The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Wednesday's soap stars on the farm news" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/09/wednesdays_soap_stars_on_the_farm_news.php Comments for the entry "Wednesday's soap stars on the farm news" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:52:42 +00:00 Comment from Jane Henry Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! Ray, yes yes, yes!! Please do reunite the Kinks. I'll be first in the queue. We went to see Ray Davies last year and he was FANTASTIC. We all danced. It was amazing. He is a rock god. Now I'm gushing. But if I could enter my own competition it would be to say that You Really Got Me is the one song guaranteed to get my husband on the dance floor...I hope this comes off.

]]> 4385@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24834 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:52:42 +00:00 Comment from Persephone [oh Rob!] Comedy discovery: I hate every single modern US comedy about married couples. . . .

Seriously? Even Mad About You? 'Cause I'm willing to fight you about Mad About You...

(Type Key doesn't remember who I am. But that's okay, I don't remember who I am.)

]]> 4385@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24836 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:49:44 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob "Even Mad About You?"

I did say modern, didn't I? I would class 'modern' as having to have at least have one new episode in this millennium, at the very least…

TypeKey support seems to be broken in the latest release of the blog software, according to forums. I might disable it until there's a fix, so as not to give people false hope.

]]> 4385@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24838 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:55:09 +00:00 Comment from peteraj And King of Queens, misery, despair and misanthropy? I think not. Just a well observed sitcom with lots of LOL moments, superb cameos from Jerry Stiller (misanthropy, maybe but still hilarious) and, occasionally, so true to (my) life as to be uncomfortably funny!

]]> 4385@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24839 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:03:43 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob Yes, King of Queens. The one with the scummy, lazy husband with zero respect for his wife; and the much better looking but equally unpleasant wife who patronises her husband all the time. That one. I feel physically sick every time it's on television. Not as much as when the pure, undiluted evil of Everybody Loves Raymond is on, but…

]]> 4385@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24840 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:09:05 +00:00 Comment from Persephone Sorry, didn't realize that series ending less than a decade ago are no longer modern. Maybe the word you wanted was "current". My apologies for defending dinosaurs on your blog...

]]> 4385@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24841 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:52:17 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob You're very welcome to defend dinosaurs on the blog. I just don't remember attacking any of late. Must have left my fur costume from 10,000BC round the back.

]]> 4385@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24842 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:55:39 +00:00 Comment from Persephone But can we agree, modern or current aside (even dinosaurs), that Mad About You got it right? Very clever, funny believable scripts about two flawed, funny human beings muddling through a marriage. And among the regular cast, I don't remember a stereotype in the bunch.

]]> 4385@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24843 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:05:00 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob It went downhill a little bit towards the end and Paul Reiser almost always got the better lines, but yes, one of the best of the bunch.

]]> 4385@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24844 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:06:46 +00:00 Comment from Rullsenberg Oh yes, I'll definitely join in the defence of 'Mad about You'. It was one of the things I loved about having cable (briefly) and the Paramount Comedy channel. Opinions on the finale either of you guys?

]]> 4385@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24851 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:27:46 +00:00 Comment from Persephone Adored the finale. As Rob has pointed out, the final two seasons weren't that strong with the exception of the one-take "The Conversation" episode in Season Six and the very very funny and poignant "Final Fronter" finale, featuring the acerbic Janeane Garofalo as a grown-up Mabel. Fortunately, both episodes are included in a best-of Mad About You compilation which I own, thank goodness. (Unfortunately, the compilation doesn't include my personal favourite "Outbreak" from Season Five, in which Jamie and Paul try to beat the six degrees of Kevin Bacon before everyone finds out they're expecting.)

]]> 4385@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24853 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:27:07 +00:00 Comment from Rev-Views "Final episode of The Wire gets just 36,000 viewers"

Criminal. It really is the best show aired on our TVs so far in history.

]]> 4385@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24854 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:32:23 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob Dismal, isn't it?

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