“That’s hardly porn, it was a topless woman on a tractor. You know what they call that in Europe? A cereal commercial.” – Phil Modern Family has already proven that they do so many comedy classics well, like pratfalls and other physical comedy, one-liners, situational jokes and more. Tonight they so masterfully demonstrated the comedic […]
One of the things I love about Modern Family is that it’s not only quotably funny, it’s situationally funny. Like tonight, for instance — I roared with laughter through the entire cold open, but I couldn’t pick a quote from it, because it wasn’t the lines that made me laugh, it was the situations the […]
“Am I driving him to school or is he riding his burro?” – Jay to Gloria about Manny wearing his poncho to school You want to know why the ABC comedies are getting such rave reviews? Because people can relate to them. I just finished watching The Middle, celebrating the weird kid, and then Modern […]
I’m just going out on a limb and saying it: this was the funniest episode of Modern Family since the pilot. I’ve enjoyed every episode, don’t get me wrong, but this episode was written in the style of the pilot, meaning it left me with the inability to recover from one laugh before they got […]
How can a show be so smart, yet do physical comedy so well? I never thought about physical comedy being smart. Granted, I’m the first person to break into hysterics when somebody trips, but really, it’s just a gag designed to get a chuckle. You don’t have to be smart to get it, and the […]
I had a pretty full slate of TV to watch last night, and as I wrote this it was still not over (I’ve got my guilty pleasure of Ghost Hunters up any minute now). I’ve also got Cougar Town sitting on the DVR for later. It’s crazy, I tell you! Let me quickly make note of the […]
Holy smokes. After a summer without a lot of numbers to really be excited about, last week was just stuffed to the gills. There were season and series premieres everywhere, bringing in ratings that ran the gamut from outstanding to horrible. The big winners were House, NCIS, and Grey’s Anatomy. On the other end of […]
