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Post by bigdave on Nov 4, 2009 17:11:08 GMT -6
Dude me an Nicole are the keeper of all things TV, you don't tell us what to watch or not watch. Combined season passes 75.
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Post by Terd Ferguson on Nov 4, 2009 22:39:57 GMT -6
"Nicole and I"
......and so it begins.
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Post by Bushwick Bill on Nov 5, 2009 11:26:45 GMT -6
Dude me an Nicole are the keeper of all things TV, you don't tell us what to watch or not watch. Combined season passes 75. You guys watch way too much TV!!! |
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Post by Sideshow Bob on Nov 5, 2009 12:04:58 GMT -6
Dude me an Nicole are the keeper of all things TV, you don't tell us what to watch or not watch. Combined season passes 75. You guys watch way too much TV!!! Just 'cause it ain't got Don Francisco in it don't mean it ain't worth watching, Ese. |
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Post by Sideshow Bob on Nov 6, 2009 9:29:24 GMT -6
www.slate.com/id/2233847/The League
Finally, a great comedy about fantasy football.
By Troy Patterson
Posted Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, at 3:44 PM ET
On The League (FX, Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. ET), a merry comedy about the miseries of contemporary masculinity, five overgrown adolescents engage in their bonding over fantasy football. In America, 27 million adults count themselves owners of make-believe football teams, and they may be disappointed to see that The League concerns itself with their passion only superficially. If you are well-informed enough to know that the Lions suck and the Mannings do not, then you are perfectly well-equipped to appreciate all of the football references here, which are well outnumbered by jokes that rely on the viewer's familiarity with human genitalia.
The show is as potty-mouthed and testicle-minded as a live-action basic-cable series can get. Chuckling and snickering at The League, members of the target audience may tingle with shamed self-recognition or quiver with simple shame, even while savoring small jolts of petty transgression. However, if you are the sensitive sort, you will want to skip The League and indeed the following paragraphs outlining its central characters. I would also recommend skipping these if you are a minor: Though somewhat dirty, they are not titillating in the least, so what's the point?
Kevin (Stephen Rannazzisi), the first among the crew to start a family, began the league as an escape from family life—a naive idea, of course, since you can run but cannot hide. In any event, his wife Jenny (Katie Aselton) controls his draft picks in addition to rest of his life, for instance decreeing that the co-requisite for his viewing hard-core pornography is working out on their NordicTrack.
Kevin's younger brother, nicknamed Taco (Jon Lajoie), is a big stoner, a success in the league despite being fuzzy about it and so much else. He is motivated only to tap the asses of so many disposable chicks and to write songs. The following lyrics are excerpted from a ditty he composes for Kevin's daughter's fifth birthday, a tribute to her conception: "And then your dad was so excited to get inside your mom/ That he forgot to put a condom on."
Pete (Mark Duplass), the most sympathetic of the characters, gets separated from his wife somewhere before the second episode. The immediate reasons for the split include her giving away his lucky T-shirt to their housekeeper—it reads, "I shaved my balls for this?"—and her energetically performing prostate stimulation on him over his protests.
Steadfastly crass in content, The League is generally subtle in execution, and there is fine wit in the way wounded Pete shrivels into a ball after this violation.
Ruxin (Nick Kroll) is frustrated that his wife still is not putting out many months after delivering their first child—a circumstance all the more dreadful because she does not shut up about the new fullness of her bust and because she has forbidden pornography in their home. He is evocative and tasteless in describing his frustration: "My balls are like New Orleans, and the levees are about to burst." Rounding out the group is Andre (Paul Scheer), labeled a "sweet gullible little sucktard" for such displays of cluelessness as smoking and claiming to have gotten high off of a joint rolled with not weed but pubic hair.
To grasp the nature of these characters is to know their interactions. The man-on-man razzing involves the usual stuff—jests about penis size, sodomy, being pussy-whipped. Indeed, one plotline demands that characters employ the word pussy 13 times in as many minutes: One night at a couples' dinner, Jenny becomes so loaded on white wine that she boasts loudly of her sexual talents, inspiring Taco to compose a Lonely Island-quality rap song titled "Vaginal Hubris."
All very funny, all slightly worrying. These sad clowns, beset by grotesquely shrewish women, retreat to a juvenile mentality as if it were a storm shelter. In their emasculation, they surpass even Paul Rudd's character in Knocked Up, who sneaks around on his wife in order to play Rotisserie League Baseball, and to sympathize with them deeply seems an indication of one's own pathos. They have consigned themselves to the peewee league for many seasons to come.
Troy Patterson is Slate's television critic.
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Post by mexicanjunior on Nov 11, 2009 8:15:30 GMT -6
2nd episode was ok but not as good as the first one. About the only funny part was the guy trading Peyton Manning to the other guy's wife for Fred Taylor and Tory Holt. The other decent part was the guy explaining why he couldn't delete the message board stuff about his wife's vag because it would be like breaking the consitution while watching porn and working out. The nerdy guy's wife was decent looking...
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Post by mexicanjunior on Nov 16, 2009 15:34:30 GMT -6
3rd episode was better than the first 2, the "other league" schtick was especially funny. I think we need to make Dave break up with his other league. The daughter bringing a turd to the baby was funny...it earned another week at least.
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Post by Sideshow Bob on Dec 10, 2009 10:57:07 GMT -6
three-penis wine LOL oh, and this... www.thrfeed.com/2009/12/fx-renews-the-league-.htmlFX renews 'The League'
FX has ordered a second season of its freshman comedy series "The League," picking up 13 more episodes.
Season two will debut in late summer of 2010 and its first finale airs tomorrow night. Through five episodes, "League" is averaging a modest 1 million viewers an episode and 860,000 adults 18-49.
“We’ve been very pleased with the creative and ratings trajectory of The League and believe it’s an excellent fit with our comedy brand,” said FX executive vp of programming Nick Grad. “Jackie and Jeff Schaffer are incredibly talented producers and the ensemble cast is fantastic. The performance of the show this season is reminiscent of 'Sunny' in its first season.” |
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Post by mexicanjunior on Dec 10, 2009 15:46:29 GMT -6
I'm way behind on eps of this...
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Post by Sideshow Bob on Dec 10, 2009 16:30:04 GMT -6
you need to see the one where taco takes teddy ruxpin down to chinatown to buy some three-penis wine
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Post by mexicanjunior on Dec 16, 2009 10:43:28 GMT -6
you need to see the one where taco takes teddy ruxpin down to chinatown to buy some three-penis wine The retarded china-man making fun of him for washing his hands in the urinal was kind of funny... The season ended stronger than it started, I'd be willing to give it another season. Probably better than Factory and Teestes... |
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Post by Sideshow Bob on Dec 16, 2009 11:17:27 GMT -6
yeah, i forgot about the letald (pronounce it phonetically in your head)...that dude was gold
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Post by mexicanjunior on Sept 22, 2010 7:27:33 GMT -6
Finally mixed in the first episode...lots of great schtick. I was onboard with all the *rosterbaiting* and Teddy Ruxpin getting all hot and bothered about getting Miles Austin in the 5th and Montario Hardesty with his last pick. That new guy Ralphie is kind of a whip, they should have let the wife play instead. Andre had some good schtick also...
"DomaDREtion...AnDRAped...DREnation..."
What do you think the snap name game was?
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Post by Sideshow Bob on Sept 22, 2010 7:30:35 GMT -6
Finally mixed in the first episode...lots of great schtick. I was onboard with all the *rosterbaiting* and Teddy Ruxpin getting all hot and bothered about getting Miles Austin in the 5th and Montario Hardesty with his last pick. That new guy Ralphie is kind of a whip, they should have let the wife play instead. Andre had some good schtick also... "DomaDREtion...AnDRAped...DREnation..." What do you think the snap name game was? don't forget about the big "I'M INSIDE ME" rap not sure about that snap name game, but it was good schtick that they wouldn't let him in on it |
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Post by mexicanjunior on Sept 23, 2010 23:14:04 GMT -6
Solid episode 2 but it was really the Rafi show, he was genius in this episode. I clearly misjudged him in the first ep, he is turning into the funniest thing on the show. He had a ton of memorable lines...
"I am going to sodomize you on the battlefield...I'm going to have non-consensual sex with your mouth and butt..."
Teddy Ruxpin doing the Forte trade with his wife tied up was good schtick also...
"DICK PUNCH!"
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