Issue No. 24 | Wanderlust
13 March 2010 12:19am PST
13 March 2010 12:19am PST
A Very Special Episode
TV Tuesdays at The Cinefamily
Los Angeles, CA
02/23/10
It’s an all-too-familiar conceit: the commercial fades up, a somber piano line is struck, and in a low, lugubrious rumble the announcer says “On a very special episode of…” Many a TV sitcom has been hazily defined in our memories by its “very special episodes”, the installments in which the monotony of its lameness is broken by a confusing left turn into cheap, sappy dramatics: one of the ensemble cast gains a drug addiction, has a brush with death, experiences violence that hits close to home, and so on.
Most often, these episodes have only the power to make one wretch with their saccharine lip service to the “cause of the week” — but then there are those rare occasions when, due to the intervention of the TV gods, things go off-the-cliff bat-shit crazy!
Come see half a dozen of the finest examples of what happens when a “very special episode” gets waaaaaaaay too special, with death scenes, abrupt four-minute stretches played uncomfortably straight (with no laugh track), cast members getting backhanded across the room by drunken guest stars, prostitution, Fellini-esque surreal dream sequences and more! Tickets are 12 bucks each at the Cinefamily.
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For more info, go to: www.cinefamily.org
via EM Staff, 6 February 2010 9:01am | 
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