The McElroy Brothers

Love TAZ, though do not enjoy Lup the way everyone else seems to.

TAZ shines because it's always been griffin and his asshole family playing an overly complicated game they don't try to hard to understand and by the third arc it had become Something Special in spite of that

^^^

yeah idc abt Lup

There are a bunch of great NPCs, and Lup is up there with the best of them imo. She's also a fan favourite because a) double sassy elf magic = double the fun, b) having a canonically trans character cements the moves towards inclusiveness that they'd been making, and c) FUCK YOU, GREG GRIMALDIS.

I'd heard about the Nick Robinson thing and knew there was a Polygon/McElroy bros connection, but I didn't realise he co-hosted Touch the Skyrim and CGI. Oof.

The inclusiveness stuff is great, it's just she feels a little overengineered to be awesome and lived by all, rather than actually being very interesting

LOVED by all, fuck

yay there's a mcelroy thread on here finally! i LOVE them, also consume a lot of their stuff, and will come back to this thread when i have time to read and think abt it

also it is kind of amazing how they all had kids within a few years of each other. Old Clint is the uber-grandad!

Such wholesome family boys.

this was posted on reddit ages ago, it's a great profile of Clint, and some very moving stuff about the boys' mom & the effect of her passing

http://www.huntingtonquarterly.com/articles/issue73/mcelroy.php

important content from tonight's Brooklyn MBMBAM show :D

Shrimp Heaven Now by @Lin_Manuel feat. @MBMBaM 🦐🦐🦐 pic.twitter.com/Okftc5P23Y

— ashley hufford (@ashleyhufford) September 9, 2017

I've been meaning to bump this thread asking what people thought of the finale? Oddly the actual last episode didn't make me anywhere near as emotional as the penultimate one and The The Adventure Zone Zone roundup did - or perhaps not oddly, as the actual process of tying up loose ends just isn't going to be as emotionally charged, because there's a bit too much business to be taken care of. I still loved it, though - I'm basically very uncritical of anything Adventure Zone related because it became so important to me so quickly and it turns out that I'm a big old sap.

Since then I've been listening to a fair amount of MBMBaM, which isn't as good but does make me crack up *a lot*. I also tried a couple of episodes of Bunker Buddies, which is totally my wheelhouse content-wise but it didn't quite grab me. I'm going to try a few more, though.

i am still 2 episode away from the finale - loving the story though, esp now that they are back to regular D&D - stolen century was great but i def like it when the boys have more to do

and yeah, MBMBaM is basically just a pure chucklefest <3

Finale was enjoyable, but also had the extremely long-drawn-out post-climax scenes that are more fun for the participants than the listeners (see end of 3rd LotR film, etc)

what those were the best parts

they've been on this campaign for 3 years they can have like 20 minutes of closure

Just stopped by to say holy shit I love TAZ and I don't know how I missed this thread until now.

i think TAZ is definitely the best thing they've created together

and like, to do that as a family is pretty fkn cool.

I know, the closure was fine, i was listening at 1am and desperate for it to finish so i could sleep, i am a grinch

<3

singularity has now been reached.

No Zone of Truth necessary - we're gonna miss these boys pic.twitter.com/K44kjllrln

— Arby's (@Arbys) September 12, 2017

i blame the mcelroys for creating people like this https://t.co/C68ORfjLgC

— cheetah lupone (@zrok_) October 20, 2020

that guy is lame & terrible at metaphors - not the mcelroys fault

A hectoring dude with bad politics on Tik-Tok is the fault of the McElroys? I don't even get the comparison.

I'm definitely off the train a little, just tired of the whole family promo machine, but a few of the main projects still bring some much-needed laughs.

yeah same