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muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


Automatic Slim posted:

I love how they almost space Gaeta and figure out that he's really a hero who saved them as a double agent. No one apologizes.

Don't they end up doing that eventually anyway because of the mutiny in the last season?

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ultrabindu
Jan 28, 2009

happyhippy posted:

Take out the mention of drugs and alcohol and you have Friends.

But its so sounds like very UK soap.
X and Y will be lovers.
In six months X will be cheating on Y with Z and Y will find out.
Six months after that X and Y are friends again, Z turns out to be a murderer or dies in a plane crash.
Repeat and rinse.

Hello, do you have a moment to talk about the glory of Hollyoaks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Z1aZHf-F0

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

muscles like this? posted:

Don't they end up doing that eventually anyway because of the mutiny in the last season?

Yeah, but a little mea culpa could've quelled the anger. Starbuck was pretty remorseless she almost killed an innocent man.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

I finally got around to that show "Happy Endings" and I'm pretty ambivalent. On the one hand the writing can be really sharp and the actors can deliver great lines, but on the other it plays as self-aware in a very lame network TV kind-of way and descends into being an outright cartoon before the first season is up. Think of it somewhere between Friends and New Girl.

I kept with it because Eliza Coupe, Damon Wayans Jr., and surprisingly Elisha Cuthbert are all amazing even when given terrible material--for real Cuthbert surprised the gently caress out of me; that girl has got serious comedic chops when she's playing a sweet dullard--but even then I found myself wondering why the gently caress the show had a cult following. It deserved to get cancelled way earlier than it did.

Deified Data
Nov 3, 2015


Fun Shoe
Can someone tell me why Allen Gregory was so bad so I don't have to stoop to watching it myself to satisfy my morbid curiosity?

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Deified Data posted:

Can someone tell me why Allen Gregory was so bad so I don't have to stoop to watching it myself to satisfy my morbid curiosity?

Smug douchebag child cartoon character without any of the foibles or terrible things that happen to smug douchebag characters to make them fun to watch.

lidnsya
Nov 14, 2007
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-lidnsya.jpg"><br>All aboard the sleepy train!
What, when does Super Hans rape someone? I've watched that whole show twice (though mostly while baked or not paying great attention) and I can't figure out what you're referring to. I don't doubt it, I just don't remember, and I can't find any angry about the rape articles on google.

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

lidnsya posted:

What, when does Super Hans rape someone? I've watched that whole show twice (though mostly while baked or not paying great attention) and I can't figure out what you're referring to. I don't doubt it, I just don't remember, and I can't find any angry about the rape articles on google.

He rapes Olivia Coleman's character's nephew and gets the kid to fall in love with him.

update: Season 5 episode 2

Sophie's cousin Barney tells Jez that she is going back to work three weeks early and gives Jez some music CDs he has worked on. Mark tries to deflect the bad image that has arisen around him since the relationship failed, but the only ones who take Mark's side are Johnson (who suspends Sophie when she goes too far) and a new female IT worker called Dobby (played by Isy Suttie). They form an almost sexual relationship, but Mark tries to resist. After listening to the CDs, Jez and Super Hans decide to form a band with Barney so that they can get him to play the music while they make all the money. Jez's band get a gig but it ends badly when Barney locks himself in the toilet after administering oral sex to Super Hans while in a k-hole. Mark and Dobby go to the ladies' toilets in order to have sex, but discover Sophie is also in there, being sick. When it is revealed that Mark and Sophie are married, Dobby leaves him and Mark helps Sophie out to her father's car. First appearance of Dobby.

Filthy Hans fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Feb 3, 2016

lidnsya
Nov 14, 2007
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-lidnsya.jpg"><br>All aboard the sleepy train!
Oh gently caress, I somewhat remember that now and being grossed out by it. Good username/post combo.

facebook jihad
Dec 18, 2007

by R. Guyovich

Filthy Hans posted:

He rapes Olivia Coleman's character's nephew and gets the kid to fall in love with him.

update: Season 5 episode 2

Synopsis

I vaguely remember that now too.

I mostly wanted to post because this post/username combo is almost too good to be true

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
Ghost Hunters. The cast of that show should be sentenced to spend the rest of their lives writing apology letters to the people who watched it. Even those who claim to enjoy it.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Halloween Jack posted:

Ghost Hunters. The cast of that show should be sentenced to spend the rest of their lives writing apology letters to the people who watched it. Even those who claim to enjoy it.

I remember one episode where they thought something had inexplicably moved... until their tech guy pointed out that some frames or something had been removed from the video.

No one talked about who could have done it, presumably it was someone on the team who was not the tech guy.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Professor Shark posted:

I remember one episode where they thought something had inexplicably moved... until their tech guy pointed out that some frames or something had been removed from the video.

No one talked about who could have done it, presumably it was someone on the team who was not the tech guy.

There were tons of things like that actually. I seem to recall one of them rigging a pully system to their jacket during a live event so it looked like something pulled on his jacket. It was figured out immediately and I believe dude quit the show or issued an apology or something. Can't quite remember since I never watched the show, but my roommate loved it and was freaking out.

Peddle2thaMetal
Apr 17, 2012

ooooooooo yeaaaahhh
Greg the Bunny and Caroline in the City are two that come to mind. House of Payne

edit: Yes Dear, According to Jim, Last Man Standing... all poo poo

Peddle2thaMetal fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jul 14, 2016

FogHelmut
Dec 18, 2003

A producer for ghost hunters user trolled the Ghost Stories 2004 thread and put me in an episode of the first season. There was like one cool guy out of the whole group and it was a cameraman telling chicks on campus that we were filming a show for MTV.

facebook jihad
Dec 18, 2007

by R. Guyovich
I can't imagine that sitcom starring Bill Engvall was any good. I didn't watch it. But I don't think it would be any good.

Oh also MTV's hard times of Rj Berger. A show about a nerdy high schooler who had a big dick. Yup

facebook jihad fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Jul 14, 2016

client
Aug 19, 2010

every person i've met who's liked house of cards and frank underwood was without fail one of the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet

client
Aug 19, 2010

*

client fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Jul 14, 2016

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

i don't think there's every going to be another show that's as bad as Alan Gregory.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Fonzarelli posted:

i don't think there's every going to be another show that's as bad as Alan Gregory.

panascope
Mar 26, 2005

Whitney was the worst piece of poo poo and they ran ads for it constantly.

GET MY BELT SON
Sep 26, 2007

seaquest

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

Blazing Ownager posted:

Heroes Season 3 and American Horror Story Season 3 are both some of the most what the gently caress terrible train wrecks you will ever see.

Though honestly they're both so loving horrible I can't begin to say they're the worst thing ever. They're so bad they are fascinating.
AHS: Coven is fascinating because it's like they were rewriting the whole arc of the show each episode. They got through the whole series without ever settling on a central conflict. One of the major characters has to literally vanish in a puff of smoke in the last episode because they didn't know what to do with her. It's amazing.

And a show with a Stevie Nicks music video in it can't be all bad.

Yudo posted:

I only watched the first season and it is a netflix show but Hemlock Grove is the worst thing I have ever seen.
I had this on in the background while I was unpacking boxes after I moved. Every now and then I'd hear something that made me go "Wait, they said what?" But I figured I just hadn't been paying attention. Then I read the reviews and saw all the so-bad-you-won't-believe-it-unless-we-print-it dialogue, printed. It's also the most weirdly misogynistic show I've ever seen.

client
Aug 19, 2010

Halloween Jack posted:

AHS: Coven is fascinating because it's like they were rewriting the whole arc of the show each episode. They got through the whole series without ever settling on a central conflict. One of the major characters has to literally vanish in a puff of smoke in the last episode because they didn't know what to do with her. It's amazing.

And a show with a Stevie Nicks music video in it can't be all bad.


all i remember about that show is that the fat black girl randomly gets hosed by a minotaur and this scene has no bearing on the plot whatsoever and is never mentioned again

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I couldn't even finish the first season of AHS, I read the synopsis on Wikipedia and it sounded like I made the right choice

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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panascope posted:

Whitney was the worst piece of poo poo and they ran ads for it constantly.

The best thing to happen to Whitney Cummings' career was Kat Dennings' chest.

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

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The last season of AHS seemed to have no point but HEY LOOK IT'S LADY GAGA IN A FANCY OUTFIT BEING DARK AND MYSTERIOUS

Which sucks because I liked the premise, the setting was amazing, and Denis O'Hare killed it as Liz Taylor, and the rest of the cast did well too, the plot was just all over the place and the rape ghost was just pointless shock for the sake of shock

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
Jessica Lange gets a lot of well-deserved praise for her work on that show, but O'Hare was always there just quietly doing amazing work.

I don't care about the whole Zombie Simpsons argument, but the intro from that site was a great explanation for why TV was so staid by the end of the 80s, with endless sitcoms and cop/detective shows. I don't feel like I can comment on any of the many sitcoms mentioned in this thread, because I don't think I like any sitcoms besides Arrested Development. I disliked every sitcom I ever had to sit through, whether it was Full House, Small Wonder, Boy Meets World, Home Improvement, or Seinfeld.

Millions of Crows
Mar 31, 2010

take a look overhead
have you all forgotten the horror and dissapointment of filmation's Ghostbusters? Or Extreme Ghostbusters?

Decades later I still hate those shows. A ghostbuster in a wheelchair is like a cop or firefighter in a wheelchair, they stay at the station and become alcoholics.

gently caress you whoever said Graham Linehan's shows are the equivelent of chuck lorre. Watch Father Ted, if you that doesn't clear things up for you you're hopeless. The three fictional gently caress-up priests on that show were more endearing and likable and life affirming than any actual priest I've encountered. Even Jack. Especially Jack.

RIP Dermot Morgan and Frank Kelly.

facebook jihad
Dec 18, 2007

by R. Guyovich

Was that the show with Roy Scheider? I remember wanting to watch that as a kid because Brody from Jaws was in it but didn't understand a single bit of it.

TheKennedys
Sep 23, 2006

By my hand, I will take you from this godforsaken internet

get the gently caress out :colbert:

it was a terrible show but I love it anyway, partially because I had a huuuuuuge crush on Jonathan Brandis as a teenager and partially because Ted Raimi was in it. also talking dolphins were the poo poo when I was thirteen.

S3 was unforgivably bad though

Millions of Crows
Mar 31, 2010

take a look overhead
Seaquest is hilarious now. Like a sci fi original movie stretched out over a tv series full of janky early 90s cgi and star trek plots transplanted to the ocean.

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

Probably that show they made based on the hit song Castle Kids, what were they thinking?!

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL
AHS is like Walking Dead where it gets lots of praise despite obviously being bad.

Cnut the Great
Mar 30, 2014

client posted:

every person i've met who's liked house of cards and frank underwood was without fail one of the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet

I only made it four episodes in. The writers of that show clearly have no idea how politics or government actually loving work, and so it just wasn't very much fun seeing Kevin Spacey's character using his wit and guile to wreck poo poo, since there weren't even any quasi-realistic constraints on what he could do.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Gaunab posted:

AHS is like Walking Dead where it gets lots of praise despite obviously being bad.

I liked the first season of The Walking Dead, and all but the last 20 minutes of the Season 2 finale

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Millions of Crows posted:


RIP Dermot Morgan and Frank Kelly.

Wait, what the gently caress?! I knew about Dermot (the day after filming the last episode :smith:) but Frank?

:smith: :smith:

EDIT: Goddamn...

IMDB posted:

Died on the 18th anniversary of Father Ted (1995) co-star Dermot Morgan's death. Morgan died on 28 February 1998, Kelly on the same date in 2016. Both actors died on a Sunday.

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

Cnut the Great posted:

I only made it four episodes in. The writers of that show clearly have no idea how politics or government actually loving work, and so it just wasn't very much fun seeing Kevin Spacey's character using his wit and guile to wreck poo poo, since there weren't even any quasi-realistic constraints on what he could do.

I like watching Kevin Spacey chew the scenery, it's somehow satisfying.

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

OctoberBlues posted:

I like watching Kevin Spacey chew the scenery, it's somehow satisfying.

I don't know the ins-and-outs of the American government, so I take the happenings within House of Cards with a grain of salt... in relation to the real world. Within the rules of the show's world, though, that's fine. poo poo doesn't have to be super realistic for me to buy into it.

9 priests lost in the island's largest lingerie section, I mean c'mon now. Gotta suspend your disbelief sometimes to enjoy stuff.

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Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all
When actual US Representatives earnestly bring up concerns about whether or not an island with too many people on one side will capsize, I think it's safe to say that most of our government doesn't know how government or politics works.

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