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Nick's Journal
2007-02-10 03:37:41 (UTC)

I admit it....I love King of Queens

i didn't know i had an addiction problem until last night.
when i ran down a boarded a bus, lungs aflare after having
jogged for two blocks to make sure that i made the bus so
that i wouldn't miss king of queens which started at 7.
that's right, physical exertion for king of queens. every
weeknight i make dinner around 7 o'clock and i always have
king of queens on. see i don't know what it is about that
show. i mean i hate just about all sitcoms, the only other
one i can watch is seinfeld (and we don't even need to go
there). so anyway, king of queens has really grown on me.
and i can't explain it. i think in part it's just so
ridiculous and of course it has jerry stiller in it, the
best comedic actor of our time.
i love the ridiculous premise. some fat delivery schlub has
an extremely hot wife (well until she let herself go after
her marriage...haha, i wonder how they broke that one to
her) has ridiculously stupid problems and idiotic dialogue.
i think that's what i like about this show the best. the
idiotically simplistic dialogue. like right now i'm
watching the show and jerry stiller's character is convinced
that the charlie brown cartoon was fashioned after him.
later on in this episode new neighbors move in which has a
dog which barks all night.
i don't know i just love it.. haha, now he's yelling at the
dog to shut up. haha, great.
i think the best one is when doug pretends to be a lawyer.
anyhow, since we're on the subject of tv i have to credit
what must be the most undderrated commercial of all time.
it's the geico commercial where the caveman is on that
rolling floor at an airport. you see him pass one billboard
and then the second one is geico's "so easy a caveman can do
it".
now even if you don't know about geico's whole running gag,
this is hilarious. and you know why? the music. the music
is incredible, it is this mellow 'sophisticated' music. the
caveman is dressed all preppy with a tennis racket. and his
reaction at the end is priceless, sort of like a, "why do i
have to deal with this"...and this one isn't bogged down by
dialogue. the other caveman ones (except for the first one)
are getting a little bit tedious.
this is the best non-verbal commercial of all time.




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