The Television Show Test Thread

[Reply #560 on:]

Oh yeah, Anna Paquins delicious front cushions!
Cool chay, I'll keep watching.

Yeah, I was wondering (since everyone else seems to) if she was going to nude up at any stage, and she does! Kudos to her. It's so weird hearing Stephen Moyer (Bill) with a southern accent when i'm used to hearing him speak like this

[Reply #561 on:]

Chay, I would rub you on my dog so it would win.

True Blood is actually kind of ridiculous and lame, but I also love it. Naked Liz Caplan FTW.

[Reply #562 on:]

Carcetti is played by an oirish guy!

Does he have to glue his top lip to his teeth to sound American, or is that just how he looks? Shit bugs me!

[Reply #563 on:]

@BdC: Don't they cheat by covering their dog in stuff that either makes it hard for the other dog to latch on, or it's stuff that makes the other dog sick/drugged and can't fight properly?

"Performance enhancing Snausages" would have been a much cooler answer.

[Reply #564 on:]

I'm watching Quentin Tarantino on Charlie Rose. What a self-serious asshole.

That said, I still really want to see Inglorious Basterds...

[Reply #565 on:]

1) Reservoir Dogs
2) Kill Bill(s)
3) Pulp Fiction
huge gap
4) Jackie Brown
huger gap
5) Death Proof

[Reply #566 on:]

Incorrect.

Jackie Brown
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Death Proof
Reservoir Dogs

[Reply #567 on:]

ok, a couple of gamer friends tell me every now and then that I "should really watch G4, particularly Attack of the Show."

...

I've watched Attack of the Show. I have every confidence that I could pick any four PEELers at random, and they could produce a show as good as Attack of the Show. Obviously could do even better if I didn't pick at random.

Don't get me wrong, it can be worth watching for the reviews and interviews sometimes, but half of the show amounts to them making meme-references and showing youtube videos of "epic fails." If that's what I want to watch, why the hell would I turn on the tv instead of the computer?

Same goes to Tosh 2.0 and every other web clip show on television. Get a real job, assholes! You have barely enough original content for a mediocre blog, and all the sets and stages and directors in the world aren't going to change that basic fact.

[Reply #568 on:]

I miss the show Beat the Geeks. Those guys were like my friends

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I could pick any four PEELers and they could produce a show

What... what a wonderful idea!

We could have Ralph do 'The Snart Factor', as a massively over-the-top spoof of 'The O'Reilly Factor'. I could do celebrity interviews. And... you could be the band leader.

[Reply #570 on:]

Books/BC: Both incorrect!
Reservoir Dogs
Inglourious Basterds
Pulp Fiction
blah blah blah


Gopher: G4 went off the deep end a few years back. Nothing on there's worth watching anymore, except for when they do Movies That Don't Suck, but that has nothing to do with video games.


Books: I miss that show too! That show was ballin'.


Coldy: And I could be the producer that stands on the side and gets those one-off shots when I start laughing! Everybody wins!

[Reply #571 on:]

G4 went off the deep end a few years back.

Yeah, right around the time that it became G4.  Tech TV  used to be a fairly decent channel, but since it became G4 it's like they're trying to be Spike TV for computer geeks or something.

Nothing on there's worth watching anymore, except for when they do Movies That Don't Suck, but that has nothing to do with video games.

They were also showing reruns of Arrested Development until a couple of weeks ago, but yeah, the only original programming worth watching anymore is X-Play, which not surprisingly is the only Tech TV show left on G4.

[Reply #572 on:]

Did anybody saw Darren Brown last night with the Lottery?

[Reply #573 on:]

Just watched the first 20 minutes of one of Scifi syfy channel's (I hate that name. Hate. I'm using the word Hate here) god-awful flicks. In the first 5 minutes, Dr. Beckett was eaten by the Loch Ness Monster's cousin, the Lake Superior Monster. It walked around with the guy's legs dangling from his mouth for several minutes, then head-butted another guy. Yes - the 100-foot-long dinosaur headbutted a guy. A bit later General Hammond makes an appearance, and after that, Rya'c shows up.

In light of this, I've become convinced that the execs at syfy have stolen an idea from Futurama - I think they're generating their ideas with dice. Presumably they have one die containing a different animal on each face - insects, bears, dinosaurs, spiders, fish, gnats, penguins, etc - and on another, names of their other shows - stargate, eureka, warehouse 51, etc. Roll the monster die, they have the premise; then roll the series die and cast as many actors from that series as possible.

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Did anybody saw Darren Brown last night with the Lottery?

No, but heard about it. Did he get it right?

EDIT: Link Wow, he did... Hmm

EDIT2: So later today/tonight/tomorrow he's revealing how he did it. I'm thinking the fact that the second camera was only cut to when he said "There are two cameras" and wasn't cut to during anything else will have something to do with it and will show us some sneaky camera tricks.

[Reply #575 on:]

Now that The Wire has finished here I can start reading this thread again... I was worried I might read spoilers I am sad that it is over though, best series I've seen in years

[Reply #576 on:]

I downloaded the entire first season of that a long time ago, and I've only watched the first 2 episodes so far. It didn't grab me.

[Reply #577 on:]

The Wire finale was on last night, so awesome...

[Reply #578 on:]

Just watched the first 20 minutes of one of Scifi syfy channel's (I hate that name. Hate. I'm using the word Hate here) god-awful flicks. In the first 5 minutes, Dr. Beckett was eaten by the Loch Ness Monster's cousin, the Lake Superior Monster. It walked around with the guy's legs dangling from his mouth for several minutes, then head-butted another guy. Yes - the 100-foot-long dinosaur headbutted a guy. A bit later General Hammond makes an appearance, and after that, Rya'c shows up.

In light of this, I've become convinced that the execs at syfy have stolen an idea from Futurama - I think they're generating their ideas with dice. Presumably they have one die containing a different animal on each face - insects, bears, dinosaurs, spiders, fish, gnats, penguins, etc - and on another, names of their other shows - stargate, eureka, warehouse 51, etc. Roll the monster die, they have the premise; then roll the series die and cast as many actors from that series as possible.

SoiFoi really does have some shameful movies.  The movie Raptor Island looked like the CGI was done on a PlayStation.  On the other hand, Lorenzo Lamas would later go on to star in Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus.

[Reply #579 on:]

Yay, Californication is back with two episodes, Hank has already become a literature professor after putting the old one in rehab after 10 years sober, pissed off the dean, and got his eye on a busty student.
Moar!

[Reply #580 on:]

started watching Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place already at season 3

[Reply #581 on:]

X Factor. Curtis FTW. Lol. Etc.

[Reply #582 on:]

Yay, Californication is back

I completely forgot about that show..I think they stopped showing it all together here. I guess I could go buy the dvds or fondle the internet for it.

started watching Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place already at season 3

Well if you're at season 3 it's no longer Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, it's just Two Guys and a Girl. Get it right
That show should have been more popular. I demand a recount.

[Reply #583 on:]

i demand a dvd release

[Reply #584 on:]

Dude, I think we're supposed to take people hostage otherwise our demands won't be met..

[Reply #585 on:]

Take each other hostage!

[Reply #586 on:]

Maybe next week.

[Reply #587 on:]

Always a cliffhanger!

Oh House is back with a double episode too, someone bump the House thread.

[Reply #588 on:]

Heads up for Tuesday Charlie Brooker fans, his new show Gameswipe is on BBC4.

[Reply #589 on:]

Cougar Town was funny. That is all.

[Reply #590 on:]

Is that about what it sounds like it's about?

[Reply #591 on:]

Sort of. It's by Bill Lawrence (Scrubs), with Courteney Cox and Crista Miller (Jordan from Scrubs, also Bill Lawrences wife). She's a recent divorcé and something something cougar. The end. IT's late, i'm tired stop asking questigns!

[Reply #592 on:]

lol questigns!

CSI season 10 sweet! Also there's an interactive CSI show here in Dublin, must go to it:
"Looks like this party's over *puts on shades* YEAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!"
"Sir I'm going to have to ask you to leave if you say that after everything I say..."
*takes off shades, puts on shades* "....YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!"

And I watched the pilot of Bored to Death, it was pretty good, not great.

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New SNL season started last night. Thoughts:
Many people think Kenan's not funny. I disagree. It's that some of the material isn't well used. The Grady Wilson sketch was the funniest non-political thing on this week's show (other than the fake commercial). I really couldn't stop laughing. This was the one sketch that I thought Megan Fox was funny during.

Speaking of Kenan, Jean K. Jean should be expanded on. Back on All That, Kenan did a similar character named Pierre Escargot and did a phoney French accent for that. If they expanded the French jokes a little more, gave him the accent, maybe gave him a sketch separate from Weekend Update, it could be good.

I think the writers are focusing too much on Kristin Wiig (who I don't find funny) and stupid stereotypical humor (like any joke that had to do with Megan Fox during this episode, especially the monologue) and not enough on the likes of Fred Armison, Bill Hader, and Will Forte (my personal favorites in the current cast). For example, Judy Grimes needs to end. It's just like all the other unfunny characters that Wiig does. And I barely saw Hader or Sudekis during this entire episode!

And the biker sketch? Seriously? There were zero jokes in that, it was just an excuse to put "frickin", "friggin", or "freakin" into a sketch as many times as possible and hope the actors don't say the f-bomb (oh wait.......).

They need to find new big talent, possibly even go the route of Season 10 (the Billy Crystal, Martin Short, and Spinal Tap year) and bring in established comedians. Lacking Darrell Hammond will really hurt them.

I thought I'd see a different side of Megan Fox, but that surely wasn't the case whatsoever. Worst guest I've ever seen.

[Reply #594 on:]

Was Conan's head injury on air?

[Reply #595 on:]

I was watching this show on the History Channel about dogfights (it's either called Aerial Tactical Combat Theater or Dogfights, I don't recall) and there was a story about Jefferson DeBlanc fighting off a bunch of Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscar" over Guadalcanal.  At one point the narrator refers to one of the enemy planes as a "Zero", the preeminent Japanese fighter of WWII.  I say to the screen, "It's an Oscar...dot com!"
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[Reply #597 on:]

awesome House season finale, and bones returns on the 8th.
get in!

[Reply #598 on:]

At one point the narrator refers to one of the enemy planes as a "Zero", the preeminent Japanese fighter of WWII.  I say to the screen, "It's an Oscar
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I do that sort of thing all the time.
Like the other week on some crappy movie, characters identified an aircraft as a 'MiG' when it was clearly a Sukhoi Su-27. I screamed and thrashed and wept for hours.

[Reply #599 on:]

Just started watching How I Met Your Mother. Haven't really been a live studio audience sitcom person for a while, probably since Friends/Frasier. But this is kinda funny. NPH is awesome. Whatsits Hannigan is a bit bleh at times, but whatever, i like it. Also, Bob Saggat (sp?) Narrating!