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Jose Oquendo posted:God I love that show so loving much. I love every Danny McBride show, but Eastbound and Down's cold open's are unparalleled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drc219mQlqg
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:I love every Danny McBride show, but Eastbound and Down's cold open's are unparalleled. I'm sorry, but that scene is severely lacking without the full, black bikers week intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQF5kDmXkGk
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veni veni veni posted:His one scene in Eastbound was a classic Goddamn Eastbound and Down was incredible.
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The final scene of season 3 was so good as a series finale and would have been a perfect send off. Then they hit us with the 4th season that somehow ended up with an even better ending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2lrqKPa83g Just incredible George H.W. Cunt fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Righteous Gemstones is definitely the better written show. You can just see all the thought and care that goes into every detail: the writing, the jokes, the sets, little things the actors do. But, Eastbound is so loving batshit insane and you gotta love that too. Season 2 Kenny goes to loving Mexico to be a cockfighter and do drugs and get cornrows. it felt like HBO gave them that money and they just went hog wild.
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The ending of eastbound is one of the funniest, most insane things I have ever seen. Part of me was almost bummed they wussed out and made it bs from his memoir, but I get why they did it.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Righteous Gemstones is definitely the better written show. You can just see all the thought and care that goes into every detail: the writing, the jokes, the sets, little things the actors do. I agree gemstones is the better written show. Vice principles is better written too. But in concept and how actually funny the show is as a whole, eastbound and down wins every single time, and by a mile.
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Pilfered Pallbearers posted:Yeah my bad, I have a terrible memory and his name is what was stuck in my head. Yeah I think I heard McBride in an interview refer to them as “Southern Toxic Masculinity Trilogy” or something to the effect and that’s really stuck with me. FishBowlRobot posted:He has a couple lines at a party they pass through. He’s hanging on a couch with Ben Best (played Clegg in Eastbound & Down, co-created the show). Best is the one who notices blood on Jonah Hill’s pants. Best will always be Clegg in my mind, a typical Southern frat bro just barely on the side of not being total white trash. Sadly, Best unexpectedly passed away a couple of years ago. I don’t think it ever was shared why.  PantsBandit posted:Goddamn Eastbound and Down was incredible.  That show was so loving good, probably one of the best pilots I’ve ever seen and while the quality of it throughout was pretty uneven, still one of the funniest shows in the last 20-30 years IMO. It also had a ton of very funny and talented people with supporting roles and cameos like McConaughey, Adam Scott, Jason Sudeikis, Ike Barinholtz, Tim Heidecker, Jillian Bell, Michael Peña, Ken Marino, and probably others I’m forgetting. In a way, I think it’s underrated how good the writing was since McBride’s performance as Kenny (understandably) sucked up all of the attention and the pathos he brought to such an over the top character was impressive. Also the poo poo they had Stevie say and do was so goddamn funny. Full disclosure - I can no longer visit restaurants when I go back home to the South (Georgia) and not think of this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edc0LbLWZyc Fake edit: the music choices for their shows are also incredible. As mentioned by others, Freddy King in the EB&D cold opens and smash cut to title are the greatest and just the song choices throughout. Double fake edit: as someone recently mentioned, their use of slo mo for the dumbest, funniest stuff is unparalleled. Post your favorite slow mo clips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxWsyUp97rg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfx1v-vgW-I sticksy fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Feeeeeeeeexins is absolutely one of the funniest bits they’ve done.
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Eastbound is a relentless assault of some of the funniest poo poo I have ever watched. I really think it's on the short list of of funniest pieces of media ever made. I don't think Vice Principles or Gemstones is necessarily better written, but they are as focused on the story as much as the gags where in E&D the gag is king. They all do what they set out to do very well. Ultimately I think Eastbound is still my favorite, but the margin is so small it's almost not even worth ranking. all three have been A+ shows.
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I counter all your favorite funny EB&D lines/scenes with one of my favorite ones from Vice Principals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGPM_pk-gbM&t=51s The delivery on "...Wassup?" is priceless.  Fuckin' love Goggins.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Feeeeeeeeexins is absolutely one of the funniest bits they’ve done. YOU CLEAN UP THOSE FEEEEXINS!
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The first episode of season 4 of EB&D is maybe, maybe the greatest 30 minutes of television ever made.
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i can feel it... down in ma pluuums
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Every clip I’ve ever seen of Eastbound is hilarious but I’ve tried to get into the show itself multiple times and failed. I don’t know why.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Every clip I’ve ever seen of Eastbound is hilarious but I’ve tried to get into the show itself multiple times and failed. I don’t know why. I tried the first couple episodes because of this thread and I failed to get into it because they were unfunny dogshit.
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For me Vice Principals is the best, with Gemstones right behind it. EB&D is a solid third place.  Henchman of Santa posted:Every clip I’ve ever seen of Eastbound is hilarious but I’ve tried to get into the show itself multiple times and failed. I don’t know why. I enjoyed the first season, but for some reason season 2 made me fall off. I think it was the setting change?
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Henchman of Santa posted:Every clip I’ve ever seen of Eastbound is hilarious but I’ve tried to get into the show itself multiple times and failed. I don’t know why. My mother in law feels similar despite absolutely loving vice principles and gemstones. He’s just too mean for her, and she doesn’t find the mean thing funny. Eastbound is significantly stupider and significantly meaner, and I think that’s what people have a problem with. But I think it’s the GOAT.
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I wonder if you've had to have known a kenny to like a kenny show or if that makes things worse for some people
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I think I can watch it because I don't know a Kenny Powers. Just like I Think You Should Leave, the characters don't seem like they could be real, so the cringe doesn't bother me.
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Y’all should watch foot fist way then My parents owned a martial arts school and the movie felt like a documentary to me. It just felt too close to home and accurate.
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sonatinas posted:Y’all should watch foot fist way then That movie is loving hilarious too.
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Gemstones is my favorite of this "trilogy" just because it's the most relatable to me. But Eastbound is only edged out by the thinnest of hairs in my book. I rewatched the series last year and it was great how well its held up, but a lot of things hit totally different now. I loved Vice Principles, but of the three shows that one is the most mean spirited. I quote it constantly, but of the set it's an easy #3 for me.
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the holy poopacy posted:I tried the first couple episodes because of this thread and I failed to get into it because they were unfunny dogshit. I truly do not understand the mindset of someone who likes Gemstones but would call EB&D "unfunny dogshit". It's all of the same writers and directors, the same style of humor, same lead actor. Makes no sense at all.
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I'm rewatching Eastbound and just got to the Don Johnson episode. I totally forgot he was in this and who his character is.
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veni veni veni posted:I truly do not understand the mindset of someone who likes Gemstones but would call EB&D "unfunny dogshit". It's all of the same writers and directors, the same style of humor, same lead actor. Makes no sense at all. What, you think none of them learned a single thing in 10 years of practicing their craft? Like, here's an example of one of the few "jokes" I found in the first ~1 hour of EB&D: a dorky white collar professional asks Kenny if he wants a smoothie and Kenny says "no thanks, I'm straight." Gemstones doesn't shy from having characters drop these kinds of lines either, but in Gemstones it would be a throwaway line, something squeezed in among half a dozen funnier lines in rapid-fire bickering. Eastbound & Down thought that it was so clever that it deserved half a scene dedicated to it, giving it time to hang in the air so that you can really appreciate what a hilarious knee-slapper it is. People have shared some hilarious clips in here, so obviously it gets better at some point, but if I'm weird for not finding the first few episodes funny then I'm pretty happy with that.
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the holy poopacy posted:a dorky white collar professional asks Kenny if he wants a smoothie and Kenny says "no thanks, I'm straight." lmfao
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I think it really finds it footing throughout the first season and is firing on all cylinders/is just as good as gemstones by season 2. But even if it's a bit amateurish early on I think it's a far cry for being unfunny dogshit. There's some great bits even from the first episode.
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EB&D has no Walton Goggins. Therefore it is the worst of the three
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Vice Principals is my favorite because it's the meanest. And it's really tight, it seems like a longer show when I think about it but it was only two seasons. Much as I love Baby Billy, Lee Russell is my favorite Goggins just for how blatantly psychotic he is. EB&D is the best for watching random clips though, even if you aren't familiar with the show. Feeexins.
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Yeah EB&D makes some really great clips. I think the one youtube clip I recently saw about the feeeexins was hilarious because of how insane it is between the two clips. Where Stevie has a bunch of plastic surgery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoZ9PbHfPP8
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wizardofloneliness posted:Vice Principals is my favorite because it's the meanest. And it's really tight, it seems like a longer show when I think about it but it was only two seasons. Much as I love Baby Billy, Lee Russell is my favorite Goggins just for how blatantly psychotic he is. Lee Russell is on a whole other level of crazy I still personally like Eastbound the most of the shows, but they are all great in their own ways
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Yeah, VP is absolutely the most mean-spirited of the three..there are two adult characters who aren't assholes (Russell's wife and the step-dad Ray) plus Gamby's kid. Everyone else just fuckin' sucks, at least once. I love mean shows though, so it's my favorite.  the holy poopacy posted:Gemstones doesn't shy from having characters drop these kinds of lines either, but in Gemstones it would be a throwaway line, something squeezed in among half a dozen funnier lines in rapid-fire bickering. I agree with you on this part. mutantIke posted:EB&D has no Walton Goggins. Therefore it is the worst of the three wizardofloneliness posted:Much as I love Baby Billy, Lee Russell is my favorite Goggins just for how blatantly psychotic he is. 
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Cojawfee posted:Yeah EB&D makes some really great clips. I think the one youtube clip I recently saw about the feeeexins was hilarious because of how insane it is between the two clips. Where Stevie has a bunch of plastic surgery. Can you post the hilarious clip?
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clown shoes posted:Can you post the hilarious clip? Not the show's fault your sense of humor sucks
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