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I'm not angry, I'm just wondering why Demorge is a part of the show. He's worse than Goldberg at this point. Nothing but white noise.
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Irish Joe posted:I'm not angry, I'm just wondering why Demorge is a part of the show. He's worse than Goldberg at this point. Nothing but white noise. No no, he's the black guy
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caligulamprey posted:I have decided that I will let Dan know that Irish Joe is very, very angry when he's in Portland next weekend. Don't Do This
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Guys if you keep quoting joke it defeats the point of me blocking him
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Golden Bee posted:Guys if you keep quoting joke it defeats the point of me blocking him That's why we quote him
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Golden Bee posted:Guys if you keep quoting joke it defeats the point of me blocking him 
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Golden Bee posted:Guys if you keep quoting joke it defeats the point of me blocking him Things Dan Harmon said a month ago.
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I'm going to try this one more time because I'm listening to this Spencer compilation. Does anyone know the name/source of the music Jeff used as Spencer's D&D theme?
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Man those brothers seemed like real assholes, at least one of them
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I can't believe no one mentioned how awesome Andy Kindler was last week. One of the best Harmontown guests ever. And it was hilarious that no one but Spencer remembered that Kumail has never actually played Dr Friend.
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Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur posted:Man those brothers seemed like real assholes, at least one of them Malcolm, however. That kid's going places. Probably to bed.
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What a miserable episode. Very low energy. Maybe if I'd listened instead of watching it I wouldn't have been distracted by how out of it and disinterested Harmon seemed. Also gently caress that Malcolm kid. Don't agree to go on stage unless you're going to bring something to it.
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I audibly groaned when they brought him back for Shadowrun. gently caress that guy. He was just being smug faux-mysterious and ended up sounding like an idiot.
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Brocktoon posted:I can't believe no one mentioned how awesome Andy Kindler was last week. One of the best Harmontown guests ever. I quit listening to this show about a month ago but Andy Kindler as a guest almost convinced me to come back, maybe I will listen to that episode. I think I started disliking the podcast around the time I went to a live one in Toronto
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For what its worth, Kindler's set is like 90% Dan's boring politics, 10% jokes. Its still more jokes than Demorge has told over the last six months, but its still a lot of bullshit to sit through to get to the funnies.
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I stopped listening as well. When I saw new posts in the thread I was hopeful. Nope.
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Wow this episode was a total clunker. Portland usually brings out the better side of the podcast, but this is one of the worst they've done in a while.
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The Berzerker posted:I quit listening to this show about a month ago but Andy Kindler as a guest almost convinced me to come back, maybe I will listen to that episode. Yeah going to a live show is what killed my interest in the show.
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SunshineDanceParty posted:Yeah going to a live show is what killed my interest in the show. Given what I've heard, I don't think you could ever get me to go to a show that wasn't at Meltdown. Or that Jeff Davis wasn't comptrolling.
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I went to the Chicago show last year, and, having listened to it since then, it's not a very good show. But at the time, it was, for the most part, great. It helped that you could actually hear the organ. I'd go if you got the chance, at least once.
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Sorry to see you go Golden Bee, you shall be missed I've always enjoyed your bits on Harmontown. Sucks that outcasts are so quick to target others but that's how it seems to go.
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SunshineDanceParty posted:Yeah going to a live show is what killed my interest in the show. that was the exact same thing, with me
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Cerepol posted:Sorry to see you go Golden Bee, you shall be missed I've always enjoyed your bits on Harmontown. Sucks that outcasts are so quick to target others but that's how it seems to go. You know the show has gone to poo poo when even Goldberg has turned on it. Dan can either be funny or he can be The Thoughtful Progressive, but he's not smart or funny enough to be both. He chose The Thoughtful Progressive and the show sucks because of it. Way to go, Harmon. Good luck getting people to shell out $20/month to listen to you not talk about stuff because "feminism." That's real loving entertaining, you fat idiot  edit: Demorge Brown joke count: still ZERO Irish Joe fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Jun 9, 2015 |
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Lol erkleberg and also quote:[–]UltrabergConsulting Producer 45 points 1 day ago RIP sweet prince
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Clearly he's not autistic, it took him three years but he finally figured out the social ques in play and realized that nobody appreciates a heckler, doubly so one without a sense of humour. For future reference a good way to not have people making GBS threads on you at shows is not hijacking the booth and shining a spotlight on yourself. I don't know that anyone targeted the guy, seems more like he painted the target on himself (sometimes victim blaming is the answer). As for the show, it's strange to me hearing so many people say that it's lost its way or become bad. Seems to me like it's always been really inconsistent, as much mud as gold. I'm still really enjoying putting it on in the background and tuning in during the odd cogent moments.
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going to a harmontown made me realize that goldberg isn't really that out of the norm like you have to understand the stage is maybe, and this is being generous, like...five feet away from the first row and that's being generous it's this poorly lit, hot af room that's basically a cupboard that's incredibly close to the audience like you're right there then on top of that you got harmon et al doin their thing and they explicitly encourage audience input and they're all about no pressure or mockery, which means that any ol' fuckface if they make enough noise will get brought up, which again is to this lovely little platform that could be charitably called a stage if you're being REALLY generous that's within arms distance of the audience goldberg was just the guy cynical enough to realize that this is how the game is played and exploited it, and for what it's worth he has a greater success ratio than every other person who gets brought up honestly the whole thing harmon does where he complains about goldberg than brings up a weird homophobic idiot girl two weeks in a row to express her lovely dumb bad opinions is more indicative of how the show's complete lack of narrative focus or rules kills it
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Yeah, i've been to the venue before so I understand how it can happen and for the most part I am really glad it does. The audience participation is a great part of the show but there's a difference between being an invitation and an invasion. There's also a lot of merit in reading the room and knowing when your time on the stage is done, which it seems GB has finally been able to do, albeit three years too late.
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I honestly don't know any more if the audience participation is a great part of the show, I really don't think it is ed: I think i came to the realization that harmon is generally speaking really bad at philosophy or social consciousness because he's the exact sort of liberal progressive who only really cares about issues that directly affect him and he has no real knowledge or desire for knowledge to actually form a coherent viewpoint, so he rattles off empty platitudes because then he's impossible to criticize while still providing no real substance I think harmontown is best when it's either about him explaining or talking about his neuroses or providing a backstage glimpse into what the mind of a showrunner is actually like, interspersed with the comedy bits which are always fantastic honestly at this point i've kind of reached the point where mbmbam is basically the show i wish harmontown was and a lot of that's because the mcelroys know how to control audiences, and i'd rather they adopt a Q and A style format then bringing people up to quiz them since like 90% of the time the people are either awkward or the exact sort of people you'd never ever want to hand a mic to NieR Occomata fucked around with this message at 09:13 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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I just caught up after taking a break back when Jeff was on hiatus from the show. Anie with one N is the worst thing since brain aneurysm guy. Justin Roiland came off as a really stupid unfunny person. Like a Duncan Tressel without a pulse. edit: aw, RIP Goldberg. I thought he had a nice little niche carved out on the podcast. I never minded him. But I'm only hearing the stuff Dan and Jeff are ridiculing.
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Toxxupation posted:honestly the whole thing harmon does where he complains about goldberg than brings up a weird homophobic idiot girl two weeks in a row to express her lovely dumb bad opinions is more indicative of how the show's complete lack of narrative focus or rules kills it
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KoRMaK posted:Who? Over a year ago, no idea which episode. A normal was invited up to the stage and spouted off unpopular opinions. The audience boo'd her so she got defensive and doubled down on "my opinions!". Chanting ensued. The next week she was brought back up on stage because Dan was uncomfortable with the idea of someone being boo'd in Harmontown. It was actually kind of entertaining.
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That's Lisette, from around episode 69 or 70. "Let it go!"
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Toxxupation posted:honestly the whole thing harmon does where he complains about goldberg than brings up a weird homophobic idiot girl two weeks in a row to express her lovely dumb bad opinions is more indicative of how the show's complete lack of narrative focus or rules kills it So anything and anyone who's not Dan is starting from 400 yards back. Sometimes, you'll get someone really articulate (like Eric Esquivel or Skuda or something) who can explain a point...and 40 episodes later Dan will forget it and start making his original argument. Even people who have a point (but end up abrasive) like those CommuniCon girls from ep 76 get explained from the stage, told they don't have to go up, and then 50 people yell "Bring her up, bring her up!" At which point they voice an opinion that differs from Dan's and Dan either kowtows, or stands firm and most of the 150 people in attendance start booing. If Harmontown was a public forum, or a discussion of a moon colony, it isn't anymore. It's an echo chamber for Dan's self-love/self hatred, funny bits, and Gen-Xer gasconades. After 300 hours of Dan and Jeff, outside opinions (even if they're drat good, like the discussion we had in Earthshine, or Tyler Perry's Antisemitic Pickle Ziggurat) are outside what the show is anymore. Even something like stopping a navel-gazing death spiral And starting a race-'em-up talkshow would be booed out of the building. My point isn't I was victimized or not, or I was right or not, but that the show's structure has changed fundamentally to be more viscious, and over the past 3 years the fanbase has changed enough that it -wants- to be viscous. I'd say maybe 5-10% of people attending in 2012 are attending nowadays, so maybe I should've been spending Sundays at the pub with Nti years ago. *In retrospect, that episode was about "What if people turn on me for my disease, which is alcoholism, like they turned on the guy who had brain-trauma induced pedophilia?
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Wait, so you're trying to tell me that Dan Harmon's show Harmontown starring Mayor Dan Harmon tends to favour Dan Harmon's views over those of the people that just wandered in? From all reports Dan doesn't run his writers room like an open forum and he selected those people and pays them for their opinions, so I don't know that the show was ever able to be anything but a dictatorship. Luckily, though, it doesn't need to be. Enough people are willing to opt into hearing Dan rant, whether they agree with him or not, and so the show survives. That the audience get a little unwieldy when someone invites themselves to talk instead of him is understandable; it's not an inability to hear counterpoints but a dislike of commercials, its an unsolicited interruption of the entertainment they chose to consume. If you cut from Mad Men to the shrill voice of a guy spruiking carpets it's going to irritate, when you elect a democrat president and the Republican's control the legislature people get irritated. Guests on Harmontown are only ever going to be mirrors for Harmon to reflect off of, to disperse or distill his light, and when they are happy to do that they serve a positive purpose I think. I do feel like Dan's in a bit too safe a space to be as entertaining as usual though. His being happily married and creatively successful make for a content and peaceful podcast where he swerves away from offending anyone. I personally prefer it when he's on the edge, with nothing to lose. Chances are it won't be too long before we're back there though.
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I dunno, I listen to Harmontown like most people watch fiery car crashes on the side of the highway. It's the weekly podcast version of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA1hyqA6UTY or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsdeAF_Prfo or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aRMbw0TYC8 It tickles the same part of my brain. The documentary pitched Harmontown as a unifying thread amongst outcasts. Really, it's somewhere between that, and a man's descent into disconnected, rich guy, alcoholism. And I love it.
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Wait, so what happened with Adam Goldberg? I listened to this week's show and the only mention of him was that he went into the greenroom and had a quiz that they weren't going to get to.
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Seems like it was off camera but gold bee realized that he go onto the show the wrong way personally I liked goldb, I understood what he was doing and I liked how he handled it. But other people just loving hate him for whatever reason. It's like, in a comedy bit you have the striaght guy and the fun guy, or the doof and the cool guy. Well, some people don't realize the doof is playing a part and instead treat them as if they are a nerd to bully. tl;dr - erkleberg realized that he was screechin', decided to get out now before its too too late.
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Brocktoon posted:Wait, so what happened with Adam Goldberg? I listened to this week's show and the only mention of him was that he went into the greenroom and had a quiz that they weren't going to get to. Goldberg had an online meltdown, claimed he was playing a character the whole time and swore off Harmontown forever. quote:On December 15, 1989, an episode of Family Matters aired named Laura’s First Date. Laura Winslow was accidentally set up with two guys, one of whom was a doofus. Family Matters co-creator Michael Warren named the one-time character after his friend, Steve Erkel.
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