Kristen Bell vs Sarah Michelle Gellar

i think kb is prob a better actress but i still voted smg who i find much more likable

Bell is obviously the better actor; I can imagine (with a bit of mental strain) Bell pulling off both roles, but not Gellar.

I really like Bell, she seems to be a pretty decent and down to earth celeb, fwiw. On the other hand, I spent the latter half of the 90s with such an enormous crush on SMG that it almost feels like blasphemy to consider voting against her.

Freddie Prinze Jr. vs Dax Shephard

In Kristen Bell's favor, this is one of the funniest things ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jw3T3Jy70

Bell all the way. Never been able to stomach Buffy, partly because of SMG.

kristen bell is super-awesome. i can only presume that dax shepard is much sweeter and more interesting man than his professional life would make him out to be.

(and to be honest I imagine you'd have to be pretty sweet and interesting to overcome a name like "dax")

<3 Bell

kbeebs is one of my favorite actors ever
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This is reminding me that I haven't watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall in a while.

I've never seen it. I guess I should fix that.

seeing what a softie Bell is in that Sloth video when I first saw it a while back made me completely forget/overlook her character in Party Down. I guess that makes her a good actress, and I also have a small crush on her, so Bell.

not sure that made sense, but what I mean to say is I didn't realize it was the same person

Am genuinely curious if/how women will vote in this.

Team Bell!

KB, this should be a landslide.

Bell's show w/ Don Cheadle is the worst.

Bell. never ever got the SMG appeal.

and veronica mars RULED like pink floyd

Kbell

ahah, that sloth video ! very sweet.
and KB, of course. never got SMG either.

KB is one of my favourite ppl ever and an amazing comic actor. Sorry SMG, <3 u too

bell duh. dunno how this is even a question

i think kb is prob a better actress but i still voted smg who i find much more likable

― Mordy , Monday, 29 July 2013 23:20 (Yesterday) Bookmark

trademark powers of perception there

Liked Buffy so much more than Veronica Mars, but there's a spark to Bell that Gellar's never had. And also, as a fan of Parenthood, Dax>>>>Freddy. I can't even name a single thing he's done.

Kristen bell is a good actor, whereas it seems like Sarah Michelle just exerted the power of her personality over her portrayal of Buffy for 7 years. But the heart wants what it wants, so I'm voting Sarah Michelle. They seem pretty different to me.

also, no matter how bad the Bell/Cheadle show is, it can't be worse than Ringer, which I watched a ludicrous amount of because I had missed SMG so much.

reading "SMG" in this thread as "shaking my gellar"

Never watched Veronica Mars but I loved Buffy, so this isn't a contest for me. Will say in smg's defense that while she might not have much range, she and Whedon were a perfect match of writer and actor. I don't think the show could have worked without her.

agreed, she did a great job on the show. still voting for KBell though

Bell's show w/ Don Cheadle is the worst

It's truly awful. I have no idea why anyone watches it.

I was trying very hard to support Don Cheadle but the terribleness of that show broke me

good god I could not make it through the first episode of that show, so awful

I got through 1.5 episodes before tapping out

the tone of it felt kind of like one of those amped-up saturday morning cartoons, only with consultants instead of robot lions or whatever

obv I would have stayed with this show if they formed Voltron

WE'RE TALKING REALLY FAST BECAUSE WE'RE IN A HIGH POWERED FIELD HERE'S A DOCUMENT CALL MY BROKER

would love to see Olivia Pope go ham on them

I hope geller doesn't read ilx because she's going to get the shit kicked out of her in this poll.

I need to set aside 3 uninterrupted days to watch Scandal before the fall.

A show starring Kristen Bell, Don Cheadle, and Ben Schwartz seems like it should be enjoyable, but I've never heard a good word about House of PiesLies.

Would watch House of Pies

I want to stick up for SMG here, but SHE wasn't in Pootie Tang.

Never watched Veronica Mars but I loved Buffy, so this isn't a contest for me.

OTM. Though I never liked SMG in anything else, but I think that was down to poor film choices more than anything. Don't know shit about Bell, really.

Watch VM ffs!

KB for Deadwood

bell is so pretty, almost unreal looking. I voted her because of the sloth video. I liked Buffy more than VM though.

more like crisp'n'swell vs. sarah miswell sweller

xpost Yeah, there's the matter of Xander needing to work, and actually holding down a job, too. Also, Buffy needs to work as well, to get money to take care of her family, iirc to thwart child protective services. Then there's Cordelia, whose family had money but lost it and needs to fake her status. It's been a while, but I recall a lot of Veronica Mars still taking place in the realm of mansions and high school kids driving sports cars, which is a real thing, of course, but it felt a little too much like fetishizing rather than character building. Of course, VM and her dad were working class, but the show I don't remember showing any struggle to that aspect of their lives. Not that it needed it; it could be highly entertaining. It just didn't feel that "real" to me, more sort of weirdly surreal, which is ironic, since VM takes place in the real world and Buffy, of course, does not.

Neptune is very clearly divided by class though

I'm not saying it was "intelligent" commentary on class, but it only went three seasons. Buffy didn't start dealing with the job stuff until season 5 (bits of Xander in season 4 maybe).

neptune was "divided" but 90% of the show took place in richteenland and the other 10% was just weevil walking around richteenland with a wrench

Party Down and Veronica Mars were created by the same guy, if you want an idea of how funny/well written VM is

― some dude, Thursday, August 1, 2013 7:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is also ridiculous, vmars isn't a tenth as funny as PD and never attempted to be

vm had one good season, one season that i remember liking alright except i don't remember anything about it besides a bus crash and some baseball player and i think it ended with like a million unanswered questions? i literally only watched it in 2013 and i don't remember how it ended but i do remember thinking they let all the loose plot strands get away from them.

and then season 3 was worse than season 7 of buffy, there was a KONY episode and piz didn't even die

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i don't think you're remembering all the people on the edges of the divide, often people veronica helps - and often people who manage to fit in with the rich in-crowd part of town, or are trying to get in, or to fake it. the pizza guy, the butler's son, the disaffected radio hosts. veronica's uncertainty over whether she'd even be able to pay to go to college; her scholarship competition, not all of whom were rich. cliff and his clients. wallace's gas station job, and his single mom dealing with a shifty tenant. local law enforcement at the mercy or service of the wealthy (and outside interests like the ones woody was pushing). kendall and the fitzpatricks. the difference between the people who could afford to drive and the people who died in the bus crash. the teacher whose retirement plan is ruined when richard casablancas' fraud is uncovered.

VM S2 is underrated, but yeah S3 isn't great, though the finale is great and pessimistic and very much in character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elFyV2zHYCE

xp i don't remember "the pizza guy", sorry

the show was still built around rich people being rich or middle class people pretending to be rich or previously rich people being slightly less rich and then weevil

it liked to yell "CLASS!" a lot but it never felt like more than an easy plot device when necessary to me. by the third season it was almost completely a non-factor, cause i guess class doesn't exist in college or smth

Class was so much more present as a plot and character point in MN than Buffy, how is this even a debate

Veronica Mars doesn't take place in the real world, it takes place in a world of teen detectives

i'm not debating that buffy cared a lick about class, but it also never claimed to

Do I want LA Actress or Theater Girl Actress?

SMG

oh my god, did anyone watch SMG in ringer

this is also ridiculous, vmars isn't a tenth as funny as PD and never attempted to be

― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, August 2, 2013 1:12 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

obviously VM isn't a straight up comedy like Party Down but it's got a lot of comic relief of the same sensibility, is all i'm saying.

definitely

somehow i feel offended by calling party down a 'straight up comedy' even though i don't know what else to call it.

oh my god, did anyone watch SMG in ringer

Yes. I'm not sure she was exactly terrible but the show was like a soap opera that was automatically generated so she wasn't given a lot to do. I couldn't make it through the season.

jeez nobody's happy with any description of the comedy content of Party Down or Veronica Mars huh, n/m

party down is certainly a comedy, though a dark, dry one
veronica mars has lots of humor in it and tons of personality, though ostensibly it's a soapy detective noir
sound fair?

Soapy Noir would make a great pseudonym.

No it wouldn't

So peignoir?

horseshoe i think i made it through a few episodes of ringer but i think it was baaad, totally coked out plot, featuring smg wearing a million crazy ott dresses?? i think it might be thing she's done that i've seen

at least her performance in southland tales has some funny lines & 'teen horniness is not a crime'

might be the WORST thing, that is

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

what the hell

seems to line up pretty closely with the posts itt?

the non-republican won

that is so ilx, psssh you liberals

pretty easily predictable landslide for the Kabes

wait, SMG is a Republican? wow, that would've swung my vote even further towards KB

also: retroactively poisoning my Buffy fandom. but i always kinda liked Angel better tbh

might have voted for KB if she'd sung this on ellen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52Oz-54VYw

Going by these results, I guess I should start with VM and then get around to Buffy when time permits.

Well, there's three seasons of VM and 12 of Buffy/Angel...

And you can pretty much skip S3 of VM

Party Down is unavailable to stream.

;___;

Going by these results, I guess I should start with VM and then get around to Buffy when time permits.

grrr

there's only two good seasons of vm so it won't take long. on paper this is bell in every way but i voted smg.

My vote for Bell has a little to do with the fact that I liked Veronica Mars (and have never seen Buffy), but that wasn't the only factor.

Party Down is unavailable to stream.

;___;

― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, August 3, 2013 12:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol yeah i ended up torrenting it today bc this thread

it's amazing how angry I am at the last thirty or so posts itt

These results mean nothing. SMG > That woman. It's not even up for debate.

and yet here we are

is Cousin Slappy a Grampsy meta-sock?

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