Category — *Comedy

My latest favorite tv show is NBC’s sci-fi comedy Chuck, which delivers some of the things I love most in a show: an ensemble cast of quirky characters, wacky hijinks, pithy dialogue, and Adam Baldwin getting into fistfights. From a …

I’ve lately been on a crusade to watch commercially successful films that broke the usual Hollywood rules against including women to any significant degree unless the movie is about shoe shopping and boys, boys, boys. One such classic is …

I saw another really interesting M*A*S*H episode that tied in perfectly to our recent discussions about a guy who wrote to inform us we’ve got it all wrong: women are more picky about men’s appearances than men are …

Joss Whedon’s latest project, developed during the writers’ strike, was an internet-based musical starring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and Felicia Day, aired in three acts over the past week. Spoilers for all three acts follow, if you haven’t seen it.

The Big Bang Theory is a newish sitcom from Chuck Lorre, best known for Two and a Half Men(cue chorus of groans and growls). Like that show, it has plenty to object to, notably the two lead characters, both white …

I’ve been watching M*A*S*H on Netflix, and you can probably expect at least one more article on the show in the future. But for now, I want to talk about an episode called “Inga” with the assumption you’re at …

I recently talked about some ways in which Scrubs gets gender wrong, and now I want to talk about something I really liked on it, despite its being way too brief: the buddy relationship that developed between Elliot and …

I realized the other day that one of the reasons I loved “Wings” so much was that Helen wanted to be a concert cellist, and she was always getting her heart broken on that dream because music is so competitive.

She …

Scrubs is a wacky silly show that dares not to have a laugh track. Sometimes it’s hilarious:
“Hey, how come Frankfurt and Hamburg have nothing to do with frankfurters and hamburgers?”

“How come your Lake Titicaca is not filled with boobs and …

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the sitcom Samantha Who? First, I generally hate sitcoms, and the premise of the show - a woman rebuilding her life after an accident that causes complete …