Thank god Afterburner is Bullseye, I almost got really really upset at the prospect of Tomboy without Bullseye. THAT is going to be the jam of the year.
If it's anything like the original episode (which ranges from hilarious/ridiculous to absolutely heartbreaking), Chris is the kind of guy who will just take any pill he finds when he wants to party, and he ends up taking a few "Erectagra" (if I remember correctly) one night, getting absolutely wasted, and waking up in the morning with a boner that lasts...forever. And he gets violently kicked out of his own (wrecked, empty house by a hobo (while naked), so he has to run down the street, through Bristol, to his college (high school) to find some clothes. And it's sad, and pathetic, even moreso because this is a 16-year-old kid who idolizes his dead brother and has just been abandoned by his single mother and while I will not touch the US version with a ten-foot pole, I can only imagine that they fucked up this episode to make it some sort of hilarious romp.
Anyone else see this in NY Mag?
"Hating Gwyneth became a sport we could all enjoy: Her videos are parodied on Funny or Die, and Videogum regularly catalogues her doings alongside a photo of the actress superimposed with the words 'I am the worst.'"
It was like an early Christmas!
The Metreon is so much nicer than the Regal Union Sq. Aside from all Gabe mentioned, the Regal is actually rat-ridden. As in, I go there to see a movie, and as a plus I see at least one rat running in the aisle every time. Thanks, $13.50 plus fandango fees!
Was Troy's "I don't need to know what kind of Dracula I am!" a reference to the "My Name Is Twilight And I Am A Dracula" guy or is there something even bigger than that that has totally gone past me?
I think Tina has always supposed to have been goth, only she just looks stupid and as Gabe puts it, "pop-ska". Basically, her entire wardrobe is from Hot Topic. But yeah, those bullies were really random and mean. Especially as I don't think we've ever seen them before.
I understand what you mean; I hate the purist "I was there first" attitude. I was excited for this as anyone else. But I didn't know there was a big backlash...I haven't seen any criticism of the series (good or bad). I'm not sure why I'm not enjoying it as much, but I think it's mostly just that it's an edited down version of what we've already heard. (As opposed to the XFM, Podcasts, Guide Tos all being new material.) So I'll be like, 'Oh right, this is the bit when Karl says..." and then it doesn't happen and they move onto a new topic. However, that sex machine clip never gets old. Nor does Paul "The Party Animal" Parker.
For what it's worth, this new version of the Ricky Gervais Show seems to have sucked most of the genius and hilarity out of itself. It's either the massive edits or the fact that it's animated (as opposed to letting your imagination do the work?) but I am not Lots Of Loving this anywhere near as much as I did with the podcasts. I mean, it's been almost the whole season and we still haven't heard the techno remix of "I Could Eat A Knob At Night".
"I once saw a baby give another baby a tattoo! They were very drunk!" I almost wish the whole episode was just Tracy describing his childhood in the South Bronx. (Except I don't, because the rest of the episode was just as amaaaaaazing.)
Can we just try to get Virtual Reality (tm) in vogue again, so all these people can just marry Edward Sparklehands in their own privacy and leave us alone?
Honestly the things that bugged me most about this movie when I saw it were Union Pool being barely disguised as "Brooklyn Pool" and the Where's Fluffy? (more like Where's BARF-y?) show finally being on a rooftop in MIDTOWN and all these radio DJs giving directions, what is this 1996? Also, they went to that deli on Broadway and 10th or something where apparently Devendra Banhart likes to hang out and give out sexual advice? And then they showed an exterior shot of the Regal Cinema at Union Square, where I was inside, watching the movie. (So maybe my problem is that I saw this in theatres.) But yeah, now that you all mention it, Michael Cera's character is definitely a class A dick.
Yay, Soft Gabe!
"Hardandsoftgabe and max's! one hundred seconds!" is totally as easy to sing and just as likely to get stuck in my head all day, is all I'm saying.
All I could think about while watching that sketch yesterday was Gabe's old Roker Joker avatar. Which may or may not say something about me as a person.
Yeah, i find that pretty much every American network's website's streaming technologies (whoa there) are hopelessly terrible. I don't even try to use NBC's any more, they literally never load for me. It's like they WANT us to find alternate and illegal ways to watch clips.
This marks the third Videogum celebration which I have totally meant to go to and ended up not going to. Damn that whole working at night thing. ... At restaurants. Also as always I am a bit shy of going to these things by myself, and sadly, my friends don't know what the words "Videogum's 2nd Birthday" mean. Some day, I WILL show up with my gaffer tape mustache and impress you all with my sarcasm.
(Also, I plan on singing happy birthday like Tim & Eric for the rest of my life.)
You know the story behind that, right? John Barrowman ad-libbed that line to make the actress laugh, and the editor was like, "...Actually, let's definitely leave that in. What the fuck, we're making a movie called Shark Attack 3: Megalodon."
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