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Better Call (The [TV] Thread) Saul

Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
edited August 14 in Social Entropy++
Television! We watch it!

Some of it is real good

Some of it is real bad

Most of it is just kind of mediocre

TV!!!

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Damn…that is not the ending I thought we’d get from Chuck.

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Shoresy has been a shockingly good show so far. A spinoff from a show like Letterkenny, especially about a character like this, should not be as compelling as it is. Granted, the version of Shoresy in this show is almost a different character from the Letterkenny version, which helps

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Shoresy has been a shockingly good show so far. A spinoff from a show like Letterkenny, especially about a character like this, should not be as compelling as it is. Granted, the version of Shoresy in this show is almost a different character from the Letterkenny version, which helps

    I loved season 1. I need to get around to watching season 2

  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Damn…that is not the ending I thought we’d get from Chuck.

    Who would have thought his place would get bought by Sneed and turned into a Feed and Seed shop?

  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited February 5
    For some reason the OP here misfired in my brain in such a way that I read it to the tune of The Book of Love (specifically "The book of love has music in it/In fact that's where music comes from/Some of it's just transcendental/Some of it's just really dumb")

    Quetzi on
  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    For some reason the OP here misfired in my brain in such a way that I read it to the tune of The Book of Love (specifically "The book of love has music in it/In fact that's where music comes from/Some of it's just transcendental/Some of it's just really dumb")

    I’m ok with this

  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    Every episode of masters of the air makes me never want to be in a plane again

  • TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
    Bloods End wrote: »
    Every episode of masters of the air makes me never want to be in a plane again

    It’s okay, I’m sure the company that made those flying fortresses isn’t around any more.





    I’m being handed a note here…

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    For some reason the OP here misfired in my brain in such a way that I read it to the tune of The Book of Love (specifically "The book of love has music in it/In fact that's where music comes from/Some of it's just transcendental/Some of it's just really dumb")

    but I love it when you read to me and you, you can read me anything

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Depressperado wrote: »
    Straightzi wrote: »
    For some reason the OP here misfired in my brain in such a way that I read it to the tune of The Book of Love (specifically "The book of love has music in it/In fact that's where music comes from/Some of it's just transcendental/Some of it's just really dumb")

    but I love it when you read to me and you, you can read me anything

    Including the transcripts from the 11/13/85 episode of Dateline

  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    Tynnan wrote: »
    Bloods End wrote: »
    Every episode of masters of the air makes me never want to be in a plane again

    It’s okay, I’m sure the company that made those flying fortresses isn’t around any more.





    I’m being handed a note here…

    Biiiiig sip of water and a quick Google search

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Depressperado wrote: »
    Straightzi wrote: »
    For some reason the OP here misfired in my brain in such a way that I read it to the tune of The Book of Love (specifically "The book of love has music in it/In fact that's where music comes from/Some of it's just transcendental/Some of it's just really dumb")

    but I love it when you read to me and you, you can read me anything

    Including the transcripts from the 11/13/85 episode of Dateline

    this isn't gonna be a thing that I obsess over and researching it drives me crazy, is it?

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Depressperado wrote: »
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Depressperado wrote: »
    Straightzi wrote: »
    For some reason the OP here misfired in my brain in such a way that I read it to the tune of The Book of Love (specifically "The book of love has music in it/In fact that's where music comes from/Some of it's just transcendental/Some of it's just really dumb")

    but I love it when you read to me and you, you can read me anything

    Including the transcripts from the 11/13/85 episode of Dateline

    this isn't gonna be a thing that I obsess over and researching it drives me crazy, is it?

    It was COMPLETELY random.

    Just reminded me back when you could $10 and copy of the transcript for shows like Dateline and 60 Minutes

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Hey! It’s Gale!!! I forgot about him.

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    yeah, google really wanted me to research old episodes of Dateline and I was like "I can't go down this hole"

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Depressperado wrote: »
    yeah, google really wanted me to research old episodes of Dateline and I was like "I can't go down this hole"

    Back when Jon Stewart left the Daily Show, they did a stream of every single episode he'd done back to back to back. It was on 24 hours a day for over a week, and the beginning of that week just so happened to coincide with the first solo staycation I'd had in about a decade. So I had it playing on the second monitor the whole time.

    Old news is compelling and alienating in the same way old crossword puzzles are. There are some major assumptions about what you, the audience, have been reading and talking and thinking about lately. It's more pronounced in comedy, because if you explain the assumptions, you ruin the joke.

    Anyway, the moral of the story is that people were really mad about HMOs in 1999 and that watching outdated topical comedy for sixteen hours a day while getting way too into Clicker Heroes is a recipe for mild disassociation.

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Depressperado wrote: »
    yeah, google really wanted me to research old episodes of Dateline and I was like "I can't go down this hole"

    Back when Jon Stewart left the Daily Show, they did a stream of every single episode he'd done back to back to back. It was on 24 hours a day for over a week, and the beginning of that week just so happened to coincide with the first solo staycation I'd had in about a decade. So I had it playing on the second monitor the whole time.

    Old news is compelling and alienating in the same way old crossword puzzles are. There are some major assumptions about what you, the audience, have been reading and talking and thinking about lately. It's more pronounced in comedy, because if you explain the assumptions, you ruin the joke.

    Anyway, the moral of the story is that people were really mad about HMOs in 1999 and that watching outdated topical comedy for sixteen hours a day while getting way too into Clicker Heroes is a recipe for mild disassociation.

    This brought the phrase "Notorious Pacific Islander uber-prankster Ronaiah Tuiasosopo" to my head, entirely unbidden

    Absolutely confounding, the shit that gets trapped in my brain's lint filter

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Tynnan wrote: »
    Bloods End wrote: »
    Every episode of masters of the air makes me never want to be in a plane again

    It’s okay, I’m sure the company that made those flying fortresses isn’t around any more.





    I’m being handed a note here…

    Used to be you had to shoot the plane with a whole lot of bullets before parts fell off and it crashed. Now a days Boeing is cutting out the middle man and making the parts fall off on their own!

    Think of the cost savings!

    (Switch Friend Code) SW-4910-9735-6014(PSN) timspork (Steam) timspork (XBox) Timspork


  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    edited February 6
    My grandpa wanted to be a pilot in WW2 but ended up being stationed at Miami Beach as an army training officer. What a trade deal!

    Coinage on
    Happiness is within reach!
  • ChallChall Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Depressperado wrote: »
    yeah, google really wanted me to research old episodes of Dateline and I was like "I can't go down this hole"

    Back when Jon Stewart left the Daily Show, they did a stream of every single episode he'd done back to back to back. It was on 24 hours a day for over a week, and the beginning of that week just so happened to coincide with the first solo staycation I'd had in about a decade. So I had it playing on the second monitor the whole time.

    Old news is compelling and alienating in the same way old crossword puzzles are. There are some major assumptions about what you, the audience, have been reading and talking and thinking about lately. It's more pronounced in comedy, because if you explain the assumptions, you ruin the joke.

    Anyway, the moral of the story is that people were really mad about HMOs in 1999 and that watching outdated topical comedy for sixteen hours a day while getting way too into Clicker Heroes is a recipe for mild disassociation.

    During COVID quarantine I found a YouTube channel with every old Conan episode and I wound up watching a sort of weird countdown of his episodes running up to 9/11 and was just kind of super conscious about "these guys don't even know what's about to happen" and then watching how much changes immediately afterward.

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Chall wrote: »
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Depressperado wrote: »
    yeah, google really wanted me to research old episodes of Dateline and I was like "I can't go down this hole"

    Back when Jon Stewart left the Daily Show, they did a stream of every single episode he'd done back to back to back. It was on 24 hours a day for over a week, and the beginning of that week just so happened to coincide with the first solo staycation I'd had in about a decade. So I had it playing on the second monitor the whole time.

    Old news is compelling and alienating in the same way old crossword puzzles are. There are some major assumptions about what you, the audience, have been reading and talking and thinking about lately. It's more pronounced in comedy, because if you explain the assumptions, you ruin the joke.

    Anyway, the moral of the story is that people were really mad about HMOs in 1999 and that watching outdated topical comedy for sixteen hours a day while getting way too into Clicker Heroes is a recipe for mild disassociation.

    During COVID quarantine I found a YouTube channel with every old Conan episode and I wound up watching a sort of weird countdown of his episodes running up to 9/11 and was just kind of super conscious about "these guys don't even know what's about to happen" and then watching how much changes immediately afterward.

    Crazy, wild, that sounds like a weird YouTube channel.

    And if somebody wanted to find it?????

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  • ChallChall Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Chall wrote: »
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Depressperado wrote: »
    yeah, google really wanted me to research old episodes of Dateline and I was like "I can't go down this hole"

    Back when Jon Stewart left the Daily Show, they did a stream of every single episode he'd done back to back to back. It was on 24 hours a day for over a week, and the beginning of that week just so happened to coincide with the first solo staycation I'd had in about a decade. So I had it playing on the second monitor the whole time.

    Old news is compelling and alienating in the same way old crossword puzzles are. There are some major assumptions about what you, the audience, have been reading and talking and thinking about lately. It's more pronounced in comedy, because if you explain the assumptions, you ruin the joke.

    Anyway, the moral of the story is that people were really mad about HMOs in 1999 and that watching outdated topical comedy for sixteen hours a day while getting way too into Clicker Heroes is a recipe for mild disassociation.

    During COVID quarantine I found a YouTube channel with every old Conan episode and I wound up watching a sort of weird countdown of his episodes running up to 9/11 and was just kind of super conscious about "these guys don't even know what's about to happen" and then watching how much changes immediately afterward.

    Crazy, wild, that sounds like a weird YouTube channel.

    And if somebody wanted to find it?????

    Ah you know like I said that was 2020 I'm not sure if that channel is even still up but it looks like archive.org has a full... archive... available by year

    https://archive.org/details/@mountainmikeinoregon

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I am not a fan of the Gilmore Girls theme song

  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    I feel like I want to enjoy Night Country a lot more than I actually am enjoying it.

  • TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
    Librarian's ghost wrote: »
    Tynnan wrote: »
    Bloods End wrote: »
    Every episode of masters of the air makes me never want to be in a plane again

    It’s okay, I’m sure the company that made those flying fortresses isn’t around any more.





    I’m being handed a note here…

    Used to be you had to shoot the plane with a whole lot of bullets before parts fell off and it crashed. Now a days Boeing is cutting out the middle man and making the parts fall off on their own!

    Think of the cost savings!

    My warplane got shot eighty times and all I got was this T-shirt and a statistics lecture on survivorship bias

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    Dang, just finished up episode 4 of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Donald Glover has got a great thousand yard stare.

    Steam ID: Webguy20
    Origin ID: Discgolfer27
    Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Aww, Ian Lavender died (also, huh, Ian Lavender was still alive)

    https://youtu.be/kYz2nPE0BCk?si=7XULGbyiL0zR0R-V

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Huell is a lot less intimidating in Better Call Saul than he was in Breaking Bad

  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Huell is a lot less intimidating in Better Call Saul than he was in Breaking Bad

    I think I read somewhere that they wanted to put him in a fat suit to make him look like BB Huell and he said hell no, which is awesome. Good for him.

  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Rewatching the first season of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur like

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    BLM - ACAB
  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    I am not a fan of the Gilmore Girls theme song

    Then truly you are lost.

    Wrestling Blog (Which I swear I'm going to start writing for again

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  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Damn…that is not the ending I thought we’d get from Chuck.

    In retrospect it feels like the only way it could have ended.

    Chuck eats up Saul in a number of ways. He couldn't have been the person he was in BB if he were still sniping with Chuck and they'd never be able to give their petty pathetic fighting up.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    nightmarenny wrote: »
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Damn…that is not the ending I thought we’d get from Chuck.

    In retrospect it feels like the only way it could have ended.

    Chuck eats up Saul in a number of ways. He couldn't have been the person he was in BB if he were still sniping with Chuck and they'd never be able to give their petty pathetic fighting up.

    They managed one of the few endings that made me have a little sympathy for him.

  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular
    New season of The Terror next year https://deadline.com/2024/02/the-terror-amc-third-season-1235816623/

    The Terror: Devil in Silver. Based on the Victor LaValle book
    Pepper, a working-class moving man, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets and perhaps even the very devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity that thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls. But doing so might prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.

    First two eps directed by Karyn Kusama (The Invitation)

    Amazon
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  • cabsycabsy the fattest rainbow unicorn Registered User regular
    Chall wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Chall wrote: »
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Depressperado wrote: »
    yeah, google really wanted me to research old episodes of Dateline and I was like "I can't go down this hole"

    Back when Jon Stewart left the Daily Show, they did a stream of every single episode he'd done back to back to back. It was on 24 hours a day for over a week, and the beginning of that week just so happened to coincide with the first solo staycation I'd had in about a decade. So I had it playing on the second monitor the whole time.

    Old news is compelling and alienating in the same way old crossword puzzles are. There are some major assumptions about what you, the audience, have been reading and talking and thinking about lately. It's more pronounced in comedy, because if you explain the assumptions, you ruin the joke.

    Anyway, the moral of the story is that people were really mad about HMOs in 1999 and that watching outdated topical comedy for sixteen hours a day while getting way too into Clicker Heroes is a recipe for mild disassociation.

    During COVID quarantine I found a YouTube channel with every old Conan episode and I wound up watching a sort of weird countdown of his episodes running up to 9/11 and was just kind of super conscious about "these guys don't even know what's about to happen" and then watching how much changes immediately afterward.

    Crazy, wild, that sounds like a weird YouTube channel.

    And if somebody wanted to find it?????

    Ah you know like I said that was 2020 I'm not sure if that channel is even still up but it looks like archive.org has a full... archive... available by year

    https://archive.org/details/@mountainmikeinoregon

    I'm so glad that they do, because otherwise I cannot find my favorite Harrison Ford interview of all time where he's on Conan just absolutely zooted, stroking the arms of his chair like he's on MDMA, talking about how it isn't a carnival it's a carnivallllle, and openly saying he would do more Indiana Jones movies solely for the money - https://archive.org/details/conantbs2010/Conan.2010.11.16.Harrison.Ford.HDTV.XviD-BFF.avi

  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    Sweeney Tom wrote: »
    New season of The Terror next year https://deadline.com/2024/02/the-terror-amc-third-season-1235816623/

    The Terror: Devil in Silver. Based on the Victor LaValle book
    Pepper, a working-class moving man, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets and perhaps even the very devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity that thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls. But doing so might prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.

    First two eps directed by Karyn Kusama (The Invitation)

    The first season definitely had its ups and downs for me but overall there was a lot to like there, so yeah I'm down for another shot at something with a similar vibe

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    that's just American Horror Story season 2

  • expendableexpendable Silly Goose Registered User regular
    I thought y'all were talking about the show Chuck and thought "Yeah, that was a show that got brought back one too many times."

    Ending woulda been better if it just stopped at Season 4 and 5 never happened.

    Djiem wrote: »
    Lokiamis wrote: »
    So the servers suddenly decide to cramp up during the last six percent.
    Man, the Director will really go out of his way to be a dick to L4D players.
    Steam
  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Depressperado wrote: »
    that's just American Horror Story season 2

    Let's not give Ryan Murphy credit for inventing "bad asylums"

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    yeah but he did combine them all into one trope-y mess

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