# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**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 26, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/21 "2012-10-26T14:08:24Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > This is the third season. The over-the-top ridiculousness started last year. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/22 "2012-10-26T14:14:06Z")
I like the show. It doesn’t always seem bust-a-gut funny to me, but I really like how obvious they are when they use a typical sitcom trope. “Here’s a trope. Yep, we’re going to use it.” ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/23 "2012-10-26T15:07:46Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I like the show. It doesn’t always seem bust-a-gut funny to me, but I really like how obvious they are when they use a typical sitcom trope. “Here’s a trope. Yep, we’re going to use it.” Sure. I mean, they actually figured out which _Friend_ each of them is. That’s fairly meta. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/24 "2012-10-26T16:21:13Z")
I usually have to rewind 30 seconds for most scenes, b/c the first time I’m just staring at Jane or Alex and haven’t been listening. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/25 "2012-10-26T16:47:34Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > I usually have to rewind 30 seconds for most scenes, b/c the first time I’m just staring at Jane or Alex and haven’t been listening. Going into the show I thought that Jane was the hotter of the two. But Alex has really grown on my and now I just cannot decide… ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/26 "2012-10-26T16:55:09Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Going into the show I thought that Jane was the hotter of the two. But Alex has really grown on my and now I just cannot decide… I don’t need to decide one way or another – I likes 'em both! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/27 "2012-10-26T17:02:17Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > I don’t need to decide one way or another – I likes 'em both! I have had a thing for the woman playing Jane since the Scrubs years. I don’t know why I never really “got it” with Elisha Cuthbert before, but seeing her in this - damn, she is both cute \*and \*hot. ---
**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 26, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/28 "2012-10-26T17:15:50Z")
The correct answer is Penny. Although the nude Jane scene where she put her foot on the edge of the tub was heavenly. ---
**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 26, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/29 "2012-10-26T17:45:52Z")
You’ve probably all seen this but [clips from the audition tapes for Happy Endings.](http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/af856d2e37/abcs-happy-endings-auditions) ---
**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 26, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/30 "2012-10-26T18:46:02Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > You’ve probably all seen this but [clips from the audition tapes for Happy Endings.](http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/af856d2e37/abcs-happy-endings-auditions) Fake I’m sure but still pretty funny. Should I be offended by the whiteface? ---
**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 26, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/31 "2012-10-26T18:59:32Z")
Fake? What? Never! I dunno. Should you? I find Brad to be a very interesting character because with the exception of the “Young Professionals” subplot there’s no reason the character should be one race over another. I find it exciting. ---
**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 26, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/32 "2012-10-26T19:51:49Z")
I think the voice behind the camera during those fake auditions sounds like what’s-his-name from New Girl. Jake Johnson ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/33 "2012-10-26T23:54:29Z")
I like this show in general, but the season premiere was not its best showing. > [@shiftless](#): > > 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. This is pretty much on. As the show has gone on, Brad and Jane have really become its strength, while Max and Penny fall into wacky sitcom bad friend a bit too much. The third season’s premiere is perhaps the extreme case of this: Brad and Jane had a good arc, Dave and Alex were silly in the few minutes they got, and Max was completely awful to Penny. But Max isn’t awful all the time (and his awfulness in this episode was on the extreme end for the show so far), and each character gets to hold the crazy drama ball from time to time. And it does vary by character: I think that other than leaving Dave at the altar–which was self-absorbed but not necessarily a bad call–Alex has never been the really bad friend in an episode. ---
**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 27, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/34 "2012-10-27T06:11:35Z")
No they pretty much turned her into a human golden lab. “Hi! Hi! I love you!” ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/35 "2012-10-30T16:59:33Z")
If you didn’t cry laughing at the extended pinata destruction gag, then you are an inhuman monster and I am sad for you. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670/36 "2012-10-30T17:16:34Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > each character gets to hold the crazy drama ball from time to time. draaaaamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fans-of-happy-endings/638670.md?page=1)