Ned and Stacey was one of my favourite sitcoms of the 1990s. Really stupidly enjoyable stuff about misanthropy with heart, and a total guilty pleasure. Imagine my surprise last night as I watch a rerun on cable: written and produced by CHARLIE KAUFMAN!
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haha. that’s great.
i had a strange and inexplicable crush on the actor who played Ned (Thomas Haden Church). Such fantastic comic delivery and timing. It was all about the vocal inflections…
After watching him in Sideways recently I’m keen to see N&S again, since I have only the vaguest memory of it.
It was a stunning show, with more than a few Charlie Kaufman turns in several episodes. Especially when Ned flashes back to his former self, a motor rebel, and walks into a diner where an old man is enjoying a coffee.
“You’re going to need some new wind-screen wipers, dude, because these ones are WASTED!” (slam)
followed by..
“You wanna go, civil war dude?”
..but nothing beat the moment of Ned having an existential crises as he developed adverts. Try watching “How To Get Ahead In Advertising” alongside Ned and Stacey to get a real overlapping of distrusts for image capitalism while a reverence for the people involved. Feel the burn, Marxism!
There was also the John Larroquette Show, an intensely funny experience with a running joke about Spinoza.
Although the new Andy Richter Saves the Universe isn’t doing too badly in my books.