Comments on: Arrested Development 2 and 3

By: ICeman225

ICeman225 — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:01:31 +0000

Even though you’re banned, I’m sure you’ll read this anyway.
I don’t go to a community college.
I got into NYU but I didn’t want to shell out 40 grand a year, so I go to Brooklyn College.
Also, I’ve been on the Dean’s List for a while now and will probably graduate with honors.
Bottom line - I can probably write circles around your ass.

By: NT3

NT3 — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:08:18 +0000

I never got into AD despite telling myself, on an almost weekly basis, that I would start watching. Then it was cancelled. Probably because people like me kept forgetting to turn it on.

On a somewhat related note, I like the fact that Sports Night is getting talked about here. I don’t know if it is really fair to classify it with AD or Scrubs though. Sports Night was awesome but it was never written purely for laughs. It was really more like a half hour drama with some funny stuff in it. THAT’s why Sports Night failed. Because everyone is trained to think that half hour shows are comedies and when they turned on Sports Night they saw a show with a lot of dramatic things happening and asked themselves “why is this funny?”

By: ChanseyWMU

ChanseyWMU — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:40:32 +0000

Jawas I think that G4 has some sort of relationship with Fox since they’re already playing ‘Fastlane’ (Yeah, as if THAT show was unfairly cancelled). And they play The Man Show on there too.

And I think G4 doesn’t want to be called the video game channel, as far as I know in cable it’s really bad to have your network be seen as esoteric, which is why you get nonsensical stuff like Lifetime plays Goodfellas, Comedy Central playing robot fights, Court TV playing movies, etc…

I wonder if The Golf Channel even just plays golf anymore.

By: TC the Terrible

TC the Terrible — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:30:36 +0000

Sports Night rocked but I think the name itself kept a lot of potential viewers away.

By: ChanseyWMU

ChanseyWMU — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:58:31 +0000

I’m actually writing a book called “How Stixxy Got Banned”

By: theJawas

theJawas — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:47:50 +0000

I’m not sure this is going under the comment I’m responding to, but AD on G4? The video game channel? That’s weird that WWECW on SciFi. I have all the DVDs, but would love to watch an episode or two a day like Seinfeld and Family Guy. I rented the British Office DVD, and much prefer the American version. The Dwight character is a huge improvement in the American one. The British guy just looks sickly.

By: scottyh

scottyh — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:24:44 +0000

What does trolling mean?

By: scottyh

scottyh — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:13:33 +0000

Wow buddy, that message didn’t come across for me at all when I read his post; sounded more like a comment on how it is no surprise that viewers accustomed to watching more cut-and-dried programming might feel out of the loop with the style of humour this show brought to the table.

By the way, aren’t you the minute-taker when that crowd holds its meetings?

Thank you, troll again!

By: bxn5

bxn5 — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:07:49 +0000

I’d prefer it to continue on while getting less and less funny as all comedies seem to do. I appreciated the jokes but loved the characters more.

By: fanontheverge

fanontheverge — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:37:11 +0000

When I found out today that not only “Scrubs” is syndicating on Comedy Central, but also that “AD” is going to be on G4, I nearly did a backflip in excitement. My two favorite sitcoms in the last five years next to “The Office” (BTW, I never had the patience for Gervais’ version and find Carrell’s the superior one for some reason). I also agree with the theory that “Scrubs” has had a more profound impact as a sitcom than “AD,” only because it came more than three years earlier using basically the same episode concept. “AD” is still brilliant stuff; I just rented Season 3 at Blockbuster, and I haven’t stopped laughing since.