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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:And more importantly, they left them dead. Amongst many other reasons, Revenge of the Fallen sucked because they couldn't resist resurrecting Optimus Prime. Uhm actually Optimus Prime returns in season 4 of the original run of Transformers. It was real bad y'all  At this point I assumed killing off and reviving Optimus Prime was just a box you gotta check if you want to make a Transformers property. While not exactly a show Lewis Black has aged extremely poorly. I loved him during the Bush years and went to play his most recent special for my roommate a year or so back cause she'd never seen any of his stand up. It was the most agonizing thing I've ever seen, just an hour and a half of an old man being mad about Facebook.
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fruit on the bottom posted:Megatron was at his best when his alt form was a pistol that someone else had to fire Particularly by the ever-loyal Starscream who he let plot against him in a normal indoor speaking voice.
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Great Metal Jesus posted:While not exactly a show Lewis Black has aged extremely poorly. I loved him during the Bush years and went to play his most recent special for my roommate a year or so back cause she'd never seen any of his stand up. It was the most agonizing thing I've ever seen, just an hour and a half of an old man being mad about Facebook. He was always bad 
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Inescapable Duck posted:Huh, that figures. I was picturing more a series that doesn't descend into a standard action movie like the movies (and worse games) inevitably do but focuses on the contracts and targets, maybe even with 47 as more of a background character until he strikes. It could have good "action" scenes where it's 47 almost in the background setting things up while the target goes about their day not knowing he's about to be dead. Like he's at work in a sleek and modern, goes down to the cafe and gets a coffee, then excuses himself to go take a crap in his fancy private bathroom and 47 sneaks in behind him (and waits for him to finish his dookie because he doesn't want a bunch of poo poo to distract) and knocks him out and then drags him to the balcony and throws him off and on the way out uploads a computer program that fudges the companies financials to make it look like he's been embezzling. Then there can be other episodes where the target was actually the easiest part of his mission, getting away was the hard part because the person that took out the hit wants it to be an obvious assassination complete with a manhunt and a good frame-job where he leads the police to a fall guy. It could be rad if they use some creativity but the other movies were crappy action films so who knows how it'll shake out if it ends up getting made.
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Great Metal Jesus posted:At this point I assumed killing off and reviving Optimus Prime was just a box you gotta check if you want to make a Transformers property. http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_many_deaths_of_Optimus_Prime Absolutely. Killed and revived by the tears of children and/or space magic often in the same episode.
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londonarbuckle posted:Speaking of Mr. Belvedere, this sketch has aged so well that I almost can't believe it's pre-internet. Aw, they all look so young. And alive.  It's a cookbook!
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Pick posted:Particularly by the ever-loyal Starscream who he let plot against him in a normal indoor speaking voice. Amazing that he lost really
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Apr 4, 2018 06:56
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Starscream has an indoor voice?
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Apr 4, 2018 09:08
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Great Metal Jesus posted:Uhm actually Optimus Prime returns in season 4 of the original run of Transformers. It was real bad y'all
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Straight White Shark posted:He was always bad
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Sunswipe posted:Actually, it was the final episode of season 3. And it was AWESOME. The Touch played and everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYAAbbuEpnw&t=15s
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I saw Lewis Black a few years ago (before Trump's rise) and his political segment was still funny and interesting. His "mad at technology" segment was too long and had a lot of duds. Still liked seeing him though. Whoever was in charge of the stage he was on put up some random lovely ferns as backdrop and he spent the first minute or so making fun of them, it owned
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mostlygray posted:My parents made me sit through things like "Jean de Florette" and "My life as a dog" when I was a kid. I won't subject them to that. If I ever have kids I’m totally going to make them watch artsy foreign films where a kid gets his dick stuck in a bottle.
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BgRdMchne posted:If I ever have kids I’m totally going to make them watch artsy foreign films where a kid gets his dick stuck in a bottle. Just don't act all surprised when you're kid gets his dick stuck in a bottle.
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Isn't that the one where there's a multi minute long cut of two rabbits loving? Also, the weird guy sews a girl's hair ribbon into his skin. Like the main character in the Dante's Inferno game, only skeevier.
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big cummers ONLY posted:Whoever was in charge of the stage he was on put up some random lovely ferns as backdrop and he spent the first minute or so making fun of them, it owned He once went for an interview on some cable news show and complained until they took all the poo poo off the screen. Classic.
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Stealing this from a different thread but this clip and joke did not age well.Katt posted:Edgy 20 something me loved this video
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FactsAreUseless posted:Black on Broadway is still funny. His first memoir is interesting too. But I do agree that his stand-up has gotten less and less funny. A lot of comedians with his style risk sliding into "loving kids these days" being their only gimmick as they get older. George Carlin did in his later stuff too.
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RagnarokAngel posted:A lot of comedians with his style risk sliding into "loving kids these days" being their only gimmick as they get older. George Carlin did in his later stuff too. Some of Lewis Black's stuff still holds up. I'll always laugh at his rants about the cold weather that one year or bitching about bottled water. I don't know why but "hasn't it been a special winter, everybody?" *pause* "If you're a loving moose. If you got fur on your nuts it's been a special winter." Lewis Black is weird because he never actually set out to be a comedian it just kind of happened. "Irritable old Jewish guy from New York" is the entirety of his thing as far as comedy goes. I kind of assume he's getting less funny because he's been putting less effort into his work. Which makes sense; he's nearly 70 and never wanted to do comedy in the first place. I think he described it as "being the only person on the Titanic that knows what's going to happen" and there really are limits to what you can do with that. Plus it also doesn't work as well because he has a tablet whenever he does The Rant is Due so he's obviously with the times. He's still funny just not as hilarious as he was when he first got big.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Just don't act all surprised when you're kid gets his dick stuck in a bottle. He might have a daughter. Which creates a whole different but still similar situation. Wait. What thread is this?
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Instead of complaining about new technology, why not complain about old technology?
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Inescapable Duck posted:Instead of complaining about new technology, why not complain about old technology? loving spinning wheels - can you believe that poo poo!?
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The Bloop posted:loving spinning wheels - can you believe that poo poo!? Inclined planes -- how do they work?
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Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:Inclined planes -- how do they work? loving PULLEYS 
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Some of Lewis Black's stuff still holds up. I'll always laugh at his rants about the cold weather that one year or bitching about bottled water. I still like his "Unbeknownst to me, there was a better me!" story about auditioning for a role specifically written for him and not getting the part
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EmmyOk posted:Post the abe Lincoln seat gif 
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Does TF wiki have a count of how many times Megatron tripped on a rock and Starscream immediately crowed about how MEGATRON HAS FALLEN and that he was the NEW LEADER OF THE DECEPTICONS!!! ?
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From reading random things about it, G1 transformers seems to be the longest running and had quite a few good episodes (the ep where Beachcomber discovers a beautiful valley that gets completely wrecked in the battle over it came to mind) but I'm guessing a lot of the ideas are better on paper.
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Why do transformers always turn into cars people know about? Why is it never weird alien vehicles?
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Why do transformers always turn into cars people know about? Why is it never weird alien vehicles? But it is, frequently. A lot of series don't even bother with a reasonable explanation for their vehicle modes besides a way to get around faster. Hell, Megatron in the movies originally makes a point out of not taking an Earth form and sticking to his alien spaceship mode.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Why do transformers always turn into cars people know about? Why is it never weird alien vehicles? The transformers that landed on Earth got reprogrammed to transform into earth cars and planes to help them blend in. There are other transformers who didn't come to earth originally who transform into alien tanks and flying space guns and poo poo
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There's a Transformer who specifically turns into a flying saucer, and can travel through space on his own. (and crashes as regularly as Spaceman Spiff)
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Inescapable Duck posted:From reading random things about it, G1 transformers seems to be the longest running It isn't, actually. Transformers: Rescue Bots has the most episodes, and is the only Transformers series to have four full seasons. I'd probably have to go back and do some rewatches to be firm on it, but it's /probably/ my second favorite of the Post-Bay Transformers Series, primarily because of how weird it's willing to get, sometimes. It's also in the same setting as Transformers: Prime and Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015), though the crossovers are character cameos, rather than intertwined plots.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Why do transformers always turn into cars people know about? Why is it never weird alien vehicles? I always thought it was because they were trying to blend in. But I know gently caress all about Transformers really so whatever.
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Beast Wars shows how when they arrived on Earth they sort of automatically scan the area for appropriate vehicle modes, but as they were on prehistoric Earth and there were no vehicles, they got animal forms instead.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I still like his "Unbeknownst to me, there was a better me!" story about auditioning for a role specifically written for him and not getting the part Jay Mohr has a pretty funny story about getting a part over Buddy Ebsen because his impression of Buddy Ebsen was better than actual Buddy Ebsen.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Why do transformers always turn into cars people know about? Why is it never weird alien vehicles? The tagline for Transformers is "robots in disguise".
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The Bloop posted:Beast Wars shows how when they arrived on Earth they sort of automatically scan the area for appropriate vehicle modes, but as they were on prehistoric Earth and there were no vehicles, they got animal forms instead. Didnt the dinobots already show that?
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