Jim Rash (Dean Pelton from Community and co-writer of The Descendants) joins Cole and Vanessa for their first podcast of 2012! They chat about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, shortstop-playing chimpanzees, controlling the world’s bees, Sky High, the Golden Globes, Nicholas Sparks flicks, The Enabler, practical jokester George Clooney, Cybill, terrible auditions, saving Community, Fincher family members, twisted Barbershop Quartets, Guess Who?, and Jim’s hilariously stressful day on Spielberg’s Minority Report.
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I’m going to have to say Firefly
I don’t remember which of these came first, but these 3 shows I was pissed when they canceled.
Get Smart (90s version) – Fox
Mantis – Fox
Promised Land – CBS
Pushing daisies. That was a great show. Damn i didnt know bored to death got cancelled. My favorite joke on this was saying that two princes is about a womans right to choose.
Freaks and Geeks. Not only was it the show that hurt the most to lost, but it was the first time I was ever aware of such a good show being pulled so quickly.
Just to be a little bit of a troll here, but Teenage Wasteland is not a song by The Who – the song is called Baba O’Reilly.
I win
The Lone Gunmen on Fox. Because I think I was the only one watching it.
“The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.” I was just old enough (12) to really finally “get” TV shows, rather than just watch them, and that show had everything for me. Plus, I think that it was one of those shows (mixing Western and futuristic themes) that made things like “Firefly” possible later on.
My second choice would probably be “Dinosaurs” (make of that what you will).
The Pretender, NBC. Remember Saturday Night dramas? Haha. :/
My So-Called Life. Damn you, ABC.
I’m going to go with Glory Days. It was on the CW (back when it was the WB). It had Eddie Cahill, Poppy Montgomery, a really badass opening, and a creepy mystery. It felt very Stephen King-esque, and definitely freaked me out more than once. However it only lasted about 9 episodes. I was a very sad 15 year old.
Wishbone.
He was a dog that taught me about literature. And got into scrapes! But allllwaaays got out.
WISHBONE, GUYS.
For me, it’s Father Ted, which ended when the lead actor passed away suddenly. It made that final season all the more sad. But still hilarious, of course.
Startrek TNG. It was something I watched with my mom and then she died in season 5. When it ended it was just another thing she and I had that was gone. But on the flipside, when I went to see the finale playing on the jumbotron in Toronto’s Skydome, I did wind up kissing the woman who became the woman who became the mother of my kids for the first time.
not nessarily the news
they did a spoof on the typical medication commercials, that kinda went like this:
Do you suffer from sever headaches?
Do you have back aches at the end fo the day?
Do you feel nausaus when driving?
Have you experienced pain in your joints?
THEN GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!!!!!
I could say Firefly, but technically that was retroactive upset-ness since I didn’t watch the show until a few months before Serenity came out.
The first show I remember being really bummed about being cancelled too soon was the USA show The 4400 which was axed in large part because of the writer’s strike and ended on a GIANT cliffhanger. Not that I’m still bitter or anything.
Oddly enough, I didn’t really get upset about a show going off the air until “Drive” — cancelling it 10 days after the first episode aired seemed personally insulting.
While the most correct answer in my case would probably be one of any number of cartoons I can’t even remember any more, I’m going to say Get A Life.
Hey! It’s Fenton! Fez’s arch nemesis.
WKRP being cancelled as a young dude really bummed me out…. I had a huge crush on Bailey, and loved that Les had tape for his walls on his office
I will forever remember (and re-enact) my favorite Jim Rash line ever, from an episode of Reno 911…
*puts hand on chest in an exasperated, fay motion*
I said, “My god…I’m makin’ love in juice!”
Lots of shows have been cancelled and you feel like, “Oh. I really liked Enterprise and now I’m truly bummed.” But cliché or not, the WAY to early loss of Firefly was just wrong and soul crushing.
This will make me seem old–’cause I am–but I remember watching this really cool show back in the early 80s called “Square Pegs.” I was too young to get most of it, but I loved the look and fell of the show. Like “Community” I think it was too cool for its own good, and was cancelled after something like two seasons. I was really disappointed by that. Not glee-club-shut-down-by-ASCAP disappointed, but pretty bummed out anyway.
Firefly nuff said
The first cancelled TV show I can remember being (mildly) upset over was Fox’s “The Good Guys”. It was such a fun, well written, quirky show, and Bradley Whitford was hilarious. It should have been given more time to grow an audience.
Now and Again on CBS
I miss that show! It ended on a cliffhanger and I will never know what happened. Dangit!
well the honest answer is firefly but so as not to repeat I’d have to say… Mr. Show
Oh, also, a couple other cancelled shows I loved
Dresden Files on SciFi back when it was SciFi
Party Down on Starz
Gravity on Starz
These are ones I was really saddened about when I heard they were cancelled.
For me it was The Invisible Man on Sci-Fi, it was amazing and they cancelled it for no good reason.
I’m gonna say something cliche but, FIREFLY!!!!
OH FUCK. Bored to Death was cancelled? I guess it would make sense if Community was the next to go, while Ashton makes a million per every 21 minutes to make gay jokes about Jon Cryer. What a fucked up country I live in.
I may have misunderstood the question. That was the first one that came to mind because it was so recent, not the first one that I was upset about the cancellation. The furthest back I can remember being upset at the untimely end of a show was Arrested Development. Trite, I know, but the truth.
Bored to Death. The news of HBO cancelling it hit me hard.