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"The Mets had so many injuries last year. I don’t understand how it could happen that much. And if they don’t get hurt again — but they probably will — I still think it’s a good team. So I can’t help it. I’m hopeful."
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True, she has to be the ugliest "star" going.
That hardly seems to be an opinion that would require ducking, since the vast majority of men seem to share it. I, however, am not among them.
She's still around?
SHE was on that show?
Maybe that's why he likes her?
don't do it.
Ugliest? I'd say she was.
That's kind. There's some running gag about there about how her face looks like the bottom of a foot.
Why does it have to be the gay guy around here who says that every time the subject comes up? Sigh.
It was a terrible show. I humored a girlfriend by watching it with her, but come on: every single show had the high-school-essay-like Great Epiphany: "And that was the moment when I realized...". It was cringe-inducing multiple times per show.
It was like watching Doogie Howser, M.D., without the awesomeness of Neil Patrick Harris.
Sorry, Sam. I tried watching it once, and I don't know that I've ever enjoyed a show less.
Or is that just me.
You don't understand the ego boost that comes from tearing someone else down? God, what a moron.
I bet you're hideous, too.
Especially not the Steve Sax one.
I'm the Frank on good days, the Cricket on bad days.
It's all subjective, I don't know, I always found her attractive for reasons I can't quite define, though if you asked me I'd say that by classical beauty standards she's yech...
Then again, I never particularly thought Julia Roberts was good looking, but years ago a friend remarked how her face looked horse-like to him, the next time I saw her picture I thought, egads it does, she's look downright hideous to me ever after...
The only thing more cringe inducing to me than Doogie Howser/Neal Patrick Harris was Wesley Crusher/Wil Wheaton
I thought she was cute in her Square Pegs/Footloose days and very attractive in the LA Story/whatever that Vegas movie was with Nick Cage days. She hasn't aged terribly well, though that is a fate that befalls a lot of women in their mid-40s.
From a collection of boys, eh, common.
This is, by the way, a good explanation for why all girls think that they are the Carrie of their groups. Carrie is the only complex character. She has elements of the slutty one, elements of the cynical career-driven one, elements of the naive little princess one. Few would ever identify with the other three because they are, for the most part, caricatures.
I had this experience in some movie where Angelina Jolie starred with Jon Voigt. Seeing them in the same scene just drew out the family resemblance and now whenever I see Angelina Jolie's face it morphs into Jon Voigt's...not pleasant.
I have it in for Sarah Jessica Parker, not so much because of her looks, but because I thought she nearly ruined two movies I've seen recently which may have otherwise been enjoyable, The Family Stone and Smart People.
Actually, both those movies have a similar pro/con list for me
Bad: Sarah Jessica Parker (though Rupert Everrett was pretty terrible too)
Meh: Everyone else
Good: The young Canadian actresses (though Lowell from Wings was good too)
It wasn't a terrible show, but I do find it amusing that every woman I know seems to think they're the Carrie of their group of friends.
I don't think that's the case. My significant other thinks the power of the show is that women can see a part of themselves in each of the main characters.
I was ducking because I was poking fun at my Mets friends.
I did that to a friend long ago. He was dating this girl with a knockout body, tall, clear skin but aquiline features. She was really nasty to him but he was head over heels in love/lust. He asked me what I thought of her and without really thinking, I said that she looked like a horse. He broke up with her within the week because he said he couldn't look at her without seeing her as a horse. I would have felt bad had she been a good person. I have learned to be more considered in responding to such questions.
I remember when my wife was watching some show discussing acting families, and they had a snippet on Jolie and Voigt, and I couldn'ty and still can't see any shred of a family resemblance, even when they compered a young (ie: non hideous) John Voigt will Jolie...
Now one actress I can't stomach for the reason you mention is Liv Tyler...
This is great!
I think I'll add that to my catalogue of immediate responses to questions. I'm working on my lying and I find I can believably lie if I shoot out an answer to a question immediately.
So far I have a "He/She went home" response to any kind of "Where is X?" question, with a terrific success rate so far.
I would give up my job, the Mets, and pretty much all of my political convictions if it meant I could spend the rest of my life with Neil Patrick Harris. He is the absolute, 100% man of my dreams. I'd give up a lot just for one night, but for a lifetime? Paging Mr. Applegate; we have a deal to discuss . . . . .
Wil Wheaton, OTOH . . . blech.
Sex in the City is an awful show that reinforces stereotypes about women being shallow, catty materialists whose lives can't have meaning without a man. It's amazing to me all the women I know who claim to be feminists that love Sex in the City.
The characters on that show are downright ghoulish. And it's not like Seinfeld where the characters are ######## but you aren't expected to approve of their behavior--they really try and get you to sympathize with these soulless harpies.
I also really detest how New York-centric Carrie is. Every episode there is some statement about how New York is superior to every other place on Earth. Carrie goes to France: "Nationality?" "New Yorker." Has to leave after a few days because she can't hack it off the island. Barf.
I don't know, dude. He seems like a real mess in those Harold and Kumar movies.
Personally that was the only tolerable part of the show, New York is superior to every other place on earth, can't deal with that fact? Go find another planet.
Or is that just me.
I think its just you. I thought it was pretty clear I was the brains, and Mac is the brawn. What does that make you?
WILD CARD #######!
Not a man for (p)laying the ponies, then?
Or does the choice solve itself when you have a cardiac arrest or stroke or aneurysm at the prospect?
Or does the choice solve itself when you have a cardiac arrest or stroke at the prospect?
David who? I'm telling you, I would give up the Mets for NPH. This includes David Wright, it includes Gay David Wright (though that would sweeten the pot, I grant you), and it includes my ticket stub from Game 6.
I don't know, dude. He seems like a real mess in those Harold and Kumar movies.
And THAT is just a measure of the breadth of his amazing talent -- that someone so utterly perfect could seem to be such a mess. His performances in How I Met Your Mother only add to his legend.
I mean, I'd have to steal Mark Donelson's game 6 ticket stub and his Graig Nettles foul ball, but I'd do it.
That's because "classical beauty" isn't how boners work. She's feminine and healthy; has nice hair and clothes. It's not complicated.
I knew a Dave Justice girl like that. She would have been gorgeous if I hadn't been a baseball fan.
It's more Manhattan-centric than NYC-centric. Weren't they always sneering at the mere suggestion of going to Brooklyn?
I really liked Kim Cattrall in "Big Trouble in Little China". Those who are fans of her should definitely see an obscure (but good) Rutger Hauer movie called "Split Second".
I, too, have watched the show (moreso since I moved in with my girlfriend, who, thanks to HBO on Demand, likes to have SATC on in the background way too often), and the episode where Carrie goes to Suffern might be the worst episode of an otherwise-ok tv show this decade.
(h/t Andrew Dice Clay on a Howard Stern broadcast)
Pretty clearly, you can be above replacement level on television and still be terrible. I mean, replacement level on television is- what, Samantha Who??
Your negativity troubles me, Howard.
Just for that, I'm dropping out of the league!
And I'm not entirely negative on television. In fact, I'm about to go write about some of the best TV shows of 2009. Seriously.
One of my favourite movies ever!!!
If anyone is looking for a kick ass TV Show then get all over 'Party Down' - it is awesome - great acting and scripts that depict real people - love it
Doesn't replacement level on television have to be some show that is constantly on the border of being canceled? So considering how popular SATC was, the long-running success of the show and the enormous franchise built around it (including what is and what will be two horrific movies), it should be at least a long-running mediocrity that has good spikes. Like Juan Pierre.
(Full disclosure: I am part of the marketed audience for SATC, and I was addicted to it through high school. Being college age now, I have found that my appreciation for it has dimmed. It's a good show if you don't want something intense and meaningful. Sometimes you just want to be entertained without thinking too much, you know? Not everything can be Mad Men.)
Depends who's doing the rating, but I think cult favourites like that tend to be inherently overrated by those who belong to the cult. I think it reaches a point where you actually like the idea of the movie even more than the movie itself. It's strange how it works, though I don't quite feel that way about Ferris Bueller, I'm able to see where people are coming from when they feel that way...but I have friends who have similar feelings towards the Breakfast Club which entirely perplexes me.
I should note that I am not immune to this tendency to overrate certain movies, mine just happen to be other ones like The Big Lebowski* and Beautiful Girls.
*Before anyone says "But The Big Lebowski is actually a really good movie"...trust me, no movie is as emprically good as I imagine The Big Lebowski is.
Like Star Trek and Arrested Development!
EDIT: This would be a fun idea. A BTF TV Show Hall of Merit or something.
This had better include Better Off Ted.
I think movies are like that - the Breakfast Club and Bueller and even Sex and the City as a series are sort of like that for some people who were in a place at the time where it suited them. I mean I used to watch Van Damme movies all the time and can still quote Kickboxer and Bloodsport word for word for christ sakes!!
Take me to a world where replacement level television is Arrested Development.
The superficiality of it, the NYC-centric attitude, the way all the supplemental characters are varying degrees of caricature...all legitimate complaints. But it doesn't make it terrible, just limited.
Not to make this yet another Jack Morris thread, but SATC kind of seems like the Jack Morris of TV shows. Never really that great, but quite a lot of value provided over a relatively long career. A surprisingly large group of people think it's Teh Most Awesome Show Evar, which produces a lot of justified frustration on the part of folks who know there are tons of unrecognized shows out there that are far better. But this justifiable anger sometimes spills over into an overreaction which treats it like it was terrible.
It didn't have the Game 7 moment. But it did have a postseason epic fail comparable to Morris' postseason career after 91. Namely, the movie(s).
Sadly I think we live in that world
If you define "replacement level" as "the kind of show that gets taken off the air and replaced"
I would say that the series finale was as close as you could get. It's hard to put together a series finale that doesn't leave too many people cold. It had gotten a bit outrageous/weird in Seasons 5 & 6, but the end kind of got all of the characters to the right place.
That's all opinion though.
(And while I hated the dismissal of Brooklyn: the NYC-centric attitude remains one of the best things about the show. At least they used all of Manhattan instead of just the Upper East Side or the Upper West Side or SoHo.)
Loved season one - cant wait to see two soon!!!
Arrested Development = Sandy Koufax?
I guess there'd be a lot of options for players that looked like they'd be good, then just kind of fell apart after a few years for the Office, Lost, Weeds and about a million other shows that probably should have just gone 3 seasons.
Simpsons = Nolan Ryan? If Nolan Ryan sucked for those 50,000 innings he pitched after turning 35.
Mad Men = Chase Utley?
The fact that it was on and entertained people doesn't mean it wasn't terrible. 2 and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory draw great ratings too.
Grey's Anatomy = Enzo Hernandez
ER = Chris Speier
She did have beautiful green eyes...
Nah, Roy Hobbs. And the movie will be his season with the Knights.
Disagree that the finale of Sex and the City was good. It was a little bit better than what you'd expect from a final episode, which are almost universally horrible. But not much better.
It's pretty rare for a show to be any good after the fifth season. I was always impressed that Seinfeld had some of their best episodes in that last year. But, of course, finished with a terrible final episode.
Buffy had an AWESOME final episode. At the end of season 5. But then they made two terrible seasons after it. Oh well.
The Golden Girls was a great show. Really funny. Shockingly honest. Occasionally a little heavy handed and obvious but surprisingly subversive in spite of it.
The Simpsons = Babe Ruth
Arrested Development = greatness cut short by other factors...Koufax?
I was always impressed that Seinfeld had some of their best episodes in that last year. But, of course, finished with a terrible final episode.
I like how they joked about that on Curb this season.
Especially not the Steve Sax one.
The Steve Sax episode of MTV's "Remote Control" was better.
How about Kal Daniels or Tony Conigliaro?
Great point - I get the feeling 30 Rock won't be going to far past that point though money is a wonderfull thing - I have not seen season 6 of the Office yet but Seasons one and four (strike?) are pretty damn short.
The Wire would have struggled with a sixth season while the Sopranos went one or two too many for me as well.
I agree that Parks and Recreation has been good. I've also really, surprisingly loved Community - which I think has been my favorite of the four this year.
Apparently if they'd known they were going to go six seasons, Season #6 would have tackled immigration issues.
And no doubt would've done so AWESOMELY.
Like Brady Anderson if the '97 spike was permanent.
Where did you read that?? I have followed just about every single known blog and website on the Wire and never saw a mention of Season 6 - I think it might have been a stretch (then again everyone thought that the public schools line would not work and look what happened there!) as the show was wearing thin in my humble opinion.
Some say that only 10 episodes hurt the Wire in Season 5 but seriously the newspaper angled sucked. It was covered in Shattered Glass and seemed like a really uncomfortable David Simon vendetta against his old employer that was boring in the end. The McNulty storyline was borderline idiotic as well.
Season 6 might have totally been refreshing as they moved away from the newspaper #### as well - who knows??
Thanks - have you seen Party Down?? You'd love it
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