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[TV THREAD] I've Ruled the Fart Inadmissible

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    Unfortunate Events is clearly a very good show with a number of positive qualities that I enjoy and after 3 episodes I went "ok cool, I think I get it". It seems like it's going to go on roughly along these lines and it's a meal that filled me very quickly.

    yeah that's actually one of the criticisms I would level at the source material

    it just kinda went on a bit too long and didn't do enough with all that space

  • JoshmviiJoshmvii Registered User regular
    Is unfortunate events very explicit with violence and what not, like don't let toddlers be around while this is on? I don't want to scare them, but I want to check it out. But if I have to watch it when they're asleep, i'll probably just skip it.

  • KwoaruKwoaru Registered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    Unfortunate Events is clearly a very good show with a number of positive qualities that I enjoy and after 3 episodes I went "ok cool, I think I get it". It seems like it's going to go on roughly along these lines and it's a meal that filled me very quickly.

    yeah that's actually one of the criticisms I would level at the source material

    it just kinda went on a bit too long and didn't do enough with all that space

    Yeah thats why I dropped it after a couple books, the formula showed no signs of changing

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Joshmvii wrote: »
    Is unfortunate events very explicit with violence and what not, like don't let toddlers be around while this is on? I don't want to scare them, but I want to check it out. But if I have to watch it when they're asleep, i'll probably just skip it.

    I would say the Barry Sonnenfeld Adams Family movies are a decent metric. It's about on that level.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6-TK07SF8

    this joke certainly doesn't seem dead

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6-TK07SF8

    this joke certainly doesn't seem dead

    Wow.

    On the bright side maybe Steve Carell will make a Micheal Scott show that isnt terrible

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    King Riptor wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6-TK07SF8

    this joke certainly doesn't seem dead

    Wow.

    On the bright side maybe Steve Carell will make a Micheal Scott show that isnt terrible

    I would really hope Carell isn't that desperate.

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  • DimosarDimosar I am the Brain Genius Registered User regular
    ASOUE follows a pretty similar formula until book like...four? THEN, shit pops off and basically never stops after (mid-books spoiler)
    the Baudelaires get framed for killing a dude, become fugitives and set themselves to solving the mystery their own damn selves.

    After that, the structure has some pretty serious overhauls, like one book that's just a chase down a mountain, one where they're the ones in disguise, etc. So the gist of the show should be changing pretty dramatically if they get a season 2

    ALSO: Have we talked about how Steven Merritt of the Magnetic Fields did a whole album for ASOUE, with one song for each book?? and the show somehow forgot to incorporate them......?????

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB4G5hzDqeE&index=1&list=PLAMLZqCCPGGvyHGTZgYug2t8v1AGHJiHx

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    ASOUE?

    I'm drawing a complete blank on this one.

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    A Series of Unfortunate Events

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  • JimothyJimothy Not in front of the fox he's with the owlRegistered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    ASOUE?

    I'm drawing a complete blank on this one.

    A Series of Unfortunate Events

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Ohhhh yeah. That makes sense. Considering it's almost all we've been talking about for several pages.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Ohhhh yeah. That makes sense. Considering it's almost all we've been talking about for several pages.

    And the words that make up the acronym are in the thumbnail of the video.

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  • kaceypkaceyp we stayed bright as lightning we sang loud as thunderRegistered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Ohhhh yeah. That makes sense. Considering it's almost all we've been talking about for several pages.

    I've been reading the discussion and still thought "A Song of -- no wait."

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I didn't click the video and I honestly have never looked at any media regarding ASOUE. Never read the books or saw the other movie.

  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    I too am watching ASOUE

    I haven't read the books, but my wife has

    We're two episodes in, and while I'm not sure I actually like the style, I do love how much they're just fucking going for it

    And Patrick Warburton as Lemony Snicket is great, just wonderful

  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    I tried the books when I was a kid but found them too pleased with themselves to handle

    The phrase 'ersatz elevator' has definitely lodged in my brain for some reason though

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Yeah Patrick Warburton is easily my favorite part of the show.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I don't know if it's my age or what but somehow I completely missed it.

    When the movie came out I remember thinking I should check it out but never did

  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    I don't know why I saw the movie, but I did, and the only part I can remember is Jim Carrey doing a Newfie impression and hollering "STAY WHERE YOU'RE AT AND I'LL COME WHERE YOU'RE TO" and I thought that was fun

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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    so i should watch a series of unfortunate events?

    that's my take away

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    Rorshach Kringle wrote: »
    so i should watch a series of unfortunate events?

    that's my take away

    That's my take now that I see Patrick Warburton is in it

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I want Patrick Warburton to narrate, like, everything
    up to and including the events of my actual life
    and yes, he should still be reminding everyone that whatever I'm doing at any given moment will not end well

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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I want Patrick Warburton to narrate, like, everything
    up to and including the events of my actual life
    and yes, he should still be reminding everyone that whatever I'm doing at any given moment will not end well

    i mean that last bit was kind of a given

    meanwhile i want my life narrated by a sixty year old former blue oyster cult roadie

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    you should at the very least watch the first two episodes, that will tell you pretty much everything you need to know as far as determining whether it is something you'd be into

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    I want my life to be narrated by Morgan Freeman

    or Bobcat Goldthwait.

  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    He's a better show narrator than Ron Howard. Which is a heck of an accomplishment.

    But I just fucking love the Our Town style of it of him just walking around the scene as it's happening telling you everything will be awful most of the time.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I want my life narrated by @Rorshach Kringle after he's had 3 40s in 20 minutes.

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Gustav wrote: »
    He's a better show narrator than Ron Howard. Which is a heck of an accomplishment.

    But I just fucking love the Our Town style of it of him just walking around the scene as it's happening telling you everything will be awful most of the time.

    Wait what? Warburton just walks through scenes as they happen, narrating stuff like some kind of invisible omnipresent god?

    Please say yes.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    I want my life to be narrated by Morgan Freeman

    or Bobcat Goldthwait.

    hm hm yeah I'd roll with bobcat

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    timspork's ghost wrote: »
    Gustav wrote: »
    He's a better show narrator than Ron Howard. Which is a heck of an accomplishment.

    But I just fucking love the Our Town style of it of him just walking around the scene as it's happening telling you everything will be awful most of the time.

    Wait what? Warburton just walks through scenes as they happen, narrating stuff like some kind of invisible omnipresent god?

    Please say yes.

    Exactly this!

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    I'd also take mike judge as beavis

  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    timspork's ghost wrote: »
    Gustav wrote: »
    He's a better show narrator than Ron Howard. Which is a heck of an accomplishment.

    But I just fucking love the Our Town style of it of him just walking around the scene as it's happening telling you everything will be awful most of the time.

    Wait what? Warburton just walks through scenes as they happen, narrating stuff like some kind of invisible omnipresent god?

    Please say yes.

    Exactly this!

    In super nice suits and sometimes Victorian bathing suits even.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Rorshach Kringle wrote: »
    so i should watch a series of unfortunate events?

    that's my take away

    @Rorshach Kringle, let me see if I can sell you on this.

    While the show definitely will have some setbacks/negatives for you: the show is featured around three children (who are kind of meh) and is a bit repetitive in its formulas, I think you might enjoy it for the bad guy in it.

    Count Olaf is a shitty local actor who, with the help of his cartoonish theater troupe, try to capture the children to steal their fortune. In the second episode he just keeps chasing them with a knife and utters lines like this:
    Klaus: We don't know what you're up to, but we will find out. If anything happens to my sisters or me, you'll never get your hands on the Baudelaire fortune.
    Count Olaf: If I wanted to harm you, orphan, your blood would be streaming out of this car like a waterfall.

    Meanwhile there is one subplot that moves along with each episode in the background.

    But the best part of the show is Patrick Warburton as the Rod Serling-like narrator of it who keeps warning the audience to stop watching.

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Unfortunately Olaf is my big hang up of the show.

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    timspork's ghost wrote: »
    Gustav wrote: »
    He's a better show narrator than Ron Howard. Which is a heck of an accomplishment.

    But I just fucking love the Our Town style of it of him just walking around the scene as it's happening telling you everything will be awful most of the time.

    Wait what? Warburton just walks through scenes as they happen, narrating stuff like some kind of invisible omnipresent god?

    Please say yes.

    Exactly this!

    YES!!

    *Clicks first episode and starts watching.*
    YES YES YESSSSSS

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Gustav wrote: »
    Unfortunately Olaf is my big hang up of the show.

    man I don't get this

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    I want my life narrated by @Rorshach Kringle after he's had 3 40s in 20 minutes.

    when i did college radio, one of our most popular features was me getting really drunk and describing death metal album covers

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Rorshach Kringle wrote: »
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    I want my life narrated by @Rorshach Kringle after he's had 3 40s in 20 minutes.

    when i did college radio, one of our most popular features was me getting really drunk and describing death metal album covers

    I would listen to this

  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    I can't tell if it's the dissonance of NPH's voice from that kinda badly done prosthetic job, or just the actual character. I think I need him to be like 10-20% more menacing? It seems like the plot thinks he is. I mean I get he like all of the adults needs to be some level of buffoon. But I dunno, I think it's a little too much for me.

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