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| | LA Weekly - The Green Monster |
 | | With its comfy chairs and tables and mugs of "coffee" and its (semi-) informal, (semi-)unscripted air of hanging out, it reflects the room in which its viewers sit, completing a kind of inclusive family circle, making a party of which all are a part. |
 | | He was, for example, made to play "pickle roulette" and eat a pickle that might have been marinating in urine, in a kind of payback for a teenage practical joke of his own. |
 | | Like them, Green was born for TV, but he is not yet in their league, and the spastic extremity of his shtick suggests a Bobcat Goldthwait or Emo Phillips career span, and the one joke upon which the show is predicated is bound eventually to pall. |
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