And me without my protective parasol!Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 Apr 2023, 9:20amNot a pie! A cardboard bucket, balanced purposely and precariously above a door which dropped on you, showering you with lametta.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 Apr 2023, 7:36amAnd like a chump I walked into a pie in the face.Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 Apr 2023, 6:49amYeah, I was "throwing" "shade" at Rick 'n' Morty.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 Apr 2023, 6:25amSilent Majority wrote: ↑19 Apr 2023, 4:09am
Best cartoon with an episode where a main character is a pickle.
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I'm curious about your experience with this. I've been rewatching the older seasons which I've so far found to be pretty reliant on stereotype and shock, and much closer to Family Guy (especially in delivery), whereas the newer stuff strikes me as way more on the surreal/non-sequitur side. What seasons do you tend to see this in? I do think there was a valley of quality in the first two seasons after they got picked up by TBS.Silent Majority wrote: ↑28 Mar 2023, 10:38amThere was a period when American Dad was one of the best shows on TV - more humane and less stuck on trying to shock or be hateful than Family Guy. It grew to be more like its uglier older brother as time went on and the writing staffs cross pollinated and I checked out. Mad that MacFarlane's TV shows are still going. Ditto South Park, for that matter. If you're a legacy network animated show, I guess you remain profitable for a long, long time.
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Ted Lasso continues to impress. Last night's episode was wonderful from start to finish.
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Best of the season, easily. Honestly, I think the show this season (and even last, a touch) has started to feel a bit like "popular characters in search of a reason to have another 10 episodes" but it all snapped together nicely here. Here's hoping the back half of the season really brings it all home.WestwayKid wrote: ↑20 Apr 2023, 8:55pmTed Lasso continues to impress. Last night's episode was wonderful from start to finish.
Addendum: I've said this elsewhere but as a west ham supporter it really annoys me that the club is portrayed as willing to invest money for talent on the pitch and acquire quality managers. Laughably off base.
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Both Jamie and Roy's and Colin and Trent Crimm, the Independent's storylines were just lovely. And I want that houseboat (if you want to throw in the Dutch guy, I wouldn't object either).Flex wrote: ↑20 Apr 2023, 9:00pmBest of the season, easily. Honestly, I think the show this season (and even last, a touch) has started to feel a bit like "popular characters in search of a reason to have another 10 episodes" but it all snapped together nicely here. Here's hoping the back half of the season really brings it all home.WestwayKid wrote: ↑20 Apr 2023, 8:55pmTed Lasso continues to impress. Last night's episode was wonderful from start to finish.
Addendum: I've said this elsewhere but as a west ham supporter it really annoys me that the club is portrayed as willing to invest money for talent on the pitch and acquire quality managers. Laughably off base.
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The Boss and I watched the first episode of White House Plumbers last night, a deliberately farcical interpretation of Nixon goons Hunt and Liddy. Because the source material is already laced with absurdity and incompetence, the leap to farce doesn't come off as forced. Last year's Gaslit already made Liddy out as comically insane—The Boss knows only the very rough basics of Watergate, so she was stunned and kept asking me if such and such was true; inevitably, I'd say, yeah, not a whole of exaggeration here—but this goes a step or two further.
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Anybody else end up watching Lucky Hank? First (maybe only?) season wrapped up on Sunday. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Lots of scenes and beats from the original novel, but a drastically different tone. The novel is absurdist, treating academia as a place of boobs that slowly eats at the dignity and sense of the people who work there, resulting in the protagonist's mid-life crisis. The series goes mostly to melancholy, with dashes of humour. I felt underwhelmed, but I'm not sure if it's because I'm judging it against the book rather than assessing it as its own story. So maybe I'm being unfair, but I can't be sure.
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Id have to steal it or pay for it and Im not willing to do either.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑09 May 2023, 1:50pmAnybody else end up watching Lucky Hank? First (maybe only?) season wrapped up on Sunday. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Lots of scenes and beats from the original novel, but a drastically different tone. The novel is absurdist, treating academia as a place of boobs that slowly eats at the dignity and sense of the people who work there, resulting in the protagonist's mid-life crisis. The series goes mostly to melancholy, with dashes of humour. I felt underwhelmed, but I'm not sure if it's because I'm judging it against the book rather than assessing it as its own story. So maybe I'm being unfair, but I can't be sure.
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Not willing to steal tv? What are you, a narc?revbob wrote: ↑09 May 2023, 4:34pmId have to steal it or pay for it and Im not willing to do either.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑09 May 2023, 1:50pmAnybody else end up watching Lucky Hank? First (maybe only?) season wrapped up on Sunday. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Lots of scenes and beats from the original novel, but a drastically different tone. The novel is absurdist, treating academia as a place of boobs that slowly eats at the dignity and sense of the people who work there, resulting in the protagonist's mid-life crisis. The series goes mostly to melancholy, with dashes of humour. I felt underwhelmed, but I'm not sure if it's because I'm judging it against the book rather than assessing it as its own story. So maybe I'm being unfair, but I can't be sure.
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Not this show anywayDr. Medulla wrote: ↑09 May 2023, 4:59pmNot willing to steal tv? What are you, a narc?revbob wrote: ↑09 May 2023, 4:34pmId have to steal it or pay for it and Im not willing to do either.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑09 May 2023, 1:50pmAnybody else end up watching Lucky Hank? First (maybe only?) season wrapped up on Sunday. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Lots of scenes and beats from the original novel, but a drastically different tone. The novel is absurdist, treating academia as a place of boobs that slowly eats at the dignity and sense of the people who work there, resulting in the protagonist's mid-life crisis. The series goes mostly to melancholy, with dashes of humour. I felt underwhelmed, but I'm not sure if it's because I'm judging it against the book rather than assessing it as its own story. So maybe I'm being unfair, but I can't be sure.
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Selective thieves are poseurs.revbob wrote: ↑09 May 2023, 5:44pmNot this show anywayDr. Medulla wrote: ↑09 May 2023, 4:59pmNot willing to steal tv? What are you, a narc?revbob wrote: ↑09 May 2023, 4:34pmId have to steal it or pay for it and Im not willing to do either.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑09 May 2023, 1:50pmAnybody else end up watching Lucky Hank? First (maybe only?) season wrapped up on Sunday. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Lots of scenes and beats from the original novel, but a drastically different tone. The novel is absurdist, treating academia as a place of boobs that slowly eats at the dignity and sense of the people who work there, resulting in the protagonist's mid-life crisis. The series goes mostly to melancholy, with dashes of humour. I felt underwhelmed, but I'm not sure if it's because I'm judging it against the book rather than assessing it as its own story. So maybe I'm being unfair, but I can't be sure.
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Boy, MASH really fell off a cliff in season 5. Frank is a buffoon. I can see why Larry Linville wanted to leave. The first three seasons are the best, but I think I've had enough. Once Trapper and Henry left, the tone shifted so drastically. Like everyone else did, I'll blame Alan Alda.
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Im with Mimi, I think I only watched out of habit at one point. That and we had like 4 channels.Mimi wrote: ↑11 May 2023, 3:48pmBoy, MASH really fell off a cliff in season 5. Frank is a buffoon. I can see why Larry Linville wanted to leave. The first three seasons are the best, but I think I've had enough. Once Trapper and Henry left, the tone shifted so drastically. Like everyone else did, I'll blame Alan Alda.
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Yeah, I watched the later seasons, mostly because it was on and we only had a few channels, but watching it back to back on Hulu, I see the cracks. It wasn't that great of a show in the end.revbob wrote: ↑11 May 2023, 3:55pmIm with Mimi, I think I only watched out of habit at one point. That and we had like 4 channels.Mimi wrote: ↑11 May 2023, 3:48pmBoy, MASH really fell off a cliff in season 5. Frank is a buffoon. I can see why Larry Linville wanted to leave. The first three seasons are the best, but I think I've had enough. Once Trapper and Henry left, the tone shifted so drastically. Like everyone else did, I'll blame Alan Alda.
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I wouldn't dare go back and watch themMimi wrote: ↑11 May 2023, 4:07pmYeah, I watched the later seasons, mostly because it was on and we only had a few channels, but watching it back to back on Hulu, I see the cracks. It wasn't that great of a show in the end.revbob wrote: ↑11 May 2023, 3:55pmIm with Mimi, I think I only watched out of habit at one point. That and we had like 4 channels.Mimi wrote: ↑11 May 2023, 3:48pmBoy, MASH really fell off a cliff in season 5. Frank is a buffoon. I can see why Larry Linville wanted to leave. The first three seasons are the best, but I think I've had enough. Once Trapper and Henry left, the tone shifted so drastically. Like everyone else did, I'll blame Alan Alda.