It's impossible to explain because it sounds awful on paper. But let me put it that way, the next episode that shows the guy for longer than five minutes is a Season Two episode that takes place in a prison. It's certainly a total game-changer because the dynamic between the cast of characters changes and the premise changes. Let's find a new wacky roommate becomes somewhat of a theme although that is not the only theme.
Like, in every episode they watch a bit of an awful, fictional talk show with Jerry Springer-esque host (he gets a face transplant in the second season, replacing one real life castmember of Kids in the Hall with another) with the weirdest topics like "I Look Like Joyce DeWitt" and "People Who Don't Care About Anything".
And if episodes about remote control competitions, gay neo-nazi roommates, conning Meals on Wheels, incredibly delicious, possibly illegal cookies and tv show withdrawals weren't enough, they have an episode in which cats take over the world, giving life to this lovely exchange:
Newbie: “After the meteor hit, the disease spread and all the pet monkeys died. Without the monkeys around, people became distraught, especially the kids. So the cats were brought in to replace the monkeys. But people started blaming them, resenting the cats for what had happened to the monkeys. We beat the cats, we kicked the cats, we generally just treated them like shit. We forced them to work as our slaves, first at jobs left vacant by the monkeys -- helping organ grinders and stuff. And then just any shit job we could find. Courier, waiter, Canadian actor. Well. It wasn't long before they turned against us. Ironic, isn't it?"
Hope: "None of that makes any sense. What do you mean, all the pet monkeys died? And you can't train cats to do anything."
Newbie: "We know that now. We even tried using flamethrowers."
It's a very surreal show but strangely enough it works because at its heart it's emotionally believable.
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Date: 2010-08-28 03:38 pm (UTC)Like, in every episode they watch a bit of an awful, fictional talk show with Jerry Springer-esque host (he gets a face transplant in the second season, replacing one real life castmember of Kids in the Hall with another) with the weirdest topics like "I Look Like Joyce DeWitt" and "People Who Don't Care About Anything".
And if episodes about remote control competitions, gay neo-nazi roommates, conning Meals on Wheels, incredibly delicious, possibly illegal cookies and tv show withdrawals weren't enough, they have an episode in which cats take over the world, giving life to this lovely exchange:
Newbie: “After the meteor hit, the disease spread and all the pet monkeys died. Without the monkeys around, people became distraught, especially the kids. So the cats were brought in to replace the monkeys. But people started blaming them, resenting the cats for what had happened to the monkeys. We beat the cats, we kicked the cats, we generally just treated them like shit. We forced them to work as our slaves, first at jobs left vacant by the monkeys -- helping organ grinders and stuff. And then just any shit job we could find. Courier, waiter, Canadian actor. Well. It wasn't long before they turned against us. Ironic, isn't it?"
Hope: "None of that makes any sense. What do you mean, all the pet monkeys died? And you can't train cats to do anything."
Newbie: "We know that now. We even tried using flamethrowers."
It's a very surreal show but strangely enough it works because at its heart it's emotionally believable.