2004: The Daily Show, Night Two of the Democratic National Convention ("My father was a poor Virginia turd-miner ... ")2011 is easy. Because while I'm a late convert to Parks & Recreation, I know brilliance when I see it. Sunny's "Chardee MacDennis: The Game of Games" and "The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore" made me bust several guts ("rum ham!"), as did Curb ("The Bi-Sexual," "Palestinian Chicken," "Mr. Softee") and Louie had multiple awesome episodes ("Moving," "Bummer/Blueberries," "Joan") which were among other things funny, to not recognize P&R's pantheon-level third season would
2005: South Park, "Best Friends Forever"
2006: The Office, "The Injury"
2007: 30 Rock, "The Source Awards"
2008: The Colbert Report, April 17, 2008 (Edwards, Clinton, Obama cameos from Philadelphia.)
2009: The Office, "Broke" ("Our balls are in your court.")
2010: Um, let's award one retroactively today. (Community, "Modern Warfare"? 30 Rock, "Live Show" or "When It Rains, It Pours"? It's Always Sunny's Lethal Weapon V episode?)
And while "Harvest Festival" and "Li'l Sebastian" have their own significant charms, I understand the allure of a meat tornado, and I appreciate how hard it is to do silly as well as that show does. Is there really a question about this?
That's a very good question, sir. And I would counter with my own question, which is: Why is half of your face all swirly?Rewatch the whole thing this weekend.
"Hello, welcome to Nightline, I'm Leslie Monster." Much as I love Melissa McCarthy, this episode is why Poehler should have an Emmy on her mantle today.
ReplyDeleteYou know it's a good show when just THINKING about it makes you happy. I saw STOP...POOPING and just started snorting. I love this show so much.
ReplyDeleteIn such a consistently excellent season, it says a lot that Flu Season stands out as the most memorable.
ReplyDelete<span>“I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have ‘network connectivity problems.’”</span>
(And it's also available on Netflix Instant sans commercial interruption for subscribers.)
I don't know if it's the most memorable -- that may be Harvest Festival, for me. But it's the funniest. In 2009 I screwed this up by going for sentiment over pure laughs, and did not want to repeat that.
ReplyDeleteThat network connectivity joke was improvised -- so, so awesome.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who hasn't yet been able to get into P&R...I'm going to go with <span>"Chardee MacDennis: The Game of Games." My god, that was brilliant on about 15 levels.</span>
ReplyDelete2010 - Party Down - Cole Landry Draft Day
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Ann Perkins, I threw up somewhere in this room. Wait, you might want to check that drawer.
ReplyDeleteMost memorable is April and Andy's Fancy Party, but that would indeed be sentiment over humor. A&AFP immediately went on my best-half-hours-of-TV-ever list.
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