Emily's Reasons Why Not - "Pilot" - 01/09/06

I enjoyed this quite a bit. I'll definitely keep watching this one around for awhile.

-Rose

D'oh, I missed it. Is the pilot going to be shown again?

I too thought it was funny, and would like to watch more; however, I don't see it surviving in this time slot once 24 starts.

First 15 minutes: bleh
Second 15 minutes: pretty good.

I'll give it another episode or two to see if it's any good.

TheDewAddict said:

First 15 minutes: bleh
Second 15 minutes: pretty good.

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Same here. I had a hard time getting into the beginning and kept zapping through it with the FF button. About half way through (once her "reasons") started I suppose) I started laughing. Pretty good.

I would watch Heather Graham ... um trying to think of some monotonous thing that would normally be boring to watch someone do... well you know what I mean. I would watch her do just about anything.

Therefore, I liked the show.

Wow, I was very "meh" about this pilot. I'll give it another week or two but it's not looking good. Certainly it was nowhere near as good as AD or MNIE, and to me it didn't stand out much from most of the rest. There are so many strong 30 minute comedies on right now; you have to bring your A game to get an SP... I think Emily left it at home yesterday

I kept expecting to hear "Hi, Im Eddie.. how do you like me so far?"

madscientist said:

Wow, I was very "meh" about this pilot. I'll give it another week or two but it's not looking good. Certainly it was nowhere near as good as AD or MNIE, and to me it didn't stand out much from most of the rest. There are so many strong 30 minute comedies on right now; you have to bring your A game to get an SP... I think Emily left it at home yesterday

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Wow, thanks, I thought I was the only one who thought it was meh!! I don't think I laughed once, and the only chemestry I thought worked at all was between Emily and her former secretary who's jealous of her. It seemed like a "PG-13" rated version of Sex In the City but without the R rated sex jokes that added to SITC humor. I'm on the fence about giving this show another chance. I will have a conflict at 9PM Mondays next week anyway with 24 and Las Vegas, so unless this show blew me away, I don't see it replacing one of those two, even on my backup Tivo on my BAD TV.

madscientist said:

Wow, I was very "meh" about this pilot. I'll give it another week or two but it's not looking good. Certainly it was nowhere near as good as AD or MNIE, and to me it didn't stand out much from most of the rest. There are so many strong 30 minute comedies on right now; you have to bring your A game to get an SP... I think Emily left it at home yesterday

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Where are all the strong 30 minute comedies? AD is on sporadically, but even with that the only ones left are MNIE and, of course, TO. ELC is pretty good too, I guess. I watch TKOQ pretty religiously, but that's mostly out of habit. HIMYM is a favorite of mine, but I understand that's not for everyone. That's only 3 hours a week, 3 and 1/2 if you add MITM.

Oh, for the days of AITF, TMTMS, TBNS, WIC and, of course, T.

Johnny Dazzle said:

WIC

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I'm going to kick myself...

Dubbadown said:

Ok, let me take my best shot at this, I think I got them all.

1. Arrested Development
2. My Name is Earl
3. The Office
4. Everybody Loves Chris
5. The King of Queens
6. How I Met Your Mother
7. Malcolm in the Middle (That was a tough one)
8. All in the Family
9. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
10. The Bob Newhart Show
11. WKRP in Cincinnati (Pretty Sneaky)
12. Taxi

What do I win Bob??

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Thanks for the translation. All of the acronyms lately have been PFA.

Show was OK and if Heather Graham continues to be in tight t-shirts it's a keeper. One thing did bother me, what a horribly stereotypical gay character. Come on I know about 10 gay guys and none of them act like that.

WKRP... an acronym-within-an-acronym is just not fair.

Topic at hand... I'll give the show another chance just because it's HG. I found it to be cloyingly cute and the characters were annoying. All of 'em.

lambertman said:

I found it to be cloyingly cute and the characters were annoying. All of 'em.

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I'll go along with the "annoying" tag on Glitter. After Act 1 I said to my wife "I'll give this character 5 minutes to stop pissing me off."

IMO, she did. She redeemed herself with the "yummy" comment. That's when I knew she wasn't pure evil, but some combination of *****y and inappropriate. That works for Karen Walker, so why can't it work here? So I'm in for a few more weeks.

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Where are all the strong 30 minute comedies? AD is on sporadically, but even with that the only ones left are MNIE and, of course, TO. ELC is pretty good too, I guess. I watch TKOQ pretty religiously, but that's mostly out of habit. HIMYM is a favorite of mine, but I understand that's not for everyone. That's only 3 hours a week, 3 and 1/2 if you add MITM.

Oh, for the days of AITF, TMTMS, TBNS, WIC and, of course, T.

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I couldn't help thinking of Robin Williams line, you know in "GMV":

"Shouldn't we keep the V.P.'s PC on the QT cause if it leaks to the VC we could all end up on KP?"

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Where are all the strong 30 minute comedies? AD is on sporadically, but even with that the only ones left are MNIE and, of course, TO. ELC is pretty good too, I guess. I watch TKOQ pretty religiously, but that's mostly out of habit. HIMYM is a favorite of mine, but I understand that's not for everyone. That's only 3 hours a week, 3 and 1/2 if you add MITM.

Oh, for the days of AITF, TMTMS, TBNS, WIC and, of course, T.

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Didn't we just do this in another thread about comedies? Anyway, for current strong comedies you left out S, SP, and B. The ones you mentioned that I was thinking about are AD, MNIE, Scrubs, EHC, HIMYM. That's four hours right there... and I watch more than comedies! I have kids, a wife, a job... even two dogs! I have to prioritize, people!

For historical comedies I can't believe you left out SN and certainly S!

And if we're willing to add in premium channels of course you have lots more.