Caution: Contradiction Ahead
I think I can safely say that I don't like TV comedies. I can pretty much count on one hand how many I have watched regularly . . . Arrested Development, The Office, Flight of the Conchords, Community . . . let's see . . . yep, that's it. There is no way I could ever sit through 30 minutes, 22 if your counting, of a three camera sitcom. Anything with a laugh track makes me want to shove sharp objects in my ears. I've never seen a whole episode of Friends, Seinfeld or Frasier. I've seen clips though.
In fact, one Thanksgiving my dad was talking about something he'd seen on a Seinfeld, and I said I didn't know what he was talking about. I had no reference to what he was saying because I didn't watch the show. He stared at me for a second and said, "That's just un-American." Yeah, probably.
I don't know what it is. Me a self admitted recovering TV junkie doesn't have the patience for situation comedies. They just don't do anything for me. That is why it makes absolutely no sense that I love Happy Endings. Yes, I said LOVE.
I really only checked it out because I thought it was going to be more of a romantic relationship show with a little funny thrown in. I ended up laughing so hard my stomach was cramping. All of the actors are hilarious, and have fantastic chemistry with each other. The show allows all of them to shine. You know what too, I love that they don't do anything, and that the show is completely random. I usually like my TV to be like a long novel. I'm not interested in shows that are tied up at the end of every episode, comedy or otherwise. Yes, there's some connectivity here, but not that much. It is just goofy escapist fun, and they so obviously don't give a shit. It seems to me that the show has been happily humming along under the radar just doing whatever they think is funny.
So yes, I love that Brad and Jane are crazy in love, and exist on a plane all their own. (TV needs more sexy married couples who can't get enough of each other.) I love that Max is completely off his rocker, and they love him anyway. That Penny seems to have continued to speak in a language she created when she was twelve, and they all just accept it. That Dave and Alex, the unlucky couple that had been at the center of the show in the beginning, are not the straight man/woman of the show, but have turned out to be just as whacked out as the rest of them. There are sweet moments, but more out of nowhere goofiness than anything else.
Maybe this show isn't unique or fresh, and I just don't pay enough attention to other comedies to know that. I'm just happy I gave it a chance, and it turned out to be nothing like what I was expecting.
Thank you ABC for not cancelling it!!
This just makes me laugh, I'm sorry. Max's little bow. It is just too damn funny.
I think I can safely say that I don't like TV comedies. I can pretty much count on one hand how many I have watched regularly . . . Arrested Development, The Office, Flight of the Conchords, Community . . . let's see . . . yep, that's it. There is no way I could ever sit through 30 minutes, 22 if your counting, of a three camera sitcom. Anything with a laugh track makes me want to shove sharp objects in my ears. I've never seen a whole episode of Friends, Seinfeld or Frasier. I've seen clips though.
In fact, one Thanksgiving my dad was talking about something he'd seen on a Seinfeld, and I said I didn't know what he was talking about. I had no reference to what he was saying because I didn't watch the show. He stared at me for a second and said, "That's just un-American." Yeah, probably.
I don't know what it is. Me a self admitted recovering TV junkie doesn't have the patience for situation comedies. They just don't do anything for me. That is why it makes absolutely no sense that I love Happy Endings. Yes, I said LOVE.
I really only checked it out because I thought it was going to be more of a romantic relationship show with a little funny thrown in. I ended up laughing so hard my stomach was cramping. All of the actors are hilarious, and have fantastic chemistry with each other. The show allows all of them to shine. You know what too, I love that they don't do anything, and that the show is completely random. I usually like my TV to be like a long novel. I'm not interested in shows that are tied up at the end of every episode, comedy or otherwise. Yes, there's some connectivity here, but not that much. It is just goofy escapist fun, and they so obviously don't give a shit. It seems to me that the show has been happily humming along under the radar just doing whatever they think is funny.
So yes, I love that Brad and Jane are crazy in love, and exist on a plane all their own. (TV needs more sexy married couples who can't get enough of each other.) I love that Max is completely off his rocker, and they love him anyway. That Penny seems to have continued to speak in a language she created when she was twelve, and they all just accept it. That Dave and Alex, the unlucky couple that had been at the center of the show in the beginning, are not the straight man/woman of the show, but have turned out to be just as whacked out as the rest of them. There are sweet moments, but more out of nowhere goofiness than anything else.
Maybe this show isn't unique or fresh, and I just don't pay enough attention to other comedies to know that. I'm just happy I gave it a chance, and it turned out to be nothing like what I was expecting.
Thank you ABC for not cancelling it!!
This just makes me laugh, I'm sorry. Max's little bow. It is just too damn funny.
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