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For your enjoyment, I give you the reason I couldn't sleep last night.
The top five reasons why I have an undying love and outright addiction to The Middleman:
1. It's so funny! I can watch an episode, and a week later still be giggling over something that was said. I can also watch it about a gabillion times and still laugh over it (actually, it's more of a falling-over-squealing-with-glee type thing). This show makes me stupid happy. Plus, a lot of it is sort of my particular brand of humor, so this show is perfect for me. Hey Javi, looking for any more writers?
2. It's intelligent. Yes, it's a comic book show, but it often pokes fun at comic book conventions, and the parody is so spot on. Case in point: in the pilot episode, MM threatens the bad guy with "Now, no monologuing or I swiss cheese you on principle." What comic book (or spy movie) villain hasn't gone on forever about how it's useless to resist him, and he will soon rule the world?
3. The cast is perfect. Natalie Morales seems like the kind of person I'd hang out with, and Matt Keeslar is made of awesome. He is so great at the slightly manic/slightly deadpan humor, and he really pulls off the goody two-shoes bit. The best part about the MM is the fact that he's just so badawesome, with his guns and sweet fighting skills, but every so often, he's a total dork. He reads comics, but they're Archie comics. He loves country, but he bops around to boyband music.
4. It makes me love being a temp. Of course, it's not like my own subatomic de-molecularizer-toting superhero is going to come and rescue me from a monster formed out of the paper shredder and then recruit me to a supersecret crime-fighting organization, but it's fun to imagine.
5. I will never look at milk the same way again. (See #1.) Plus, I've started drinking it again. I know MM would be proud.
1. It's so funny! I can watch an episode, and a week later still be giggling over something that was said. I can also watch it about a gabillion times and still laugh over it (actually, it's more of a falling-over-squealing-with-glee type thing). This show makes me stupid happy. Plus, a lot of it is sort of my particular brand of humor, so this show is perfect for me. Hey Javi, looking for any more writers?
2. It's intelligent. Yes, it's a comic book show, but it often pokes fun at comic book conventions, and the parody is so spot on. Case in point: in the pilot episode, MM threatens the bad guy with "Now, no monologuing or I swiss cheese you on principle." What comic book (or spy movie) villain hasn't gone on forever about how it's useless to resist him, and he will soon rule the world?
3. The cast is perfect. Natalie Morales seems like the kind of person I'd hang out with, and Matt Keeslar is made of awesome. He is so great at the slightly manic/slightly deadpan humor, and he really pulls off the goody two-shoes bit. The best part about the MM is the fact that he's just so badawesome, with his guns and sweet fighting skills, but every so often, he's a total dork. He reads comics, but they're Archie comics. He loves country, but he bops around to boyband music.
4. It makes me love being a temp. Of course, it's not like my own subatomic de-molecularizer-toting superhero is going to come and rescue me from a monster formed out of the paper shredder and then recruit me to a supersecret crime-fighting organization, but it's fun to imagine.
5. I will never look at milk the same way again. (See #1.) Plus, I've started drinking it again. I know MM would be proud.