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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:Hunh, so that’s what Bojack Horseman is like. It’s not bad. The live posting in TV IV in general has really dropped off. Probably because less people actually watch TV shows live these days, and just watch them later without Chevy car commercials.
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Sep 27, 2018 04:26
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The episode wasn't bad, just flat. You can't have a stupid Jessica Jones parody d-plot for something like this.
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Sep 27, 2018 04:27
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:The live posting in TV IV in general has really dropped off. Probably because less people actually watch TV shows live these days, and just watch them later without Chevy car commercials. Death to Netflix
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Akumos posted:Anyone notice the #CANCELSOUTHPARK in the background during the credits? Maybe they want out again lmao They're gonna have to insult Trump a lot more for that to take.
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Sep 27, 2018 08:50
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I'm not sure if that was quite as insightful as "Britney's New Look" but it was somewhere in that same dark zone. More of a gut-punch than a gut-buster. Randy with the handkerchief was really funny though. It was wise of them not to do a 3rd instance of the handkerchief gag. 2 was perfect, and I was dreading a 3rd that would run the gag into the ground. Sir Lemming fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Sep 27, 2018 |
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Sep 27, 2018 11:10
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It was pretty amusing but at no point funny
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Sep 27, 2018 12:44
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Boring episode. Stan saved it though.
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The episode had moments but you felt bad laughing at them.Gaunab posted:He's parodying Jessica Jones. That's Archer "You have to know the reference"-levels of specific.
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Am I in another dimension? That was a great episode! It's the first time in like 10 years that South Park has actually shocked me with how far they'd go, the kids traveling through the warzone to get to the math test at the end was hysterical.
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Phenotype posted:Am I in another dimension? That was a great episode! It's the first time in like 10 years that South Park has actually shocked me with how far they'd go, the kids traveling through the warzone to get to the math test at the end was hysterical. It was a good episode, really not sure what the other folks were talking about not liking it. Just about every scene had some form of joke. Also if you didn't laugh at Mackey running around trying to help with swat team then yelling, "No you shot the wrong one" then maybe you lose your funny bone? Also Randy trying to play charades to let the other guys know that his wife is on her period is hilarious. SLICK GOKU BABY fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Sep 27, 2018 |
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Sep 27, 2018 14:51
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I thought the parts with Sharon were grating. I get what it's like to be yelled at by Matt and Trey through one of their characters, but I don't like it. The rest was decent.
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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:Hunh, so that’s what Bojack Horseman is like. It’s not bad. Bojack's first like 5 or 6 episodes are okay, about the same as what the first one is, and then it kicks it up into something really good after that and season 2 onward is pretty fantastic. Amusingly reviewers only got those first few episodes to review and as a result there were a decent number of revisions once the full season was out since they're viewed as pretty standard and safe to start. It's still a little weird to me that Bojack seems to be the character Will Arnett fits the best, at least in my opinion. Gaunab posted:He's parodying Jessica Jones. I've seen both seasons of Jessica Jones and it took me way too long to pick up on this, like I picked up on the detective archetype aspect but I don't think I realized it was specifically going for Jessica Jones until the bathroom scene at the end.
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Solid episode, not great but a decent opener. The school shootings thing was supposed to be shocking but I felt watching it pretty much like everyone else did in the episode; it was just sort of there. I guess that's classic South Park meta commentary in a way, but it was missing something. Always great to see Randy take up a big part of the episode and him doing charades was pretty amusing. The Jessica Jones joke wasn't good enough, but the Black Panther jokes were great.
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PaybackJack posted:Solid episode, not great but a decent opener. The school shootings thing was supposed to be shocking but I felt watching it pretty much like everyone else did in the episode; it was just sort of there. I guess that's classic South Park meta commentary in a way, but it was missing something. Yeah this was a middle of the season episode for me. They’re really phoning it in at this point and maybe I’m just not into the series like I used to be. Maybe next episode will be better
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PaybackJack posted:Solid episode, not great but a decent opener. The school shootings thing was supposed to be shocking but I felt watching it pretty much like everyone else did in the episode; it was just sort of there. I guess that's classic South Park meta commentary in a way, but it was missing something. I felt like it was supposed to be shocking and also funny, almost making you feel bad for laughing at it. I laughed at the kids'/teachers' complacency with the gunshots and also thought "I'm going to hell for this". What were the Black Panther jokes? "If you poorly reviewed it, you're a racist?"
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Brightman posted:
Y'know, it kinda doesn't surprise me at all. I hadn't ever seen Will Arnett live until long after Arrested Development, and it was kinda jarring to me how quiet and unconfident he seemed during interviews and stuff where he didn't have a script to follow. Didn't have nearly as many off-the-cuff jokes as I thought he would, and even when he did deliver a good line, he didn't know how to revel in it, big grin at the audience or anything, he just kinda smiled and looked a little embarrassed. Part of that is obviously the fact that Gob Bluth was such a polar opposite, but he really came off as kind of a depressed, self-doubting sort of guy.
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CBJSprague24 posted:What were the Black Panther jokes? "If you poorly reviewed it, you're a racist?" Yeah, I guess jokes isn't quite the right word, but I always like when they poke fun at things that are widely held in esteem; sort of like when they first did the "Kaitlin Jenner is a hero" bit before she became a recurring character.
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Well, really, there weren't any Black Panther jokes. There were jokes revolving around Black Panther, but the jokes were the relationship between Token and Cartman.
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Sep 27, 2018 18:22
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I lost my poo poo at Randy trying to mime 'period' The kids' tolerance for school shootings was dark as hell but got a bunch of guilty chuckles out of me as well
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Sep 27, 2018 20:34
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LividLiquid posted:They say in the commentary for those episodes that if you're paying attention, it's explained why Kenny has his powers, but gently caress if I knew what they were talking about. it's not really "if you're paying attention" so much as it's the stinger for the last episode, IIRC- Kenny dies, then it cuts to his mom going "OH poo poo IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN", she gives birth to another Kenny, and then gripes to his dad that they should have never gone to those goddamn cult meetings it's honestly pretty explicitly stated, and a pretty drat good joke to top off that relatively serious arc with
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Where was Kenny in this episode? Is it safe to assume he was a victim in all of the shootings?
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PaybackJack posted:Solid episode, not great but a decent opener. The school shootings thing was supposed to be shocking but I felt watching it pretty much like everyone else did in the episode; it was just sort of there. I guess that's classic South Park meta commentary in a way, but it was missing something. The approach to the ending was to inspire the gut reaction "no parents should freak out when your kids are shot" which was meant to contrast the horror of that is the normalization of school shootings. It really would have worked if it had been excruciatingly callous rather than Randy being a goober.
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General Dog posted:Where was Kenny in this episode? Is it safe to assume he was a victim in all of the shootings? He was the shooter obv, not in the class room.
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Gaunab posted:Every Token/Cartman interaction is one note though. and that note is “cartman is a toxic racist” which is just hilarious still in 2018 i’ve watched this show from the beginning and maybe it’s that i’m different and the show is still the same? but none of that premiere was funny and most of it was terrible
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:it's not really "if you're paying attention" so much as it's the stinger for the last episode, IIRC- Kenny dies, then it cuts to his mom going "OH poo poo IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN", she gives birth to another Kenny, and then gripes to his dad that they should have never gone to those goddamn cult meetings Anyway, with the way this show's been going, I'm just impressed their hot take wasn't "we shouldn't care as much as we do about school shootings," because extremely wealthy white dudes telling me what matters and what doesn't and that caring about anything is lame hasn't had the track record on this show recently that it used to surprisingly have.
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Meh. At least it was a new episode. Thoroughly mediocre, though.
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It might not have been their greatest opening, but man they really cranked up the farce levels already. Which is great because I feel farce comedy is where the show shines most.
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I'm going to say that tricking someone into eating his parents is where the show shines most.
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It was an okay episode. It's completely true that Black Panther was a fairly typical Marvel movie (aka good, but not game-changing or anything) and I'm fairly certain most critics intentionally avoided saying anything negative about it. I'm expecting this season to be like the last - it wasn't terrible, but had a very strong sense that they're phoning it in. I have no doubt that if Matt and Trey actually put in the effort to properly write a complete serialized season that it could be really good, but when they tried it with season 20 it fell apart because they still insisted on their "completely make each episode in the six days before it airs" method. It really kind of seems like because they experimented with the format but it crashed kind of hard, they're now completely burnt out. I'm happy that the show is still on and can still put out episodes like this that still don't feel like a waste of time, but I wouldn't be sad if this was the last season either. **Also, regarding BoJack Horseman, if you're new to it:** it can not be stressed enough that the first six or seven episodes are kind of rough and quite mediocre. Episode eight is where it begins to morph into it's true self, and it fully reveals itself on episode 11. From this point onward, it's a fantastic show, easily the best animated television show in production. For the most part, it is indeed a comedy, but be prepared for some pretty deep emotional gut punches.
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The make each episode in 6 days thing doesn't work any more. Can't say I blame them. If I could have 10 crazy weeks of work in order to take the rest of the year off I would. Of course, they could take the rest of their lives off if they wanted, but they want to make South Park. So why do such a lovely job of it. Doesn't make sense.
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Waltzing Along posted:Of course, they could take the rest of their lives off if they wanted, but they want to make South Park. So why do such a lovely job of it. Doesn't make sense. The common assumption was that they hate Southpark and their lives and want out, but the channel wont let them out of the contract.
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cant cook creole bream posted:The common assumption was that they hate Southpark and their lives and want out, but the channel wont let them out of the contract.
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They last renewed the contract in 2015, but they were already doing the 10 episodes all at once method at this point. Maybe they still like doing the show but regret still doing the 10 episode season format and want out of it.
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They spent the last couple of season also making the South Park: The Fractured but Whole game with DLC's so it could easily be a cause of spreading the comedy a little too thin.
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Waltzing Along posted:Meh. At least it was a new episode. Thoroughly mediocre, though. I am honestly not sure why you decided to be the one to post the South Park thread for this season. Pretty much all you have done is talk poo poo about South Park and how it's been the last few years. It's going to get old real quick.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I lost my poo poo at Randy trying to mime 'period' Sardonik posted:It might not have been their greatest opening, but man they really cranked up the farce levels already. Which is great because I feel farce comedy is where the show shines most.
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I wasn't as underwhelmed by this one as I was by the last season premiere, but I do feel they could have done more. But it was pretty dark when you consider Randy's making a bunch of jokes about Sharon bleeding in an episode about school shootings. No big deal, right? All that blood, it's just a woman thing, not anything serious. That puts another cutting spin on the people who are all about thoughts and prayers and generally don't give a poo poo.
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