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mojo1701a posted:I would even argue that his role in Juno was different. Sure, he played someone actually socially adjusted, but he was eventually the kind of guy who wasn't sure about being a dad, and all that that changed during the movie. He was completely different in Juno. I don't think he was anything like Michael Bluth there.
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TheAngryDrunk posted:He was completely different in Juno. I don't think he was anything like Michael Bluth there. Yeah I was going to post that he was almost the anti-Michael Bluth in Juno. He was an irresponsible musician who had dreams of becoming a rock god despite the fact that that ship had sailed long ago, and he was so brow-beaten that he was a husk of himself. He had a lot of the same intonations and stuff as Michael, but I think that's more Bateman than the character.
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Spoeank posted:He had a lot of the same intonations and stuff as Michael, but I think that's more Bateman than the character. Yeah, Bateman has a very natural, unforced style that's very well performed but does tend to make people see similarities in his roles.
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Seeing Michael Bluth smash someone's head in with an ax in Hancock was a bit jarring.
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For those fans of both Mystery Science Theater 3000 and AD, there's a nice little reference in the RiffTrax version of a Star Trek fan film ("To Serve All My Days") they riffed on. Klingon officer (to "Kirk"): Have you never seen a magician's trick? Kevin Murphy: "Like the great Gob Bluth?!?" 
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CruJones posted:Brings new meaning to the title The Man Inside Me.
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CruJones posted:Get some cutoffs on them, make the other 2 have Tobias' head and baby, you got a stew goin'!
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CruJones posted:I was thinking this the entire time I was watching the movie.
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CruJones posted:Voted 5, thanks a lot! Cross has the best facial expressions!
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Can someone tell me what Gob says to the employees when he's warning them to stay away from his sister at the company party? It starts out with something like no loving and no sucking and then gets lost in the bleeps. Edit: Also, what are your top 5 episodes to show people who have never seen the show to get them hooked? Some of my favorite episodes have too many inside references that would leave the AD non-regular scratching his head. Leviathan fucked around with this message at Mar 11, 2009 around 20:02 |
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Leviathan posted:Can someone tell me what Gob says to the employees when he's warning them to stay away from his sister at the company party? It starts out with something like no loving and no sucking and then gets lost in the bleeps. "Please refrain from discussing or engaging in any sort of interoffice bleeping or bleeping or finger bleep or bleepsting or bleeping or even bleep. Even though so many people in this office are begging for it. And if anybody does anything with my sister Lindsay, I’ll take off my pants, I’ll shave bleep. And I’ll personally bleep..." loving, sucking, fingerfucking, fisting (although the bleep seems to take too long and the end doesn't sound right), peeing??, then I lose track of it. Maybe someone with the DVDs on hand can find some audio-contextual clues to help us out. edit: Oh hey, look at that - the wonders of technology: http://the-op.com/media/sound.php?aid=119 edit 2: Well, I've officially devoted too much time to this. It's all yours. fort serious fucked around with this message at Mar 11, 2009 around 18:52 |
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^ Awesome, thanks.
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Leviathan posted:
I had a lot of trouble getting into AD until I sat down and watched through season 1 in 2 days. Show them the first 5 episodes in a row, but set aside 10 hours to finish the whole season...then the whole series.
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Leviathan posted:Can someone tell me what Gob says to the employees when he's warning them to stay away from his sister at the company party? It starts out with something like no loving and no sucking and then gets lost in the bleeps.
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Zombie Lincoln posted:Bateman was also the sportscaster in Dodgeball. Pretty different. Wow, I've probably seen Dodgeball 15 times and never realized that.
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I just really got into the show lately, been watching about 1 episode a day for a month or so now. It had always been a show I kept on the burner knowing it was good, watched an episode here and there but now I really have an appreciation for it, sadly it's going to end in a few episodes (just finished Ocean Walker). As much as Charlize's story arc did approach shark jumping territory, she was still cute a button (I'd marry the gently caress out of retarded Rita anyday) and it's still some of the best stuff that was on tv. I know I'm not the first goon to say it but it's unfortunate that Seth McFarlane's kinda worn out the good will the internet gave Family Guy considering its chartgraph of quality shows a much sharper curve than Simpsons in a fraction of the time, meanwhile he's still getting loads of attention while AD is scraping by for a movie. That's not to say Family Guy ever stole any thunder from AD (hell I'm part of the problem since me and my brother bought the first couple FG dvds) but I'm so sick of disproportionate attention our society heaps on mediocrity while quality starves
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Alan Smithee posted:That's not to say Family Guy ever stole any thunder from AD (hell I'm part of the problem since me and my brother bought the first couple FG dvds) but I'm so sick of disproportionate attention our society heaps on mediocrity while quality starves I'm not saying that Family Guy is the greatest show ever, but you need to recalibrate your scale for mediocrity. It's cool that you like AD, but let's not circlejerk. Family Guy is a good show that does tend to be better than other shows on television. There are shows far far worse than Family Guy, but you probably don't watch those so you don't count them. You're doing a thing that's done too often with media where it's like you're grading on a weird curve. A show like Family Guy that isn't the best show, really isn't anywhere near as bad as your average television show. Remember that there exist shows like Rock of Love, or Two and a Half Men, or According to Jim. Family Guy is specifically not a mediocre show because it's edgier. Truly mediocre shows are the sort of inoffensive sitcoms targeted at the largest possible audience. Family Guy is not that, and it needs to get points for that. You may not enjoy it currently, but you can't really say that it needs to be lumped into the same category as According to Jim. I just think in making your argument that you're forgetting how bad or mediocre television can be, and I understand why. It's more fun to talk about shows like Family Guy that are closer to the top than to talk about other shows that are smack dab in the middle. It's a situation where you're not realizing that even it's the worst of the best on television, that's still better than 80% of the stuff out there. AD was top shelf though. The intricate writing, casting, production, and acting just made the show stand out for every single episode all 3 seasons. I'll say it's the best sitcom I've ever seen on television. It drove the sitcom genre way forward after 40 years of mostly mediocre crap. All in the Family was edgier, timelier, funnier, and funnier than most stuff that gets shown on television today. It's a sad statement that only very few shows have been able to do as good or better than that when we've had hundreds of attempts since then. edit: I said funnier twice. I really like funnier.
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Tonight's episode of House was called Here Kitty and guest starred Judy Greer, also known as Kitty.
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ErIog posted:I agree with pretty much all of this. The "Famliy Guy sucks" bandwagon is one of the most embarrassing things to come out of the past 4 years, and I get extremely frustrated every time I hear it. Thanks, South Park.
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ErIog posted:I don't really see how you can go on about how Family Guy is clearly a better show, so it can't be lumped in with other shows that are 'universally' bad. At the end of the day it's all your opinion on the situation and it's unfair to think that Family Guy absolutely cannot be credited with being bad.
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-Atom- posted:I don't really see how you can go on about how Family Guy is clearly a better show, so it can't be lumped in with other shows that are 'universally' bad.
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Babylonian posted:I agree with pretty much all of this. The "Famliy Guy sucks" bandwagon is one of the most embarrassing things to come out of the past 4 years, and I get extremely frustrated every time I hear it. Thanks, South Park. I think a small majority of people were pretty sold on how awful Family Guy is before SP did that episode.
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superrunaway posted:I think a small majority of people were pretty sold on how awful Family Guy is before SP did that episode. Are AD fans really comedy elitists like this? Does a show absolutely have to be obscure to be enjoyable?
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Babylonian posted:I think this is a lot like Buster's "Cuz I'm an uptight bleeeeeeep" joke from season 1 in that you're never supposed to know what's being said. It's part of the joke. YOU OLD HORNY SLUT! The bleeps make it much better.
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Babylonian posted:You're right, I'm sure a good chunk of them hated it for being popular before Matt Stone and Trey Parker told them to. I think there are just a lot of people who genuinely don't find Family Guy funny. I think it's a fine show, and love Arrested Development also, but I can be objective about both and see why someone may like one and not the other, or even why someone wouldn't like either. I don't think the majority of Family Guy haters hate it out of elitism, they simply hate it because they don't think it's very good.
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For what it's worth, I loved Family Guy until it came back from cancellation. I was so drat excited for that show to come back, and I just found myself not enjoying it at all. Season 3 is pure genius, though.
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GutBomb posted:I don't think the majority of Family Guy haters hate it out of elitism, they simply hate it because they don't think it's very good. Word. I never liked the show, and I dislike South Park just as much. It's not an elitist thing I just don't find it watchable.
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I also hate Family Guy because I don't find it funny or even watchable. I catch the end of it before the Office reruns start every Tues. on TBS and it's painful to watch even 5-10 minutes.Hot Dog Day #38 posted:Tonight's episode of House was called Here Kitty and guest starred Judy Greer, also known as Kitty.
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I'm surprised that this thread turned into a discussion about Family Guy. I'll try to get this thread back on track by saying that I'm excited for the movie and I hope it won't be a let down. Also I haven't like Family Guy since it came back from cancellation.
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See, I'm one of those mutants who likes new FG so much more than old FG. The old show was really funny but it was also a pretty bland traditional sitcom in a lot of ways, with a shitload of flashbacks thrown in. The new show is way more self-referential and meta, but with the added Achilles' Heel of not knowing when to stop a joke from dragging on for way too long.
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I don't have an opinion about the quality of Family Guy one way or the other but the fact that Seth MacFarlane has three loving cartoons on Fox and the status of Futurama is still up in the air pisses me off 
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I like how for years without any real news, these threads have purely been about discussion on AD, then suddenly Michael Cera signs up in the eagerly awaited Arrested Development movie and you're talking about some cartoon.
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Ok let's discuss all the hot news about the movie. Oh wait.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Oh wait. Yeah, this thread is essentially dead because before it was just speculation on Cera being in or out. But now Cera's confirmed so now this thread is about poo poo people are just noticing, movie news or inane bullshit.
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Okay as much as I would like the derail to die, I feel responsible for bringing FG up. Anyway, I would have no issues with it still being on or even the Cavalcade of Cowmilking, if AD got even enough attention just to keep it afloat for a couple more seasons. I don't need Franklin plush dolls but I would buy a poster for Les Cousins Dangereux I never brought up FG to point the "blame," but merely to illustrate how I felt one creative mind could blow so much good will from fans after coming back from the dead. Even though his stock seems to keep rising, the story arcs are lazier and the jokes more edgy for the sake of edgy instead of cheeky. As for the FG love/hate bandwagon I've been on both commutes. With that said I'd like to end that discussion. Anyway, back to the topic at hand Jeffery Tambor holds acting classes on the 21st in LA. http://www.jeffreytambor.net/ I'd go personally but it's 300 pops and that's just way too much money to spend just so I can shake his hand while reciting catchphrases like a despicable goon. I did find this promo funny though, its design is like something straight out of the show 
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I would only go to that if I got a Bluth Banana Jail Bar
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Check this out. $1100 is exactly what he charges for acting classes.
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Alan Smithee posted:Even though his stock seems to keep rising, the story arcs are lazier and the jokes more edgy for the sake of edgy instead of cheeky.
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Babylonian posted:Check this out. $1100 is exactly what he charges for acting classes. Universe! 
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