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Crazy how these eps have aged. The past really is a different planet
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You guys realise Lord Business was the bad guy, right.
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May 20, 2018 20:26
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Is this the "TV shows aging badly" thread or the "Ask?Tell! me about depreciation of collectible toys" one? Maybe to dial it back on topic a little and tie it into TV, when I was a kid I had the "Six Million Dollar Man", "Fonzie", "KISS" (they were on TV a lot) plus several Evil Knievel action figures and toys (who was also on TV a lot) and if I hadn't, you know, played with the loving things, I might be rich right now. Six Million Dollar Man and Happy Days (and its spin offs) haven't aged too well at all TBH. The first 2 seasons or so of each are pretty good. SMDM was a pretty cool sci fi show until bigfoot, the wife and the dog showed up. Happy Days was a pretty well written slice of life show in the spirit of American Graffiti that could have been The Wonder Years of its time if they had been able to avoid turning Fonzie into the main character and making him into a superhero. He was a high school dropout, a misogynist and a narcissistic bully who somehow became a role model. A Six Million Dollar Man comedy/satire movie could be a lot of fun along the lines of Starsky and Hutch or 21 Jump Street if they did it right. Actually, a serious reboot could even work if they wanted to go that route. The Wonder Years is great and holds up really well because they never really strayed from the formula or had a spin off character. Plus the child actors were all really really good.
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May 20, 2018 20:37
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Wheat Loaf posted:I will forever remember the day I was in a toy shop with my dad and he said I was too old for Lego now but he'd buy me a book for my birthday instead. Is it possible to get too old for Lego? Like I'm 35 right now and will play with some Legos right drat now if there were some available. Building stuff never, ever gets old. I think that's why Minecraft got so popular; it's basically Legos.
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May 20, 2018 20:49
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I want to say a few years back they tried rebooting the Bionic Woman as a modern, serious show, but it went over about as well as a turd in the punchbowl and was canceled in half a season.
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May 20, 2018 20:55
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Hell, put it on the CW, throw it into a crossover, and give them a snarky sidekick, and you're golden. If you can get some fans from the DC shows, you'll have six seasons on your hands. Get them with the Supernatural guys, and you'll be crossing over with Scooby Doo before you know it.
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May 20, 2018 21:02
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Choco1980 posted:I want to say a few years back they tried rebooting the Bionic Woman as a modern, serious show, but it went over about as well as a turd in the punchbowl and was canceled in half a season. I believe that was one of the victims of the WGA strike in 2007.
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May 20, 2018 21:05
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Wheat Loaf posted:I believe that was one of the victims of the WGA strike in 2007. He’s not wrong about the reception, though.
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May 20, 2018 21:08
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Sure, I never saw it but I remember reading the script for the pilot episode a while ago and thinking it didn't seem great. I mentioned recently in TVIV that the show I liked from that period (though I don't think it was a WGA strike victim - it just didn't find its audience and was cancelled after one season) was a show called Kidnapped, in which Jeremy Sisto and Delroy Lindo played a private detective specialising in kidnappings and an FBI agent respectively trying to locate a millionaire's kidnapped son. It had a complete 13-episode arc but ended with a possible hook for more, but in a way that was disappointing more than frustrating.
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May 20, 2018 21:12
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BiggerBoat posted:
i watched a ton of the wonder years when i was younger despite never liking that show. but you watch what you can when you grow up with only a few television channels. here is the only thing about it that i still like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=admHZRGVMzc Hackers film 1995 has a new favorite as of 22:07 on May 20, 2018 |
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May 20, 2018 22:04
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:i watched a ton of the wonder years when i was younger despite never liking that show. but you watch what you can when you grow up with only a few television channels. here is the only thing that i still like about that show Nice, it's like Garfield Without Garfield.
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May 20, 2018 22:06
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The Six Million Dollar Man was good because of his experience in Venture Bros and this line: "Bigfoot doesn't have anything you haven't seen before." "BIGFOOT IS SOMETHING I HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE!"
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May 20, 2018 22:31
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BiggerBoat posted:
Kevin Smith was hired to write a SMDM movie, but it never went anywhere. He eventually wrote a comic book, but I don't know if it was based on his script.
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May 20, 2018 22:43
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:i watched a ton of the wonder years when i was younger despite never liking that show. but you watch what you can when you grow up with only a few television channels. here is the only thing about it that i still like I'm glad I wasn't the only one who did that. I hated that show but watched every loving episode.
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May 20, 2018 22:47
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The constant narration is insufferable. That's a personal peeve though and I dislike it in anything. I can't even watch Shawshank anymore.
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May 20, 2018 22:52
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BiggerBoat posted:I I mean, they already did do that
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May 20, 2018 23:15
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A Six Million Dollar man where they use 2018's six million dollars, so the upgrades are all minimalistic and he has to be creative with them
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May 20, 2018 23:19
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Samuringa posted:A Six Million Dollar man where they use 2018's six million dollars, so the upgrades are all minimalistic and he has to be creative with them That was kind of the plot of Smith's script
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May 20, 2018 23:24
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Samuringa posted:A Six Million Dollar man where they use 2018's six million dollars, so the upgrades are all minimalistic and he has to be creative with them Or where they use an inflation -adjusted amount but every limb has a different EULA and service contract and every time he tries to do anything bionic, he has to wait for an upgrade to be applied.
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May 20, 2018 23:36
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The free-to-use man, where all his upgrades are ad supported and before he can use them he has to sit through an unskippable 30 second ad for a really shady sounding futures trading app.
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May 20, 2018 23:40
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The cloud-based, monthly subscription man who is the fastest and strongest man alive, but only when he has a good wifi signal.
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May 20, 2018 23:58
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I thought the Smith version (and pitches in the years since) did increase the 'cost' of the procedure. $60M, $600M and I think even a $6B Man title change at one point. Another option might be to go, paraphrasing an episode of Law and Order: "In raw materials, before this procedures the actual monetary value of your body was a little over six dollars." Just put a quote like that with an addition of, "Your body now? In raw materials alone, the actual monetary value of your body is now Six-million dollars."
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May 21, 2018 00:10
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Samuringa posted:A Six Million Dollar man where they use 2018's six million dollars, so the upgrades are all minimalistic and he has to be creative with them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKCnBRSd2ns
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May 21, 2018 00:36
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Or his add ons all use Windows 8, and he is plagued by ransomware and each week he needs to find a way to get bitcoins without being robbed, scammed or stabbed to get them functioning again.
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May 21, 2018 02:47
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poptart_fairy posted:You guys realise Lord Business was the bad guy, right. Lol, I said that exact thing to someone in the Lego thread who was sperging out about "Lego has instructions so you know what to build" Getting back on topic, I watched Eddy Murphy's Dynamite special on Netflix recently. Two things stood out as pretty aged. The first one was his opening joke about how he constantly walks around on stage so "faggots can't stare at my rear end". The second one was when he took an audience member's camera to take photos and joked about how the guy developing them would wonder why there's a picture of Eddy Murphy's crotch on there.
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May 21, 2018 12:26
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A few years ago my kids were in their LEGO phase and all they wanted was a drat Spider-man minifigure. But this was before the reboots so it was the old Toby McGuire Spider-man that cost about $30. Once LEGO released the new series those prices went down considerably. I think they're as low as $8 now. So there's a definite risk to banking on scarcity. Like my new in box Back to the Future set that I will someday retire on will be worth far less if LEGO decides to release it again. Your only safe bet are sets that no one wanted when they were new. So your Jake Gyllenhaal Prince of Persia minifig can only appreciate in value because that poo poo's never getting a sequel or reboot. poptart_fairy posted:You guys realise Lord Business was the bad guy, right. Lord Business is a stage all LEGO users must go through.
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May 21, 2018 12:48
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:
Nowadays nobody knows WHAT Eddie Murphy's crotch looks like.
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May 21, 2018 14:28
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I'd like to shout out to The West Wing for having the President say "Make America New Again" in one episode.
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May 21, 2018 14:40
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Watched an episode of SVU the other night where Dr. Huang told a kid that "school shootings are actually pretty rare" which got a sad chuckle out of me.
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May 21, 2018 16:29
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MisterDuck posted:Watched an episode of SVU the other night where Dr. Huang told a kid that "school shootings are actually pretty rare" which got a sad chuckle out of me. They are, sometimes we go weeks with out one. Weeks.
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May 21, 2018 16:58
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Lol, I said that exact thing to someone in the Lego thread who was sperging out about "Lego has instructions so you know what to build" In Delirious he mentions that he doesn't want to "kiss a guy with a mouth full of AIDS" then there's one in RAW that I think aged like fine wine, a long story about him getting chewed off for using too much profanity in his stand-ups. By Bill Cosby.
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May 21, 2018 17:04
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George Carlin's rape jokes were pretty loving uncomfortable. And it wasn't even something you could pass off as a simpler time like David Bowie and 14 year olds in the 70's. He was telling those jokes in 1990. I hadn't listened to the routine since then so I just tried looking it up and now the hot take is Carlin was trying to fight the idea that women are asking through humor, but it really sounds like he's just joking about rape.
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May 21, 2018 17:22
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Samuringa posted:In Delirious he mentions that he doesn't want to "kiss a guy with a mouth full of AIDS" You can get AIDS from a kiss if the person you're kissing has, like, aggressively, why the gently caress are you kissing this person bleeding gums, isn't taking any medication for the AIDS and the other party has an open sore in their mouth. Last time I heard about all that happening was 90s or early 2000s, though. Not that that extremely rare set of conditions is what the guy in the thing was referring to. Just wanted to share.
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May 21, 2018 18:19
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Volcott posted:You can get AIDS from a kiss if the person you're kissing has, like, aggressively, why the gently caress are you kissing this person bleeding gums, isn't taking any medication for the AIDS and the other party has an open sore in their mouth. Last time I heard about all that happening was 90s or early 2000s, though. How dare his rampant homophobia not make any sense!
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May 21, 2018 18:34
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Lord Sexatron posted:How dare his rampant homophobia not make any sense! 
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May 21, 2018 18:38
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Lord Sexatron posted:How dare his rampant homophobia not make any sense! Tbf I’m sure Eddie Murphy wouldn’t want to kiss a woman with a mouthful of aids either
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May 21, 2018 18:41
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The Bloop posted:________________/ I miss being a stupid newbie.
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May 21, 2018 18:42
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Lord Sexatron posted:I miss being a stupid newbie. give lowtax $5 to buy a spine and give yourself a new look. Maybe a cute puppy
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May 21, 2018 18:46
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The Bloop posted:give lowtax $5 to buy a spine and give yourself a new look. Maybe a cute puppy Oh! Oh! Or maybe like a robot fighting a dinosaur!
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The Bloop posted:________________/ Speaking of, didn't Trump say (back in the 90's or whenver) that he'd totally bone Princess Di (and/or that she totally wanted to bone him?) but he'd make her get an AIDS test first, presumably because of the times she shook hands/hugged people w/ HIV and Trump is an idiot?
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