(from 11:08 p.m., Jan. 6, 2009)
man oh man, i'm watching this "10 items or less" show on tbs. in the words of master of disguise frank caliendo, it is truly is very funny. and by "very funny," i mean "just about the dullest thing i've ever seen."
i've been watching for about 10 minutes and it's like a really half-assed bastardization of the american version of "the office" set in a grocery store. the store manager is a blatant michael scott rip-off , like even down to his manner of speaking except without stuff like comedic timing and personality.
the faux michael scott, a tall dumb guy and some other dude with a fumanchu a la "my name is earl" have been bowling frozen turkeys at a bunch of two-liter bottles of pop on the floor for literally like five minutes. i have no clue why, i wasn't really paying attention for the first couple of scenes. but now they just keep hurling frozen turkeys down the aisle over and over again without any dialogue.
wow, there's also a fat, sassy, black female character and what is essentially sweet dee's "martina martinez" character from it's always sunny. i love when shows feature racially diverse ensemble casts and then just make them all into ridiculous stereotypes.
(about 10 minutes later) holy shit, they're still doing this turkey bowling plot line.
the episode just ended with the manager deciding to operate his store as a normal grocery store by day and a frozen turkey bowling alley by night, apparently to compete with the sassy black lady who owns another grocery store across the street and for some reason keeps coming in their store to talk to them because she wants to run them out of business...? and customers apparently are willing to come to come to a grocery store at night and exchange money for the opportunity to toss around frozen turkeys...?
i haven't been this morbidly fascinated with a sitcom since my brief love (hate?) affair with "yes, dear." i'm totally watching this again next week.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
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ha. I hated this show before it was cool to hate it. The first season actually had an episode that ripped off a plot from always sunny. It's like a lame show that thinks it's being edgey if that makes sense. I thought it was gone for good but apparently tbs has nothing better to put on. I say they just change that channel to the seinfeld network. but that might be overkill. I guess they could show like 6 episodes of seinfeld a day and then just dead air for the rest and it would be better than what they are doing now.
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