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The Critic is awesome because the beloved Jon Lovitz is a straight-up G.
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Feb 5, 2023 02:26
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He's a really funny guy and I'm honestly surprised and kinda bummed he didn't have a bigger career. I think of him as hitler in rat race and am laughing so hard
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Feb 5, 2023 03:07
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i watched a bit as a kid, my older siblings watched it but i dont think i was really getting most of the jokes. i do remember an episode where his kid was doing track events and when he jumped he ended up behind his starting point. if it was available id probably get it on dvd. along with duckman, which i sort of understood more.
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Feb 5, 2023 03:11
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An audience watching the show in a few years will go, "Who are this Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel guy? Do they ever show up again?"
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Feb 5, 2023 03:33
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Who has the lice in his afro?
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Feb 5, 2023 03:35
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"pure white please.... Uh.... Except for the gloves"
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Feb 5, 2023 03:45
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It STINKS jkjk it’s alright
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Feb 5, 2023 04:04
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Buy my book!
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Feb 5, 2023 04:30
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I'm gonna run this country like I run my company: I'm gonna raid the pension fund, dump chemicals in the oceans, and sell our best assets to the Japanese.
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Feb 5, 2023 04:36
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:i watched a bit as a kid, my older siblings watched it but i dont think i was really getting most of the jokes. i do remember an episode where his kid was doing track events and when he jumped he ended up behind his starting point. if it was available id probably get it on dvd. along with duckman, which i sort of understood more.
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Feb 5, 2023 04:59
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I like the one where Jay's sister is pissed about being forced to do a debutante ball and they put a bunch of people with massive head wounds in a small dark closet and call it the massive head injury fun room
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Feb 5, 2023 05:28
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The Critic owned, and still does own. One of my favorite bits was spoofing Jurassic park: “you can’t lock a raptor in a room they’re too smart”. Cue newspaper sliding under the door and jiggling the handle until the key falls on it and retracts.
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Feb 5, 2023 05:40
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And I still say Hachi Machi to this day
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Feb 5, 2023 05:40
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Milo and POTUS posted:He's a really funny guy and I'm honestly surprised and kinda bummed he didn't have a bigger career. I think of him as hitler in rat race and am laughing so hard If you need more John Lovitz check out NewsRadio. He plays 2 different one-off characters, then comes in for the last season and succedes (no one could replace) Phil Hartman. Actually just check out NewsRadio, it's great. Phil Hartman, Andy Dick, Dave Foley, Vicki Lewis, Stephen Root, and Joe Rogan at his most tolerable.
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Feb 5, 2023 05:47
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Tnuctip posted:The Critic owned, and still does own. And the subsequent lying low in Venezuela and assuming off jobs under the name of Mr. Plinkington.... ...but perhaps I've said too much.
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Feb 5, 2023 05:48
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AvesPKS posted:If you need more John Lovitz check out NewsRadio. He plays 2 different one-off characters, then comes in for the last season and succedes (no one could replace) Phil Hartman. Actually just check out NewsRadio, it's great. Phil Hartman, Andy Dick, Dave Foley, Vicki Lewis, Stephen Root, and Joe Rogan at his most tolerable. And Andy Dick at his most tolerable
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Feb 5, 2023 05:56
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I've wanted to watch it but none of the places I... watch stuff had it. Funny as hell clips though.
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Feb 5, 2023 06:20
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I didn't like the slightly rejiggered art style for season 2. Their pupils got massive, and I'm not sure what the point was. To make everyone look cuter? What for? But I did love me some Alice Tompkins.
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Feb 5, 2023 11:33
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Kawaii Jay Sherman, my new username
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Feb 5, 2023 11:35
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teen witch posted:Kawaii Jay Sherman, my new username https://www.tumblr.com/fuckyeahthecritic/45236553301/sketchamagowza-what-if-the-critic-went-on-for
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Feb 5, 2023 11:37
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Tnuctip posted:And I still say Hachi Machi to this day 
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Feb 5, 2023 11:57
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And you think I like shooting animals?
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Feb 5, 2023 13:58
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HsKvr9zTNo This scene and the dramatic recreation of Jay being rescued from the fire were two of the most quoted between my 13-year-old friend group.
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Feb 5, 2023 15:00
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Has anybody said "it stinks" yet?
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Feb 5, 2023 15:32
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THE BAR posted:I didn't like the slightly rejiggered art style for season 2. Their pupils got massive, and I'm not sure what the point was. To make everyone look cuter? What for? Probably part of the changes Fox wanted when they bought it for season 2. Make them look a bit more Simpson's like.
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Feb 5, 2023 16:23
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the only thing from this show i remember is "take that, guernica" someone post the parts that aged poorly
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Feb 5, 2023 17:17
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THE BAR posted:I didn't like the slightly rejiggered art style for season 2. Their pupils got massive, and I'm not sure what the point was. To make everyone look cuter? What for? It makes it way easier to see where Jay is looking in a scene w/ the second design, which makes sense bc so much of the humor is in his reactions to things. His little dot pupils get a little lost in his S1 design.
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Feb 5, 2023 17:20
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THE BAR posted:I didn't like the slightly rejiggered art style for season 2. Their pupils got massive, and I'm not sure what the point was. To make everyone look cuter? What for? Huh. Never noticed but that's p different
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Feb 5, 2023 17:55
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Another thing I like about this show: it eviscerates woody allen. So many jokes at his expense
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Feb 5, 2023 17:56
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THE BAR posted:I didn't like the slightly rejiggered art style for season 2. Their pupils got massive, and I'm not sure what the point was. To make everyone look cuter? What for? For the reasons above, and yes to make it cuter. I'm presuming most of us know this but here's the history/myth rundown: The Critic was deliberately drawn as "anti-domestic" as possible at a time when Roseanne and Home Improvement were two of the very top sitcoms, arriving just before FRIENDS really took off and reaffirmed urbane rich motherfuckers as the sitcom stars to beat and when Seinfeld was at its most meta/coasting. This creative choice made the show stand out, but way too much and in a way that made the bulk of viewership feel alienated rather than endeared. Jay was a six-figure earning cosmopolitan who chilled with movie stars, billionaire moguls, and had Rockerfeller parents with a son who goes to the "United Nations" school. The first episode caused a big ruckus at ABC specifically because it involves Jay having casual sex with a woman who is just using him as a social stepping stone, and then when his child son finds out and says "I won't tell anyone" Jay jokes "Actually I wish you'd tell everybody." It's funny, but you can see why the more Conservative side of the entertainment industry bounced off of the show like it was made of teflon. So to help give the show a fighting chance when they moved to FOX they softened the character designs significantly, they added Alice in as an "everywoman" to relate to complete with precocious kid, beefed up the pupils, redesigned some of the more posh settings, and of course added in more Simpsons-style jokes and did the crossover. It didn't help, but they really did give it the best chance it ever would have had. This is pure apocrypha but I heard apparently the show was actually well-received in board rooms but during a clip of "Hee Haw: The Next Generation" someone powerful enough to get away with it threw a tantrum and basically shamed everyone else in the room for laughing at it. Which... sounds about right even if not a word is true. Everyone has that one style of comedy that makes them a sourpuss-- mine is polemic humor, which is why I'm such a delight at parties-- and sadly yeah that's how it goes, sometimes someone in a wedge position just hates your loving face and you get a bad deal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6T2nRAazrY
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Feb 5, 2023 18:01
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He shouldn't have badmouthed macgyver
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Feb 5, 2023 18:10
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Junk posted:the only thing from this show i remember is "take that, guernica" someone post the parts that aged poorly https://youtu.be/IVXJmfd3cmg Wait. No, you said aged poorly.
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Feb 5, 2023 18:48
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mind the walrus posted:For the reasons above, and yes to make it cuter. I'm presuming most of us know this but here's the history/myth rundown: They probably didn't like the Klingons at the UN school either
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Feb 5, 2023 19:05
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I checked out this cool thread early this morning cuz I really liked this show. I went to a coffee shop and somehow, as if drawn to it by fate, there was a drawing of Jay Sherman on this glass pane in front of the counter. Hachi machi!
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Feb 6, 2023 01:04
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Can't one dinner go by where we don't talk about your rotting corpse!?
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Feb 6, 2023 01:11
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Jon Lovitz is a hero
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Feb 6, 2023 02:21
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Ok now no one remember the shortlived Flash revival where Jay divorced Alice and is just sad and the jokes suck
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Feb 6, 2023 02:33
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Treecko posted:Jon Lovitz is a hero Whaling on andy dick in a nightclub like he's some sort of bouncer is hilarious. The guy don't miss! FilthyImp posted:Ok now no one remember the shortlived Flash revival where Jay divorced Alice and is just sad and the jokes suck He shouldn't have done that. That being said Jay always seemed to outkick his coverage
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Feb 6, 2023 03:06
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Promothus
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FilthyImp posted:Ok now no one remember the shortlived Flash revival where Jay divorced Alice and is just sad and the jokes suck There was also a whole series of Flash Looney Tunes that were just kind of... there.
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Feb 6, 2023 05:30
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