Misbehavin' is the best song ever written for television and it's not even close
Sorry, Werewolf Bar Mitzvah
Apologies, entire catalog of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Hit the bricks, anything from Galavant
Misbehavin's running through the house with a pickle in its mouth
Gonna have to stop you there and say the Ducktales theme song still reigns supreme.
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
I feel like I need the context on Misbehavin' as I haven't seen the show (looked up the basic premise), but Walton Goggins and John Goodman makes me immediately want to watch it.
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Misbehavin' is just the catchiest song ever written, that's all
I feel like I need the context on Misbehavin' as I haven't seen the show (looked up the basic premise), but Walton Goggins and John Goodman makes me immediately want to watch it.
Misbehavin' is just the catchiest song ever written, that's all
KT's absolutely correct
But in the context of the show, the song is the first time you're seeing the matriarch of the family. The whole show revolves around how integral she was to the family, how she was the center, how everything fell apart in her absence. She's a conspicuous blank space in the show for many episodes, a void all the characters are trying to fill
And in that sequence, you see why the world loved her, why this family loved her. You see why Goodman's character, who hates Goggins' character, puts up with him - because they both know, bone deep, that this woman was the best thing on the planet.
It's really strong character work, and it's all in the context of this ludicrously catchy, very funny pastiche of a certain variety of Christian music.
It's just real good!
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
Hmm, I've only listened to it once and it's already echoing in my head so you may be right.
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
I feel like I need the context on Misbehavin' as I haven't seen the show (looked up the basic premise), but Walton Goggins and John Goodman makes me immediately want to watch it.
Misbehavin' is just the catchiest song ever written, that's all
KT's absolutely correct
But in the context of the show, the song is the first time you're seeing the matriarch of the family. The whole show revolves around how integral she was to the family, how she was the center, how everything fell apart in her absence. She's a conspicuous blank space in the show for many episodes, a void all the characters are trying to fill
And in that sequence, you see why the world loved her, why this family loved her. You see why Goodman's character, who hates Goggins' character, puts up with him - because they both know, bone deep, that this woman was the best thing on the planet.
It's really strong character work, and it's all in the context of this ludicrously catchy, very funny pastiche of a certain variety of Christian music.
It's just real good!
Ah, interesting. The YT comments were raving about Goodman's physical acting in that scene so I suspected something like that, thanks.
I don't think I heard anyone talk about it, but Keenan (the show) is pretty good and has a little bit more unhinged humor than I would have expected from it.
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I'm 36, I'm thoroughly married - I thought I'd grown out of having crushes. But this season of Taskmaster has Aisling Bea, who I've somehow never seen in anything, and damned if I don't have a lil crush
this happens to me at least once with every season of Taskmaster
god, the first episode of peacemaker up until they smash cut to the opening credits is one of the strongest openings i've ever seen to a show, i'm still thinking about it
the amazing amount of confidence and how much they sell that credits sequence, and the energy of the smash cut to the credits in that first scene, is so...fucking good. god damn
I'm 36, I'm thoroughly married - I thought I'd grown out of having crushes. But this season of Taskmaster has Aisling Bea, who I've somehow never seen in anything, and damned if I don't have a lil crush
this happens to me at least once with every season of Taskmaster
same but it's with alex every time
for me it's always a little bit Greg
tall + chaotic bisexual, very understandable
I started fanning myself that time he picked up james acaster
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I'm 36, I'm thoroughly married - I thought I'd grown out of having crushes. But this season of Taskmaster has Aisling Bea, who I've somehow never seen in anything, and damned if I don't have a lil crush
She is absolutely delightful in all the various panel/quiz shows I've seen her show up in.
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God damn it Legends of Tomorrow.
They name drop live die repeat for Sara Lance to learn the correct series of events to stop the assassination of Arch-Duke Ferdinand in a plan to lure the evil robot Legends and their time ship so they can steal it. The big pivotal run is a montage set to You Spin me Round sung in Serbian.
This is not mentioning the bar that is set up at the Fixed Point where other time travelers bet and watch people fail to stop the assassination.
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edited January 2022
I’m pretty sure that cover was by Gogol Bordello and yes that entire sequence was amazing.
It’s criminal how good that show is, holy shit. Just absolutely laser focused on its own very specific flavor of batshit.
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Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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Hey Geek! Didja ever check out the WILTY compilations?
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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I knew what the post credits scene on Peacemaker would be this week before it came on and now I really want to know how long that scene actually went on for.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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Disney+ in Canada also added What We Do In The Shadows so I can finally finish season 2.
Side note, the episode with Jackie Daytona was not, as I thought, called "Jackie Daytona", which made it much harder to remember where I left off.
I finally watched several seasons on Hulu after hearing good things about it for quite some time.
However I was surprised that "Jackie Daytona only shows up for one episode, given how discussion of him was roughly 90% of the good things I had heard about the show.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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Disney+ in Canada also added What We Do In The Shadows so I can finally finish season 2.
Side note, the episode with Jackie Daytona was not, as I thought, called "Jackie Daytona", which made it much harder to remember where I left off.
I finally watched several seasons on Hulu after hearing good things about it for quite some time.
However I was surprised that "Jackie Daytona only shows up for one episode, given how discussion of him was roughly 90% of the good things I had heard about the show.
I think it always comes up because it's an example of all the things the show does best:
1) Making up a thing, but treating it as though it's existed for so long that it's almost condescending to tell you about it
2) Committing hard to a very, very silly thing, following it well past when another show would've abandoned it
3) Letting absolute buffoons be the butt of the joke for 90% of the runtime, but surprising you by giving them an unexpected sliver of real emotion in that other 10%, which somehow makes the buffoonery even funnier
4) Feeling like something you won't see anywhere else. A lot of shows are funny. Not every show is willing to go hard in the paint on a format-breaking episode. That WWDITS is willing to break format so hard, but still feel so of a piece with the show, is a synecdoche for what makes the show so special.
The show does so many weird, cool, different things that it can be hard to talk about all of 'em at once. But it's very easy to go, "Jackie Daytona just kinda is the show"
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Well I learned a new word today.
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
And also “Jackie Daytona, regular human bartender” is just the absolute best title and sometimes it’s as simple as a really funny fucking string of words.
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
It’s the smallest thing, but the color grading on AP Bio is just super good. Like, really exceptional cinematography all around. Especially for a half hour comedy, but man, the color work is just a strong choice and it, combined with the costuming and set design just give the show such a weirdly otherworldly look that stands out.
It’s all helped out by the little details too — ultra wide angle shots, costuming for the kids that sticks heavily to teals and oranges, ceilings on the sets(!!), lots of practical lighting to create a feeling of intimacy even on wide shots. It reminds me a lot of It Follows, which used a lot of the same methods to create that intimate but isolated unearthly feel. AP Bio just uses the same tricks in the pursuit of dark comedy, and it’s so weird that it works as well as it does.
It’s just a beautifully and thoroughly crafted look and feel that you don’t see on this kind of project that often and I really dig it. But I’m also just a sucker for anything that looks like it could have been shot on an expired roll of Portra 800.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
Watched the first three episodes of the Legend of Vox Machina, the Critical Role animated series, and it's pretty solid. I think probably the biggest problem they're going to have is that a lot of the jokes, especially the jokes from the horny bard, really don't land, and I get the impression that the horny bard jokes are going to get a bit more airtime on this than I'd like.
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Watched the first three episodes of the Legend of Vox Machina, the Critical Role animated series, and it's pretty solid. I think probably the biggest problem they're going to have is that a lot of the jokes, especially the jokes from the horny bard, really don't land, and I get the impression that the horny bard jokes are going to get a bit more airtime on this than I'd like.
Shit, I forgot that was out today. Guess I know what I’m jumping into tomorrow. I was wondering how OOC the humor was going to be, if at all. Either way, as long as there’s plenty of Grog, I think I’ll be cool with it.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
From the trailer the humor seemed extremely cringe being transferred to animation. You can't just cut paste jokes from people doing improv at a table for 6 hours into a scripted show!
From the trailer the humor seemed extremely cringe being transferred to animation. You can't just cut paste jokes from people doing improv at a table for 6 hours into a scripted show!
I don't envy the position they're in - if you don't play the hits, the fans get mad. But if you do, you do it without all the context that made the hits work
I watched 1.5 seasons of Arrow and nothing else from Arrowverse - can I assume I can just safely watch Legends of Tomorrow and ignore all the other bullshit from The CW and still have fun?
I watched 1.5 seasons of Arrow and nothing else from Arrowverse - can I assume I can just safely watch Legends of Tomorrow and ignore all the other bullshit from The CW and still have fun?
Pretty much, yeah. As the show goes on it isolates more and more from the larger universe. The crossover stuff might be odd, but that's about it.
I think the main difficulty is one I saw get brought up in a review: someone making goofy sex jokes to troll their friends works better when you can see the person coming up with the jokes on the fly. Removed from that context, it's a not very well constructed anal beads jokes. The jokes where Grog misunderstands someone because he's very dumb work better, though, partially because they're better jokes, and partially because they're quicker. Given where the story is going next, I assume those jokes will take more of a backseat, which is...probably necessary.
The action beats work really well, though, and they clearly put a lot of work into them. If nothing else the show looks great.
I watched 1.5 seasons of Arrow and nothing else from Arrowverse - can I assume I can just safely watch Legends of Tomorrow and ignore all the other bullshit from The CW and still have fun?
Pretty much, yeah. As the show goes on it isolates more and more from the larger universe. The crossover stuff might be odd, but that's about it.
I also kinda want to say skip season one, but you'd miss out on some of the jokes later on - so watch season 1, but know that it gets so much better and it's worth it.
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I watched 1.5 seasons of Arrow and nothing else from Arrowverse - can I assume I can just safely watch Legends of Tomorrow and ignore all the other bullshit from The CW and still have fun?
Pretty much, yeah. As the show goes on it isolates more and more from the larger universe. The crossover stuff might be odd, but that's about it.
I also kinda want to say skip season one, but you'd miss out on some of the jokes later on - so watch season 1, but know that it gets so much better and it's worth it.
I watched 1.5 seasons of Arrow and nothing else from Arrowverse - can I assume I can just safely watch Legends of Tomorrow and ignore all the other bullshit from The CW and still have fun?
So, here’s the thing. Obviously it’s neat to see where all those characters come from. Like, how they got to be these C-tier heroes (and villains) that were recruited for this. And most of them come from the first two seasons of Arrow and Flash, which are pretty decent. But if you’re okay with “they were moderately interesting characters of middling importance, well, you’ve got a good enough handle on it.
Legends’ other neat trick is recycling villains though. A decent chunk of the big bads on the show are villains that had already been used (and defeated) on mainline Arrowverse shows. Basically, if Flash or Arrow finished off a bad guy with minimal interesting characterization, there’s a solid chance that baddie would show up on Legends and get a chance to shine with way more actual character development and just have a lot of fun. Hard to say the payoff is worth sitting through some of the bad seasons of those shows, but it is really well done.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
There's only one bad season, and even then that puts in the... not quite character work, but it establishes who the team is, and what they do. And why they're a chainsaw when a knife will do.
Every so often I think about how the Flash had almost a perfect first season.
This was still when Arrow was trying hard to be realistic Batman with a bow, so seeing them embrace everything comic book about The Flash was so refreshing. And the twists were good!
Then it could never hit those highs again. And sometimes it really missed them.
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It is still WILD to me that Amy fucking Sedaris has become like a notable star wars character. I love her, and in a million years would mot have guessed that would happen
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I never even finished the second season of Flash, the drop off was dire
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You can jump into Legends of Tomorrow without too much "homework."
I will say that not being too familiar with certain characters, like Damien Darhk, will likely diminish their on-screen appearances during LoT.
I know this was a few days ago but I just caught up on this episode and I want to know what Roisin was writing so badly. She was clearly trying to figure something out before she realized what was going on.
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is there a clip of that somewhere?
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So one thing is:
KT's absolutely correct
But in the context of the show, the song is the first time you're seeing the matriarch of the family. The whole show revolves around how integral she was to the family, how she was the center, how everything fell apart in her absence. She's a conspicuous blank space in the show for many episodes, a void all the characters are trying to fill
And in that sequence, you see why the world loved her, why this family loved her. You see why Goodman's character, who hates Goggins' character, puts up with him - because they both know, bone deep, that this woman was the best thing on the planet.
It's really strong character work, and it's all in the context of this ludicrously catchy, very funny pastiche of a certain variety of Christian music.
It's just real good!
Ah, interesting. The YT comments were raving about Goodman's physical acting in that scene so I suspected something like that, thanks.
Wait sorry I mixed up worst and best for a second.
tall + chaotic bisexual, very understandable
the amazing amount of confidence and how much they sell that credits sequence, and the energy of the smash cut to the credits in that first scene, is so...fucking good. god damn
I started fanning myself that time he picked up james acaster
She is absolutely delightful in all the various panel/quiz shows I've seen her show up in.
This is not mentioning the bar that is set up at the Fixed Point where other time travelers bet and watch people fail to stop the assassination.
How is this show so good.
It’s criminal how good that show is, holy shit. Just absolutely laser focused on its own very specific flavor of batshit.
I finally watched several seasons on Hulu after hearing good things about it for quite some time.
However I was surprised that "Jackie Daytona only shows up for one episode, given how discussion of him was roughly 90% of the good things I had heard about the show.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I think it always comes up because it's an example of all the things the show does best:
1) Making up a thing, but treating it as though it's existed for so long that it's almost condescending to tell you about it
2) Committing hard to a very, very silly thing, following it well past when another show would've abandoned it
3) Letting absolute buffoons be the butt of the joke for 90% of the runtime, but surprising you by giving them an unexpected sliver of real emotion in that other 10%, which somehow makes the buffoonery even funnier
4) Feeling like something you won't see anywhere else. A lot of shows are funny. Not every show is willing to go hard in the paint on a format-breaking episode. That WWDITS is willing to break format so hard, but still feel so of a piece with the show, is a synecdoche for what makes the show so special.
The show does so many weird, cool, different things that it can be hard to talk about all of 'em at once. But it's very easy to go, "Jackie Daytona just kinda is the show"
Don't blame me, blame Charlie Kaufman
It’s all helped out by the little details too — ultra wide angle shots, costuming for the kids that sticks heavily to teals and oranges, ceilings on the sets(!!), lots of practical lighting to create a feeling of intimacy even on wide shots. It reminds me a lot of It Follows, which used a lot of the same methods to create that intimate but isolated unearthly feel. AP Bio just uses the same tricks in the pursuit of dark comedy, and it’s so weird that it works as well as it does.
It’s just a beautifully and thoroughly crafted look and feel that you don’t see on this kind of project that often and I really dig it. But I’m also just a sucker for anything that looks like it could have been shot on an expired roll of Portra 800.
Shit, I forgot that was out today. Guess I know what I’m jumping into tomorrow. I was wondering how OOC the humor was going to be, if at all. Either way, as long as there’s plenty of Grog, I think I’ll be cool with it.
I don't envy the position they're in - if you don't play the hits, the fans get mad. But if you do, you do it without all the context that made the hits work
Seems hard as shit to square that circle
The action beats work really well, though, and they clearly put a lot of work into them. If nothing else the show looks great.
I also kinda want to say skip season one, but you'd miss out on some of the jokes later on - so watch season 1, but know that it gets so much better and it's worth it.
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Also I feel the person that organises all of the music for James Gunn should do Spotify playlists.
Satans..... hints.....
So, here’s the thing. Obviously it’s neat to see where all those characters come from. Like, how they got to be these C-tier heroes (and villains) that were recruited for this. And most of them come from the first two seasons of Arrow and Flash, which are pretty decent. But if you’re okay with “they were moderately interesting characters of middling importance, well, you’ve got a good enough handle on it.
Legends’ other neat trick is recycling villains though. A decent chunk of the big bads on the show are villains that had already been used (and defeated) on mainline Arrowverse shows. Basically, if Flash or Arrow finished off a bad guy with minimal interesting characterization, there’s a solid chance that baddie would show up on Legends and get a chance to shine with way more actual character development and just have a lot of fun. Hard to say the payoff is worth sitting through some of the bad seasons of those shows, but it is really well done.
This was still when Arrow was trying hard to be realistic Batman with a bow, so seeing them embrace everything comic book about The Flash was so refreshing. And the twists were good!
Then it could never hit those highs again. And sometimes it really missed them.
I will say that not being too familiar with certain characters, like Damien Darhk, will likely diminish their on-screen appearances during LoT.
I know this was a few days ago but I just caught up on this episode and I want to know what Roisin was writing so badly. She was clearly trying to figure something out before she realized what was going on.