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Flipping channels over the weekend the PGA just re-ran last years golf, and the WWE is performed in front of an empty room. Jeopardy will have about a week of episodes with no audience before it goes dark. I've already read that some scripted shows have halted production for now. So couch chatters, how weird do you think TV is going to be as the Corona Virus shuts down production? This is my speculation: We've probably got a month or two before it becomes apparent, depending on how much is currently in the can. I'm thinking we'll see some reruns initially, but they'll get phased out as shows that were cancelled this season get their unaired episodes on the TV. The remaining scripted programming won't fill all the time either, so I'm thinking we'll get movies, a lot of movies. Solo: A Star Wars Story will be a two-night Sports will be a big one, with nothing new really happening, I think we'll get a lot of "classic" games re-aired. I'm not really sure if they'll just do one nationally, or if like live sports, you'll get different games, depending on the local markets.
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I watch so little 'live' TV that I'm hardly likely to notice. The biggest ones are any of the talk shows like Daily Show and Last Week Tonight which has already gotten weird. I'm going to notice when Brooklyn 99 production shuts down and there's no more new episodes, but I think that's the only thing on network TV I'm watching right now. Otherwise, other shows I'm watching on a weekly basis are Picard, Magicians, Devs and Westworld, but I have a feeling those already have their stuff in the can right now (maybe not Westworld.) I got a backlog of like 20-30 shows with at least one full or multiple full seasons already available, so I have plenty to tide me over.
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Mar 19, 2020 14:08
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bull3964 posted:I'm going to notice when Brooklyn 99 production shuts down and there's no more new episodes, but I think that's the only thing on network TV I'm watching right now. Good news! This season of B99 is in the can: https://tvline.com/gallery/coronavirus-tv-shows-delayed-list-photos/
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Mar 19, 2020 14:16
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I'm putting together a list of 480p shows to watch on my tablet or smartphone the next time the power is out, so I can save the 1080p video for later. I put the first few episodes of each on there. The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones - never seen it. I'm actually looking forward to it Golden Girls - I'm on Season 3 The Jeffersons - I've seen one episode a long while ago, and I liked it and All in the Family Danny Phantom - never seen it The Andy Griffith Show is available in 1080p on Blu-Ray now, and I'll try watching it eventually. I have an elderly apartment neighbor who I can overhear watching that show almost every day galenanorth fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Iron Crowned posted:Good news! This season of B99 is in the can: Woohoo!
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Mar 19, 2020 14:18
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Sleeveless posted:It's OK if you forgot The Goode Family and Extract, everyone else did too. Wow, I actually totally did. I looked up the Goode Family on Wikipedia and got insta-flashbacks to that turd once I saw the picture on the article.
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galenanorth posted:I'm putting together a list of 480p shows to watch on my tablet or smartphone the next time the power is out, so I can save the 1080p video for later. I put the first few episodes of each on there. Young Indy is very, very, very good. But. The episodes where he is a little kid are much less so. I'd recommend starting with Spring Break Adventure when he's in high school and going chronologically from there, then looping back around to the kid stuff once you're sold.
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Mar 19, 2020 16:27
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Wow, I actually totally did. I looked up the Goode Family on Wikipedia and got insta-flashbacks to that turd once I saw the picture on the article. The Beavis and Butthead revival and Silicon Valley were both good but on the other hand he was a guest on a post-Sandy Hook InfoWars so I don't know if his politics actually got better or if he just got better at keeping them out of his work or at least filtering it through a less objectionable "rich/famous/stupid people suck" lens.
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Mar 19, 2020 16:45
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ALFbrot posted:Hello, sorry to barge in here with a question but it's driving me crazy: I feel like I vaguely remember this. Something from early 90s Snick.
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Mar 19, 2020 16:50
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Slamhound posted:The first episode has what is to my mind the absolute most hilarious and crushing joke ever. P.S., the crow flies at midnight. Guess I'm going to re-watch NewsRadio this week. Still my favorite show of all time I think.
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Mar 19, 2020 17:39
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Is NewsRadio the kind of show you can get into without the nostalgia? I don’t think it aired in the UK so I’ve never seen it, but I know a lot of shows from that era seem dated if you’ve never seen them before.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Is NewsRadio the kind of show you can get into without the nostalgia? I don’t think it aired in the UK so I’ve never seen it, but I know a lot of shows from that era seem dated if you’ve never seen them before. Worst thing that can happen is you don't care for it. It really is something special.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Is NewsRadio the kind of show you can get into without the nostalgia? I don’t think it aired in the UK so I’ve never seen it, but I know a lot of shows from that era seem dated if you’ve never seen them before. I watched it a few years ago and really liked it, it takes a little while to go from a good fun workplace comedy to absolute bonkers but it's all good. The episode where Jimmy James' book is translated to Japanese and then back to English and culminates with a reading from "Super Karate Monkey Death Car" is one of the most sensible chuckles I've ever had. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpUJbUTljfU
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Mar 19, 2020 18:12
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EL BROMANCE posted:Is NewsRadio the kind of show you can get into without the nostalgia? I don’t think it aired in the UK so I’ve never seen it, but I know a lot of shows from that era seem dated if you’ve never seen them before. I really like it.
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Cool, will grab the first season. Thanks!
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Just had to look up the suggestion box scene again because it’s too perfect: https://youtu.be/BZGYLglsUXM
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EL BROMANCE posted:Is NewsRadio the kind of show you can get into without the nostalgia? I don’t think it aired in the UK so I’ve never seen it, but I know a lot of shows from that era seem dated if you’ve never seen them before. I watched it like two years ago (I had watched it while it was on TV, but was pretty young, so only remembered a handful of things) and it holds up comedy wise. Like lots of older movies/sitcoms, there are obvious tech things that fall flat, like cell phones being a novelty and news radio as an entity being a huge business, which I don't see as a problem. There isn't anything that ages poorly as far as treatment of minorities, LGBT, or any group really. The only nostalgia I had with it was how much I wished Phil Hartman was still around.
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There's an episode where there's a subplot about Dilbert/Scott Adams which kind of dates things since he's a huge chud.
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It's honestly upsetting to think of Dilbert as ever having any legitimate culture cache.
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Mar 19, 2020 19:41
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Dilbert the comic wasn't always weird and bad but Scott Adams was (he was just better at hiding it back in the day.)
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Dilbert absolutely spoke to anyone who ever worked in an office setting, so its not bad/wrong that it was so popular. Also, it was fairly apolitical and mostly about "my dumb boss doesn't understand this very simple thing" which resonates with like 99.9% of Americans. I mean, look at the film catalogs of Bill Cosby, Kevin Spacey, [insert 19 others here] and loads of good movies and TV suddenly get very dated very quickly. So I don't judge a lot of that stuff based on that. While some were (and still are) open secrets, others were (and still are) very well hidden or completely unknown. Its truly impossible to know who and how much writers and creators actually knew.
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muscles like this! posted:Dilbert the comic wasn't always weird and bad but Scott Adams was (he was just better at hiding it back in the day.) Before Adams came out as a total chud, I had one of his audiobooks and it was unlistenable. I liked the Dilbert cartoon plenty when I was younger. swickles posted:The only nostalgia I had with it was how much I wished Phil Hartman was still around. Yeah, he just seemed such a good dude 
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Newsradio definitely ignored Catherine way too much and otherwise had pretty much no black people but the writers called themselves out on it eventually with the heatwave hallucination episode.
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I once asked Joe Rogan if Khandi Alexander is as beautiful in person as she was on the show and he said "even more" and also said she was hilarious on set and is a very good dancer. Such a good sitcom. One of my faves from that era for sure.
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Thinkin' 'out Newsradio just makes me mad at Andy Dick all over again.
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Toshimo posted:Thinkin' 'out Newsradio just makes me mad at Andy Dick all over again. They need to rerelease it on blu ray and one of the special features should just be an hour of Jon Lovitz kicking seven shades of piss out of Andy Dick.
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Shudder just put Missions season 2 up and I think I’m the only person in existence excited about it. It’s a French tv show about a Mars mission gone wrong with weird alien poo poo. It’s not great tv by any means, but it’s decent schlock and I love Mars poo poo. Gonna alternate binging that and Mr Robot while I stave off the cabin fever and panic attacks.  Speaking of Shudder, they’re doing a 30-day free trial if you’re looking for a streaming service that caters almost exclusively to Horror and Cult. Lots of good stuff on there. Big Mean Jerk fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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ALFbrot posted:Hello, sorry to barge in here with a question but it's driving me crazy: If anyone is wondering about this, it ended up being Joe Dante's Explorers from 1985.
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My friend made me laugh a lot today https://twitter.com/helloiambing/status/1240746331116879876?s=21
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Imagine the way swordchair must smell. Like all the railings at Disney World after 40 years of sweaty tourists have run their grubby hands and swampy asses against them.
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Mu Zeta posted:Newsradio definitely ignored Catherine way too much and otherwise had pretty much no black people but the writers called themselves out on it eventually with the heatwave hallucination episode. Yeah, it was better than Friends and Seinfeld, but those shows set literally the lowest possible bar, and once Khandi Alexander left it was pretty bland. muscles like this! posted:There's an episode where there's a subplot about Dilbert/Scott Adams which kind of dates things since he's a huge chud. he actually shows up in the episode, but you would never recognize him (which is actually a joke in and of itself) EL BROMANCE posted:Is NewsRadio the kind of show you can get into without the nostalgia? I don’t think it aired in the UK so I’ve never seen it, but I know a lot of shows from that era seem dated if you’ve never seen them before. It's mostly timeless. I'm not gonna say there are no dated jokes (especially the last show of the 4th season being one giant riff on Titanic) but the physical humor holds up, and one of the best parts of the show is the character relationships, and those are definitely still great.
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swickles posted:Dilbert absolutely spoke to anyone who ever worked in an office setting, so its not bad/wrong that it was so popular. The 90s were so loving boring.
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Dilbet's creator wasnt always a raving lunatic.
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I have definitely been thinking about an incredibly old Dilbert all week now that I'm working from home. It was something like "day 1: maybe I don't need the tie. Day 2: Nobody will judge me for sweatpants, camera only shows my shirt. Day 5: holding up a tiny puppet to the webcam, sitting bare rear end naked off to the side" and it makes a lot more sense now
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END ME SCOOB posted:I have definitely been thinking about an incredibly old Dilbert all week now that I'm working from home. It was something like "day 1: maybe I don't need the tie. Day 2: Nobody will judge me for sweatpants, camera only shows my shirt. Day 5: holding up a tiny puppet to the webcam, sitting bare rear end naked off to the side" and it makes a lot more sense now My company sent out a "tips for working remote!" email and it includes the famous "Dress like you're going into the office and maintain your morning routine" and we all laughed because no we're going to wear sweatpants and get up 1 minute before work.
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Medullah posted:My company sent out a "tips for working remote!" email and it includes the famous "Dress like you're going into the office and maintain your morning routine" and we all laughed because no we're going to wear sweatpants and get up 1 minute before work. Getting dressed in the morning to work from home kind of sucks, but when you finish working and get to change out of your clothes it is awesome.
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tk posted:Getting dressed in the morning to work from home kind of sucks, but when you finish working and get to change out of your clothes it is awesome. Corporate is forcing my job to keep everyone in there half the time making wfh a completely feckless action, since I'll still be in contact with everyone during the week. On the other hand, I'm not even going to take a shower on my wfh days.
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tk posted:Getting dressed in the morning to work from home kind of sucks, but when you finish working and get to change out of your clothes it is awesome. Don't think I'm some sort of savage, I have my bedtime sweatpants, my working sweatpants and my after work sweatpants! I work from home 3 days a week before this so it's not a new thing. When I first started, I tried to follow that process but it quickly fell apart. As long as I'm productive I'm happy.
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Medullah posted:Don't think I'm some sort of savage, I have my bedtime sweatpants, my working sweatpants and my after work sweatpants!
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Growing up in Mexico, a whole lot of the references in Krusty gets Kancelled were impenetrable. I’m surprised how the show translated a bunch of jokes, wordplay and references but man they could barely keep up
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