TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[Vidor]

I kept wishing that "Californication" would end, pretty much at the end of every season.

Good God, that show is still on? Is Hank still being a horrible, horrible douchebag while having sex with 12 hot women every day? Is his little bald sidekick still a loser?

[MrCrowesGarden]

From Parks & Rec last night:

[ghostrunner]

That's impressive. I like that it's not just a reference, but has an actual punchline. And the punchline works a different way if you have no idea what those words mean.

[Famous Mortimer]

I kept wishing that "Californication" would end, pretty much at the end of every season.

Good God, that show is still on? Is Hank still being a horrible, horrible douchebag while having sex with 12 hot women every day? Is his little bald sidekick still a loser?

Yep. They passed a point a few years ago where they stopped actually progressing characters. Arcs had finished but the show was still being renewed, so things either got silly or they just started repeating themselves. Hank's career arc was interesting - from hotshot novelist to blogger to biography ghostwriter to teacher to scriptwriter to TV writer to whatever he was in the last season.

Seven seasons...Eva Amurri in season 3 was the last time I remember thinking "if he cleans himself up a bit and sticks with this woman, it'd be a decent place to end things" and expecting it to actually happen. It just became a bit of wish fulfilment for the show after that, to see how many hot young actresses they could get to be naked and how little effort they could make.

It was enjoyable, in a way, but now I know it's actually over, I weirdly have no desire to watch it end. I'd love it if shows would just end when they wanted to, rather than getting renewed long past the point of it making any sense. Was anyone really calling out for a seventh season of "Californication"?

[heyzeus]

That's impressive. I like that it's not just a reference, but has an actual punchline. And the punchline works a different way if you have no idea what those words mean.

It's a running joke for them. Keep in mind that the show runners of Parks and Rec were the writers of the old Fire Joe Morgan blog. Here's the screen cap from 2013:



(note the firm logo, which puts the P in the V. I love their writers)

Nice to see that the firm has added some new named partners, they must be doing well!

[Jocephus]

piss and vinegar?

[heyzeus]

piss and vinegar?

Dude. Duuuuude.

[MrCrowesGarden]

I hated FJM, or at least I grew to hate it, but I still love Parks & Rec.

[Jocephus]

ballpark village extreme?

[go birds]

penis vagina etc