4/7/15 Garfunkel And Oates Are Awesome?

    I just saw this show on Netflix a couple weeks ago.  I had heard of them awhile back.  I was also familiar with Oates from her appearances on Scrubs, Kate Micucci, tiny gal, always plays a ukulele and smart little songs.  The other gal, Garfunkel is played by Riki Lindhome, hot blond, but doesn't use it to any advantage on the show.
    It is weird that the two would be friends in a real world.  Kate is accused of having Peter Pan syndrome in one of the episodes and seems to spend most of her free time playing and making puppets of different sizes.  Riki is the more successful in the show, playing Bimbo #2 or roles like that in various small movies.  They show a clip of their work, and she is topless or ends up topless in all of her roles, boxed out, of course, for our safety.  This has nothing to do with their girl band, but the show spends time sending them to auditions and stuff like that.
    The series only lasts eight half hour episodes so it went by very quick.  There are a lot of guest appearances by familiar faces.  Natasha Leggero was in about half the episodes, Busy Philipps was in two, even Weird Al Yankovic appeared in an episode. 
    This show reminded me of the Tenacious D episodes with Jack Black and Kyle Gass, where the duo spend the better part of their days trying to get gigs and then coming up with new songs to showcase that night or that episode.
    The songs are admittedly risqué, and border on dirty.  If you go and look for them on YouTube, then you will find even more dirtier songs than they play on their show.  I love the risk taking by shows like these, as I understand it, Garfunkel and Oates have existed for a few years, I remember them getting mentioned on the Carolla Show a long time back, like 2009.  I believe more and more shows like this are showing TV that TV is becoming outdated.  These gals have existed as a band for six years before I heard of them enough to want to listen to them, and now I can't get enough.  They are on Youtube, and Netflix.  From what I understand, these acts can tour and make plenty of money that way.  It won't be long before Netflix starts competing with the other channels Emmys and Golden Globes because they, like HBO are putting out great product.  Here's hoping it continues into the future.