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    The One True OpinionVikram Murthi
    12/04/17 12:23am

    Well, this was about the worst thing ever. The show’s been irritating before but it never outright insulted my intelligence until now.

    If they’re going to air an episode with Fred Armisen, they shouldn’t wait a month. The harassment accusations — and subsequent fallout — are due anytime now; it’s just a matter of when.

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      cubThe One True Opinion
      12/04/17 12:46am

      commenting in real time

      i relate to the woman* in the basement in this episode — i will do ANYTHING to get away from crying baby sounds.

      *melissa

      todd is treating jasper like he has billy mumy cornfield powers. god this is dumb.

      this is gross. insane, stupid baby matchmaking.

      yay, it’s almost over!

      ending with fred armisen, famed herpes vector of williamsburg, TA-DA!

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      AbracadabThe One True Opinion
      12/04/17 10:27am

      Not sure the current sexual-political climate is going to hit Armisen. As I understand it, he’s a garden-variety womanizer. And somehow that seems to still be ok.

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    fcz1Vikram Murthi
    12/04/17 7:54am

    I didn’t watch, but the review didn’t mention anything about the whole bomb in the Rubic’s Cube this from the beginning of the season. Was this just forgotten about, or did I miss something?

    I wouldn’t be surprised if I did miss something... it would be a testament to how I felt about this season.

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      Evil Lincolnfcz1
      12/04/17 11:14am

      We don’t actually know that the bomb is in the Rubix Cube, though the show certainly seems to be teasing that (but it could be misdirection).

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      Drewfcz1
      12/04/17 1:44pm

      It hasn’t been mentioned anymore other than showing the Rubix Cube a couple of times. Given how lazy the show has been the last 1.5 seasons, I’ll predict that Armisen’s character will join the group and he will be a terror, Tandy will be oblivious to what a terror Armisen is and tries to befriend him anyway, Tandy realizes what a danger Armisen is after its too late, and then just when it looks like doom for the group at the hands of Armisen he will accidently set off Checkov’s Rubix Cube bomb to the horror/relief of the group. With Armisen dead, the gang goes back on its merry way to a new location.

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    sarah_kay_geeVikram Murthi
    12/04/17 8:38am

    “I once punched a woman because she asked if my kid’s pants came from Mervyn’s.” So this episode pretty much sucked (babies wearing make-up and spitting up = nightmare fuel), but Gail’s lines/Steenburgen’s line readings are reliably funny.

    Is the rumor about Armisen that he’s a serial sexual assault monster a la Weinstein, or just that he’s emotionally abusive to a lot of women he works with? (Not that sexual assault isn’t also emotionally abusive.) I’ve heard the latter, but tend not to pay attention to stuff like that until it blows up in the news. He must behave himself around Carrie Brownstein, because I can’t imagine she’d put up with it for years. It’s not like Portlandia was her only gig.

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      dadsarah_kay_gee
      12/04/17 10:59am

      The Gawker article from a while back that made the rounds - most of which stemmed from the comment section of a BrooklynVegan article - basically boiled down to Fred being a serial cheater and womanizer. I don’t remember it being any worse than that, a lot of “he tells you that he loves you and then leaves!” kinda thing. Unless there’s something I’m misremembering or unaware of, it was just portrayed him as a shitty guy rather than an abuser/harasser.

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      sarah_kay_geedad
      12/04/17 11:13am

      So not professional shittiness, but personal shittiness. Okay thanks, unless/until something more serious comes to light, I’m filing this under “not my business”.

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    DrewVikram Murthi
    12/04/17 12:34am

    So I guess they really are gonna run through all of Forte’s SNL buddies. And I’m sure he’ll have the same temporary character arc all the new characters have.

    This was a good show. Now its just flailing in the wind. They really need to sit down and come up with a definitive plot point to write towards whether its a series finale end game event or not. There just needs to be something, anything to hold on to so you aren’t just watching a small group of people do nothing but make the same jokes over and over

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      United States of BonerlandDrew
      12/04/17 3:40am

      That’s what turned me off the show (I haven’t watched this season, nor did I see the last two eps of last season). I was hoping they’d figured out a plan, but nope.

      Too bad, because it had a strong start for being so darn weird.

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      BenjamuffinDrew
      12/05/17 10:09pm

      Yep, agreed. I liked the start of S3 a lot, with the Pat arc (there were 3 or 4 episodes that were genuinely tense, as well as super funny), but since Lewis died, the show has been floundering. If it’s not better by the end of this season, I think I’m out.

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    RandomHookupVikram Murthi
    12/04/17 8:47am

    In short, everyone should stop freaking out about the infants’ future male lovers.

    True, because if nothing changes, Jasper is gonna hook up with all 3 of them in 15 years.

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      DrewRandomHookup
      12/04/17 1:50pm

      If they were really serious about the future of humankind, they’d be getting all the males still alive (Tandy, Todd, Jasper, and Chris Elliot’s character) and coming up with planned “cross pollination” flow charts of arranged pregnancies. Because if they just go with the romantic love route, they’re all gonna die off anyway.

      Yeah, that’s how bored I was with this episode.

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      BeagleMom6Drew
      12/04/17 9:00pm

      Great minds think alike. When I went to bed Sunday night, I lulled myself to sleep by creating a flow chart in my head of how they could repopulate the Earth without inbreeding.

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    misterbonesVikram Murthi
    12/04/17 9:20am

    Yeah, I hated this one something fierce. I just felt uncomfortable watching it. It’s maybe my least favorite episode of the series, and there have been some clunkers (even if I’ve mostly been enjoying the season.) I miss when the characters were, y’know, people. Carol’s insane. I stick with the show because of Gail and Melissa at this point. Mostly Gail. Steenburgen is easily this show’s most important and effective weapon.  

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    living on videoVikram Murthi
    12/04/17 1:30pm

    She’s already voiced a version of an adult Mary Kate/Ashley Olsen on “Bojack Horseman”, so there’s something fitting about Kristen Schaal essentially playing an adult Michelle Tanner on “LMOE”. Carol is just as emotionally demanding, cloyingly manipulative, and oblivious to the concerns or wishes of those around her as the “Full House” brat. (Their senses of style aren’t very far apart either. Intentional?).

    Remember when Uncle Jesse married Becky, and naturally decided to move out of the crowded Tanner home to live with her? But then Michelle unrealistically thought she’d never see them again and had a sad, and guilted the couple (half of which, I might add, was co-anchor of a successful large-market morning show) into living in their attic (and later raising two kids in it)? You know, I just plucked that out of my memory as a general example, but that very plot just played out a few weeks ago on “Last Man...” when Carol browbeat everyone into living in the same house.

    Played for “Awww”’s on “Full House”, “LMOE”, intentionally or not, is a cautionary tale of what happens when parents ceaselessly acquiesce to the whims of a well-meaning but selfish toddler. Having been the voice of reason to her antics a number of times this season, I can’t believe Tandy isn’t the most socially stunted character on the show anymore.

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    Evil LincolnVikram Murthi
    12/04/17 10:28am

    Tandy’s bizarre reaction to his “friend kiss” with Todd is the kind of insane detail that this show can still make intriguing. Everything else about this episode, blech. Carol’s babies wearing dark red lipstick was particularly wrong.

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    AbracadabVikram Murthi
    12/04/17 10:25am

    That was hideous, verging on sick. And went well past the show’s well-established internal logic. It’s totally unbelievable that Carol and Erica would be trying to set up a ten-ish year old boy with discipline issues with their baby daughters without realizing that they’re encouraging him to start sexual relationships with the babies *now*. What are they going to do when he molests them, say kindly “Oh, Jasper, we didn’t mean that you should start relationships with them NOW! Please wait eighteen years. And if you don’t, you’re grounded!” ???

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    SomeRandomGuyOnTheInternetVikram Murthi
    12/04/17 1:00am

    Easily the worst episode of the season (and possibly the series). Just a bunch of useless arguing over the gang’s kids repopulating in the future with zero laughs to be had. Maybe Armisen’s new character will bring some much-needed life into this show, but at this point, the writers should really start thinking about wrapping things up.

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