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Martytoof posted:Mike on How It's Made would be a godsend, especially for those of us watching the Canadian broadcast with its ten different narrators -- none of which have any personality whatsoever, and that one human being that actually hosted it on-screen for a season or so. I could totally compromise by just having Rowe, but the music is like 50% of the problem for me. But it is probably a combination of the narration AND the music.
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See, for me it wouldn't be How It's Made if it didn't have cheesy muzak playing. I think that's also why it's the perfect show to have on in the background, or if you're having trouble falling asleep  No lie, if there was a How It's Made soundtrack CD I would probably play it every day at work.
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Aug 3, 2008 20:36
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How It's Made is one of the most chill shows on TV. Nothing really to grasp or concentrate on, some relaxing (in my opinion) music, the narrator for most of the recent seasons except the latest one (in the US) is great as well. It's been going strong in Canada, but I hope it survives the fad of factory/assembly line shows that seems to be sweeping the US at the moment. BONUS: All goons love bacon! How It's Made! Aero737 fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Aug 6, 2008 |
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Aug 6, 2008 03:36
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I love How It's Made, but Mike Rowe isn't the kind of guy you want narrating it. Rowe's narration is better when it's dramatic. His on-screen persona is funny. Neither go well with How It's Made. However, I think Rowe would be great for Mythbusters. I really hate the Mythbusters narrator.
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Aug 6, 2008 03:48
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I think the narrator for Mythbusters is more apart of the central crew then Tory, Grant and Kari. That's just blasphemous.
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Aug 6, 2008 03:57
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Niklas Kronwall posted:I love How It's Made, but Mike Rowe isn't the kind of guy you want narrating it. Well what if Mike actually went TO the factories and narrated it in person
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Aug 6, 2008 04:23
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Martytoof posted:I thought they were hilarious on the ship and I would easily watch thirty minutes to an hour a week of those guys just shooting the poo poo in Rome or Tokyo.
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Aug 6, 2008 04:44
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Martytoof posted:Well what if Mike actually went TO the factories and narrated it in person How It's Made is a Montreal production and you had best not forget it. 
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Aug 6, 2008 04:50
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The Dark One posted:How It's Made is a Montreal production and you had best not forget it. Mike is more than welcome in Montreal 
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Aug 6, 2008 04:55
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-Atom- posted:I think the narrator for Mythbusters is more apart of the central crew then Tory, Grant and Kari. Where is he from? Announcer Voice takes away from an accent, but certain words he says in kind of odd ways (no examples at hand).
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Aug 6, 2008 07:00
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Brick Hardmeat posted:Where is he from? Announcer Voice takes away from an accent, but certain words he says in kind of odd ways (no examples at hand). According to IMDb, the announcer voice is Robert Lee, and he is from England, but is based out of Australia.
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Aug 6, 2008 07:29
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Brick Hardmeat posted:Where is he from? Announcer Voice takes away from an accent, but certain words he says in kind of odd ways (no examples at hand). Exactly what I was going to post. Exqample: decibels = deciBELLs
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Aug 6, 2008 12:33
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Martytoof posted:Well what if Mike actually went TO the factories and narrated it in person Brian Unger has that gig locked down thank you very much
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Aug 6, 2008 13:22
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BlueArmyMan posted:Brian Unger has that gig locked down thank you very much Brian Unger is painfully boring to watch, he has absolutely no personality. I love How It's Made but I can't stand to watch Some Assembly Required because it's somehow more boring to watch than a disembodied voice and elevator music. Like in the episode where he made cheese, I've already seen Mike Rowe doing this and make it genuinely entertaining, Unger just asked lame interview style questions.
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Aug 6, 2008 20:15
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I want Mike to do some dirty job at a hockey rink, but I can't really think of one that would be tremendously dirty. I guess maybe be the guy who paints the markings under the ice but that's really in the spirit of 'Dirty Jobs'. I'll be flat out honest and say that I just want to see him do it for the token Zamboni drive trial. Now is the time that rinks will be starting to paint their poo poo so it would be an awesome time to film a segment. Then again he's already done a bunch of jobs that aren't really dirty or tremendously difficult, so v:)v
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Aug 6, 2008 21:22
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Martytoof posted:Another favourite oldie of mine from TLC, the Secret Life of Machines, is available to watch online jesus christ YES Do you know if the Military Channel is part of Discovery? I'd love to watch Weaponology online, youtube keeps taking the episode segments down 
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Aug 6, 2008 21:55
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Yeah, according to the Wiki 'Military Channel' is owned by Discovery Communications. I'm not too surprised that they'd be yanking stuff off YouTube, but it would be nice if they had some kind of online ppv or something. I would probably subscribe to something like that, especially if I got to watch some of the good stuff here in Canada. I think we get shafted for some of the cool stuff but I could be wrong since I just get basic cable.
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Aug 6, 2008 22:09
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New Mythbusters tonight - Adam and Jamie see if you can use explosives to tenderize a steak. It sounds like this is a "we've run out of ideas, lets blow something up" episode. I think next week's episode is testing viral video myths. They already sort of went into that with the diet coke/mentos thing, so I guess it'll be interesting to see what sort of myths they can go after.
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Aug 6, 2008 23:29
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Did anyone bother to watch Smash Lab last night? I want to know if the new format improves it to watchable levels but not enough to risk watching it myself.
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Aug 6, 2008 23:44
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LordOfThePants posted:New Mythbusters tonight - Adam and Jamie see if you can use explosives to tenderize a steak. Can Britney be, in fact, left alone? Tory, Grant, and Kari investigate.
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Aug 6, 2008 23:48
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Martytoof posted:Can Britney be, in fact, left alone? Tory, Grant, and Kari investigate. Oh man....I laughed waaaaaaaaay to hard at this. And then I started thinking about it seriously...how the hell would you test something like that?
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Aug 6, 2008 23:57
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the-jam posted:Did anyone bother to watch Smash Lab last night? I want to know if the new format improves it to watchable levels but not enough to risk watching it myself. You just reminded me that I copied it. I guess I'll watch it tonight after I watch Mythbusters. Ok ten minutes into the Smash Lab and they have seemed to drop any and all pretenses of doing this for humanity or saftey. The girl even goes so far to say (before their build starts) that she knows the design isn't really practical. They just seem to be given a challenge that they have to meet. In this case, stop a car from tumbling after going off a cliff. ToastyPotato fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Aug 7, 2008 |
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Aug 7, 2008 00:33
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the-jam posted:Did anyone bother to watch Smash Lab last night? I want to know if the new format improves it to watchable levels but not enough to risk watching it myself. Yes I did, and no it does not. The format isn't any different but they recast 2 people or something. It's still a terrible terrible show with stupid, stupid ideas.
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Aug 7, 2008 03:00
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I was waiting for Tori to turn around and deck Kari. ARE YOU ANGRY, ARE YOU UPSET, HUH HUH ARE YOU 
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Aug 7, 2008 03:46
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Welp in our Man vs Wild portion, I saw Bear getting stung by a bee, then his face looking like he got  Although this guy isn't as hardcore as the camera is pointing him out to be, the guy still got some balls. Edit: Martytoof posted:Can Britney be, in fact, left alone? Tory, Grant, and Kari investigate. Hi Marty! Fancy meeting you here.
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Aug 7, 2008 03:50
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Stellar_GoPens posted:Although this guy isn't as hardcore as the camera is pointing him out to be, the guy still got some balls. oh come on, he is hardcore as gently caress
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Splendiferous posted:oh come on, he is hardcore as gently caress I'll give him every credit, but I guess in a contest, I'd say Les Stroud would give him a pretty good run for his money
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Aug 7, 2008 03:56
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IRQ posted:Yes I did, and no it does not. Yeah the ideas are still retarded but at least its more of a challenge to create insane modifications to do stupid things instead of making things "better" to "save" people. Today's episode of Mythbusters was TERRIBLE. Well maybe not the steak sections, which could have been a good side myth for a better episode, but the driving portion was a complete and utter waste of air time.
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Aug 7, 2008 04:14
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Stellar_GoPens posted:Welp in our Man vs Wild portion, I saw Bear getting stung by a bee, then his face looking like he got Like where he beat a diamondback to death while his eyes were all swollen shut and then drank a snake skin of his own piss? I don't care if he does sleep in a hotel every night, it just makes the disgusting poo poo he does even more awesome because you know he really has no reason to.
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Aug 7, 2008 04:19
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The candy segment of How It's Made that was just on blew my loving mind. They make like this gigantic candy object with a pattern inside that is like 1.5 feet long and 8 inches in diameter. I thought that these were some sort of giant novelty candies. But no. Then they like stretch out the candy until its a centimeter in diameter and the pattern that they made stays perfectly. It's like a loving shrink ray or something. I seriously can't wrap my mind around how that works without the pattern getting all messed. Here's the segment on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uep6FKZWRsY
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IRQ posted:Like where he beat a diamondback to death while his eyes were all swollen shut and then drank a snake skin of his own piss? I don't care if he does sleep in a hotel every night, it just makes the disgusting poo poo he does even more awesome because you know he really has no reason to. How the hell is he not protested by PETA regularly? It seems like every episode is him killing wildlife for the hell of it.
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ToastyPotato posted:How the hell is he not protested by PETA regularly? It seems like every episode is him killing wildlife for the hell of it. Because PETA knows that if they angered Bear he would go pee on them, then kill them to slurp up his pee and "remorsefully" roast their corpses for food. (but probably more that they wouldn't last 45 minutes in the locales Bear goes to survive in)
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Duck from Mexico posted:Here's the segment on youtube: That is so incredibly simple, and yet amazing. And now I really want some of those kiwi candies.
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ToastyPotato posted:How the hell is he not protested by PETA regularly? Because rattlesnakes and voles aren't sensational enough to give a drat about. As soon as he starts killing baby cows or minks the angry letters will start rolling in.
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McSpanky posted:Because rattlesnakes and voles aren't sensational enough to give a drat about. As soon as he starts killing baby cows or minks the angry letters will start rolling in. PETA only cares about cute animals. or, as a cute bumper sticker I saw the other day said: PETA cares about FUR more than LEATHER because it's easier to intimidate old rich ladies than Bikers. Their bullshit stops at their ability to sway the average retard that hasn't done their research on them. But that's another thread. 
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Aug 7, 2008 05:24
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Stellar_GoPens posted:I'd say Les Stroud would give him a pretty good run for his money Les would complain about everything until Bear got annoyed and went home, or at least that's how I see it going down  HI STELLAR
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Hey since we are (were) on the subject of "why the gently caress is this on Discovery", I'm desperately trying to figure out what the gently caress business this Criss Angel Mindfreak show has being on Discovery. Seriously, that show is terrible, even as a gimmick.
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Aug 8, 2008 21:04
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Martytoof posted:Hey since we are (were) on the subject of "why the gently caress is this on Discovery", I'm desperately trying to figure out what the gently caress business this Criss Angel Mindfreak show has being on Discovery. Seriously, that show is terrible, even as a gimmick.
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Aug 8, 2008 21:26
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the-jam posted:You must be in some foreign country because it's not on Discovery it's on A&E in the US. Yeah, I should have specified Discovery Canada
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Martytoof posted:Yeah, I should have specified Discovery Canada That's what you get for having your own separate history channel.
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