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PostNouveau posted:Eh, English is weird. Plus no one ever sees this written out so it's a mute point Regy Rusty posted:Isn't it worse though if helping the kid is getting him points and the system doesn't distinguish? Maybe it's some kind of zero sum game. Doug gets points for making the little jerk happy, but each time he does the kid racks up more bad points. Like, you get 10 billion points for curing cancer, but an equal amount of negative points are distributed to everyone who could have cured cancer but didn't. Doug gets 10 points for trying to make amends for killing a snail, and now everyone on Earth who didn't try to make amends for killing a snail gets 10 bad points. So even if you try and do your best it only helps doom others. That'd be diabolic.
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Senor Tron posted:There are some Christians who hold up this as their concept of what hell is. That's always seemed so silly to me. Like, that wouldn't fly playing a board game with friends, let alone the most important "game" you could play in your entire existence. If I believed that is really how things worked I would just do whatever I wanted. Why not? Maybe the rules are you have to kill 1,042 babies and eat exactly 9000 pumpkin seeds to get into heaven. Who knows?
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tarlibone posted:(ahem) [points to avatar] When I was around 25 I gave up watching Venture Brothers as the episodes came out because of all their silly delays and decided I'd just watch the whole thing whenever they finished it. I'm almost 40, never watched the rest. They've made like what, 80 episodes in nearly 15 years? Who could care anymore.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:So is VB worth all this insane hassle? The first couple seasons were good, but I'll let you know if the series was worth it when I'm 65 or so. Phenotype posted:To be fair to the Venture Brothers, the delays tend to be between seasons, I'm pretty sure that once a season starts to air, all the episodes are in the can and there aren't any random skipped weeks. It's mostly I'd forget some of the side characters and some of the running jokes. Especially these days I binge watch almost everything. Always Sunny and The Good Place are the only things I watch week to week. I'd rather just wait for another 20 years and have a nice fun 3 day marathon 120 episodes of VB. 1glitch0 fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Dec 1, 2018 |
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Dec 1, 2018 20:47
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I just realized what this show reminds me of: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And it's the greatest compliment I can give it.
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Dec 7, 2018 11:48
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DoubleCakes posted:At least Harriet Tubman deserves to get in. Do you know how many snails she stepped on in her lifetime? Over 7. OVER SEVEN! And she did not care in the least. Bad Place bound. edit: I think it has to do with the amount of choices available to people. The first two point events were giving someone a rock and that someone killing them with that rock. And since then choices grew exponentially until every there are so many choices it eventually became impossible to make all of them right to get into the Good Place. 1glitch0 fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Dec 9, 2018 |
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Dec 9, 2018 06:54
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ApplesandOranges posted:I'm actually anticipating that the angels (or demon equivalent in the Good Place) are also happy with the current state of the system and will resist Michael's attempts at change. Thus the Soul Squad has to contend with an angel/demon teamup who will try to stop them. The Soul Squad needs to find Sam and Dean. They're good at this stuff.
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Dec 9, 2018 23:46
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LividLiquid posted:I very specifically didn't mention pizza in my post, which you either willfully ignored or didn't notice. Shur was making GBS threads on cooking fruit and moved on to cooked pineapple on pizza, yes, but he started by telling people not to cook fruit. Well, you're very passionate, I'll give you that.
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Dec 10, 2018 06:35
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Buggerlugs posted:I checked on Netflix and it was 16 minutes for the whole episode?? How many commercial breaks do you Americans have to stretch that out to half an hour? Which episode? I don't think any episode has only been 16 minutes, but yeah we have a ton of commercials. It's not about work or time, it's about that sweet, sweet advertising money.
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Dec 27, 2018 03:06
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He has to choose between the cereals and just passes out.
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Dec 30, 2018 19:24
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Mordiceius posted:Hi. I’m not reading the thread to avoid spoilers, but I wanted to say that I binged season 1 & 2 over the last two days and I have no loving clue how they are going to continue this show. It's so tough recommending this show to people because if you just tell them it's Kristen Bell going to heaven it doesn't really sell it. But if you say it's a comedic better written Lost you blow it for them. I like Kristen Bell and Ted Danson but didn't watch the show just because the premise seemed like a lame network comedy. It took hearing about the twist at the end of the first season to get me to watch, but I don't want to spoil that for others. Even just hearing there is a twist kinda spoils it because then you're looking for it.
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Jan 3, 2019 01:56
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Jerusalem posted:For what it's worth, it was sold to me (with no knowledge of the twist) as "It's a really funny, clever comedy about a woman who accidentally gets into heaven and tries to keep anybody from finding out she shouldn't be there." That's a pretty good way to do it.
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Tequila25 posted:Obligatory “We’re in the Bad Place!” I wonder if it was a mistake or a prank. Either way this is amazing.
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Xelkelvos posted:it then cuts to the Museum of Torture and pans to a sign saying "Greatest Forms of Torture Invented By Humans" and pans across a few like Mustard Gas, Waterboarding, and Internet Shock Porn to reveal the worst thing ever: Capitalism That would be a perfect series finale ending. What's really interesting is if the unintended consequences theory is correct the show is in a really interesting place. Either the Judge decides unintended consequences don't matter, which would be a pretty big cop out, or the gang has to destroy capitalism on Earth to save humanity. Also, only kinda related I was rewatching the first two seasons and it's pretty cool that when they go to the Medium Place and Mindy St. Claire shows them all their previous plans to defeat Michael the last idea they had was "Find Doug Forcett". That plan is actually kinda working!
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Jan 11, 2019 19:33
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Mordiceius posted:At this point, I think I rank the season: Hard to judge them as individual seasons since each one, and the episodes themselves, are so different. It feels like naming each episode a "chapter" makes sense. I don't think watching week to week and waiting a week or months between chapters is great, but when you binge it all it works almost perfectly.
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Jan 11, 2019 20:51
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Rarity posted:So here's a thought, if Western capitalism is the reason no one gets into the Good Place any more why is that impacting on people from exploited countries? Someone living in rural Africa for example could still live their life without interacting with these global systems. Someone in rural Africa is given a Patriots Super Bowl t-shirt for a SB they didn't win and also it's a Patriots t-shirt. Negative 10,000 points.
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Jan 11, 2019 20:54
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Patrovsky posted:Jerry is the only one who gets into the real Good Place (for the first time in five hundred years), and everyone else is like "Jerry got in? Ugh. Really?" "Well, I don't even want to go now!"
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Jan 12, 2019 20:30
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Ishamael posted:The AV Club has a really weird take on this last episode that isn't in line with the way I read it at all: I didn't think they were thinking Michael was lying, but he's wrong and that's not really the problem that needs to be solved. The only thing that has made me suspect Michael is hiding something is when he kicked Shawn through the door before he could finish his speech because it felt like he was worried Shawn was about to spill something. Also, is there a quality tv review site out there? AV Club has become pretty lovely.
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Jan 16, 2019 19:53
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ZRM posted:You just know that whatever happens with the Time Knife, if it has anything to do with Jeremey Bearimy, it's gonna give him access to that dot above the i. All I know is that whatever happens with the time knife, if it has anything to do with Jeremy Bearimy, it'll make this thread insufferable for at least a week.
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Jan 17, 2019 07:28
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Junkenstein posted:I assume it's been brought up, but seeing her this week made me realise; does the fact that Mindy got sent to the medium place make her the best human in 500 years? Maybe the cocaine was locally sourced.
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Jan 18, 2019 20:13
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uvar posted:Ah, what the hell, I may as well make some wrong guesses too: My guess is that since Janet can make people and now we know people who Janet makes can make people, that all the people in the new fake Good Place just start popping out people leading to the title of the finale.
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Jan 19, 2019 21:18
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:obviously what happened is the demons used the secret door they made to get to earth and killed whomever they needed Oh man, that is really dark for this show, but that makes a lot of sense. Accretionist posted:This was a sweet line. An actor could live their entire life and not get the chance to give such a silly, romantic, and badass line.
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Jan 26, 2019 20:21
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:I actually write those descriptions for a living. Generally on finales we keep the descriptions ridiculously vague to prevent spoilers. If you know the person who writes the Netflix ones can you tell them to stop writing them so lame and cheesy? Doltos posted:Kristen Bell is arguably twice the starpower as McKean which sucks because McKean has been around forever and is one of the hardest working actors in the business. BCS also doesn't seem to have nearly the impact as Breaking Bad for its actors. Its not like people are knocking down the door for Bob Odenkirk like they are for Bryan Cranston. All I know about Idina Menzel is John Travolta couldn't say her name at the Oscars and then tried to make out with her. 1glitch0 fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Jan 27, 2019 |
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Jan 27, 2019 19:37
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Thranguy posted:Wasn't this one of the major issues in the last Writer's Guild strikes? I can't remember how it ended up for them but it was a really solid argument. Like writing 12 episodes of Game of Thrones is more intensive than writing 23 episodes of like The Big Bang Theory so why should they be penalized because of the episode numbers. Ror posted:I wouldn't be surprised if Bell and Danson are making 6 figures per episode. 5 might be more reasonable for the rest of the cast, but TV contracts are weird. Most prestige cable stars on stuff like HBO make like 250k-500k per episode. But then so do the main cast of Modern Family. The leads of the Big Bang Theory get literally like a million dollars per episode. It's pretty hard to wrap your head around the idea that for every 20 minutes of content the actors of The Big Bang Theory rack up a million dollars. I mean, I'm not saying it's not well deserved since the studio is making billions off the show, but just think about going to a tv set, sitting on a couch, pretending to eat take out food, making some bad Star Wars jokes in front of a crowd, and then going home and seeing your bank account go up by a million dollars. It must be surreal. 1glitch0 fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Jan 28, 2019 |
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Mordiceius posted:Almond milk. This or books.
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Senor Tron posted:The only real problem with Jason is that they showed us his home and he actually seems to come from a cartoon world. All the other characters seem to have grown up in our world, where as Jason literally comes from a place with monster truck taxis. I've done my time in Florida. If you told me somewhere in Florida was some kind of fledgling monster truck taxi service I wouldn't think twice. And if there isn't then someone should start it and make all the cash. I like Jason because he's sorta like Michael Scott, where he's a fool, but occasionally you see it's more blind spots and obliviousness then stupidity.
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I read Michael Schur's interview and I have to add that I completely agree that everything Stephen Merchant does makes me laugh. I wish he was in more stuff. I first saw him on the UK Office before I knew he was the co-creator and he just played a small role but it was so drat funny. And everything else I've seen him in has been amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZdxlVbziYo
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Jul 1, 2019 18:41
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superLINUS posted:Someone in this thread pimped Superstore and it's great and I've nearly burned my way through it. So what else is good and irreverent and a bit weird? Cougar Town is pretty great and overlooked, but I'm not sure it's streaming anywhere. They also had a mutual admiration with Community, so if you like Community, you'd like Cougar Town. They even had a few cameo crossovers between the shows even though they were on different networks and was just done because the people in charge thought it'd be funny.
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Jul 1, 2019 18:54
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pwn posted:Yeah, it’s on Hulu. I’ve watched the first episode so far, underwhelming but I’m fully aware that the first episode of almost any show is never great. Cougar Town is especially underwhelming for the first few episodes. It's not till episode 4 or 5 where they decide to toss the entire premise of Courtney Cox trying to get a young dude and just make the show about middle aged people drinking wine and getting into adventures.
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Maxwell Lord posted:What I heard was that the showrunner sold the show on the "cougar" thing, so felt obligated to run with that for the first few episodes, but as soon as he could turned it into a hangout show. That's funny. I knew they hated the title, but didn't know that. I don't know if "Sunshine State" a is much better title, I always liked "Wine Time". But it was too weird of a show for broadcast tv. I'll always think of it as the sister show to Community. It's pretty amazing The Good Place will have a good run.
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