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RobotDogPolice posted:If memory serves, they don't want to cover Trump now that he's president either, but I haven't watched the show in a while. http://uk.businessinsider.com/south-park-trey-parker-trump-parody-2017-6?r=US&IR=T quote:“South Park” turns 20 this year. Has it gotten harder over those years to do satirical comedy, especially now that everyone on the Internet can make their own jokes off the latest news within seconds? Let's be honest: the guy is so far beyond parody, how do you do something outrageous and funny about him, when the real world antics are even worse?
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Jul 31, 2017 22:58
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RobotDogPolice posted:A lot of the people they make fun of are already a parody of themselves though. They make fun of them specifically for that reason, then they make those people represent an entire philosophy. I'm not disagreeing with you, but how do you mock someone who paints his face orange, has a reverse mullet, can't complete a coherent sentence and is quite possibly illiterate? What can you do that is a funny parody when reality out - parodies the parody? Edit: I'm not trying to drag politics into this thread: my answer to the first post is 'all those episodes where they had the 'worst possible leader of the free world' look hopelessly naive now' spog has a new favorite as of 00:32 on Aug 1, 2017 |
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Aug 1, 2017 00:14
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poptart_fairy posted:SVU is awful for that sort of thing. Suspects are routinely abused, denied food and drink, and put under enormous pressure to confess but then end up being completely innocent. This keeps happening and nobody learns, despite the show trying to make us believe that the investigators are double true pinky swear remorseful this time. So, pretty accurate portrayal of US law enforcement, then?
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Aug 3, 2017 09:14
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EmmyOk posted:I've only started watching Yes Minister recently and it's incredibly prescient, the databases episode could be from this year. Only 2 months ago, I sent an email to someone and used the phrase "wasn't this the plot of 'Yes Minister' episode?" and I was referring to this one.
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Aug 8, 2017 15:58
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Davros1 posted:Columbo holds up really well, except now at the end, a lot of times I find myself thinking "Yeah, I don't think that's going to hold up in court." I find myself inserting just two lines dialogue from every cop show in the last 20 years and it ruins the whole show "I worry. I mean, little things bother me. I'm a worrier. I mean, little insignificant details - I lose my appetite. I can't eat. My wife, she says to me, "you know, you can really be pain." "I ain't saying poo poo without my lawyer"" "There's just one more thing..." "gently caress you! Lawyer!"
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Aug 9, 2017 08:59
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Saint Drogo posted:The big shock of Jimmy Saville, the incredibly creepy TV man who constantly made jokes about being a rapist, actually being a massive child abuser and rapist has meant a lot of British TV episodes can't be broadcast again. Oh god, I thought that was a photoshop. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xau8l6
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Aug 11, 2017 13:59
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ReidRansom posted:OTOH, on Friends I seem to recall Monica and Rachael having to be shady about something to do with their apartment since it was Monica's grandmother's? It was her real grandma because they found her stash of homegrown Polaroids.
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Aug 15, 2017 23:37
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'Because of rent control, it was a frigging steal' Chandler, last episode. Should I be proud that I didn't have to look that up?
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Aug 15, 2017 23:46
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Wheat Loaf posted:That's why Doctor Who has had the longevity it's enjoyed. It can soft reboot every four or five years and get a new actor in the lead role, plus a rotating cast of companions. The next season of Doctor Who will be its eleventh since it was revived in 2005 and the fact that it's going to be a dramatically differently lead with a new behind-the-scenes team means it's already a very different programme. I remember in 2010 when Moffat replaced Russell T Davies as showeunner and Matt Smith started playing the Doctor, by the wnd of the first episode people were saying it was like a completely new show. I get your point, but you could argue that Doctor Who entered a death spiral with the sixth doctor and died out with little dismay at the end of the seventh. The ninth Doctor onwards could be considered a reboot in many ways.
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Aug 28, 2017 22:02
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SEX BURRITO posted:When Al Bundy kept complaining about those 200lb monsters. Surely nobody could get that fat? Yeah, now you mention it: you see the scene about these behemoths and the women that they use are not much heavier than the average weight for women in 2017
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Sep 6, 2017 10:00
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUc4GkMN1qs Never Say Never Again Good guy vs bad guy playing video games lacks a certain gravitas when compared to playing chess or polker
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Sep 17, 2017 16:29
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:After the episode where Douglas Reynholm has a fistfight with his girlfriend after he finds out she's trans, I find it hard to watch any of the IT crowd. Feels like there's ugliness just hiding under the surface I'm glad I am not the only one who gets a real icky feeling when watching that episode and it does definitely colour the rest of the series. That "Haha, Roy has been sexually assaulted" episode comes a close second.
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Sep 28, 2017 16:52
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EmmyOk posted:I've been watching Yes, Minister and in many way's it's aged incredibly well. It's from the 1980s but it had an episode about a Big Brother style database and it was amazing how similar it was to discussions around privacy and security around the time of the Snowden leaks and still now. However every now and then it has a drunk driving scene that's treated as funny and just a bit cheeky. Obviously that's something that was acceptable back then it just stands out all the more for how ahead of its time so many of its episodes are. Actually, in a later episode, there is a plot point where another minister loses his job because he was caught drunk driving. But i agree that it was definitely treated like getting caught for speeding is these days. It was 'naughty' but not the 'you are an arsehole' that you get today.
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Oct 3, 2017 13:21
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EmmyOk posted:That's the episode I was watching at the time. It was specifically the minister who had been behind the no drunk driving campaign. He had caused a lorry carrying nuclear waste to flip and then in his effort to escape crashed into another car... which was driven by the editor of the local paper. I agree though that it was treated as naughty and cheeky rather than the modern "what the actual gently caress" you get today. The seatbelt safety ones have aged very badly...for all kinds of reasons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iynaLC5sY&t=5s
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Oct 3, 2017 14:07
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SpacePig posted:I'm pretty sure a guard would notice a prisoner watching child porn on the prison AV cart or whatever. Kudos to the prison visitor who managed to smuggle a VHS cassette in their rectum.
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Oct 4, 2017 16:16
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DACK FAYDEN posted:
Real, not funny, answer: 'sole-dur'
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Oct 6, 2017 18:06
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Davros1 posted:Don't watch the behind the scenes stuff. Rimmer and Cat? Wigs. At least Kryten didn't use a Shatner-corset. Now we know who's been eating all the pies.
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Oct 20, 2017 23:48
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Wheat Loaf posted:I listen to his 6Music show and he comes across as an okay guy on that. That said, don't know when those interviews were recorded (haven't seen them) and he's been doing his show for 15 years by now, so maybe he's mellowed out. He admits that he's mellowed out and was a bit of an angry young man when he first started Red Dwarf - which was why he and Barrie hated each other for the first few series. I wonder if that helped the dynamic of the show, having the actors have the same cotempt for each other as the characters did. And Danny JJ is the Cat in real life.
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Oct 22, 2017 12:56
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Der Kyhe posted:Coming from a country which still has active draft for all male population; if you want to have the "they'll call the dead before they draft me"-papers, you really need to commit to being a loving lunatic at the draft examinations. Or claim to have 'bone spurs'
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Nov 15, 2017 20:13
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BioEnchanted posted:There's also the old story about Christopher Lee correcting the direction on a movie he was acting in because he knew exactly how a guy being stabbed in the back sounded and the director's direction was unrealistic. Christopher Lee is even more badass than the badasses he is famous for playing in the movies.
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Dec 5, 2017 22:55
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sassassin posted:His fear of being thought of as gay is often linked to his embarrassment at his father's sexual antics when he was growing up. Which is less gay panic and more the universal horror of being confronted with parents (and various poolboys) as sexual beings. I'd agree with that. I also things that his transgender father when from a comedy punchline to a real person and the relationship between them when Chandler was inviting him to the wedding was quite touching and sympathetic.
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Jan 13, 2018 13:48
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Mu Zeta posted:Do you mean the show as a whole or the Frasier character? The general gay panic stuff was in all the 90s shows, but I don't recall the Frasier character really belittling any sex/gender/lifestyle. There was the episode where some gay guy thinks frasier is gay and hitting on him. Which was both funny and entirely respectful towards the gay character. Edit: given that about 80% of the cast were gay, it's not entirely surprising that the shows were written without horrible jokes or stereotypes. spog has a new favorite as of 00:51 on Jan 16, 2018 |
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Jan 16, 2018 00:48
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Wheat Loaf posted:Here's another show that was very popular and ran for about a decade which you don't hear about any more: Touched By An Angel. That's one I'm surprised hasn't been rebooted or revived on any of the Christian channels in America. 'Touching' is a word that many religious are trying to remove from the public consciousness.
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Jan 25, 2018 00:00
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Jedit posted:This happened with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Remember the bit where Christian Slater drops a gratuitous F-bomb? Not if you're in the UK, you don't. The scene was cut over here because the movie got the rating they wanted without it. In the US it didn't, so they had to add that specific swear word. I wonder if that is because it has a 'bollocks!' in it - which in the UK is a swear word, but in the USA isn't.
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Jan 25, 2018 15:33
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Gorilla Salad posted:Given the advances in battery technology since those days, if I had a modern phone with a modern battery pack that size, I wonder how long it would last. I got curious: Nokia Mobira Talkman Weight (g) 5500 Say the battery weighs 4.5kg One iPhone 7 battery weighs 28g and gives 350mins of fairy heavy use So... 937 hours of use - or over a solid month of heavy use. Hold on, I have a kickstarter idea....
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Feb 1, 2018 17:27
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Alhazred posted:Surprisingly many. Both Angelina Jolie and Sofia Vergara are natural blondes for example. I'm curious: are there any famous dudes that dye their hair? (Not including ones that do it to hide grey)
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Feb 15, 2018 09:34
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BrigadierSensible posted:Given all The Departed talk recently. I watched Infernal Affairs about 10 years before I watched The Departed. I didn't know it was a remake and I got the weirdest sense of deja vu. spog has a new favorite as of 09:31 on Feb 21, 2018 |
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Feb 21, 2018 09:29
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Cheshire Puss posted:I couldn't watch How I met your mother at all. People can poo poo on Big Bang Theory all day but HIMYM had the straight up worst, most obvious fake laugh track I've ever heard. Wait...are you comparing HIMYM's laugh track negatively to the famously-poo poo and overpowering laugh track of MASH? That's a bit like saying Jennifer Lawrence is a bit pudgy and she'd look better if she were more Trump's shape.
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Feb 24, 2018 23:33
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Rirse posted:He didn't seem to be too awful in the original episodes, but it very obvious in the Netflix episodes. There is the episode where he realises that he pushes George Michael far too hard when he is Mr Manager of the banana stand. At that point m I realised that he was pretty screwed up. But the awfulness of all the rest of the family makes it less noticeable in comparison.
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Feb 27, 2018 09:16
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Mu Zeta posted:I read somewhere that sometimes a contestant will screw up their baking and seriously start crying. So the hosts will run up next to them and start swearing so that they can't use the video footage. I'm sure the producers hate that. I have this lovely vision of Mary Berry running up to a contestant and saying 'there, there. Never mind that your meringue didn't rise' then turning towards the camera and chanting 'oval office, oval office, oval office'
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Mar 3, 2018 21:32
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Hattie Masters posted:EDIT: One thing that aged horribly from Drop The Dead Donkey was some of the jokes from the first episode about Henry calling a waiter by an ethnic slur. Personally, I think that 'bigoted, old tory dinosaur says racist things' is a stereotype that has, depressingly, aged very well.
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Mar 12, 2018 11:17
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On a more frivolous note: Arrested Development seasons 1-3 Simply because Portia De Rossi has had at least 2 new faces since then 
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Mar 28, 2018 14:15
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SpacePig posted:Yeah, I have a bit of a set of rose-tinted glasses when it comes to Arrested Development, because each subsequent rewatch reveals a lot of really weird, sort of gross, and fairly outdated humor. Especially season 3, in which I think literally everybody gave up. Likewise. I'll give it a huge amount of slack as a) it's really funny and b) they are supposed to be terrible people. But even at the time, this plotline made me say 'wait, how old are they supposed to be? This is not right'  E: 35/17.....ewww spog has a new favorite as of 15:39 on Mar 28, 2018 |
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Mar 28, 2018 15:37
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Koalas March posted:https://twitter.com/garya1an/status/979788746424897536 Well, I guess that since Roseanne seems to have been a success, I am sure all kinds of sitcoms are getting dusted off and TV execs are hurriedly checking whether the stars have been caught doing naughty stuff.
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Mar 31, 2018 21:05
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Mu Zeta posted:Watch the video where he says it. It's clearly a joke. He says that he's the prettier and more glamorous Watson. I got bored so I googled it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MBTlKhThWk
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May 1, 2018 10:14
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Koalas March posted:Iirc he has said some crazy racist poo poo, which is why a lot of people were questioning why he was cast in Black Panther. I googled this, too. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-563570/Martin-Freeman-life-shouldnt-just-day-office.html quote:Politely, I comment on his lovely house and the tranquillity that surrounds it.
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May 1, 2018 13:46
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SpacePig posted:I didn't know any of that stuff about Martin Freeman and now I'm upset. Can't anything nice happen in 2018? I must admit that I was somewhat disappointed, too. I went looking for the quotes because I assumed that they would be the usual misreporting where someone says that an issue is complicated and expresses a moderate view and it gets spun into something for the headlines. I suppose it's another case of confusing the characters he plays with the person he is. Like when I thought I'd have a nice evening drink with Bill Cosby and that didn't turn out well, either.
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May 1, 2018 14:59
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walrusman posted:Polish is the only word in the English language that changes pronunciation when capitalized. The people of Reading reading this disagree.
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Samuringa posted:A Six Million Dollar man where they use 2018's six million dollars, so the upgrades are all minimalistic and he has to be creative with them Or where they use an inflation -adjusted amount but every limb has a different EULA and service contract and every time he tries to do anything bionic, he has to wait for an upgrade to be applied.
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