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raditts posted:Dumber than farting cartoon bear or "Community episode played straight"? I've got to see this. I remember hearing someone once describe a sketch parodying the Sam Raimi film A Simple Plan where the guys begin killing each other almost immediately as soon as they find the money and I guess whoever that was was right, that is a really funny idea. Dunno why anyone would want to play it straight though. This season was uniquely disappointing in that roughly half of the episodes were just straight-up rehashes of the premises of existing episodes which is kind of awful considering the small episode order and long run time. But par for the course it did have one really good episode, I really wish they had more like that and fewer "torturing a person inside a computer forever because it's SAD, don't you feel SAD watching it suffer???" shitfests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaTWufUqqU
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Jan 1, 2018 12:19
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Hell yeah. The first season was great but only the final two episodes were stuff that wasn't already covered by the movie, I'm looking forward to seeing them do something they don't have to conspicuously distance themselves from an existing version of plus getting to finally see those stories on screen.
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Jan 2, 2018 01:48
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Chapelle has to deal with having basically the entire country turn on him and think he had lost his mind and gone insane because he walked away from his show and went radio silent without warning even though he's fully explained why since and was IMHO was not only completely justified but showed a lot of character and bravery in doing so, I can see why he might have a unique view on the current outings of Hollywood because of that.
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Jan 2, 2018 02:25
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Rhyno posted:He still has to answer for IM RIK JAMES BITCH. pickle rick james XD
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Jan 2, 2018 02:39
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:This first episode of Black Mirror Season 4 sure is loving terrible & I hope it picks up after this lol Episode 5, Metalhead, is really good and it's the only one that isn't in some way a rehash of an existing episode's concept, if you're gonna bail at least give that a shot because it's pretty different from anything the show has done. To continue the Twilight Zone comparisons it reminded me a lot of The Invaders and the black and white works really well.
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Jan 2, 2018 03:09
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Regy Rusty posted:Metalhead was one of my least favorites and USS Callister was my favorite from this season. I thought Hang the DJ and Black Museum were really good too. Did you ever see the Christmas special that came out between season 2 and the Netflix seasons? Because I think a lot of my dislike of this season was because so many of the episodes they put out felt like retreads of the ideas they used in that episode only without anything that really justified or was improved by redoing them and especially stretching them out to full episode length.
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Jan 2, 2018 03:23
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Rocksicles posted:Metalhead was the most edge of your seat poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVRR4p92KNc
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Jan 2, 2018 03:44
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raditts posted:hell, half of White Christmas was a loving retread of episodes prior to that Somebody just needs to walk up to the white board in the writer's room and write "NO MORE SCRIPTS ABOUT PEOPLE TRAPPED IN COMPUTERS BEING TORTURED" in permanent ink.
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Jan 2, 2018 04:06
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pentyne posted:He really emphasised on multiple occasions that his comedy is meant to be funny and make people laugh, and sometimes its mean but its always funny until it happens to you. "It's just a joke, don't take it so seriously" is a weird argument for a guy who torpedoed his career because he was upset people were laughing at his jokes for the wrong reason to be making. MiddleOne posted:Youtube super star making ad-money off a suicide victim. If you don't want your dead body seen publicly then maybe don't kill yourself in a public place. Especially one literally called the Suicide Forest because it's a place where people go to kill themselves publicly. Unless the outrage is that the dude made money off of it in which case how is that different from literally any news or true crime show or documentary ever.
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Jan 2, 2018 19:21
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A guy making fun of Black Mirror for being derivative by stealing a joke so old that Black Mirror itself referenced it over a year ago is some next-level poo poo. 
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Jan 3, 2018 04:12
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Have you watched Animaniacs lately? I loved it as a kid and enjoyed revisiting a few classic bits and songs on YouTube but when they added the show to Netflix and I actually sat down to watch an episode I just sat stone faced for 20 minutes because there's a whole lot of chaff surrounding every germ of comedy.
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Jan 4, 2018 22:47
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If they were going to resurrect a 90s WB comedy cartoon Freakazoid! would probably be a way better fit for the modern TV landscape since superheroes and wacky internet humor are both big right now and the classic cartoon shorts that Tiny Toons and Animaniacs lean on so heavily haven't actually been on TV since, like, the Bush administration.Rhyno posted:Also the Beavis & Butthead revival was not good. Mostly because Judge forgot how to do the Beavis voice. I thought it was really good! Mike Judge has a pretty terrible track record with revisiting concepts (The Goode Family after King of the Hill, Extract after Office Space) but the actual animated shorts were funnier than a lot of the ones in the original one and making up for the lack of contemporary music videos and the licensing issues of the original run by riffing on reality shows worked really well. The only real issue I had was that, presumably due to budget/time issues, during the video parts a lot of the cutaways were recycled low-quality 4:3 clips of animation from the original run instead of actually reanimating it and it clashed horribly with other animated clips in the same scene.
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Jan 5, 2018 05:45
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There was also an edgy comic book version of Mad Max Wacky Races a year ago but it never went viral in the way that Woke Flintstones and Tennessee Williams Snagglepuss did.
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Jan 5, 2018 16:17
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precision posted:maybe it's just me, but i thought lost was a pretty good show It's a pretty good show so long as you don't mind that the explanation for why weird things happen on a magic island is because it's a magic island.
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Jan 6, 2018 20:08
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PriorMarcus posted:Nah. It's easily filmable and it's filmable on the shows first season budget. He should pull a Tim Schafer and crowdfund his next project so all the fans who defend him as being unfairly yanked around by the studios can pull a 180 as soon as its their money on the line.
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Jan 7, 2018 13:02
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feedmyleg posted:Rebels is pure garbage. It's incredibly derivative and brings nothing new to the table. It's characters are highly unlikeable and constantly make very stupid choices. I've never watched a Star Wars cartoon in my life aside from the Nelvana one in the holiday special but I still know of Rebels just because even by Star Wars EU standards a laser slingshot is incredibly silly. 
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Jan 7, 2018 14:41
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Davros1 posted:Disney put the kibosh on it however, and is now planning their own Star Wars TV series. They also killed Star Wars Detours (AKA the Robot Chicken guys try and make an entire series out of those Family Guy parody episodes) despite having almost 40 episodes completed so chalk that up as one of the positives.
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Jan 7, 2018 16:55
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"Black Mirror is coming true" has officially surpassed "Idiocracy is coming true" in terms of being the intellectual equivalent of a Boondock Saints poster on a college freshman's dorm wall.
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Jan 8, 2018 17:10
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PriorMarcus posted:The girl did an AMA about her popularity and the show itself advertises her as a break out star. It's odd but... meh. I've seen odder online. So we've basically come full circle and game shows are about rooting for manufactured personalities a la Quiz Show all over again only now they're maybe not totally rigging everything behind the scenes.
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Jan 9, 2018 02:02
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PriorMarcus posted:I do not get the love for this show. When it was being made I had a few friends who worked on it and they were under the impression it would turn out to be a twee, maudlin load of bollocks. Maybe it's a cultural thing but we're so sick and tired of teenagers being made edgy and dark over here. How does a person working on the production of a show give them any insight on the quality of the final product? Actors and writers and even directors themselves are usually completely surprised with how a film or show comes together in the end and some of the most successful things ever made were surrounded by scuttlebutt from disgruntles crew members swearing that it was going to be a total flop and was awful and the internet gawking at silly set photos and work in progress effects shots.
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Jan 9, 2018 17:11
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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:Eagleheart went downhill after Brett Gelman left. Agreed only Adult Swim as a whole. It was totally worth it though because now they have the intelligent and timeless comedy of rising comic star Sam Hyde to take his place.
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Jan 10, 2018 22:09
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Escobarbarian posted:Aren’t you one of the weird monsters who doesn’t like Last Jedi The people who spent a decade being completely wrong with their annual predictions that this was totally going to be the year that Marvel movies crashed and burned have moved on to Star Wars.
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Jan 11, 2018 01:02
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Who's ready for   A NEW MOTHAFUCKIN ZACK BRAFF DRAMEDYhttp://collider.com/alex-inc-trailer-zach-braff-abc-tv-series/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X58fcXjR-pg
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Jan 11, 2018 02:23
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Imagine the already tedious mawkishness of Scrubs only instead of actual life or death stakes it's about how going to the post office loving sucks and there's an easier way to buy mattresses now.
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Jan 11, 2018 04:48
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I wonder if the Snowpiercer show is going to have any actual Korean people in it, a lot of the charm of the movie came from it being such a weird international collaboration ("HAPPY NEW YEAR!"). Also I wonder if it's going to be a traincar-of-the-week thing or what.
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Jan 12, 2018 19:54
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Shageletic posted:whooooo boy Time for my favorite Soup clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNmgOIjZJXQ
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Jan 13, 2018 01:49
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All this just reinforces what a pain in the rear end straight relationships are. Like you have no idea how much easier and better things are when you don't have to approach every relationship from a bad-faith dance of going out of your way to prove that you're not a serial killer rapist to a person who still might not have enough agency to ever say no.DrVenkman posted:On that note: Kind of lovely for the dude to spread rumors on the victim's behalf rather than letting her accuse Ansari herself imho.
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Jan 14, 2018 18:15
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Arist posted:It's really goddamn weird to assume someone's a creep because you find their character grating on a loving TV show. From the mental titans who brought you "I fell for a hoax but the fact that I believed it was possible that it could be real proves I was right all along" comes an exciting new paradigm in sexual assault.
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Jan 14, 2018 22:43
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Man who dedicated his life to whining about the stereotypes surrounding Indian men winds up perpetrating the worst stereotype of all by being a rapist.
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Jan 14, 2018 23:11
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Escobarbarian posted:Guy Mann, everybody. 
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Jan 14, 2018 23:21
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Vegetable posted:I've watched his standup and I really don't think he'd say anything like that. He was a popular minority comedian who did a lot of material about racism and sexism, people who are triggered by that are incredibly happy to have a legitimate reason to finally vocalize hating him. It's very much that "BLM are the real violent thugs", "people who protest sexism are the real sexists" school of rear end in a top hat. Rhyno posted:I'm starting to believe that if you're a dude and you're incredibly vocal about women's right we should assume you're a piece of poo poo.
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Jan 15, 2018 05:22
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Albino Sex Vampire was so great that it's one of the few times I didn't mind prison rape as a plot device in fiction just because of how over the top it was.STAC Goat posted:My first thought was that CW is waist deep in weird rear end sci-fi and fantasy so someone was like "hey, we did a weird alien show when we in our teen years, what about a grown up version of that?" Gritty Animorphs reboot when?
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Jan 31, 2018 19:20
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GreenNight posted:People age, man. Sheesh. Knocked Up came out over a decade ago, it's oddly appropriate that the people still carrying a grudge against her ort complaining about how regressive an R-rated dick and fart comedy about a stoner knocking up a woman and never considering an abortion is to graduate to just straight-up bodyshaming her for aging.
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Feb 1, 2018 04:01
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Escobarbarian posted:e: it’s not gonna top OJ or anything but man ACS: Versace is really fuckin good Literally the only thing I knew about Versace, murder or otherwise, was the Maya Rudolph character on SNL so it's been a heck of a ride. Like, even with Ryan Murphy's history of being  about gay stuff at least here it actually works since the entire show is about a narcissistic gay escort murdering his high-class customers.Spatula City posted:Honestly, Black Mirror is Black Mirror, and nobody else needs to be in that same playground right now. I could use a less dark episodic anthology show. Yeah, Amazing Stories is the series that gave us WW2 bomber pilots surviving a botched landing by their cartoonist crew member literally drawing landing gear onto their plane, a TV addict turning his family into June Cleaver and Gary Coleman, Dom Deluise successfully macking on the embodiment of love, a man in a mummy costume showing up at his wife's delivery of their child, and Weird Al as an alien beauty pageant judge is the absolute last thing that needs a dark and gritty reboot.
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Feb 9, 2018 02:11
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precision posted:Wow I only remember one of those (the Dom DeLuise one). Remote Control Man is just an amazing time capsule in that it's about a mid-80s TV addict who gets the ability to make TV real and is full of cameos from everything from the A-Team to The Incredible Hulk to Knight Rider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0u0PkLeNNo&t=1380s Can you imagine how awful a dark and edgy contemporary Black Mirror version of that would be?
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Feb 9, 2018 06:21
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TGIF Try Getting Into Frasier
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Feb 9, 2018 17:03
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STAC Goat posted:I assume the op is talking about book spoilers. I've never read the books and follow the thread and stuff does come out from time to time but I never really felt like anything was being ruined for me. Or at least I haven't since S1. Since then then the general sentiment from the book readers seems to be "the show is doing its own thing" and you just get occasional careless mentions of character or subplot stuff that didn't happen the first time around. A study showing that people reading fiction over a century old benefit from being told the historical value and importance of the thing they're reading being interpreted as "spoilers are actually good" is the worst piece of TV-related pop science this side of the article using one anecdote from one cop to argue that Star Trek fans are pedophiles.
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Feb 11, 2018 22:07
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Lurdiak posted:If you're gonna watch the Orville just watch TNG reruns and then pause it to make a ball joke every couple minutes. I always wonder if people who say stuff like this actually watched the show past the pilot and were really bad at it or are just playing a game of telephone because outside of like one ejaculation joke in the opening of the pilot all the humor is character driven rather than pee pee doo doo balls like goons say it is. And even when it does occasionally dip its toes into pop culture jokes they're usually either in service of the plot and characters (their Worf analog Bortus being inspired to defend his 'deformed' child by Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) or subtle meta stuff (the god of the evil alien race being named Avis, which in real life is a car rental company whose biggest competitor is a company named Enterprise) rather than Family Guy cutaways like everyone who thinks the title is a reference to Orville Redenbacher rather than Orville Wright assumes it is. Also the accusations of the plots being derivative aren't really fair because TNG itself was largely the same few themes and plots played over and over again in different permutations. The Orville may touch on a lot of the same things but even it its first season (which is when even fans will admit TNG was borderline unwatchable) has managed to put new or interesting spins on a lot of those stock plots and the relationship between the characters and their world not having a stick up its rear end like Trek makes even the repeats at least feel fresh and, to me at least, a lot more enjoyable. It even managed to have a holodeck episode that was surprising, had real stakes, and had the entire thing functioning perfectly the entire time!
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Lycus posted:That's psychological. The actual alternative to a split 20-episode season is two 10-episode seasons. A split 16-episode season or two 8-episode seasons. A so on. It's labeling, the difference between ketchup and catsup. Everything about it from production to release schedule is completely different, like others said literally the only reason it happens is as a loophole to avoid having to actually pay the people who make the show more by weaseling out of contract negotiations and also try and double-dip on sales of the show. Like how thanks to the "split" final season of Breaking Bad we got what was effectively two 8-episode seasons that were produced and released a year apart, they even sold them as separate full-priced season subscriptions until Amazon told them to cut it out.
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