Happy Endings (ABC, 9 p.m.) — The cancellation of Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 was doubled edged. Yes, we lose Dreama Walker, but we gain an extra half hour of Eliza Coupe. Get ‘em while you can. There’s only 10 episodes left until what will probably be the series finale.
Raising Hope (Fox, 8 p.m.) — It’s a double shot of Raising Hope tonight, too, and the first episode I think will be the wedding of Jimmy and Sabrina, and the documentary crew from Modern Family are hired to take it. Hey! If you can’t beat them with Nielsen families, at least you can incorporate the sitcom into your own show. But no, the second episode does not feature the camera crew from The Office, sadly.
Justified (FX, 10 p.m.) — In case you haven’t kept up to speed on the background for this season’s mystery, check out the Wiki for Andrew C. Thornton II, the head of a drug-smuggling ring that inspired the Drew Thompson plotline. It is straight-up fascinating.
New Girl (Fox, 9 p.m.) — Tonight’s episode sees the return of the drinking game, True American. I wanna play True American while simultaneously playing Chardee Macdennis, and I’d be so drunk I wouldn’t know that none of the rules to either game make any goddamn sense.
Cougar Town (TBS, 10 p.m.) — Tom gets a girlfriend. More importantly, Tom gets his own plotline. Fun Fact: If Tom and Ted from Scrubs ever met in sitcom life, it would tear a hole in the space-time continuum.
Joe Schmo (Spike, 10 p.m.) — Has anyone caught this show? It originally ran in 2003-2004, and it’s about a guy who has been cast in a reality show, only there’s no reality show: Everyone else involved are actors. Spike TV brought it back starting a couple of weeks ago. I’m hearing good things, and it comes from Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, the guys behind the spectacular Zombieland. I’m curious as hell.
LATE NIGHT LISTINGS: Letterman has Stallone and Al Gore; Whitney Cummings is on Leno (can that much awful exist in one hour?); there’s a couple of Kardashians on Jimmy Kimmel; Ferguson has Simon Helberg; Lucy Liu will be on Fallon; Melissa McCarthy is on Jon Stewart; and Dax Shepard is on Conan.
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Oh fuck, I had no idea they were rerunning Joe Schmo. I watched it when it was originally on and it was pretty fucking amazing. To this day the poor guy at the heart of the show is the only reality show contestant I’ve ever felt an ounce of sympathy for.
Well, two reality show contestants, add Amy Schumer in Reality Bites Back to that list.
Does the Amy Schumer exemption carry to her time on Last Comic Standing?
I have seen all 4 episodes of this season of Schmo.
First I have two disclaimers: 1)I’m a longtime listener of KROQ in LA, from which ralph Garman, the “host” of the fake reality show hails (He’s also parter of Kevin Smith on the Hollywood Babble-on podcast), so my opinion may be stilted. 2)I don’t like practical jokes if they seem especially cruel, and that’s the reason I never watched season 1 or 2… it seemed like screwing with someone for weeks on end was kind of mean.
With that said, the guy the ‘sucker’ for this show is a very likeable guy, and they don’t do anything mean to him (sorry, some of you). But some of the things on there kill me. The spirit animals are ridiculous enough to be something that would actually happen in a reality show; Lorenzo Lamas as himself is comedy gold; The elimination ceremony is great just for the catch phrase “Lady Justice, May I come inside you?”
Flipside: Some of the interpersonal relationship stuff they try inside the house doesn’t quite entertain me. Namely, a whole storyline involving a faux love triangle.
I’m going to keep watching unless I run out of slots to record on my DVR (On Tuesday night it can be pretty close).
When Alison Brie is on Letterman tomorrow I hope you’ll be asking if that much awesome can exist in one hour.
“Fun Fact: If Tom and Ted from Scrubs ever met in sitcom life, it would tear a hole in the space-time continuum.”
Didn’t they? Ted was on for a couple of episodes first in Hawaii and then living in the Cobb house. I can’t remember if Tom ever came over. He would have been part of the people Ted confuses for Scrubs characters since Tom played Dr. Zeltzer
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BEat me to it. Well played.
Ted and Dr. Zeltzer also would have had an opportunity to meet in the hall at the end of Scrubs’ season 8 finale. Though only in JD’s head.
Yeah yeah, not the same name, but I’m convinced Tom is Dr. Zeltzer under an assumed name. He was in to some kind of crazy.
Watching “New Girl” has become an almost unbearable chore.
It seems to be desperate in its attempts to have “memes” and “gifs” made out of its hackneyed and contrived “plot” lines…..
…but I do like CeCe….
FYI- The cast of Happy Endings will be live tweeting tonite. Gotta fit that marriage proposal to Casey Wilson in under 147 characters
Twitter gives you 140, not 147. And putting @caseyrosewilson counts against your number, so you actually only have 124 total.
Eeeeeeexcellent.
Joe Schmo has been hilarious so far, a must see. Check out the first four episodes On Demand.
I watched it in 2003, and it was better than 90% of the stuff that’s on now. Also, it has Kristen Wig, so there’s that.
Cougar Town already ripped that hole open as was pointed out by Nussy. Penny can!
Ah, I remember the Joe Schmo show! It featured a young David Hornsby and Kristin Wiig.
I remember the first Joe Schmo and thinking how awkward the finale was going to be, but they tried playing it up as “This was all FOR you!”, not “Haha, dummy!”, and the guy kind of bought into it. Then they did like a reunion show after he had time to think about all of it, and it was just kind of sad. There was one guy he couldn’t even talk to, since he felt like they were friends, but it was just an actor.
Exactly, the finale was one of the most painfully awkward hours of TV ever. I don’t think the dupe ever really bought into the conceit that they were doing these things for him rather than to him. Most of the other “contestants” didn’t buy it either, some of them genuinely liked the guy and felt terrible about what they had done. I never saw the reunion show but I would pay good money for a copy of it.
I don’t think (or at least I hope) this new Joe Schmo’s reveal will be too awkward. This guy is all about “winning” and not getting too emotionally caught up with the others. Plus they have the Super Troopers cop as an adversary, so it sounds like this version will be lighter… especially because the dude is getting cash thrown at him for us to see his reaction to the crazy girl wondering if the recently outed black guy is really gay.
Jake Montrose is the greatest “bounty hunter” of all time. His jedi pony tail is the best.
Joe Schmo show is hilarious.
I’m glad that uproxx caught unto Joe Schmo… It’s amazing… although sadly season 2 was way better than this season
Joe Schmo is the best. If for no other reason than Lorenzo Lamas’ European Casual Pouch
I live 30 minutes from Hayesville. I had no idea I was so closely connected to Justified, other than being a hick. BEST DAY EVER.