The 1st and 2nd series were great, started watching the 3rd season and just found it really tedious. The scene's with Charlize Theron were so painful to watch. Eventually I just gave up on it and don't think I'll be watching the rest of season 3 or the show for that matter.
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Yeah I agree, she probably is. Her liver must be in great shape.
That's funny, I enjoyed the Charlize Theron plotline! "Mr. F!" It's a shame you gave up though, there are still some very good episodes (SOBs is brilliant) and a few good laughs to be had, even if it's not as good as the previous season. I'm surprised though, after having seen two seasons, even if there were a few episodes below par afterwards, I couldn't have brought myself to stop watching because I'd just grown too fond of the characters really.
Yeah I wouldn't give up on it just for that. It's far too good a show to let one minor character ruin it. Plus she's gone by the mid-way point. Season 3 is the weakest in all, but it still contains 3 of the best jokes of the whole show. Analrapist, Bob Loblaw and the tiny town/mole hunt scene.
Bob Loblaw is brilliant, I remember just bursting out in laughter with some of the writing around his name.
The scene you're referring to, is it the Godzilla parody? That was very good indeed.
Tobias Funke - "The Bob Loblaw Law Blog" followed by "You sir are a mouthful"
That was one of the best moments in the entire show.
That was one of the best moments in the entire show.
After thinking long and hard, I'd have to say Tobias is my favourite character on the show, did David Cross ever do anything else noticeable?
Yep. It's full on slapstick, but for the 3 plot strands to converge so perfectly for that one joke was great writing.
Season 3 also has:
Assistant: "Are you gonna buy anything sir?"
Tobias: "No I'm just looking. You could say, I'm buy-curious"
I'm still a but peeved they didn't use "it's like having a mango in your mouth" in Season 4 proper. It's too good of a stupid line for just a viral campaign!
I forgot all about the buy-curious line.
One of my favourite exchanges is also in Season 3:
Michael: I worked it out so that we could relocate the cabin, but it is going to be up in Tahoe for another couple of days. Maybe you can take a date up there?
Lucille: How am I supposed to find someone willing to go into that musty old claptrap?
Michael: ........ The Cabin! Yes...that would be difficult too.
Michael: I worked it out so that we could relocate the cabin, but it is going to be up in Tahoe for another couple of days. Maybe you can take a date up there?
Lucille: How am I supposed to find someone willing to go into that musty old claptrap?
Michael: ........ The Cabin! Yes...that would be difficult too.
He did a British show with Will Arnett & Spike Jonze called The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret that was very, very hit and miss, but was still better than the Mitch Horowitz follow up to AD he also did with Will Arnett called Running Wilde. That was a disappointment unfortunately, but had a few moments. Which would be impossible not have with the writer and two best people from AD.
Mr. Show was good too.
He does a good acerbic stand up too.
Oh I might try to catch some of his stand up stuff then.
Would you say Season 3 is weaker than Season 4?
It's strange to think the analrapist scene was so late. It was quite easy for them to do really. Personally I preferred S3 to S1. It was certainly more slapstick and dumbed down, but it showed versatility to me, and they were making light of the tough situation the show was in.
S4 is a weird one. Most of us were just so happy to have it back anything would've done, so it was hard to view it objectively. But I imagine that most fans who watch through them all at once will say it was vastly inferior.
Unlike Mockney I quite liked Todd Margaret, but you cannot think of it as AD part too. It's disaster humour, it's not subtle, but it certainly has its moment. Tragic ending though. Although that's part of its humour. Worth checking out. It maintains its standard throughout, so you'll know if you'd like it after two or three.
The last five or so episode of season four were brilliant.
I think that's my favorite joke of the entire show. I was literally rolling around on the floor laughing. Superb writing. Also the campaign video scene, god I laughed at that.
I thought the woman was pretending as a monster, but she was just out of vodka
I almost gave up on season 3 too, the first 3 eps / first half of the series were godawful & not just in comparison to the rest of the show. The wee Britain storyline was painfully unfunny. Fortunately they redeemed themselves by taking the piss out of the celebrity guest spots and whole network interference, later in the series & as discussed it has some of the best moments. I thought season 4 did a great job of giving it a worthy end in the way in the way it was all put together - the storyline obviously set it up for more.
In fairness to them with the wee Britain thing, it was useful as framing for the joke when they went into the 'American' restaurant- 'is this how you see us over in Britain?'
Maybe I'll put it in her brownie.
I'd say 4 is better, but not funnier. Which is obviously an odd thing to say about a comedy, but I really admired the route they took with storytelling in 4, and the subtle call backs/gags that took you a couple of episodes to get. I can completely understand why others would think 3 was better for easy watching sitcom fun, but as the weakest of the 3 episodic seasons, I'd rate it below 4 as an achievement.
I don't dislike it, I just think it's very hit and miss. There are quite a few things I really like about it. It's better than the "official" AD follow up, Running Wilde. Apparently John Hamm's in the 2nd season.
David Cross also had a good part in Small Soldiers, which is the only movie I've owned the novelization of.
Todd Margaret is a great name for a David Cross character too.
Todd Margaret is a great name for a David Cross character too.
Watched episodes 9/10 I think of the re-ordered version last night, and having already seen them twice, I missed the bit about George Sr showing that there was a wall, when he'd actually found a 'roundabout' way of pretending it was there, with him going past Buster every minute, shouting to let him back in
I also looked out for the 'caterpillar' in the bed, and saw the whole thing. Can even see Sally lean over to put it back on. Clever scene. "Destroy my life with Gob.... 'Hello darkness my old friend...'"
Isla Fisher's still really fit too.
I also looked out for the 'caterpillar' in the bed, and saw the whole thing. Can even see Sally lean over to put it back on. Clever scene. "Destroy my life with Gob.... 'Hello darkness my old friend...'"
Isla Fisher's still really fit too.
fecking hell That was brilliant. Says a lot about the 4th season that I initally thought that was from season 2. It's all blended into one big pile of brilliance for me.
I loved when they'd cut back to the ship incident and Michael Cera looked twice as old as he was meant to be.
Any word on a fifth series yet?
A movie coming first apparently
Season three is grossly underrated.
Bob Loblaw
Tobias' plugs
George-Michael hanging back in the car waiting for 'the sunset'
Analrapist
The full family chicken dance
And these were all in the first three episodes too.
Bob Loblaw
Tobias' plugs
George-Michael hanging back in the car waiting for 'the sunset'
Analrapist
The full family chicken dance
And these were all in the first three episodes too.
17 more episodes on the way apparently.
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Great news.
Oh lord 
I'll need sauce on that before I believe it.
Hopefully there will be more interaction between the cast members.