Business Class

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Tue May 08, 2007 10:01 pm

This'll sound weird. This show isn't even on yet. I was lucky enough to get chosen for a panel in Vegas to watch the pilot and give my opinion.

Fuck, this was the funniest show I've seen in ages. It truly is (or, rather, hopefully will be) the heir to Arrested Development.

I hope and pray this airs this fall, and isn't changed from the pilot I saw. It looks like, judging from the questions, that it'd be on NBC. If it airs, watch it. It was truly that funny.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Fri May 11, 2007 3:16 pm

I happened to see the Pilot for this and it is about as unfunny as you would imagine it would be.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Mon May 14, 2007 8:57 am

Never underestimate the stupidity of entertainment industry execs.

Based on what I saw, and the reaction of everyone else in the room, I thought it was a pretty sure bet this would be in the fall lineup.

NBC decided to air no new comedies, though. They say comedies simply aren't doing well.

I guess they don't watch TV themselves, and don't realize that's because there are no funny comedies airing on network TV. (Sure, Scrubs and My Name Is Earl are amusing, but not enough to make me tune in for every episode.)

However, if you want funny, consider this: They green-lit a remake of The Bionic Woman instead.

Post by **vynsane** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:27 am

anarky wrote: I guess they don't watch TV themselves, and don't realize that's because there are no funny comedies airing on network TV. (Sure, Scrubs and My Name Is Earl are amusing, but not enough to make me tune in for every episode.)

30 rock. that shit's the mad note.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:05 am

I fucking hate Tina Fey and would not piss on her if she were on fire. So that show's out.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:38 am

How I Met Your Mother is pretty funny.
The Office is hilarious.
Scrubs is good, but not great ( the earlier years were funnier)

There is a dearth of good comedy on the air.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:46 am

Speaking of the New Bionic Woman

Michelle Ryan

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:31 pm

I forgot about The Office.

How I Met Your Mother is okay.

And no amount of hot chickness can make Bionic Woman not blow goats.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:34 pm

As I've said, It's Pilot Season and I get to watch some of the upcoming shows. So far I've seen some turds ( Like that atrocious Cavemen shit) and some good ones.

I recommend "Chuck". It's about a geek Electronics store employee who's college roomate ( who he hasn't seen in ten years) is a Super CIA Agent and sends Chuck an e-mail full of lots of classified stuff before he gets killed in the opening act. So then NSA agent Adam Baldwin and hottie CIA agent Yvonne Strzechowski both trying to find out what he knows. It's like a quirky ALIAS. I enjoyed it.

Next up is Kevin Smith's "Reaper"

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:03 am

Did you happen to see this one?

Hopefully once Bionic Woman tanks, they'll pick it up as a replacement or something. I can't believe that no one else here will get to laugh their asses off at Amy, the Asian woman with a Minnesota accent, and her Abu Ghareib St Patrick's Day cake.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:11 am

I have not seen Business Class yet.

I watched "Pushing Daisies" directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, which plays like a Tim Burton movie about a guy named Ned who can touch people and bring them back to life. But if they stay alive for more than one minute, someone else has to die in their place. And if he touches them a second time, they die permanently. he finds out this unfortunate caveat after he brings his mom back to life and then she kisses him good night later that day. Flash forward 20+ years where Ned enters into a business venture with a Bounty Hunter/Detective (?) played by Chi McBride where Ned brings murder victims back to life, asks then who killed them, then turn the killer into the police for the reward money. It's odd. It's quirky. It was good, but I don't see how they can keep it going as a series.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Tue May 29, 2007 4:34 pm

Well, it looks like the head of NBC programming is out on his ass for the stupid fall lineup he came up with. Not sure if the replacements (he's being replaced by a two-man team) will change the lineup, or if it's in stone. The articles aren't clear on that.

So I'm going to cross my fingers that you guys still may be able to see this show.

RoIIo Tomassi · Post by **RoIIo Tomassi** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:45 pm

Ha. Business Class. Gone and forgotten.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:40 pm

Yup.

Sad. That pilot was a billion times funnier than "Painfully Unfunny Show With Unlikable Lead" (AKA Two-and-a-Half Men) or "Nerd Cliches on Parade" (AKA The Big Bang Theory).

Tom Foolery · Post by **Tom Foolery** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:22 am

anarky wrote:Yup.

Sad. That pilot was a billion times funnier than "Painfully Unfunny Show With Unlikable Lead" (AKA Two-and-a-Half Men) or "Nerd Cliches on Parade" (AKA The Big Bang Theory).

Ironically(or perhaps not. I misuse that word often), both of those are Chuck Lorre shows. As were Grace Under Fire, Cybill, and Dharma & Greg.

Holy shit, you can put Lorre on that Great Douches in History list you made. He should be on the list for Dharma & Greg alone.

Oh god, he's also responsible for Roseanne and Mike & Molly. This guy has a fatty fetish. Weirdo.

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