Running Studio 60 thread (spoilers)

Didn't they at least hint that she was somehow aligned with the Pinkertons?

Also, D.L. Hughley has been great on this show. He may be the breakout star from Studio 60.

 

Ned & Stacey was one of the most underappreciated sitcoms that have been around in some time...

Last year, I found the show in syndication and it held up remarkably well...

 

The show is working its way down to my iffy list.

I've wrote about it before, but a big problem with this show is Brad Whitford's role. I don't know who he is supposed to be or why he is there. He also a huge reminder of The West Wing.

 

I'm a huge fan of this show, which means it's probably destined to fail.

It was nice seeing the towel boy from Seinfeld in this week's episode.

 

This is sort of out of left field, but did anyone catch D.L. Hughley on the Tonight Show last week?

He was on about two weeks after the Studio 60 episode where Simon and Matt go to the club and Simon is disgusted about the black comic making jokes about how black people don't pay their bills, and how they have trouble keeping their baby mommas in check, ect, ect. Then they hire the smart black comic who doesn't get any laughs because he's smart, and it's all about aspiring to be better, not going for the cheap laugh that enforces stereotypes, a typical Sorkin plotline, so whatever.

But then D.L. Hughley goes on the Tonight Show to push Studio 60, and Jay Leno is asking him the usual "tell me some stories and do your act" kind of questions, and what does D.L. crack jokes about?

About how black people don't pay their cable bill. And about how everyone is drunk at a black family thanksgiving. And he doesn't do it ironically. At all. This is his routine.

(Leno's audience, of course, yukked it up.)

Obviously, Hughley gets paid by NBC to read Aaron Sorkin's lines and doesn't have to share his world views, especially on a subject like raising the bar for black comics in America, but it struck me as being a pretty dense approach by Hughley, especially when trying to promote a show that's supposedly trying to hook me by being "smarter" than anything on television.

 

I just can't give any TV show that much deep thought, DD. That's not meant as a rip; just a fact. I wouldn't enjoy half the stuff I do if I'm looking for intellectual validity in the actors or that sort of thing.

Suspension of disbelief can be a good thing.

 

I just watched Nevada Day Part 2 last night on DVR (haven't gotten around to this week's yet), but a line that just fit after watching the fat guy and then catching his Enterprise Car Rental commercial this morning:
"Looking good, Moose!"

 

Finally caught up on my DVR list and not only did 30 Rock do it -- I have to admit, the Snapple bit was funny -- but The Office pretty much did it, too, with the shredder bit from Staples. The same shredder was advertised during one of the commericals. So is this a combination of product placement/commentary about product placement? Or is it a what-the-hell-we're-going-to-just-be-blatant-about-it deal? Either way, pretty weird.

 

Paulson's a poor person's Nancy Travis.

Deb Messing crushes her.

 

Where did you get the SportsNite DVD? I'm amazed that someone else out there thinks as I do about the whole lot. Thanks.

 

Um, SportsNight's been on DVD for years. I bought it at Best Buy about a year ago.

 

Not just any commercial break, either, but the break RIGHT AFTER THAT HAPPENED. The really bothersome thing to me is that earlier in the season, Staples was mentioned as a competitor (during the paper conference), and doesn't Josh from Stamford take a job at Staples? Like, fine, mention the company as product placement, but you'd think in the Office universe, Dunder Mifflin wouldn't want to be giving money to a competitor. Find another freakin' way. Hell, have Michael and Dwight camp out at the new Staples in Scranton to protest, y'know, whatever.