Now he'll have time for a Mallrats sequel.

no joy, no catalina, no watch

RoosterCogburn: So many things wrong with that show, its hard to know where to begin. I really really wanted to like it, but it always bored the hell out of me. And that black chick who was the chief of police or whatever was horribly miscast. Plus the Elvis Impersonator thing was laughably bad, considering its not his voice singing. About the only good thing was the goofy cop character actor and the grizzled vet sidekick. Lee was alright, but he really never had good writing to support his southern drawl.

What he said. I really wanted to.like it

guess he's still got too many thetans to actualize his potential against oppressive persons or whatever

/discovering people i like are scientologists gives me the sads

I saw an ad for that where he appeared to be singing, with a band and he had a serious face. Reason enough right there.

Until now, I didn't know the show existed.

Surool: Until now, I didn't know the show existed.

This.

RoosterCogburn: So many things wrong with that show, its hard to know where to begin. I really really wanted to like it, but it always bored the hell out of me. And that black chick who was the chief of police or whatever was horribly miscast. Plus the Elvis Impersonator thing was laughably bad, considering its not his voice singing. About the only good thing was the goofy cop character actor and the grizzled vet sidekick. Lee was alright, but he really never had good writing to support his southern drawl.

I didn't even enjoy the 'grizzled vet sidekick'. I found him alternately bland and unremarkable, or incompetent and annoying. Alfre Woodard is a good actress, but the character seemed to be lifted from another cop snow and plopped down in this mess. The Elvis impersonator bit was just stupid. It's Memphis, just put him in a blues band if you HAVE to have him sing.

Just unenjoyable, and I generally like most of what Lee does. At least he's freed up to do something different.

I only saw about 5 episodes, so maybe I'm off the mark, but I wasn't going to watch any more based on what I'd seen.

GreenAdder: I watched every episode of that show and I never saw the sailboat.

Ha ha! You dumb bastard. It's not a sailboat, its a schooner!

cherrydog: guess he's still got too many thetans to actualize his potential against oppressive persons or whatever

/discovering people i like are scientologists gives me the sads

Me too. I want to judge him without thinking about religion, but Scientology is so farked up that I just can't.

Anybody want a chocolate covered pretzel?

I was gonna watch the show when it first aired cause I live in Memphis. Then I found out it was filmed in NOLA so I wouldn't get to see beautiful Orange Mound or that delightful area around Graceland. Never watched it. Don't care that it's gone.

Dammit, how did Jason Lee manage to sneak in between Hayek and Hendricks? I wanted to be the meat in that sandwich!

Actually met him once in a nightclub here in Portland (must have been while he was filming Dreamcatcher). And by "met" I mean he was entering as I was leaving, we made eye contact and I said "Hey".

/csb

Damn...I like Jason Lee a lot but he just has no luck with TV shows whatsoever.

He had another TV show?

/honestly didn't know.
//loved My Name is Earl. Too bad it ended on a...

RoosterCogburn: So many things wrong with that show, its hard to know where to begin. I really really wanted to like it, but it always bored the hell out of me. And that black chick who was the chief of police or whatever was horribly miscast. Plus the Elvis Impersonator thing was laughably bad, considering its not his voice singing. About the only good thing was the goofy cop character actor and the grizzled vet sidekick. Lee was alright, but he really never had good writing to support his southern drawl.

it sucked

The trick was to DVR it. If you fast forward through the commercials and the crappy lip-synch singing parts you got a fairly decent half hour show.

Okay, but can we at least keep the good part of it? Can we find something where Keb Mo handles the music for?

Memphis Beat had the best music of any show on TV, but every show managed to find some lame ass excuse to have Lee's character sing (it wasn't bad, but it was pointless)

DjangoStonereaver: Yeah, except for 4 seasons of MY NAME IS EARL. He'll be doing fine with residuals for
a couple more years.

I was actually going to mention that MNIE was a breakout hit for him, and it wouldn't have been canceled if it hadn't been so expensive to produce. Fox let the show run long enough to get it into syndication and then canned it.

Surool: Until now, I didn't know the show existed.

Me either. I can honestly say I've never heard of it and had no idea Lee had been doing anything other than Chipmunk movies.

in a landscape: He had another TV show?

/honestly didn't know.
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What kills me is that a show like Scrubs, which was clearly dead and needed to be canceled, gets a deal with another station and Earl gets the shaft even though it was still good.

TheLopper: GreenAdder: I watched every episode of that show and I never saw the sailboat.

Ha ha! You dumb bastard. It's not a sailboat, its a schooner!

A schooner is a sailboat, asshole.

Orgasmatron138: in a landscape: He had another TV show?

/honestly didn't know.
//loved My Name is Earl. Too bad it ended on a...
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What kills me is that a show like Scrubs, which was clearly dead and needed to be canceled, gets a deal with another station and Earl gets the shaft even though it was still good.

From what I have read from Greg Garcia (Earl's Creator), part of the reason NBC cancelled the show was because it was not produced by NBC/Universal so it wasn't as profitable for them compared to say 30 Rock, The Office or Parks and Recreation which are shows NBC actually owns. The production company even offered to cut their licence fee to NBC to try and get a 5th season but NBC wasn't interested.

As far as scrubs goes, that show already had a syndication deal in place when NBC cancelled it. It was produced by Disney so when ABC picked it up the way the syndicaiton deal worked was that for every new episode they produced they could sell it into the syndication package for a guaranteed 1 million dollars. So even if the show didn't break even in first run on ABC, Disney was still guaranteed to make money on the show.

PizzaJedi81: TheLopper: GreenAdder: I watched every episode of that show and I never saw the sailboat.

Ha ha! You dumb bastard. It's not a sailboat, its a schooner!

A schooner is a sailboat, asshole.

Well you know what? There is no Easter Bunny! Over there, that's just a guy in a suit!

Where's Duddits when you need him?

/Link (relevant, new window)

DjangoStonereaver: Yeah, except for 4 seasons of MY NAME IS EARL. He'll be doing fine with residuals for
a couple more years.

Actually, were only 96 episodes of My Name is Earl. Typically syndication deals only kick in after 100 episodes. I think I remember hearing that anyway....hopefully I'm wrong.

in a landscape: //loved My Name is Earl. Too bad it ended on a...[cliffhanger]

From Wiki:
On the series premiere of Garcia's next series, Raising Hope, a newscaster in the background reports, "A small-time crook with a long list of wrongs he was making amends for has finally finished, and you'll never guess how it ended." However, the newscast is cut off before viewers can hear more.

braedan: Actually, were only 96 episodes of My Name is Earl. Typically syndication deals only kick in after 100 episodes. I think I remember hearing that anyway....hopefully I'm wrong.

I had to look it up, but MNIE was cleared for syndication even though they didn't reach 100 episodes. Check the wiki page.

mechgreg: Orgasmatron138: in a landscape: He had another TV show?

/honestly didn't know.
//loved My Name is Earl. Too bad it ended on a...
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What kills me is that a show like Scrubs, which was clearly dead and needed to be canceled, gets a deal with another station and Earl gets the shaft even though it was still good.

From what I have read from Greg Garcia (Earl's Creator), part of the reason NBC cancelled the show was because it was not produced by NBC/Universal so it wasn't as profitable for them compared to say 30 Rock, The Office or Parks and Recreation which are shows NBC actually owns. The production company even offered to cut their licence fee to NBC to try and get a 5th season but NBC wasn't interested.

As far as scrubs goes, that show already had a syndication deal in place when NBC cancelled it. It was produced by Disney so when ABC picked it up the way the syndicaiton deal worked was that for every new episode they produced they could sell it into the syndication package for a guaranteed 1 million dollars. So even if the show didn't break even in first run on ABC, Disney was still guaranteed to make money on the show.

While that makes sense, the last season of Scrubs was unwatchable. I wish quality were factored into decision making once in a while.

braedan: DjangoStonereaver: Yeah, except for 4 seasons of MY NAME IS EARL. He'll be doing fine with residuals for
a couple more years.

Actually, were only 96 episodes of My Name is Earl. Typically syndication deals only kick in after 100 episodes. I think I remember hearing that anyway....hopefully I'm wrong.

You are wrong. Repeats air on TBS at midday.

/Funnier than I remembered it being.

DecemberNitro: GENERIC COP SHOW #21894

You obviously don't get it. It's a WOMAN. And she's TOUGH.

I can't help but imagine this conversation in a writers room:
"Let's take a cool cat musician...and make him...A COP!"
"Yeah, that'll totally work!"
"It will play in Peoria!"

Cyno01: Hes a scientologist.

So?
Someone, take the Professor in back and plug him into the hyperdrive!

NO WAR FOR HEAVY METAL!

SnakeMan: cherrydog: guess he's still got too many thetans to actualize his potential against oppressive persons or whatever

/discovering people i like are scientologists gives me the sads

You guys constantly like to throw around the word "Islamophobe", but you have no equivalent term for hatred of Scientology. Why is that? Why are the insane ramblings of a 7th-century Arab any more valid than the insane ramblings of a 20th-century sci-fi writer? What, is it just because there are far more Muslims than there are Scientologists and so you're afraid of angering them?

If I were to pontificate, I would hazard a guess that many people believe that L Ron Hubbard basically did it for the money. Whether or not most people want to admit it, the difference between a cult and a religion is often numbers.

/For the record, scientology is a cult in my eyes

SnakeMan: cherrydog: guess he's still got too many thetans to actualize his potential against oppressive persons or whatever

/discovering people i like are scientologists gives me the sads

You guys constantly like to throw around the word "Islamophobe", but you have no equivalent term for hatred of Scientology. Why is that? Why are the insane ramblings of a 7th-century Arab any more valid than the insane ramblings of a 20th-century sci-fi writer? What, is it just because there are far more Muslims than there are Scientologists and so you're afraid of angering them?

call me a "scientolophobe", i don't care. but i don't have an irrational fear of scientology's version of sharia law creeping over the land, or some new "celebrity center" by ground zero staking a victory on the culture of the u.s.

islam is bunkum also. like christianity. happy? but at least those belief systems lay their cards on the table in terms of doctrine. not so, with scientology where the gullible are fleeced of thousands and thousands of dollars for the secret revelation of the xenu myth, and forced to consider their friends and family "oppressive persons" they need to cut out of their lives the deeper they get into the faith. yeh, same thing can happen with islam and xianity, but it's not inevitable or required.

im hardly afeared of angering militant muslims. i suspect you're a devout xian, true? if so, why are the insane ramblings of desert nomads and their descendents any more valid than any other kind of ancient desert people?

tx for your question