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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

i had to check that josh lorton wasn't a real person playing a character w/ the same name bc the incitement was so intense i was legit worried someone might die bc of a crazed fan

feel it would be remiss of me not to mention the new dril show truthpoint here too. yeah it owes a lot to OCATC but has a similar lols per minute rate and seems extremely promising based on episode 1

Where is it

adult swim!

a little zone blazed right now and watching the last 2 seasons of Decker and my god this is just the funniest shit on the planet

the "Private Sector" episode with the acoustic off key version of "Empty Bottle" and the 1-second cameo by the guy who showed up at the trial is just killing me

https://www.instagram.com/p/BzLlTf2lXZk/

this is so fucked up lol

That was not a .357 Magnum

really startin' to feel like someone's gonna die this season

is this the bleakest season

Cappy Ricks (Walter Brennan) has returned home from a long voyage at sea only to find that his family and business are not as he left them... Cappy Ricks knows he has to end the chaos and set things straight. He brings everyone on his ship as there he can be the Captain and in charge. He has a two day excursion extend into an 8 week voyage. Then they are lost on an uninhabited island. And as in other movies of that period, he uses the island to straighten out the arrogance of the rich ladies and the weakness of sons under mothers dominance.

I'd give it five bags of popcorn, and maybe a shotgun shell from "The Real McCoys".

was that the first appearance of actual VFA swag

If he survives I shudder to think how they’ll top “Tim plays with guns” as a theme.

I know they mentioned in a recent interview that they had previously scrapped an arc where Tim dies and is replaced by his twin brother. But they also recently established (I think in Mister America?) that Tim has no siblings currently living so I think that ship has sailed?

I don't think they'll let anything said previously get in the way of sailing whatever ship they want to sail tbf

#releasethefotage

haha yeah

Less interested in seeing Mister America now that I know it only has one minute of Gregg talking about the Oh God movies.

electric sun desert music festival '19
coming next summer

Star Wars! Star Trek! Splash!

edward nor-ton

love that the mobile vfa is just greg's car filled with tapes

my wife surprised me with an intensely yellow VFA shirt, god only knows where she got it. trying to make reservations at la bernadin so i have somewhere to wear it

Star Wars! Star Trek! Splash!

otm tbh

Would love to hear about how they get Tim's suits. Has to be thrifting.

arnold scharzenneger

"alright...lets get into movies...first up, Chachaquab...uh...Chipsa...Patchaquaddick...Chachapwaddick…"

"Chappaquiddick, like they said in the movie about 500 times if you saw the movie"

Just when you think this show has jumped the shark...

was this the longest episode yet?

megalols at Manuel & Gregg having the same expression for half the episode

"mt btl 3.0" song of the year

pop korn classic

has anyone counted how many times this song appears in the series, its gotta be like 20 by now

oh cool it's the On Cinema/QAnon crossover we've all been waiting for

Received a wonderful call from Manuel and Axiom expressing their love and joy for MTBTL 3Q and all involved look forward to a wonderful future for DEKKAR

— M i s t e r A m e r i c a (@timheidecker) November 7, 2019

my two rocks

it's almost like between a rock and hard place but not with these two guys cause it's exactly where i wanna be

lol @ Axiom's hook hand right in the middle of the frame. insult to injury

This show is making me too highly attuned to any kind of management-speak/mansplaining cadences or BS in professional situations

I know it ain't OC but this whole thing reminded me of "Brick by Brick" which I still crack up thinking about

https://timheidecker.bandcamp.com/track/brick-by-brick-studio-version

"mt btl 3.0" song of the year

― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 November 2019 14:08 (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

correct

the 100 gecs/linkin park crossover we didn't know we deserved

I cannot wait to see the other shoe fall off of Lady Gaga's foot.

fuck "brick by brick" is gonna be stuck in my head forever

'Brick By Brick' is such a great song. The fact that it was improvised on the spot is just icing on the cake.

pplains otm

my daughters are still singing Brick By Brick, it's an earworm for sure

that lilttle sax/clavinet lick or whatever it is lol

https://www.dailystar.com.lb/Arts-and-Ent/Culture/2019/Nov-09/495235-james-dean-to-appear-in-movie-decades-after-his-death.ashx

the final bit (from like 2:50 on) that's just Tim & LaRue pointing their guns everywhere is some of the funniest shit I've seen in a long time