Zach Braff: Voice of our Generation

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If Zach Braff is the voice of my generation, can't someone please crush his larynx?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

I think the photo in all the Last Kiss posters/ads is very telling:

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000G8NY54.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V63334206_.jpg

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well well well it looks like SOMEONE'S got a chip on their shoulder. I mean, how DARE Zach Braff direct a movie with himself in it and have a fit bird fall in love with him and even have the gall to include music he LIKES in the soundtrack!

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

How dare he put only himself in the poster, gazing directly into the camera.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, how DARE Zach Braff direct a shitty movie with himself in it and have a fit bird fall in love with him and even have the gall to include shitty music he LIKES in the soundtrack!

Fixed.

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

i started a thread a couple weeks ago with this quote from A.O. Scott but didn't get much of a response, i still think it's funny

"His wobbly chin and startled eyes might be taken for evidence of sweetness, and he is certainly a credible incarnation of the kind of mopey, wet-noodle hipster lately ubiquitous in independent movies, unsigned rock bands and certain Brooklyn neighborhoods."

― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

i need a tip drill tip drill

― and what (ooo), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

somebody told me portman is sposed to be a tard in that movie - is this true??

― and what (ooo), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

she sure acts like one.

― Roz (Roz), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

she's supposed to be epileptic, if that's what you mean by a "tard"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 24 September 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

epilepsy only explains the helmet, the rest is just pure 'tard.

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 24 September 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

my enjoyment of that article was short-lived, as i couldn't shut off the sound from the rollover tv ads at the top. it took me out of my Timberlake groove.

Still, Zach Braff. Seems nice enough, I guess. Garden State wasn't very good.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Sunday, 24 September 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

SO far as I could tell from the article, the author hates Zach Braff because:

1) some vapid entertainment writer called him a voice for the author's generation, and

2) Zach Braff is (horrors!) a self-involved and publicity-seeking Hollywood actor who says vapid things to entertainment writers and makes movies full of flat observations and mediocre truisms.

These are not reasons to "hate" anyone. They are reasons to ignore or overlook him. I recommend this course to the author. I use it daily.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 24 September 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Slate doesn't pay you for a "That Zach Braff, he's, you know, whatever" article.

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 24 September 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Slate, more like Hate amirite

― how much late could a latebloomer bloom if a latebloomer could bloom late (lateb, Sunday, 24 September 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Garden State is rubbish!

(I have made it my mission to point this out on every Braff-related thread)

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Sunday, 24 September 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

'rubbish' is kind.

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 24 September 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

it is rubbish. This generation is worse than the hippies, the flappers, and the Nazis combined. At least the hippies gave us those fat watchbands, the flappers could dance, and the Nazis had that song 8 Days A Week.

― how much late could a latebloomer bloom if a latebloomer could bloom late (lateb, Sunday, 24 September 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

(stolen joek)

― how much late could a latebloomer bloom if a latebloomer could bloom late (lateb, Sunday, 24 September 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I would have Zach Braff if he was a girl and was hot and had the mind of a young Elizabeth Taylor.

― christopherscottknudsen (christopherscottknudsen), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

NO ADULTS ALLOWED!

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

the article linked in the first post is awful.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 25 September 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

funny how dude likes scrubs, which i saw 2 minutes of for the first time just the other day - the joke was about how there are these two white girls who love the rap! and then z braff looked confused - it was bonkers!

(those you didn't bother w/the article shouldn't tragically miss this though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRH4gG5LmZ0)

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Fuuuck, I just found out that Last Kiss is set and partially filmed in Madison, so I may have to see it just for that. Or maybe I'll just watch Back to School again.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Are you kidding me? The man is a TASTEMAKER. Who knew how great the Shins were before Garden state?

― vingt regards (vignt_regards), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you mean TIP DRILL!?!?

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Monday, 25 September 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

EERIE. I saw the exact same two minutes of Scrubs for the first time the other day, too. And Jeff, my husband and starter of this very topic, came home and was like AHHHHHHHHHHH ZACH BRAFF!!!! ET TU, PARTY TIME COUNTRY FEMALE?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

this dude is in our heads something serious

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

before i just imdbed him i thought he was ed and love monkey too - these being shows i know only from their quality ad campaigns.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

in fact i've only ever seen 2 minutes of scrubs and 20 minutes of garden state and i had already decided that he was a total douche. i'd never even seen the famous this band will change yr life scene before drill tip intervened (and she does say it in sort of an offhanded way). i didn't' really give buddy a chance. of course i did make my judgement thinking that he was love monkey and ed. anyway he seems to suck big time.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

i am relieved to discover that ed and love monkey are at least the same guy.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Zach Braff was the #1 least funny guest actor on Arrested Development, even less funny than Martin Short.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Monday, 25 September 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

was love monkey ever on?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

the guy from ed plays his older brother on scrubs at one point.

when was zach braff on arrested development?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

The alleged voice of my generation shot himself in the head.

It was like, "Alright you bitches, this topic of conversation is CLOSED*."

My point? Be patient.

*(OK, but after the spike in the news coverage died, FINIS.)

― Fluffy Bear, among 100% of the population (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

he should change his name to ed lovemonkey - that would really mess with some heads right there (dude is all about messing w/heads srsly).

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

scrubs is funnier than arrested development.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

scrub monkey more like it

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

For once I have to disagree with you Matt H3lg3s0n.

He was this "Girls Gone Wild" filmer dude. He might've been as funny as Charlize Theron though.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Monday, 25 September 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, they are both funny.

i just think scrubs is as underrated as arrested development is overrated.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Scrubs is really fucking good

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Agree: Scrubs is underrated. Disagree: Arrested Development is overrated. Arrested is ROFFLICIOUS.

Also, I enjoyed Garden State. I always recommend that movie with the caveat: don't expect to have your world changed. Still, Garden State was better than I Heart Huckabees, which is probably the most comparable recent movie I can think of.

― Fluffy Bear, among 100% of the population (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

the only parallel I can see between Garden State and I Heart Huckabee's (which wasn't very good, but not brutally awful) is that they were both shot in color.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like Scrubs. I Heart Huckabees is pretty bad, but slightly has the edge over GS in that it's a bit more original.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

i tried to kill this thread but it didn't work out

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

the only parallel I can see between Garden State and I Heart Huckabee's (which wasn't very good, but not brutally awful) is that they were both shot in color.
-- milo z (wooderso...), September 25th, 2006 4:48 PM. (mlp) (link)

Oh, they were both lackadaisical finding yourself generational malaise twenty-something pre-middle-aged crisis movies.

One the one hand you had a rich boy who got off the meds and got over killing his mother. Existential moment: yelling into bottomless pit that was supposed to be a Jersey Mall.

On the other you had an uninteresting narcissistic environmentalist who went through therapy and didn’t get the girl or the recognition but got himself a little piece of mind. Existential moment: psychobabble from a couple of baby-boomers and a hate-fuck from a misanthrope.

― Fluffy Bear, among 100% of the population (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

LOVEMONKY KILT HIS MOM??! SO COLD YO!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

it was pretty funny when marky mark hit that dude in the face with a rubber ball.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Best part of the movie, by far.

― Fluffy Bear, among 100% of the population (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

that movie was funny as shit

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

i've always found scrubs pretty likeable... dude is a totally decent comic actor

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

if you turn off 3-4 mins before the end, 'scrubs' is the funny.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

I also saw Scrubs for the first time a few nights ago. It was okay. It reminded me of Parker Lewis Can't Lose, because of the wacky sound effects I guess.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

HATE. SCRUBS.

Arrested Development changed my life.

HATE. Z. B.

Need to marry Jason Bateman. Now. Right now.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Friday, 12 January 2007 06:09 (eighteen years ago)

Corny indie fuxor?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 January 2007 06:13 (eighteen years ago)

man he sucks so hard

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 06:56 (eighteen years ago)

yes, i am the man he sucks so hard. you should be so lucky.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:12 (eighteen years ago)

Blech. I wouldn't let him near me my parts.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oh shut up. You would. He'd get that cartoonish "faraway" look in his eye, and have a little fantasy about you blowing yr load on his goofy face. There'd be a voice over: "I never really wanted to be a doctor as much as I wanted Jesse to blow his load in my face." And the lesson at the end would be that you should follow your dreams.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:22 (eighteen years ago)

I really hate that Scrubs is in between The Office and 30 Rock. That is my one TV watching block for the week and I would prefer to remain on my ass for a solid hour and a half but nooo I have to get up to turn off Scrubs because it is so completely unwatchable. The acting is exactly like a wacky freshman orientation RA skit. Maybe they could run the yule log or a panda webcam in its place that would be neat.

― A B C (sparklecock), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:39 (eighteen years ago)

I KNOW! I try to turn the channel, but to what? I could turn the TV off, but I have no sense of time and would miss half of 30 Rock if I did that. So even if I'm not watching intently, I'm listening. And it's really, really bad now.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:44 (eighteen years ago)

i never cared for it much, but i could watch john c. mcginley do anything just this side of scat porn

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:47 (eighteen years ago)

You only think that. He was always the best thing in the show, but try watching roughly 90,000,000 episodes of this show.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:56 (eighteen years ago)

Did that dude have weird plastic surgery or has he always looked like the guy who plays Stuart on Mad TV

― A B C (sparklecock), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

scrubs is fucking awesome you crazy.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Good morning,

Check out the attached article on Zach Braff that appears in this Sunday's issue of PARADE.

Best,
Alexis Collado
Publicist for PARADE
212 450 7014

FOR RELEASE: 6:00 PM, ET, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2007

IS ZACH BRAFF DEPRESSED?
Scrubs Star Refuses to Play Hollywood Game

New York, January 11, 2007— “I think I suffer from some mild depression,” Scrubs actor and filmmaker Zach Braff tells PARADE magazine for this Sunday’s issue. “So to have millions of people go, ‘I watched your movie and related’ was the ultimate affirmation that I’m not a freak.” Braff was referring to his 2004 hit Garden State, in which he played a depressed young man who returns to his hometown after his mother’s death and finds that life really is worth living.

Admired for his comic flair and willingness to explore the tough questions of his generation, Braff, 31, stands out in Hollywood at a time when many of his contemporaries seem lost in excess. “I don’t care about image and all that nonsense,” he says. “I’m in sweat pants every day. I don’t play the game at all.” In fact, Braff says, “I don’t have any famous friends other than the guys I work with on Scrubs. I just go home to my family and friends. They’ve made adjustments because I’m well-known, but that’s not what they care about.”

As for his love life, Braff was most recently linked with singer/actress Mandy Moore. “We were together for a while, and that is the only true thing that has ever been written about my romantic life,” he jokes.

Braff says he wants a family of his own with a woman “who is funny and energetic and passionate about what she does.” In his new movie, Fast Track, he plays a loving husband with a new baby. Is his art imitating life? “At my age, those are the things you’re always talking about,” he says. “Have I done everything I should do? If I’m going to have kids, how will that change things? I like to think that all of the introspection leads to something really funny.”

Fast Track opens March 9 nationwide.

###

― a_p (a_p), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

haha should've googleproofed that

― a_p (a_p), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

I LOVE SCRUBS. It's all I do. It's on twice at 7 pm and twice at midnight. The new one last night wasn't so funny. But I love 'em. Even though it's the most formulaic predictable thing in the world with it's repeating structure and how it gets schmaltzy at the end and blah blah, but I love it. It's starting to mean a lot to me.

But 30 rock last night...fucking Chris Parnell? "I've always said people should drink more animal blood...it straightens the spine!" and his line in the infomercial which fucking cracked me up but I can't remember it because it was followed up by Tracey Morgan saying "Hey Dr. Spaceman, is it true that Bread can kill the brain?" to which Parnell responded something like "Well I don't know because the powerful Bread lobby won't let me finish my studies..."

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

I never really go outta my way to watch Scrubs, but whenever I somehow end up watching it, it's time well-spent. Great show!

The episode where Dr. Cox injures his back shooting a hoop is beyond legendary.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Scrubs also seriously has some of the most risque stuff in sitcoms today. Race, sex, etc. I'm particularly fond of the scene where Carla hasn't been having orgasms because she and Turk said "I Love You" so Turk decides to do whatever it takes, Carla comes home to find Turk saying "baby I'm ready to do whatever it takes" while wearing one of those breathright nose strips.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

dr cox is the main reason scrubs doesn't suck.

his wife also.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

T/S: Not-quite-central characters who completely steal the show: Dr. Cox vs. GOB Bluth vs. Mr. Burns vs. Manuel vs. Bishop Brennan vs. Quagmire.....

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

oh and how could I forget ALAN JOHNSON from Peep Show

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

scrubs is dire. i can't even bear to watch the ads.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

I'm probably going to develop a brain tumor 15 minutes into the airing of the musical episode

― A B C (sparklecock), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

This is why we don't talk any more, lauren.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

you are dead to me.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

cue voiceover...I always knew that watching a silly and occasionally maudlin tv show about working in a hospital would show me who my real friends were...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

*applause*

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

but Scrubs has no laugh track!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

I pattern myself on Dr. Cox

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I've caught any recent Scrubs episodes, but I can imagine how it might have gotten kinda tired by now. The first few years are definitely funny, though, and not just in the way that anything featuring Donald Faison is inherently awesome.

(I did see 30 Rock last night, though, and it's just getting more and more ridiculously great -- the Maureen Dowd joke was the funniest thing I've seen on TV in ages.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

but Scrubs has no laugh track!
http://www.tv.com/scrubs/my-life-in-four-cameras/episode/397534/summary.html

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

That episode was great.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

the Maureen Dowd joke was the funniest thing I've seen on TV in ages

That was the moment I knew I was again witnessing greatness. And it was about 30 seconds into the episode.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

(I did see 30 Rock last night, though, and it's just getting more and more ridiculously great -- the Maureen Dowd joke was the funniest thing I've seen on TV in ages.)

That was funny, but I have to admit I loved this part more:

"Do you like Phil Collins?"
"...I have two ears and a heart, don't I?"

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

“I’m in sweat pants every day. I don’t play the game at all.”

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, fuck Braff. Let's talk about a good show.

I didn't like the Tina Fey plot as much as the Tracy Morgan plot. I mean, it was fine, but the show is best when both plots are great. Like the one where Jack wants to act and Tracy can't read. That one is pure gold.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

And the callbacks are getting better, too. Like, Maureen Dowd is funnier because he also dated Condi. And Phil Collins is funnier because Tracy apparently has unexpected taste in music. "I know Pat Benetar rarely plays live! Scalp the damn tickets!"

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Wait a cotton-pickin' minute here...MANDY MOORE!?!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

Did I see Eugene Mirmin at the 30 Rock writers table for like a second last night?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus Christ, begone indie fuxxors! "Scrubs" is awesome!

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

nuh uh.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

if 30 rock ends up canceled, fine. if 30 rock doesn't get an emmy, fine. but there will be hell to pay if Alec Baldwin isn't up there accepting the Best Comedy Actor emmy.

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

i watched an old episode of scrubs this morning and laughed out loud at least 4 times. still, im convinced king of queens is comedic genius.

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

oh kate, you and my stepmom!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

hate zach braff all you want cuz the shins got popular w/lame-o's and shit but fuck me if he's not an awesome comic actor AND:

Scrubs is more consistently funny than Arrested Development ever was.

*TRUTH ATTACK!*

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

*OPINION ATTACK!*

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

still, im convinced king of queens is comedic genius.

Scrubs is more consistently funny than Arrested Development ever was.

who are you people

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

Scrubs is frickin' awesome. Scrubs kicks ass. My only point of contention is that Arrested Development quantifiably kicks more ass.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

my opinions are truth.

actually, they're prolly about even, but arrested is as overrated as scrubs is underrated, so i'd call it a good solid draw.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

king of queens blows though jordan, i'm not stumping for that chub

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

I can't wait for this 30 rock to come out on DVD. Sounds awesome.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

Theory: people who hate Scrubs are secretly afraid that there's rather too much of the Zach Braffs about them?

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

TRUTH PARRY

Scrubs is OK (tho the 1 ep I saw this season was baaaaaaaad)
Dr. Cox is awesome
AD is great
30 Rock is godhead

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

you guys are WRONG. if they got rid of the chick KofQ would be almost perfect

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

What about "Campus Ladies"? I'm kind of in love with this show.

It's on Oxygen. I don't know if men will find it amusing. This week, the ladies take 'shrooms. It's going to be a delight.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

Campus Ladies is pretty funny, I never know when it's on though. I give my parents crap for watching K o' Q every day in syndication but honestly it's not bad for what it is. Even ignoring Braff everyone on Scrubs overacts horribly. AD is overrated but still great. Alec Baldwin is basically the best dude. These are my opinions as an American

― A B C (sparklecock), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Haha the best dude out of all dudes, yes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

After 30 Rock and the Departed I have a huge crush on Alec Baldwin, which is deeply worrying.

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

No, it's not. That's no crush of shame. I have a crush on Alec Baldwin, in a strictly man way.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

According to Jim is the greatest show of the last 20 years.

j/k ; P

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

TS: http://tammybruce.com/archives/fatalec.jpg

vs.

http://www.stationave.com/lectures/alec-baldwin01%5B1%5D.jpg

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

I think I like him better now. He used to be so handsome it was a little creepy.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

The image doesn't work but lol @ "fatalec.jpg"

― A B C (sparklecock), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

is baldwin a vulcan?

― max (maxreax), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

OK I am about to sound like a lame-ass getting specific about this, but: Scrubs is both funny AND CUTE, kinda. I'm not gonna hate on the parts where the cuteness works. Some of the humor can be a little bit self-satisfied in its wacky preciousness, but even in those cases it does it with a kind of devil-may-care confidence that keeps it working. This show and That 70s Show started up in similar time-frames, if I remember right, and they seem kinda similar on that front -- the way they kinda toss plausibility and set the whole thing within the characters' own imaginary world? (See also how on both shows half the humor stems from characters playing ridiculous games/pranks with one another, as if they're just bored.) Scrubs's dramatic moments tend to be awfully lame, no doubt, and the rigid three-act structure is as laughable as that of Sex and the City, and exactly the same --

1.
- voice-over introduces episode's thematic topic ("in a hospital you depend on your coworkers" / "in New York we like men and shoes")
- scenes establish each character's activities

2.
- conflicts arise in each storyline
- voice-over points out thematic questions uniting them all ("sometimes you realize your friends aren't there for you ... or your relationship isn't as strong as you thought" / "I couldn't help but wonder ... were men the new shoes?")

3.
- conflicts resolve
- voice-over unites all resolutions under one banner ("maybe the person you least expect is looking out for you ... or maybe you realize your girlfriend cares about you more than you thought" / "but it was summer in New York, and I had some fabulous shoes")

-- which, as above, is lame, but if you're the sort of person who can enjoy watching a Sex and the City episode and betting on whether Carrie will say "I couldn't help but wonder," "I had to ask," or "OTHER," then you can probably forgive the rigid blocks in there and just wait for Donald Faison to be awesome again.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

how do I shot voice-overs

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

that 70s show is really underrated. that cast had a real good chemistry i thought. for trad sitcoms nowadays, i'm a sucker for two and a half men and how i met yr mother.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

the acting on that 70's show was really good. this is really obvious when you watch something terrible like "according to jim" or "the war at home" or something equally awful. how I met your mother is great, except for the pretty canadian girl, although her acting might be properly attributed to her character's canadian-ness

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

ugh, 'that 70s show'

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

i guess i'm 'ugh' over the last 3-4 seasons. the first 3 were pretty solid.

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

fez went from being likable to being a prick, which probably coincided with wilmer starting to score with every barely-legal young hollywood party girl around. and i think laura prepon is a terrible actress.

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

scrubs, directed by Terrance Mallick

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Best thing about 70's Show: the parents.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

jackie has been my role model for years.

here, jackie wearing jackie:

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/941/jackiege8.jpg

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

that last 30 rock sorta sucked tho, compared to the usual standards.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

"laura prepon is a terrible actress."

She's the poor man's ScarJo!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

(also totally hotter than ScarJo - at least back when she was a redhead - but maybe that's just me)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I just realized who Dr. Cox is, and let me tell you something: besides the ever-repellent Zach Barff, Dr. Cox is a *major* reason that I hate this show. Also, Turk. 3 actors/characters that I simply can not stand. Dr. Cox and Braff run neck-and-neck for biggest turn-off.

("Well, why do you watch it," You ask? I try not to, but sometimes we have to put friendship above taste in TV. However, I do reserve the right groan and grimace when it's on.)

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

Not liking Donald Faison = being a bad person.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

donald faison made clueless the film that it was

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

Dr. Cox was okay in Platoon. Nabisco OTM about all these shows' annoying formulas tho.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

i think nabisco's point was how their annoying formulae made them so watchable!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

But from my point of view the Jedi are evil

― A B C (sparklecock), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

I might be agnostic on the annoying formula, but yeah, leaning toward favoring them. I mean, it's a sitcom, that reassuring structure is part of the point. And while laying out the themes always seems sophomoric, it's like a total of thirty seconds of voice-over -- just a tiny formulaic tic that kinda goes with the territory.

Also I wanted to point out that Turk is kind of the best-developed black character I know of on network television! Or at least he's not slotted into a black-character "type" or just totally racially ignored. He's a recognizable type of person who is just about never protrayed on television or in film, which I totally appreciate.

(Also I remembered the root-level parallel with That 70s Show, which is that the humor always comes back to every character being lame or geeky, as opposed to the old sitcom model where characters are blowhards or straight-men or toughs or whatever -- this is part of why it can read as too precious or cutesy sometimes, sure, but I think mostly it comes off actually lovable.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

Scrubs is one of my favourite shows on TV... it's total bubblebath.

There.

(Runs away.)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

Dr. Cox is a *major* reason that I hate this show

But but... he's such a witty asshole! He's the only reason I LIKE the show, most of the time. You don't like House, either... I'm sensing a trend. You don't like characters who are big fat jerks. I, on the other hand, love them. I wonder what that means. Hmmm.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe it's that I secretly wish I could get away with being such a jerk (though in real life, no one can), and you see jerks on TV as just jerks without the necessary element of detachment.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, I have enjoyed patterning myself after Lucille/Dr. Cox's Wife for a while now...

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

haha

Jordan. Jordan is great.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

But surely when you pattern yourself after such a character, it's the wit that you want to emulate, and not the more indefensible characteristics.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

What, like being a jerk?

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

No, I'm fine with that, as long as you're a witty jerk. But the jerk always learns his lesson in one way or another.

This is why I love the movie Groundhog Day. He stops being a jerk, but he doesn't lose the wit.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

OMG, WE'VE FINALLY FOUND HIS MUSE

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

xpost - I LOVE characters who are assholes! Lucillle Bluth, Ricky Gervais, Ab-Fab women, etc. I just hate House b/c the show (the few times I have seen it) seems to rely way too heavily on his asshole-dom (same with Monk and the OCD).

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:25 (eighteen years ago)

He says, "To have millions of people go, 'I watched your movie and related' was the ultimate affirmation that I'm not a freak."

How out of touch with the world around you do you have to be to think that mild depression would make you a freak?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 07:22 (eighteen years ago)

Mild depression is a blessing, 'round my social circles. Mr. Braff, have you ever gone days without bathing or getting out of bed? No? Then you're fine. Shut up.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 07:23 (eighteen years ago)

He doesn't play the image game! That's why he's so inconsistent and we can't stereotype him, because he doesn't have a well-tuned image.

― mh. (mike h.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, maybe I'm just a sucker for singing and dancing, but the Scrubs musical was pretty cute.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

an alum from elmo.oxygen + my high school directed it

― ewe never broke yr treo 4ever (ex machina), Friday, 19 January 2007 06:54 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

wow 'the last kiss' was really annoying and dumb and derivative and zach braff's face is made for slapping
ugh
i liked the gf's parents though, sort of

― rrrobyn, Friday, 24 August 2007 02:58 (eighteen years ago)

Madison, Wisc. has a good role.

― Eazy, Friday, 24 August 2007 03:08 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

RIP

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:31 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRH4gG5LmZ0

this still kills me

― and what, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:39 (seventeen years ago)

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the real music is way better than that bull shit c RAP. this movie kicks ass squarecnix u can suck a donky cock fucking pussy.

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― and what, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:40 (seventeen years ago)

1.
- voice-over introduces episode's thematic topic ("in a hospital you depend on your coworkers" / "in New York we like men and shoes")
- scenes establish each character's activities

-- which, as above, is lame, but if you're the sort of person who can enjoy watching a Sex and the City episode and betting on whether Carrie will say "I couldn't help but wonder," "I had to ask," or "OTHER," then you can probably forgive the rigid blocks in there and just wait for Donald Faison to be awesome again.

-- nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 12 January 2007

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:52 (seventeen years ago)

wiki says

Braff dated Bonnie Somerville around the same time he worked on Garden State. He specifically requested a song from her for the film's soundtrack. Braff started dating pop singer and actress Mandy Moore in the summer of 2004. One of their first public sightings as a couple was when they arrived together at a fundraising event for the Democratic Party prior to the November 2004 election. In early 2006, unnamed sources told In Touch Weekly magazine that the couple were engaged.[17] Braff called this a "total Internet rumor." Moore's representative denied the engagement.[18] Mandy Moore's song "Looking Forward to Looking Back" is rumored to be about Braff. In response to tabloids now linking him to singer Jessica Simpson, he joked: "I wish I was leading a fraction of the life that the tabloids have me leading!"[1] In June 2007, he began dating actress Shiri Appleby.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

I looked up cos it said RIP

he's been fortunate

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/22ebb76bf4.jpg

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 16 May 2008 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

Leave Zach Braff alone!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 August 2011 16:55 (fourteen years ago)

i thought the ny mag guy's response was weak, and showed a guy getting beat in the exact way the original letter had accused him of being off, until the PS. which i guess was the point.

― (oboe interlude) (schlump), Thursday, 4 August 2011 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

i still like zach braff

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 4 August 2011 17:04 (fourteen years ago)

well he's prob actually an asshole irl but i don't mind his work

loved scrubs

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 4 August 2011 17:05 (fourteen years ago)

scrubs unwatchable

― conrad, Thursday, 4 August 2011 17:27 (fourteen years ago)

John C. McGinley caveat

― saint dominic's p4k review (Eazy), Thursday, 4 August 2011 17:30 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

Jeff, hey Jeff, Zach Braff started a Kickstarter to fund a sequel to Garden State.

― carl agatha, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:54 (twelve years ago)

6 years later, I still hate Zach Braff. More than ever.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 18:17 (twelve years ago)

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1d02a2/help_zach_braff_make_his_new_movie/c9ln8lt

― am0n, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 18:46 (twelve years ago)

We can ill afford another Garden State

― mackleless (latebloomer), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:34 (twelve years ago)

https://twitter.com/jordansarge/status/327171813736075265

― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:36 (twelve years ago)

brb, just starting a Kickstarter to pay him not to make a sequel to Garden State

― we're up all night to get picky (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:48 (twelve years ago)

kickstarter to convert cinemas into luxury apartment buildings

― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:57 (twelve years ago)

https://twitter.com/jordansarge/status/327171813736075265

― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He doesn't even sound apologetic about it!!! What a dick.

― carl agatha, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 22:41 (twelve years ago)

A friend just bragged that he pledged $175 toward the new movie. Not knowing how to respond, I closed the IM conversation.

― Millsner, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 23:58 (twelve years ago)

I never realized he assaulted a kid! I remember reading that all of the women who worked with him on Scrubs hated him because he was a harassing sleaze, though.

― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Thursday, 25 April 2013 00:45 (twelve years ago)

tbf, if someone was spray-painting my new car, I'd probably go after them and get punchy (if it was dark enough he didn't know it was a 12-year old, esp.)

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 25 April 2013 00:49 (twelve years ago)

gross, he's already well over halfway to his $2mil goal only a few hours into the campaign.

― Fetchboy, Thursday, 25 April 2013 01:02 (twelve years ago)

zach braff is the amanda palmer of my generation

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 25 April 2013 01:07 (twelve years ago)

https://twitter.com/timheidecker/status/327252017334603776/photo/1

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 25 April 2013 03:20 (twelve years ago)

so good

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 25 April 2013 03:27 (twelve years ago)

oh my LOL

― carl agatha, Thursday, 25 April 2013 12:47 (twelve years ago)

There should be a requirement that before you donate to this fundraiser, you have to, totally sober and without distraction, sit down and watch Garden State again. I bet donations would drop by two-thirds as people shake off the fog of youthful nostalgia and realize what a trite piece of garbage that movie actually is.

― carl agatha, Thursday, 25 April 2013 12:48 (twelve years ago)

Zach Braff and Michael Cera need to team up for a movie, I'd throw in some bucks for that

― Spectrum, Thursday, 25 April 2013 13:13 (twelve years ago)

actually I'd like to see a movie with Zach Braff, Michael Cera, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Page, Joseph Grodin-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, and maybe Andy Samberg for comic relief. it'd like the 21st century's answer to the Rat Pack. soundtrack by Pomplamoose and the Apple iPad/Toyota Prius Players.

― Spectrum, Thursday, 25 April 2013 13:40 (twelve years ago)

We get to imprison them on the film set, right? Some kind of Huis Clos retributive justice?

― emil.y, Thursday, 25 April 2013 13:41 (twelve years ago)

set it in vietnam. get landis to direct.

― his army of super young artists produce, (contenderizer), Thursday, 25 April 2013 14:20 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xmc8-MEIRw

― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Monday, 29 April 2013 13:52 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xmc8-MEIRw

― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Monday, 29 April 2013 13:52 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

Saw Wish I Was Here. Means well, often unbearable--and I like Garden State, for the most part.

― clemenza, Friday, 29 August 2014 12:30 (eleven years ago)

this just came and went eh

― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 29 August 2014 12:50 (eleven years ago)

Not even sure if it got an opening here--I saw it a rep house. The losing-a-parent stuff is sometimes valid, but always manipulative--though Kate Hudson has a good scene alone with Mandy Patinkin. The opening scene, with the kids and the "swear jar," is unbelievably bad. There's a great, famous song buried somewhere in the background at some point...and I've already forgotten what it was.

― clemenza, Friday, 29 August 2014 13:29 (eleven years ago)

Not that many will care, but Wish I Was Here is a grammatical atrocity.

― Aimless, Friday, 29 August 2014 15:49 (eleven years ago)

showing this this weekend. know there's no nobility in trashing whiteboy "indie" movies no one's rly gonna see but every time i run the trailer it makes me wanna vom.

― difficult listening hour, Friday, 29 August 2014 18:28 (eleven years ago)

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