Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley" (HBO Show)

sanford left sanford and son. but then i think he came back.

^ looked this up: he was on for 59 episodes, "went to St Louis" for six episodes, was back for another 75 episodes

cindy williams left laverne & shirley during its eighth season
ron howard left happy days after season seven
suzanne somers is probably also relevant here

there are a lot of shows that soldiered on without their “most famous” character is what i’m saying

the progressive lobotomization of christmas snow was one of the sadder moments in the 20th century.

jiggle tv: the dark side

a smart and savvy young woman reduced to a pre-verbal state. a cruel trick to play on an actor.

the hogan family

little did we know that miller was our valerie harper, and now we're waiting to see who is sandy duncan

Doctor Who has just barely struggled on for 700+ episodes since the guy that played Dr Who was fired

(he'd missed 9 of the first 133 episodes already)

this show is already better without that scumbag tj miller

scottish tv cop show taggart ran for a whopping 16 years after the guy who played its title character died, which i think is some kinda record

did people on the show occasionally ask "what happened to Taggart, anyway?" only to be ignored

McManus died in 1994, in the middle of filming an episode. His absence was explained by the claim that Taggart was in constant meetings with the Chief Constable.

beautiful

now that’s how you write around a problem

this new episode was really, really weak

nice napalm death ref

working or hardly working also a throwback to Office Space

well that's one of those shitty things you say to co-workers since the dawn of time.

Yeah true it’s just a cliche

nice napalm death ref

― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Sunday, April 8, 2018 10:43 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/t-miller-busted-calling-fake-bomb-threat-train-article-1.3925895

damn. way to go to jail.

I may have been just really in the mood for comedy, but I really enjoyed this week's episode

Richard courting the COO guy and thinking Jared was on the wrong track only to find out he was completely wrong about reading people was a good setup. "he's had a head cold the last couple weeks and has been really low energy" was lol

So weird to see Tina in the flesh.

the napalm death thing was great and got funnier as the episode wore on

though annoying to imagine richard wouldn't just unplug the speakers...

i told you this show would be better without miller!

I kept thinking Gilfoyle is surely smart enough to have the "stop mining" command sent to his home system automatically, rather than play the clip that he has to respond to manually. I guess I overthink comedy.

it's possible he's doing it to intentionally annoy his coworkers

I considered that too, and that's probably the reason. But I was thinking Richard or Dinesh would have pointed that out to him.

nobody wanted to hear the bullshit response about why it was necessary he do it manually and use an audio cue

I saw the "I really love pot pies but only kind of like carrots" joke coming as soon as they were set down in front of him but it still made me lose my shit.

i was expecting an A/B test joke there

That COO douchebag and Richard meeting up and it seeming like a date where Richard was being aggressively courted by a seduction artist was some good staging

oh god, Radical Candor is an actual thing and has a book: https://thehustle.co/radical-candor/

i thought the COO was a celebrity VC making a special appearance for his first few lines. such otm casting

you've got to be very straightforward and honest, which is why I've told my current boss lies about Richard courting me

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tj-miller-arrested-allegedly-calling-a-fake-bomb-threat-1101316

more details on tj miller's shitty train excursion. sounds like he was drunk, got angry at a woman on the train, and then called 911 with her details but managed to do so in a way that they stopped and evacuated a completely different train

yah you know he thought to his drunk ass self "do not mess with me, i am a brilliant genius that you will regret fucking with" then proceeded to commit the ultimate self clowning of all time

Keep imagining Jian Yang making the bomb-threat call.

yah no this dude is an actual piece of shit irl

unreal this season also had a radical candor related plot

i wonder how the music licensing works -- does napalm death get paid for each instance of the song, or is it a blanket use? did they use all the money they saved on TJ Miller on Napalm Death?

underrated detail is that dinesh was using some sort of custom mechanical keyboard. very otm detail

that's the one nerd fetish object I somehow have no impulse to buy but wow do programmers love those

I'm sure y'all know but HBO gets paid to use that shit on their shows, since there are no ads. For some reason they were drinking Ace cider and kept calling it beer though.

Also there is this narrative now that TJ Miller has a neurological issue from an operation in his youth that affects his decision making process and now I'm supposed to feel bad for not liking him :(

that generally means that when you're capable of making good decisions, or make enough money you can hire someone to help you with plans, you make plans to mitigate the possibility of things like this happening

like making sure you're traveling with someone strong enough to slap the phone out of your hand when you call 911 falsely, or a buddy who makes sure you don't drink a shitload and act like an asshole

I guess my tolerance for rich people acting like assholes and doing things that'd get any normal person locked into a prison->poverty->repeat cycle is pretty low