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And I just realized that I never watched those episodes from a couple weeks back (I didn't think the show would still be on during the holidays, but I still had a program in my PVR), and I loved the lightbulb joke: "I've made up a new joke: How many Product testers does it take to change a lightbulb?" "I don't know." "Seven." That was funny because it was a non-sequitur, then it became a funny aneurism moment when she immediately followed it up with: "... but the end needs work."
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This show has come to the point with so many great moments and lines, I can't even remember any the next day at work. Discussion of the show consists of mentioning you saw it, giggling for a while, then someone finally remembers another one quote or moment and giggling continues, repeat. Show will be missed.
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| # ? Jan 6, 2010 21:20 |
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The episodes got a 3.0, then a 2.6.
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| # ? Jan 6, 2010 22:34 |
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Atticus Finch posted:The episodes got a 3.0, then a 2.6. Isn't that a huge improvement?
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| # ? Jan 6, 2010 22:38 |
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Palleon posted:Isn't that a huge improvement? Unfortunately that was total viewers. In the demo it got a 1.3 and 1.1 which is not good unless you're on CW.
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| # ? Jan 6, 2010 22:56 |
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Any chance I can get a "Watch how fast I can run!" .gif?
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 00:01 |
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I was kind of shocked to come into this thread 24 hours later and not see Ted's elevator dance as a gif.
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 01:29 |
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"We've combined the microphone and volume control into one convenient nipple. Excuse me, one convenient nipple. Excuse me, one convenient nipple!"
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 01:35 |
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"I like feel my heart has been kicked in the testicles."
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 02:17 |
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"The company said that Jenkins said that somebody would say that."
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 02:40 |
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WingsOfSteel posted:"Carl Jenkins." I must have rewound that bit a dozen or two times and laughed so loving hard each time that I was in tears. God, this show is amazing.
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 03:20 |
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It's funny how this show actually gets a pretty regular time schedule (except the weird Jan 1 one), but it's just on when nothing else is on.
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 14:51 |
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"Better Off Ted" - Cancel our show and we'll smash you with a phone!
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 16:34 |
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You've got to feel for Portia Di Rossi being in 2 of the best comedies around and getting canned early both times. I wonder what we could mass-mail to the studio to make them renew it.
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 16:37 |
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wow I was on Hulu this weekend and there were like 6 episodes I hadn't seen before, they're burning off episodes like crazy. I like the new Linda, she started out as a bit more of a straight person and love interest but now she's pretty loopy. I also like her references to her life in Wisconsin, in one episode she said something like "I didn't escape from the cheese mines in Wisconsin for this!" and then in one of the next episodes in kind of a callback she said something like "It's times like these I wish I had stayed in Wisconsin and gotten my master's in cheese sciences" Fast Luck fucked around with this message at Jan 7, 2010 around 18:45 |
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kippa posted:You've got to feel for Portia Di Rossi being in 2 of the best comedies around and getting canned early both times. I wonder what we could mass-mail to the studio to make them renew it. I used to think that Arrested Development got the short end of the stick getting canceled on their third season but really I can name a ton more shows that never even got a second season pick up. Calling their third season cancellation 'early' just feels wrong now. I'm so jaded when Better Off Ted got a second season I wasn't happy; I just wasn't disappointed in network television for the umpteenth time.
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 17:31 |
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kippa posted:You've got to feel for Portia Di Rossi being in 2 of the best comedies around and getting canned early both times. I wonder what we could mass-mail to the studio to make them renew it. Also, Jonathon Slavin (Phil), who was hilarious in Andy Richter Controls the Universe.
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 17:42 |
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WingsOfSteel posted:Also, Jonathon Slavin (Phil), who was hilarious in Andy Richter Controls the Universe. He was pretty much the exact same character in Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Not that that's a bad thing.
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 17:44 |
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Palleon posted:He was pretty much the exact same character in Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Not that that's a bad thing. If only Phil could grow back that glorious mane 
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 18:03 |
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Fast Luck posted:wow I was on Hulu this weekend and there were like 6 episodes I hadn't seen before, they're burning off episodes like crazy. The line after the cheese mines only makes it better, "I threw down my shovel, stood on a table and gave a speech. I don't think I can go back."
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| # ? Jan 7, 2010 19:19 |
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I just saw the Addams Family musical here in Chicago and who do I find is playing Uncle Fester? It's Kevin Chamberlin who played Ted's father in the hair growth episode.
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| # ? Jan 8, 2010 06:11 |
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seaborgium posted:The line after the cheese mines only makes it better, "I threw down my shovel, stood on a table and gave a speech. I don't think I can go back." I believe it was "cheese" shovel as well. Those drat Wisconsinites and their cheese related tools.
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| # ? Jan 8, 2010 16:59 |
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"I suppose we could use the 20 terahertz oscillator." "Well, doesn't that burn through flesh?" "Not always." "How about we use the 10 terahertz oscillator?" "Ten! Yeah, why don't we just hop on a winged unicorn and fly off to magic land!"
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| # ? Jan 8, 2010 17:21 |
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A friend gave me the season one DVD a few days ago and demanded I watch it. Now I've splurged through both seasons and haven't had so much fun with a show in so long, I literally can't remember when. Most comedies end up as half filler, but Ted is like an ancient Peruvian martial art involving forceful and repeated slapping administered by an oversexed magician. Only the slaps are jokes. And the oversexed magician is great writing.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2010 02:54 |
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Gorilla Salad posted:"Most comedies end up as half filler, but Ted is like an ancient Peruvian martial art involving forceful and repeated slapping administered by an oversexed magician. This description should be on the season two DVD covers.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2010 04:38 |
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I just got my season 1 DVD for Ted. I can never get enough of Win Some, Dose Some and Goodbye, Mr. Chips - "75 employees crammed themselves into a knapsack and shot themselves into space." As soon as they got rid of the relationship angle between Ted and Linda the show skyrocketed in quality. To the person earlier who said that the characters need more development, the first few episodes attempted to set that up but it just leads to unnecessary drama and angst which really detracts from great jokes like "Oh look at me I'm Linda and I'm making fun of everyone". We have simplified television genres such as 'comedy' and 'drama' because it is very difficult to do both. You can have funny moments in dramas but dramatic moments in comedies always end up falling flat because the audience is expecting a joke. And when the show finally makes that joke the tension is relieved and the drama ends up being meaningless. I'm perfectly happy with quick humour and ridiculous situations and leave the drama for a show that can benefit from it.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2010 00:42 |
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Saw this on the TWoP board. This looks like it might be from an upcoming episode, or at least from one I haven't seen... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7Nz4bIwss Outtakes from the show featuring some choice swearing. Probably not something you want to listen to loudly at work, but hilarious.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2010 21:51 |
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Jet Jaguar posted:Saw this on the TWoP board. This looks like it might be from an upcoming episode, or at least from one I haven't seen... Hearing Phil and Lem discuss drinking juices from an rear end with a straw is really disturbing. And hilarious.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2010 22:33 |
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JVO posted:Hearing Phil and Lem discuss drinking juices from an rear end with a straw is really disturbing. Its Phil's complete and utter acceptance of the explanation without a hint of disgust or denial that makes it so funny to me.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2010 23:27 |
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Jet Jaguar posted:Saw this on the TWoP board. This looks like it might be from an upcoming episode, or at least from one I haven't seen... I can't even imagine how awesome BoT would've been had it aired on HBO.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2010 00:35 |
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Leviathan posted:I can't even imagine how awesome BoT would've been had it aired on HBO. Why? Swearing and rear end jokes don't make everything better. Better off Ted is a show that wouldn't be better just because it was on HBO.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2010 00:38 |
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Wikipedia tells me that's on Tuesday.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2010 00:39 |
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Jet Jaguar posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7Nz4bIwss Just let me take some notes here. Penis filled man mattress.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2010 00:56 |
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Casao posted:Why? Swearing and rear end jokes don't make everything better. Better off Ted is a show that wouldn't be better just because it was on HBO. Well for starters it wouldn't have been slapped around the schedule like an abused wife and it probably wouldn't have been burnt off and canceled.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2010 01:08 |
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Aussie Crawl posted:it probably wouldn't have been burnt off and canceled. Pretty sure nobody has canceled the show yet. They have to burn off the show because LOST returns on February 2nd. There's no way that they aren't going to air LOST during the entire sweeps month.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2010 01:22 |
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Canceled or not, I can't understand why this show doesn't get better ratings, especially within its core demographic. The only bad part is the title!
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| # ? Jan 11, 2010 01:51 |
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Nemo posted:Canceled or not, I can't understand why this show doesn't get better ratings, especially within its core demographic. The scheduling, mainly. It debuted over the summer and got burned off quick. It was then an unadvertised midseason replacement that nobody had seen the first season of. Then the scheduling got even more bizarre, including a new years day friday airing  and now they're burning the show off 2 episodes per week paired with the god awful new Scrubs.ABC never really gave it a chance.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2010 02:06 |
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Jet Jaguar posted:Saw this on the TWoP board. This looks like it might be from an upcoming episode, or at least from one I haven't seen... This next episode may just top racial sensitivity if they go with cleaned up G-rated filth for the entire episode... Patton Oswalt said it best. G-rated profanity is way more hosed up than regular profanity. (also that link is just about as unsafe as the previous one - lot's of profanity) JustV fucked around with this message at Jan 11, 2010 around 02:32 |
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Jet Jaguar posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7Nz4bIwss This was fantastic... ... except for the fact that it was uploaded by someone with access to show material from an account called "SaveBetterOffTed" that was created two days ago. This could be a bad sign.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2010 02:38 |
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TealShark posted:This was fantastic... You can't seriously believe this show isn't dead?
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