I Hate My Teenage Daughter (working title)
Pros: Hot teenage girls, Cutty from “The Wire”
Cons: Unfunny jokes, a laugh track, and the lie that a child born of a black father and a redhead mother wouldn’t be an abomination of nature.
Napoleon Dynamite
Why now? Why not seven years ago? Why not never?
Allen Gregory
“Family Guy” has pretty well worn out the “child who’s so precocious it’s an adult” conceit, but I’m going to give this a chance on the comedic pedigree of Jonah Hill, who also voices the titular character.
[Thanks, ScreenJunkies!]
TAGS: ALLEN GREGORY, CARTOONS, DAMON WAYANS JR, Fox, I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, NEW GIRL, pilots, ZOOEY DESCHANEL
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I could watch maybe ten seconds of that trailer. She is not nearly hot enough to be that annoying.
Emily > Zooey
/obligatory
I haven’t seen the trailer but let me see if I can nail it down: Innocent, kind of dumb girl moves in with 3 guys because she needs “a fresh start”. One of the guys clearly has a crush on her but she doesn’t notice the other two guys are bent out of shape about letting a chick move in with them, there are funny references to how long chicks spend in the bathroom. They mention how it sucks that they live with a girl who doesn’t bang them, then there’s a record scratch as Zooey introduces her hot model friends. One guys says something funny. Wacky situations ensue, cg title, maybe an announcer says this fall on Fox. Cut, Print.
Manic Pixie Dream Girl: The Series!
Saw the trailer…I was like 40 percent accurate.
Actually, thecursor, you’re wrong on almost all counts.
Wow, those shows look f’ing terrible with “I Hate My Teenage Daughter’ looking like the worst of the bunch.
I saw this yesterday, and watching it today I come to the same conclusions. This won’t be successful.
And also, the “Schmidt” guy was on the “You’ve Got Male” of Happy Endings, too (gay BF/chain coffee store owner). Maybe they just should add Zooey to Happy Endings and save everybody the extra half hour?
Also, new hierarchy: Jamie Pressley and Emily together > Zooey.
And also I hate that I have now watched ten seconds of the “I hate my teenaged daughter” trailer. I want that time back. And the time I spent writing this comment.
I’m getting a Human Centipede vibe from that. And I still wouldn’t watch.
Whenever I see Zooey I can sense the effort. “Hey look you guys I’m soooo quirky and weird! that makes me seem attainable!”
Ufford, come on! Gimmie “Cute dumb girl needs fresh start” “Guys say something funny when models walk in” and “Wacky situations ensue”. That’s at least 40 percent of that trailer!
Is the Napoleon Dynamite cartoon a drama?
Hammer, are you saying she’s actively trying to be less hot to seem more attainable and therefore easier to cast in nerd appropriate material? You can take that kind of cynicism right back to Filmdrunk where it was very accurately explained in full.
Do I have to give up Burn Notice for this?
Zooey really is adorable. I know she tends to get typecast, but if I could make a living being adorable, I’d do it, too.
You’re all clearly underestimating the chances of success for this show: IT’S GOT THE DIRTY DANCING THEME SONG
//fake swoons
So. Much. Wacky. How long until Zooey Deschanel starts wearing a spinning bow tie and rainbow suspenders? Fuck, that trailer was terrible.
Okay, my dick got hard watching that trailer, but I’m not sure if it’s because Zooey is attractive or it was trying to build up enough energy to rip itself off my body.
I bet Zooey has a HUGE muff.
Dennis “Cutty” Wise on I Hate My Teenage Daughter > Zooey Deschanel and Officer Leo from Veronica Mars
@Farthammer, I bet you’re right, and I bet Emily is totally shaved. Another reason why Emily is better than Zooey.
Yes but crunchy vegans are better in bed.
But both sisters are vegan.
Damn man, this is a close race.
Emily AND Zooey? in a scenario where they dont know they are related but both want to pleasure me, yet… it seems odd to them tasting each other.
MMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKEEE OUTTTTTTTTTTT
If Terry Gross dies, Zooey Deschanel will have to leave this show to assume the full-time role of whitest person alive. Risky casting.
This looks like they filmed the pilot in between episodes of Happy Endings. The actors are the same, it even looks like the same apartment.
Also, was going to make a catty remark about the whole, “take the glasses off and she’s hot” scene, but so many girls deliberately wear those heinous glasses now, it seems like that scenario could actually work.
Cutty had funnier lines in The Wire.
@Dontyouhatepants Happy Endings covered the hipster glasses so well [www.hulu.com]
/over it.
We’re losing The Chicago Code for this sh-t? God, I hate Fox.
The guys’ lines aren’t THAT bad. Next to Zooooey anyone will look bad, especially characters whose names in movie credits would be “guys who bring girl into their apartment to hook up with her model friends.” LAY OFF.
-horrendous sucker for enormous blue eyes and also person who would forgive Zooooey for anything after that Drunk History Funny or Die thing where she was Mary Todd Lincoln.
@Mel – love that show, much better setting for Casey Wilson than SNL.
/iiiiiii’m deffffflllleecccting bulllllllllets
NBC ruined Whitney Cummings. FOX did not ruin Zooey.
Those are the same glasses Sasha Grey wears. They may even be the exact same glasses.
@DG You posted that Terry Gross comment just about an hour ago and I’ve already quoted it to three people. Thanks for the biggest laugh!!!
Suggesting new name:
3 Fags and a Hipster
White people love shows about apartments in New York.
I believe that Blake Griffin is the offspring of a black father and redhead mother.
Blake Griffin and Derek Jeter are the offspring of black fathers and redheaded mothers, but it’s a trick. For every million dollar athlete, there are 500 Sloth from the Goonies.
No Lafawnduh? ND cartoon = racist!
I like Zooey, but I can’t get over the fact that she married that hipster douche from that hipster indie band that hipster douches now don’t like.
Emily, on the other hand, is married to Rickety Cricket.
/Emily wins, truth bombed.
I’m with you Matt – enjoyable, and she is ridiculously cute. And funny.
Look, I hate Zooey Deschanel and her mumbly ass movies but I actually like this trailer, and think she is pretty funny it. And I went in wanting to despise it.
As long as she doesn’t sing the theme, I’m good.
I might catch the Zooey show in order to satisfy my Deschanel fetish. The two cartoons get one curiosity viewing with which to rope me in. And they’ve GOT to be better than American Dad/The Cleveland show. Though neither will be as good as Bob’s Burgers.
@ thecursor, wouldn’t Sasha Grey’s glasses have mini windscreen wipers on them?