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Post by nondescript spice on Sept 27, 2013 9:39:13 GMT -5
i'm sure everyone else was too cool to watch this, but i tuned in to the new michael j. fox show last night. i probably wouldn't have bothered if parks & rec hadn't just ended, but i'm glad i did watch it. i think it has a real shot. i've admired MJF for years - before he got parkinson's, because he always just seemed like a genuinely nice guy. no hollywood drama - stayed married to the same person, no meltdowns or going in and out of rehab over and over. the writing in the show was funny, i thought. as a pilot, it can only get better - or worse - but i liked the other characters of his family and they seem to have a good chemistry so far. i didn't realize his real life wife, tracy pollan, would be a part of it. not sure if she's going to be a reoccurring character or not. the funniest moment for me was when she was invited for dinner with michael and his wife, as they were setting her up with michael's boss. michael won't admit he has a crush on the neighbor (yeah, a little sitcom cheese) and he's going out of his way to make sure nothing happens between them. as he's passing out dinner rolls, this happens - i don't know, that just cracked me up. i know the show is based on MJF's life, coping with parkinson's, but i'm hoping there will be enough stories from the supporting cast so it just won't turn into a show just about parkinson's disease, because MJF was always a pretty decent actor and deserves that. i'm glad instead of staying in retirement because of it, he is able to at last be himself and even make fun of it a little. it sucks that it runs against robin williams' new show, the crazy ones. i missed it and want to see it. i read it crushed MJF's show in the ratings. i like robin williams, but in small doses.
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Post by nondescript spice on Sept 29, 2013 22:47:33 GMT -5
i was surprised i haven't seen a breaking bad thread here. i have never watched the show until today. i waited until the day of the last episode ever. i always knew it was popular, but since i didn't see it from the beginning, i never bothered. but AMC showed a marathon all day, so i watched almost EIGHT straight hours!! after a couple of eps, i figured out who was who and loosely what was going on. i never watch anything for eight straight hours. i feel like my eyes are burned out of my head. but it was damned good. i have new respect for bryan cranston. i thought i could never see him as anyone but hal from malcolm in the middle, but i was amazed at his talent. good cast, too.
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Post by reaperg on Oct 4, 2013 10:28:10 GMT -5
I discovered "Breaking Bad" when the Sundance Channel was rerunning it. I'm glad you found the show, but now you have to start from the beginning. Walter when he was still kinda dorky, Jesse when he was still a dummy, and Hank was more comedic. Throw in Gus Fring and Salamanca and his twin nephews, and you have all kinds of greatness to look forward to.
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 6, 2013 10:39:02 GMT -5
i know! i'm definitely going to do that. i hate that i jumped in so late, but i'm also glad i did so i could see how amazing it is.
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Post by Satchmo on Oct 7, 2013 0:53:45 GMT -5
Treehouse of Horror XXIV-
The Halloween episodes of The Simpsons haven't really been any good for about five years, which is a pity, since they used to be the best episodes of the season. I wasn't planning on watching this year, but then Guillermo Del Toro's glorious, three-minute couch gag leaked and I found myself watching the series again. It seems to be getting better, though I'm only cautiously optimistic. While not up to the standards of Treehouses of Horror IV-X, this year's anthology is the funniest and most on point ToH in years. The middle section is bland and forgettable, but the first and last entries are smart and refreshingly irreverent. Perhaps it's the end of Futurama, or perhaps it's just the final kicks of life before the series dies, but this is a step in the right direction for The Simpsons.
And the couch gag is incredible.
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 7, 2013 10:13:55 GMT -5
^i agree with everything you said. it wasn't up to former TOH standards, but it's an improvement. i'd say it was better than last year, but last year's must have been so forgettable that i have no memory of it at all. i think i liked the first two stories the best, particularly the one about bart and lisa sharing a body and fighting over control of it.
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Post by reaperg on Oct 11, 2013 10:06:42 GMT -5
The couch gag was epic awesomeness, but I liked the Dr. Seuss parody too. Not very Halloween-ish, but I like when they incorporate other animation/art styles (see also their "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" parody) or go on some wild flight of fancy that they can't do on a regular episode.
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 11, 2013 10:46:52 GMT -5
i think my top 10 (in no real order) of TOH eps would be -
1. clown without pity 2. lisa's nightmare - the monkey's paw 3. easy bake coven 4. the devil and homer simpson 5. the shinning 6. nightmare on evergreen terrace 7. the raven 8. dial z for zombies 9. bart's nightmare - the bart zone 10.bart simpson's dracula
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 13, 2013 17:41:37 GMT -5
Hypnotoad!!! Aren't they doing a Simpsons/Futurama crossover?
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 13, 2013 17:44:50 GMT -5
I watched the Tomorrow People a few nights ago. I don't know yet if it's for me or not, it wasn't great but not bad. You can tell lead Robbie Amell is cousin to Arrow lead Stephen Amell. They have similar features and mannerisms.
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 13, 2013 19:35:14 GMT -5
Hypnotoad!!! Aren't they doing a Simpsons/Futurama crossover? yeah, i forgot about hypnotoad. i've seen bender in a few simpson's eps before, but i can't remember which ones they were.
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Post by Torgo on Oct 14, 2013 11:41:38 GMT -5
Hypnotoad!!! Aren't they doing a Simpsons/Futurama crossover? They are. Bizarrely enough they're also doing a crossover with Family Guy, and both are slated to be the season premieres for both Simpsons and Family Guy next year. And to think Matt Groening used to be vocally against crossovers too, what with his negative reaction to the Critic crossover A Star is Burns. I'll bet good money A Star is Burns is better than both (but then again, I love the hell out of both the Critic and A Star is Burns). That was actually a decent lead in for my post here today as those who know me know that I dig adult oriented animation, thanks to growing up on the Simpsons, which probably peaked when I discovered Adult Swim and couldn't stop watching Sealab 2021, Robot Chicken, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. And yet despite all of this, I still can't get into Bob's Burgers. Maybe I need to give it another shot though. Anywho, my obsession always results in me purchasing my favorites on DVD and Blu-Ray, resulting in a scary collection of the Simpsons, Beavis and Butthead, Futurama, the Critic, among others. I even bought the Cleveland Show. I know, I'm a disgrace to humanity. I recently got sucked out of cash when South Park Season 16, Family Guy Volume 11, and American Dad Volume 8 all came out pretty much the exact same time. My wallet will heal until Simpsons Season 16, Futurama Volume 8, and Family Guy Volume 12 hit shelves in December, that's the pricey month that I'm dreading. So I've been making my way through them for about the last month or so. Started with South Park, which I admit caution of after the fifteenth season left me mostly cold. But that's one of the things about South Park, its episodes are made so fast that its brutal honesty can be refreshing, but when Matt Stone and Trey Parker are off base, they rarely seem to get back on until the run is over resulting in clusters of catastrophe episodes every once in a while. Though to be fair, last season did have the song "Football Sunday," which I still hum to myself on a daily basis. This season however was much more consistent and of the three sets had me laughing the hardest. Targets this year include memeing, the film "Bully" (which makes an interesting point about it that is probably overlooked), interracial relationships, overweight people on mobile scooters (thank you for saying things we've all been thinking for years), the Lance Armstrong controversy, and that godawful reality show Honey Boo-Boo. Best episode of the set is hands down Sarcastaball, in which a call for football safety brings a sarcastic rant from Stan's dad Randy who claims they should invent a sport with balloons where the children wear bras and win with politeness. The school takes him seriously and a new sport is born, and Butters is MVP. Moved on to Family Guy after that. Don't fully recall what my reaction to the last volume was, though I think it was positive. This one I was indifferent to. It had its entertaining moments, but not many laugh out loud episodes. I was as happy as anybody that Family Guy was revived, but I think the show has run its course. Notes of interest: Meg finally turns 18 (to Quagmire's interest), Chris dates a girl who looks exactly like Lois (voiced by Ellen Page), Meg is kidnapped in an amusing parody of Taken, finally a sequel to Viewer Mail, Tom Tucker plays Michael Meyers in Halloween 4 (Peter's choice for greatest movie ever made), and Stewie battles a baby played by Kate Blanchett in the most entertaining action sequence of the season. Best episode is Back to the Pilot, in which Brian and Stewie travel back in time to the first episode of the series and self reference how the show has changed since then. The 9/11 jokes are a bit tasteless, but the episode in general is a gas. And on that note, thank you Fox for finally putting out an actual full season set of Family Guy, the first they've done since volume 2. American Dad and the Cleveland Show have been doing it for years, yet you still limped out half season to half season of the the centerpiece series that started it all. About damn time. American Dad was a show I had trouble getting into at first, due to its genuinely awful pilot episode. But watching episodes a few years later I finally decided it wasn't so bad. For a while it was probably the best thing on Animation Domination, honestly. This latest volume however doesn't really get my juices flowing. Most of the episodes seem to deliver what the dreadful pilot promised of aimless humor with little understanding of timing and delivery. There's a few decent episodes, such as a Christmas themed parody of the Omen and a time traveling journey to find Hayley's real father. I'd struggle to single out a favorite though. Like the Cleveland Show, American Dad was recently (after this volume, probably mercifully as well) cancelled. But TBS recently picked up the series for at least another season. Oh well, lets hope it improves in the next few years.
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 14, 2013 12:36:44 GMT -5
i just can't like family guy. or american dad or the cleveland show - it's all the same thing. i've tried, and there were a few eps in the first season i liked (in family guy), but i quit watching it years ago. and it's EVERYwhere - fox, tbs, adult swim, etc. i quit watching south park several years ago - it was always hit and miss with me, except for the first couple of seasons. i'm in and out of the simpson's - i've said here before that the only novelty the show has now is how long it can stay on the air, not the actual content.
does anyone watch bob's burgers? i watched the first couple of eps, kind of forgot about it, but now i'm back to watching it and i like it. it's better than i remembered.
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 20, 2013 18:08:53 GMT -5
Well, I didn't JUST watch it, but I checked out Once Upon a Time in Neverland. I don't see how they could possibly keep a storyline going in that one. It will be the same every week. Alice searches for Cyrus, Jafar and the Red Queen bicker over who is in charge and look for the damn bottle. Unless they infuse this with something else going on, this is already boring as hell.
Does anyone else watch the original Once Upon a Time? Wasn't the Red Queen Regina's frenemy originally? Who's this new chick? I don't remember that far back if they explained what happened to her and maybe someone else took over and they're going to explain that in flashbacks. (Was the Red Queen the one that ended up as the dragon, or am I thinking of someone else?). I really hate when shows have such long hiatuses, I can never remember what the frell's going on.
Edit: Maybe it was Malificent I was thinking of.
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 17, 2013 17:20:57 GMT -5
I have a new favorite show. Well, one that's still on anyhow. "Psych". It's hysterical. I'd never watched it before, but it always seemed like something I'd like, but I never took the time because I didn't want to start watching yet ANOTHER show. How much TV can one person consume? But, anyways: They were showing a marathon in preparation for the new musical episode on USA. (The marathons were on other channels, Esquire and something else, edit: ION). So I thought, what the hell. And I'm glad I did, because it was very funny. I like all the characters. The two leads play off each other great, I love the dialogue. People reading this probably know it's about a guy who pretends to be psychic and works as an investigator for the police dept. (he's just very observant). I saw the episode where Guster (I think that's his last name???) went to lead's Shawn's house saying he messed up, and proceeded to tell (via flashback) that he messed up a crime scene involving his dead boss. His boss had chewed out some co-worker and Gus (I really can't remember his actual name even after all the eps I watched, maybe because Shawn is always introducing his partner with a different name, heh) wrote a note saying his boss was an a-hole and he quit. He goes to the boss' office and the boss is dead. He was just going to leave and he noticed the boss was clutching the note that he wrote. He didn't want anyone to think he killed the guy, so he took the note and ate it. Then he started choking. So he stumbled to a water pitcher and started drinking the water. Then he got worried someone would notice that so he sloshed some water back into the pitcher with water from a fish tank. Then he tripped. Then everything he did, he was making it worse and making a disaster area of the crime scene and getting his finger prints and DNA all over everything, knocking over stuff on a table, knocking over a plant and getting dirt all over the floor and himself, knocking his dead boss out of the chair he was in and onto the floor, tripping and falling pretty much on top of said boss. It was just so funny the way they did it, I was cracking up and had to pee. I saw the musical episode, too. It wasn't stellar, but still good. The two guys sing good, and I like the first song they sang, "Under Santa Barbara Skies". Anyway, I guess I'll be watching this show from now on. Arrgghh. More time from my life. Oh, well. Anyone else watch this? Edit: Burton Guster.
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