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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

the fastest man alive

i didn't know what to expect from this but it was so good

So that KW Miller Florida QAnon congressional candidate that blew up on Twitter all week was an Office Hours bit?

watching it now, def not a bit

MT BTL 3.2

Read that much of the past eps on youtube have been disappearing, which sucks unless Adult Swim is willing to host everything as well.

not sure what thread this would go in but Drag City just repressed the Yellow River Boys album on piss yellow vinyl, I've wanted to own this for years

Yeah I want that

MT BTL 3.2🕸

Tim getting pulled into this Q business is...something else

lol WHAT

ATTN: Saturday, July 25, 2020 4:00 PM CDT: experimental filmmaker Guy Maddin interviews On Cinema's @timheidecker & @greggturkington for @GimliFilm! 😎 https://t.co/Z0q2t8wtHv pic.twitter.com/XY7EHHZ9If

— 𝖓𝖔𝖓 𝖋𝖎𝖑𝖒𝖘 (@NonFilms) July 25, 2020

lol WHAT

🐦[ATTN: Saturday, July 25, 2020 4:00 PM CDT: experimental filmmaker Guy Maddin interviews On Cinema’s @timheidecker🕸 & @greggturkington🕸 for @GimliFilm🕸! 😎 https://t.co/Z0q2t8wtHv🕸 pic.twitter.com/XY7EHHZ9If🕸
— 𝖓𝖔𝖓 𝖋𝖎𝖑𝖒𝖘 (@NonFilms) July 25, 2020🕸]🐦

Is there a way to stream that?

https://gimlifilm.com/gff-live-stream/#/

sick, thank you!

watching Tim and Gregg watch On Cinema was A+

Tim said they have tons of outtakes where they break into laughter and he teased a compilation. Evidently this is usually Gregg's fault for droning on too long and not being able to get out before he breaks.

I had no idea each season was filmed in a single day. I figured maybe over the course of a couple weeks or something....

Loved Gregg’s Chicken Delight jacket and of course he has a Tiki room in his house (extra points for him if he bought it because it already had a Tiki room).

Gregg's IRL wife is a huge tiki fanatic

omg I can't believe I never noticed this before (credit: reddit):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?tv=Jehl4mKb3Gw

whoops:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jehl4mKb3Gw

animated series was pretty good. when are they making more?

for some reason "A Walk Down Joemery Lane" is making me laugh a lot today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ff53Vc-ZDc

Tim collaborating with Weyes Blood on his latest track!

Animated Decker pilot has been unpaywalled: https://www.adultswim.com/videos/decker/the-animated-adventures-of-jack-decker-pilot

animating Tim's mangled line readings is funny, but it could also be a good gag if they obviously edit his audio around them in any theoretical future episodes

Neil Hamburger calling in to Office Hours with COVID tips back in June.

In Tim's IG stories today someone asked about the future of OCatC and he suggested that Adult Swim was less than enthusiastic about the show... which seems crazy right?

Well AS has so much other great content rn so

Noticed that in the stories too. Made me curious as well. Decker question had the same exact answer.

I don't really find it surprising. it's a show which could only appeal to total heads. not going to win over many people flicking between channels. the youtube episodes don't even do particularly spectacular numbers. they have to fundraise to make the Oscar special every year. seems very much like a labour of love from them rather than something adult swim is keen for them to keep making

Tim always seems to have a chip on his shoulder when it comes to stuff like this so who knows. You’d think Adult Swim would let him do whatever he wants by now.

well, there's all those production expenses to keep in mind

Was gonna say, if AS decides not to proceed with On Cinema, I have a full jar of change that I'm willing to donate to a couple seasons' worth of production costs.

i can donate a used hanky to use to help clean off the lens

right now they're definitely just blowing cool air on it

last i checked, tim's production company produces quite a few shows for adult swim, so i'd imagine his low-budget passion project isn't going to get the axe any time soon

last i checked, tim's production company produces quite a few shows for adult swim

Abso lutely!

(and Netflix too)

last night's debate reminded me so much of the last few Oscar specials

needed more hobbit songs tbh

needed more carbon monoxide

Ryan Phillippe (Crash, Cruel Intentions, Gosford Park, ex-husband of Reese Witherspoon) is apparently a deep On Cinema head?

He was a guest on Tim's podcast, and I think they mentioned that he partially funded one of the Oscar specials(?)

That is amazing, I had no idea.

Wooow. My gf was watching Phillipe's hilariously uber-shitty Shooter tv series and I swear I kept thinking 'this is exactly like Decker minus the self-awareness' but maybe I had him all wrong. Might have to revisit.

I mean

The show stars Ryan Phillippe in the lead role of Bob Lee Swagger, a retired U.S. Marine Corps sniper living in seclusion who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the President.

How could I have been so blind

Looking back, it seems like he's more in on things than it would appear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSPQzM875OU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29EReWwuFE0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OydYDGqPq4Q

Looks like he's dusting this character off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80G38bxPeyI

you know for years I thought Tim was supposed to be Trump but now I realize he's Don Jr.

I recall an interview where the interviewer noted that Tim looked Trump-y in season 11, and Tim responded that the look was more like Eric Trump

Decker is way more Trumpular in mien than OC's Tim