Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
Just discovered Rick and Morty, I haven't laughed so much with a show in years.
What is your favorite TV show?
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This ghoul has seen it all
I'm finally finishing up Mad Men and it's just so great. This show was really a masterpiece of good characterization.
Not sure if it's my favorite show but it's up there.
Not sure if it's my favorite show but it's up there.
Plenty of genuinely good shows come and go, most have been said allready - so I'm gonna pick a random one, that hasn't been on tv for a while "I shouldn't be alive" as well as "Banged up abroad", both of these shows fill me with joy!
It has mainly to do with the fact that unlike most accident/disaster scenarios, these guys brought it on themselves almost every damn time.
"I thought it would be easy to sneak a kilo of heroin into Manila :0 seemed like a good deal :0" BAM, prison, BAM, horrific mistreatment, BAM, some big fat filippino's prison-bitch
"I thought it seemed like a good idea to explore the jungle/the desert/the mountain plateaus!" Yeah, ever wondered why those places are typically devoid of people? Yeah, think about it for a while, you'll figure it out eventually :'D
People come here (to Norway) and do that too, Germans in particular, they go to the mountain to live out some barbarian-viking-dream of sorts "Ich bin ein Vikiiing!" and next day, reported missing, never found again GONE, in the mountains
I shouldn't laugh. But seriously, warnings are everywhere, if you come here, and go to the mountains, people will be all over you telling you to respect the wilderness, bring a map and compass, and a hundred more precautions, that are brushed aside as "wussy", and poof - GONE - in the mountains :'D never found again
I am also a sucker for details, and the intro theme for "I shouldn't be alive" had several guttural screams mixed into it, like, dramatic music, random clips, dude abandoned in jungle "NOOOOO!" some poor schmuck lost in mountain "AAAAAAA!" some idiot breaking down in a horrible, dank prison dungeon "WAAAAA!"
good times! Excellent tv!
Oh, and one more - and please don't get me wrong here, many have before, and it's embarassing every time, because I expect them to know me better, but here in particular people don't know me very well: Dr. Phil!
Purely from a freak-show point of view, though - it is just... fascinating... both to observe his guests, but sometimes it's fun to observe him too. Sometimes people poke at his ego, and he gets very excited by it - "Now you listen here!" super-heavy Texas-accent "This ain't my first rodeo - " *people cheering WOOH YOU GO DR PHIL!* "When I'm talking - you listen!" yeah, sheesh, cool it there Dr. Badass, you just have to be a therapist and listen. I've seen actual psychologists, and they don't get their egos all bruised that easily, nono, I get it, the cameras and all, he has to "pull rank" a bit - but yeah, fun/painful to watch, depending, but it satiates some of my morbid curiousity with humanity's more hopeless sides
It has mainly to do with the fact that unlike most accident/disaster scenarios, these guys brought it on themselves almost every damn time.
"I thought it would be easy to sneak a kilo of heroin into Manila :0 seemed like a good deal :0" BAM, prison, BAM, horrific mistreatment, BAM, some big fat filippino's prison-bitch
"I thought it seemed like a good idea to explore the jungle/the desert/the mountain plateaus!" Yeah, ever wondered why those places are typically devoid of people? Yeah, think about it for a while, you'll figure it out eventually :'D
People come here (to Norway) and do that too, Germans in particular, they go to the mountain to live out some barbarian-viking-dream of sorts "Ich bin ein Vikiiing!" and next day, reported missing, never found again
GONE, in the mountains I shouldn't laugh. But seriously, warnings are everywhere, if you come here, and go to the mountains, people will be all over you telling you to respect the wilderness, bring a map and compass, and a hundred more precautions, that are brushed aside as "wussy", and poof - GONE - in the mountains :'D never found again
I am also a sucker for details, and the intro theme for "I shouldn't be alive" had several guttural screams mixed into it, like, dramatic music, random clips, dude abandoned in jungle "NOOOOO!" some poor schmuck lost in mountain "AAAAAAA!" some idiot breaking down in a horrible, dank prison dungeon "WAAAAA!"
good times! Excellent tv!
Oh, and one more - and please don't get me wrong here, many have before, and it's embarassing every time, because I expect them to know me better, but here in particular people don't know me very well: Dr. Phil!
Purely from a freak-show point of view, though - it is just... fascinating... both to observe his guests, but sometimes it's fun to observe him too. Sometimes people poke at his ego, and he gets very excited by it - "Now you listen here!" super-heavy Texas-accent "This ain't my first rodeo - " *people cheering WOOH YOU GO DR PHIL!* "When I'm talking - you listen!" yeah, sheesh, cool it there Dr. Badass, you just have to be a therapist and listen. I've seen actual psychologists, and they don't get their egos all bruised that easily, nono, I get it, the cameras and all, he has to "pull rank" a bit - but yeah, fun/painful to watch, depending, but it satiates some of my morbid curiousity with humanity's more hopeless sides
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TorontoReign
Guest
Rick and Morty is shaping up to be a surprise hit. I haven't watched the newest season yet. The 4th wall breaking comments are hilarious. Just talking about it makes me want to watch it. I hope they can maintain the momentum they have going on, because most episodes have been decent.
Rick and Morty gave me dangerous laughs, the kind where you begin to seriously worry about dying of a heart-attack, but it's not on TV here, and I haven't seen any more of it after one episode I saw on Youtube that was taken down. But yes, it looks very promising, funny as hell, I'm not even a big "back to the future"-fan, so the humor works entirely by itself
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TorontoReign
Guest
It references so many things it's crazy - Weird Science being one off the top of my head. Oh and Nintendo. I hope it has a shitload of seasons like Aqua Teen Hunger Force (which isn't nearly as good).
SnapSlav
NMA's local DotA fanatic
I have no idea what this is, I just know that the latest Announcer Pack for Dota2 was a Rick and Morty Pack. I listened to the preview, and I can't say I got what was so funny about it. Then again, I thought the same of the Stanley Parable Announcer Pack's preview when it came out. Maybe some ideas just aren't as funny in Announcer Pack form?
Even listening to the full set of lines on youtube, I'm still not impressed. I don't get it...
But the Pyrion Flax Pack? Ah, that was comedy gold! =D But then again, half the funniness was that he's British...
Even listening to the full set of lines on youtube, I'm still not impressed. I don't get it...
But the Pyrion Flax Pack? Ah, that was comedy gold! =D But then again, half the funniness was that he's British...
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
Watch the show, and you'll see.
SnapSlav
NMA's local DotA fanatic
'Cept the more I listen to the dialog, the less I wanna hear more. Let alone watch a show with all that. -_-
Apparently one of them is a raging alcoholic. 'Kay?
Apparently one of them is a raging alcoholic. 'Kay?
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
Seems very rational to base your opinion of a show on an announcer pack for a MOBA. No questions about it.
Why would you listen to a TV show to judge it!?
And yes, one of them IS a raging alcoholic, but the show isn't called "The Raging Alcoholic", just find a way to watch - watch - an episode, and then judge it!
And yes, one of them IS a raging alcoholic, but the show isn't called "The Raging Alcoholic", just find a way to watch - watch - an episode, and then judge it!
SnapSlav
NMA's local DotA fanatic
No, I was basing my "opinion" of the show by watching clips of it on youtube. Still trying to find one that's making me laugh. The benefit of the doubt that it NO LESS THAN DESERVES is that it's not garbage. It's just not making me laugh. And everyone's saying things like it makes them laugh violently, so seeing as it's not doing that to me, I'm not getting that sentiment.
What I'm doing is VERY rational, cause I'm trying to think back on other shows I fucking adored and trying to put them in Rick and Morty's shoes and thinking, "If I watched a minute clip of Rocco's Modern Life vaguely like this, would IT have made me laugh, without watching more of the episode?" Or Ren & Stimpy. Or... well yeah, mostly just those two. But as it stands, I keep visualizing THEIR skits as being hilarious in context and outside of it. Even small things like the art styles drastically and violently shifting to make a "dramatic" moment come to life, putting unnecessary detail on some old and gruff man's nipples and flabby but considerably thick biceps. They juxtaposed all kinds of visual elements so that even if you were depriving a scene of the context of the greater episode, the scene itself was still fucking comedy gold.
Is it fair to compare this show to that? Probably not. After all, there hasn't been a Ren & Stimpy OR Rocco's Modern Life SINCE Ren & Stimpy and Rocco's Modern Life, and that was decades ago. But still. When people describe "dangerous laughter", those are the shows that pop into my mind. Those and South Park. And some of classic Simpsons.
I see stuff that's okay. I don't see what's so uncontrollably funny about it. But by all means, confuse what I'm doing for basing it all ENTIRELY on watching the youtube video of the Announcer Pack dialog and NEVER for one moment thinking for a second, "Y'know, I AM on youtube, why not I look up clips from the actual show and see what it's all about?" Cause I TOTALLY never do that, do I?
What I'm doing is VERY rational, cause I'm trying to think back on other shows I fucking adored and trying to put them in Rick and Morty's shoes and thinking, "If I watched a minute clip of Rocco's Modern Life vaguely like this, would IT have made me laugh, without watching more of the episode?" Or Ren & Stimpy. Or... well yeah, mostly just those two. But as it stands, I keep visualizing THEIR skits as being hilarious in context and outside of it. Even small things like the art styles drastically and violently shifting to make a "dramatic" moment come to life, putting unnecessary detail on some old and gruff man's nipples and flabby but considerably thick biceps. They juxtaposed all kinds of visual elements so that even if you were depriving a scene of the context of the greater episode, the scene itself was still fucking comedy gold.
Is it fair to compare this show to that? Probably not. After all, there hasn't been a Ren & Stimpy OR Rocco's Modern Life SINCE Ren & Stimpy and Rocco's Modern Life, and that was decades ago. But still. When people describe "dangerous laughter", those are the shows that pop into my mind. Those and South Park. And some of classic Simpsons.
I see stuff that's okay. I don't see what's so uncontrollably funny about it. But by all means, confuse what I'm doing for basing it all ENTIRELY on watching the youtube video of the Announcer Pack dialog and NEVER for one moment thinking for a second, "Y'know, I AM on youtube, why not I look up clips from the actual show and see what it's all about?" Cause I TOTALLY never do that, do I?
South Park is gold, and has given me many a "dangerous" moment as well, so have the Simpsons. But one can't generalize, Rick and Morty is as different from SP as SP is different from Simpsons, and they're all different from Ren and Stimpy, which has also had me tilting off my chair in laughter, with one of my favorite moments being the hysterical aggro-ranting in the wrestling episode (culminating with Stimpy's absolutely mind-blowing response )
Anyway, half the fun of a visual medium - is the visuals! So... it's kindov pointless to debate the merits of a show you haven't seen, before you've seen it - so go see it damnit! You don't have to love it, just give it a shot!
)Anyway, half the fun of a visual medium - is the visuals! So... it's kindov pointless to debate the merits of a show you haven't seen, before you've seen it - so go see it damnit! You don't have to love it, just give it a shot!
SikTh
First time out of the vault
Judging something based on some announcer on a videogame is seriously some of the most asinine shit I've read in a very long time...then trying to rationalise your logic for it...wow.
Anyway, On Topic -- these are my top 3 in the two main categories, they revolve on a daily basis!
Drama: The Shield, the Sopranos, season 1 of True Detective. Holy trinity of TV! Six Feet Under and Dexter season 1 were both amazing too.
Comedy: Peep Show, Fawlty Towers, the Office (UK version of course).
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Arrested Development are two great US comedies though.
Anyway, On Topic -- these are my top 3 in the two main categories, they revolve on a daily basis!
Drama: The Shield, the Sopranos, season 1 of True Detective. Holy trinity of TV! Six Feet Under and Dexter season 1 were both amazing too.
Comedy: Peep Show, Fawlty Towers, the Office (UK version of course).
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Arrested Development are two great US comedies though.
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Fawlty Towers!
"Manuel! There is too much butter - on those trays!"
"Que?"
"Too much butter - on those trays!"
"No, no - es un, dos, tres!"
"Manuel! There is too much butter - on those trays!"
"Que?"
"Too much butter - on those trays!"
"No, no - es un, dos, tres!"
LordAshur
Banned
Rick and Morty is a good show, but the second season doesn't seem to be quite as good as the first. But when it comes to animated sitcoms, Drawn Together definitely takes the crown. Brickleberry is also very good. It's a shame they got cancelled after three seasons.
Juza The Cloud
Nanto Goshasei
I was a fan of Kroll Show, while it was on.
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
In my opinion Rick and Morty is better than South Park. There I said it. South Park has been on a stady decline for years.
The Second Season has been good in my opinion, it's only has been 5 episodes now and out of those 1, 3 and 4 were just amazing, specially the first episode of the second Season, very creative way to represent the "quantum uncertainity" thing they had going on. The Episode with the Floating heads was kind of weak I'll say, it had some good moments like the scene with Bird Person tho.
The Second Season has been good in my opinion, it's only has been 5 episodes now and out of those 1, 3 and 4 were just amazing, specially the first episode of the second Season, very creative way to represent the "quantum uncertainity" thing they had going on. The Episode with the Floating heads was kind of weak I'll say, it had some good moments like the scene with Bird Person tho.
LordAshur
Banned
The whole idea of Beth, Jerry and Summer being in on their adventures just doesn't sit well with me. It seems as if the show is taking a more family-oriented turn.
South Park tends to be too preachy for my taste. And their "controversial" humor seems entirely politically correct compared to Brickleberry or Drawn Together.
South Park tends to be too preachy for my taste. And their "controversial" humor seems entirely politically correct compared to Brickleberry or Drawn Together.
Moosick
cats
From the very rare episode my friends have put on, all I remember of their recent (and early) stuff is Cartman calling The Other One a Jew a lot and the occasional stab at insulting the celebrity of the week.
I tend to gravitate towards shows like Bojack Horseman when it comes to animated sitcoms with a social/political bent. Perhaps without quite so many Family Guy-esqe flashbacks and forced 'wacky' bits, but the main character is a horse so I guess that's a bit of an odd complaint. It's nice to see a show like that where actions have consequences that carry on across episodes.
I tend to gravitate towards shows like Bojack Horseman when it comes to animated sitcoms with a social/political bent. Perhaps without quite so many Family Guy-esqe flashbacks and forced 'wacky' bits, but the main character is a horse so I guess that's a bit of an odd complaint. It's nice to see a show like that where actions have consequences that carry on across episodes.
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