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THE OFFICE!! SNL THURSDAY!! PARKS AND REC!! NBC’s Autumn Begins Tonight And Hercules Has Seen A Big Chunk Of It!!
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NBC returns from repeats tonight with its strongest comedy block in many a year.
Some notes on “The Office,” which launches its sixth season tonight in hilarious form:
* The episode gets a lot funnier after the first act.
* 6.1 begins with Michael, Dwight and Andy acting like nine-year-olds, practicing what they claim to be parkour. NBC doesn’t forward HD screeners so we’ll have to wait to see if Ed Helms did his own stunts.
* I deem Helms the episode’s MVP.
* We pick up on “the last day of summer interns,” which suggests Pam’s been knocked up for a while.
* Kelly Erin is still the Scranton branch’s receptionist.
* “We have not told people about Pam’s situation,” allows Jim.
* We learn big news about a member of the Scranton branch’s staff. (Hint: not Angela.)
* We learn Kevin in unlikely to win big on “Wheel of Fortune.”
* Michael begins making up gossip to further his very weak-minded agenda.
* Andy’s reaction to the rumor Michael makes up about him is really funny.
* Many of Michael’s rumors got laughs out of me, but the one he makes up about Dwight was my favorite.
Outtakes from the series’ 100th episode from last May, “Company Picnic”:
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Some notes on tonight’s “Parks and Recreation,” which gets off to a strong second-season start:
* Despite the fact that Anne and Andy are no longer a couple, “Everwood”/“OC” vet Chris Pratt has been added to the title sequence.
* Andy’s storyline has taken a pretty funny turn.
* Leslie becomes a hero of Pawnee’s homosexual community and the scourge of Pawnee’s anti-homosexual community when she accidentally marries two male penguins.
* While it’s not cool to say the word “Basterds” on CBS at 7:30 p.m., it’s totally cool to depict two male penguins having sex on NBC at 8:30 p.m.
* Offal is flung, but not by the penguins.
* Leslie is surprised to learn The Bulge is Pawnee’s gay bar.
* “They might die, but it would be so cute!”
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NBC launches tonight also a revival of “SNL Thursdays,” which was the network’s top-rated scripted series last autumn. I think only six live episodes have been ordered, but if it somehow does as well as it did during the election year I suspect “Community” or “30 Rock” could be bumped to another night.
If “SNL Thursdays” doesn’t beat NBC’s sitcoms (and who knows what’ll happen now that it has to compete with “Survivor,” “Bones,” “FlashForward” and “The Vampire Diaries”), well, we’re only three years from another election.
“SNL Thursday”: 8 p.m. Thursday. NBC.
“Parks and Recreation”: 8:30 p.m. Thursday. NBC.
“The Office”: 9 p.m. Thursday. NBC.
“Community”: 9:30 p.m. Thursday. NBC.
To anticipate the question, “30 Rock” returns Oct. 15.
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Could it be?
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Sorry, had to get that out of my system! SNL Thursdays??? Bump 30 Rock? Have they lost the plot?
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Thank You Jesus. The funniest show on tv starts tonight. Herc, have you watched this yet?
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adding Chris Pratt to the main cast was a great move. He was one of the few highlights of the first season.
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Sep 17, 2009 4:14:46 AM CDT
SNL will have an uphill battle without the election...
by iamnicksaicnsn
and I was about to say that there's been enough political stuff to cause some interest (health care, "you lie!," tea-baggers, glenn beck, et al), they still don't have a strong Obama, or at least haven't cracked how to make fun of him.
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They've debuted 30 Rock later than The Office for the last couple years now if I remember correctly, even without the SNL Thursday.
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It may be one "The Office" too many, but I'm more intrigued by it than I was by P&R, and it has John Oliver from the Daily Show.
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it sounds like a fairly solid block from 8:30-10:30 on NBC, then FX.
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Sep 17, 2009 7:47:57 AM CDT
Most will think SNL is a rerun/special and flip the channel
by 2for2true
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...I saw Dale Dickey (a.k.a., Patti the Daytime Hooker) starring as Blanche in a production of Streetcar Named Desire Wednesday night. An incredible performance from a criminally underrated actress.
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Like countless others in the past. I mean, what do you do when the baby is born, oh right, oh here is a cute baby, that's good for laughs, no it's not, unless it's like the Hangover then that works, but most other times babies in comedies = FAIL
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Guest appearance by Michael Stipe?? He's going to play Toby's replacement??
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Outside of firing the cast (aside from Aziz and Aubry Plaza) and the writers and scrapping the premise, I don't see how they can salvage this show. Last season was so unoriginal and relentlessly mean it was genuinely hard to watch. Too bad - Poehler was pretty good on SNL (and I don't think women are funny as a rule). I might watch if Poehler could convince Will Arnett to join the cast, but I imagine he has better things to do.
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Wish they hadn't cast Chase and I don't love the premise, but Joel McHale really deserves a sit com - the soup is one of the funniest things on tv.
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What kind of hare-brained tit watches that show, in the first place?
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good thing i checked here, i'll watched SNL and PR but the office is the one i'm really excited for
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SNL barely has enough decent content for one show, much less two.
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Granted I only made it thru half an episode before I couldn't take it anymore, but it was so unbelievable, so unfunny, the characters so unlikable, and the writing so bad, that I have no intention of ever watching it again.
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Sounds exactly like Pam? I was scrolling through the clips and starting them in sequence to avoid the advertisements, when I happened to hear the tag at the end. I thought, what the hell is Jenna Fischer doing pimping some children's cold medicince crap. Weird.
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The new receptionist is Kelly Erin
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Sep 17, 2009 11:54:15 AM CDT
Rashida Jones is the ONLY reason to watch Parks & Rec
by backrivercatfish
i still can't watch though
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Chase is more "Ty Webb" and less "Fletch 2"
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Amy Poehler's character going to a park to condemn kids for throwing bags of dog shit at each other.....then unwittingly being pulled into the fight and having fun throwing the dog shit back at the kids was hilarious. The supporting cast of guys are all great too. Poehler's boss is whacked out of his mind and very funny.
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It's not like the baby will come to the office everyday. they will get a sitter and they will go to work just like everyone else.
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The show was much funnier back then and Koechner is a comedic pimp. The biggest problem with Parks show is actually Poehlers character which was just horribly written but its got potential.
Also can someone tell me-WHY THE FUCK IS EVERY GOOD SHOW ON THURSDAY NIGHT! -
She is the Anti-Christ of comedy.
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Let me know when Louis CK comes to Parks and Rec. Though season 2 is always the best season for most comedy shows out there. Good ones that is. South Park would be an exception, so would all cartoon shows really except Drawn Together.
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Yeah I'm glad its back but not really excited. Gotten so used to it, can't muster excitement. BUT Sons of Anarchy was fucking awesome again on tuesday, Peggy Bundy's bringing home an emmy this year.
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I really think Michael got a lot of redemption last season with how he handled the Michael Scott Paper Company. Now I feel like we're gonna revert back to kooky old Michael inappropriately handling Pam's pregnancy. It was good that he could pull his act together and be a savvy businessman, but now we're gonna have him awkwardly trying to get into the delivery room or some shit
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Has always been portrayed as a savvy salesman but a terrible manager. The same quality of wanting to be everyone's friend is good in one job and a disaster in the other.
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SNL hasn't been funny since this Progressive commercial started.
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Keeping my suit pressed. And the rats. Rat parade at night.
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the beginning with the jumping around thing was funny.
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but didn't flip the channel because the remote was way over there. Then I realized it was new.
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SNL was woeful, Parks and Rec will never be good, and The Office passed away some years ago.
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nosebleed when he got real goods to spread around.
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Tea? You would. hee hee
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It's the Micheal Scott way.
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Don't tell me that one intern doesn't look like a young Matt Damon!
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The Office is dead. Time to put it out of its misery.
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Scavo twins. I was like, who the fuck? (Apparently it's a Desperate Housewives thing).
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...but still better than almost any other sitcom.
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If you want an actual laugh-out-loud sitcom with proper jokes, try The Inbetweeners. It's fucking hilarious. Surfthechannel will have it.
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Too much proven talent being wasted on that show...
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Sep 17, 2009 9:00:25 PM CDT
There is not another person inside of me working me with control
by backrivercatfish
Awesome episode! Stanley pulling a John Goodman in Lebowski was great!
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My laughter levels kept noticably increasing with each half hour starting with Parks and ending with Community. NBC has a pretty good "Must See" block here, for me at any rate. And now, my tummy hurts in a good way.
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Someone should use the screen names "Hugh Honey" or "Vic Vinegar"
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Show used to be hilarious... Now its just kinda sorta humorous... I'll still watch this season but I hope it gets better than this... The Michael Scott Paper Company storyline shouldve lasted longer...
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Chevy Chase is unwatchable
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Great run while it lasted
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When Joel McHale referred to the place as, "a school shaped toilet," I officially told my dvr to record the series.
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P&R didn't improve, and I don't see how it can, unless they dump or de-emphasize the lead. With exception of a fleeting Creed moment, Office was flat. Community was OK; not ready to write it off yet, but less of the guy whose only function is to spout pop-culture references would help.
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Terrific episode!
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The Office is a show rooted in awkward hard to watch humor. That was last nights episode, seeing Michael screw things up for Stanley then fix his problem only to screw it up again and watch Jim and Pam fix it to only once again watch Michael screw it up was pure old school Office joy.
It's not a main stream comedy. -
Sure the series may have had a few of "dud" episodes through the years but thematically The Office has stayed on par with what the writers and Greg Daniels set up in Season 2. Last night had everything that makes The Office great in spades.
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Thought it was fantastic. Community very good and SNL solid. And yes, Hugh Honey and Vic Vinegar are amazing names.
I can't take anyone serious who claims the Office wasn't good last night. -
Glad to have It's Always Sunny back...and the first 10 minutes of The Office weren't blowing my mind yet...but I'll reserve judgement til I can finish watching the episode after work. 30 Rock's just been doing it for me lately instead...and of course that won't come back for another month. CURSES!
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Pam, Angela, & Erin 3-way... nuff said
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Was fucking classic!
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the real aintitcoolnews about comedy shows this week is always sunny. the new dvd is awesome and the new season started thursday. that is the funniest show on tv right now along with curb.
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Loved the opening. Andy is becoming one of my favorites. Laughed my ass off when Kevin and Michael were playing Hangman.
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