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Lycus posted:I wonder if "Like a Friend" was Pulp's bestselling song on AmazonMP3 before Sunday night. Because it is now. I always get disappointed when I don't see spikes in the hits for something mentioned on a TV show.
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feedmyleg posted:I always get disappointed when I don't see spikes in the hits for something mentioned on a TV show. 30 Rock did a joke about a "hot richard" last year: http://www.google.com/trends?q=hot+richard
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| # ? Nov 25, 2010 03:25 |
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theflyingexecutive posted:30 Rock did a joke about a "hot richard" last year: http://www.google.com/trends?q=hot+richard The best google spike ever is this: http://www.google.com/trends?q=lyle...date=all&sort=0 For those who don't know, Mad Men had a character toss out "Lyle Evans" as if he were some historical figure that everybody would know about.
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A Fistful of Owls posted:The best google spike ever is this: http://www.google.com/trends?q=lyle...date=all&sort=0 No, this is the best google spike: 
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| # ? Nov 25, 2010 05:37 |
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theflyingexecutive posted:30 Rock did a joke about a "hot richard" last year: http://www.google.com/trends?q=hot+richard Languages 1. Tagalog 2. English 
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Lycus posted:I wonder if "Like a Friend" was Pulp's bestselling song on AmazonMP3 before Sunday night. Because it is now. It was probably "Common People" I think that was their biggest hit state-side.
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| # ? Nov 25, 2010 15:53 |
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couple things I noticed. One, Gary had a flak jacket? Wow, the monarch actually cared enought to spend money on him? Two, Hank mentioned that the Quimm twins told him to stop calling them.
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bunnyofdoom posted:couple things I noticed. Gary bought the flak jacket himself with money he got from selling doubles from his collection of vintage Star Wars figurines. He talks about it in the episode The Diving Bell Vs. The Butterglider edit: specifically he is out of pocket an AT-AT walker, two Greedos and a Landspeeder.
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bunnyofdoom posted:couple things I noticed. Gary sold his Star Wars collectables to buy himself body armor. He mentioned that in Diving Belle v Butterglider.
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drat. I guess I forgot that.
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Gassire posted:It was probably "Common People" I think that was their biggest hit state-side. That was their only US "hit". For some reason they never got anywhere near the amount of mainstream attention here as in the UK (where they were literally approaching Beatles level of fandom hysteria). I don't even think "Like a Friend" was a US single. It's weird because This Is Hardcore is their most solid album, though I guess a lot of people were turned off by how dark it was. Sadly, most people think of the Shatner version of "Common People" and have no other knowledge of Pulp. The lyrics to "Like a Friend" are awfully well synched with the events in the episode too.
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This has been killing me and I can't seem to Google my way into an answer. Can anyone tell what song is playing at the Prom when they're talking about the Arrested Development guy? Sounds like an 80's duet, but I cannot hear the lyrics well enough to grab a phrase to Google.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 00:03 |
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silban posted:This has been killing me and I can't seem to Google my way into an answer. I'm pretty sure its all knock offs of stuff. Clearly there is a VB version of Relax and Blue Monday. I also realized that the disco song at the start of the prom is the same one from Nighting Ales.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 00:13 |
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Yeah, it was probably just one of Thirwell or Doc's sound-alikes.
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Late to the prom, but I have to say that was an AMAZING episode. I can't believe they somehow manage to top every season finale, but they do. The last 5 minutes were absolutely perfect. 21's realization that 24's ghost was never actually there was rather emotional. I think more than anything in the episode, that's what got me the most. Poor guy. 
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I really hope he's not gone. It's really the only mystery in the show I'd like to see solved.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 05:02 |
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twistedmentat posted:I really hope he's not gone. It's really the only mystery in the show I'd like to see solved. The Monarch added himself to 'the list'. It ain't over yet.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 05:08 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:The Monarch added himself to 'the list'. It ain't over yet. But he quit being Monarch's henchman, so he isnt going to care about the list.
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BooDoug187 posted:But he quit being Monarch's henchman, so he isnt going to care about the list. I suspect that 21 isn't going to be able to stay away for long.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 05:24 |
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Ensign_Ricky posted:I suspect that 21 isn't going to be able to stay away for long. Hench 4 Life
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 05:47 |
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The Monarch was just upset that 21 didn't consider him a possible murderer. He is the MIGHTY MONARCH of course he should be considered a possible murderer. Its not a hint of guilt. Its the Monarch wanting everyone to think he is a badass.
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Sash! posted:The Monarch was just upset that 21 didn't consider him a possible murderer. He is the MIGHTY MONARCH of course he should be considered a possible murderer. Its not a hint of guilt. Its the Monarch wanting everyone to think he is a badass. No, the Monarch put himself on the list because the Moppets told him it was Gary's Christmas list and he believed them.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 06:26 |
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kazmeyer posted:No, the Monarch put himself on the list because the Moppets told him it was Gary's Christmas list and he believed them. Gary put "suicide" on his Christmas list?
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 06:44 |
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IanJ, are you doing work for Symbiotic-Titan? Reason I ask.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 06:51 |
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ShrewdOrganMerchant posted:Gary put "suicide" on his Christmas list? The only thing the Monarch noticed about the list was that the Ventures, Brock, and the Moppets were on it and he wasn't.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 06:56 |
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Awesome episode. But what is the true "Rusty Venture"?
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 07:35 |
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23 Skidoo posted:Awesome episode. What is the aristocrats?
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Dodgeball posted:IanJ, are you doing work for Symbiotic-Titan?
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 07:48 |
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Ror posted:Hench 4 Life He's Henching for Sphinx (Sphinx!) now! Though with Hunter being head of the OSI now, we don't know whats happening on that front. I strongly suspect Brock's Version of the Rusty Venture is the right one.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 12:11 |
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The Monarch's name on the list might just be to explicitly point out to the viewer that he is in fact the one responsible for 24's death, even if indirectly and even if Gary won't wind up following up on it and getting his revenge. Remember, the car that exploded had H.E.L.P.eR. in the driver's seat, who was making his escape just after the Monarch had "taken the liberty of upgrading [Rusty's] robot's equipment with two gigabytes of kablam." Anyway, I always thought the list was more about closure for Gary. Even though 24 disappeared without bringing any closure at the prom, now that he's not hanging around it might be easier for Gary to move on and accept that 24's luck just ran out, same as the hundreds of other henchmen 21 has seen die. They chose a risky line of work, after all. edit: then again they make a point in the Season 3 finale of showing the remote to the bomb being abandoned when Dr. Mrs. The Monarch runs off to try to stop The Monarch from using the Death's Head Panoply so who knows 
proof of concept fucked around with this message at Nov 26, 2010 around 13:26 |
| # ? Nov 26, 2010 13:15 |
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proof of concept posted:edit: then again they make a point in the Season 3 finale of showing the remote to the bomb being abandoned when Dr. Mrs. The Monarch runs off to try to stop The Monarch from using the Death's Head Panoply so who knows That drat shot is really the only thing in Venture Brothers that I personally would speculate on as far as upcoming stories. I really think it was The Moppets. They've had it in for 21 and 24 since the beginning (I bet because 21 and 24 were The Monarch's go-to guys, which they want to be). The Moppets have been checking off the list while he's out too. I bet they meant to get both of them in the blast, but of course 21 didn't buckle up. They were planning to get him later until he buffed up and took a few levels in scary competence. Now they don't think they could take him, and even if they did the Monarch would kill them for it. So not only are they not trying to kill him, but they're trying to cover the fact that they did it by ultimately checking themselves off the list. I bet now that 21 is over it they'll let their guard down, he'll find out somehow, and then it's loving GAME ON.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 13:47 |
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Wait, i thought ghost 24 was real because of that scene where he's talking to the freshly dead henchman when Gary was nowhere near them. I'm going with 24 is a real ghost, but all of these people he's been bringing to Gary are just people he's making up. He disappeared because he was hiding after Gary found out the other "ghost" was still alive. It seems like the kind of thing 24 might do in order to get Gary to go along with things.
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ApathyGifted posted:They were planning to get him later until he buffed up and took a few levels in scary competence. His training was LARPing. I love that because it means leveling up is exactly what he was doing. Kin posted:Wait, i thought ghost 24 was real because of that scene where he's talking to the freshly dead henchman when Gary was nowhere near them. Let me get this straight, 24 is real, and a ghost, and also has the power to create other, made-up ghosts just to screw with Gary? Even if he is real the last part sounds a little far-fetched to me.
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proof of concept posted:His training was LARPing. I love that because it means leveling up is exactly what he was doing. Yeah, he's a real ghost who's using his ghostly voodoo to screw with Gary and get him to go along with whatever he wants him to do.
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proof of concept posted:Let me get this straight, 24 is real, and a ghost, and also has the power to create other, made-up ghosts just to screw with Gary? Even if he is real the last part sounds a little far-fetched to me. I just assumed the other ghost guy was lying about who he was to seem cooler
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Jackson Publick posted:All right...this is getting crazy. There are only two possible explanations, and Brock (spelled "Samson," not "SamPson") has nothing to do with either of them:
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When I grow up I want to be an afterlife con man
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| # ? Nov 26, 2010 14:33 |
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The main thing that suggests that 24 isn't a real ghost is that Doctor Orpheus can't see him (or "Baba Oje"). Orpheus is a) a necromancer, and b) has demonstrated the ability to see spirits/demons that no-one but the person they're haunting can. So yeah, 24 was all in 21's head, and it's time to move on.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:The main thing that suggests that 24 isn't a real ghost is that Doctor Orpheus can't see him (or "Baba Oje"). Orpheus is a) a necromancer, and b) has demonstrated the ability to see spirits/demons that no-one but the person they're haunting can.
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Lycus posted:Yeah, that was my thought as well. Also, Jackson clearly put more thought into #1, so... Don't worry, every single time Jackson writes something in his blog that either directly says, or very strongly implies, what happened in the show, someone will come in and say that Jackson is deliberately misleading us so that we will be more surprised when their stupid-rear end, overly complicated theory turns out to be true. Even though it always turns out Jackson was NOT misleading us and he spoke the truth about his own drat show. I mean, it's clear that King Gorilla is Dr.Mrs.The Monarch's long-lost biological father, that Dr.Venture said "get their clones" at the end of season 1, Dr.Mrs.The Monarch is pregnant, or (and?) really IS a dude, 24's ghost is real and made other, fake ghosts to mess with Gary, Hank is a clone of Brock and Dean is a clone of Rusty, The Monarch is Rusty's brother, Kim will come back as a super-villain, the call girls were really call girls and Mol was bluffing...poo poo, what else am I missing? A lot, but I can't be bothered to remember them all. Edit: I know not all of those things were commented on by Jackson, I was just making a generic list of lovely, spergy theories.
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