And everybody thinks he's a tease.

[annakovsky]

I have been ridiculously busy lately, BUT I have a few drive-by things!

I had an excellent birthday, made even more excellent by kyrafic writing me my hardly-ever-written OT3, Stephen Colbert/Amy Sedaris/Paul Dinello - Farmers and Ghosts (Strangers with Candy RPF). It is SO GOOD YOU GUYS. Friendship fic that makes me so so so happy - their whole ridiculously long friendship, and Second City, and uh, I kind of love to an embarrassing degree, like, more than anything ever written. GO READ IT.

(Also, before that she wrote Shawn/Gus Psych fic, Nine True Facts About Gus and Shawn, Detectives/Boyfriends, that IS GRATE.)

I keep wanting to make an actual post about teevee, but I have 30 things I have to do right this second, SO INSTEAD. Two sentences about each of my shows:

How I Met Your Mother: OH MY GOD SLAP BET CONTINUITY! I have hardly ever been so delighted in all my days.

SVU: I don't even know why I bother anymore, but the low quality is pretty hilarious? I haven't even watched this week's episode yet.

The Office: You know, in the second season, the Jim/Pam relationship was like 90% delight, 10% bone-crushing sadness, but this season that ratio has completely inverted to 90% bone-crushing sadness and 10% delight, and I AM FINDING IT VERY OPPRESSIVE. At this point I really just want the two of them to get over it, stop being such a train wreck, be happy dating other people, GET THEMSELVES TOGETHER FOR GOD'S SAKE, and maybe later finally hook up when they have become people of courage (ESPECIALLY YOU, JIM HALPERT, YOU ARE THIS CLOSE TO BEING DEAD TO ME), and in the meantime I think the show should just let me watch everybody else, who are still 90% delight, so that I don't have to slit my wrists or something.

(Haha, longest two sentences ever? What I'm trying to say is, I will never be able to rewatch "Phyllis's Wedding", eva, and I'm still mad at the whole office for not KEEPING MICHAEL FROM EMBARRASSING HIMSELF. He's too young to know better, you guys! He needs someone to keep him settled!)

The Colbert Report: Oh man, lately Stephen has seemed so HAPPY - he breaks all the time and him being happy makes ME happy in a way that is possibly not entirely healthy. ALSO, how cute is it that every time Steve Carell is up for an award or something, Stephen does a bit on it? (Carell/Colbert - THE REAL OTP OF THE PIECE?) (Parentheticals don't count as my two sentences.)

Speaking of Colbert, here is my favorite picture ever taken in the history of time:



OKAY, I HAVE TO GO, FOR REALSIES.

Comments

[agate.livejournal.com]

Omg, how many times did I watch that toss a few weeks ago with the JFK parody when he totally lost it the answer is MANY. I have no idea what's making him so giggly but I KNOW I LIKE IT. And it seems like it's gotten to the point where more of the guests sort of have his number, which might be contributing.

I saw an interview recently with the HIMYM producers where they guaranteed slap bet continuity over the course of the show, which is pretty much made of awesome. Also, I would like to mention that Barney played a recorder. As Dwight has shown us, I think we can all agree that the recorder is the most intrinsically funny instrument. Some people might say it's the flugelhorn, but those people would be wrong.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

Dude, I watched that toss SO MANY TIMES. And then in his whole show after that, he couldn't keep it together AT ALL. He broke like four times! BEST EVER. We, uh, still have it in our TiVo.

The guests definitely have his number more, though very few of them seem to know what to do with it, heh. Oh, politicians.

Oh man, where did you see this interview? That sounds awesome. And HA. Omg, Barney and Dwight should totally have a recorder battle of the bands. Also, him shooting Lily with a watergun and Marshall being all mad and "I never get picked for audience participation"? GOLD.

[agate.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I found that interview at TV Squad while fruitlessly searching for Marshall pics for my "you've been lawyered" icon, and I just found it again and even the URL is spoilery, but here is the relevant paragraph:

Bays says that he and Thomas know where the show is going and what the plan is. Which means that fans can rest easy; the writers haven't forgotten about Barney's unwise selection of slap punishment: five slaps at any time of Marshall's choosing, without warning, for infinity. "Our goal in this show is to never leave things unresolved. Eventually all the questions will be answered every open storylines will be concluded. And, yes, we will see more slaps."

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!!!!!!!! Niiiiiiice. And dude, is it spoilery in ways that I would not want to know?

[agate.livejournal.com]

Probably--it is "vague reference to major season finale event" spoilery. So. I don't really mind because I'm not at all spoilerphobic about this show the way I am about The Office, but use your own discretion.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. HOKAY. I think I have decided I don't want to be spoiled, so thank you for the tip off!