C/D MINDY KALING (THE DEFINITIVE POLL)

mindy proj is so great

i like that its not overly quotey/zingy and has such a big cast of characters w/ some actual realistic behavior but still deeply hilarious

i like her, but kinda dud if i'm being honest

def classic

not a huge fan but it occasionally taps into some unmined comedy veins. loved the 'storage side of the bed' joke.

i bailed but more due to times issues on my end than the show itself, though it was kinda a disappointment albeit in a 'they'll totally figure this out by the second season maybe' way. wouldn't get too attached to that big cast of characters though. did anyone here see matt & ben back in the day? i remember hearing about it, kaling was affleck apparently.

i know ur right abt there being too many ppl on this show from like a showbiz/network notes sense but im going 2 hate when its down to like just her and danny

I was kind of annoyed with the way that in the last episode, everyone (including Brendan) seemed to agree that Brendan had treated her character really horribly when they were always only ever sleeping together casually (with Mindy openly disdaining him as a person). It honestly didn't seem like his fault that she had become attached, unless there was something I'd missed.

The show is generally classic though. Plus, Kelly Kapoor was great in the first few seasons of The Office.

I have no familiarity with this woman, so the only issue that comes to mind is this: is mindy short for something else or am I supposed to think her given name is mindy?

lol @ watching tv

wait aimless are you seriously unfamiliar w/ the name mindy???

http://www.televisionhits.com/factsoflife/pics3/mindyearly.jpg

c'mon man

I've known
cindy,
mandy,
candy,
rindy,
sandy,
lindy
& tandy.

But what is mindy short for?

מִינְדעַל

iirc, she's hindi.

She has been referred to as Mindy ever since her mother was pregnant with her when her parents were living in Nigeria. They were already planning to move to the United States and wanted a "cute American name" for their daughter, and liked the name Mindy from the TV show Mork & Mindy.

So, it was her given name. lawdy lawd. she can't help it then.

aimless how old are you?

very old. this is no secret. only a few other ilxors can claim to be older and they usually choose not to make that claim, bcz, you know, the youngsters might come steal our walkers and hearing aids and then jeer at us and we couldn't make out what they were saying.

*makes wild guess* aimless is about 54......or not

ok just seemed odd that mindy would seem an odd/unlikely/obscure name but apparently mork and mindy did lead to a jump for it as a name (it's short for melinda) as opposed to reflecting a name's new popularity ie how britney spears' 'britney' reflected a trend, not inspired one. in 79 it was in the top 100 names but by 98 it had dropped out of the top 1000. just funny to see someone having the same wtf you gotta be kidding me reaction to the name 'mindy' my grandfather did to the word 'chalupa'. fwiw i'm kinda horrified that apparently 'brooklyn' has become one of the most common names for baby girls now.

jesus christ the number one most popular name for baby boys now is 'liam'.

Didn't like it at first, really loving it now. Can't go wrong with Chris Messina either. Turning point was the ep with the "wrong" pants scene. Became a loyal watcher after that. If anyone or anything could have changed my mind about my home birthing plans last year... it would of been the ep introducing the midwives.

haha, yes to 'wrong' pants scene

cindy,
mandy,
candy,
rindy,
sandy,
lindy
& tandy.

what are these names short for?

Cynthia
Amanda
Candida
Miranda
Sandra
Melinda
... Tandilla? Fuck if I know

cinderella, manderella, canderella, rinderella, sanderella, linderella and tanderella.

http://i.imgur.com/zbMfw6P.png

i know 'mindy' from http://i.imgur.com/YK2c7sS.jpg

Kinda weird to see the ancient dormant 'classic or dud' q hauled out for someone not especially divisive who people generally seem to like or just don't know at all. "Project" is really the first thing I've seen her in and despite the weak title and uneven ensemble it really has improved quickly, love her whole sense of humor.

i love Mindy Kaling tbh

love the show

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79df1obxP1r3eyr4o1_400.jpg

btw if you want to ruin your day, google "tanfy"

I've often said that one day they'll replace jessica tandy with a computer but I didn't mean it quite so literally

Randy and Randall are two totally different types of people.

Same goes for Mandies and Mandells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHaRptTNBTI

"Project" is really the first thing I've seen her in

The Office and 40-Year Old Virgin were both moderately successful

That has nothing to with whether *I* have seen them, though? I mean I have seen 40YOV but the "never really" caveat was for forgettable cameos like that. And I just plain do not fuck with the US Office.

iirc, she's hindi.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 05:10 (15 hours ago) Permalink

iirc hindi is a language

google autocomplete says "hindi is a language that only servants speak"

theres this incredibly racist irish pub owner who always makes good natured lil' indian jokes or w/e when I go in and drink @ his bar and every time he does so I try and make him feel as bad as possible, and I've been successful enough to get him to give me a free drink whenever I come in but not successful enough to get him to stop, but the last time I was there he started speaking to me in pretty flawless hindi and I was like ...I only speak English, and he shook his head ruefully in the exact same way that Indian ppl in the US who try and speak to me in various languages do when they see my dully anxious face sweating at the prospect of having to say "I only speak English"

life is confusing

forgettable cameos like that

will fight you in a 2004 car park over this, I only started watching The Office bcz I saw that funny and cuet girl from 40YOV was in it

good story xp

some dude you never saw no strings attached?

I am trying to figure out if some dude has just admitted that he's seen more episodes of Mike and Molly than The Office

i wanna like her but eh shes kind of awful

good discussion all around guys. some real provocative ideas.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I have never been into male stripping, never found it at all sexy but that scene with Chris Messina was pretty hot IMO.

can someone find a gif of danny saying 'exsqueeze me' w/ the wine bottle plz

https://33.media.tumblr.com/8dad8dfaf1641aecf4d2bf9175ccd83f/tumblr_ndgu77dAfe1tpujrro1_250.gif

ahaha yes

This show is getting so great. Adam Pally was a great addition and I'm glad that, so far at least, the Mindy/Danny relationship is actually making it more interesting.

yeah i was totally resigned to the show never melding the romantic and ensemble aspects, but making danny & mindy a couple has kinda done the trick - we no longer have to spend half the episode with a dude outside the ensemble. and while pally just seemed like one more clown they've made him distinct over time.

do kinda regret he can't be the male lead on marry me, though

someone complained on twitter that Pally was going to waste on The Mindy Project and i was like no way, he's already had more screentime than at least 5 other characters that are or were full cast members

i could 4-5 legit laughs from this show every episode almost exclusively from mindy. the rest of the cast is good too but she is next-level imo.

yeah the comedic voice of her/her character has been really strong and fully formed from the jump, even as they've played mix-and-match with the ensemble

Pally is great, but it feels he's kinda made the British doctor redundant, that guy had hardly anything to do last season. Also, I don't like the way they've gradually reduced the female supporting cast; looks like Betsy has inepxlicably disappearead between seasons 2 and 3, just like Gwen and the two other female friends of Mindy inexplicably disappeared after sesons 1. It feels kinda weird, Mindy is depicted as a feminine women, but now she appears to have no other friends than the masculine guys from her work.

I do hope they'll bring back Rhea Perlman for more episodes... She was a perfect choice for Danny's mom, and not just because it explains his height.

i understand mourning the women that got lost in the shuffle of mindy's supporting cast (i liked betsy a lot), but i think you're making a big ol unadvisable assumption in saying a (*gingerly picks up the landmine of a phrase you gave us, thanks so much*) "feminine woman" would naturally have close female friends, and be uncomfortable in a primarily male friend circle

i mean mindy is portrayed as extremely selfish and competitive as hell, practically a cross between liz lemon and angelina jolie

I didn't say she'd be uncomfortable with guys, just that it feels weird a woman like her wouldn't have *any* female friends. Though I guess you could fanwank it away by saying that her female friends from season 1 are still there, the series just doesn't anymore show what she does with them. That doesn't explain what happened to Betsy though...

i just think you should realize that with the "feminine" and "like her" addendums to "woman" you're suggesting a) that there is a type of woman you could imagining having no female friends and b) that you'd consider that person more "masculine" than mindy. again, unadvised.

without engaging in "fanwank," she is pretty centered on work and her relationship right now, so subplots about girlfriends outside the already chock-full-of-clowns office would be a little gratuitous.

let's not forget most of her subplots about her friend in season 1 involved them being mad at her and her resenting their evolving lives

great show v good enjoying much

Mindy Kaling is obviously great, but I've started to appreciate Chris Messina's comic chops more and more as the show goes on. His "victory dance" in "Caramel Princess Time", when he managed to make it in time to work despite Mindy's sabotage, was just hysterical. Also, while the whole "guy hiding his weaknesses and insecurities behind a rough, masculine façade" may be bit of a cliche, I think with Danny they've handled it really well, both acting- and writing-wise.

And I was glad to see Rhea Perlman appear again, which I take it means she'll become a recurring character? But speaking of guest stars, am I the only one who thought the new romantic writer character looked kinda like ILX's very own Mandee? Something about her eyes, her face, her hair, was eerily similar.

so has Tamara actually turned into a pretty good character now?

I keep waiting for her teeth to fall out for some reason.

Btw there must be a scene in which the carousel in Golden Gate Park is going to be used, I ran by there one morning around 7:30 and they were filming in the kid's park.

I'm glad if they're fleshing out Tamara, feels like she has potential to become a cool character if don't they use her only as part of Morgan/Tamara hijinks. (I hope that's the reason they broke up the two, not just so they could build up to some corny triangle drama.)

I like how that series actually has a lot female characters look a bit different from the sort women you usually see in mainstream TV, and they're still depicted as attractive, not just as vehicles for comedy of something. Like Jessica, the new doctor character, or the erotic fiction writer Peter dated a few episodes ago.

Also, looks like they're gonna address Mindy's position as a 2nd gen Indian American for the first time? I think it's kinda cool that they have haven't made her heritage a thing at all, but OTOH it seems like her conflict with the immigrant Indian doctor might provide some good story opportunities, and a way for the show to tackle some of the stuff the critics have said it to refuses to tackle.

i'm going to miss adam pally in this :(

He's leaving? (I haven't seen the latest episode.) Yeah, that's sad.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/theslice/why-mindy-kaling-refuses-to-talk-about-race-and-why-i-care-so-much

these "race issues" articles are madlibs and mindy is the best/funniest/so awesome i won't hear any criticism of her

Pretty early in the day for you to be high Mordy

wah why u take link bait more srsly

Seems disingenuous for that article to associate mindy, an entertainer, with bobby fucking jindal

aw this show is so sweet

http://twitchy.com/2015/04/03/mindy-kalings-brother-i-got-into-medical-school-by-pretending-to-be-black/

Wow what a gigantic cock

oh my god

there are so many fucked up layers to what this person did--also i wish i didn't know that entities such as capitalism magazine existed, which i now do because of a link in that article.

that n+1 article about indian american cronies of white supremacist culture a while back annoyed me but this dude is totally who that article was about.

white people, you can have him in the racial draft

and d'souza

http://reappropriate.co/?p=82

Does jindal go too?

http://reappropriate.co/?p=8281

Link got messed up

i feel like jindal might be better than these fools? i can't believe i even just said that.

In the tall tale that he is spinning on conservative news this week, Chokalingam neglects a few critical details. First of all, Chokalingam fails to emphasize that he was rejected from or waitlisted to most of the medical schools he applied to: Columbia University, Cornell University, George Washington University, Mount Sinai, University of Nebraska, Nobay, University of Pittsburgh, University of Rochester, University of Pennsylvania, Washington University, University of Wisconsin, Yale University, and Case Western.

should be noted that the author of that blog post doesn't seem to know much about the med school application process. even 15-20 years ago a 3.1/31 applicant is only marginally competitive for most of those schools, so getting rejected from them doesn't say much, even considering the race thing.

i don't doubt the veracity of this thing, really. identifying as black helped this guy a lot, but so what? medical schools by and large have a mission to produce a physician workforce that reflects the patients they serve. it's not exactly a secret. i can't imagine this story changing many minds on race-conscious admission policies

canceled by Fox, possibly to be picked up by Hulu
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/06/fox-cancels-mindy-project-hulu?hootPostID=caf709baa3c02c2c41abec63f0d41f3d

I didn't watch it very regularly last season, but still, that's too bad.

I'm watching it on Hulu now and they just played an ad for the Church of Scientology.

They also keep playing the commercial with those two ladies who have an online business educating kids about bugs. They're holding centipedes and stuff it's too much

The new season itself is also garbage

http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/cory-booker-and-mindy-kaling-are-flirting-on-twitter.html