# Fans of "Happy Endings" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 23, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670 "2012-10-23T22:01:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/1 "2012-10-23T22:01:18Z")
_Happy Endings_ returns tonight - if anyone is still watching. So does _Don’t Trust The B_\* ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/2 "2012-10-23T23:22:20Z")
OK, so this thread is totally not what I was thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/3 "2012-10-23T23:46:36Z")
It returns tonight? I swear I watched it already. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/4 "2012-10-23T23:46:58Z")
I’m a fan, and I have a friend doing a guest spot in _Don’t Trust the B…_ so I will be watching both. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/5 "2012-10-24T00:36:39Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > It returns tonight? I swear I watched it already. … It may have been back already and I didn’t know. I will amend my announcement thusly: Fans of _Happy Endings_ this is the first week that I noticed that the show has returned… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/6 "2012-10-24T00:41:11Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > OK, so this thread is totally not what I was thinking. This. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/7 "2012-10-24T00:50:41Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > OK, so this thread is totally not what I was thinking. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > This. I know, right? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/8 "2012-10-24T00:50:51Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > OK, so this thread is totally not what I was thinking. Damn you, **silenus**. If it wasn’t for your dislike for sushi I’d think we were the same person. Even though we’ve been photographed together. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/9 "2012-10-24T01:24:26Z")
Hey, I love sushi. Properly cooked, of course. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/10 "2012-10-24T04:45:58Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > It returns tonight? I swear I watched it already. I watched the season premiere last Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/11 "2012-10-24T17:28:26Z")
I like Happy Endings a lot, next best thing to Seinfeld. Unfortunately my Tivo was being a bitch and I didn’t see it all. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/12 "2012-10-24T18:02:12Z")
It aired in Canada and posted online promptly. It’s airing in the US tonight. Either way, I love the show. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/13 "2012-10-24T18:16:14Z")
I haven’t seen the show. What’s it about, a massage parlor? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/14 "2012-10-24T18:27:26Z")
It’s basically Friends but in Chicago. (Literally. 6 friends split evenly between men and women.) There’s been a very rough overarching plot regarding the relationship of two of the characters\* but mostly it’s goofy sitcom stuff. Lots of zingers and oneliners and pop culture references. \*Dave and Alex(andra) were getting married in the very first episode but she ran off with a rollerblader in the middle of the service and broke his heart. The writers are uneven at handling it and in the first season some shows got moved so if you watch them by airdate, you have about 5 episodes immediately after the wedding where everyone is all cool and fine and Dave and Alex have no tension and then 2 episodes that are all dramatic with people mooning about “Can we still be friends with Dave _and_ Alex?” “Is our group ruined forever?” and so on. I’m worried because they’re back together now? And moving in together? Alex is dumb so I don’t blame her, but Dave should know better. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/15 "2012-10-24T22:16:25Z")
But don’t think the show is about drama and hookups. It’s about a group of friends who stick together and do and say wacky stuff. Like one episode Penny doesn’t want to have coffee with an annoying friend so she keeps telling more and more elaborate lies until she winds up involving her friends in the lie and they wind up throwing this elaborate fake baby shower. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/16 "2012-10-24T22:26:25Z")
I liked it for a while, but it keeps getting wackier and wackier, and now it feels like a ridiculous parody of itself. That doesn’t usually happen in the second season. I will say, it still has some funny moments. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/17 "2012-10-24T23:11:34Z")
It is a bit too wacky, sort of like later seasons of Seinfeld. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/18 "2012-10-25T05:08:37Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > I liked it for a while, but it keeps getting wackier and wackier, and now it feels like a ridiculous parody of itself. That doesn’t usually happen in the second season. > > I will say, it still has some funny moments. This is the third season. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/19 "2012-10-25T13:33:31Z")
I think they’re referencing the wackiness of the 2nd season. The 3rd season had its fair share of wackiness as well. I will admit to the wacky, but it isn’t as offputting to me as when other shows reach for the wacky for whatever reason. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/20 "2012-10-25T13:51:50Z")
Every week there is at least one character that I can’t stand but there is also always a storyline so funny I’m willing to forgive. I mostly hate Max. It’s cool that the gay character doesn’t fit the stereotype, but they do that by making him annoying rather than the usual perfect gay neighbor. Annoying characters get annoying. I love the crazy relationship with Jane and Brad. They are so perfectly yuppie for each other, even their names. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670.md?page=2)