Sunday, April 29, 2012

The Funny Stuff: Chung Chung, a live show, and debates


This week, only the Thursday night comedies were new, so we’ll get right into…

Community: Oh. My. Goodness.  This episode was freaking hilarious.  If it wasn’t obvious before, the writers on Community REALLY understand TV.  This episode was a parody of Law and Order, and it was perfection, from the detectives to the crime lab, from the scene transitions to the sound work, everything was there exactly as you’d expect it, but turned completely on its head at the same time.

Troy and Abed played the detectives, and at first, they couldn’t figure out who was going to say the quips, which lead to them throwing quips back and forth several times…this was funnier than it sounds, I promise.   
It got even funnier when they were playing good cop/bad cop, and then switched a bit later.

There was a red herring, a false confession, a declaration of love from someone you wouldn’t expect, and a death that should have been seen coming from a mile away, but was played just right so it was a surprise…this episode was great.  Here are a couple of the funny lines—

Britta, after she was given a picture of the crime scene: With a few adjustments, I can make it old west color!  What, I thought it was cool.

Abed, after Troy storms out of the study room: Sorry about by partner, he’s been on edge ever since we switched.

30 Rock:  This episode was great too-when Tiny Fey gets back to her live roots, you can really tell she is having a fun time.  They also had so many guest stars, including:

Amy Poehler as a young Tina Fey
Paul McCartney/Kim Kardashian as themselves
John Hamm as a 50’s TV show star
Donald Glover as a young Tracy Morgan
Jimmy Fallon as a young Jack Doneghey
Fred Armison as a telethon phone bank (woman) staff

In terms of story, it was pretty much filler, but there were several good laughs, and the couple of flubs were funny as well.  I got one of the good lines as well:

Hazel the new page, as she’s talking to herself regarding what she’s going to do to get famous: First, I need to go to Hollywood…Florida, to pick up my car, then to California…Pizza kitchen to tell off my old boss, the finally to Tinsel Town.  Christmas decorations are so cheap this time of year!

The Office: This was kind of a bummer again, no real funny line, just character development in terms of Andy realizing that he’s not just dandy after getting fired.  I did smile at the end, though, when Kevin was telling everyone how the dog he adopted at the fundraiser was very lazy, and didn’t poop hardly ever, and stunk, and how he had to prop open it’s eyes to watch TV.  Everyone got more and more uncomfortable, thinking the dog was dead, but then you see Kevin at home, and the dog is licking his head, clearly alive, so no worries there.

Parks and Rec:  This is seriously the cutest show on TV.  Leslie and Ben are the most adorable couple, and I really <3 them so much.  This week was the City Counsel debate, and Leslie is sure she’s gonna knock it outta the park, but gets nervous or something, and is really floundering.  Ben doesn’t want her to go negative, afraid it’ll make people think she’s a bully to her simple-minded main opponent, but when she’s finally had enough, she really lets loose, and it is awesome.  Plus we had the fun times with the rest of the crew at Andy and April’s house.  They were hosting a debate watching party for Leslie’s donors, and whoops, forgot to pay the cable bill.  So Andy did what he does best, and be all goofy.  He told the stories of several movies, moving many of the attendees to tears.  It was great.  I do have one line that I managed to get for this one:

Ben is pumping up Leslie right before the debate:
Ben: You can debate Bobby in your sleep!
Leslie: I have debated him in my sleep.
Ben: I know.  We sleep in the same bed.  It’s been hell.

And that’s all she wrote this week!  Not sure what’s we’ll see for next week, but here’s hoping for some good ones!

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