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Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
I watch old wrestling on youtube

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RandolphCarter
Jul 30, 2005


there’s good new wrestling on tv now. here’s five hours of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV-DRnjamZA

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
oh my god and Joel McHale is in some advertisement for a gacha mobile casino game? holy poo poo that's sad.

DaysBefore
Jan 24, 2019

He's simply building hype for the Community movie by getting his face back on TV. Joel McHale... thank you

Dr. Jerrold Coe
Feb 6, 2021

Is it me?

Knight posted:

Looks like there's 6 hours of South Park followed by paid programming after.

Or you can watch MTV to see 11+ hours of Catfished

Edit - Amusing to see Nickelodeon is still doing it's "late night family sitcoms" thing to bore any kids watching to sleep but now it's been updated to Friends and Mike and Molly.

it was bad enough being a kid and having i love lucy and the andy griffith show come on, this sucks!!!! aging sucks!

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

oh my god and Joel McHale is in some advertisement for a gacha mobile casino game? holy poo poo that's sad.

I honestly think these games just pay a ton of money. Which is also sad.

HootTheOwl
May 13, 2012

Hootin and shootin
A good biscuit solves all problems here on Fargo
Except your teeth. Ew!

Whirling
Feb 23, 2023

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

lol @ the lego movie/spiderverse guy posting this dum dum poo poo

https://twitter.com/philiplord/status/1747309239830478852

That second Spiderverse film felt really self-indulgent to me. Did it really need to be like 2 hours and 30 minutes long?

insane clown pussy
Jun 20, 2023

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

oh my god and Joel McHale is in some advertisement for a gacha mobile casino game? holy poo poo that's sad.

it's the wave of the future

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Whirling posted:

That second Spiderverse film felt really self-indulgent to me. Did it really need to be like 2 hours and 30 minutes long?

Yes we need to tell the story of our cast which is all spidermens

insane clown pussy
Jun 20, 2023

Knight posted:

Looks like there's 6 hours of South Park followed by paid programming after.

Or you can watch MTV to see 11+ hours of Catfished

Edit - Amusing to see Nickelodeon is still doing it's "late night family sitcoms" thing to bore any kids watching to sleep but now it's been updated to Friends and Mike and Molly.

cable rules now, every channel is just blocks of reruns and all the ads are for children's cancer charities where parents talk about their dead kids who died of cancer

Teriyaki Hairpiece
Dec 29, 2006

I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.

insane clown pussy posted:

cable rules now, every channel is just blocks of reruns and all the ads are for children's cancer charities where parents talk about their dead kids who died of cancer
That sounds like the cable that used to be, but it got bit by a zombie

JohnnySavs
Dec 28, 2004

I have all the characteristics of a human being.

Knight posted:

Edit - Amusing to see Nickelodeon is still doing it's "late night family sitcoms" thing to bore any kids watching to sleep but now it's been updated to Friends and Mike and Molly.

I caught glimpses of Friends as my wife (re?)watched it over fall/winter and that is quite a horny show to be a "family sitcom." That's more a comment on how little horny there might be nowadays, but I wouldn't want to watch it with my parents as a grown man let alone as a child.

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Knight posted:

Edit - Amusing to see Nickelodeon is still doing it's "late night family sitcoms" thing to bore any kids watching to sleep but now it's been updated to Friends and Mike and Molly.
lol yeah i thought Nick @ Nite was pretty dire. i didn't mind i dream of jeannie tho for some reason, but i hated brady bunch/lucy/leave it to beaver. smart of them to put insanely boring content to conc' whatever night owl kids to sleep

Durf
Aug 16, 2017




I watched Friends as a kid and all I remember is Chandler kissing Rachael in the rain to U2s ‘With or Without You’, as was the style at the time.

Eric Cantonese
Dec 21, 2004

You should hear my accent.

Xaris posted:

lol yeah i thought Nick @ Nite was pretty dire. i didn't mind i dream of jeannie tho for some reason, but i hated brady bunch/lucy/leave it to beaver. smart of them to put insanely boring content to conc' whatever night owl kids to sleep

I thought it was just finding a way to fill time with cheaply acquired content and justify Nickelodeon going 24/7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_at_Nite

I remember trying to sit through an episode of Dennis the Menace and wondering how people could deal with television shows that boring.

I enjoyed watching the 70s SNL reruns with my dad, though. I think he liked that I found them funny.

Reading about how Nick at Nite shows 90s shows is like hearing the music of your teenage years on oldies radio stations. Unpleasant, but inevitable.

quote:

After being presented with over 200 episodes of The Donna Reed Show (a 1950s sitcom which Laybourne despised), Goodman and Seibert conceived the idea of the "first oldies TV network."

Jesus. I didn't realize that show lasted that long.

Eric Cantonese has issued a correction as of 06:47 on Jan 17, 2024

Professor Beetus
Apr 12, 2007

They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus

RandolphCarter posted:

or trutv for 18 hours of impractical jokers.

Only thing I know about trutv is that they make Tacoma FD, which rules. It's on Netflix right now if you have the devil service

e: it's way too good to be produced by something called trutv

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

I watched a shitload of nick at nite. I dream of jeannie, bewitched, I love Lucy, even partridge family was fun. I had aged out of it by eight or so though

poo poo what else...dragnet and get smart, alfred Hitchcock presents, hillbillies, mork and mindy. taxi whipped but I probably missed a lot of the jokes

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
Pretty sure they played Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet at some stage. They should make more marionette action tv shows.

They rule.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 5 hours!

Xaris posted:

lol yeah i thought Nick @ Nite was pretty dire. i didn't mind i dream of jeannie tho for some reason, but i hated brady bunch/lucy/leave it to beaver. smart of them to put insanely boring content to conc' whatever night owl kids to sleep

Yeah when I was a kid I was convinced Nick @ Nite was intended to make kids turn off the TV if they were watching it outside typically allowed hours

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

loquacius posted:

Yeah when I was a kid I was convinced Nick @ Nite was intended to make kids turn off the TV if they were watching it outside typically allowed hours

Nick just really didn't like kids who just wanted to watch some tv while working a night shift!

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
Old sitcoms are good. It is an interesting peek into culture and politics of the era those shows are from.

"Make room for daddy" and "father knows best" are both alien and baffling sitcoms from the 1950s.

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

Nichael posted:

https://x.com/MCU_Direct/status/1747137719862505979?s=20

whoops we spent $25 million each on sitcom episodes

i hope she gets a better show. she's a good actress.

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

loquacius posted:

Yeah when I was a kid I was convinced Nick @ Nite was intended to make kids turn off the TV if they were watching it outside typically allowed hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZpDeJVC3TA

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

American ads still surprise me. Though, $18 including postage? That seems like a decent deal.

Fellatio del Toro
Mar 21, 2009

Professor Beetus posted:

Only thing I know about trutv is that they make Tacoma FD, which rules. It's on Netflix right now if you have the devil service

e: it's way too good to be produced by something called trutv

TruTV also made Jon Glaser Loves Gear which ruled

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Thunderbirds kicked rear end...I think I watched the reruns on TechTV which would do little pop up trivia bubbles about BTS production stories

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUqd0Wor2tk

CaptainBeefart
Mar 28, 2016


In Training posted:

Thunderbirds kicked rear end...I think I watched the reruns on TechTV which would do little pop up trivia bubbles about BTS production stories

Same. I miss TechTV.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


i saw one ep of shehulk and it was ok, it made me chuckle a couple times which puts it really high among capeshit

Eric Cantonese
Dec 21, 2004

You should hear my accent.

Mr Hootington posted:

Old sitcoms are good. It is an interesting peek into culture and politics of the era those shows are from.

"Make room for daddy" and "father knows best" are both alien and baffling sitcoms from the 1950s.

They really are, especially when you think about how most sitcoms and other parts pop have gotten easy comedy fuel for decades by making fathers look like idiots .

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

Fellatio del Toro posted:

TruTV also made Jon Glaser Loves Gear which ruled

oh yeah... shame that got cancelled

Professor Beetus
Apr 12, 2007

They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus

tristeham posted:

oh yeah... shame that got cancelled

I'm hoping that Netflix paying money to license it keeps Tacoma FD running a bit longer. It's a pretty decent replacement for The Good Place imo, in that it is a mostly good natured comedy that isn't overly cynical. I get all my cynicism needs filled by these here forums, I don't need it in all my entertainment!

Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


CaptainBeefart posted:

Same. I miss TechTV.

Seeing that video game review show review the desert combat mod for bf1942 as a kid made me feel like some sort of enlightened member of a special video game club for having known about it already, such a random rear end thing to talk about for a TV show

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

CaptainBeefart posted:

Same. I miss TechTV.

still laugh and then :smith: when the antique guy breakes an artifact and the host has to just move on

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat

CaptainBeefart posted:

Same. I miss TechTV.

I learned about console commands for the first time when they showed how to cheat in more money.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Nonsense posted:

still laugh and then :smith: when the antique guy breakes an artifact and the host has to just move on

it was a was cylinder

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 23 hours!

MacheteZombie posted:

I like movies and talking about movies

je1 healthcare
Sep 29, 2015

Mr Hootington posted:

Old sitcoms are good. It is an interesting peek into culture and politics of the era those shows are from.

"Make room for daddy" and "father knows best" are both alien and baffling sitcoms from the 1950s.

As a kid it was a useful tool in unlocking pop culture old references that adults still thought were funny. I can watch 2 episodes of Gilligan's Island or Happy Days and never again wonder if I'm missing anything.

Another good snapshot into the culture/politics of a specific time are in old talk shows or news broadcasts, because they were never meant to be syndicated or rerun. Even the ads of the time convey a lot. It's 2AM and I'm watching news segments about the Christmas rush of 1983, or a VHS rip of everything that aired on MTV one day that year.

In a lot of ways the collapse of cable resembles the collapse of local television that took place before I ever noticed or cared.

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KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat

MacheteZombie posted:

I like movies and talking about movies

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