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Guy A. Person posted:This isn't even just an MCU problem anymore, Disney seemingly mandated all characters be between 25% and 80% Tony Stark. See for example Poe Dameron making a prank call on a star destroyer. I thought that was more of a callback to Han Solo’s “reactor leak” bit on the Death Star, but my god you’re probably right.
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Noticed something when I was rewatching The Tick (The 2001 Sitcom version)... Brrrrickfrog! I wonder if Ben Edlund came up with this gag, since he did some writing for VB here and there?
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Apr 28, 2022 06:19
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Jackson Publick/Christopher McCulloch also wrote for that series.
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LashLightning posted:Jackson Publick/Christopher McCulloch also wrote for that series. Oh, well dang, I didn't know that. Makes sense, then.
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Guy A. Person posted:This isn't even just an MCU problem anymore, Disney seemingly mandated all characters be between 25% and 80% Tony Stark. See for example Poe Dameron making a prank call on a star destroyer. It's kind of a descendant of Joss Whedon disease, not helped by Avengers. And then they brought him in to do it to Justice League too.
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Isaacs Alter Ego posted:Noticed something when I was rewatching The Tick (The 2001 Sitcom version)... I just read about that episode in the big ol' black Venture book and that was a rando-rear end costume either Jackson or Doc came up with when they were a kid and thought it was so hilarious they have used it ever since.
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Apr 28, 2022 18:41
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they probably have an entire file cabinet full of hero/villain names.
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Tank Top, Bum Rush and Radical Left are probably my top three.
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Purple Pete Rose is mine but only because of the AND MORE PEOPLE OF COLOR line. Also my parents got my son a signed ball from Pete even though no one plays or cares about baseball so I think of that every time.
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I know I've said it in this thread before, but I really enjoyed the idea of Think Tank from the teaser for that season. Just a guy bursting through the wall as a tank, he has a giant head and he says "I'm think tank" a great gag. Shame I didn't really like the character at all.
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Robert Facepalmer posted:I just read about that episode in the big ol' black Venture book and that was a rando-rear end costume either Jackson or Doc came up with when they were a kid and thought it was so hilarious they have used it ever since. Which makes it funny that it ended up accidentally clever since Frog is a piece of terminology relating to Bricks
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LesterGroans posted:Tank Top, Bum Rush and Radical Left are probably my top three. I'm surprised Tank Top wasn't already a GI Joe.
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drrockso20 posted:Which makes it funny that it ended up accidentally clever since Frog is a piece of terminology relating to Bricks That bit was deliberate, I’m sure. It’s a decently obscure bit of terminology, but the sort that sticks in a kid’s head if they hear it.
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Sash! posted:I'm surprised Tank Top wasn't already a GI Joe. They've outright said that they had a lot of trouble coming up with GI Joe style names that weren't already taken. The real fun is that the OSI is barely exaggerating.
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Maintaining Secret President's ignorance of your pee-pee cansker is half the battleDoctorWhat posted:*cansker EDIT: This post bombarded by gamma rays to add cansker of the pee-pee. Kesper North fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Apr 29, 2022 |
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'Cansker' has become a fully-fledged part of my vocabulary thanks to VB, but it's all for nothing as I'll never enunciate it as well as Treister does
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LesterGroans posted:Tank Top, Bum Rush and Radical Left are probably my top three. The male model-turned-sniper codenamed HEADSHOT was pure genius, and my all time favorite.
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Holy poo poo lol.
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Davros1 posted:The male model-turned-sniper codenamed HEADSHOT was pure genius, and my all time favorite. I never made the male model connection and the double entendre just dawned on me.
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Isaacs Alter Ego posted:Noticed something when I was rewatching The Tick (The 2001 Sitcom version)... thanks random youtube comment quote:I just watched the NYCC panel with Eric and Chris, and Chris (Jackson) stated that the Brick Frog concept was created by his cousin when he was 8 years old. Apparently it was so insane that it stuck in his head for approximately thirty years.
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Davros1 posted:The male model-turned-sniper codenamed HEADSHOT was pure genius, and my all time favorite. son of a bitch.
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That DICK! posted:thanks random youtube comment
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While we're on the subject of character puns, what's the deal with Phiheas Phage? I feel like I'm constantly on the verge of figuring out his whole deal but I just can't quite put the pieces together.
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Phineas Gage was a dude who got a rod stuck in his head. A phage is a sort of self replicating virus
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pablo gbscobar posted:'Cansker' has become a fully-fledged part of my vocabulary thanks to VB, but it's all for nothing as I'll never enunciate it as well as Treister does I take every opportunity I can to say ‘I am turstee and it is FROOOT paunch and it is delicious.’ Toby Huss is an unsung hero.
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yeah his costume is one of these.
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TK-42-1 posted:I take every opportunity I can to say ‘I am turstee and it is FROOOT paunch and it is delicious.’ I'm pressed to think of a character who doesn't have a banger line delivery. Maybe Moltov? He line reads are always so flat, which I know is the point but it makes it hard to have a killer delivery.
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Maybe not her individual lines, but if you're discounting Syyampson you're throwin' a whole lot of baby out with that bathwater.
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pixaal posted:I'm pressed to think of a character who doesn't have a banger line delivery. Maybe Moltov? He line reads are always so flat, which I know is the point but it makes it hard to have a killer delivery. Serpentine! Serpentine! If I was the enemy you'd be dead already!
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Hunter Gathers is the poo poo. YOU try doing all your VO work with a straw in your mouth to simulate his ever-present cigarette holder. They probably have to do 2-3x the usual takes to get his lines 100%.
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I find that Billy had the single most useful line for every day use: "that's an excellent question. I have no idea."
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I enjoy the poo poo out of Hunter Gathers but trying to keep track of what he was supposed to be doing in the background of seasons 3 and 4 versus what he appeared to be doing drat near gave me an aneurysm.
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Nilbop posted:I enjoy the poo poo out of Hunter Gathers but trying to keep track of what he was supposed to be doing in the background of seasons 3 and 4 versus what he appeared to be doing drat near gave me an aneurysm. That's probably the point. Half the joke with the OSI is that they're the visible and extremely campy end of ridiculous convoluted conspiracy bullshit with Secret President and everything that the viewer is only privy to hints of.
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Gaius Marius posted:Phineas Gage was a dude who got a rod stuck in his head. A phage is a sort of self replicating virus Which is why he had the teleporter accident! 
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Nilbop posted:I enjoy the poo poo out of Hunter Gathers but trying to keep track of what he was supposed to be doing in the background of seasons 3 and 4 versus what he appeared to be doing drat near gave me an aneurysm. Well you see he died, except actually he had become a woman and joined Molotov Cockteases' group, except actually he was in Sphinx and had his sex change reversed, and Sphinx was actually not the original Sphinx (Sphinx!) but a new group using their leftover equipment going after super science villains who are not supervillains because supervillains are handled by OSI, except actually they were drawing out the traitors within the OSI and going after the Investors. Pretty straightforward.
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I like how cocktease was effectively written out of the show post season 6, totally in the Brock/Warriana camp
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HBO dropped a new season of Made For Love out of nowhere and Urbaniak shows up. Probably about as much as his role in BCS.
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Sash! posted:I find that Billy had the single most useful line for every day use: "that's an excellent question. I have no idea." Doc Hammer's read on this line is absolutely perfect. Billy has been asked this a thousand times and he has given up on caring and is completely bored with the question but he's also eeeeeeever so slightly annoyed at being asked.
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Pope Guilty posted:Doc Hammer's read on this line is absolutely perfect. Billy has been asked this a thousand times and he has given up on caring and is completely bored with the question but he's also eeeeeeever so slightly annoyed at being asked. And probably annoyed at being reminded of it. ...actually, while it almost never comes up how Billy has only one eye and no functioning depth perception, that's probably why they keep giving the shrink ray to Pete, who as an albino probably has his own sight issues that contribute to him being terrible aim with it but at least has two eyes. Doesn't stop Billy doing surgery though. Also comes to mind, Billy's prosthetic arm still seems to function fine, but no one ever really talks about him getting a replacement eye. Mike Soriyama has come up a few times on the topic of bionic prosthetics as well as robots, and it seems like he was not only especially talented in the field, but that with him dead, there's no one apparently available to replace him or even copy his notes. Seems a lot of super-scientists end up like that, dying ignobly (or getting turbomurdered by villains) with their achievements forgotten and left to rot.
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