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Five questions: “The Disaster Show”

by Terri
Jack, Matt, Jordan, Danny

Five questions that popped into my head while re-viewing “The Disaster Show”:

1. What the heck happened to Matt, Danny and Jordan? Or, maybe more to the point, Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford, and Amanda Peet? It was just bizarre to have the three of them missing. Did the actors all have other commitments? Was there a mini-strike going on? Were they all trying to avoid Allison Janney? What?

2. Is Tom Jeter the hardest working man in show business? He seemed to be in every one of Janney’s disastrous sketches, and he still had time to exposition about the occurrence of disaster shows and help mess up his best friend’s love life.

3. What was with Lucy’s frumpy frock? She looked cute enough, I guess, but if you wanted to create a contrast between her and Simon’s scantily clad cuties, you couldn’t have done much better short of a burlap sack.

4. Does Matt have another reason for not being with Harriet besides the fact that they’re working together? It’s really not such a bad reason — Luke made an exception by trying to date and work with Harriet, and look how well that turned out.

5. Did anyone else notice West Wing references? It’s true, pretty much any Aaron Sorkin production is going to borrow from past Aaron Sorkin productions, but maybe it was the presence of Miss C.J. Cregg herself that made them pop up at me this time. Allison “making a list” reminded me of Leo on Big Block of Cheese Day, and Jack’s “I’m pretty drunk” took me back to Toby sitting in that hall in the early days of the Bartlett campaign, expecting to get fired. Did you pick up any references? Share them in the comments.

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Posted in Opinions on March 15th, 2008

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