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I just watched all of a 20 year old show called “Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place” and you know what? Still rock solid. The first season even has the guy who played the Shogun of Harlem in it! It had weird episodes like one that had no dialogue only music, and Halloween episodes where they switch brains, the girl grows a penis, and they all get shrunk down and eaten by a cat.
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Sep 2, 2020 03:44
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:I just watched all of a 20 year old show called “Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place” and you know what? Still rock solid. The first season even has the guy who played the Shogun of Harlem in it! It had weird episodes like one that had no dialogue only music, and Halloween episodes where they switch brains, the girl grows a penis, and they all get shrunk down and eaten by a cat. Sounds about as hosed up as the final seasons of Family Matters, which also features mind swaps and characters shrinking and being chased by a pet (I think).
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Sep 2, 2020 03:49
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Wasn't Ryan Reynolds in that?
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Sep 2, 2020 04:17
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packetmantis posted:Wasn't Ryan Reynolds in that? And Nathan Fillion
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Sep 2, 2020 04:20
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:I just watched all of a 20 year old show called “Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place” and you know what? Still rock solid. The first season even has the guy who played the Shogun of Harlem in it! It had weird episodes like one that had no dialogue only music, and Halloween episodes where they switch brains, the girl grows a penis, and they all get shrunk down and eaten by a cat. i remember it being a good show... but it doesn't hold up a candle to stark raving mad 
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Sep 2, 2020 04:51
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:I just watched all of a 20 year old show called “Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place” and you know what? Still rock solid. The first season even has the guy who played the Shogun of Harlem in it! It had weird episodes like one that had no dialogue only music, and Halloween episodes where they switch brains, the girl grows a penis, and they all get shrunk down and eaten by a cat. I vaguely recall watching that show a lot, but the only memory remaining of it was a Halloween episode where a cop dismisses the main characters ranting about a killer and mentions he's late for his retirement party. Ryan Reynolds says "Well, he's dead." And he was.
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Sep 2, 2020 04:56
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It could have been called “2 Green Lanterns and a Deadpool”Melaneus posted:I vaguely recall watching that show a lot, but the only memory remaining of it was a Halloween episode where a cop dismisses the main characters ranting about a killer and mentions he's late for his retirement party. Ryan Reynolds says "Well, he's dead." And he was. In that episode every one of the main characters dies. At the end there is a “Next time on 2 guys and girl” and it’s just the empty sets.
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Sep 2, 2020 05:01
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:
Red Dwarf did a similar thing like this with "Smeg". They didn't want to use real swear words, but they also didn't want to use weaksauce insults like "gosh" or "drat". So they wrote in "Smeg" as a replacement space swear word so the dialogue could flow naturally, and pass the censors.
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Sep 2, 2020 05:03
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Sounds about as hosed up as the final seasons of Family Matters, which also features mind swaps and characters shrinking and being chased by a pet (I think). Family Matters was doing wacky poo poo like that ever since they introduced Stefan in the fifth season. It just got worse as Urkel got more popular.
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Sep 2, 2020 05:17
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Vandar posted:Family Matters was doing wacky poo poo like that ever since they introduced Stefan in the fifth season. It just got worse as Urkel got more popular. Weren't a lot of sitcoms guilty of wacky poo poo to one degree or another back then? Sure, Family Matters got wackier than most, but, it seemed like any sitcom that went on long enough started feeling the need to introduce zany elements to shake things up.
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Sep 2, 2020 06:05
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BrigadierSensible posted:Red Dwarf did a similar thing like this with "Smeg". They didn't want to use real swear words, but they also didn't want to use weaksauce insults like "gosh" or "drat". So they wrote in "Smeg" as a replacement space swear word so the dialogue could flow naturally, and pass the censors. And also makes it extra funny that Smeg is a brand of appliances. Fake slang/swears is a hard thing to do. Adventure Time and Will Save The Galaxy For Food both have mathematical terms for them respectively.
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Sep 2, 2020 06:12
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Schwarbage.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:And also makes it extra funny that Smeg is a brand of appliances. Tranch sounds really nasty in the way the voice actors put stank on it in Adventure Time.
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Sep 2, 2020 06:18
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"Whomps" from Recess is my personal favorite. Plus they had an episode where they clearly illustrate that hard work will only get you so far, you have to exploit others to make the big bucks. Pretty solid show from what I remember
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Sep 2, 2020 07:17
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Ghost Leviathan posted:And also makes it extra funny that Smeg is a brand of appliances. It helps that Adventure Time used 'Balzac' as a rude word.
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Sep 2, 2020 07:31
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What a Dumas.
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Sep 2, 2020 07:55
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hard counter posted:i remember it being a good show... but it doesn't hold up a candle to stark raving mad Stark raving mad was so good and I miss it
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Sep 2, 2020 07:56
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the_steve posted:Weren't a lot of sitcoms guilty of wacky poo poo to one degree or another back then? Sometimes you gotta jump the shark Dreadwind posted:"Whomps" from Recess is my personal favorite. Plus they had an episode where they clearly illustrate that hard work will only get you so far, you have to exploit others to make the big bucks. Pretty solid show from what I remember Recess was a great show that for some reason I think would hold up better than other shows from that era.
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Sep 2, 2020 08:09
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Tranch sounds really nasty in the way the voice actors put stank on it in Adventure Time. I have called someone a globless tranch under my breath once and felt very satisfied with my word choices. This was definitely after age 30 so I should probably not feel so smug about it, but let’s be real, that’s a satisfying insult.
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Sep 2, 2020 08:13
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the_steve posted:Weren't a lot of sitcoms guilty of wacky poo poo to one degree or another back then? Weird thing is I think the more recent trend is to go the other way around; The Big Bang Theory for one gradually turned into all of the characters getting married and having kids.
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Sep 2, 2020 08:17
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Cleretic posted:That's a technique I've seen in a few places, and it's a good idea, as long as your teens are... actually written like teens. The comic strip For Better Or Worse went down that road and just made it look even more hopelessly out of touch. 
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Sep 2, 2020 10:02
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Tiggum posted:You're telling me this isn't how the kids are talking these days? What a pair of foobs.
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Sep 2, 2020 10:26
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Re: Better or Worse. Didn't the author's husband divorce her, and from then on the father character got shat on/character assassinated in the comic? Or am I thinking of someone else?
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Sep 2, 2020 10:35
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Pretty much. Most of the characters are based on her family. The most egregious one is the son. I think the story goes that in real life he was a photographer for a newspaper, shot some pictures of a fatal car crash that he later learned was his friend. In the comic Lynn re-wrote it so he saved his friend from the car and he later married her. Also he's actually gay in real life, but straight in Lynn's perfect little comic world.
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Sep 2, 2020 11:37
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That strip always seemed off to my 10 years old brain when I was reading the newspaper comics every day. Is this a rabbit hole worth pursuing? I love hearing about weird creators. Also is it time to talk about Bosom Buddies yet? 
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Sep 2, 2020 12:45
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the_steve posted:Weren't a lot of sitcoms guilty of wacky poo poo to one degree or another back then? Now I'm really wishing there was a season of Frasier with body-swapping hijinks and time travel.
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Sep 2, 2020 12:51
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Bomrek posted:That strip always seemed off to my 10 years old brain when I was reading the newspaper comics every day. Is this a rabbit hole worth pursuing? I love hearing about weird creators. But Bosom Buddies is good. Actually it's probably aged like a body in a trunk, but it was always means to be absurd. And I still haven't fully recovered from seeing Peter Scolari's junk in 'Girls'.
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Sep 2, 2020 12:55
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Bomrek posted:That strip always seemed off to my 10 years old brain when I was reading the newspaper comics every day. Is this a rabbit hole worth pursuing? I love hearing about weird creators. It was bad enough to get three iterations of its own mock thread way back when which eventually just evolved into the comics strip thread in BSS. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2385104 Its in the goldmine but the images are all dead now which makes it kind of useless
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Sep 2, 2020 12:58
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Ghost Leviathan posted:And also makes it extra funny that Smeg is a brand of appliances. Smeg works I think because it's short & punchy in the same way gently caress is, and also cos it's already similar to a word that describes a gross thing but is not actually a swear word. Kind of the opposite, but in Deadwood iirc they went with modern swearing instead of period accurate curses because it would have sounded a bit silly to modern ears and neutered the impact of the dialogue.
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Sep 2, 2020 13:02
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Didn't everyone just say Smeg's good, but frack was great because it's close enough to the real word that, if I'm remembering correctly, the Sci-Fi (gently caress SyFy) channel still got Nothing beats forking though.
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Sep 2, 2020 13:59
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Krispy Wafer posted:Didn't everyone just say I think the problem is that when a word is clearly used as a substitute, it feels artificial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcGKNlIO2mI
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Sep 2, 2020 14:08
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Awwww son of a hazmot! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCNDdlCo4rA&t=22s
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Moo the cow posted:I think the problem is that when a word is clearly used as a substitute, it feels artificial: Another strength of 'smeg', it actually isn't a straight one-to-one for any swear. It's clear what 'tier' of swear it is (roughly on the level of 'gently caress' and 'poo poo'), but that's about it, you can't even get a full idea if it's a noun or a verb. And nobody explains it, because it's just a term that everyone in the show already knows.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:08
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It's smegma, you fool.
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Smeg honestly is more offensive. Like when newspaper quotes write it as "rear end****" because it's a reference to an orifice.
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Sep 2, 2020 17:38
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My aunt had a copy of a for better or worse book that was all the strips about the dog Farley from when he was a puppy til when he died saving the little kid from a river. It was pretty traumatic. Not futurama sad but kind of messed up for a newspaper comic
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Sep 2, 2020 17:45
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Ambitious Spider posted:My aunt had a copy of a for better or worse book that was all the strips about the dog Farley from when he was a puppy til when he died saving the little kid from a river. Calvin and Hobbes had some sad arcs iirc. The burglary and maybe one other.
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Sep 2, 2020 18:06
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Calvin and Hobbes had some sad arcs iirc. The injured bird that Calvin finds.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Calvin and Hobbes had some sad arcs iirc. Yea, but there’s a difference between sad, and our kid being an idiot killed the beloved family pet. Like you could have the dog die heroically and not be the kids fault. I don’t know if the comic even thought this much about the story arc though so whatever. The Calvin raccoon arc is goddamn heartbreaking
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