C/D MINDY KALING (THE DEFINITIVE POLL)

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.

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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

― the pheromones of hot clothing (DJP), Wednesday, March 27, 2013 5:21 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

probably a comparable number (under 10) of each. nobody on M&M as terrible as Rainn Wilson at least.

never saw No Strings Attached, nah. saw The Five Year Engagement, which Mindy had a funny supporting role in, but that was after i started watching her show.

i stopped watching the office a lot of yrs ago but i did notice its on netflix streaming & want to revisit some of the mindy/ryan subplot eps, theyre funny, but yes, there also is prob a lot of rainn wilson in em

actually n/m the kelly kapoor wiki is so detailed i def do not need 2 rewatch

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well I'm glad that's settled

i have frustrations with mindy project and apparently she's kind of a republican but let's be clear that she is one of the greatest of all time

she's a republican?

i feel like that's not too surprising... i was on her wiki recently and it mentioned she went to private school, not to paint with too broad a brush but

mostly i say this out of jealousy

didn't know about that... yeah, a few hmmmm quotes in this interview from a few years back
http://www.vulture.com/2010/09/watch_youve_got_mail_with_mind.html

Yeah, this seems pretty explicit: I’m pretty conservative — my parents are both Republicans. In my office, I’m the most conservative person in an extremely liberal environment — a bunch of bleeding-heart liberals form Harvard and me, the contrarian. I like to be the voice of reason.

yeah mike schur mentioned that she supported bush and apparently is very anti-gun control

Ha, now I'm wondering if the joke in one of the early episodes about her character wanting more white patients because they'd be likely to have insurance was less satirical than I interpreted it to be.

yeahhhh i'm sticking to my dud vote lol

I like to be the voice of reason.

She plays with her Harvard grads gently, as a kitten plays with a ball of string, hoping that someday, maybe, with her able coaching, they may learn how to think criticially.

by voice of reason she may mean like this

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/reason_magazine_cover_poster-p228932275790520309trma_400.jpg

she says she's conservative by her office's standards, and that her parents (but not nec her) are republicans. she's probably just a contrarian w/ a couple right wing positions. i bet she voted obama bc he loves drones. tbh it only makes me like her more.

she was a ron paul supporter

i'm not listening

All I saw online was that she tweeted that she liked Vince Vaughn more because he supported Ron Paul. Is there more to it?

she's a vince vaughn supporter

About the most conclusive bit of evidence that anyone's found, and it is as vague as all the rest, is that she once wrote on her blog "what most people don't know about me is that I am way conservative." I like that she used the wholly juvenile "way" as a modifier instead of "very". This is a clue as to what variety of conservatism she subscribes to, which is apparently not linguistic.

i liked the detail about mindy not knowing what the charlie brown pumpkin special show was. i had to wait til college when somebody made me watch the charlie brown christmas special to find out who charlie brown was and why people still kept on watching this boring crap

jk, i now love the charlie brown christmas special!

the mindy project has gotten really good

yeah definitely one of those shows that has improved consistently over the course of s1, hope it survives into the fall

it's already renewed i believe

yeah ben and kate's the only cancellation from that tuesday slate

ah i missed that news, good to hear

this frat party ep is hilar

ws

I don't watch a lot of TV but I like this show.

said this on another thread, but I spent several weeks being mildly amused by her show before thinking to myself "this is like an unlikable version of Scrubs" about 6 weeks ago and I haven't watched an episode since

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4mzYb8OLVo

Scrubs was bad enough

hah I find scrubs to be unwatchable but I like this show xp

cougar town is the real scrubs redux

mindy is definitely the star of this show, they lean too heavily on morgan for non sequitur hijinks, i like danny, i don't really care about any of the other characters

can't believe she is a republican. i don't know anything anymore.

cougar town is the real scrubs redux

I agree from the standpoint that underneath the riffmania you can see actual lines of affection and care between the various characters, whereas The Mindy Project seems to be built upon barely restrained loathing undercut with one likable goofball

keep in mind I don't think that a show has to have likable characters to be enjoyable or funny (#TeamBundy), it's just... there are points where I go "lol I can totally see some ppl I went to college with doing something like that" and then vast swathes of "this is kind of like watching aliens attempt to create a sitcom"

I agree the writing's a bit uneven and the supporting cast needs to be developed a bit more. The best and most original material seems to revolve around the Mindy character's life, whereas too many of the supporting cast are a bit one-dimensional. There are enough good bits in each show to keep me watching though.

chloe is on the mindy project

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