joan from 'girlfriends' tribute thread

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GIRLFRIENDS THE TV SHOW

Joan's my pick. i like bug eyes and a butt

-- jergïns, Sunday, July 22, 2007 7:58 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

nice

Diana Ross is her mom.

!!

I never realized that, but it makes a whole lot of visual sense.

I don't mean this in a pervy way, but ... her total body weight must be about 40% ass.

P.S. After much indecision re: which Girlfriend I found most attractive, I actually hit this point where previously dismissed Toni rocketed up into first place: you spend a while thinking you're above her average/conventional prettiness, but then you realize there is nothing average about that kind of pretty.

Then she leaves the show and she and Joan are "fighting" and the "Joan is NEUROTIC" jokes get really dumb and Maya and Darnell get really boring and they keep putting Lynn in "dramatic" relationships and it all gets pretty bleak. This show started out as a straight analog of Sex and the City, right down to the comic survey interviews and Joan's fourth-wall commentary, but then it also ENDED as a straight analog of Sex and the City, which is to say that it started thinking we really cared about dramatic and/or romantic-comedy arcs of the characters' love-lives, and it got too soap-opera to stay entirely funny.

Maya stayed funny, but only when she wasn't dealing with Darnell.

i like william

especially the one where he goes to the strip club with dude from election

I really thought everyone knew Tracy Ellis Ross was Diana Ross's daughter.

lynn is a scientologist :-/

okay this is is mildly insane:

http://www.traceeellisross.com/

I'm surprised I never noticed it before -- she totally looks like her. I just thought she was surprisingly east-African looking, or something.

William's haircut is a thing of wonder. It's like Frank Gehry designed the perfect shape to fit his head. His marriage toward the end, though, eh.

Did his mother ever actually appear on the show?

ha nitsuh dude im glad you didnt know that til today either!!

She doesn't seem to make much of it -- I feel like I've seen several interviews with her, and none of them ever mentioned it.

haha this show is great

jergins otm

Ooh, another thing I find funny about this show -- the way that over the seasons they kept rotating what restaurant/bar set people would meet in! First it was the restaurant owned by that guy Joan claimed she slept with when she didn't, then that club for a while, then the place Lynn worked where they always had lunch, and then the place Joan bought. One of few instances where constant show-retooling actually creates an accurate picture of life.

Can we talk about the episode with Lynn's sister?

You scored as a Mya
Woohu!! Youre a Mya!! You believe that happiness doesnt have to come at a cost. You always try your hardest at everything you do and you would even risk your life to make your family happy. You go girl!!

so this show is like executive produced by kelsey grammar, right? that always surprised me

I believe he is also executive producer of The Game?

i've never seen that

Don't, it's awful.

I know, Toni leaving completely ruined this show! why couldn't they have bumped Lynn? Tracee Ellis Ross is my favorite, though.

Lynn and Joan are the only hot babes on the show

i like mya. i never knew why they got rid of toni, though? someone explain, pls?

Contract dispute.

love this show!

but yeah i miss toni.

lol there was one with common & saul williams competing for lynn

Lynn's dating pool = Jamaicans, priests, Common, Saul Williams, Tricky, and Kadeem Hardison

it's hard being the boho phoebe

Joan Clayton: My mother always said, "When love runs out on you, God sends you love's equivalent... or better."
Toni Childs: I thought she said, "When you run out of love's lubricant, use butter."

i just realized joan's boyfriend brock is ice the bounty hunter from arrested development

OMG YES!

Is girlfriends like "The L WOrd" for darkies? (not that i've ever watched the L word)

― Heave Ho, Wednesday, July 25, 2007 6:50 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"darkies"

― jergïns, Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:58 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hey i'm prolly darker than Persia White so cool it mah nigga!

― Heave Ho, Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:28 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wait i missed when lynn dated kadeem hardison. or maybe i blocked it out because lynn's storylines always suck.

dwayne wayne? lol

so many episodes of girlfriends to watch... would it be weird to buy dvds

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A++

wait, are there dvds? i will buy them all!

Haven't watched this in a while, though I was weirded out by Tracee Ellis Ross basically playing Joan in Daddy's Little Girls.

(Plus Gabrielle Union's secretary was basically Maya, situation-wise.)

girlfriends: a kelsey grammar joint

what was that show with queen latifah?

living single

oh, girlfriends

has anyone seen that show "under one roof" with flava flav? it makes "according to jim" look like "the wire".