HBO's Veep (1 Viewer)

[joshEH]

"A 'VPVP' is a 'Vice Presidential Visual Presence'."
"You can't just make up acronyms, Jonah."
"SOMEONE has to!"
"No, they don't."
I hope this show at least gets an Emmy-nod for writing.

 

[Stan]

Recorded episode 3 last night and was really looking forward to it, only to discover that HBOLT is actually dubbed in Spanish. Knew it was a Spanish version of HBO, but always thought they just ran more Spanish themed movies and other shows, didn't realize they actually overdub the voices.
Anyhow, if anyone needs to catch up like me, HBO is running the first couple of episodes again this Friday.

 

[joshEH]

"....There are no more 'Adolfs', and now there'll be no more 'Selinas'."
(Gary's gasp: "No more Selinas!?")
That was majestic. Hale is injecting some proper Buster Bluth into his character.
Also, we needed a "Headbangin' Jonah" .GIF, like, YESTERDAY.

 

[mattCR]

Her entire rant about fat people at the end was HILARIOUS.. along with the codenames for her on the internet

 

[joshEH]

More awesome gems from last night:
Jonah describing his sweaty thrash-metal concert as "[like] being operated on by a chimp with a hard-on and a hacksaw."
Amy: "You have put this entire office into a salad-spinner of fuck."
Jonah: "The only 'intel' he has is inside his PC."
That prickish Big Oil senator to Amy: "This bill is a fucking disgrace, and I'm going to see to it personally that it gets chewed up like a dead prostitute in a wood-chipper."

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

I love this fantasy where a bill with less than 60 votes would actually be allowed to come up for a vote without some senator filibustering it.

 

[joshEH]

Haha, my wife basically said the same thing ("Wait, this thing is slipping through with only 51 votes?!?").
Mammary Meyer
Grizzly Madam
Shee-rah
Meyer the Liar
The Batcave
Piss Face
Wicked Witch of the West Wing
Veep Throat
Voldemeyer
Dickless Van Dyke
Tawdry Hepburn
Blunder Woman
Selena Meh
Vaselina
Betty Poop
Vaguely Personable
Viagra Prohibitor
Visible Panties
VeepILF
Mrs. Doubtmeyer
Awesome little wink to Iannucci's Partridge work, there, with "Dickless Van Dyke."
"So, who's next? Which strategically-useful young woman will get to witness your two-hour morning skin-care regime?" Aaaaaannnd cut to Jonah grinning like an idiot. Priceless.
(Also, I just realized from the credits that an acquaintance of mine is working on this. Tempted to shoot her a Facebook message saying I love the show, but that might be too "Jonah" of me.)

 

[Hanson]

The entire rant about being called "Viagra Prohibitor" had me stifling my laughter (which is a compliment, as I watched the episode on the train).

I described the show to a friend in one sentence -- "It's what would happen if Elaine Benes became the Vice President".

 

[TravisR]

"Viagra Prohibitor"

That one had me laughing outloud too.
I've had fun with all the episodes so far but that one was head and shoulders above the rest.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

"Suck up isn't going to fix a fuck-up, Dan!"