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On ILM because of the High Fidelity-esque music industry hijinx sure to ensue.

Tom Cavanagh (“Ed”) stars as Tom Farrell, a 30-something up and coming single record executive who’s navigating the tumultuous and highly amusing waters of work and dating in New York City...

Watching this flounder and fail after half a season promises to be one of the high points of my '06.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 December 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Forksclovetofu reveals his true viral marketing identity.

― harshaw (jube), Saturday, 31 December 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

What part of "flounder and fail" do you not understand?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 December 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, every time I see a commercial for this I die a little inside. Hope your prediction's true. Although I guess it is a sitcom on CBS.

― Eppy (Eppy), Saturday, 31 December 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

soon to be replaced by a reality tv show about a briefcase full of money hosted by david hasslehoff

― Mr. Titty Sanskrit (sanskrit), Saturday, 31 December 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

As a serious fan of Ed, it fucking hurts to see Tom C. trapped in sinking ship like this.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 1 January 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

but...but...such a well groomed cast. Are they trying for a record-industry Entourage?

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 1 January 2006 13:59 (twenty years ago)

i saw ed last night, round midnite, i think it was one of the great, sad shows, and almost as good as the gilmore girls, but better for the buddy stuff then for the romance stuff

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 1 January 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

For any Bootsauce fans in the house, this thread needs one more response.

― Vic Funk, Sunday, 1 January 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I love Ed! I will watch Love Monkey because Tom is like crack to me.

― silence dogood (catcher), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:00 (twenty years ago)

lovemonkeyblows.com

― love monkey blows, Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

so soon?

― deadair (deadair), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

haha i can't wait for this show!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

i hate ed. or his face anyway.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

It's on right now on the East Coast. Is anyone watching?

Mary (if you should ever click on this thread)--my GG friend is writing for this show now.

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 03:09 (twenty years ago)

He knew Sid Vicious's real name! On network TV!

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

lovemonkeyblows.com

I would never guess this was a site about a CBS sitcom. I think it's a trick and is NWS.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 03:18 (twenty years ago)

Much like a Cameron Crowe interview, this show makes me hate music.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm pretty much thinking of quitting music forever now.

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 03:45 (twenty years ago)

My head hurts both from the show and from being hit, by me.

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 03:45 (twenty years ago)

crap

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:00 (twenty years ago)

Well at least the ex-ballplayer is gay.

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

Uh, spoiler.

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

Hee hee, ballplayer.

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:03 (twenty years ago)

That pun was not as tacky as the smug nonchalance with which he "came out" to the audience. It makes me wanna anally rape the writers with baseball bats!

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:25 (twenty years ago)

(He's an ex baseball player, right?)

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, they mentioned Shea.

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:32 (twenty years ago)

I actually saw that part and said, "Oh, he's gay. Or maybe he's just giving that guy flowers, like he's coming for dinner or something?" to which I received a whithering look in return. Talk about not earning it.

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm a big Ed fan, and darn it, it's a cute show. The gay thing made me all, "Wha..". But way to sugarcoat the Chelsea Hotel's history for the audience, and would a badass really give the Essential Bob Dylan?
I dig that blond girl, though.

― WillS, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:01 (twenty years ago)

Three things on which I call bullshit:

1) Yeah, what's up with him thinking The Essential Bob Dylan made a good gift? And didn't he say it had "every song Bob Dylan has ever written" twice? What?

2) The unintentionally hilarious title sequence

3) The hopelessly clueless wicky-wicky I-haven't-heard-any-rap-in-15-years generic hip hop beat during their basketball game

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 06:23 (twenty years ago)

But, yeah, I watched the whole thing, so it couldn't have been that terrible.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 06:23 (twenty years ago)

Wow, that was pretty bad. The righteous speech in the conference room made me want to hurl. And that "every song Bob Dylan recorded" line really bugged me too, Jeff. Twice!

The kid singer looked like the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

My friend said they mention the Geranium Pond, Almond Lettuce, and the Mumps in upcoming episodes, so I think they'll have a few moments here and there. I like the new chunky Jason Priestly.

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 07:41 (twenty years ago)

This was awful. I stopped watching aboot half an hour in. Considering the guest star made an album for Neutral and the director is married to a man kind enough to have reissued Liquid Liquid's catalogue in the '90s, for a NYC set show in the music bidness, I was perhaps hoping for something more.

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:16 (twenty years ago)

hey Vic Funk, what's the Bootsauce connection here?

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

ILM isn't the Love Monkey target audience.

Having said that, the conference room scene made me cringe but I found myself enjoying the rest. I'll take it over "The War at Home" any day.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I watch this for the same reason I glance at The OC or Gilmore Girls when my wife has it on: every once in a while there is a song in the background or a reference that makes you wonder why nobody is paying you to write for TV.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Boring, loathesome show.

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

The kid singer was terrible. The Essential Bob Dylan as the ultimate music geek gift is so offbase - not to mention that it's a sampler of Bob Dylan, not "every song Bob Dylan ever recorded". The Jason Priestly character is limp to the point of disbelief.

Still I sat through it all and it seems like one of those shows that I'll watch just to nitpick.

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Kid singer's bio, from to the NBC site.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/tubesocks/teddy_geiger.jpg

Only 17, Teddy Geiger debuted his first album, Underage Thinking, for Columbia Records in February 2005. A songwriting prodigy, Geiger is a self-taught musician who wrote and arranged complete original compositions on guitar and piano by age eight. With a cutting edge sound of new-school pop and the musical sophistication of a soul informed by rock's glory days, his raspy voice is reminiscent of unique artists such as John Mayer, Chris Martin and Dashboard Confessional, with a touch of Cat Stevens.

Geiger was discovered after a national performance as one of the finalists on VH1's "In Search of the New Partridge Family," by producer Billy Mann, who has worked with Sting, Pink, Jessica Simpson, Ashlee Simpson and Kelly Rowland. Mann, impressed with Geiger's talent, worked to make the rising young pop star's debut album a reality.

Although his career is just getting started, Geiger already has a loyal fan base of self-proclaimed "Tedheads." In addition, in a recent Rochester, New York Battle of the Bands, he emerged as the $1000 grand prize winner, donating his winnings to tsunami relief efforts.

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

This wasn't nearly as bad as I expected, but was still pretty terrible. The thing that bothered me the most was that he didn't actually help the kid get a good deal with his old company (who he knew was in it more for the money than the music). Like he didn't warn them what things to look out for or to make sure was in their contract. He just thought "a major label will be the best thing for this guy, and I can't give him that." Which seemed weird to me.

― Daron Gardner (Daron Gardner), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

This was def. watchable -- yes, the conference room scene was cringeworthy (except, that is, for "And for your information, I signed Hanson!"). The Dylan thing was off. And Ted Geiger eats it raw to the point of straining credibility for the entire show. (also, there was something awfully...harsh about the whole "Grant Theory" when the guy is like, "Hugh Grant had the most beautiful woman in the world waiting for him at home, but instead he went to some ten-cent whore -- I mean, lay off Divine Brown, dude!)

Anyway, all that stuff aside, the show's very likeable on a lot of levels. Ed's good, Jason's a wuss but good, and the blonde is cute as shit (plus, she's plooking a guy on the DL -- ouch!). All in all, a B...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:42 (twenty years ago)

Which blonde? I didn't get all the way through this thing.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 19 January 2006 07:45 (twenty years ago)

Presuming it's not the married/pregnant blonde, tho . . .

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 19 January 2006 07:46 (twenty years ago)

I think he meant Judy Greer, who was also in "Arrested Development"

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

OK haters, I know there's not much love here for this show, but having seen three episodes now, all I can say is that Love Monkey is the Snickers bar of TV dramedy: It's a confection, sure enough, but I felt a lot better after consuming it. Actually, the only thing I really don't like about it now is Wayne.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 04:14 (twenty years ago)

I saw the first minute tonight and that's enough. I love that he's so street he inspires the newsstand guy to turn his cap around.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 06:24 (twenty years ago)

"the snickers bar of TV dramedy" = nuts in your mouth

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 06:49 (twenty years ago)

Forks, I couldn't love you more right now if you were Virginia Heffernan herself.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 07:00 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's very good at all, but I watch it anyway. I just like the music industry connnection, I guess.

― Harpal (harpal), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

Like reading Playboy for the articles?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

OK OK, I think it's decent, but not great. That's what I meant to say. Probably a B grade.

― Harpal (harpal), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

"the snickers bar of TV dramedy" = nuts in your mouth
-- Forksclovetofu (forksclovetof...), February 8th, 2006 1:49 AM. (Forksclovetofu) (later)

hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:49 (twenty years ago)

"CBS Spanks Love Monkey":
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=9377

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Dear Mr CBS,

I know that Love Monkey kinda sucked, and that it was like a tv doppelganger of Cameron Crowe's movies, and that the guitar boy was really really annoying...but we have a guilty crush on Tom Cavanaugh, and we'd just like to see him on TV from time to time. It comforts us. Couldn't you just shoot it off a bluescreen or something? CGI Jason Priestly?

k thx, bye. Vegemite. xxx

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:36 (twenty years ago)

It's not that there's not a good television show to be made about the inner workings of the music industry. It's that THIS wasn't it.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 11 February 2006 06:18 (twenty years ago)

I just saw the third episode last night — it was the best episode yet. I particularly liked how they "fired" the obnoxious director but gave him the credit for the final (and successful) video anyway. Seemed like a particularly subtle move...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Saw the Electric Six on Saturday and Dick Valentine noted that their new album was coming out in the states this week, a year after it came out everywhere else. He then mentioned that Love Monkey had been canceled, and that it was about an A&R guy.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Let's play a fun game and pick out who on this thread was employed by a stealth marketing agency. One Pick Only and the winner gets a SURPRISE!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

is the surprise nuts in your mouth?

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

also, is this show canceled yet?

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

I liked this show. I know it's kind of corny and whatnot, but it's still better than another fucking police procedural.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Love Monkey started out as a book? I bet that's some thrilling prose.

The show was awful but the woman who plays his girl-buddy (and clearly his future love interest, if the show didn't blow enough to get cancelled) is cute, and it was fun to watch the guy from 90210 now looking really short and kind of fat.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Nutrament, you ruined the surprise!

The book didn't have him as a record exec, he was a newspaper editor.
BRILLIANT SWITCH to please entourage market demographic no work so well.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Entourage + High Fidelity - teh funny = cancelled

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

I thought that last episode was the worst yet. God, that Ed guy is hideous. Though I was starting to like the kid a bit. A shame they never got to explore the gay sports reporter character. And they didn't make it to my writer friend's episode-so no Geranium Pond/Almond Lettuce/Mumps references.

― Bushy Bushy Blond Hairdo (Arthur), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 04:38 (twenty years ago)

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