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One thing that I always like about when shows mix weirdly is when you get pairs of actors/celebs that find out they work well together and collaborate outside of the sphere they met in - like Joe Wilkinson, British comedian, and Rachel Riley the current Numbers Girl on Countdown - they first worked together on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, and now they've done a lottery advert together which is fairly cute. Unfortunately I can't find it on youtube but I've been seeing it on the 4id website attached to Kitchen Nightmares episodes.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Guys, don't talk bad about the writers or we're gonna wind up falling down elevator shafts! Alan Smithee wouldn't do that, he's a professional.
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Feb 19, 2018 21:03
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BioEnchanted posted:One thing that I always like about when shows mix weirdly is when you get pairs of actors/celebs that find out they work well together and collaborate outside of the sphere they met in - like Joe Wilkinson, British comedian, and Rachel Riley the current Numbers Girl on Countdown - they first worked together on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, and now they've done a lottery advert together which is fairly cute. Unfortunately I can't find it on youtube but I've been seeing it on the 4id website attached to Kitchen Nightmares episodes. They did an episode of a show on Dave. Can't remember the title, but the premise was a pair of celebs get dropped in a foreign country with something like £50,000 in local currency, and have to spend it without having any physical items to show for it.
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Feb 20, 2018 00:17
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There's no way Dave was giving anyone 50 grand. I vaguely remember seeing the show, but I have to think it was less than that.
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Feb 20, 2018 01:07
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50k on services? That's easy. Rent out an entire hotel of rooms.
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Feb 20, 2018 01:11
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I mean, they also had to make an entertaining hour of TV. That was probably more the point than simply just getting rid of the money as efficiently as possible tbh.
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Feb 20, 2018 01:14
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:This is scene is parodying the common American experience of being harassed by an overly-aggressive panhandler or solicitor. However in this case rather than asking for money or offering an overpriced product or service no-one is interested in, they are offering an opportunity most people would jump at and would be seen as a huge break in the incredibly unlikely event that it occurred even within the prosperous economic environment of the 90s. This tension between the familiar and the unfamiliar leads to a physiological response where the diaphragm repeatedly contracts in an audible manner that the person finds pleasurable commonly known as "laughter"; the result of a cultural practice known as a "joke". If you have usefull, rare or unique skills which are worth a lot of money to an employer, they certainly can and will send people to poach you. I've been taken out to dinner more times than I can count and I'm nothing special. I once worked with a guy who got a week's skiing holiday. Some of the stories I've heard about really big players, especially in business, blow my mind. Sunswipe posted:They did an episode of a show on Dave. Can't remember the title, but the premise was a pair of celebs get dropped in a foreign country with something like £50,000 in local currency, and have to spend it without having any physical items to show for it. "Well, I'm off to get some whores. See you in a week." Megillah Gorilla has a new favorite as of 01:22 on Feb 20, 2018 |
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Feb 20, 2018 01:19
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Gorilla Salad posted:If you have usefull, rare or unique skills which are worth a lot of money to an employer, they certainly can and will send people to poach you. I'm just personable and work in what's now a hyped-up field and I've gotten at least one specific unsolicited job offer from a person I actually met, a few more generic unsolicited ones from randos on LinkedIn, and a free sushi dinner from someone who just wanted to have an informational interview about the field.
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Feb 20, 2018 01:32
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SiKboy posted:I mean, they also had to make an entertaining hour of TV. That was probably more the point than simply just getting rid of the money as efficiently as possible tbh. Rent the rooms, give them to people for free, but they have to agree that you can record them. Boom ~500 mini dramas. May even get to see some dude cry and eat a whole pizza by himself. That's riveting television.
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Feb 20, 2018 01:35
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Solice Kirsk posted:Rent the rooms, give them to people for free, but they have to agree that you can record them. Boom ~500 mini dramas. May even get to see some dude cry and eat a whole pizza by himself. That's riveting television. poo poo, I could make money for my standard Tuesday night?
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Feb 20, 2018 01:37
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Milo and POTUS posted:Trans fats episodes The episode of American Dad where Stan uses Steve to traffic trans fat is still hilarious.
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Feb 20, 2018 01:50
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YeahTubaMike posted:The episode of American Dad where Stan uses Steve to traffic trans fat is still hilarious. That's the one I was watching 
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Feb 20, 2018 02:27
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Soooooo, Milo. Word on the street is you have some sort of Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger Shrine.
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Feb 20, 2018 03:26
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SiKboy posted:There's no way Dave was giving anyone 50 grand. I vaguely remember seeing the show, but I have to think it was less than that. You're probably right.
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Feb 20, 2018 04:02
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Gorilla Salad posted:
Sorry! Bringing back assorted nasty bacteria and viruses counts as physical!
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Feb 20, 2018 04:20
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Elephant rides every day.
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Feb 20, 2018 05:39
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Inescapable Duck posted:A lot of old movies can be hard to watch nowadays because everyone's more used to relatively breakneck pacing of modern movies, I think. Might be that movies were more of an event back then, something you'd go out to and sit down to watch, not intended for the small screen. (not that they don't try to make every movie into a big event nowadays, they're just bad at it) Then again, I find most modern TV to be unwatchably slow. Particularly on commercial TV where they spend half the runtime recapping what happened before the last commercial break and previewing what's about to happen after the next commercial break.
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Feb 20, 2018 06:11
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Milo and POTUS posted:Trans fats episodes The King of the Hill episode is still funny
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Feb 20, 2018 06:31
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Tiggum posted:Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a really good movie buried within an incredibly long and tedious one. I'm pretty sure you could improve the whole thing just by cutting it down to essentially just the good bits. Goddamn, you should see anime. There's a reason all the remotely worthwhile ones are like, 20 episodes max. And how much they were able to cut out of Dragon Ball Z to get rid of the filler and padding.
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Feb 20, 2018 06:53
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Tiggum posted:Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a really good movie buried within an incredibly long and tedious one. I'm pretty sure you could improve the whole thing just by cutting it down to essentially just the good bits. I used to think it would be a good idea if they offered unpadded reality TV. Then I realized anyone who really cared wouldn't be watching it in the first place. Inescapable Duck posted:Goddamn, you should see anime. There's a reason all the remotely worthwhile ones are like, 20 episodes max. And how much they were able to cut out of Dragon Ball Z to get rid of the filler and padding. 26
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Feb 20, 2018 07:30
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Solice Kirsk posted:Soooooo, Milo. Word on the street is you have some sort of Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger Shrine. God I wish. I lucked up though. Someone picked up a similar redtext but instead of the rad avatar they got MLP
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Beachcomber posted:I used to think it would be a good idea if they offered unpadded reality TV. Then I realized anyone who really cared wouldn't be watching it in the first place. Fair enough. It's like British television, all the good shows know when to stop.
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Feb 20, 2018 10:27
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Milo and POTUS posted:Trans fats episodes Jokes about phones giving you brain tumours.
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Feb 20, 2018 11:29
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Milo and POTUS posted:Trans fats episodes How does that work, does someone assume their isomeric structure?
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Feb 20, 2018 11:43
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Tiggum posted:Then again, I find most modern TV to be unwatchably slow. Particularly on commercial TV where they spend half the runtime recapping what happened before the last commercial break and previewing what's about to happen after the next commercial break. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFtl2XXnUc
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Last/next time, on DRAGON! BALL! Z! Back then you only had to watch every third episode or so to keep up with the plot.
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Soap operas do that too. I remember back in like 1999 I broke my hand and couldn't work for almost a month (I was a baker). During that time I started watching the soap opera Passions, and, from what I remember through the percocet haze, there was a solid two weeks they focused on if these two people were going to kiss, all while cars were blowing up and days and weeks were passing outside. I was super confused. Also there was a doll that was a little kid, but everyone just pretended it was a doll. I still don't know what was real or what was opiate hallucinations. It was a great month to be honest.
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Ahaha. Passions was one of the most insane soaps due to the paranormal poo poo and would have been the perfect one to watch while on painkillers.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Soap operas do that too. I remember back in like 1999 I broke my hand and couldn't work for almost a month (I was a baker). During that time I started watching the soap opera Passions, and, from what I remember through the percocet haze, there was a solid two weeks they focused on if these two people were going to kiss, all while cars were blowing up and days and weeks were passing outside. I was super confused. Also there was a doll that was a little kid, but everyone just pretended it was a doll. It was real. I used to watch Passions for no good reason when I was unemployed in 2000 for a few months. That show makes no sense. The Percocet probably made it more coherent.
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SEX BURRITO posted:Jokes about phones giving you brain tumours. I finally watched The Larry Sanders Show, and season 2 had an episode that ended on a joke about that. Great episode, and seeing Hank run out of his office yelling "Shiiiiiiiit!" was hilarious, but I couldn't not notice the cell phone/cancer thing being out of date.
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Tiggum posted:Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a really good movie buried within an incredibly long and tedious one. I'm pretty sure you could improve the whole thing just by cutting it down to essentially just the good bits. After the last Game of Thrones season ended I took a brief moment to look at the story boarding of it and the previous season, and at least three entire episodes's worth of knowing looks and frowning could have been eliminated, just from one glance at where things had started and where they ended up.
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Feb 20, 2018 17:20
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Yeah if anything DBZ was prescient. Though 24 is more directly to blame I think. It made sense with that show, at least early on, because in real time not a lot happens in an hour. But that constraint also allowed for underlying tension during action scenes because you knew every second that went by, the terrorists might be getting closer to the nuke or whatever. But now, a lot of shows have episodes where barely anything really happens and the whole season is one plot, not because it's supposed to be real time, but because it's easier to write a bunch of vague stuff now and promise it'll make sense later. In hindsight we should've realized there was a link between extreme serialization and soap operas' plots being ridiculous...
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Serialization is good if the writers have a plan. It is good if they use it to do call backs to earlier episodes and develop characters. It is bad if it is all about 'the mystery' and even the writers have no loving clue h ow they are going to end it.
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sweet geek swag posted:Serialization is good if the writers have a plan. It is good if they use it to do call backs to earlier episodes and develop characters. It is bad if it is all about 'the mystery' and even the writers have no loving clue h ow they are going to end it.  I blame the X-FIles for creating the "story arc" syndrome of modern primetime tv drama. It's good, but only if done well.
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Not so much an aging thing as having a different audience thing. I was watching Stan Lee's Lucky Man and the main character is a cop that punches a suspect during interrogation. In the US you probably wouldn't think twice about that scene but since the show is British they made a huge deal about it and his colleagues were warning him that the entire case could be thrown out. They also had some kind of weird recusal thing where a cop said he couldn't investigate a case because he knows the suspect? Is that a thing in the UK? He said because they both attended the same Gambler's Anonymous meeting he can't investigate her.
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Perestroika posted:
I had a problem with the Departed for this reason. I watched it like 11 years ago so I don't remember more specifically, but I could not distinguish Matt Damon and Leo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg reliably enough to make sense of the plot.
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sweeperbravo posted:I had a problem with the Departed for this reason. I watched it like 11 years ago so I don't remember more specifically, but I could not distinguish Matt Damon and Leo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg reliably enough to make sense of the plot.
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sweeperbravo posted:I had a problem with the Departed for this reason. I watched it like 11 years ago so I don't remember more specifically, but I could not distinguish Matt Damon and Leo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg reliably enough to make sense of the plot. Really? None of those people look even remotely alike in that movie. I guess all good looking white guys look the same to you. Racist.
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sweeperbravo posted:I had a problem with the Departed for this reason. I watched it like 11 years ago so I don't remember more specifically, but I could not distinguish Matt Damon and Leo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg reliably enough to make sense of the plot. goon face blindness strikes again
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Goon face blindness strikes again. e: I was surfing an ancient version of this thread. I am not a mockingbird, I swear. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 23:35 on Feb 20, 2018 |
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