{"id":12070,"date":"2018-03-10T21:41:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T03:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12070"},"modified":"2018-03-25T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T15:11:38","slug":"garfunkel-and-oates-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/garfunkel-and-oates-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Garfunkel and Oates (season 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;You know, I&#8217;m not really good at saying no when I don&#8217;t want to do something. That&#8217;s usually Riki&#8217;s job so, um, yeah, totally!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garfunkel and Oates<\/strong> season 1, aired in 2014<\/p>\n<p>Kate and Riki do a corporate gig, but it turns out the person who hired them is quitting. Riki tries dating a standup comedian. Kate goes to an audition and finds herself doing a scene with Ben Kingsley. When they go on a double blind date they do an experiment &#8212; they try to see how long they can go without saying a word.<\/p>\n<p>Garfunkel and Oates is a band and it was also briefly a TV show &#8212; unfortunately there are only 8 episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome are essentially playing themselves, and they manage to get into a bunch of amusing and awkward situations. They also sing some of their hilarious songs, like &#8220;Sports Go Sports&#8221; and &#8220;Happy Birthday to My Loose Acquaintance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are some terrific guest stars like Weird Al Yankovic and Kevin Pollak.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci (writers on <strong>Garfunkel and Oates: Trying to Be Special<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;You know, I&#8217;m not really good at saying no when I don&#8217;t want to do something. That&#8217;s usually Riki&#8217;s job so, um, yeah, totally!&#8221; Garfunkel and Oates season 1, aired in 2014 Kate and Riki do a corporate gig, but it turns out the person who hired them is quitting. Riki tries dating a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16,5,11],"class_list":["post-12070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-comedy","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12070"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12141,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070\/revisions\/12141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}