can we blame zooey for this show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7MZlFYzD9E
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
I think we can only blame the vengeful gods.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
zooey reminds me of a baby. i'd watch her stare at things for a half hour.
― Xerox of Fate, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Scott, there is actually a thread for that show!James Van Der Beek as Himself - Apartment 23 on ABC
And the show itself is not bad!
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
This is pretty close to something Lizzie Caplan actually said on the show. ("It's a great 'thing': big beautiful eyes like a frightened baby. Probably gets you out of all kinds of stuff" iirc.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
that episode was so great
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 06:34 (twelve years ago) link
The kid saying "You pregnant! You pregnant" with the pillow on her stomach was hilarious.
― LaMonte, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
Ol' Poop-Eyes
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
wow last night had everything. so fast
― mr. jane goodall (toandos), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
Mick Maus! Mick Maus!
― s.clover, Saturday, 5 May 2012 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
I thought she was talking about Motley Crue's guitarist at first.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 5 May 2012 07:36 (eleven years ago) link
bump
― koogs, Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
There it is. Thought the finale was disappointingly terrible.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
i think they pushed nick's schtick a little too hard over the course of the season.
funny how jess never, ever walks around singing now.
― j., Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
I was really relieved when they stopped doing that.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 11 May 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway, like I said on the other thread, I was actually sad about Schmidt and Cece but it could just be me.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 11 May 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
i like this show but it's awfully hard for me to hear or understand what the hell anyone is saying half the time. maybe my hearing is going.
― akm, Friday, 11 May 2012 06:19 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think the sound or speaking is any more or less intelligible than any other show. Maybe your TV? Or that particular channel?
― LaMonte, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
they do a fair bit of talking over each other when things get agitated?
― j., Friday, 11 May 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
i'm hoping they'll reconcile.
i really came around to this show over the season. i think this last episode was one of the weaker ones, though, but i was glad to see thomas lennon.
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
Schmidt has overtaken Ron Swanson as the best sitcom character on American television right now.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
Woah, let's not lose our heads here.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
Well, to be fair, its only because the writing for Ron Swanson has been really lazy for the second half of the most recent P&R season.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
schmidt is great though. i thought he was awful in the pilot, but he really grew over the season.
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 09:35 (eleven years ago) link
jon otm
they have an ad for the show now that's basically a highlight reel of schmidt-isms, i'm glad fox realizes who the breakout character of the show is
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 10:49 (eleven years ago) link
Premiere was funny.
― LaMonte, Thursday, 27 September 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
new season killing it. has a real Friends-in-its-prime vibe. the ep with the younger hipsters across the hall killed. and they're handling the inevitable Nick'n'Jess romance subplot well - though I reckon the minute they really Ross'n'Rachel it, this show's dead in the water. But right now, it's my favourite thing on TV.
― Ryan's taint is definitely unavoidable. (stevie), Monday, 12 November 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
... corn...
― j., Thursday, 22 November 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
Rob Riggle always plays the same guy, doesn't he?
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Friday, 23 November 2012 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
pretty much, but it's not like there's a ton of other comedic actors out there filling that niche
― some dude, Friday, 23 November 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
maybe there aren't a lot who are actually marine reservists
― j., Friday, 23 November 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
disappointed by this ep. situations seemed forced, parents didn't seem 'real', cast not given space to do what they usually do well.
― "Hahahaha, nice one, Punchy," I said. (stevie), Friday, 23 November 2012 07:37 (eleven years ago) link
Nothing in this show seems "real", but I still thought this ep was fun. I think that's why I like this show -- it works when it's emo, and it works when it's just a shallow punchline dispenser
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 23 November 2012 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
^ this. I was pretty lukewarm towards it at first, but it's been consistently good this season. Also, they really need to involve Winston more. Every scene he's in is reliably hilarious.
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 November 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
the episode where he had a sympathy period was funny
― some dude, Friday, 23 November 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah, i was thinking about that episode today and laughing
― "Hahahaha, nice one, Punchy," I said. (stevie), Friday, 23 November 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
schmidt-goes-to-the-gynecologist bit this week is next-next-level
― j., Thursday, 29 November 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
died at "meet the troll under the bridge and answer his three riddles"
― Gukbe, Thursday, 29 November 2012 02:24 (eleven years ago) link
ahem, riddles three
― j., Thursday, 29 November 2012 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
god damn, somebody change the title of this thread so it's searchable.
nu-promo-art sez 'this show is not about the title character so much now'
http://ib2.huluim.com/show/7529?size=220x124
― j., Friday, 11 January 2013 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
Winston getting Schmidt to go out searching for crack was so good.
― Solange and thanks for all the fish (Nicole), Friday, 11 January 2013 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
OTM!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 11 January 2013 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
Everything about that plot line was amazing
The cabin story fizzled for me aside from the absinthe reactions, which were pretty lol
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Friday, 11 January 2013 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that was a little boring to me. I don't really care about the relationship drama on this show.
― Solange and thanks for all the fish (Nicole), Friday, 11 January 2013 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
found the idea that schmidt would really be that clueless abt Winston kinda far fetched
― max, Friday, 11 January 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
my favorite part of that whole sequence (aside from Nick and Cece being "oh hell no" when Schmidt first broached race with them) is when Winston accused Schmidt of thinking Winston smoked crack because he was black and Schmidt saying he thought Winston smoked crack because that's what Winston had just told him
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Friday, 11 January 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
i loved that the drug dealer was just some dude named rob who thought they were trying to rob him
― Mordy, Friday, 11 January 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
"I just thought you needed directions!"
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Friday, 11 January 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it was a great handling of the storyline i wouldve just appreciated like one line explaining why schmidt apparently doesnt know his best friend in the world very well at all
― max, Friday, 11 January 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
not saying it wasn't a stretch, but it was funny enough that I didn't really care
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Friday, 11 January 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
Wow no posts in this thread for a year. It's show malaise of the cursed ILX quotation mark topic search syndrome.Show has definitely had a bit of decline for the last season or so, but I'm still enjoying it. Some thoughts about the recent half season:
1) a little ashamed to admit this but Megan Fox is still crazy mean/hot and i found her run watchable on that basis alone2) glad they seem to actually be giving Winston and CeCe more time and jokes, especially CeCe who gets a lot more room to go wacky3) Nasim Pedrad is adorable and great but I hope she actually gets a full role on this show eventually rather than what seems inevitable - that she gets weakly written off when her and Winston don't pan out4) Nick has kinda become the defacto leader of the show this season, weird since Jess was out for so long and Schmidt got so much focus last year
― Nhex, Thursday, 24 March 2016 04:24 (eight years ago) link
it's turned a lot into HIMYM for me - it's still enjoyable often enough and i'm invested enough in the characters that i still watch every week. but it's never remarkable. i agree w/ everything else you just wrote.
― Mordy, Thursday, 24 March 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link
it's the perfect show to not expect anything from. sometimes it lands, sometimes it doesn't. i fear that they are occasionally joey'ifying nick (i.e. making him more stupid than any human could be for cheap jokes) but so far they've kept that weakness in check. im perfectly content for it to persist or really to wrap at any pt
Peter Gallagher was a nice twist this week, i am not sure when i last saw him in anything
― art, Thursday, 24 March 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link
hes in togetherness also
yea I still love this show
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 24 March 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
Man, the writing in this still crackles in a way HIMYM's never did. Even in the dud episodes, there are a least a dozen brilliant, undersold little lines tucked into the dialogue
― Evan R, Thursday, 24 March 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link
otm i watched the entirety of himym and the more i look back on it the more that feels like wasted time on a subpar show
― art, Thursday, 24 March 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
Agree w/ Evan, though it hasn't been as great as I'd like. Also agree about making Nick too unbelievably stupid.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 24 March 2016 16:09 (eight years ago) link
man if you guys think nick is being unbelievably stupid you should go back and watch season 3 for the "suddenly 100% incapable of understanding basic human functions and customs" version of winston
i'm fine with this nick (and this winston, i guess)
― qualx, Friday, 25 March 2016 04:44 (eight years ago) link
it's not as funny as it once was but they've banked a lot of goodwill for "badbye, reagan. badbye."
― qualx, Friday, 25 March 2016 04:45 (eight years ago) link
Winston is carrying this show, and the Schmidt/CeCe wedding arc is weighing it down like a giant anchor
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 25 March 2016 05:14 (eight years ago) link
"you know for a guy that eats his raisins hot, your opinion means a lot to me"
― johnny crunch, Friday, 29 April 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
you can tell they had megan fox for like one day to shoot all her scenes or else something went screwy w editing
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 03:30 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/truck-plows-analtech-odor-leads-hazmat-situation-article-1.3189762
― sciatica, Thursday, 25 May 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
❤️ pic.twitter.com/1hOEsD0jQd— zooey deschanel (@ZooeyDeschanel) February 9, 2018
they're putting it down
― j., Friday, 9 February 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
Had a good run. Jake needs to make more post-mumblecore movies.
― dan selzer, Friday, 9 February 2018 02:45 (six years ago) link
6-8 more episodes will be fine, it's time for it to end.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 9 February 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
finale tonite
― j., Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
Already!? Granted, it's pretty bad this season.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
They've been burning two episodes a week for the past few weeks, including tonight.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
oh I think I am missing a few episodes then. thx.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
I just checked IMDB, it was just two episodes last week and two tonight for the final four.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
I've loved this season. I stand by this show.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/new-girl-legacy.html
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I am in the camp that thinks it should've ended last season. It's fine now but feels like a different show.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
I am trying to remember if there have been outright laughs so far.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
I'm enjoying this season, but mostly because the writers have clearly just decided to let it be completely silly and cut the last remaining tethers to believability, which is fine by me.
Nick and Schmidt's interaction over the mustache was great, also liked the Winston masturbation flashback.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
I had to google what this masturbation flashback was because I may have fallen asleep during that episode.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
The rest of the episode wasn't great, so that's fair, it might just be that college Nick always makes me laugh.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
I have absolutely no recollection of this. This was the elementary school episode?
― Yerac, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
I think so? The B-plot was Nick hiring someone offa craigslist to punch him in the face if he didn't write x number of words and Winston prepping to testify at a trial.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
the show is really stupid and really funny. Winston going on the stand and introducing himself as Winston Pants or whatever, that was great.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
I have to go back and find this. I had thought they weren't giving Winston enough weird comedy to do this season. I could only recall the thing about his "not dad."
― Yerac, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
man, those last few episodes were delightfuli hated the cat funeral ep but evetything after was 👌🏻i want to play True American so bad, it’s my life’s dream u guys
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link
Bim Adewunmi on Buzzfeed wrote a nice piece abt Winston that I enjoyed
I wrote about Winston Bishop, a man I love very, very much: https://t.co/qraKuz7vR7— Bim Adewunmi (@bimadew) May 17, 2018
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2018 05:03 (five years ago) link
Rob Reiner's "Oh, NOW you can read the room?" was an A+ laugh line for me. Gonna miss this show. Winston 4-eva.
― THERE IS NO PHIL D. THERE IS ONLY LIZ (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 May 2018 10:25 (five years ago) link
Winston was the absolute best character. I would watch a spin off with him.
― Yerac, Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link
I am reading the summaries of the episodes from this season. I missed a couple (I really didn't like the first 2 epis) but the wedding episode was great and I am excited about the True American last epi. When I think of New Girl I think of True American and Winston.
― Yerac, Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link