Wilfred, a new FX tv show in which Elijah Wood befriends a dog played by an Australian man

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this show is hilarious!!
thank you, Australia!

I saw one ep of the original in Oz and thought it was pretty funny.

i think that setting dark comedies in sunny places like LA is already a winning combination
add a sarcastic pot-smoking Dune-quoting man-dog and hey i'm all in

Hopefully Wilfred will have a cameo in The Hobbit.

the whole dog/man premise of the show is great but the whole ennui of the white man in the system fight club bullshit is pretty stupid

Apparently the US remake is v different from the Aus version.

ennui of the white man in the system fight club bullshit

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this is not a feature of the original afaik

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xxxp I think the show has more distance from that than you're giving them credit for. i don't think you're supposed to sympathize with Elijah Wood.

woah

in the orig i found it hard to sympathise with any of the characters

lol @ dune though

mordy the entire ep was about wood bein a selfish directionless small dude kinda being pushed around in a big world and wanting to kill himself until he is shown how to live by a mandog

think about the premise and you'll see why it's more of a parody of a 'fight club' type thing than that story itself. he's not being shown how to live by a badass brad pitt persona. he's being shown how to live by a mandog.

what does a mandog know about living!

in the orig i found it hard to sympathise with any of the characters

yeah, thought the short worked, could never get into an episode of the series

Loved the original series, interested to check out American version

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/wilfred-creator-hounded-by-past-assault-20110702-1gw3b.html

Jason Gann, who dons a furry dog suit to play the title character in his AFI Award-winning show, is being feted in Hollywood after the American version of Wilfred premiered to record audiences last week. The US version has earned him $US195,000 ($182,000) for a six-month season.
But at home he is threatening to go into bankruptcy if he is forced to pay the medical expenses of Joseph Hosny, a shuttle-bus driver bashed by Gann in a drunken frenzy at the Derby Day races in 2007.

the whole dog/man premise of the show is great but the whole ennui of the white man in the system fight club bullshit is pretty stupid

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, June 26, 2011 5:53 PM (1 week ago)

wtf how do you get this from this show at all

2nd ep was ok despite INDIAN OUTSOURCE TECHSUPPORT JOKE badness

I saw most of last night's episode having only seen a little bit of the show a couple weeks ago.

Oh man, pot-smoking mandog with loathsome adult men around him is not so bad

the whole dog/man premise of the show is great but the whole ennui of the white man in the system fight club bullshit is pretty stupid
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, June 26, 2011 5:53 PM (1 week ago)

wtf how do you get this from this show at all

― lemon kerrang! (jjjusten), Sunday, 3 July 2011 05:56 (6 days ago)

I was being way over the top about it yeah

just thought dog man premise was good and man sad suburb was bad but then again it was off the first ep of a show that's not going to be about anything I'm reacting to

Was fairly entertained by the first two episodes. Now I just find it something I have to get through to watch Louie.

this show is kinda hacky much of the time tbh

biggest laugh last night for me was when they first cut to the guy watching porn next to him. I like the acting in the show - Wood is surprisingly good - and there are some good jokes and sight gags, but the plots have been pretty bad. boring. I've been watching it after Louie and it obviously pales in comparison.

It definitely benefits from the fact that it's the summer and nothing is on tv.

why am i not surprised jason gann is a violent drunken asshole

fuck that guy and this show tbqh

I thought the first episode was really funy, the guy who plays Wilfred is ace.

yeah this show is hilarious imo

enjoyed the first one, second one i found a bit blah. probably not going to keep up with it. n.b. i dislike or am indifferent to 99% of tv.

what does a mandog know about living!

― Mordy, Monday, June 27, 2011 12:43 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

can't argue w/this imo

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/images/2008/08/27/mandog510.jpg

aw holy fuck that GIS wasn't worth what i just saw

have a stoner/slacker buddy named Ryan whose overachieving/meddling sister is named Kristen, so I'm sticking with it for the unintentional lols

"you've gotta feel how soft my tits are!"

this show is classic

yes, yes it is

Please promote more shit culture

hmmm ok

you obviously have never spent days of yr life smoking weed with a dog

i've been kind of dozing through a lot of the eps this season, the one tonite was pretty good tho

something oddly soporific about this show. i keep watching though.