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Pam Brady & Will Gluck’s Sitcom THE LOOP Returns To Fox!!
I am – Hercules!!
Before all the HBO fun tonight, a quick plug here for “The Loop,” whose long-delayed second season finally commences tonight. Fox will be running new two episodes each Sunday night – at 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. – at least till the end of the month.
It’s a sitcom about the corporate offices of a Chicago-based airline. Pam Brady, who co-wrote the “South Park” movie and “Team America,” created it will Will Gluck, who wrote for “Andy Richter Controls The Universe.” I listed it among my 10 favorite 2006 sitcoms.
“Scrubs” fans, I suspect, might like it. Unless those fans watch “Scrubs” mostly for the medical stuff, in which case they won’t like it at all.
If you’re waiting for “The Sopranos,” and can pull yourself away from the Tony Awards and “Hidden Palms,” you might give it another look.
8:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. Sunday. Fox.
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Had to say it.
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Bam.
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Bada boom!
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"MOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!"
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I don't even know what the heck "The Loop" is about. Nor do I really care. :P
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because Hostel Part II effing sucks
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If they ever decide to go through with a new Supergirl movie... sign her. Right away. Plus the show itself is pretty funny time to time.
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are there even ten good sitcoms on tv? it seems like anything that could make me chuckle more than once per episode would be on that list. let's see, there's the office, south park (does that count?), i'm sure you threw scrubs on that list... was arrested development still on tv in 2006? the point is, there's an extreme shortage in quality sitcoms. maybe your sitcom list this year should be only a "top five" one.
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Very low standards are applied to judging sitcoms. Hopefully Larry David's divorce will motivate him to rejuvenate Curb. Other than that, there's just the Office and 30 Rock.
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makes me think there will be lots of those stupid dream sequences that think they are funny just because they are dream sequences. Maybe someone will be edgy and talk to the camera while the other actors pretend they can't hear it or something. That will really stick it to the old fashioned "traditional sitcom" format!
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I love it when places like Chicago have mountains or palm trees in the background. In America, every city is Vancouver or Los Angeles. ITS A FACT!
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How I Met Your Mother, consistently one of the funniest shows on TV.
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"The Loop" was a Fox sit-com that aired a long time ago
for about nine episodes and then vanished without a trace
(though Fox.com kept it's page up, allowing unlimited plays
of its infections theme song "Hockey Monkey")
The biggest problem was that it was meant to be a youth-oriented sit-com.
Bret Harrison played the lead, a young man with a stoner brother
and some slacker friends living communally -
including a hot sexy bartender he had a secret unrequited crush on,
who he happened to be living with.
Yeah, I hate it when that happens.
Okay, that part of the show was densely (and quite deliberately) stupid.
Stoopid, injury to the intelligence sit-coms is what Fox does best.
What went awry was that the other part of the show, the guys workplace comedy,
was freaking brilliant.
76 year old Philip Baker Hall as the boss has comedy chops
you never would have suspected from his breakout performance in "Magnolia",
and 50-something Mimi Rogers still has all her voracious sexual energy.
Their performances - especially Hall's - are so over the top
they border on the surreal.
And even the cliched put-upon assistant is a joy to watch work.
The show - and again, especially Hall's dialog - just leaks catch phrases.
But obviously a 75 year old star and a 50-ish sexpot do not make for an effective "youth comedy" and Fox (and viewers) didn;t appreciate what they had because it wsn't what they were expecting.
This is the easily best and funniest new sit-com currently on TV today -
not saying much since the sit-com genre is dead
and most other shows are airing reruns.
And, sadly, The Loop is dead in the water.
Fox has a final ten episodes and they're just burning them off
to recoup some of their investment.
The shows cast have moved on to other jobs
and no doubt the sets have been torn down,
burned and peed on by now.
Still, ten half hours of hilarious comedy is better than,
well, not having five hours of hilarious comedy.
Tonight they light up two of the final episodes.
Not as a double feature, which would be too convenient.
Instead they air at 8:30 and 9:30,
sandwiched with a Simpsons and a Family Guy (both reruns)
Oh, and if you're up past midnight and don't mind burning in Hell
for laughing at an animated claymation show that mocks religion,
there's an all new episode of Moral Orel on [adult swim] at a quarter past midnight.
See you in Hell. -
Well, duh! D'y'think?
Not with those feet.
Y'know, I'm just sayin', is all. -
If you're up past midnight and don't mind burning in Hell
for laughing at an animated claymation show that mocks religion,
there's an all new episode of Moral Orel on at a quarter past midnight.
See you in Hell. -
that is all
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I didn't even see the 1st season, but I want to buy it now.
Much better than ARCTU and infinatly better than that shitty scrubs.
Very quirkey. And they really push the edge of dialoge. BLUMPKIN, you can't say that on television.
Plus the main guy is the dude from the best sitcom in the past 3 years. "Grounded For Life," and I'm very jealous of him because he used to make out with the hot redhead from that show on a day basis...
"That looks like Mom's neck massager"
Dude in the elevator is funny, and I guess thats where the ARCTU and Scrubs thing come in.
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I was concerned that after telling people how funny this show was I'd oversold it and it wouldn;t live up to the hype. And frankly the guy who's supposed to be the shows "lead" is the fourth most interesting character on the series, so time spent on him isn't really the show at its best.
But after a draggy start, the first episode found it's groove and laughing out loud. "You don;t want to start with me. I was a captain of a regiment stationed in a remote area with 900 doughboys. I've done things you CAN'T EVEN DRAW!" alyzing the line, I'm not sure why it hit me as so funny, but I was not only laughing out loud, but, you know those chemicals in the brain that make you feel happy and bubbly and giddy? Endorphins? This show is a drug and it gives me head rushes. and yes, the second dose took too, even after suffering patiently through one of the godawfulest Family Guy episodes waiting for it. Even that end tag bit - the hero is totally insane from reactions to his drug tests, exhibiting bizarre mood srings, and the woman he's with just calmly reacts as if "Why does this always happedn to me?" Or that incredibly awkward moment when the assistant realized she wasn't being invited to Hawaii and her expression just froze and she sort of chirped? It's hard to describe exactly why something that painful was so hilarious, it just was. -
considering when season 1 first ran, I doubt most people even remembered this show from it's first run. I thought it was mildly amusing when it started, and had some hot but believable chicks, and last night was a return to that. I will say however that I was a little disappointed they dropped most of the characters from the home life part. I don't know, but the hot receptionist made up for it.
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Wow. Way to go Fox. Instead of actually PROMOTE the show you decide to "burn them off". If it wasn't for AICN I would have never known it came back. Season 1 was GREAT! Now they got rid of the hot roommates and added a hot receptionist (which I am betting is gone in ep. 3) and some wise cracking coworkers. Why do all the shows I start to like get screwed? I would buy The Loop and Drive on DVD but I don't want to give Fox any of my hard earned money.
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because truly hilarious comedy get two dozen comments at AICN, mostly from people who never saw the show, brag they don't remember it or ar glad it cancel, but HBO Superanus get 767 comments people freaking out it not same ending as Bonnie and Clyde, Scarface, Godfather. wiseguys, Untouchables, blodd and gunsmoke everybody die. is why, I telling you. just sayin' is all. Phantom, congratulations on being 1st2nd3rd, very insightful, you totally rawk, dude.
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I watched the entire first season out of boredom and hope that it would get better and then they retool and come back with this?
I couldn't make it past 15 minutes. It was like watching the worst independent comedy film that you can imagine. The acting was WAY over the top and the lines all sounded either unrehearsed or improved by actors who have no business doing so.
Wow...glad it has no chance of continuing! -
Oops
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i love that blonde roomie funny dumb and hot best espisode was when she had to whack off sam, they kept boring office people and took hot blonde friend and girl interest away and never said what happened to them, the bar scenes where best now there gone for more time with brother and work yuk sad show was good. not its so will get canceled and wont be missed
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I can't wait to see it on dvd or downloaded. It's a fun show with some very hot girls.
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...and it was great! Maybe not 30 Rock or Office great, but definitely worthy of a look. The elevator guy is just genius, and the girls (including Mimi Rogers) are H-O-T, that spells moon. And Philip Baker Hall is indeed bad-ass funny. Dr. Cox funny.
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