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    Image of Inhaler Inhaler
    03/25/09

    In reply to NBC's New Amy Poehler Show Doesn't Suck Any Worse Than Other NBC Shows
    Parks and Recreation..? That title is about as enticing as an afternoon at the DMV.


    Dear Amy,

    What was so wrong with fashioning a sitcom version of Baby Mama? You have just skipped the gold mine in favor of the dung heap. Tsk tsk.


    Sincerely,


    Inhaler

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    Image of Tiger_Tanaka Tiger_Tanaka
    03/24/09

    In reply to NBC's New Amy Poehler Show Doesn't Suck Any Worse Than Other NBC Shows
    How has Denton not pulled the plug on this site yet?
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    Image of MrDo MrDo
    03/24/09

    In reply to NBC's New Amy Poehler Show Doesn't Suck Any Worse Than Other NBC Shows
    Indian(dot) is the new black.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    03/24/09

    So what happens to Human Giant?? Aziz Ansari, get back to where you once belonged.
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    03/24/09

    @MrDo: MrDon't.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    03/24/09

    In reply to NBC's New Amy Poehler Show Doesn't Suck Any Worse Than Other NBC Shows
    all of this shit and yet Freaks and Geeks was pulled.. the injustice..
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    Image of Brawndo Brawndo
    03/24/09

    @lobstr: I may be doing too much assuming in your instance here, but fans of shows like F&G complain about this stuff all the time, but most of you all never actually watched the show while it was on the air. The same goes for Arrested Development. You have to actually watch the show while it is still in production, People. That is the only way they know.
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    03/25/09

    @Brawndo: that is quite presumptuous :p Why the hell would anyone complain about a show being pulled if they weren't a fan? How do you know "most of [us] never actually watched the show while it was on the air?" Do you not remember the outcry when it was cancelled?


    And besides, my point is, the method of measuring ratings is antiquated -- just as their formula for greenlighting bullshit shows like this Pohler trainwreck. CBS pulled "Jericho" but was blindsided by the large numbers of people in the ensuing outcry.. the ratings system apparently didn't account for those..

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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    03/24/09

    In reply to NBC's New Amy Poehler Show Doesn't Suck Any Worse Than Other NBC Shows
    I have loved and lived for Amy Poehler since I first saw the UCB staging a performance at the Astor Place cube in 1997, I have extremely aggressively (and only semi-drunkenly) hit on Aziz Ansari not once but twice in East Village dive bars, and I used to work in City Hall, so one might think this would be my dream show. Yet the preview didn't make me crack a smile, even a little. I smell turkey, and it kills me to admit it.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    03/24/09

    @Solomon Grundy: I love her too and she should nevah, nevah play anything close to the straight-man. She's too talented and brilliantly goofy.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    03/24/09

    In reply to NBC's New Amy Poehler Show Doesn't Suck Any Worse Than Other NBC Shows
    This sounds like the scathing indictment of municipal government that I have long-demanded from NBC. I expect this will be second only to Kurosawa's white hot excoriation of village herring fisheries in Jakoman to Tetsu.
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    Image of CheapCynicism CheapCynicism
    03/24/09

    In reply to NBC's New Amy Poehler Show Doesn't Suck Any Worse Than Other NBC Shows
    How many of you would like Leslie and her team to deal with real-life problems, like the ones you face every day? And who would like to see them do just the opposite: getting into far-out situations involving robots and magic powers?
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    03/24/09

    @CheapCynicism: Clearly this series could use some rastafying.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    03/24/09

    In reply to NBC's New Amy Poehler Show Doesn't Suck Any Worse Than Other NBC Shows
    If focus groups all trend negative, why bother with them at all?
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    03/24/09

    In reply to NBC's New Amy Poehler Show Doesn't Suck Any Worse Than Other NBC Shows
    So they want a realistic down-to-earth show that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots?
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    03/24/09

    @Kid Twist:


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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    03/24/09

    In reply to NBC's New Amy Poehler Show Doesn't Suck Any Worse Than Other NBC Shows
    I stopped reading this post after the author misused the phrase "begs the question." Nothing reveals a mediocre writer more reliably.
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    Image of Colander Colander
    03/24/09

    @Solomon Grundy: I know it's nit-picky, but almost EVERYONE uses that wrong! Like, especially in mainstream media, which this isn't exactly. Keep an eye out; it's everywhere.
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    Image of FracturedAcetabulum FracturedAcetabulum
    03/24/09

    @Solomon Grundy: hack covering Richard's beat.


    No offense John.

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    Image of Heneage Heneage
    03/24/09

    @Solomon Grundy: Richard's usage is in Fowler's, so I'm ok with it.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    03/24/09

    @Solomon Grundy: I usually question the beggars.
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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    03/24/09

    @Heneage: You mean the usage of "raises the question"? Ich don't think so.
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    Image of Heneage Heneage
    03/24/09

    @Solomon Grundy:


    "In general use, the meaning is much more likely to be 'to evade a difficulty' or 'to refrain from giving a straghtforward answer'.


    John Major's vision of Europe seems to me entirely correct. But it begs the question: why did the prime minister all but sacrifice his office...

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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    03/24/09

    @Heneage: Listen, just because ignoramuses often misuse the idiom doesn't mean that we should accede to some misguided descriptivist race to the bottom. At the very least, it's a controversial usage. Middlebrow writers should at least be aware of what the idiom actually means. For educated readers, it sticks in the craw like an ugly little stone.
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    03/24/09

    @Solomon Grundy: Ignoramuses such as The Economist? Oxford? Acknowledged grammar Nazi Lynne Truss? Fowler's Modern English Usage? Language evolves, get with the times. When was the last time you heard someone use the word "thou" outside of Church or a Shakespeare play?
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    Image of PootyT PootyT
    03/24/09

    @Solomon Grundy: dude. stop. you're being a dick.
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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    03/24/09

    @Heneage: Also, the Economist is staffed by middlebrow, early 20something Oxbridge pricks. I do not let their binge-drinking, acne-addled choices affect my choices if I can help it.
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    Image of Colander Colander
    03/24/09

    @PootyT: Ha.


    @Solomon Grundy: Calling people stupid is a surefire way to lose an argument, whether you have a point or not.

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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    03/24/09

    @Solomon Grundy: You do know that every comment you make from now on better be letter perfect. Just sayin. 'Cause the first lazy gerund phrase (or whatever you're riled up about)…uh, yeah, we'll tell you. And you'll basically defeat your whole point here.


    So get out that grammar trip-tik and make sure you're up-to-date on all those commonly misspelled and/or misused words, smarty pants!

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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    03/24/09

    @Spirit Fingers: I welcome the constructive criticism. My editors are getting lazy about letting me get away with idiosyncratic usage.
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    03/24/09

    @Solomon Grundy: I always notice the misuse of this phrase, too, but it's not like I'm a particularly good writer (I edit copy, which is an entirely different skill). Recognizing common language mistakes is an easy trick, and just because John Cook didn't pick this one up doesn't make him a mediocre writer.
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    Image of John Cook John Cook
    03/24/09

    @FracturedAcetabulum: None taken!
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    Image of John Cook John Cook
    03/24/09

    @Solomon Grundy: Man you really have to tow the line here at Gawker, lest commenters wreck havoc on your posts. For all intensive purposes, that particular usage is commonly accepted. I could care less, really, but it's a mute point, because I'm changing it.
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    03/24/09

    @John Cook: Here, here!
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    Image of Dave J. Dave J.
    03/24/09

    @Leviticus_71: I don't think you can ever have enough Selma Blair look-a-likes.
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    Image of FracturedAcetabulum FracturedAcetabulum
    03/24/09

    @John Cook: that was awsome. Your getting the hangue of it. Maybe you'll fit in hear after all.
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    Image of slainte_pants slainte_pants
    03/24/09

    In reply to NBC's New Amy Poehler Show Doesn't Suck Any Worse Than Other NBC Shows
    Leslie falls into the pit? SPOILER ALERT
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    03/24/09

    @slainte_pants: ...yes but we don't know at WHAT POINT in every episode she falls in!
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    03/24/09

    In reply to NBC's New Amy Poehler Show Doesn't Suck Any Worse Than Other NBC Shows
    "...excited Poehler fans" exist?
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    03/24/09

    @Mount_Prion: YES WE DO. :-)
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    Image of Colander Colander
    03/24/09

    In reply to NBC's New Amy Poehler Show Doesn't Suck Any Worse Than Other NBC Shows
    "carbon copy", "derivative," "forced," predictable," "unoriginal," and "lacking in character development..."


    Knowing is the number one movie in America right now. This show will be fine.

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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    03/24/09

    @Colander: they need fireballs and headsets and boom, hit.
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