Current season of NBC's Thursday night comedy line-up

this thread is going to suuuuuuuuuuuuck

still have to vote 30R but community is definitely close

gillian jacobs vs aubrey plaza vs jenna fischer vs no-one in 30 rock is cute

yea cerie has been mia recently

what no rashida

no-one in 30 rock is cute

liz lemon is hot fu

she is elderly

what no alison brie

we could make this sitcom smash-off (via codie smulders)

cobie

epi

I went from watching and liking all of these shows every thursday night to not watching any of them because I missed too many episodes. community is the best, but I also feel like it's sorta overrated.

it's neck and neck with 30 Rock but i voted for Community. i usually wander away from the TV and check my e-mail between 8:30 and 9:30.

guess i'm the lone 30 rock non-watcher :)

Parks and Rec is my answer

My favorite changes every week, depending on the episode. It's probably between Community and P&R, though. One came from nothing and turned into a remarkably funny show, but the other came from a severely awful first season and completely reinvented itself into a remarkably funny show (which is surely a harder thing to do).

def community

Community has been killin' it lately.

http://www.harriscomm.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/D/V/DVD289.jpg

Community

The real question is: Annie vs. April

Annie, no question. April would be fun for, like, two weeks, and then you'd start to resent her bored/boring approach to life.

She clearly wants to have fun, though! She is in a boring place!

troy and aped would be way more fun to hang out with than those two

^ this

Community. P&R a close second.

i think Jane Krakowski is kind of hot. anyway I'll stand up for 30 rock because I still have never seen Parks and Rec and I always miss community. I did see last week's office after missing it for a few weeks and even though it was marginally funny the thing reeked of phoning it in and it kind of seemed like the entire cast hated themselves for being on it.

I feel bad sort of overlooking 30 Rock now, because it was THE funniest show on television for three seasons. Community and P&R are fresh and new, though.

i think Jane Krakowski is kind of hot.

cosign.

I did see last week's office after missing it for a few weeks and even though it was marginally funny the thing reeked of phoning it in and it kind of seemed like the entire cast hated themselves for being on it.

They're just drawing paychecks now and little more. They don't even care.

30R is still amazingly funny, but obviously less fresh than "community".

no idea how ne1 could pick P&R over it.

P&R is a slow burn.

Parks and Rec is my answer

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:55 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

30 rock still my favorite by a wide margin. P&R has improved, the rest i don't care about.

Community for me. The recent scene where Jeff breaks down after seeing his exgirlfriend wasn't all that funny; getting consoled by Pierce over how he had to watch Glee in the relationship was _really_ funny.

I just don't understand the appeal!

xp community. only watch 30 rock and community tho and that probably won't change

no idea how ne1 could pick P&R over it.

― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:16 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I like Community a lot but it still has too many "life lessons." Admittedly P&R has forced relationship b.s. but it takes up a pretty small proportion of show time.

I'd go P&R>community>30 rock>office

yeah that life lesson shit is horrible but then you have abed doing his don draper and vampire shit

community is corny no doubt (as as modern family, which I like just as much) but at least it has a steady stream of lols

if someone put a gun to my head and forced me to draw an analogy between ABC's "classic period" TGIF lineup (1989-1990) and NBC's current (2009-2010) Must-See Thursday lineup, I would probably do so as follows:

Full House = Community (laid-back sunny california vibe)
Family Matters = 30 Rock (popularity of each driven by nerd appeal)
Perfect Strangers = The Office (main characters hate each other but ultimately get along at the end of the day)
Just the Ten of Us = Parks & Recreation (basketball/recreation themes)

i have a pretty high life-lessons tolerance level, but ne way community sends 'em up most of the time.

the 'lessons' on Community are so clearly arch and intentionally corny, and so clearly a nod to both the educational theme of the show and all the meta references to classic sitcoms, that I'm not sure why people complain about them so much. it's just the structure they chose for the show, and it probably sets up more jokes than it gets in the way of.

xpost mayne otm

Community Community Community

Someday I will watch Parks and Recreation and Community. 30 Rock is better than The Office these days, though. (I know some people think it's always been better than The Office, but it's only really been this season that I've been down on the latter.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcD_Y838DXA

My friend auditioned for the role of Abed and I'm glad he didn't get it.

Funniest one of the bunch obviously it's 30 Rock. Community is cute, but not really funny.

it's often cute, but lately it's been really really funny.

yeah i slept on it the first year, and just read or looked at the internet, but i've been watching this year and it's great.

it isn't?

even tho i think you can see that they have pretty talented writers, i just think that all of the peripheral characters bring nothing to the show & aren't funny, esp compared to the non-lemon/donaghy characters on 30 rock or the non-michael scott/dwight/jim characters on the office

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:42 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i don't see what laughs britta or shirley bring to the show compared to say jenna & kenneth

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:44 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is kinda apples and oranges -- Jenna and Kenneth are 4th/5th billed characters on 30 Rock, and Community has a less clear pecking order in terms of billing or screentime, but has a core group of 7 where all but maybe one or two characters do a lot of heavy lifting in terms of the comedy, which leaves...5 really funny main characters.

i wouldn't watch any of these shows if my life depended on it

also MOST sitcoms have at least one kind of mostly not very funny straight man lead character like Britta, 30 Rock is an exception and not the rule

xpost

also Shirley has brought some big lols lately. ok i'll stop now.

i wouldn't watch any of these shows if my life depended on it

― big (surm), Thursday, April 1, 2010 2:18 AM (8 minutes ago)

Thanks for participating!

yah j0rdan idk wtf ur on - shirley is a solid b+ character and the episode where she bonds w/ jeff over gossip is 1 of the best episodes to date~~~

i mean a lot of what makes her a good character is how she serves as a foil to the other zanier characters but shes got sum good lines too like in the above episode and also the xmas party one. oh & shes rad as the captain in the episode where they take a sailing class - her reaction to letting pierce drown = a++++

xp ur welcome! i felt it was my obligation to make a contribution.

it occurs to me that i know really nothing about surm's taste in television comedy, so to each his own i guess

my bf watches this shit on the reg, so i'm all for harmony in differences <3

Shirley's one of the characters I feel most protective of for some reason. I mean, if you came in and dissed Abed or Troy, I'd just think you're being challopy. But if you pick on Shirley, it just seems completely unfair.

surm, your taste in television teenage dramas is superb tho

haha my bf h8s these shows and scowls at them when i watch & hes around (xxp)

Gotta admit that the x-mas Community episode was kind of awesome. The best shows have been when they let themselves get weird and not too comfy in standard situational comedy land.

Yeah, the x-mas party and billiards class episodes are an even higher level of goodness than the usual episodes.

wtf is community

i just watched the april fool's day episode & it was p funny, much better than the other ones i've seen -- but i still think it's more "cute" than funny in the way 30 rock is -- that episode had a great plot tho -- also the show needs more troy imo

in general tho i think if you like 30 rock but now think that community is better that you prob got bored of your own opinions or something

but i still think it's more "cute" than funny in the way 30 rock is

i feel this

the april fool's day episode had some good gags tho

wtf is community

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Parks and Rec is my answer

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:55 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

― A capella key change in "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips (Pillbox), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 5:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol lamp

this thread is going to suuuuuuuuuuuuck

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:38 AM (Yesterday)

britta has leveled way the f up since the beginning of the season. i wanted her to die on the way back to her home planet c episode 2 but now she's making me lol at getting spanked etc. i feel protective of shirley as well

some TV blogger dude said that the writers of Community are "turning into the skid" with Britta's character, which I think is OTM. she's not really any different than she was in the first episode, but they let up on the love interest stuff and allowed her to be funny within her killjoy role (my fav = the horribly awkward way she high-fived Annie and then turned it into a snake).

idk i enjoy 30 Rock and Community pretty equally when i watch them, but i'm kind of interested in Community as a show more. it takes odd risks and its really dedicated to the ensemble.

guys shirley can be funny! "heeeeere's BROWNIES!" is making me lol as i type this thinking about it.

Parks and Rec is my answer

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:55 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

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i like this thread coincided with the week NBC decided to run 2 HOURS OF OFFICE RERUNS

all 3 of the other shows are winners simply because they will never have hourlong wedding/birth episodes

Five years from now, I don't know if that'll be the case, assuming they haven't been canceled

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

The Office only got four votes! Wow.

these results are in fact correct

Well, based solely on the current season, it's pretty hard to argue The Office against any of the other three? The shocker for me is that 30 Rock AND P&R beat Community - I guess it's just got more vocal fans on here.

these results are in fact correct

These results are, in fat, incorrect. This is proven scientific fact and CANNOT be argued with.

...in fat...

itt, loud vocal challops that were squashed by lurkers

re-poll

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Yeah, these results are wrong based on the current season. Community should have been number one. The Office got 4 votes too many though.

i am fine with the results

so this is back tnite???

maybe i'm crazy but office is pretty funny??

wtf is community

― nijolian dynamite (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:47 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loooooooool

New ep of Up All Night was good. I usually hate it when shows "reset" but I see some things about this I like. Also, I've gone from zero to 60 on loving Maya Rudolph over the last year or so.

Also yeah, Office is good so far.

wtf how could you ever be at 0 on loving Maya Rudolph? she is a national treasure.

http://www.amazon.com/Top-Rock-Inside-Rise-Fall/dp/0307739767

comes out this week, co-written by the former snr exec of nbc who oversaw cheers, seinfeld, friends, er and a load of other stuff, and charts nbc's rise and fall. i am going to read the absolute shit out of this book.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51c8DanVsxL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_SX225_SY300_CR,0,0,225,300_SH20_OU01_.jpg