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[Mimi]

Fired up the pilot for Newsradio. Damn but it is sharp. It doesn't just explain the concept and characters like all pilots, but is also really fucking funny, just rolling along like it was already established.

I was pleased that I still liked it decades later. Really good show.

[Dr. Medulla]

Fired up the pilot for Newsradio. Damn but it is sharp. It doesn't just explain the concept and characters like all pilots, but is also really fucking funny, just rolling along like it was already established.

I was pleased that I still liked it decades later. Really good show.

I remember Dave Foley doing an interview after the first season where he said that he proved his critics wrong: he could act his way out of a paper bag.

But between Newsradio and King of the Hill, Stephen Root just killed.

[revbob]

Fired up the pilot for Newsradio. Damn but it is sharp. It doesn't just explain the concept and characters like all pilots, but is also really fucking funny, just rolling along like it was already established.

I was pleased that I still liked it decades later. Really good show.

I remember Dave Foley doing an interview after the first season where he said that he proved his critics wrong: he could act his way out of a paper bag.

But between Newsradio and King of the Hill, Stephen Root just killed.

So you're saying I should watch this? I caufght snippets every now and then. But nevver investedin it

[Dr. Medulla]

Fired up the pilot for Newsradio. Damn but it is sharp. It doesn't just explain the concept and characters like all pilots, but is also really fucking funny, just rolling along like it was already established.

I was pleased that I still liked it decades later. Really good show.

I remember Dave Foley doing an interview after the first season where he said that he proved his critics wrong: he could act his way out of a paper bag.

But between Newsradio and King of the Hill, Stephen Root just killed.

So you're saying I should watch this? I caufght snippets every now and then. But nevver investedin it

You never watched it? Yeah, I think you'd like it. The humour isn't cynical and only stealth bleak (the episode about the rat funeral comes to mind), but more about ridiculousness. In many respects, it's an update on the 1970s workplace sitcom, with one sane person surrounded by lunatics (WKRP especially comes to mind, also being set at a radio station).

[Dr. Medulla]

The Boss (and sometimes I) continue to sample old Law & Order. We're in the Abby Carmichael years, which has the Boss muttering "cunt" in almost every episode. Her contempt for the character—who is, to be fair, really unpleasant and snidely judgmental—is more entertaining than the narrative itself.

[Flex]

The Boss (and sometimes I) continue to sample old Law & Order. We're in the Abby Carmichael years, which has the Boss muttering "cunt" in almost every episode. Her contempt for the character—who is, to be fair, really unpleasant and snidely judgmental—is more entertaining than the narrative itself.

I remember when she debuted and her character, ah, traits were a big part of the marketing. I was a horny teenager and I thought she was hot as hell. Probably nothing I need to talk a therapist about or anything tho.

[Dr. Medulla]

The Boss (and sometimes I) continue to sample old Law & Order. We're in the Abby Carmichael years, which has the Boss muttering "cunt" in almost every episode. Her contempt for the character—who is, to be fair, really unpleasant and snidely judgmental—is more entertaining than the narrative itself.

I remember when she debuted and her character, ah, traits were a big part of the marketing. I was a horny teenager and I thought she was hot as hell. Probably nothing I need to talk a therapist about or anything tho.

The Boss replies: "Doesn't change the fact that she's a cunt."

(I should note that she somehow finds the word titties unpleasant.)

[revbob]

The Boss (and sometimes I) continue to sample old Law & Order. We're in the Abby Carmichael years, which has the Boss muttering "cunt" in almost every episode. Her contempt for the character—who is, to be fair, really unpleasant and snidely judgmental—is more entertaining than the narrative itself.

I remember when she debuted and her character, ah, traits were a big part of the marketing. I was a horny teenager and I thought she was hot as hell. Probably nothing I need to talk a therapist about or anything tho.

Attractive sure but not a likeable character.

I was more of a Claire Kincaid fan.

[Dr. Medulla]

The Boss (and sometimes I) continue to sample old Law & Order. We're in the Abby Carmichael years, which has the Boss muttering "cunt" in almost every episode. Her contempt for the character—who is, to be fair, really unpleasant and snidely judgmental—is more entertaining than the narrative itself.

I remember when she debuted and her character, ah, traits were a big part of the marketing. I was a horny teenager and I thought she was hot as hell. Probably nothing I need to talk a therapist about or anything tho.

Attractive sure but not a likeable character.

I was more of a Claire Kincaid fan.

Seduced by her low-key Canadianess, eh?

[revbob]

The Boss (and sometimes I) continue to sample old Law & Order. We're in the Abby Carmichael years, which has the Boss muttering "cunt" in almost every episode. Her contempt for the character—who is, to be fair, really unpleasant and snidely judgmental—is more entertaining than the narrative itself.

I remember when she debuted and her character, ah, traits were a big part of the marketing. I was a horny teenager and I thought she was hot as hell. Probably nothing I need to talk a therapist about or anything tho.

Attractive sure but not a likeable character.

I was more of a Claire Kincaid fan.

Seduced by her low-key Canadianess, eh?

Im not sure it's that but yeah she's a looker

[Dr. Medulla]

Watched Phil Hartman's last episode of Newsradio. I forgot how unintentionally disturbing his last words are. For those who don't know, it was a parody of Titanic—"Sinking Ship"—which was more than a bit of a black humour fuck you to NBC as they believed they wouldn't be renewed. So there's all kinds of jokes about dying, but it really nutpunches at the end.

[Flex]

Watched Phil Hartman's last episode of Newsradio. I forgot how unintentionally disturbing his last words are. For those who don't know, it was a parody of Titanic—"Sinking Ship"—which was more than a bit of a black humour fuck you to NBC as they believed they wouldn't be renewed. So there's all kinds of jokes about dying, but it really nutpunches at the end.

youtube.com/watch?v=4tTVthi_myM

I remember my jaw dropping when I first saw that (still so fuckin charming and funny tho)

[revbob]

Here you go Doc

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/s ... ailed.html

[Dr. Medulla]

Here you go Doc

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/s ... ailed.html

Original miniseries is still fantastic—great allegory about fascism coming to America (it was inspired by Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here). Final Battle was stupid but entertaining. The subsequent series was just plain stupid. The remake just didn't grab me, tho I recall eumaas singing its praises back in the day. It's a good concept, but it has to embrace the politics rather than go all sci-fi action.

[Dr. Medulla]

Watching the last season of Newsradio and, y'know, it's actually pretty good. Communityesque, really, in that it abandons the whole radio station premise in favour of batshittery that rests on the characters. It doesn't engage in the critique of tv that Community loved to do, but the destruction of ostensible premise is the same. And Lovitz is really good because Lovitz is just plain-ass funny.