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DrVenkman posted:Well, which one was it? It's The Twilight Zone, if they weren't dead the entire time then they're a secret robot or an alien.
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Ravane posted:It's only 2015 when this technology goes mainstream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSheVhmcYLA Remember how in 2008 during Halloween every other person was The Joker? This year it's going to be a sea of Griff Tannens and Marty McFlys.
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Jan 3, 2015 15:55
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Aphrodite posted:The ending to HIMYM is the best joke in the show's run and gets funnier every time PriorMarcus posts about it. The punchline is that after half a decade of armchair television writing experts declaring LOST and BSG to be Objectively Terrible because they didn't have a set ending in mind and adapted the plot as the circumstances surrounding the show changed over its run, they turned around and complained that the ending to HIMYM was terrible because they had a set ending in mind and they didn't adapt the plot as the circumstances surrounding the show changed over its run.
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Jan 4, 2015 20:18
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The Nastier Nate posted:The other problem is that at some point after the first season, NBC figured out they could make dump trucks of money by having half the challenges be about promoting some company. Which is why they are so many "create an advertising campaign for -". Just like Mad Men  I don't really watch a lot of reality TV but that clip of the episode of Survivor that was one giant ad for an Adam Sandler movie is one of the most uncomfortable things I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUTsTSxb5O8
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Jan 5, 2015 05:19
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Sober posted:No, I am pretty liberal myself but I do question if people who say, watch Mad Men because everyone else that they share values (liberal middle class is usually tied to MM viewers) with does it too, and not because they actually like it on their own merits. Watching prestige television for prestige television sake feels like the current cultural version of keeping up with the Joneses. You pretty much just described the entire audience of Duck Dynasty. It's a fake boring commercial that became a hit when every evangelical in America was obligated to watch it because the family prays on-screen a few times.
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Jan 6, 2015 03:11
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raditts posted:I've looked at a couple and I don't see any way they could be considered "great." Is this like an "ironic" thing or...? Fake alternate TV intros are a meme as old as YouTube. There were some good ones back in the day but they had actual effort and creativity involved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHuFvbSMa1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmpAx8Z5z40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t94LtCvP9ck
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Jan 6, 2015 05:56
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zoux posted:Whoa somebody put the whole first season of friends up on youtube! I think YouTube is getting more lax in their copyright enforcement, somebody also uploaded every episodes of The Simpsons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEoPJBhdVOE
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Jan 7, 2015 01:32
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CaptainHollywood posted:They could not have gotten any luckier starting production on that since the popularity of Serial. This is going to be a huge hit I'm sure of it. Nah, now the hivemind thinks that Serial was never good and Sarah Koenig is a hack because it didn't miraculously solve a real-life murder mystery in 12 episodes.
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Jan 8, 2015 04:10
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Aye Doc posted:av club released the first part of their top sitcom episodes of the past 25 years for everyone who loves to argue about dumb poo poo like this If somebody made a Chrome extension that would block listicles and any post linking to them I would download it in an instant.
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Jan 15, 2015 01:38
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Seams posted:AV Club sure do a lot of lists these days. It's a quick an easy way to get a ton of pageviews and attention for almost no effort. Case in point: the past two pages.
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Jan 15, 2015 20:45
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If you have archives it's really cool to read the original thread for season one of Breaking Bad because from the very first episode people were raving about how it was the best show on television. It wasn't until the season two thread that the Skyler hate and ridiculous "calling it" started, it's mostly just people in awe of what a brilliant show it is.
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Jan 17, 2015 04:26
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hcreight posted:In "Holy poo poo!" news, Fox is in talks with Chris Carter to bring back The X-Files. With Mulder and Scully. It's great because this week Gillian Anderson was on the Nerdist podcast and she spent like a third of the interview coyly going "Do you think there would be any interest in X-Files returning? What do you think it would be about?" in a way that made me immediately think that something was already in motion behind the scenes. Ariza posted:Is this the version on Netflix? I've been meaning to rewatch it with Kumail's podcast, but I had no idea that they had an HD version available. Kumail's podcast is great just for all the stuff from the old Usenet boards that he digs up. Even if it does kind of drag when a guest uses the X-Files as a springboard to launch into a Buzzfeed-level rant about how the government is evil just like in X-Files because look what they did to Snowden maaaaan.
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Jan 18, 2015 00:16
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Aphrodite posted:All presidents are bad. Your government is terrible and it's mostly your fault. Whoa I didn't realize I was in the South Park thread haha
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Jan 20, 2015 02:25
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pentyne posted:Great, exactly the biggest problem with zombie stories, how in the hell it just comes out of nowhere in a world with smartphones and internet. Only now it'll be "gosh, all these conspiracy nuts talking about zombies are sooo crazy, whoops every single world city is now overrun!" I always thought the biggest thing they always gloss over is the point of transition from zombies being A Thing to the entire world being overrun by them and society collapsing. Even the guy who wrote World War Z admitted he couldn't think of a believable way to have slow zombies take over the world which is why there's nothing between the US Army losing the battle of Yonkers and the post-apocalypse when they've already taken over.
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Jan 21, 2015 21:42
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pentyne posted:Because there's no way to show it "happening" without a mind-numbingly level of stupidity at literally every aspect. Like the scene in Dawn of the Dead 2003 where its all happy suburbia then suddenly anarchy and chaos somehow out of nowhere, planes crashing in the background and everywhere the entire world is in the same state of panic in a matter of hours. Same problem with that Brad Pitt movie. The Walking Dead game by Telltale was really funny about this, the game opens with you driving from a courthouse to a prison and things go from fine to the post-apocalypse in the course of 5 minutes.
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Jan 21, 2015 23:23
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Fringe and X-Files make an interesting pair: Fringe started out pretty mediocre but got a lot better when the threat of cancellation made them get their rear in gear, while X-Files hit the ground running but just kept going and going and got shitter as they burned through plots and the actors and writers started drifting off.
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Jan 23, 2015 05:20
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Manos del Sino posted:I think Supernatural is one of the lesser offenders on the CW as far as staffing gorgeous people. Not that there's anyone truly ugly, but Ash, Ellen, Bobby, Sheriff Mills, the Ghostfacers and other recurring characters are all pretty normal looking folk. Jim Beaver is a pretty handsome fella if you go for bears 
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Jan 27, 2015 20:56
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zoux posted:Nerds don't like Benedict Cumberbatch because they make the geeky girls that play video games and like Star Wars horney at him and not them. People always get pissy about the opposite sex finding something other than them attractive and try and rationalize it away. Nerdy guys calling Cumberbatch an alien is just the male version of women calling models skinny bitches, just like how guys grumbling about how unhealthy the relationships in Twilight and 50 Shades Of Grey are has the exact same tone as women grumbling about porn being unrealistic.
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Jan 27, 2015 23:10
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Supernatural is still doing well enough that they tried to make a spinoff last year. Granted it never made it past being a backdoor pilot episode in season 9.
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Jan 28, 2015 18:29
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pentyne posted:Name one. The vast majority of long running British shows get spectacularly bad. Season 3 of Sherlock is probably the most my opinion of a show has dropped in the least amount of time.
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Jan 28, 2015 23:12
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Mu Zeta posted:They are just going to start putting even more ads within the show. I read an article about how some insurance company had final say over scripts for that Kings show on NBC. They're also demanding more and more carriage fees, which is why carriers dropping channels when they demand double or triple their old cut is becoming more and more common.
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Jan 29, 2015 04:28
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IRQ posted:The one from like 7 years ago or is there another I'm not aware of? Advertisers having say on content is so old that Rod Serling complained about having to rewrite a script because they had an appliance company as a sponsor and there was a scene where a character committed suicide by sticking their head in an oven.
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Jan 29, 2015 04:57
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EL BROMANCE posted:QI is a testament as to how long something can be run into the ground for. QI is great because the show is so incredibly smug and self-satisfied but the actual trivia is mostly complete bullshit that the interns Googled up and used because the pundits could use it to riff on how amazing Britain is and how dumb everyone is.
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Jan 30, 2015 20:34
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We can only hope it's half as memorable as the live-action Mario movie.
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Anime Curator posted:Not a big Zelda fan myself but my girlfriend absolutely loves the franchise -- her favorite being Majora's Mask (which I plan on buying her the 3DS version later this month). I told her about the news and she thinks given the right approach and using the proper timeline technique the show will be a smashing success. I argued that though I agree that Zelda is a household name, it didn't have the appeal of keeping people coming back. Shades of Mario Bros. anyone? Naturally she got a bit annoyed with what I said and going on about how I "never even gave the game a chance". She wouldn't be lying, I only have been playing a bit of Windwaker HD normally for an hour or two (I just the Master Sword). I have just not taken the time to invest in the series, I don't hate the game, so far the experience has been enjoyable. I told her there about a 3% chance of the show even being decent, and even then will it keep eyes glued to the TV. She told me I was 100% in the wrong. I shrugged it off and we went out separate ways to cool off. Then again I hear this is all a rumor and neither have confirmed it's happening (?) My girlfriend thinks this idea is heaven, and I think it's hell. Which spiritual land will be right? I guess we'll find out in a couple of years. I will give her one thing though: recently what Netflix has been putting out have been of high quality. I feel guilty only paying the amount they offer to the services/production they offer. If Netflix "feels" they have something with this, then who am I to judge. To be honest though, it I were a huge Zelda fan I would be worried, maybe even pissed off that Nintendo would allow this, but that just me. I gotta go apologize to the girlfriend now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjpHzLYHkwA
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Feb 8, 2015 15:22
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Bown posted:Better Call Saul is so good. I never thought they'd find their feet within two goddamn episodes. Vaas from Far Cry 3 is one of the new recurring characters, glad to see their casting department is still ace.
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Feb 11, 2015 03:54
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I love it because people rationalizing how child abuse is totally cool because their parents hit them and they didn't become an axe murderer is always funny, and unlike anti-vaxers them being gross idiots doesn't hurt me.
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Feb 14, 2015 04:13
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McHale is great at doing snarky commentary on clips but half of The Daily Show is based on interviewing and he would be terrible at that because he's too confrontational and biting. Look at him hosting the Spike VGX awards, most of the show is him just ripping into the guests and them squirming awkwardly as he grills them on Game of Thrones minutiae or makes fun of their games.
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Feb 19, 2015 03:00
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Josh Lyman posted:Everyone throwing out names of comedians is forgetting that The Daily Show isn't popular because of Jon Stewart's comedic chops but his political criticism. Even a smart comedian like Louis C.K. would find it hard to replace Jon's vast knowledge. This hasn't been true since the Bush era. He hits softballs like his feud with the Mad Money guy and will make silly faces to a news clip but put an actual person like the president of Blackwater on his show and he just nods and lets them say whatever they want uncritically.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:22
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Chris Hardwick is a good interviewer in a laid-back and unstructured setting like a podcast, so long as you don't mind hitting the skip button when he inevitably brings up the Singularity, Doctor Who, or internet trolls. He's just complete dogshit at standup and pitches a fit whenever he has to answer to a higher power or follow S&P which makes him a terrible fit for a talkshow.
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Feb 19, 2015 20:51
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Tatum Girlparts posted:I like when shows like this end with "IF YOU RETARDS WOULD JUST GO AWAY WE COULD HAVE STOPPED WHEN THIS WASN'T HORRIBLE FOR US TO DO EVERY WEEK" so I'd give that a solid 3/5 Man, now I'm thinking how great the finale of Family Guy is going to be.
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Feb 20, 2015 06:06
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:Hank isn't that bad If you think about it, Hank had the happiest ending of all the Breaking Bad cast.  GreenNight posted:There are more baffling stuff ahead, but at least you are going into it knowing there is a season 2 coming up. Watching The Strain is just painful, Del Toro seems to be in the middle of a Lucas/Shyamalan-style career freefall and you just keep wanting him to pull up.
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Feb 25, 2015 01:35
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cebrail posted:Was this the gaudiest product placement in TV history? I'm trying to think of anything else, but I can't. I mean, there were things like the O.C. episode about the T-Mobile Sidekick which is hilarious when you watch it today, and Community had the Subway stuff, but even when they made fun of it and went super over the top it still wasn't as much as this Modern Family episode. An episode with the gimmick that the entire thing was shot on phones and laptops has phones and laptops in it?! 
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Feb 26, 2015 14:43
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pentyne posted:Showtime: Hey, change your ending, this show is getting huge press attention This never happened.
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Feb 27, 2015 02:51
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CBJSprague24 posted:There was an episode of Hawaii Five-0 where the large Samoan informant (whose name escapes me) talked about how "Dis Subway five dolla footlong is helpin' me lose weight like crazy, bradda! It's got all the meats, cheeses, and veggies a guy like me could want!". The only thing he didn't do was break the fourth wall. Stretch this out to an hour an you have your average episode of The Biggest Loser.
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Feb 27, 2015 04:22
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Wandle Cax posted:Leonard Nimoy, the guy from Fringe. Kids these days... RIP the narrator from Civilization 4.
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Feb 28, 2015 00:29
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, I know full well he's Spock but I was never a Star Trek fan and have barely watched any of that stuff. So for me I'll just get a little sad every time I play Civilization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCykB4mCytE Pretty great choice for the narrator of human history.
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Feb 28, 2015 02:03
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Vanderdeath posted:The lady that got assaulted saying that her assailants "leveled up" after raping her is downright farcical. That episode is the best thing Law and Order SVU's put out in years. That episode makes me think of the episode of Luther where two gamers go on a crime spree where they commit random acts of violence and vandalism based on dice rolls. That show was so goddam ridiculous after season one.
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Mar 6, 2015 02:38
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Gapey Joe Stalin posted:Spoils of Babylon was an incredibly poo poo attempt at something Garth Marenghi's Darkplace did perfectly. Darkplace may have been funnier but intentionally bad horror and 80s parodies are a dime a dozen, Spoils aimed a lot higher even if it meant losing out on that huge ironic horror/80s nostalgia crowd.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Did someone say... lazy trolling?! Bring it in, boys! That guy turned 40 this year.
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