Mr. Show with Bob and David: Genius or Overrated?

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/lists/my-favorite-mr-show-sketches-maynard-keenan-sarah-silverman-sound-off-20151103

i think i still have all my vhs tapes where i taped each episode. watched them so many times. i don't even know how i knew to tape it. i don't remember reading about it or anything. but i never missed a show. so inspiring. felt like it took forever for the DVDs to come out.

yeah I had VHS tapes from a friend, which we subsequently copied - this was around '97 or so (I didn't know anybody at the time who actually paid for HBO)

wow the audition really is kind of a perfect lil scene

it's always funny

i really did do this. it was my only test to see if we were compatible.

When Scott and I first started hanging out, one of the first things he played me on his t.v. was his Mr. Show videos. I think he was really relieved when my sides were splitting and asked to see more. We might not be married today if I had hated it.
― Maria :D (Maria D.), Saturday, April 23, 2005 3:49 PM (10 years ago)

i never could have married ned raggett! sheesh, he really didn't like this show when i look upthread at ancient posts. smashing pumpkins fans are unpredictable though...

if I had to pick a single Mr. Show sketch to save in a fire it would def be "The Audition" which is just perfect from start to finish.

I was staying over at a friend's house in the mid-'90s and, having no idea what a Mr. Show was, we happened upon the Bob Lamonta sketch while flipping through channels. Probably still one of my hardest laughs of all time. And yes, once I was exposed, it really did feel like forever until those DVDs were released.

my shoes hurt too

is a thing I still say to my wife

My shoes hurt too. My shoes hurt ... too.

I have a similar story... I got cable in the mid-90s, stumbled across "It's Great. It's Crack. It Gets You Really High" and thought it was the greatest thing since vintage SCTV.

thumbs up to all of this.

I took old school fuzzy iron-on letters and made a tshirt, ca. 2000, that said "five inch taint." I wore it exactly once out in public and then felt ridiculous about it and tossed it.

They were really good at those deeply iterative bits that really pushed the boundary of how far they could take and repeat the same joke -- The Audition, Mt. Everest, Pre-Taped Call-In Show, shitting on the flag, etc. Each iteration brought something silly and new, so they could keep running with it.

24 is the highest number

C.S. Lewis, Jr., "Blew Moon"

Look out, Moon
America's gonna getcha
Gonna go Kaboom
Was nice to have metcha
Cuz you don't mess around
with God's America

hey mr. monkey don't be asking why
cos you know you can't mess with American Pride

We're earthlings, let's blow up earth things!

that monkey sure took the fun out of everything

watching david cross' stand up is like watching troy dyer sing "add it up," in a "fuck, am i that guy?" kind of way and i automatically sympathize with the michael grates point of view even though "add it up" what i think i'm all about

I think of this whenever Noel Gallagher says something stupid/funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n6NqxBZP0Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pBougV1JK4

Young People & Companions is an underrated sketch. Pretty sure I read/heard that Dino was tripping when he came up with the idea (and I think Pre-Taped Call-In Show was born of similar circumstances).

I love that sketch. Kinda helps if you grew up in SoCal, maybe? Because it seems like people were always getting lost in the woods and being described as "young people and companions."

"This yellow ribbon is for the companions, to show that we care about them. And this red ribbon is for the young people..."

Watched the first episode of the new show and was very pleased to find that it's basically just new episodes of Mr show, with the exact same format and supporting cast. Lots of laffs, although of course everyone has aged quite a lot.

The aging of John Ennis being the most notable (although I've seen him in other stuff from recent years). Dude looks like a stately old grandpa now.

this is live tonight, right?

It's up now

John Ennis' angry spanking is a thing of beauty

Yeah, it's so much more over the top than it has any reason to be.

I love Odenkirk ( the Steve jobs brother stand up bit is pure gold ) but this show just doesn't make me laugh at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n--DbvvwYTo

so good

shit, i am tempted to drop everything and watch these

wanna say what if arabs instead of jews ran hollywood is some trenchant social commentary 2 but not sure it reaches those heights/depths tbh

New eps are incredible, totally lol that they cant call it mr. Show cuz it totally is.

They sure do write great musicals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVBsCCV6NG4

DRUDGERYYYYYY

i thought they seemed kinda tired. and i was sad that the 5th episode was just a long boring making-of. bob looks really tired in that. i feel like they would have gotten their rhythm back after the 4th episode. they seemed to be getting there. but i actually got a little bored during some of those sketches. i did love the house musical numbers though. a secret room!

also the making-of really brought home the "mr. show is a boy's club!" line from the old show. needed more women in the new stuff.

I just watched the first episode, but the whole "Bitter Roots" sketch was as good as anything they've ever done.

felt like it had pretty much the same hit:miss ratio as the original series

Yeah me too

They were all great but only four episodes? That felt like an appetizer.

They want to do more, but everyone has different jobs now and they could only coordinate little portions of time

i really love how after all this time it is exactly the same show

it really is, it's uncanny

last episode of the 4 was my least favorite but that's okay, they can't all be solid gold

high points of new eps for me:
- John Ennis' incomprehensible angry englishman jibber jabber
- finding the right rhyme for "stairs" in "Rooms: The Musical"

the intro animation is great I just crack up at bobs expressions tbh