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His Divine Shadow posted:Swedish soap opera in the 90s called Tre Kronor (three crowns) ended with a crazy pastor blowing up everyone in the main cast. His name was Sten Frisk, a pun on the word stenfrisk (means healthy as heck, physically and mentally). Lmao that owned
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Jan 12, 2022 14:12
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Professor Shark posted:Futurama’s final ending was good too, but man did it ever make me sad When the sun finally eats the earth there'll be nothing but cochroaches and a writer desperately trying to finish up one more Simpsons sketch. 'Marg gets a horse'
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Jan 12, 2022 15:32
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His Divine Shadow posted:Swedish soap opera in the 90s called Tre Kronor (three crowns) ended with a crazy pastor blowing up everyone in the main cast. His name was Sten Frisk, a pun on the word stenfrisk (means healthy as heck, physically and mentally). Watched that and Skilda Världar and Vita Lögner with my mom every week
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Jan 12, 2022 15:58
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Professor Shark posted:Futurama’s final ending was good too, but man did it ever make me sad I was going to post this here, but I didn't really remember the rest of the series ending leading up to it. The REAL Futurama finale was nice though.
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Jan 12, 2022 16:16
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His Divine Shadow posted:Swedish soap opera in the 90s called Tre Kronor (three crowns) ended with a crazy pastor blowing up everyone in the main cast. His name was Sten Frisk, a pun on the word stenfrisk (means healthy as heck, physically and mentally). Without context, is this a good ending or an unsatisfying one? Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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Jan 12, 2022 17:50
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Nice Tuckpointing! posted:Oh poo poo I totally forgot about Little House on the Prairie and how they blew up the whole town just to spite a railroad tycoon. That episode changed my childhood. They went deviated from the source material with this one. edit: Deadwood. Nothing remotely close happened with the historical characters that happened in the show, but it was satisfying. Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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Jan 12, 2022 17:52
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YeahTubaMike posted:I was going to post this here, but I didn't really remember the rest of the series ending leading up to it. The REAL Futurama finale was nice though. the post idle hands futurama had a hit/miss ratio of like 1:6 or so lol. But there were a handful of good episodes for sure. I really remember liking the leftovers at the time but of all the things that I've heard called misery porn that one is the top. It's just so unrelentingly heavy.
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Jan 12, 2022 18:34
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Milo and POTUS posted:the post idle hands futurama had a hit/miss ratio of like 1:6 or so lol. But there were a handful of good episodes for sure. Oh no, I wasn't talking about post-cancellation Futurama which as far as I'm concerned doesn't exist. I was just talking about the rest of the season that led up to Idle Hands, the real finale. That Susan Boyle will haunt my memories forever.
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Jan 12, 2022 18:52
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YeahTubaMike posted:Oh no, I wasn't talking about post-cancellation Futurama which as far as I'm concerned doesn't exist. I was just talking about the rest of the season that led up to Idle Hands, the real finale. post futurama gave us the infosquito
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Jan 12, 2022 19:16
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Drunk Nerds posted:2E14 was the end, imo, then the end season as a cool button is how I choose to remember this seriesh it can't be the end until Josie Packard turns into a wooden drawer handle
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Jan 12, 2022 19:17
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:post futurama gave us the infosquito Yeah there were few genuinely good later Futurama episodes. The Late Philip J. Fry episode was IMO was one of the series best.
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Jan 12, 2022 19:33
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I keep thinking that The Late Philip J. Fry is Luck of the Fryrish. 
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Jan 12, 2022 19:44
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I have a soft spot for Bender's Big Score.
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Jan 12, 2022 19:51
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Futurama had very funny episodes and then they would have literal I’m Crying episodes like the dog one and I think the joke was “We made you cry, which is very funny for us  ” for the writers
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Jan 13, 2022 00:25
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Professor Shark posted:Futurama had very funny episodes and then they would have literal I’m Crying episodes like the dog one and I think the joke was “We made you cry, which is very funny for us The drat dog episode  every time
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Jan 13, 2022 01:22
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Until they made Hermes into Bender's "dad" and the joke was on you, the viewer, for still following that trash.
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Jan 13, 2022 01:38
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I hated the dog episode, which is something I think I posted in the PYF unpopular opinion thread
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Jan 13, 2022 01:49
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:
He had done so much and he never got to go back. Sigh. Supernatural had a good ending in that at least the Winchester boys got to end up together in the end. Good bromance.
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Jan 13, 2022 01:55
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mind the walrus posted:Until they made Hermes into Bender's "dad" and the joke was on you, the viewer, for still following that trash. I couldn't believe how bad some of those late episodes were
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Jan 13, 2022 03:00
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YeahTubaMike posted:I hated the dog episode, which is something I think I posted in the PYF unpopular opinion thread I don't hate it but the episode where Leela finds her parents and Luck of the Fryish resonate a lot more with than Jurassic Bark.
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Jan 13, 2022 03:06
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The only bad Futurama was Benders Game. The rest of the series was average to excellent.
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Jan 13, 2022 03:17
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mind the walrus posted:Until they made Hermes into Bender's "dad" and the joke was on you, the viewer, for still following that trash. They really wanted to repeat the sentimental moments the original run had but failed hard. I've noticed this a lot in comedy lately, just horrible attempts at pathos that feel completely undeserved. It's like they're trying to do something like Luck of the Fryrish or the Blackadder finale but it comes across as shallow and manipulative.
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Jan 13, 2022 08:04
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Moral Oral. You can technically watch the last season out of context because the tone is radically different than the previous. The message is displayed wordlessly and it's perfect.
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Jan 13, 2022 13:51
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Automatic Slim posted:Without context, is this a good ending or an unsatisfying one? Best episode of the series
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Jan 13, 2022 14:56
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They finally ended Supernatural? Did they kill god or something?
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Jan 13, 2022 15:14
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Zzulu posted:They finally ended Supernatural? Did they kill god or something? 18 years, but sadly the car broke down and was declared unrepairable.
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Jan 13, 2022 15:14
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Mr.Chill posted:Moral Oral. You can technically watch the last season out of context because the tone is radically different than the previous. The message is displayed wordlessly and it's perfect. That show goes to some very dark places, but yes that last season is some of the most depressing TV I've seen in quite some time.
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Jan 13, 2022 15:17
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Tulalip Tulips posted:I don't hate it but the episode where Leela finds her parents and Luck of the Fryish resonate a lot more with than Jurassic Bark. I absolutely 100% agree with you.
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Jan 13, 2022 15:44
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Zzulu posted:They finally ended Supernatural? Did they kill god or something? They rendered god into a human where he would age and die naturally like anyone else. Their son(?) Adam became god and just noped out of existence though he said he would be omnipresent. In the finale, Dean died fighting monsters and chilled in heaven. Sam was distraught but as he was dying, Dean told Sam that he was proud of him and that he cherished Sam as a brother. Sam told Dean that it was ok for him to go. Sam had a family, a son, and lived a normal life and then his son told Old Sam that it was ok for him to go. Then Sam died. Sam and Dean met up in heaven.
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Jan 13, 2022 16:06
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Like, iirc literally everyone hates him though? His family thinks he sucks, he sold out all his friends (or they dead). The dude that abused his power ended up powerless. Seems right to me. Yep, it's one of the best endings to a show because it's both perfect for that character and it avoids the usual trappings (where everyone was convinced that he has to end up dead or in Prison). Instead he's stuck in his version of hell, which is sitting behind a desk filing reports with no power in a suit that doesn't fit him listening to the sirens go past. No friends, no family, no one willing to throw him a bone. Much more satisfying than seeing him take a bullet or something.
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Jan 13, 2022 16:12
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super sweet best pal posted:They really wanted to repeat the sentimental moments the original run had but failed hard. I've noticed this a lot in comedy lately, just horrible attempts at pathos that feel completely undeserved. It's like they're trying to do something like Luck of the Fryrish or the Blackadder finale but it comes across as shallow and manipulative. I remember hearing through the grapevine "oh but the finale-finale they actually do it again and it's so meaningful" and I saw it and it sucked just as much poo poo as anything else during the new episodes. The worst part is that while a stupid cartoon comedy world doesn't have to feel grand or realistic, it does have to have a certain emotional verisimilitude and every retroactive "Oh yeah Leela's parents were watching over her for years" reveal ultimately just makes things smaller and more insular. You can do it a few times over the course of a series, but Futurama was loving determined to see how diminishing those returns got. DrVenkman posted:Yep, it's one of the best endings to a show because it's both perfect for that character and it avoids the usual trappings (where everyone was convinced that he has to end up dead or in Prison). This thread got me to look it up and even without the 7 years build-up, Michael Chiklis' face does a phenomenal job of selling the misery he's in and with nearly 20 years of ACAB in-between now and then, all I can say is  TV Zombie posted:They rendered god into a human where he would age and die naturally like anyone else. Their son(?) Adam became god and just noped out of existence though he said he would be omnipresent. In the finale, Dean died fighting monsters and chilled in heaven. Sam was distraught but as he was dying, Dean told Sam that he was proud of him and that he cherished Sam as a brother. Sam told Dean that it was ok for him to go. This all sidesteps a lot of the amusing girl-nerd schadenfreude around the show's ending, which involved the show's accidental status as a gay-shipping juggernaut and its ultimately dismissal of the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0QhgQ-g4C0 (Long loving video made by a very young woman talking about Tumblr culture so if you find that intolerable then cool, but don't be a joyless gently caress about it) mind the walrus fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jan 13, 2022 |
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Jan 13, 2022 16:28
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DrVenkman posted:Yep, it's one of the best endings to a show because it's both perfect for that character and it avoids the usual trappings (where everyone was convinced that he has to end up dead or in Prison). It’s the best ending because it takes account of almost everything that happens in the previous 7 series. There’s such an enormous amount of payoff required by the end, and it absolutely delivered on all of it. This is extremely rare.
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Jan 13, 2022 16:31
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This thread reminded me about Nathan for You! and Nathan Fielder's constant conversation topic about how royalty free music is just as good as the stuff you hear on the radio from Big Recording Companies
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Jan 14, 2022 16:37
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Professor Shark posted:This thread reminded me about Nathan for You! and Nathan Fielder's constant conversation topic about how royalty free music is just as good as the stuff you hear on the radio from Big Recording Companies I work with royalty free and stock music quite a bit for my job and a lot of it is astoundingly good. Honestly the musicians who create it probably get a bigger payday than if they actually had a Big Recording Contract.
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Jan 14, 2022 17:12
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I think the joke was that he's trying to sell the idea that royalty-free music is good because his show is too cheap to pay for real music. It's similar to a joke he made when he had that dude room in the women's clothing store. Nathan kept talking about how excited he was to watch the royalty-free football game.
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Jan 14, 2022 18:24
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This is it. This is all we are. (Perfect loving conclusion to a great character and show)
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Jan 14, 2022 18:28
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I think the joke was that he's trying to sell the idea that royalty-free music is good because his show is too cheap to pay for real music. That show was so fun to watch through cold having no idea what was next. I especially liked his obsession with the Bill Gates impressionist.
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Jan 14, 2022 19:30
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Hyrax Attack! posted:That show was so fun to watch through cold having no idea what was next. I especially liked his obsession with the Bill Gates impressionist. I didn't find out about it until 6 months ago, so I got experience them all at once. It owned so much. My wife is absolutely obsessed with it too, and she has a completely different sense of humor than I do.
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the last scene of Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous is sold really well and I don’t remember if I mentioned this but the finale miniseries to Gilmore Girls was just eight hours of Rory’s unearned wunderkind life falling to shambles and it was delightful
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