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Pick posted:Don't watch Allen Gregory no matter what happens. I kind of want to an Allen Gregory retrospective just so others can know how awful it is without having to watch it.
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Pick posted:Don't watch Allen Gregory no matter what happens. Truer words were never spoken.
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Jun 28, 2015 00:31
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:I kind of want to an Allen Gregory retrospective just so others can know how awful it is without having to watch it. We should have the guy who did the Killing season 1 but nobody deserves that much abuse
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Jun 28, 2015 00:34
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tarlibone posted:Seems like there were a few animated shows related to the White House that would make such a statement a very bad idea. What were they... I think one was called That's My Bush or something, and there was one for Clinton's cat, I think? Just... just awful. There was Capitol Critters in the Clinton Era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fo4Nu4McDw It starred Dougie Howser and was terrible. And for something good with Roiland and Harmon, you all know about Mr. Sprinkles, right? https://vimeo.com/62232896
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Jun 28, 2015 00:36
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:I kind of want to an Allen Gregory retrospective just so others can know how awful it is without having to watch it. It's always fun to read withering takedowns of poo poo as bad as Allen Gregory. But don't do it.
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Jun 28, 2015 00:38
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:I kind of want to an Allen Gregory retrospective just so others can know how awful it is without having to watch it. I was part of the Allen Gregory trainwreck team and I even then I watched like two episodes and loving gave up. Also, fun fact, it concludes with implied rape. reviewer posted:They also said he was being raised by two gay fathers. He’s not; he’s being raised by one gay sexual predator and his victim. Every female character is belittled. The only decent parent, Jeremy, is belittled. Bullying and sexual predation are played as good clean fun. And if you’re going to make an AIDS joke, then by God it had better be a funny AIDS joke. another reviewer posted:If Allen makes caring superfluous, it's because the show is less a sitcom than an intellectual exercise. Plot and character mean nothing. We're simply supposed to be impressed by its outrageousness and rave over its willingness to "go there" — no matter how idiotic "there" is reviewer posted:Allen Gregory, his new show, destroys any and all credibility he had left. There is no coming back from it. It is forever going to be one of the darkest, most hate filled marks on television history. Years from now, television audiences will look back nostalgically and say “Remember Allen Gregory? Man that was terrible.” And then they’ll laugh at how miserable Jonah Hill became after Allen Gregory failed and disappeared. Pick fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jun 28, 2015 |
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Jun 28, 2015 00:48
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Here's my recomendation: Watch Major Lazor. Major Lazer loving owns
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Jun 28, 2015 01:02
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Babe Magnet posted:Major Lazer loving owns The guy who daggers girls pon de floor?
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Jun 28, 2015 01:10
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Major Lazer is actually like 3 people, those were just dudes in the video. But yes. They have a cartoon and it rules. J.K. Simmons loving kills every time his character pops up.
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Jun 28, 2015 01:14
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the_american_dream posted:Yea I wanna say Lil Bush was from the South Park creators too That's My Bush was from the trey Parker and Matt stone (South Park)
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Jun 28, 2015 01:36
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Jonas Albrecht posted:It's always fun to read withering takedowns of poo poo as bad as Allen Gregory. We'll see. Babe Magnet posted:Major Lazer is actually like 3 people, those were just dudes in the video. But yes. Agreed, he reminds me a lot of the James Woods version of Hades.
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Jun 28, 2015 01:54
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Pick posted:Don't watch Allen Gregory no matter what happens. Do not get me started on that pile of poo poo. I'd call it an abortion, but abortions are infinitely funnier. When you create a horrible character like Allen Gregory, then you have to do something to get the audience on board. It's Always Funny in Philadelphia does this by having these terrible human beings do terrible things all the time, often at the expense of good people... but at the end of the episode, they get their comeuppance, and often an extra helping of punishment in some form or other. You can laugh at them because you just know that they will pay for their misdeeds. Jonah Hill's comments were insulting. At one point, he called it "punk rock." And Executive Producer David Goodman's attempt at being sarcastic and funny in a FAQ didn't have the desired effect. Or maybe it did. Looking back, it seems like that show was created just so that it'd tank horribly. That's it! They The Producersed us!
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Jun 28, 2015 02:03
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I'll never forgive Allen Gregory for making it's most awful character look like Jim Rash.
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Jun 28, 2015 02:22
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Jonas Albrecht posted:I'll never forgive Allen Gregory for making it's most awful character look like Jim Rash. French Stewart was also definitely trying to sound like Jim Rash.
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Jun 28, 2015 02:30
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It's like French Stewart asked what his motivation was before recording his first line, and they said, "You're the Dean from Community. Go!"
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Jun 28, 2015 02:31
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Nothing from that show was funny even on paper. And it was ugly as hell. And it completely failed in execution. Really there was not a single moment that made it seem like it could be okay.
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Jun 28, 2015 02:35
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Pick posted:Nothing from that show was funny even on paper. And it was ugly as hell. And it completely failed in execution. Really there was not a single moment that made it seem like it could be okay. The theme song was good: https://vimeo.com/32712389 I feel kind of sad that these genuinely good 23 seconds of music are forever tied to an unwatchable show.
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Jun 28, 2015 02:42
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:The theme song was good: https://vimeo.com/32712389 ... and I bet you $2 that the producers absolutely hated that song, but they used it because the song Jonah Hill recorded for it was still in post production. Which is just as well, because it was probably just a bunch of auto-tuned samples of him snorting lines of cocaine.
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Jun 28, 2015 02:49
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Pick posted:Nothing from that show was funny even on paper. And it was ugly as hell. And it completely failed in execution. Really there was not a single moment that made it seem like it could be okay. This is honestly the most baffling show I've ever seen that I could not understand how anyone, anywhere, could like it. And I have no idea why it was fast tracked or produced or greenlighted or rubber stamped. I don't understand how a single human being had the ability to veto this and they did not do that immediately. Jonah Hill's voice is the worst part about him. If you don't see a fat guy getting worked up there is no humor there. It's just an annoying kvetchy dry horrible noise. Lets make that horrible noise come out of a snotty rich kid who thinks he's better than everyone and is proven right (I assume) every episode. If we went full on 1984 and having a giant Jewish face for the five minute hate isn't socially acceptable they could show five minutes of this cartoon and it would induce in real life humanity all naturally what goldstein's face did to the Ingsoc workers by brutal face stomping conditioning.
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Jun 28, 2015 02:52
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tarlibone posted:Do not get me started on that pile of poo poo. I'd call it an abortion, but abortions are infinitely funnier. Even Allen's sister (the ONLY likeable character) succumbed to the suckage that was that pile of festering poo poo.
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Jun 28, 2015 03:33
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tarlibone posted:... and I bet you $2 that the producers absolutely hated that song, but they used it because the song Jonah Hill recorded for it was still in post production. Which is just as well, because it was probably just a bunch of auto-tuned samples of him snorting lines of cocaine. I'm not taking that bet, I'd be better off just setting those two dollars on fire.
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Jun 28, 2015 03:40
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I saw Allen Gregory once, two years ago, when a mate put on the TV at a rained out BBQ. It was completely and utterly forgettable, and up until opening this thread with 40 plus replies hoping season two was out, I had no memory of it. Arseholes.
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Jun 28, 2015 04:30
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tarlibone posted:It's like French Stewart asked what his motivation was before recording his first line, and they said, "You're the Dean from Community. Go!" I would watch the hell out of a Dean Pelton spinoff cartoon.
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Jun 28, 2015 04:58
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:I think that's my bush was live action, but there was also one called lil bush or something that was animated. I never saw a full episode, but I swear it's real. Both existed, Thats's My Bush had its moments, and Lil Bush absolutely didn't. Comedy Central having two simultaneous Bush shows is the funny thing.
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Jun 28, 2015 05:51
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tarlibone posted:It's like French Stewart asked what his motivation was before recording his first line, and they said, "You're the Dean from Community. Go!" Ugh no. That just makes it even worse.
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Jun 28, 2015 05:56
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ultramiraculous posted:Both existed, Thats's My Bush had its moments, and Lil Bush absolutely didn't. Three if you count the Daily Show.
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Jun 28, 2015 07:16
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They weren't simultaneous. That's my bush was cancelled as gently caress when 9/11 happened. Lil' bush or whatever was the last six months of his presidency and cancelled by obvious new president inauguration. They were about as not simultaneous as possible.
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Jun 28, 2015 07:26
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I think I saw one or two commercials for Allen Gregory and thought "Oh, wow, they took the idea behind Stewie from Family Guy and made it the focus of a show, I will never watch that." I had no idea just how bad it actually was.
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Jun 28, 2015 13:28
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I think I'm the only person that thought That's My Bush was hilarious.
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Jun 28, 2015 14:16
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Dr_Amazing posted:I think I'm the only person that thought That's My Bush was hilarious. You might have been. I had the name confused with Lil' Bush; I didn't even mean to bring up That's My Bush. I saw maybe two episodes of TMB, and... well, when you're trying to do a parody of formula sitcoms, you run into immediate problems. It is hard to use parody of a format to support more than a few episodes before it gets stale, much less multiple seasons of a show.
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Jun 28, 2015 16:19
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tarlibone posted:You might have been.
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Jun 28, 2015 16:40
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Dr_Amazing posted:I think I'm the only person that thought That's My Bush was hilarious. No, I kind of loved it. I still remember Dr. Kevorkian euthanizing the cat by making it explode. Timothy Bottoms has thus far played George W. Bush in That's My Bush, DC 9/11: Time of Crisis and even had a cameo in The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
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Jun 28, 2015 17:10
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JazzFlight posted:Surprisingly, Strangers with Candy pulled it off really well. Steven Colbert at his absolute funniest. 
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Jun 28, 2015 18:23
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Dr_Amazing posted:I think I'm the only person that thought That's My Bush was hilarious. I did too. But I was just a lil kid. That theme song is forever stuck in my brain.
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Jun 28, 2015 18:26
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I think there were only three episodes and they were passed around on cds that were downloaded from an AOL bot that would direct message you the files if you messaged him because it was SO cancelled after 9/11. Like the real bush stood up on that rubble and said "gonna get'cha" and the country would not cotton to satire of this man. I think time magazine declared satire was dead, even? But yeah I liked them. Dick Cheney attended an execution and devoured the soul as it exited the prisoner.
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Jun 28, 2015 18:53
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I'm pretty sure they started re-airing them around the time Lil'Bush showed up, hence my confusion.
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Jun 28, 2015 19:31
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That's my Bush was great. Truly the greatest tragedy of 9/11 was the cancellation of that wonderful show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3LhNzIbZP0 Best episode.
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Jun 28, 2015 19:39
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Jonas Albrecht posted:It's always fun to read withering takedowns of poo poo as bad as Allen Gregory. I mean, it says something when you're the worst of the SpikeTV ghetto-Adult Swim Ripoff animation block that includes Striperella
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Jun 28, 2015 20:35
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I had heard of Major Lazer, but hadn't watched it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipumt_rWvHo It's pretty good.
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A friend of mine had produced an animated pilot for Fox that got passed on in favor of Allen Gregory, so I'm double salty about that train wreck.
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