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Zeikier posted:It's the best use of Klasky-Csupo's grotesque style, which I forget if we already brought that up. It goes a little too gross sometimes but yeah. yeah I remember enjoying the show back when it was on, but it just looks messy and lovely all the time. The thing I like the least now is the voice on the Pig Detective, it's just so flat and boring and trying to be cool.
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Zeikier posted:It's a prime example of a show you talked up to your friends and when you'd try to show it to them they'd air the worst episode. I won't miss that age of television. Ah, so you've seen Mr Show too.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 10:04 |
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Duckman I remember for having the same art style as the Jumanji cartoon, which is mostly memorable for tons of really hosed up poo poo. See the bogleech entry on it. The Oblongs reminds me of Quads!, which was more along the South Park style of humour, though I don't think its depictions of women and homosexuals were particularly good in the first place. Then again, it's pretty much from the point of view of not particularly sympathetic but still underdog disabled people trying to make their way in the world.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Duckman I remember for having the same art style as the Jumanji cartoon, which is mostly memorable for tons of really hosed up poo poo. See the bogleech entry on it. I believe the showrunner of Quads was himself a disabled guy, which kind of helped a lot with that.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 14:16 |
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Just ran into an old SNL Weekend Update segment that has aspects which really did not age well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CvYBx0qEbk
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I believe the showrunner of Quads was himself a disabled guy, which kind of helped a lot with that. The show was based on the comics of John Callahan, a quadriplegic cartoonist of pervert cartoons. e. misplaced modifier
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:10 |
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Hey remember the SNL character Pat? They were androgynous. ... Are you laughing yet? No? Well too bad, because that’s THE WHOLE JOKE. They did like a hundred of those things. Thare was a Pat movie. What the gently caress was the movie about?
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:15 |
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Help I can't stop watching old poorly aged SNL somebody help me ohgodohgod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91XUyg9iWM
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Help I can't stop watching old poorly aged SNL somebody help me ohgodohgod DAN AYKROYD DEFENDER HAS BEEN SUMMONED TO THE THREAD
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:32 |
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Speaking of things that haven't aged well, how about that Chevy Chase?
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:39 |
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Volcott posted:Speaking of things that haven't aged well, how about that Chevy Chase? Well, he's Chevy Chase, and we're not.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Well, he's Chevy Chase, and we're not. thank goodness for that!
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:53 |
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Ariong posted:Hey remember the SNL character Pat? They were androgynous. IT was about a normal successful person slowly going insane trying to determine pats gender and pats relationship with a person of equally undeterminable gender named Chris
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:56 |
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^^^Ariong posted:Hey remember the SNL character Pat? They were androgynous. I don't know what the movie was about. I thought the funny part of Pat sketches wasn't laughing at the character, but rather laughing at the increasingly frustrated people trying to fit him/her into a definite category and failing.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:57 |
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Beachcomber posted:^^^ They just wanted to have them down pat.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:59 |
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Pat sketches were either 'lol how weeeeeeird they're androgynous' or 'someone who considers themselves a 'regular' person gets increasingly flustered trying to force Pat into their binary worldview while Pat remains unaware and friendly regardless'. The former have obviously aged pretty rough but the latter had some solid jokes still. That movie, like near every SNL movie, was dogshit
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 05:27 |
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I don't feel like looking it up very hard but there's a pretty striking old Weekend Update bit about the assassination of Harvey Milk that involves showing "footage" of his memorial parade that's actually footage of a Chinese communist march and how to identify which people in the footage are tops and which are bottoms, and it ends with Bill Murray accidentally calling him Harry Milk. It has not, if I may dare say, aged well
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 05:55 |
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It's aged so poorly that it now concerns Harvey Yoghurt.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 06:18 |
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Weekend update was always the weakest part of SNL to me so learning it hasn't aged well isn't that much of a shocker.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 09:26 |
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Norm mcdonalds weekend update was usually the funniest part of the show
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 09:36 |
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the weakest part of SNL is the writing, followed by the acting
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 09:46 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Well, he's Chevy Chase, and we're not. Medium talent!
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 10:05 |
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'It's Pat' was awesome because it really does freak people out when they can't gender define you. I'm not even talking about transgender people because you can define their gender pretty easy as long as you're not being an rear end in a top hat. But no one knew what Pat was. Pat's boyfriend being named Chris as brilliant writing. Also I think the movie version only showed at one theater in Alabama and for awhile was the lowest grossing film of all time. Gaunab posted:Weekend update was always the weakest part of SNL to me so learning it hasn't aged well isn't that much of a shocker. All Weekend Update episodes suck in retrospect because it's 100% topical humor and makes no sense or is just tired rehashes when you watch them years later. Like if Shrek was distilled to just the parts with SmashMouth songs and jokes about the Matrix.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Just ran into an old SNL Weekend Update segment that has aspects which really did not age well: Going by the audience reaction, I don't think it was good at the time.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 14:19 |
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I liked weekend update, but some of their character bits in the later seasons just drag on for way too long. Except Stefon, he's always great.. From the newer episodes I've seen, the latest anchor doesn't have his own voice. It always sounds like his lines were written specifically for Seth Meyers and he's just the one reading them off.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 14:28 |
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Probably the reason Norm MacDonald's weekend update worked so much better is precisely because of how often his jokes were nonsequitors, avoiding topical humor. My brother and I still will rarely surprise each other with "You guessed it: Frank Stallone" for example.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 14:35 |
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Kay Kessler posted:I liked weekend update, but some of their character bits in the later seasons just drag on for way too long. Except Stefon, he's always great.. I think the Weekend Update guys are usually the head writers. Like Tina Fey and then Seth Meyers after her. Colin Jost (the latest anchor) was the head writer for awhile there. So maybe he's writing the lines as Seth for himself. I'm a little amazed at how little the cast gets paid. First year cast members don't even break 100k while having to pay NYC cost of living. Cocaine must have been a lot cheaper in the 70's and 80's.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I'm a little amazed at how little the cast gets paid. First year cast members don't even break 100k while having to pay NYC cost of living. Cocaine must have been a lot cheaper in the 70's and 80's.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 15:18 |
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SNL's writing is pretty hit and miss, but I'm always impressed at their ability to find talent. Mad TV was the same way, but with an even lower hit:miss ratio.
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Choco1980 posted:Probably the reason Norm MacDonald's weekend update worked so much better is precisely because of how often his jokes were nonsequitors, avoiding topical humor. My brother and I still will rarely surprise each other with "You guessed it: Frank Stallone" for example. Well, that just goes to prove his theory: Germans LOVE David Hasselhoff.
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FactsAreUseless posted:SNL's writing is pretty hit and miss, but I'm always impressed at their ability to find talent. Mad TV was the same way, but with an even lower hit:miss ratio. Hey, Will Sasso deserved way more love than he got (and Alex Borstein and Michael McDonald did pretty well for themselves). You're right though, in large part MADTV doesn't really hold up like old SNL. Mid-90s SNL was a shitshow so at least MADTV started at the right time, when SNL was down to the understudies' understudies and in a Bad Place. I'm kinda surprised the endless font of dumb jokes that was MAD magazine didn't come up with better writers for the show but eh, it was the mid 90s. Nothing was good in the early-mid 90s.
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TheKennedys posted:Hey, Will Sasso deserved way more love than he got (and Alex Borstein and Michael McDonald did pretty well for themselves).
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 16:04 |
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I'm watching some America's Next Top Model compilations and it's hilarious to see Tyra "feminist boss lady" Banks tell girls to tone down their intelligence or confidence because it's intimidating. I'm constantly waiting for her to put on a Warren Jeffs cult dress and tell them to "Stay sweet".
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 16:05 |
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TheKennedys posted:Nothing was good in the early-mid 90s. Seinfeld
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 16:48 |
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SNL was always terrible, and the only way people find it bearable is when they cherry pick the three or four funny skits they did over the course of an entire year.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 17:01 |
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This cup has aged well.
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MikeCrotch posted:Seinfeld Nothing was good in the early-mid 90s that did not technically start in the late 80s. See also: The Simpsons
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 17:01 |
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SNL has always been mostly mediocre and always will be, it is pretty much that way by design.
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londonarbuckle posted:SNL has always been mostly mediocre and always will be, it is pretty much that way by design. Someone hasn't seen patrick stewart's erotic cakes sketch.
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FactsAreUseless posted:SNL's writing is pretty hit and miss, but I'm always impressed at their ability to find talent. Mad TV was the same way, but with an even lower hit:miss ratio. I wouldn't say it's so much a hit:miss ratio regarding talent so much as it is success.
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