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Our Long National Nightmare is Over: Network Television Vanquishes Olivia Munn

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (48)



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Today on Pajiba, we celebrate the 2nd greatest day of the year (behind Butthole Day, of course). It’s a rare day in recent network television history, but a day that should be lauded for it represents a miraculous oddity: A network television executive has seen fit to remove his head from his anus and allowed oxygen to return to his brain just long enough to reward the long-suffering fans of the majority of NBC’s Thursday night comedy line-up.

Today is a day that will live in infamy. Many months ago, we became the innocent victims of the unprovoked attacks of NBC, putting the people of our nation — and their senses of humor — in grave danger. Very many American brain cells were lost during that onslaught. But the unbounded determination of our people has survived the blows. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a date we will always remember—and they will never forget! The righteous might of the American television viewing public has risen above the aggressive and deceitful nature of Olivia Munn.

NBC has cancelled the television sitcom “Perfect Couples.”

On Thursday April 14th, “Perfect Couples” will be replaced by the “Paul Reiser” show, a long-delayed program that looks like a cross between “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Mad about You.” But that’s unimportant. What’s important is that the plug has been pulled on the 101st best television show currently airing on television. No longer will we have to suffer the foul slings and piercing arrows between “Community” and “The Office.”

Olivia Munn can’t hurt us anymore.










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Comments

Poor thing, you're just upset because when Olivia wants to get laid, it doesn't require a sound-proofed van and a FREE PUPPIES sign.

Posted by: Mr. Stitch at March 23, 2011 11:37 AM

The whole show was so completely forgettable, I wouldn't have even noticed if she was that bad in it. It was like a TV show that was being used as the subject of a different, better TV show. Like how Seinfeld's standup bits were a plot device for the sitcom.

Posted by: Wednesday at March 23, 2011 11:43 AM

That's just about the same time Olivia Wilde will be returning to "House."

Coincidence?

Hmmmm ...

Posted by: , at March 23, 2011 11:47 AM

But... Olivia has boobs that I enjoy watching. A face that I enjoy watching. And boobs that I enjoy watching.

Posted by: Anon at March 23, 2011 11:58 AM

Poor Olivia Munn. She got shitcanned from G4 because filming this sitcom meant she couldn't be in the office all day every day before the live Attack of the Show shoot and now her higher profile gig is gone. At least she has The Daily Show and her stellar writing career to fall back on, right?

Oh, who am I kidding? Here comes another series of magazine covers where it looks like someone hit her upside the head with a frying pan before they started shooting. That's the only way I can explain the vacant, almost hopeless, look in her eyes in every photo shoot.

Posted by: Robert at March 23, 2011 12:06 PM

It's a good thing she's pretty.

Posted by: ZombieNurse at March 23, 2011 12:09 PM

She ain't that pretty.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at March 23, 2011 12:14 PM

That show was absolutely terrible.

Posted by: fenchurch at March 23, 2011 12:14 PM

That show WAS absolutely terrible. It HAS to be bad if NBC cancels it! Still, it had a few likeable leads that should have been put to better use. Munn wasn't one of them, of course.

Posted by: jimbob at March 23, 2011 12:18 PM

When the pinnacle of your artistic career is taking a bite out of a hotdog that is dangling over your head, just so the viewers at home can get a twisted idea of what you might possibly look like when you're about to perform fellatio... the "vacant, almost helpless" stare during photoshoots is just about all the expression your soul can muster.

The sad thing is, Munn was the worst part of a potentially good show. I enjoyed 4/6 of the cast, and even though they were running through three different (but connected) sitcom stereotypes every episode, which would ensure Perfect Couples was going to run out of ideas by November Sweeps if it kept going, I would've gladly left the TV on after Community for that. I can't stand Paul Reiser, especially when he's incapable of doing/being anything other than "Paul Reiser".

I'm just sayin'.

Posted by: RobP at March 23, 2011 12:21 PM

Huzzah!

Only downside is that now she and her dead-eyes will have more free time to show up on The Daily Show and be terrible.

Posted by: Siege at March 23, 2011 12:23 PM

The 'Peter Principle' strikes again.

Posted by: OldSchool60 at March 23, 2011 12:23 PM

Rob P, I thought her best-known bit was the French Maid dive into the pop-up pool-sized chocolate cream pie, but I got into her run on AOTS after the hot dog bit.

Posted by: Robert at March 23, 2011 12:30 PM

Maybe they can re-tool this and get rid of the yuppie couple that dragged the show down. I still contend it was pretty funny at times but that was due to the line delivery more than the writing itself. Either way, Christine Woods needs to be put back on TV as soon as possible.

Posted by: TylerDFC at March 23, 2011 1:03 PM

...
People cared about this woman that much? I was still confusing her with the other Olivia.

Posted by: Ian at March 23, 2011 1:10 PM

Poor Jen Kirkman...I never saw the show, but was rooting for her when she left Chelsea Lately to write for this. However, the silver lining is that her bitching about this whole debacle will no doubt be great in her standup.

Posted by: bluefalseindigo at March 23, 2011 1:13 PM

You know, you guys really are a bunch of assholes sometimes. Olivia Munn seems like good people to me. You're hatred of random celebrity women (She's fairly attractive so she shouldn't try to be funny and that's why I don't find her funny! Wee, I hate her!) really irks the fuck out of me.

Posted by: No at March 23, 2011 1:21 PM

Hopefully we can at least get the AC Newman / New Pornographers song from the credits in the divorce?

Posted by: munkymack at March 23, 2011 1:25 PM

Fine. But can we pleeeeeease flip the timeslots for Community and The Office.

Posted by: An Atlantan at March 23, 2011 1:27 PM

Now if we can just get her kicked off the Daily Show all will be right with the world.

Posted by: Mebe at March 23, 2011 1:30 PM

Dear "no". It's not as if people know her personally and hate her, it's something else. My impression is that people dislike seeing her pop up in the media landscape because she's a talentless mediocrity. Granted, she's not the first nor will be the last untalented person to become a celebrity but that's no excuse to accept the media phenomenon of promoting them.

Oh, and her limitless hypocrisy about feminism doesn't sit well with people either.

Posted by: miri at March 23, 2011 2:03 PM

I don't like Olivia Munn because she's attractive and tries to be funny? Hmm... You may be on to something, No. It's that she tries so damn hard and she's not funny, but either she really, really thinks she is, or people have been way too nice to her for way too long.

Pretty much the rest of the actresses who appear in the NBC Thursday night comedies are both attractive and hilarious (including her co-stars in Perfect Couples, but minus Outsourced, simply because I've only seen enough of that show to know I don't find anyone on it to be remotely humor inducing). Sorry, but your logic is flawed. Or, well, non-existent. Try again!

Actually, don't.

Posted by: RobP at March 23, 2011 2:16 PM

I actually kinda like Olivia Munn. I didn't really think much of her until I heard her on Adam Carolla's podcast, but I found her to be charming, witty, and down to earth. So she's attractive and rich and likes to fuck and say 'fuck'? Who doesn't?

I really don't get the intense dislike towards her.

Posted by: Randominic at March 23, 2011 2:35 PM

Haven't missed her since Candace Bailey took over AOTS. Can't believe I used to slobber over this sub-standard piece of ass.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at March 23, 2011 2:37 PM

If I had a nickel for every time I've been called a sub-standard piece of ass, maybe I wouldn't be so jealous of Olivia Munn's beauty and talent.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at March 23, 2011 3:05 PM

Once when I was getting ready for a party, I checked myself out in the mirror and said loudly "I can't leave the house with this ass!"

I was alone at the time. Just me and my ass.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at March 23, 2011 3:11 PM

BarbadoSlim,

Candace Bailey... Seriously?
That idiot doesn't even understand the jokes she reads off the teleprompter. Every day poor Kevin Pereira is visibly sweating and grimacing under the strain of having to carry her giggly, bubbly, incompetent ass.
When Sara Jean Underwood is blatantly smarter than you, you're in trouble.

Wow. i'm just... wow. Candace Bailey. (so puzzled)
Come on. Were you being sarcastic? i can't get my head around that.

As for Perfect Couples, i came for the Munn, but stayed for Christine Woods. She was absolutely killing it on that show. i liked her performance in that pile of shit Flashforward... but who knew she was so funny?
Shame.

Posted by: Scott at March 23, 2011 5:01 PM

I think Olivia Munn is cute and fun. That doesn't mean I think she can act or should get her own primetime show.

My appreciation for her qualities' effect on my daddy regions has nothing to do with my awareness of her failings at anything else.

Posted by: Fredo at March 23, 2011 5:56 PM

"Wow. i'm just... wow. Candace Bailey. (so puzzled)
Come on. Were you being sarcastic? i can't get my head around that."

Not even a little bit sarcastic. Candace can host Jupiter sized circles around all G4 bimbos except for Allison Haislip and Jessica Chobot (who should have gotten the gig)

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at March 23, 2011 6:20 PM

For sure, the best bad sit-com on currently is "Love That Girl" on TV-One. Jaw-droppingly bad. Makes one long for the return of Flava Flav in "Under One Roof."

Posted by: WellHelloDere at March 23, 2011 7:42 PM

Oh, you cheer now. But wait until the new Paul Reiser show comes on to take its place. You will rue the day you called for Munn's head.

I just think this whole anti-Munn movement is retarded.

Her recent guest spots on the Today Show were pretty cool. I've heard her do radio interviews and she seemed likable. This Couple's show was shit, but I didn't see where it was her fault.

Most of the hate seems to come from her stint on the Daily Show. In the few times I watched that show I thought she was no worse than the others.

Posted by: L.O.V.E. at March 23, 2011 9:08 PM

BarbadoSlim,

Haislip wasn't offered the job because Kevin couldn't work with her and Bailey is horrible. I can't wait to see their Q1 ratings next month. If they suck they will be either doing another host search or asking Munn to come back.

Posted by: tvcon at March 23, 2011 9:15 PM

Good. Now we just have to get her off the Daily Show. Granted, she's not on it that much but...still...just the thought of ol' Dead Eyes popping up on my screen scares the crap out of me.

Posted by: Ellie at March 23, 2011 9:44 PM


Poor thing, you're just upset because when Olivia wants to get laid, it doesn't require a sound-proofed van and a FREE PUPPIES sign.



I'd rather get in a van with Free Puppies than spend any amount of time with the Munn monster.

Posted by: John G. at March 23, 2011 9:58 PM

Haislip wasn't offered the job because Kevin couldn't work with her and Bailey is horrible. I can't wait to see their Q1 ratings next month. If they suck they will be either doing another host search or asking Munn to come back.

Posted by: tvcon at March 23, 2011 9:15 PM


Why couldn't Kevin work with Allison Haislip? I liked her best of all because she spoke like a real person, and didn't have the condescending annoyance factor of the ones like Morgan Webb. What was the problem?

Posted by: Jana Jerusalem at March 23, 2011 10:11 PM

If she gets more air time on The Daily Show I'm going to be really pissed. I'd rather just ignore the existence of Perfect Couples.

Posted by: Uda at March 23, 2011 11:01 PM

Honestly, ever since the Daily Show kerfuffle and Munn hate-a-thon, I've been able to waste a lot of thoughts about what it is specifically about her that bugs.

I think what it comes down to is that she panders. First she pandered to nerds on G4 by looking pretty while talking minimally about technology, and then wearing a French maid outfit and jumping into whipped cream. When she was done pandering to nerds, she pandered to dudebros. She did the racy magazine covers. She said "fuck" in interviews, which by the by, seriously, when was the last time an unattractive girl was called "charming and witty" for swearing on air? No, Munn gets away with it because she's pretty. Anyone less attractive would be called trashy.

Then, when she inevitably got haters, because what visible person in Hollywood doesn't have haters, she acted like a nasty brat about it. She was quoted as saying:

"I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere. I think that anyone who’s out there trying to bring down why any woman would get anywhere, or why we’re different, just needs to f**king turn her f**king computer off, take the sandwich out of her mouth and go for a goddamn f**king walk. You know what? Just walk it off, bitch. Just walk it off, bitch.”

Shorter Olivia Munn: you, woman who doesn't like me, are fat and lazy and jealous.

In my mind, she's a female chauvinist pig, so I don't have any fond feelings for her or her delusions that she's made it this far because of her talent.

Posted by: Amanda6 at March 23, 2011 11:45 PM

I'd rather get in a van with Free Puppies than spend any amount of time with the Munn monster.

Posted by: John G. at March 23, 2011 9:58 PM

You read it here first folks, John G's psychotic hatred of Olivia Munn is so soul-rendingly deep, he'd rather rape a child than sleep with her. Wow. I hope you never breed.

Posted by: Mr. Stitch at March 24, 2011 12:07 AM

I read that he would rather take his chances getting into another man's van "full of puppies" than be in the same room as Munn.

Posted by: Uda at March 24, 2011 2:39 AM

I like puppies. The make of the van might be an issue, though.

Posted by: cinekat at March 24, 2011 8:47 AM

Fanboys are weird. You're really obsessed with Olivia Munn enough to call two men pedophiles for disliking her? Creepy.

I've only seen her a few times and she doesn't strike me as funny but I have no ill will towards her. Even if she did say all that BS about the women who say mean things about her I think it makes her seem childish and defensive more than anything else. I don't consider that hate-worthy. Perfect Couples seemed absolutely awful every time I caught a few minutes of it so I doubt many will miss it.

Posted by: becks at March 24, 2011 8:54 AM

Hey! Leave Morgan Webb out of this hot mess! She started out being a real, live nerd girl on a channel that was all about video games and technology, and as she (or the network) began taking more care about her appearance, G4 started to blow up. She's the real deal, and you shall not besmirch her good name.

I do wish Haislip had gotten the job, though. Haislip and Chris Hardwicke are much better hosts than any of the other ladies and Kevin Pereira. But Candace Bailey is a definite improvement. Oh! And they finally had a woman of color on the other day, doing the Feed! I was too shocked to see her (and a little turned on by her uneven 'fro) that I didn't catch her name; hope she comes back.

And, yes, this post really should be about how poor Christine Woods can't catch a break.

Posted by: RobP at March 24, 2011 12:10 PM

Perfect Couples got canned, and Outsourced is still on the air? Perfect Couples was by NO means amazing - BUT OUTSOURCED?

I, too, don't understand the EXTREME Munn hatred that I see all over the blogs. She's easy enough to ignore, and when I do see her, I find her pretty innocuous.

Also - Candace Bailey is darling, as is Kevin Pereira.

Posted by: Ashley at March 24, 2011 2:42 PM

I was debating buying her book (as a geeky girl, I like reading about like minded chicks). Then, I read the beginning of her chapter on Star Wars and she made a reference to "DJ Chris" and I had to put it down.

Posted by: Robyn Robotron at March 27, 2011 7:03 AM

Bailey sucks Munn was better. Candace is lame as fuck. Unfunny, unattractive, and the sweet innocent thing real or fake is gag inducing. Haislip was decent enough but personally I find Sara underwood more entertaining than all of them. Dumber yes. But dumb and entertaining have never been mutually exclusive. I enjoy Underwood's feeds and cohosts. I'd rather see her do the show and the black chick and the English chick that used to do the feeds do them. I took it off my DVR this week because of Bailey.

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