Fox Picks Up Rob McElhenney Comedy Pilot

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• yeah Prep!

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday January 9, 2012 @ 8:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• No FOX! This is a flop, it will be like ” I hate my teenage daughter “…..people find teenage kids to be annoying and obnoxious, it has no appeal to single people, mature sophisticated crowd will not waste their time on watching skanky teenage girls acting like idiots, the parents who have them can’t stand their kids, it’s the last thing they want is to turn the tv on and see more of what they can’t stand and cause stress in their lives and don’t behave!
  The same for this show, the topic is a ” broke, occupy looking type young guy ” in this economy who is an irresponsible partier and looking for a radio host gig to talk trash that no one wants to hear…..the character is a BIG LOSER in society and no one will want to watch this show, if they want to see loser males of this type, they can walk out on the street and find them on every side walk! You will not have an audience for this show….it’s a waste of air time and money!
  Go against the grain, DO NOT follow the failing approach of Hollywood by promoting crap and dead beats and waste your money and time! Hollywood is failing in movies, tv….so you should not contribute to being a part of failing, but play to win….find your own solutions….
  Do shows that are truly artistic, genius, brilliant and inspiring for your audience to watch, do not insult your viewers….you have to set your standards higher and the bar higher for yourself!
  Go places where people are scared to go, look at Vangoh, no one understood him at the time, but now his work are all masterpieces and genius….don’t follow the herd, but find brilliant idea that are worth while producing, be different than the rest….
  Many people want to be artists, but very few are actually talented and have what it takes to deliver real art, great , brilliant work….be inspired to be the best and do your best work….forget this mediocre crap that is diner food….true genius is all about the artistic vision, and not copying of others and unlike anything you’ve ever known, and nothing ordinary about it, but extraordinary only! I hope that you will expect , but nothing but the best for yourself and your work! Look what Hollywood did to themselves for settling for shit, after a while, you’re seeing results now…..

  Comment by 777 — Monday January 9, 2012 @ 9:45pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Wow, this is the most batsh*t insane comment I’ve ever seen on Deadline. It’s at the weird, misspelled Van Gogh line where this dude goes from misguided rant to sheer lunacy.

    Living Loaded sounds pretty funny.

    Comment by holycrap — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 12:52am PST  Reply to this post

  • Van Gogh only sold one painting in his entire life, so if you’re planning on convincing television executives on making more artistic television you might want to find a different example.

    Comment by rip van winkle — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 2:01am PST  Reply to this post

• Nicely passionate and no doubt sincere. But Hollywood is a business and follows the money. The truth of the matter is that there is very little patience and vision. Everyone is trying to make last year’s hit. It would be nice if everything were extraordinarily high-caliber, but it will never happen. Relatively speaking, there is more crap on TV today than ever before because there is simply more TV, period. But there is also a lot of wonderful, well-acted and written stuff. It’s a shame not everything is but that’s life. I think in the earliest days of the medium there was a boatload of talent coming over from film to create shows like CBS Playhouse 90 – which still holds up 50 years later. Today most everybody working It’s in TV are all 20-and 30-somethings for whom “Facts Of Life” and “Good Times” are “classics” and the vapid fare that followed were high-art. There is little to inspire people without vision who were weaned on crap. So we have a plethora of truly abysmal shows. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few truly great things out there, too…they are just harder to find and many tend to get yanked off the air after three episodes if they can’t find an audience – so a lot of potentially great stuff never gets a chance to gel. As a result there is a never-ending stream of crap written mostly by overpaid youngsters who don’t know any better. But I imagine that criticism has been made by old cranks like me for decades – and always will be. The answer is the same now as then: turn off the TV – and pick up a book.

  Comment by Victor — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 5:30am PST  Reply to this post

• Uh, clearly you never have seen the 6 seasons of It’s Always Sunny, which has no less than 3 loser males (4 if you count Frank). Vangoh (sic)? Way too highbrow. Fingers crossed this works better than “Boldly.”

  Comment by Rickety Cricket — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 8:10am PST  Reply to this post

• This is another win for fans of tv in general. Congratulations Mr. M, I love your style.

  Sincerely

  Blake Leibel

  Comment by Blake Leibel — Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 2:35pm PST  Reply to this post

• 1st guy – stopped reading after first sentence, what a freak
  2nd guy – laughed
  3rd guy – wastes the time to make an educated joke abt the first guy, as if its not already obvious. Also a joke
  4th guy – very well said, I watch tv for heart, sunny has a lot of heart through laughs in my opinion
  5th guy – I think they’re using dry humor.. not sure tho.. its not funny..
  6th guy – word!

  Comment by Norml Justin — Wednesday January 25, 2012 @ 12:35am PST  Reply to this post