So the other night, while watching the season's final episodes of the still-awesome-and-actually-sorta-getting-even-better Better Off Ted, I saw this:
Bad enough that the impending denizens of ABC's "Comedy Wednesday" shuffle shamefacedly into their new fake house with all the confidence of cattle headed for a date with a compressed-air gun and a meat saw. (In the brief glimpse we get of Kelsey Grammar, you can practically see the man wishing he'd invested his "Frasier" earnings more prudently.) But when every single one of your supposedly hilarious stars gets absolutely blown off the screen, comedywise, by the creepy guy from "Lost"? In less than 30 seconds?
That, my friends, is the sound of absolutely no one laughing on Wednesday nights. At least, not on ABC.
Bad enough that the impending denizens of ABC's "Comedy Wednesday" shuffle shamefacedly into their new fake house with all the confidence of cattle headed for a date with a compressed-air gun and a meat saw. (In the brief glimpse we get of Kelsey Grammar, you can practically see the man wishing he'd invested his "Frasier" earnings more prudently.) But when every single one of your supposedly hilarious stars gets absolutely blown off the screen, comedywise, by the creepy guy from "Lost"? In less than 30 seconds?
That, my friends, is the sound of absolutely no one laughing on Wednesday nights. At least, not on ABC.
I think it's a little strange to judge four new comedies by a 30-second teaser, especially when the commercial is meant to enforce the idea that every character on an ABC television show lives in the same universe as every other character. It's very possible that all four shows will suck, but judging them by a non-clip promo is weird.
However, I have to admit that Kelsey Grammar confuses the hell out of me. He was on Cheers for 702 years, Frasier for another 304 years, had a recurring role on The Simpsons, teamed with Heaton on a Fox comedy that was beyond bad, and he still comes back for more. Isn't the man rich enough? If he loves to act so much, he should do community theater.