Comprehensive TV Preview, TMM-style

MmeMordant (4:52:04 PM): zomg, fox has a laugh-track comedy this season

Hundlebottoms (4:52:24 PM): really?

Hundlebottoms (4:52:27 PM): Does it look any good?

MmeMordant (4:52:46 PM): "do not disturb". starring Kangaroo Jack's Jerry O'Connell and Reno 911's sassy black Niecy Nash

MmeMordant (4:52:53 PM): who looks like she lost about 75 pounds

Hundlebottoms (4:52:59 PM): wow

MmeMordant (4:53:19 PM): it's about a Hotel

Hundlebottoms (4:53:52 PM): hmmm, must internet it

MmeMordant (4:54:15 PM): !!! the director is jason bateman

Hundlebottoms (4:54:25 PM): I was just about to gasm over that as well

MmeMordant (4:54:42 PM): and is the ginger guy henry from Ugly Betty

MmeMordant (4:54:47 PM): if so, we are watching this, I don't even care

Hundlebottoms (4:55:53 PM): lol, agreed

Hundlebottoms (4:55:56 PM): I think it is

MmeMordant (4:56:35 PM): looks like him, but he's not on the cast list on fox.com

Hundlebottoms (4:56:39 PM): It's written by the guy who did Arrested Devleopment

MmeMordant (4:56:53 PM):then it can't be that bad

MmeMordant (4:56:55 PM): suck it, av club

Hundlebottoms (4:56:58 PM): hahahaha

Hundlebottoms (4:57:05 PM): did the av club hate it?

MmeMordant (4:57:25 PM): "Jerry O'Connell plays the role he was born to play since he lost all his Stand By Me weight: the smarmy, superficial general manager of a hip, five-star NYC hotel. Niecy Nash of Reno 911 is the hotel's HR director, and just a sassy pot of sass. Together, O'Connell and Nash represent the always-clashing upstairs and downstairs staffs that make up this crazy workplace sitcom.

MmeMordant (4:57:32 PM): Do Not Disturb bears a passing resemblance to the BBC's luxury-hotel drama Hotel Babylon, in that both series are behind-the-scenes looks at luxury hotels. But Hotel Babylon doesn't have a cliché sassy black lady, or a cliché blonde anorexic, or the charming particleboard sets and laugh tracks of all Fox sitcoms. It's also been on the air for four years, whereas Do Not Disturb's laugh track will probably start to ring hollow about four minutes into the pilot."

Hundlebottoms (4:58:06 PM): hmm

Hundlebottoms (4:58:23 PM): silly elitists

MmeMordant (4:58:55 PM): seriously

MmeMordant (4:59:30 PM): HIMYM has a laugh track, and it's like ten times greater than half of all one-camera sitcoms

MmeMordant (5:00:15 PM): AHH, did you ever watch The Class

Hundlebottoms (5:00:37 PM): no, I never did see that one

MmeMordant (5:01:01 PM): it was really awful and terrible

MmeMordant (5:01:04 PM): except for the ginger guy

MmeMordant (5:01:09 PM): and he's the ginger guy in this new hotel show

Hundlebottoms (5:02:19 PM): ahhh

MmeMordant (5:02:49 PM): also, next season FX will have a show called "Testees"

Hundlebottoms (5:03:01 PM): teehee

Hundlebottoms (5:03:18 PM): intarwebs, go!

MmeMordant (5:04:14 PM): south park writer

MmeMordant (5:04:19 PM): but it's the guy from Kenny v Spenny

MmeMordant (5:04:42 PM): it

MmeMordant (5:04:47 PM): 's about product testing

MmeMordant (5:04:52 PM): I'm curious enough to be excited

Hundlebottoms (5:05:09 PM): oooooo

MmeMordant (5:05:17 PM):
(from Zap2It)The series centers on Peter (Steve Markle) and Ron (Jeff Kassel), two roommates who earn their living as test subjects for a company called TESTICO. Each episode will find them ingesting or being otherwise exposed to a new product and then waiting for the (nearly always) negative side effects to kick in while trying to lead some semblance of a normal life.

Hundlebottoms (5:05:38 PM): oooooooooh, neat

MmeMordant (5:05:43 PM): indeed

MmeMordant (5:06:55 PM): is it weird that ever since we started the blog, I've been thinking of every conversation as a blog post

Hundlebottoms (5:07:08 PM): no, cause I'm doing the same thing

MmeMordant (5:07:19 PM): haha, nice

Hundlebottoms (5:07:33 PM): mostly it's just that I've noticed our conversations have a very good tone for commenting on things

MmeMordant (5:08:24 PM): because we're awesome