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Regy Rusty posted:Oh and I watched Sunnyside, looks promising It figures a Mike Schur show would have a monologue about baseball.
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Regy Rusty posted:I live very near Sunnyside too so it's cool seeing familiar geography, I'd probably stick with the show just for that Hell same. Me and my wife are having fun pointing out the locations of nothing else.
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Vietnamwees posted:Anyone have the scoop on who the bad place demons chose to mess with Eleanor? It...its not gonna be Steve Austin, is it? I think that would make her get sexually frustrated more than anything else. Just FYI, I'm still looking for the answer to this since I couldn't wat h the premiere since I'm out of town til tomorrow. Is it even known at this point after the premiere who it is, or is it gonna be another big mystery that the Soul Squad has to figure out?
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Vietnamwees posted:Just FYI, I'm still looking for the answer to this since I couldn't wat h the premiere since I'm out of town til tomorrow. Is it even known at this point after the premiere who it is, or is it gonna be another big mystery that the Soul Squad has to figure out? The answer is in the premiere but unsurprisingly the premiere also has a twiiiiist
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Shawn has to be the only one able enough to pull it off. Either that or Vicki’s acting chops are finally being put to good use.
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CaveGrinch posted:Either that or Vicki’s acting chops are finally being put to good use. If it were Vicki, then the Michael suit would have a limp.
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Sep 27, 2019 03:48
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Sep 27, 2019 03:53
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Simone wandering around in a cheese hat and foam #1 fingers, knocking over everything in sight? Perfect. The judge's threat of making Shawn watch video of soldiers reuniting with their dogs was hard core. She needs her Timothy Olyphant time! Jet Jaguar fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Sep 27, 2019 04:43
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Wylie posted:The Kars for Kids song killed me and my entire family. We had to pause for a sec to regain our composure. Everyone I know is dead, that was so good
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Sep 27, 2019 04:59
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So the whole experiment is getting run off the rails by ep3 isn't it.
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Sep 27, 2019 05:29
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I bet Chidi figures it out for a change and the book hurting his hand is his first clue
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Adding more layers to Simone is much appreciated, but Jason’s “Chidi looks like one of those owls who graduated from college” slayed me. God drat
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Jason gets flak for being too dumb sometimes but I really appreciate how dumb his jokes are bc there’s this whole lateral process that makes it feel like a cryptic crossword or something. I think I took a full minute after the owl bit to slow down and realise he’s referring to those cardboard cutouts of an owl you see in a kids library with a grad cap and I lost it completely
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:Jason gets flak for being too dumb sometimes but I really appreciate how dumb his jokes are bc there’s this whole lateral process that makes it feel like a cryptic crossword or something. I think I took a full minute after the owl bit to slow down and realise he’s referring to those cardboard cutouts of an owl you see in a kids library with a grad cap and I lost it completely The second he said it I had Mr. Owl from the old Tootsie Roll Pops commercial in my head. 
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The only part of the episode that didn't click for me was how fast Chidi decided on which book to summon
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Wylie posted:The second he said it I had Mr. Owl from the old Tootsie Roll Pops commercial in my head. Ha! Me too!
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Something I'm curious about with Shawn is from the mini-sodes, where he had a moment of being less of an rear end in a top hat than he was used to being in listening to that one demon: "She just said that, Weren't you paying attention?" "No. Because she's a woman..." "Good point, why was I paying attention...?" Could it be that Shawn is actually getting better himself despite his worse judgement? Maybe the concept of humans getting better has freaked him out enough to get under his Michael-suit a little, hence him being so desperate to win that he's resorted to cheating - he genuinely thinks that the experiment could succeed and that terrifies him. Or maybe it's just shook him so badly he hasn't got the time to be ignoring his underlings like he normally does, because he's again, so desperate for a solution he doesn't want to waste time with demonic pettiness.
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Azhais posted:The only part of the episode that didn't click for me was how fast Chidi decided on which book to summon It was A Critique of Pure Reason, so I'll give it a pass. Also, Sunnyside's prospects are not good. It's obviously Community + current politics, and very much in a way that doesn't sit well with me.
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Azhais posted:The only part of the episode that didn't click for me was how fast Chidi decided on which book to summon Honestly, they should've had half the library fly at him, with Eleanor cringing a split second before as she realises she asked him to make a decision.
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For a moment I thought that Sunnyside had done a amazing coup by getting AOC as a guest star. It was a little shocking that it wasn’t her. Didn’t hate the show, the running gag of the one woman working literally everywhere was pretty good. The podcast is great, I also love that they thought the Bad Place song would be cut right up to the edit.
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Sep 27, 2019 16:33
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Loved the episode -- I liked the fakeout with Linda, and Chidi being the fourth one makes sense. Plus everything Simone is doing is incredible.
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Missed opportunity not having Eleanor suggest Chidi summon What We Owe to Each Other but that's probably too obvious.
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Jet Jaguar posted:For a moment I thought that Sunnyside had done a amazing coup by getting AOC as a guest star. It was a little shocking that it wasn’t her. Didn’t hate the show, the running gag of the one woman working literally everywhere was pretty good. Seriously? They look nothing alike, other than the fact they're both 30s-ish Caribbean women with dark hair and eyes. This is one of the weirdest comments I've ever read SA and that's saying something. Anyway, Sunnyside seemed fine if heavy-handed. If it lightens up it could be solid. As far as Good Place, I didn't love first episode nearly as much as the first episodes of previous seasons, but I have faith in the writers to pick it back up. I totally missed the potential Michael switch; which could be a lot a lot of fun in later episodes if theories are right. But let's be honest...we're all really just here to see Disco Janet.
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Yeah the first ep wasn't as quite as impactful as we're used to, but it is early days and everyone is kinda constrained by the system right now, so not too many wacky hijinks.
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Can someone explain what the Kars for Kids thing is?
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I’m wondering if the Bad Place plan isn’t so much Team Cockroach failing to redeem the newbies as it is to make Team Cockroach BAD again. They’ve even managed to piss off Janet. Also, the whole reason the original four started to become good was because Eleanor and later Jason (sort of) “realized” they didn’t belong there, so the current subjects have no reason to change. Assuming people aren’t right about the Michael suit, my baseless prediction for the episode three change-up is that they will lead someone to say “this is the Bad Place,” then run with it. Hoping the threat of damnation turns them around.
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Oasx posted:Can someone explain what the Kars for Kids thing is? It's also a weird bundle of contradicting emotions (it's a charity! for sick kids! that might be a scam! or are the people saying it's a scam anti-semitic?) and the organization seems to have leaned into the "ha ha we're those people with the terrible jingle!" in the same way that George W. Bush leaned in on "ha ha, I mispronounce words sometimes, ignore anything else I've ever done" and through all of this it's still on NYC radio (presumably elsewhere?) multiple times an hour for at least twenty years now. Here is a story about it.
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navyjack posted:I’m wondering if the Bad Place plan isn’t so much Team Cockroach failing to redeem the newbies as it is to make Team Cockroach BAD again. They’ve even managed to piss off Janet. Eleanor knew she didn't belong because Michael "unintentionally" got her file mixed up with someone else, and they did the same with Jason If Michael would have told Eleanor that she got into the good place while still acknowledging all the bad stuff she did in her life, I don't think she would have changed at all and probably would have just enjoyed herself until the bad place intervened. And Chidi and Tahani we're good enough people on the surface that they wouldn't have had any trouble believing that they got into the good place. I don't know how they could have done it without having any time to prepare for the new people, but I'm sure that they could have found a way on the fly to make the new people question whether or not they belong in the good place. But who knows what the writers have planned for this season. It's entirely possible they did consider all of that and are going in a different direction.
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Shadowhand00 posted:Agh that joke landed perfectly for me. I busted a gut, because I'll sing along to it when it comes on the radio and sing the last line as "This song will play in Hell!" And it did. Kinda.
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I'd like to see Shawn try to torture someone with something he assumes will be terrible in every way but turns out to have an angle that the victim enjoyed. Just "I tried to torture Walt Disney by making him watch the Tinkerbell movies, but he thought they were actually kind of interesting. Damnit... Next time I'm going with Turbo..." Hell, see him being taken aback by someone on Earth playing something like I Wanna Be the Guy and enjoying the frustration. "They won't easily torture each other, but they'll happily torture themselves... I don't get these dingbats at all..." BioEnchanted fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Sep 27, 2019 19:04
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Yeah I live in the Tri-State Area and that joke killed me. I've been hearing that jingle for years.
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Sep 27, 2019 19:05
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Sep 27, 2019 19:14
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There used to be a Kars 4 Kids billboard near my apartment, and it was very confusing because there was zero indication of what the hell it was. I had no idea there was such a great evil lying underneath.
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I forgot to say last night, I was cracking up that the obelisk that the neutral-place accountant went into was the same one that Michael used in one of the early reboots as a means to torture the four. I wonder how they'll snap Simone out of her atheist funk? It could easily be Chidi throwing a variation of Pascal's Wager at her, or maybe it'll be more comedic, like Jason will introduce her to something so far outside her knowledge base that her glitching brain couldn't possibly have invented it. Bobulus fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Sep 27, 2019 19:22
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Arist posted:Yeah I live in the Tri-State Area and that joke killed me. I've been hearing that jingle for years. It's played in the sf bay area during baseball games, including on TV.
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Jingleheimer posted:Eleanor knew she didn't belong because Michael "unintentionally" got her file mixed up with someone else, and they did the same with Jason If Michael would have told Eleanor that she got into the good place while still acknowledging all the bad stuff she did in her life, I don't think she would have changed at all and probably would have just enjoyed herself until the bad place intervened. And Chidi and Tahani we're good enough people on the surface that they wouldn't have had any trouble believing that they got into the good place. Yeah this seems like a key point that is missing from the current experiment. Eleanor and Jason being mixed up as different people was the lynch-pin that was supposed to make the entire elaborate torture work by forcing them all the make each other miserable in very specific and personal ways. It backfired because being forced into this stressful situation was torture but it also forged a bond between them that caused them to actually grow as people. The current newbies are all unfortunately doing their own thing and there doesn't seem to be a plan to actually get them to help each other or even realize that they need to get better, outside of Chidi probably helping Simone come to terms with the existence of an after life. I'm sure this will be addressed in the coming episodes but it seems like an initial oversight for them to make.
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Oh, geez, I'm slow on the uptake today. Linda's first request after waking up was to ask if there was a fitness center in the Good Place. Of course That One Demon wanted to go to the gym...
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