|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 20, 2015 16:42:52 GMT -5
We need to spice things up in here. How can we save Sloane from the abyss? My five step program: 1. Cloning Mitchell Dear God man, are you insane? I think he's more 'desperate.' Remember, we've been trying to bring back the good ol' Sloane for longer than we had the good ol' Sloane at this point. I think an anniversary's coming up on that front, honestly.
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 16, 2015 15:49:26 GMT -5
Okay, I'm seeing the videos still up on everyone else's posts, but on mine, they're all gone. Is everyone seeing them the same way? What's THAT about? Well, taking a look at the "code" of one of your posts by clicking the edit button, it looks like the spot that should have a URL instead has an unusual mishmash of numbers and letters. Did you just copy and paste URLs when embedding videos, or did you have some other method? In the latter case, it's possible that something you did is suddenly no longer supported by proboards, either through a glitch or an intentional shift in how they code things. In the former... I have no idea. If it's any consolation, here's Geico's unskippable ad.
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 12, 2015 18:37:21 GMT -5
I like reading this. So many actors vanish and I feel sorry because there's the question of "could they not make it?" But it's nice to see that she just decided that the demands of film making were a little more strenuous than she wanted.
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 9, 2015 13:39:20 GMT -5
Wait, Shout! is selling things with the commercial bumpers on them? I've gotta get back into buying episodes again. (And I've gotta stop revealing how few episodes I actually own.)
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 9, 2015 13:29:13 GMT -5
That's a big loss. He was an inspiration to comedy, and an inspiration to advertising culture's good parts. I still get parts of his "Omaha!" musical stuck in my head every once in a while.
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 9, 2015 13:23:15 GMT -5
I was curious about the show before learning this, but now I definitely won't be missing it.
As someone on Twitter said, all we need now is Frank to sign on somehow. (Or any of the other Brains, even.)
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 3, 2015 19:20:20 GMT -5
Not really an "episode" but I thought I'd mention this commercial as being essential viewing...
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 3, 2015 19:06:51 GMT -5
I've got this weird tongue pain that won't go away. Well... unless I eat a cubic ton of kale and avocados. So it's probably a low-iron thing. And I like kale and avocados. It's weird to need so much of 'em, though. :-P Still, kind of a bummer.
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 3, 2015 18:43:21 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 2, 2015 1:44:45 GMT -5
This one year when I was in college, I was in this one room on campus that had a bunch of vending machines. I saw that someone had spilled a pretty good amount of change onto the floor, so I decided to start picking it up...but whoever left the coins there had glued them onto the floor. Ha! That's amazing. I want to do that now.
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 1, 2015 0:34:00 GMT -5
I love a good prank or practical joke, though it's a little easy to be too mean spirited with them. Everything I think of is either too hard to pull off or too mantagonistic, so I'm afraid that on this, April Fool's Day, I must confess to not be a great pranksmith worthy of legend.
Unless I'm bluffing.
Having said that, my family's sort of got a history of it. My dad was once a councilor at a camp and he was in the cafeteria late at night with a lot of other people, and some of them were talking about how they needed to pull some sort of prank. My dad walked over and said "Well, you know, I don't know if you've noticed or not, but the flag pole isn't really cemented into place. Anyone could just walk over and lift it out." Then he tapped one of them on the shoulder and left, allegedly for bed.
He steered the person toward some bushes by the flagpole. Sure enough, after not much longer the lights went out in the cafeteria, and a lot of giggling, snickering councilors walked out, approached the flagpole, and lifted it out of the hole in the ground. They carried it to another place, not far away, and hid it alongside one of the buildings before they all returned to their dorms. Then my dad and his selected accomplice went to their hiding place, picked up the flag pole, and hid it elsewhere.
The next morning, the camp's... I dunno, camps don't have deans, the... head person... was understandably angry about the lack of flag for the morning flag raising. My dad, in a quiet moment, said that he overheard some people at the cafeteria discussing moving the flagpole last night, so the camp leader person went to them and demanded to have the flag returned. They laughed, said sure, and went to get it.
A bit later, they had to return and sheepishly confess that they'd lost the flag pole.
My dad didn't let it go on much longer before he "found" the flag pole. Ultimately, it was a great prank, and no real harm done.
Do you have any great stories of pranks?
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 1, 2015 0:25:49 GMT -5
I admit that while I didn't really follow him very closely, I always liked the guy when I saw him in Soultaker. I'm sad to hear of his passing.
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 1, 2015 0:22:16 GMT -5
Aww. Video won't play for me.
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Mar 27, 2015 20:11:26 GMT -5
I know we've got another Community topic, but that one specifies it being on NBC, so... I've started watching Season Six. And... it's great. It's what I feel like season four should have been, and what season five tried to be. I think having the six-ish extra minutes per episode is really helping (a lot of the episodes I disliked from fifth season were episodes that, while fine in generally, tried to cram too much into too little time, so I think their bigger stories benefit from a few more minutes here and there.) And this last week's 100th episode was nice. It felt like a good, standard nod to the show's history and the kind of question about whether or not Greendale, as an institution, is even worth it.
|
|
|
Post by Afgncaap5 on Mar 27, 2015 19:47:14 GMT -5
Something I've noticed is how much more fanfare and promotion Corden seems to be getting than Ferguson did when he started out. CBS owns the show outright now, so that appears to factor in the decision to promote the show more than Craig got pretty much ever. I wonder if it's an issue of need? Craig seemed to gradually draw a crowd over time without much need, and once people started watching him they'd generally stick around. Corden's only real weakness seems to be a lack of draw... he's likeable and funny and not mean or bitter like a lot of others are/pretend to be, but... at the same time, he's not well known. I mean, before this the only thing I'd seen him on were two episodes of Doctor Who and the musical Into The Woods, and I didn't even know it was the same guy until after I started watching his show. So, maybe they felt that promotion was more necessary this time around? Alternatively, maybe Craig made the show a bit more profitable, so they realized that the show could do well, and so they started putting more money into it with the hopes of a bigger return? Who can say?
|
|