Animated Conversation

Animation is not just for kids, folks. I mean there was a time when that was the case...Bugs Bunny and Porkie Pig didn't really appeal that much to adults. But Bugs and Porkie are gone, long gone (apart from those rubbish looney toons movies that pop up every now and again). Today's cartoons are adult, offensive and very very funny!

The Simpsons

There's a reason that this show has been on for 20 years and produced over 400 episodes. There's a reason why you can say "D'oh" to anybody, anywhere in the world, and they'll understand what you're getting at. The Simpsons is brilliant. Yes, the show had an iffy five minutes somewhere around the 12th season mark, but hey, we all make mistakes right? The most recent episodes and the long awaited movie have both been brilliant and reminded us just why we fell in love with the show in the first place.

Family Guy

Some might consider its random flashbacks as lazy writing....others may say that the show is just a rip off of The Simpsons...all I know is that it's damn funny, gloriously offensive, instantly quotable and so popular that it was brought back from cancellation TWICE! Watch it, and bask in how dirty you feel afterwards!

Futurama

I remember how disappointed I was when I heard Futurama was going to be cancelled. The show was just beginning to build up steam, with funny moment after funny moment and so many classic episodes. The only problem with Futurama was the dreadful and completely laugh free first season, which put the show on borrowed time. But, much like Family Guy before it, huge public support brought the show back from the grave with 4 DVD movies on the way and (if we keep our fingers crossed) a possible brand new season after that as well. For Futurama, the future's looking bright.

Video Courtesy of youtube.com (user foxabulous)

Photos Courtesy of cartoonary.com and tv.com

LOL, ROFLMAO, and other ways to describe Comedy Blogs

People like blogs. People like laughing. Put the two together and you've got something real good going on. Here are some of the most popular (and more importantly, my favourite) comedy blogs on the net!

I'm Sure I Don't Know: Daily Ravings Of A Disturbed Mind
Best Post: Fun Facts About Fat People, where the Nemesing One talks freely about how hard it is for fat guys to get clean in the shower and why he hopes that a 20-year-old skinny redhead never shows any interest in him.

The Other Side of Normal

Best Post: Drummer Or Porn Star?? Can you tell the screaming mouth of a drummer from the mouth of a screaming-in-a-completely-different-kinda-way porn star? This little quiz is fun for the whole family!

Wit's Bitch
Best Post: Oddity. Simply because I doubt anybody could resist reading a post starting with "today I saw a man get his head stuck up an elephant's ass".

The Junk Drawer-Humour for the Masses
Best Post: My Punishment for Flying First-Class: 'Tis better to have flown first class and then by a cruel twist of fate end up forced to catch a six hour red-eye flight sat next to a definite psycho, than to have never flown first class at all.

Photo Courtesy of superstock.com

That's what FRIENDS are for...

Yep, today's the day. My 23rd birthday. It's one of those days when you especially reflect on the past years, what has changed since the last birthday or the other "big" birthdays, my 21st, 20th, 18th, etc. And you also think about what could have been; what if I wouldn't have gone to uni? Not to this uni but a different one? What if I would've got together with that guy, not the other one, etc., etc., etc. Things would be completely different! Or would they, really? Maybe some things are just ment to be and would happen one way or the other... That's destiny, right?

That's exactly what my favourite FRIENDS episodes reflect on and deal with. That's why I love them! Just like what I wrote about Absolutely Fabulous yesterday, it deals with thoughts, issues, problems and situations many of us have had or been through ourselves. That's why we, the audience, can relate to the characters, see ourselves in their shoes and that's what makes out my favourite episodes. That's what makes the show enjoyable, funny and entertaining. It cheers me up every time I watch it, because I get to see that I'm not the only one in the funny turmoil called life. 

Season 6, episodes 15 and 16, The One that Could Have Been, Part 1 and 2:
What if Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) would have married Barry? What if Ross (David Schwimmer) would have stayed together with Carol? Would Rachel and Ross have still got together? What if Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) would have taken a high-profile business job? What if Joe (Matt LeBlanc) would have not been killed off on Days of Our Lives? What if Chandler (Matthew Perry) would have started working for Joe because he didn't have anything better - any better job - to do? What if Monica (Courtney Cox Arquette) would have stayed fat? Would Chandler still have fallen for her? Questions, questions, questions; just watch to find out and be entertained, amused and maybe even surprised:


(posted by willkatty October 25, 2008)

Season 3, episode 6, The One with the Flashbacks:
What the group didn't know of each other: Who wanted whom. Who has had it off with whom... Or nearly anyway... No matter how good friends are, there are always dirty little secrets hidden somewhere. Good that times have changed - shockingly funny entertainment and cute in a way:


(posted by mileymarlon November 8, 2008)

More info and details to the show and cast.

Bloody 20... 30... 40... 50, sweety!

With my birthday coming up (tomorrow!!!), age has been an issue under focus and discussion too regularly for my liking lately. I don't have an issue with it myself, I'm still young, but I have many friends and family members who flap about approaching that certain personal hurdle - be it 20, 30, 40 or 50.

That's where I come to a brilliant, classic comedy series - Absolutely Fabulous. The way they focus on the problems and dilemmas of middle-aged women is spot-on and hilarious.

Regarding the issues some people have with age, I have picked out one of my favourite episodes, episode five of the first series called "Birthday", where Edina, played by Jennifer Saunders, turns "bloody 40". Her daughter Saffron, played by Julia Sawalha, does her best to organise a nice birthday for her mother. She has invited and prepared everything for family and friends, just for Eddie to blow them off, not wanting to acknowledge her age. Patsy, played by Joanna Lumley, joins her friend Eddie in her age grief but of course makes the most of it, especially the drinks, at the same time.

(posted by abfab07 January 24, 2007)

You could have a case of overacting against Saunders and Lumley - but that is what makes the show what it is. It fulfills what comedy is there for, taking a situation with issues everybody knows and everybody has gone or will go through in one way or the other and exaggerating and making the best and funniest of it with Saunders and Lumley at their best.