New show by the guy who did “Andy Richter Controls the Universe.” Started tonight, right before “Lost.”
I dug it. It’s kinda grim, it’s really absurd and Portia de Rosa is awesome.
I agree. It had some pretty warped humor in it, but that’s the kind I like. I’m going to give it a chance.
I don’t know. It’s not bad, but I felt it tried too hard to be quirky.
It had some decently funny parts but it did seem to try a bit hard. Plus I kept thinking of office space because they kept playing the music from office space.
The main guy is also no Jason Bateman. I can’t see him suddenly being funny.
Premiere episodes always tend to be trying too hard ("Look how quirky we all are! Har!"
, but I laughed several times, and there may be some potential there. I’ll give it a few eps and see where it goes.
Finding the right tone wrt lampooning corporate America will be a challenge for this show. Yes, people aren’t feeling very charitable towards those with money and power, prime targets for satire. At the same time, we might not necessarily want to make them all of them just quirky and fuzzy.
I’ll watch if it continues to come on before Lost. It’s head and shoulders better than anything on Kath and Kim.
Yeah, most of ABC’s line-up is painful to sit through. And that’s just the promos. It makes the commercial breaks during Lost unusually aggravating.
Did anyone else think it finished really abruptly? Like my download missed the post-credits sequence or something.
Had a couple of decent laughs, worth sticking with. The lab guys could have some good banter, and Lindsay Bluth Funke was good.
Still dig it.
Who the hell keeps taking all the creamer?
Ants? No. Ghosts? No. I don’t know.
And de Rosa is definitely doing something to make tingly, what with her corporate mistress/ice queen being just fucking great. “I love saying my name, too. Verrrrrrroniccca.”
Tastes like… despair.
I’m in, and it’s a weirdly perfect lead-in for Lost.
I still like this show quite a bit, but I don’t see it lasting.
“Veridian Dynamics. We’re a family, just like yours. But we don’t have time to throw leaves around.”
It can only be a matter of time before this show offends a real-life corporate sponsor. Some of the projects depicted are frighteningly plausible.
Harrington’s line about the meat blob getting a mouth last week was one of my favourite comedy lines this season. One of those lines that gets funnier the more you think about it.
Weakest one so far this week, but still charmingly oddball. Loved the kids as workers.
Also, I’d have this as my avatar if I weren’t solemnly sworn to being a doctor
I continue to love this show. It reminds me a lot of The Middleman. Maybe because I know it’s just a matter of time before BOT gets canned, too. So many great lines last night.
The…bunny…will…cuddle everything within a 2 mile radius.
Daughter of Ted.
I said “watch” her, not “wash” her.
…Even the dead ones, and we’re even working to bring them back and clone them so you can be with them for ever.
Veridian Dynamics. Family. Yay.
I was actually disappointed when a “commercial” didn’t air last night at the beginning. Those are so pitch perfect, I love 'em. Reminds me of the commercials Six Feet Under did…for like 2 episodes.
This show is quickly coming into its own and becoming kind of hilarious. It has no chance of lasting, right?
The shows fairly funny, you can see the roots of the Andy Richter show, but I think Better of Ted is far less entertaining, the main guy in BOT is just trying too hard.
I loved ARCTU, but I just can’t get into this.