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Gum posted:Those are some super vague descriptions Wacky Office Moron is shared by Boyle and Jake. Terry is Competent But Eccentric 2nd Boss. It actually just occurred to me that my earlier post on this is slightly wrong, because Amy is "Love interest who works there and is good at their job", which also makes her part Ben.
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SpacePig posted:Wacky Office Moron is shared by Boyle and Jake. Terry is Competent But Eccentric 2nd Boss. At this point we're several miles from parks and rec
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Mar 8, 2018 22:56
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B99 is not P&R, the same way P&R is not the Office.
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Mar 8, 2018 23:23
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I stopped watching B99 like halfway through season 3. I just totally stopped caring about any of the characters. Well, outside of Holt. Holt was still funny and entertaining.
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Mar 8, 2018 23:37
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Wheat Loaf posted:The worst Simpsons guest appearance I can think of was Ronaldo. Oh my god, it’s British prime minister Tony Blair! Solice Kirsk posted:Did anyone watch the new David Brent movie thing? Is it worth me checking out or is it as boring as his other post Extras shows? It’s OK if you really like the character. I feel like David Brent was funnier when he had the other Office characters to balance him out. It’s a pretty funny observation on middle aged wannabe musician types.
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Mar 8, 2018 23:43
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SEX BURRITO posted:Oh my god, it’s British prime minister Tony Blair! I was gonna say this one for sure aged poorly, but I think it was actually after his heel turn to crusader catholic.
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Mar 8, 2018 23:47
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SEX BURRITO posted:Oh my god, it’s British prime minister Tony Blair! That one was worth it because Homer's line when he leaves is, "Wow! I can't believe we met Mr Bean!" Not Operator posted:I was gonna say this one for sure aged poorly, but I think it was actually after his heel turn to crusader catholic. Come now, Tony Blair was widely loathed long before he became a Catholic.
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Mar 8, 2018 23:48
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Whew. Can't believe comedy has a tendency to rely upon broad archetypes that the audience would recognize and relate to from their personal life and other media. Who do these hacks think they are?
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Solice Kirsk posted:I stopped watching B99 like halfway through season 3. I just totally stopped caring about any of the characters. Well, outside of Holt. Holt was still funny and entertaining. No. No! Bad!
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Mar 9, 2018 00:12
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Gum posted:Those are some super vague descriptions I think I was somehow matching up Andy and Aziz Ansari. Or using Gina twice (a horrifying thought). Koalas March posted:B99 is not P&R, the same way P&R is not the Office. Exactly. The same way the US Office is not the UK Office.
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burial posted:But where is my bug bomb? Bug bomb... lost head! 
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Mar 9, 2018 01:18
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Oh my god how could I forget that Parks & Rec also has Tom, who is by far the worst most unlikable most unpleasant character, far beyond April and Andy, his only saving grace being that he connects us to Jean Ralphio
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Samuringa posted:Michael Jackson playing Michael Jackson was the best Simpsons guest star Are you referring to his role as Leon Kompowsky?
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Calaveron posted:Oh my god how could I forget that Parks & Rec also has Tom, who is by far the worst most unlikable most unpleasant character, far beyond April and Andy, his only saving grace being that he connects us to Jean Ralphio Amen. Pretty much 90 percent of his screen time was him doing or saying the most selfish or douchey things on the show. (The remaining 10 percent was when the other characters were talking.)
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Mar 9, 2018 02:11
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Calaveron posted:Oh my god how could I forget that Parks & Rec also has Tom, who is by far the worst most unlikable most unpleasant character, far beyond April and Andy, his only saving grace being that he connects us to Jean Ralphio
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Mar 9, 2018 04:42
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Amen. Pretty much 90 percent of his screen time was him doing or saying the most selfish or douchey things on the show. That's the character. He never grows, if anything, he get's more selfish. That's the joke. Jean-Ralphio and Mona Lisa are there to show you how Tom is even worse than them at heart. You're not supposed to like him. He's a tiny, cute, sad idiot.
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Can't believe people are making GBS threads on Tom, April, and Andy when there's that season towards the end where that guy who yells every time he speaks joins the Parks and Rec crew. Don't even remember his name. He yelled so much that they actively toned down his yelling later on.
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Mar 9, 2018 06:15
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Uh, that was Craig and he was awesome. Also lol, say what you will about Tom but not liking 90s R&B is a huge deal to me. If you can't vibe, I can't fucks with you. And I am saying this as someone who will jam to anything including bluegrass and country.
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Mar 9, 2018 06:20
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Ginuwine? Ginuwine is Ginuwine. Ginuwine!
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Mar 9, 2018 06:32
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Tiggum posted:Bug bomb... lost head! I really like that you said that. gently caress, is Lexx still streaming anywhere? I know it used to be on Hulu, but I don’t think it is anymore.
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Mar 9, 2018 06:48
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mostlygray posted:That's the character. He never grows, if anything, he get's more selfish. That's the joke. Jean-Ralphio and Mona Lisa are there to show you how Tom is even worse than them at heart. You're not supposed to like him. He's a tiny, cute, sad idiot.
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Mar 9, 2018 06:54
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anyhow, b99 is actually newsradio, come on.
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Mar 9, 2018 07:04
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Thranguy posted:anyhow, b99 is actually newsradio, come on. Actually, if you trace the characterizations back enough, they all spring from My Mother the Car. The fight is who gets to be Jerry Van Dyke.
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Mar 9, 2018 07:42
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I was watching the video for 1,2, Step by Ciara and Missy Elliot because I'm on an 2000s song/video kick and the "hot guy" in the video s[rays a shitload of Axe on himself. Also holy poo poo, Dip It Low by Christina Milian and My Love Is Like...Wo by Mya are about 15 years old now.
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Mar 9, 2018 08:25
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mostlygray posted:That's the character. He never grows, if anything, he get's more selfish. That's the joke. Jean-Ralphio and Mona Lisa are there to show you how Tom is even worse than them at heart. You're not supposed to like him. He's a tiny, cute, sad idiot. Yeah, and I don’t mind that kind of stuff on the side characters like Jean Ralphio or Mona Lisa, but when you stack him up against any of the arcs for the main cast that makes him fall completely flat. Also he’s just painfully obnoxious to watch. gently caress everything about the way he talks.
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Mar 9, 2018 15:27
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The difference is that Jean Ralphio and Mona Lisa are used very sparingly and work great as punctuation. They'd be just as obnoxious as main characters, and it doesn't really help that the recent allegations about Aziz (I don't intend to turn this into a derail, but I'll apologize in advance) have sort of made the Tom character more uncomfortable in his sketchiness.
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Mar 9, 2018 15:36
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tom is hilarious which is the most important aspect of a character in a comedy show
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Gaunab posted:I was watching the video for 1,2, Step by Ciara and Missy Elliot because I'm on an 2000s song/video kick and the "hot guy" in the video s[rays a shitload of Axe on himself. Also holy poo poo, Dip It Low by Christina Milian and My Love Is Like...Wo by Mya are about 15 years old now. Yeah but the axe spraying is played as a joke, mocking rhe type of person who thinks its the secret to attracting the ladies
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Mar 9, 2018 15:45
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Gaunab posted:I was watching the video for 1,2, Step by Ciara and Missy Elliot because I'm on an 2000s song/video kick and the "hot guy" in the video s[rays a shitload of Axe on himself. Also holy poo poo, Dip It Low by Christina Milian and My Love Is Like...Wo by Mya are about 15 years old now. Holy poo poo do I feel old. Also great taste in music! Brother Entropy posted:tom is hilarious which is the most important aspect of a character in a comedy show Yeah, I like Tom. He is also one of the few people April praises non-ironically so I wonder if some people are too focused on his vapid materialism to notice his character development. I mean Donna is superior in every way but it is what it is.
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mostlygray posted:That's the character. He never grows, if anything, he get's more selfish. That's the joke. Jean-Ralphio and Mona Lisa are there to show you how Tom is even worse than them at heart. You're not supposed to like him. He's a tiny, cute, sad idiot. The problem with this is that we are never expected to sympathize with JR or ML, but Tom is pretty frequently supposed to be felt for. His business failed, and we're supposed to feel bad. His other business got buffaloed out by Henry Winkler, and we're supposed to mad at Henry Winkler. His cool girlfriend that's t way too good for him leaves, and we're supposed to feel some sort of tug at the heart strings. He gets a lot of slack from characters that shouldn't be giving it to him pretty consistently, and still manages to fail every time, and we're asked to feel bad because Leslie or Ron believe in him. Tom sucked, and while far from the worst thing about the show on the whole, I think he was the worst of the primary cast. Brother Entropy posted:tom is hilarious which is the most important aspect of a character in a comedy show Tom is only funny if he's dealing directly with Donna, JR is around, or people are dunking on him. Pilo Filo is still one of my favorite dumb bits from that show.
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Tom brought us dj roomba Donna is the sleeper agent that's secretly the star of a much more interesting show though
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Tom is hilarious and I love most of his scenes. I wouldn't want to know the real-life version of him, though. I also really like April. She starts out as this sarcastic edgelord teen who slowly matures into a better person--however she just can't let go of that "edgy" persona and keeps it up in a kind of self-mocking way in later seasons. And of course she hated Ann--she felt threatened Ann's previous relationship with Andy--but this is something she also slowly overcame by the end of the show. I love most things about the show, but Jerry drives me nuts. Sometimes he's portrayed as a bumbling idiot and sometimes as a creative and talented genius. So is he misunderstood by everyone or not? Why does he do that pisses people off so much? Leslie seems to actively loathe Jerry.
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Mar 9, 2018 16:42
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I have known a few real-life versions of Tom and that, shamefully, put me off watching the show for about half a season. He grew on me a bit but I have no emotional attachment to any of his arcs.
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purple death ray posted:Tom brought us dj roomba I'm watching Good Girls, and she is the best part of that show too. Retta needs to be in more things.
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SpacePig posted:His other business got buffaloed out by Henry Winkler, and we're supposed to mad at Henry Winkler. I'll give you the rest of the post, but why wouldn't we be mad at the Fonz here? Tom had a legitimately good idea that he turned into a successful business, and then a rich white dude steals the idea and ruins him. And he does it because his kids are mad that Tom dumped them because they were dragging him down.
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artsy fartsy posted:I love most things about the show, but Jerry drives me nuts. Sometimes he's portrayed as a bumbling idiot and sometimes as a creative and talented genius. So is he misunderstood by everyone or not? Why does he do that pisses people off so much? Leslie seems to actively loathe Jerry. Don't you mean Terry?
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Mar 9, 2018 17:06
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Tom getting thrown through a bookcase is one of the greatest pieces of physical comedy I’ve ever seen. Also Entertaiment 720 rules.
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Clam Chowdown posted:I'll give you the rest of the post, but why wouldn't we be mad at the Fonz here? Tom had a legitimately good idea that he turned into a successful business, and then a rich white dude steals the idea and ruins him. And he does it because his kids are mad that Tom dumped them because they were dragging him down. Yeah, I guess that's fair. I kinda forgot that none of its undoing was Tom's fault outside of not selling the place right out of the gate, and the whole ordeal was really Henry Winkler's fault. I'll retract that one.
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artsy fartsy posted:I love most things about the show, but Jerry drives me nuts. Sometimes he's portrayed as a bumbling idiot and sometimes as a creative and talented genius. So is he misunderstood by everyone or not? Why does he do that pisses people off so much? Leslie seems to actively loathe Jerry. That's the joke. He's constantly treated like poo poo but has a wonderful family and personal life, while packing some serious heat.
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