Thanks. I saw the cave from the courtroom scenes but completely missed the connection.
30 Rock is one of my all time favorites shows, and though Kimmy Schmidt is no 30 Rock, much of the humor is definitely familiar in a good way. Also the music was done by the same guy (Tina Fey’s husband), so that also feels very familiar, which I’m not sure is good or bad. At first I felt the show was a little too saccharine sweet at points with Kimmy’s boundless enthusiasm and optimism, but the show grew on me and now I find Kimmy kinda adorable.
My main concern is that the show will get too wacky/gimmicky as the season finale sort of indicated it might…
This is me, too. It hit all of my comedic sweet spots (add Gary or Wayne to any name and it becomes a serial killer name. Adding both? Over the top and hilarious.) and Kimmy was endearing, rather than annoying, and that would have been an easy line to barrel right over.
The theme song is genius and it’s been on a constant loop in my head for days.
Dammit!
So I finished it. I thought the last two episodes had a big dip in quality. I guess I like the NYC humor a bit better than “Oh look, rubes!”. But I’m guessing they won’t do much (if anything) in Durnsville anymore.
Yeah…I still liked it, but the last two eps weren’t as laugh-a-minute as the rest of the season. One thing I’ve noticed is that the show suffers for the absence of Carol Kane when she’s not in an episode. Although I think an entire series could be built on Lillian and Jacqueline roadtripping together…
ETA: The stepfather just…irritates me. He’s literally the most cartoonish character on the show and he just grates. I think he’s the one step-over-the-line concerning how far Fey can push the winky-blinky camp, although her Marsha Clark prosecutor is toeing it.
I wouldn’t kick her out of the shower.
I did really appreciate the scene in the courthouse where the guy who “sings” the theme song is telling Titus about how his fame will wane and how much it sucks. His whole character is a direct rip on Charles Ramsey, the guy who claims to have “found” the girls in Cleveland.Here’s an interesting in-depth article about the guy.
My wife and I watched the entire season yesterday. I also thought the last few episodes weren’t nearly as good as the ones set entirely in New York. It all degenerated into “Everyone but Kimmy is an idiot!” Not that it’s not essentially the same dynamic in NYC, but it was much too on the nose in Durnsville.
Yep, that’s it entirely. The stepfather is just such a stereotype that it is borderline (if even that) offensive. It becomes way too much of a everyone outside NY is a moron type of view (while NYC has its morons in UKS, there are plenty of, at least, moderately intelligent folk), which isn’t exactly a good way to grow your viewership.
I’m not sure any of the wacky supporting characters could sustain a series, but Kane got one of my favorite lines thus far:
“My floors are all warped! My cats are piling up in the corner!”
It’s as if Tina Fey just watched “O Brother Where Art Thou?” and said “We’ve got to have Delmar O’Donnell in this show!”
To be fair, he did a lot of heroin.
My favorite thing about it are the inside jokes, much like in 30 Rock, that they don’t bother to explain:
Example in the most recent episode I watched: when Titus, Lillian and Xanthippe approach Xanthippe’s stuck-up friends, when you first hear them one of the girls says “And he stepped on the ball” in a snooty accent and the group laughs. This is a reference to a scene in Trading Places when a disgraced Louis approaches his ex and friends at the Country Club.
Which is actually an homage to the Rosalind Russell film “Auntie Mame”, in which the snooty rich fiancee of Mame’s nephew Patrick tells a long, pointless story about a ping-pong tournament at “the club” with her friend Bunny, which includes the line “And I STEPPED on the BALL!” Ghastly! Just ghastly!
Oh, and I have to point out Xan’s full name: Xanthippe Lannister Voorhees, as proclaimed by her (not-step-)mother (played by Christine Ebersole).
Cool!
One that I liked was when Xanthippe surprised Kimmy from behind and Kimmy exclaimed “Gelula!” which is the last name of the actress playing Xanthippe.
Kimmy trying to spell “Xanthippe” cracked me up.
“Z?”
“No.”
“E?”
“Wrong.”
“A?”
“Stop.”
I’m not reading this thread since I see there are spoilers but I started watching it last night and busted through three episodes without even trying. I loved it. Kimmy is adorable! I plan to watch all of it.