured that out and wrote to her strengths. Honestly I’m not fond of the term “Flanderization”, or rather its overuse- broad comedy is just as valid as the subtler stuff and it’s all about how a character fits with the dynamics of an ensemble. In the early days of a series writers aren’t always sure how everyone fits.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Honestly I’m not fond of the term “Flanderization”, or rather its overuse- broad comedy is just as valid as the subtler stuff and it’s all about how a character fits with the dynamics of an ensemble. In the early days of a series writers aren’t always sure how everyone fits. Hell, the Flanders' definitely became more engaging and interesting characters when they leaned into them being super-religious. Rod and Todd benefited more than Ned, though.
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kickascii posted:The later Chang episodes where he was an actor in a school production of the Karate Kid, and the one where he does an impromptu one man show in front of a ghost theater were good.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I literally cannot imagine preferring Ben to April. This is not a joke. Agreed. Who would want to hang out with a guy that just wants to sit around playing board games and drinking with friends when they could hang out with an annoying snarky teenager who's actually in their late 20's?
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Cleretic posted:Hell, the Flanders' definitely became more engaging and interesting characters when they leaned into them being super-religious. Rod and Todd benefited more than Ned, though. I think part of the shift was, it became obvious that the Religious Right were really that far gone and just “a well meaning overzealous guy” was going too easy on them.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I think part of the shift was, it became obvious that the Religious Right were really that far gone and just “a well meaning overzealous guy” was going too easy on them. I don’t think that Flanders’ original personality was such because the Simpsons writing team thought religious people were too good to lampoon. That just wasn’t the role he was meant to play, at least at first.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:They gave April such a lovely ending too. She was the absolute last person that would want to take a bureaucratic career, get married, settle down and have kids. But somehow she was convinced that this is what she wanted because every character needed a perfect fairytale ending. Or, you know, people change? People get older, want different things. Going back to Community, when Britta meets her old friends and they wonder why the gently caress she's still stuck as a rebelling teenager in her mid 30s when everyone else grew up.
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Ariong posted:I don’t think that Flanders’ original personality was such because the Simpsons writing team thought religious people were too good to lampoon. That just wasn’t the role he was meant to play, at least at first. The original point of Ned Flanders was that he was just a neighbor whose life was somewhat better and more successful than Homer's and Homer resented him for it. The religion stuff came later.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Agreed. Who would want to hang out with a guy that just wants to sit around playing board games and drinking with friends when they could hang out with an annoying snarky teenager who's actually in their late 20's? Exactly
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Exactly No, no, no...... you see I was.....what I was trying to do is..............I believe it was Aristotle that once said,
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The original point of Ned Flanders was that he was just a neighbor whose life was somewhat better and more successful than Homer's and Homer resented him for it. The religion stuff came later. Yeah, Ned came about largely as a foil for Homer. A better person in every way, including being a better Christian.That version did last a surprisingly long time--we even got an episode about Ned Flanders with no mention of religion, the Leftorium episode. But I think as they stretched out what they wanted the show to be they realized that interpretation didn't have a whole lot of mileage in it, the only characters he's really got material when clashing with is Homer and maybe Bart. Making him super-religious does lessen that character's depth a bit, but it gives the writers a whole lot more to work with, including actual personalities for his kids and a wealth of off-notes to play about outside-church American Christian life. They were very rarely actually vicious about Christianity with Ned, that's more reserved for Reverend Lovejoy.
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Even Reverend Lovejoy had his sympathetic moments. Glad I'm not the only one who figured Ned Flanders' shift to religious fundamentalist came along with American culture realising how far gone the religious right had become to the point where the idea of a strongly religious person being pleasant and friendly has become laughably quaint.
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Everyone talks about the sex criminals on Parks and Rec, but no one brings up that Chris Pratt once worked for Jews For Jesus and now goes to an infamously homophobic mega church.
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grittyreboot posted:Everyone talks about the sex criminals on Parks and Rec, but no one brings up that Chris Pratt once worked for Jews For Jesus and now goes to an infamously homophobic mega church. Isn't he also big on prosperity gospel and bootstraps because he used to live in a van?
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Isn't he also big on prosperity gospel and bootstraps because he used to live in a van? I wouldn't be surprised. He started working with JFJ because a guy outside a liquor store asked him if he was "planning on fornicating" that night (his words) so Pratt followed that guy to his house and he started mailing letters to jews to convert. Edit: also, he didn't know what Jewish people were despite being 19 years old. https://pagesix.com/2019/01/14/everything-newly-engaged-chris-pratt-has-said-about-his-faith/ grittyreboot has a new favorite as of 08:48 on Mar 23, 2019 |
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Chris Pratt and his ex-wife are also lovely to animals and treat their pets like disposable accessories
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The original point of Ned Flanders was that he was just a neighbor whose life was somewhat better and more successful than Homer's and Homer resented him for it. The religion stuff came later. Homer was Ned's Grimes.
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The other feasible headcanon is that Flanders went religion-crazy to cope with Maude's death.
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