Day #2 of the 30 Day Television Challenge
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shadowkatDay #2 of the 30 Day Television Challenge.
The prompt is A television series that makes you laugh (it doesn't have to be a comedy)
[Okay, what is going to make this meme difficult for everyone including me, is that you cannot pick the same television series twice. Also if someone else picked it for the prompt - you can't pick it. You can however pick a television show that someone picked for one prompt - for another one.
Example? Say I picked Sarah Connor Chronicles for Day 1? You could pick it for for say Day #5. But no one else can pick it for Day #5. And you have to get there first. The point of this meme is to rec shows -- not to pick the same show as everyone else.
I have to add some level of difficulty. OR it would be too easy. So don't pick two - because you are limiting others choices, if you do that.]
Yeah, I'm going to pick a comedy...mainly because I think I want to save my dramas for other categories.
Oh, a few years back - can't remember where, I was watching Fraiser episodes on someone's phone to pass the time. They were still hilarious. Even with the annoying laugh track.
The prompt is A television series that makes you laugh (it doesn't have to be a comedy)
[Okay, what is going to make this meme difficult for everyone including me, is that you cannot pick the same television series twice. Also if someone else picked it for the prompt - you can't pick it. You can however pick a television show that someone picked for one prompt - for another one.
Example? Say I picked Sarah Connor Chronicles for Day 1? You could pick it for for say Day #5. But no one else can pick it for Day #5. And you have to get there first. The point of this meme is to rec shows -- not to pick the same show as everyone else.
I have to add some level of difficulty. OR it would be too easy. So don't pick two - because you are limiting others choices, if you do that.]
Yeah, I'm going to pick a comedy...mainly because I think I want to save my dramas for other categories.
Oh, a few years back - can't remember where, I was watching Fraiser episodes on someone's phone to pass the time. They were still hilarious. Even with the annoying laugh track.
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Date: 2020-09-29 01:48 am (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlyhoMzL1hw
ETA: I should be honest and say it was my mother who pointed me to the show.
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Date: 2020-09-29 02:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-29 02:15 am (UTC)My favorite part of this series (especially the early years) is whenever Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) would point out a mural on the walls of Pawnee, Indiana's City Hall and hesitantly explain the awful back story--usually involving the massacre of the local natives, or the arrest and imprisonment of a woman who wore slacks on Sunday.
In its own, subtle way, these funny little history lessons set the stakes for our heroine. The series constantly set Leslie against the idiotic residents of Pawnee and its embarrassing history, a Sisyphean task she embraced with unbridled, exhausting enthusiasm and overwhelming love for her dumpster fire of a home town.
Leslie's unflagging tenacity and her absurd level of overpreparedness (so...many... binders!) would be the source of big laughs, especially when contrasted with her boss, Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman)--an avowed libertarian who despised the stupidity of government as much as Leslie believed in its capacity for good.
One of the great comedies of the last decade.
https://youtu.be/9BXx43OxA4I
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Date: 2020-09-30 01:59 am (UTC)It's not for me. I'm not a fan of Michael Schur's humor - the only show of his I enjoyed was "The Good Place" but it kind of jumped away from the other comedies narrative framework and had the metaphysics set up. The bits that were similar to his other comedies did not work for me at all.
But, I know a lot of people who love that show online. Comedy like beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Date: 2020-09-29 04:19 am (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEiJ3QA4kKs
I always got a particular kick out of the flying, glass-encased, preserved Nixon head that would terrorize anybody anywhere anytime it got the chance to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama
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Date: 2020-09-29 01:34 pm (UTC)That's what made Futurama great--you had the aliens and the spaceships and "kiss my shiny metal ass!", but they trusted the audience enough to give us moments of real poignancy and heartbreak. Most of my top five confirms that I am indeed a sap;
The Sting
The Late Philip J. Fry
The Farnsworth Parabox
Godfellas
Roswell that Ends Well
Did you know that the algorithm they developed to solve the body switching mess in "Prisoner of Benda" was published in a real mathematicians' journal?
Nerds!
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Date: 2020-09-29 08:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-29 09:03 am (UTC)no subject
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