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Half the Tim & Eric thread is about this show so I think it deserves its own thread

Granted I'm only like 13 hours into this thing but it's possibly one of the best comedic achievements of the 21st century

also this video is wonderful and I watch it every day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUE5_Mnelwc

Worth looking for: the episode of The Best Show from a couple years back where Tim and Gregg take up about an hour of the show arguing over whether or not Tim actually saw the Tom Cruise remake of The Mummy.

I never really gave a shit about the Tim & Eric show but I am 100% on board with this as pure genius, Turkington hooking up with him was a godsend.
I'm on season 9.

feel like I'm doing a marathon to catch up but even then I can only watch like a handful of these in a row otherwise I will succumb to severe couchlock hypnosis

I think the guys using the mailbag to passive aggressively torment/spring surprises on each other is my favorite gag

best comedy on earth

when you've got movies like Tom Cruise in them

i watched the first episode of this afew days ago.....does it get better? or do you just have to immerse yourself in the voib for a few episodes before you can get into it?

It’s my favorite television thing. You really need to immerse yourself (similar to the Best Show).

Immerse, my friend. Let it wash over you.

Six seasons of uncritical plaudits for every film under the sun was a magnificent setup for Tim's excoriating Ant-Man review.

I got into it through the spin-off, Decker.

https://pitchfork.com/news/tim-heidecker-and-greg-turkington-to-star-in-new-film-mister-america/

Oh god there are Oscar specials and a 12 hour long youtube clip ;_; I am going to have to watch it, I'm afraid. These guys are unreal.

didn't realize it until I went back but Tim's speech was a lot less garbled pre-brain surgery

for some reason the Oscar Specials are not on the Adult Swim streaming channel

i watched the first episode of this afew days ago.....does it get better?

at first it just seems like a shitty half-assed parody that does not feature any actual jokes, but as time goes on, the layers of comedy really accrue in an ingenious way

probably said this in the other thread but Tim's explanation of why he's paying for Ayaka's abortion despite being a staunch pro-lifer is the purest distillation of the right-wing ethos that I've ever heard

he just... he wasn't going to be in that situation

how come there are no animated gifs of Tim's guitar wanking faces, that shit is comedy gold

he just... he wasn't going to be in that situation

choices have to be on the table

i watched the first episode of this afew days ago.....does it get better? or do you just have to immerse yourself in the voib for a few episodes before you can get into it?

I don't know how to explain this to you but the "Stump the Buff" segment where Tim nails Gregg on the Star Trek/San Francisco trivia question is just as dramatic as the scene in Breaking Bad where Hank figures out who Heisenberg is

you must be talking about Star Trek II

which as Trekkie and non-Trekkie alike knows, takes place in San Francisco

haha

This playlist seems to comprise the definitive chronology of the On Cinema-verse (countdown to exasperated sic post detailing, at length,what's missing from said hi playlist): https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRT5PdjVF-ipL5SPXbmZXzfBchXVR8JTo

(No idea where that rogue 'hi' came from so that would be sic gripe #1., I'm sure.)

I graciously accept your thanks for my recommending that playlist to you

I completely don’t get this

Popcorn Classic is a really useful term for a certain kind of movie.

I thank u, sic, although I spent a long while watching a different, much less complete YT playlist (after starting on the even less complete playlist on that one website) so I just wanted to make sure no one else made my stupid mistake. I give this latest playlist five bags of popcorn and a hundred cups of soda.

The later seasons of Decker aren’t on youtube btw, but iirc they stop interacting directly with On Cinema episodes so it doesn’t stand out badly

(The two Ant-Man movies also don’t appear in the playlist, but do very much affect On Cinema video and twitter content )

forks if you were starting at an early point, try dropping in on a S4 or 5 episode, when the Tim vs Gregg tone is better established & there’s loads of backstory, to see if it pings any better with you

eh I think starting in the beginning obscures what a slow build this show is

er starting in the MIDDLE

the whole of season 9 seems to be an extended satire on how annoying having dinner service at the Alamo Drafthouses is

"Tastes like a mouthful of dirt."

Todd Rundgren appears in the last episode of Decker...I knew that voice was familiar!!

"Why was he fired, did he forget to wipe down the microwave?"

if someone "completely doesn't get" the show at the beginning, pushing on through twenty episodes of more of the same is probably going to bore and annoy them

oh yeah, the full real-time Trial Of Tim Heidecker coverage isn't on youtube either, just 10-15 minutes highlights from each day (iirc that's all I watched, then switched over for the full verdict)

all 5 hours right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWJcqISKJ

oops. I meant right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWJcqISKJQ

the trial is astonishingly great. you HAVE to watch the full thing and not just the highlights.

the whole of season 9 seems to be an extended satire on how annoying having dinner service at the Alamo Drafthouses is

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, July 3, 2019 11:24 AM (forty-nine minutes ago)

the satire of the kind of fake fancy junk food you get in north america - e.g. everything coming with truffle aoili - was very good

I would say you can watch highlights of the trial until Tim fires his attorney and starts defending himself, then switch to the full thing

no!!!!!!!

a couple of my old acquaintances recently started a video game podcast. I listened to one episode and thought about On Cinema the whole time. one of the guys has probably played 20,000 hours of video games but has absolutely nothing insightful to say about them, it's so spot on that I've almost come to view Tim & Gregg as real people

Has anyone started an On On Cinema at the Cinema podcast yet

lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK_iydsYSiI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVuw80sbFZA&list=WL&index=5

I just watched shakey's clip the other day. It wouldn't be nearly as beautiful without the interviewer's overt lack of interest in Gregg's banalities.

Can you guess which album changed Gregg's life?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4ZLquouHc

mundane movies on VHS* is what I meant

the laws of physics demand at least one bag of popcorn

This single sentence echoes through my mind at least two times a day!

is it unspoken that gregg got ayaka deported in one of the earlier seasons? he almost definitely reported the theft of his airheads vhs to the cops

the laws of physics demand at least one bag of popcorn

This single sentence echoes through my mind at least two times a day!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, July 17, 2019 2:28 PM (forty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Would be a great sign to put up at an actual concession stand

we're gonna do a lucky dip, just like anyone has done

― Vape Store (crüt), Tuesday, July 16, 2019 7:48 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

goddammit lmao

I usually binge this while my gf is out and even though she's seen her share of T+E stuff she still seems baffled when she returns to whatever's happening onscreen. She recently walked in when Tim was discussing what he planned to do with his dead son's life insurance money. Oh, and then last night one of the Purple Boys ads was playing (which y'all should look up if they haven't popped up for you yet).

I'm at season 8 an Old Lunch wasn't kidding, this is off the chain.

"Mah, myaka-uh... my Ayaka is with child, pregnance. Wasn't not planned, but eh, we have that coming up."

😭😭😭

I need to review so that I can precisely quote the thing he says about having to talk in some weird voice so the thoughts in his brain don't come out his nose. I honestly about died.

Oh and during the Suicide Squad review when he said 'Jared Lego'.

I might just rewatch the whole season once I've finished.

'Idris El..bow'

the way he struggles to pronounce "dakota" in season 7 ep 2 kills me

Personally for me I get a lot of humor out of the juxtaposition when he reads the synopsis. Something about the way the clips are always of a movie that takes itself very seriously with lots of drama and action, and yet completely undercut by the voice of this disengaged illiterate idiot painfully trying to get to the end of a blurb.

Oh and during the Suicide Squad review when he said 'Jared Lego'.

― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, July 17, 2019 8:51 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Haha, he did. Right after 'Caredegli, Cara Devliredge' lmao.

Tim's in a right state!

Love how most of Tim's season 8 reviews consist solely of a hastily-muttered 'five bags of popcorn' with zero additional commentary. Dude's got vapin' to do.

I need to review so that I can precisely quote the thing he says about having to talk in some weird voice so the thoughts in his brain don't come out his nose. I honestly about died.

― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, July 17, 2019 8:50 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

At 5:43 right here!

And just every time he hungrily vapes like a dying man who's discovered a desert oasis (read: every time he vapes). Fuckin' kills.

Season 8 just might be the eye of the duck.

Absolutely. Right after the nose thing there's this moment where he just inhales and inhales and inhales and it kills me.

it was watching a few episodes of season 8 that inspired me to go through the whole thing so i think y'all are onto something

Another thing I've noticed since I got sucked into this show's orbit is just how common a construction 'hey, guys' is, and how it's begun making me laugh pretty much every time I hear it. Which I'm sure, to normal people, seems like lunacy.

Personally for me I get a lot of humor out of the juxtaposition when he reads the synopsis. Something about the way the clips are always of a movie that takes itself very seriously with lots of drama and action, and yet completely undercut by the voice of this disengaged illiterate idiot painfully trying to get to the end of a blurb.

― Evan, Wednesday, July 17, 2019 2:08 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

his reading of the Storks synopsis makes me fall out laughing every time

'Next up, The Wall, starring John Semen...uh, duh, I'm sorry...John Cena, directed by Doug Semen...Lyman......Liman.'

does anyone have any theories about how Tim got Axiom and Manuel under his thumb?

I always thought of them as LA music scene equivalents of Greg - pathetic mediocrities who nevertheless cling to Tim because he has access to a tv show, and also that Tim always pays for everyone’s drugs

there’s this little smirk Greg makes sometimes when he’s making some banal long winded observation that kills me for some reason

Gregg: and i would say it's about time because those of us who are Oz-Freaks have been waiting since 1939, which is when the last Wizard of Oz movie came out - it was a MGM picture starring Judy Garland

Tim: Oh!

Gregg: and to wait this long to find out the next chapter, it's kind of a burden. a lot of people have passed on who saw the original and never got a chance to see the next chapter, so that's kind of a shame.

ok, i know i'm still early on but S2E5 is my favorite so far. the oz review and then the stuff about Colin Farrell was enough to make it a classic, but this made my side hurt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiYcJvDvzZQ

the clip doesn't even include the bit before where he suddenly announces that he's going to do this segment for the first ever time, or the conversation they have in the dark afterwards, as the credits roll, about how gregg made tim promise to never "do the political stuff again" after the podcast

idk why but every time tim mispronounces an actor's name i completely lose it, thankfully it happens in every single episode

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, July 10, 2019 12:57 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

When not in character on the Office Hours podcast he tends to do this legit accidentally, and he told a caller some months back that he is always mangling names and words irl but for On Cinnema just kind of leans into it

It's another great Colin Farrell movie. I feel like this guy doesn't know how to make bad movies.

xp Cinnema!

"we're not in kansas anymore, toto"

there’s this little smirk Greg makes sometimes when he’s making some banal long winded observation that kills me for some reason

― brimstead, Thursday, July 18, 2019 3:01 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

It’s like a side-eye scoring one for himself.

Greg's smirk is a meme in our household

the laws of physics demand at least one bag of popcorn

This single sentence echoes through my mind at least two times a day!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 18:28 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is probably my favourite line from the whole series.

I was shocked last night to see him defy physics in giving zero bags to Snowden!

i can already tell that decker vs. dracula isn't going to last for a whole season, regardless i really respect the direction gregg took it in

My new favorite is manifestations of Tim's massive dysfunction that unfold right there onscreen but that no one ever explicitly calls attention to. Things like Tim's ongoing physical abuse of Mark and his serial arson are mentioned offhandedly if at all.

Oh hey, Mark once again has facial trauma no one is talking about. And hey, yet another building has been destroyed by fire. Weird.

does anyone know what Tim is doing here, I assume this is in reference to some Oscar moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHebKoIFRKE&feature=youtu.be&t=1h52m16s

can't believe Gregg doesn't break character

can you try posting again

maybe the embed doesn't work. I think you can just click on the link

its 1:52:16 into the 2nd Oscar special

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48O1DEdMYKw

this song will be stuck in my head all day

omg the dekkar "oscar fever"/"empty bottle" mashup at the start of the fourth oscar special

dekkar the only band that deserves five bags of popcorn

RENEVANT

i'm standin' on a bridge of spies
i'm sick of hearin' all your goddamn lies

^ goes through my head at least once week

The Relevant

I was bored this afternoon so I searched and found an old tweet of mine from 2011 astro-turfing the OG podcast lol.

Should I post it here? Then y'all will know my notsoweird twitter.