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[cblj_backup]

Oh man, I just realised I'm living in a high-brow sitcom.

I have the wacky friends, the weird job full of slightly off-kilter people*, the glamorous crush, the crazy secret second job, the strange family, the improbably large apartment for the iconic urban area I live in, the built-in narrative device, and every day on my way to work I walk past a twenty-six-foot-tall homage to the upskirt panty shot. I'm currently arguing on the internet with someone about the cupcake industry.

In honour of my double life, I'm calling it Sam Squared.

And before you guys say you'd watch it, guess what: you're in it.

* When we got to the luncheon on Friday, each eight-person table had a plate of dessert nibbles as the centrepiece, clearly meant to be eaten after the meal. I looked around as the soup was being brought out and discovered our table was the only table that had done the sensible thing and eaten the dessert nibbles immediately.

Comments

[caffienekitty]

Whatever you do, you must resist the urge to throw your hat up underneath Marilyn's skirt while twirling. If they don't have that for the opening credits montage, they can't suck you into the sitcom dimension.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

OH GOD, I forgot about the Supernatural episode where they got sucked into the TV...

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

LOL. So are we spin-offs with crossover eps, or just recurring characters? That is the question.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, who do I know that can write you a theme song?

[florahart]

I guess this is a start toward making up for Jersey Shore...?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I'm so cool, I said I'd watch it before you told me not to. ;)

Perhaps we are the Studio Audience/Greek Chorus?

[darksideofstorm.livejournal.com]

Geek Chorus, certainly.

[jonaht.livejournal.com]

The theme song for New Girl popped into my head. rephrased:
(Sam) Hey Boy…
(Sam) What´cha doin´?
(Sam) Hey Boy…
(Sam) Where you going?
(Sam) Who´s that boy?
(Background vocals) Who´s that boy?
(Sam) Who´s that boy?
(Background vocals) Who´s that boy?
(Sam) It´s Sam!

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Nah, Chicago. It's got to be blues or jazz, and tied into to R's appearance in the credits so it looks like he's the one playing it.

[kittydesade.livejournal.com]

brb, absconding my songwriting partner to put chords to this so I can put a riff to it.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

And ha! One of my teachers always told us to eat dessert first, there might be a nuclear war. And don't you feel sorry for all those women on the Titanic who refused dessert because they had their corsets laced too tight....

[stephani673.livejournal.com]

Can we see you and Awkward Co-worker riding a tandem bike in the opening credits?

[dreamwaffles.livejournal.com]

I feel like we could just see the aftermath.

"Found: tandem bike, barely used. Dented."

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

A table full of Ernestine Ulmer devotees is a GOOD table!

[silmerin.livejournal.com]

Your life is one of the most wonderful things ever to be documented on the Internet.

(yeah so I just watched up for the first time, I'm not going to be making muted statements for a few hours, possibly a few days, BUT THIS IS ACTUALLY TRUE)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'm glad you enjoy it :D

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Normally I'm against things written by committee, but I gotta say the Cafe is punching its weight so far on this one. :D

[ak-alterego.livejournal.com]

one of my favorite professors from school was an adjunct and in addition to teaching us about the subject, he also filled our brains with really good and practical information. my favorite tidbit is "when you're at a conference meal or a speaker's event where they have dessert at the table, eat yours first since inevitably there will be someone who is on a diet, doesn't like that kind or doesn't want theirs and then you can have two desserts."

[lebannen.livejournal.com]

I was recently at a wedding with a seating plan and three course dinner. Someone at my table had cancelled at the last minute, so no-one had told the caterers. We didn't tell them either, so that instead of getting the place setting removed, we ate his entire meal. It was delicious.

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

My take on the above theme-song discussion: Whatever lyrics Sam Squared got, it'd have to be to harmonica music. I mean, seriously. Also, could we have a White Collar crossover episode, or at least Warehouse Thirteen? I'd watch that, which'd be suitably recursive, hmm? :D

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! White Collar crossover FTW. I'll remember you suggested this if ever I am in New York City, and keep an eye out for forbidding-looking feds with well-dressed partners...

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

We're honored to be your studio audience/wacky secret job abettors/geek chorus. Here's to many happy returns in syndication!

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

I have often suspected that you are really living in the Truman Show.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

It's missing a narrative element, I think. You don't have an arch-rival to my knowledge. Not that I watch a lot of sitcoms, but I'm fairly certain you require someone to be your foil for witty but slightly barbed banter...

You know what would be very meta.... if you wrote a sitcom based on your life and successfully pitched it to some company.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I did have a nemesis in undergrad, but it's true I haven't had one since....

[rednwhiterose.livejournal.com]

After reading this I started singing the theme to Cheers, because for some reason that seemed like an appropriate theme song to the show that is your life.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

When R was selling office furniture, we wrote a parody of the Cheers theme, known as "Chairs". :D

[eskanto]

ah, the marilyn. I saw her for the first time a few months ago. people were posing in front of her taking pix.
that doesn't seem close to where I thought you lived. did you move? I must be really behind.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It's not where I live :) But it is near where I work, and I walk past it on the way from the train.

[freckles42.livejournal.com]

I think you need to carry a laugh-track with you. Maybe have a couple of different ones keyed up - groaning laughter for any unfortunate incidents (slip and falls, for example), cheering and whistles when Coworker Crush shows up in scene, general applause, general laughter, and "Aww" for any potentially sweet moments.

Then press play at the appropriate moments and see how your day goes!

This plan works especially well if you have it applaud after work presentations or an evening in with a significant other. *sly wink*

[(Anonymous)]

But wait- if you're the show, who's writing the fanfiction?

[(Anonymous)]

Someone in the Cafe, probably. Some of us are right filthy minded.
(and if we the cafe are also *in* the sitcom, then it's all gone a bit meta. Syndoche shaped.)