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Sweevo posted:
Stewart looks like a grown up Dennis the Menace.
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Sunswipe posted:They should have at least used those looks in an alternate reality episode. Maybe the one where Q gives Picard the chance to change history so he never got stabbed by a Klingon. It turns out that not having that experience leaves him a boring, cautious man, but with a lustrous head of hair. Picard must choose between his career and the bitching mullet he's always wanted. I don't know, I think him being bald and being so low ranking made it for me. It's like he just oozed "loser."
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There was an episode that did a flashback to Beverly Crusher's husband dying and they gave Picard an in the process of balding wig.
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Feb 15, 2018 19:58
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The episode where Worf started jumping through alternate realities probably had one of the Picards with a rad mohawk. That's as believable as Wesley being a command staff officer.
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Then in Star Trek Nemesis they did a stupid thing where they had a picture of "young" Picard that was Tom Hardy to make you believe it was a clone, except for some reason young Picard was completely bald. Normal Picard isn't completely bald.
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Feb 15, 2018 20:08
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muscles like this! posted:Then in Star Trek Nemesis they did a stupid thing where they had a picture of "young" Picard that was Tom Hardy to make you believe it was a clone, except for some reason young Picard was completely bald. Normal Picard isn't completely bald. Patrick Stewart was born bald so it checks out
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Feb 15, 2018 20:09
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I am deeply saddened that we were denied Jheri Curl Geordi.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I am deeply saddened that we were denied Jheri Curl Geordi. sings *Soul Glow*
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Feb 15, 2018 20:26
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Sweevo posted:
Patrick looks like Aaron Eckhart
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muscles like this! posted:Star Trek Nemesis : they did a stupid thing
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DrBouvenstein posted:I am deeply saddened that we were denied Jheri Curl Geordi. Jheri LaForge, cmon man
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Oh Christ, it's Barclay's dad.
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Sweevo posted:
He doesn't even look bad with the wig, I'm inclined to say it just looks weird because we're used to him without hair (they made the right choice dumping it though). I've never seen that picture of LeVar Burton before. That wouldn't have aged well, but I kinda wish they'd stuck with it.
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catlord posted:He doesn't even look bad with the wig, I'm inclined to say it just looks weird because we're used to him without hair (they made the right choice dumping it though). It was for a flashback episode, not the pilot like people like to claim. Look at the righthand side of his head.
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I saw Patrick Stewart in Anthony and Cleopatra once and for some reason they'd put him in a toupee. It was very distracting.
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catlord posted:I've never seen that picture of LeVar Burton before. That wouldn't have aged well, but I kinda wish they'd stuck with it. I agree, but you don't have to take my word for it.
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Sweevo posted:
easy motherfuckin G
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Sweevo posted:
Kunta Kinte: The Rollerdisco Years
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knife_of_justice posted:Kunta Kinte: The Rollerdisco Years I was going to write "His name is Toby!" But I couldn't bring myself to do it. Especially considering it's black history month. 😂😫
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Werong Bustope posted:I saw Patrick Stewart in Anthony and Cleopatra once and for some reason they'd put him in a toupee. It was very distracting. 
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knife_of_justice posted:Kunta Kinte: The Rollerdisco Years "His name is Toby!" There ya go KM.
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You can't fool me; that's Richard Gere.
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I, Claudius is a classic, but some aspects of it I do not think aged well with how far women have progressed.
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get that OUT of my face posted:I can't think of anything specific, but many South Park episodes that focused on what was the news event or celebrity of the moment have probably aged badly. That's when I think South Park when WAY down hill and I quit watching. The early seasons where there wasn't a current social topic as the focus of the episodes were by far the best. My favorite episode is definitely when they travel to Aspen. So many funny jokes in that one. A couple of more recent episodes that I did find good where the ones where aliens traveled through a portal. Brought up the illegal immigration issue which as relevant if not more relevant today. The other one was the High School Musical episode.
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Wheat Loaf posted:One of the Comedy Central episodes of Futurama (the iPhone / Twitter parody one) has a subplot where Leela has an intelligent boil called Susan who sings show tunes with her. It's odd how that dates the episode more than any of the social media stuff. Easily one of the worst episodes of Futurama. And when it transferred to Comedy Central....there were quite a few poor episodes.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Easily one of the worst episodes of Futurama. And when it transferred to Comedy Central....there were quite a few poor episodes. I always liked Leela best when she was being threatening, like when she had the surgery to add a second eye to her face and starts dating her Doctor, and when seeing what an rear end in a top hat he is decides she was better before and asks/tells him to remove it. "Listen Buster, by the end of the day, one of us is going to have one eye!" is such a good line.
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Leela kinda reminds me of Lana from Archer; on paper they're kind of the 'grounded, sensible woman' archetype to balance out the wacky and corrupt manchildren they're paired with, but they really just turn out to be a different, often scarier kind of crazy from the rest of the cast, which still plays off them well, especially since they're both among the most physically formidable people on the show. Fry and Leela definitely played the 'will they or won't they' card way too long and too much, though it seems their relationship can actually work; mostly that Leela can actually relax and enjoy Fry's company, while she seems so high-strung around everyone else. (Archer and Lana are... another story)
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Futurama is on syfy now apparently. I caught a couple of episodes while working the nightshift at my job. It was astounding how much faster the jokes came in original series episodes compared to the comedy central series. The writing budget was a small fraction of what it used to be and it really showed.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Leela kinda reminds me of Lana from Archer; on paper they're kind of the 'grounded, sensible woman' archetype to balance out the wacky and corrupt manchildren they're paired with, but they really just turn out to be a different, often scarier kind of crazy from the rest of the cast, which still plays off them well, especially since they're both among the most physically formidable people on the show. Archer might be a special case because everyone in the main cast is a nutjob.
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Samuringa posted:Archer might be a special case because everyone in the main cast is a nutjob. Well, yes, just that Lana is a different kind of nutjob, mostly in that she still convinces herself she's doing the right thing. I do like the flashback scene where she's holding the paint bucket for a bunch of Fur Is Murder protesters when Malory walks out of the boutique and pulls a revolver on them, and all of the protesters flee but Lana, and Malory hires her on the spot.
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Yeah CC Futurama was a definite drop in quality, but sometimes they were still able to knock lines out of the park. Like the episode with the rapidly evolving robot planet, where the robo pterodactyl grabs Fry and he shouts "this is a really cool way to die!!" As he's carried off.
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The time travel episode was good. "That Fry's dead now" was a drat fine line.rodbeard posted:Futurama is on syfy now apparently. I caught a couple of episodes while working the nightshift at my job. It was astounding how much faster the jokes came in original series episodes compared to the comedy central series. The writing budget was a small fraction of what it used to be and it really showed. I watched every episode as it aired, both original and zombie series. But I've caught a bunch of the later episodes on youtube and had absolutely no memory of them at all. They were just that forgettable. There were a few laughs, to be sure, but mostly it was just a sad, pale echo.
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Gorilla Salad posted:But I've caught a bunch of the later episodes on youtube and had absolutely no memory of them at all. They were just that forgettable. This applies to post-Season 10 Simpsons as well. Except, y'know, I've actually seen all of the CC Futurama episodes.
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I've heard that The Simpsons has been reasonably good for the past few years after a long stretch of being terrible but I haven't seen enough new episodes to know whether that's accurate or not. I liked that episode set 20 years in the future, where Bart and Lisa sit in their old treehouse and wonder whether or not they've been good parents and there's a "time passes" sequence related via family Christmas photos.
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Caught an episode of Married with Children this morning where Peggy had to get a job because Al wouldn't buy her a VCR (that's dated by itself) and she's talking about an episode of Oprah she's missing. The topic? "Transgender people - which bathroom do they use". Ouch.
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Choco1980 posted:Yeah CC Futurama was a definite drop in quality, but sometimes they were still able to knock lines out of the park. Like the episode with the rapidly evolving robot planet, where the robo pterodactyl grabs Fry and he shouts "this is a really cool way to die!!" As he's carried off. Everything I hear about the CC Futurama makes me glad that I never picked it up. I own the original seasons plus the first two movies and saw the other two on Netflix (The Beast with a Billion Backs was horrid), and I feel that's just a satisfactory end for me. Wheat Loaf posted:I liked that episode set 20 years in the future, where Bart and Lisa sit in their old treehouse and wonder whether or not they've been good parents and there's a "time passes" sequence related via family Christmas photos. The sad thing is that episode is 3 or 4 years old now. The problem with the Simpsons is that it has one or two decent enough episodes per year, that's enough to keep the faithful satiated and telling everyone that it's good again (it's not).
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Iron Crowned posted:The sad thing is that episode is 3 or 4 years old now. The problem with the Simpsons is that it has one or two decent enough episodes per year, that's enough to keep the faithful satiated and telling everyone that it's good again (it's not). I feel like you can take any season from peak era Simpsons and start each episode expecting it to be good and it's a disappointing surprise when it isn't, whereas in the subsequent years, you start an episode expecting it to be disappointing and then it's a pleasant surprise when it's good. 
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Iron Crowned posted:Everything I hear about the CC Futurama makes me glad that I never picked it up. I own the original seasons plus the first two movies and saw the other two on Netflix (The Beast with a Billion Backs was horrid), and I feel that's just a satisfactory end for me. I finally got around to watching the new Futurama episodes and... eurgh. I can't remember the plots of more than a handful of them, and I have no interest in rewatching any of them. This is from someone who has watched the original episodes dozens of times over the years. They are boring, unfunny AND they've done weird things to Leela and Amy as fan-service - suddenly they are super best friends who are actually really catty to each other, 'cos that's women for ya! They spend a noticeable amount of time in their underwear too. 
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Mister Kingdom posted:Caught an episode of Married with Children this morning where Peggy had to get a job because Al wouldn't buy her a VCR (that's dated by itself) and she's talking about an episode of Oprah she's missing. The topic? "Transgender people - which bathroom do they use". I thought we were still having that debate because people care entirely too much about keeping women and children safe from those icky transpeople 
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Iron Crowned posted:The sad thing is that episode is 3 or 4 years old now. The problem with the Simpsons is that it has one or two decent enough episodes per year, that's enough to keep the faithful satiated and telling everyone that it's good again (it's not). My metric for the Simpsons is the Treehouse of Horror Test. It's the one episode a year when they can do anything and go all out. If that's not funny, there's no point watching the rest of the season.
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