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I liked Sports Night, but every subsequent Sorkin show I've seen has annoyed me. Go figure.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The reason I even brought this up is that Hard Candy was in the same vein--the characters were not believable because they were way too exaggerated, especially the girl. The problem was that it was hard enough to buy that this girl could be so cunning and smart, but impossible when her dialogue and acting did nothing to betray the fact that she was 14 y.o. I would have probably really liked it if that had been corrected and she had been made to seem like a child putting on being an adult. As it stands, the only reason I have to believe that she is 14 is that it's stated. It reminded me of The Good Son in that way.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

it used really broad strokes

agree to disagree.

the writers cared more about hearing their own voices than giving the characters' their own

anyone on a Sorkin show speaks Sorkin, so that's fair. I do think there were character-appropriate variations in Sports Night, but, like I said, I do get why people dislike his stuff. I get it a lot better after latter-day West Wing and fucking Studio 60.

xpost: omg, Jordan, you and I are totally alone on this SN superiority!

I love My Dinner with Andre.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Sayjal is pimping the FF through email.

I should watch the WW, this might work better in drama.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/342895819_c2dcad05b5_o.jpg

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

xp first four seasons are fucking solid imo

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a character on there who I'm told I resemble. Press secretary?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

she's the greatest, Jesse! CJ, played by Allison Janney. best Sorkin character ever, probably.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm guessing it's probably this dude:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/7/70/240px-Joshua_Malina.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

No, no. It's a man who wears glasses.

Yes, him. And now that I see that picutre, I'm reeealy not happy.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude's character was a total shithead too.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

During his tenure on The West Wing, Malina was known to the rest of the cast as a tireless prankster. It is said he coated telephones with Vaseline and reset producer Alex Grave's iPod menus to Mandarin Chinese. It is also said he stole some of Bradley Whitford's letterhead stationary and used it in an elaborate prank.

How come actors are always pulling pranks? Makes for good talk-show fodder?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, right. that actor was great on Sports Night, but I wasn't watching West Wing anymore when he arrived.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

just chiming in to agree on sorkin mostly sucking except for sports night. i loved that show.

xxp i've only seen pics of you, jesse, but you don't look anything like that actor to me. (he was jeremy on SN too)

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Wikipedia says he has been in every project Sorkin has ever done, including A Few Good Men on stage.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost People pull pranks at work all the time.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Something that people do when they're forced to be in close proximity for long periods of time? I pulled all kinds of jokes (and had them pulled on me) when I worked at the restaurant.

xpost and what jesse said

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost People pull pranks at work in restaurants all the time.

fixed

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Not only there, but the environment does breed that sort of thing on a larger scale.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeh, the restaurant world is full of pranks. My favorites have involved our VIP Tickets that the waiters get for special requests, VIPs, etc. I got one that said, "Table 107 - Free Dessert - He's asking for a divorce tonight."

One other guy got one that said "Free Dessert - He's coming out to his parents."

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it okay to bring a cat in a cab if you put the cat in a carrier? Will anybody pick you up?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I've never worked in a restaurant.

I guess there were maybe a couple pranks pulled during my theatre days, but I don't really remember much apart from the "I Love Jesus" bandit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, ILX, which is cuter:

Adorable Francie all curled up and sweet in a little wee basket:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/112/294810319_9cc4de9d0d.jpg?v=0

Or ding dong Brenda in a dumb wine box:

http://flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoops, here is Brenda:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/335967759_4636cd9f07.jpg

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

P@xson says that if she is trying to get a cab when she has a dog she hides the dog a little and then bustles in with her. Try that.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

http://myspacecomedy.com/images/funny/driving-cat.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm kind of partial to ding dong Brenda.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry Brenda pwns.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Which is awsomer: a neurotic cat in a basket or ..... whatever is going on here?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/109792597_39a636e201.jpg

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

That's what I was thinking. Maybe throw a towel over the carrier so by the time the driver figures it out, we're already on the way. Since Sample gets doped up for vet apts. she should be fairly quiet.

XPOST WRONG.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Favorite prank on servers ever: duct taping all salt and pepper shakers together in one long strand and strategically placing them back on the shelf inconspicuously

xpost: I like Francie because shorthair > longhair

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

You oversold the Francie. You should have gone with the sympathy vote.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

OH yeah haterz? Check this out:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/11132830_60259c39fe.jpg

Waaaaaay better than Brenda.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

What was going on with the lobster again? Did you bring one home for dinner?

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The presence of unattractive technology and lightswitch in the back is kind of detracting from the CUET in Francie pic, whereas everything in Brenda photo is quaint and unobtrusive. Francie looks like a better cat, though. LOBSTER PIC IS GENIUS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

We're judging cats, not photo quality. The light switch is part of the real life fun because when I reach in to turn the light on, sometimes I accidentally jab Francie and she says, "Mrrprprprrrrmmwwwwmwmw???"

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

The lobster is from the Viet-seafood place on ARgyle. I ate him.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

But it's true that you wouldn't know about Francie's amazing light switch alarm capabilities from the pic. Anyway, here is this:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/114/291014187_81db70d526.jpg

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/317713845_8987f4fd81.jpg?v=0

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that Orpheus?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

my cousin's children are cuter

― giboyojimbo (gbx), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.soulboxmusic.com/catalog2/images/cat-butt-m.jpg

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

no, orpheus has great disdain for cameras. just a silly pic of a black cat.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/39017947_03baea3396_o.jpg

Brenda staring down the barrel of a .22.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn, I was going to say: Julia's cat has a strawberry house, therefore she wins.

XP: Brenda's not very bright, is she.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Granted, it's only a .22, but Brenda is cuet AND bad-ass.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

A shaved Brenda staring down the barrel of a .22. If anyone is deserving of a sympathy vote here, it's poor CPO Brenda Waterbed.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, you have a gun? Wild.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

No, that's my father's gun.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/j_bdules/horus.jpg

there's fluffybutt, who is usually not very photogenic either.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

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