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Soup du Jour
Sep 8, 2011

I always knew I'd die with a headache.

of the two unequivocally good seasons (2 and 3) I’m going with galentine’s day as the worst episode

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shovelbum
Oct 21, 2010

Fun Shoe
Parks and rec was cute and fine but all media is just slop for us useless eaters

Zokari
Jul 23, 2007

shovelbum posted:

Parks and rec was cute and fine but all media is just slop for us useless eaters

ok

TheSlutPit
Dec 26, 2009

i dont even own a tv, sorry

shovelbum
Oct 21, 2010

Fun Shoe

TheSlutPit posted:

i dont even own a tv, sorry

Smart man

mazzi Chart Czar
Sep 24, 2005

Soup du Jour posted:

of the two unequivocally good seasons (2 and 3) I’m going with galentine’s day as the worst episode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Schur


Say Hello to Michael Schur.

Educated at Harvard
Inspired Heavily by Wooden Allen books at age 11.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_Feathers
He owns the film rights to infinite jest.




shovelbum posted:

Parks and rec was cute and fine but all media is just slop for us useless eaters
Television does this crazy trick where it rips away your sense of place and time; forces you to lose time; sells you poo poo you don't want; makes you feel like you're weird; while actively making politics seem like just meaninglessness opinions and keeping the rich in power.


What does this scene tell you about women? Watch it more than once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ikySurAP0

What does this scene say a woman is?
- They wear pink clothing. Make-up. Have nice hair.

- They give out present.
- Own weaving items.
- Drink diet coke.
- Complement people.

- Say "It's the best day of the year." or "it's the greatest story ever told."

- They eat breakfast at a restaurant with other women.
- RESPECT BOOMERS who tell mild stories.
- They scream "rar rar go women!," but politely.

- "But they're parodying it." Yeah also there by making women who do those actions look silly. The creators mock a people for both doing, and not doing an action.

- Except for the one character who frowns that creates a comment against it, making her the weird one, but she still conforms.


Edit: there are probably real people who celebrated Galentine's Day. Taking this fantasy idea a realty where more people buy more poo poo.

He also co-wrote this episode of black mirror where everybody's is given a social rating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)

mazzi Chart Czar has issued a correction as of 08:00 on Jul 4, 2020

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

mazzi Chart Czar posted:

So of all the people who watched it, What episode do you hate the most and who wrote it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Parks_and_Recreation_episodes




I don't recognize anything by name but any episode with Ron Swanson's wish-fulfillment girlfriend/wife is unbearable

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

TheSlutPit posted:

i dont even own a tv, sorry

u cant watch dota without a big tv. FAIL

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
a good thing about poarks and rec show is aubrey plaza, who is my gfirl friend. =)

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM8wv8QQ-u0

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
The only problem with Ron Swanson is he is as capable as he acts like he is.

Real libertarians are defined by having no life skills

Hilario Baldness
Feb 10, 2005

:buddy:



Grimey Drawer

Maybe the cringiest moment in television history.

oxsnard
Oct 8, 2003
anyone who watched past the first episode of the newsroom (where they cracked the cause of the deep water horizon event within hours of it occuring) is a masochist or an imbecile

mazzi Chart Czar
Sep 24, 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jul/22/broadcasting.observerreview
A Guardian article that sucks off Sorkin.


quote:

Amanda Peet plays the enlightened new network head who believes that 'the people who watch TV are no dumber than the people who make it'. This trio set about revitalising Studio 60 as the sharp, bold cultural totem it once was. Sorkin's point is hardly subtle - in the right hands, TV can be a force for good, and in May last year it was roundly agreed that the right hands belonged to Aaron Sorkin.

It's not hard to see why - the first few episodes of Studio 60 are as complete a piece of television entertainment as you could wish for. The dialogue, one of Sorkin's trademarks, fizzes with write-me-down one-liners, there are several incendiary pieces of theatre, and the performances have an instant depth. In short, when TV critics over here got to see what all the fuss was about, for once the hype seemed about right. We couldn't wait.

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

the newsroom is a masterpiece of awful TV

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
To be fair, "what if the press were the good guys" is a pretty outlandish premise

POWELL CURES KIDS
Aug 26, 2016

Tammy Episodes and councilman jamm are pretty good, everything else is joe biden unity quilt

Harald
Jul 10, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
John McCain did a cameo and now he's dead

It also had CRISPR

what's a good show?

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Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

POWELL CURES KIDS posted:

Tammy Episodes and councilman jamm are pretty good, everything else is joe biden unity quilt

Leslie Saving Jamm from Tammy was the best episode of the last season

Harald
Jul 10, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Another thing I would say: jesus balls netflix is addicted to that blue filter

Riatsala
Nov 20, 2013

All Princesses are Tyrants

remember when leslie dated a cop played by Louis CK for like half a season?

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Riatsala posted:

remember when leslie dated a cop played by Louis CK for like half a season?

of all the things on that show that have aged poorly,

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Harald posted:



what's a good show?

Alpha House

The Thick of It

the original BBC production of House of Cards

Veep

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Smythe posted:

a good thing about poarks and rec show is aubrey plaza, who is my gfirl friend. =)

your girlfriend is very Beautiful

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Riatsala posted:

remember when leslie dated a cop played by Louis CK for like half a season?

He handcuffs someone to a toilet I think

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

mazzi Chart Czar posted:

So of all the people who watched it, What episode do you hate the most and who wrote it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Parks_and_Recreation_episodes




Season 2 Episode 5 Sister City written by Alan Yang.

The networks were drumming up anti-VZ sentiment around this time, appalling in itself, but besides it was a too-soon entry. In 2009 few USians were aware of Venezuela's existence let alone that there was a bad guy there they were supposed to hate. They bring out Venezuelan Fred Armisen to do recolored "In Soviet Russia" jokes.

Actually it still wasn't really working as late as 2011 when The Good Wife had a celebrity-obsessed himbo Chavez on videocall.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011


my god that transition as if we were expected to immediately intrinsically understand that united pilots are the most uniquely qualified people to deserve a moment of solemn quiet dignity to appreciate osama bin ladens death

oxsnard
Oct 8, 2003
black adder is still funny

Harald
Jul 10, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
i might watch a fawlty tower,a single one

GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*

Riatsala posted:

remember when leslie dated a cop played by Louis CK for like half a season?

and profiles aziz in a van

mazzi Chart Czar
Sep 24, 2005

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Season 2 Episode 5 Sister City written by Alan Yang.

The networks were drumming up anti-VZ sentiment around this time, appalling in itself, but besides it was a too-soon entry. In 2009 few USians were aware of Venezuela's existence let alone that there was a bad guy there they were supposed to hate. They bring out Venezuelan Fred Armisen to do recolored "In Soviet Russia" jokes.

Actually it still wasn't really working as late as 2011 when The Good Wife had a celebrity-obsessed himbo Chavez on videocall.


Alan Yang
From Riverside California - Same area as Alien Ant Farm, Amy Lee of Evanescence, and America's Drug pipe line

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2015/11/11/riverside-county-drug-trafficking/75232146/

Another Harvard boy.

His parents are from Taiwan. You mentioned Venezuela.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan-Venezuela_relations
Huhn, Venzuela doesn't recognize Taiwanas a country.


Funny you mentioned the Good Place Michael Schur, the one who produced and wrote for Parks and Recs also produced 'The Good place'
Man television has a lot of the same people popping up everywhere.

Alan Yang Wrote S1 Ep2 Flying, and directed S2 Ep11, Rhonda, Diana, Jake and Trent.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKXsNPjTPwM
That scene is kind of odd. During the riots, Pasadena had a trump supporter trying to hit protestors with a truck.
The show is trying to emulate the city of Pasadena, so it's easy to see those residents as being that lovely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasadena,_California


Also, it feels like the guy is from Venezuela and just an American cop talking about the US legal system.
The United States, per Capita has more than three times the amount of Prison the Venezuela.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
Venezuela 178 Total: 57,096
USA ..........655 Total: 2,121,600


It's actually a nice trick most stories do. Period Pieces are about our times; they are never about the past. Science fiction and stories set in the future, same thing.
And talking about other countries is really about the author's country.
The biggest example is how Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet set in Denmark and Verona, Italy are really about Elizabethan England.

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Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


i miss the real kyoon :(

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

parks and succ

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Egg Moron posted:

parks and succ

owned

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Egg Moron posted:

parks and dreck

Professor of Cats
Mar 22, 2009

jesus christ the zipper on my pants broke and my weiner was just flopping around

luckily everyone was at lunch

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Ardennes
May 12, 2002
I wonder what the guy who played Andy is up to, what a lovable rascal

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