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Gonz posted:The series finale of Childrens Hospital aired last night, and it was.....out there. Did you see the bump before the episode though? They're totally going to do specials every once and awhile. I did think it was odd though that Rob Corddry wasn't even in the final episode of his own show.
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Apr 16, 2016 21:12
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Watching the first season and just got to the scene with the toilet. Almost busted a gut laughing.
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muscles like this? posted:Have they said how many seasons Better Call Saul is going to be? No, but they're renewed at least to three. If I were to guess, at least five.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Episode 9 is the best thing they've done. Fitting, considering that S1E9 was probably the lowest point of the season. Guy Mann posted:Between last season's episode on how evil teacher unions are and this season's episode on how psychiatric medicine is just lazy parents drugging normal kids they can't handle I can't help but feel that maybe Tina Fey has some issues about raising her kids. I'll definitely agree with you on the drugging episode being heavy-handed (so was the tumblr episode this season and the OJ parody last season) but IMO the teacher's union episode was great and the only Dong episode that overcame how terrible the Dong character was. Plus come on, it's Bing Bong! Getting one step closer... ...to THIS! e: The gentrification plotline that kind of started in season one and came out strong in season two is pretty eye-rolly but Carol Kane easily powers through it and makes it all watchable. Cockblocktopus fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Apr 16, 2016 |
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I really enjoyed Kimmy Schmidt S2, maybe more than S1. Jeff Goldblum was a special surprise.
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So yeah I finally started S4 of Orphan Black (why is it on Thursdays again?) and while it was a good episode - I don't have anything specific to talk about - I get the feeling again that watching this show I never really know what the throughline of each season is supposed to be. Like it gets all muddy in the middle and somehow comes out by the end to be about something else entirely. Maybe it's an artifact of the show's mythology that it just seems to get all jumbled up? I feel like I've watched more complicated or complex shows that have more clear throughlines each season. It's not like I'm not putting 100% into watching OB when I have it in front of me, it just feels like their mythology is really just all over the place with nothing to really tie it together. I feel like when the clones get caught in some hijinks those parts are waaaaay more memorable than shady corporation who uses evolution in their mission statement looms over the clones' lives because evolution.
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Apr 17, 2016 19:20
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corn in the bible posted:http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/search-for-the-next-mythbusters/search-for-the-next-mythbusters-about/ It's kind of funny how as soon as the show was over Discovery couldn't get rid of it faster, fobbing it off on Science Channel.
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muscles like this? posted:It's kind of funny how as soon as the show was over Discovery couldn't get rid of it faster, fobbing it off on Science Channel. i wonder if they asked jamie and adam to come back and were turned down
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Apr 17, 2016 22:45
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I noticed Documentary Now was on Netflix and I'd heard about it a year or so back, so I decided to give the first episode a watch. I, uh... I don't have the words.
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corn in the bible posted:http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/search-for-the-next-mythbusters/search-for-the-next-mythbusters-about/ I NO MYTH BUSTER ANYMORE! Fine, I'll mythbuster!
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TWoP's return will be great if the fametracker returns.
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raditts posted:I noticed Documentary Now was on Netflix and I'd heard about it a year or so back, so I decided to give the first episode a watch. The words you should be looking for are "Hurry up with season two dammit." As for Mythbusters, if someone had said three pages ago it had been cancelled in 2007 I would have believed them.
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FadingChord posted:I NO MYTH BUSTER ANYMORE!
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Apr 18, 2016 01:07
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I think the point of no return was "let's fire the secondary crew, including the attractive girl everyone likes." Like the BBC is having trouble with Top Gear because Jeremy Clarkson is a scummy person who punched out a staffer who told him the kitchen was closed, the Science Channel are just cheapskates.
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I feel like the Mythbusters have run their course. Yes, there's still stuff out there that would be interesting to do, but the show generally didn't do those, got old, and I hadn't watched it in years.
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They had a mishap with a cannonball around five years ago that could have easily killed someone but fortunately didn't. I was a little surprised that Discovery didn't cut ties with them at that point.
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I wonder how many parents are gonna throw a fit to Disney over the nice lesbian make out scene in tonights Once Upon a Time.
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Lesbians are family-friendly now. Million Moms only give a poo poo if it's dudes.
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Season 2 of Kimmy Schmidt was good but I don't think anything is going to live up to finding out that the song that Titus plays when he's DJing in season 1 is an actual song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ac800ELs4U
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GreenNight posted:I wonder how many parents are gonna throw a fit to Disney over the nice lesbian make out scene in tonights Once Upon a Time. 
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Maxwell Lord posted:I think the point of no return was "let's fire the secondary crew, including the attractive girl everyone likes." I'm no Mythbusters aficionado, but I think the Build Team stuff got out of control and the show essentially became Savage and Hyneman handing off 60% of the show to them while they worked on the "main" myth. It's the main reason I gave up on the show years ago. I did think the final season was their strongest season since the early days though. The show should stay dead though. They had a hell of a run.
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oshuaj posted:I really enjoyed Kimmy Schmidt S2, maybe more than S1. Jeff Goldblum was a special surprise. Finished up S2 of Kimmy Schmidt earlier tonight, and I thought it was much better than S1. Even the low points weren't anywhere near as bad as the bad parts from S1, like the OJ stuff, and Kimmy's dad. And the jokes seemed a bit funnier. I don't remember laughing as hard during S1 as I did at some of the better jokes in S2. (I giggle just thinking about Mike's grandma, and would love to have a copy of Now That Sounds Like Music.)
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Cardboard Box A posted:It will be the epitome of no one cares Yeah, you've got to kills lesbians these days if you want to enrage nutters.
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Vanderdeath posted:I'm no Mythbusters aficionado, but I think the Build Team stuff got out of control and the show essentially became Savage and Hyneman handing off 60% of the show to them while they worked on the "main" myth. It's the main reason I gave up on the show years ago. I did think the final season was their strongest season since the early days though. It also meant the show spent more time on everybody fake acting ("Hey Adam, what are you doing today?") and of the 5 of them there were exactly 0 decent actors.
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raditts posted:I noticed Documentary Now was on Netflix and I'd heard about it a year or so back, so I decided to give the first episode a watch. So... should I watch it?
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cheerfullydrab posted:So... should I watch it? The promise of Documentary Now season two was like 85% of the reason I subscribed to the middle PlayStation VUE tier instead of the basic one. You can miss a few jokes/references if you're not familiar with the documentaries they're parodying but overall the series is the funniest that Fred Armisen and Bill Hader have ever been in my books. The final episode fell a little flat for me because it felt too much like a real documentary but the Al Capone ep continues to the be one of the funniest/greatest things I've ever seen and it's kinda disappointing that it isn't real.
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Documentary now is insanely good, especially if you have seen the original documentaries being, well, I dunno if lampooned is the right word. The first one is almost a shot for shot remake of Grey Gardens just with Hader and Armisen saying the old ladies' lines.
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FadingChord posted:It also meant the show spent more time on everybody fake acting ("Hey Adam, what are you doing today?") and of the 5 of them there were exactly 0 decent actors. and they always had to pretend what they were doing could work even when it was obviously not going to
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zoux posted:The first one is almost a shot for shot remake of Grey Gardens just with Hader and Armisen saying the old ladies' lines. I had not seen Grey Gardens and that episode totally worked for me, though it initially came off as a little Portlandiaesque (not a bad thing).
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lelandjs posted:I had not seen Grey Gardens and that episode totally worked for me, though it initially came off as a little Portlandiaesque (not a bad thing). Yeah me neither, I was aware of it (mostly from Simpson's jokes) but I watched some clips after the Doc Now one, and that beginning part where she accosts the documentary guys and describes her outfit and stuff is word for word the same.
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corn in the bible posted:and they always had to pretend what they were doing could work even when it was obviously not going to That was always the thing that bugged me the most about the show, when they had to fake the sequence of events to make it seem more dramatic.
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Jamie and Adam have a Youtube channel called Tested that is unrelated to Mythbusters. You can watch them (mostly just Adam) making stuff like lightsaber replicas or comic con costumes.
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muscles like this? posted:That was always the thing that bugged me the most about the show, when they had to fake the sequence of events to make it seem more dramatic. Let's all hide behind the blast shield because this potato might E.X.P.L.O.D.E.
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What I hated the most is when they would test a myth in a way that was only maybe-sorta analogous to the actual myth. Like for their Hindenberg episode, they were way too loving lazy to see how a sealed envelope of hydrogen burned, so they just made a non-sealed blimp-shaped model, ran a hose into it, and pumped hydrogen into it and then lit it on fire. Congrats on testing whether you can burn hydrogen, I guess, and nothing about blimps or thermite. Now, there's probably a great reason for it. Like, scale model of a blimp isn't going to have enough hydrogen in it to burn in the same way the real Hindenberg did, and it would almost certainly be hugely anticlimactic or non-characteristically explosive if they tried to do that. But still, when they pretend that their experiments are analogous to something and they clearly aren't, and they don't bother to discuss the differences between their experiments and the myth, it just bugs me. See also when they did icecicle myths and they cast ice spikes in molds as their ice-cicles without ever addressing if the structure of a spike the made in the freeze is the same as one that forms by dripping. No poo poo humans can make sharp objects out of hard materials and stab them into stuff. That's not a loving myth.
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