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I Think You Should Leave is so good. Hardly any shows make me laugh hard lately and this one did.

I Think You Should Leave is so good. Hardly any shows make me laugh hard lately and this one did.

Yep, Conner O’Malley is so great. All the more famous comedians are perfectly integrated with their cameos.

incidentally, what's on kanopy varies depending on your local library system

What’s on Netflix varies depending on yr territory too

Loved WWDITS. Agree it's not completely hilarious all the way through but there are plenty of genuine laugh out loud moments (the first kill, the werewolves etc).

Show has been pretty good so far.

Also, three episodes in to Black Summer. Enjoying it but also exasperated by some of the dumb decisions the characters keep making (which seems to be a common theme in post apocalyptic zombie shows). I've never seen Z Nation - is it just a tenuous link to that show? And is it worth watching?

Intrigued by I Think You Should Leave, so I watched the trailer and it ... seemed like a lot of yelling and Tim & Eric styled OTT comedy? I'll give it a shot, esp. if it's funny, but I'm worried if I set it up as good and show my wife and it turns out it's ... a lot of yelling and Tim & Eric styled OTT comedy, she'll immediately give up on it.

i don’t really know tim and eric but i do think it gets better as it goes along

also the episodes are short

Why must every show get better as it goes along? Why can't they just be good right out of the gate? Assuming we don't hate something right away (I gonged "The Romanoffs" pretty fast), we have about a two episode margin of tolerance. Though lately my wife has had no problem suddenly dropping shows after several seasons! She watched the previous six seasons of Veep, but refuses to watch the new one, and after three seasons of Better Call Saul, which she loved, she oddly had no interest in season 4. Weird.

I'm trying to get my wife to watch 30 rock and two episodes in even I'm sceptical and I'm already a convert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMcDOE13AN8

lol perfectly apropos clip!!!

Wasn't 30 Rock, like Parks and The (American) Office, one of those shows with more or less expendable first seasons?

Damnit, that's why I never stuck with Parks.

I also like but still gave up on Better Call Saul. The pacing is so laborious you have to really gear up for a whole season of it.

Why must every show get better as it goes along? Why can't they just be good right out of the gate? Assuming we don't hate something right away (I gonged "The Romanoffs" pretty fast), we have about a two episode margin of tolerance. Though lately my wife has had no problem suddenly dropping shows after several seasons! She watched the previous six seasons of Veep, but refuses to watch the new one, and after three seasons of Better Call Saul, which she loved, she oddly had no interest in season 4. Weird.

lol. I never watched the absolute last two episodes of True Blood and I don't feel bad about it.

I gave up on the Sopranos after half a season because it was too whiney.

I'm pretty chill, it's only TV ...

think about your life pippin

Think of all the poor souls who couldn't give up on a show before it ended and suffered through the ending of Lost

Wasn't 30 Rock, like Parks and The (American) Office, one of those shows with more or less expendable first seasons?

No, 30 Rock was incredible from the first episode, and had their back nine picked up after the first six (of 13) had aired. The Office and Parks only had 6-episode commissions.

(30 Rock got even better as it went along, but that doesn’t make those first 21 disposable.)


Damnit, that's why I never stuck with Parks.

You can jump to episode six and then pick up with S2, that’s all the context you need - it’s all uphill from there, for years. (I used to say just watch the deleted scenes from S1, maybe they’re on youtube?)

yeah I've never seen s1 and never felt like I was missing much

more controversially I also endorse this strategy for Halt and Catch Fire

30 Rock jumps up notably after The Rur(al) Jur(or) episode ime which is only a few into s1.

echoing the I Think You Should Leave love, so far my fav sketches have been the toupee sketch, the scrooge sketch, and the office prank.

anyone who hasn't seen it yet should watch Tim Robinson's episode of The Characters.

Baby of the year too omg

So was the histrionic all-screaming trailer not indicative?

Did you watch Mr Show? Cause the yelling percentage seemed similar to Mr Show

Yeah, I also was going to pass on this because the trailer was all screaming.

I'm an OG Mr Show fan. They made judicious use of screaming outbursts, especially from Bob Odenkirk. I'll give this one a shot, because it is short, but yeah, that trailer was literally all screaming.

just watched the trailer for the first time--all those moments are a lot less obnoxious and jarring in context

xp mr show was probably a bit screamier than you recall, i mean if you think of their best-known sketches--story of everest, pre-taped call-in, 24 is the highest number--there's a lot of yelling.

xpost Ok, good to know. That's why I brought up Tim and Eric, I know that show has it fans and moments, but they also seemed prone to sketches that would just be somebody screaming monotonously for a couple of uncomfortable minutes.

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There's yelling in all sketch shows, that's how people can be heard over each other and the audience while they are improvising, afaict. I've been listening to the How Did This Get Made podcast, and the volume difference between the studio recordings and live audience recordings is pretty astounding.

The live ones are practically unlistenable and I think it kinda says everything about that podcast that they pretty much only do live ones these days (or that was certainly the case when I stopped listening)

I think either they only do live ones or at least studio ones are behind a paywall?

I think the last one I listened to mantzoukas got it into his head at one point that saying “put her in a bra” over and over was comedy gold and I was oh ok that’ll be the next 20 minutes of this then *smashes 30 second skip*

Why yes this has everything to do with Netflix actually

I do like Mantzoukas screaming. He's like this generation's Bobcat Goldthwait.

I got through a few eps of I Think You Should Leave last night and tbh there really is a lot of screaming / Tim Robinson doing an impression of the more manic Charlie Kelly bits

some of it was legit funny, tho

Charlie Day: the other this generation's Bobcat Goldthwait

Yeah I much prefer mantzoukas when he plays slightly quieter weirdo characters than when he’s acting the self-indulgent cokehead on hdtgm, whereas Charlie screaming will never not be funny to me

the most recent how did this get made was not paywalled or live. topher grace was on it. was about a duchovny film from 2007 called the secret which is about a mother and daughter body swapping and then the mother's body dying and the mother (in her 16 year old daughter's body) and father (duchovny) are horny for each other. sounds horrific.

i mean it is kind of a bad podcast but I'm glad i found out about this movie without ever having to see any of it

I like the podcast. I like when they make a distinction between movies too terrible to recommend (like The Snowman, which is a funny episode) and bad movies that are nonetheless worth seeing (like Action Jackson).

This show, though ... I just watched the first episode (it is indeed short) and it goes almost straight toilet humor and screaming, then the baby skit (which wasn't funny), then instagram tag skit (which wasn't funny and reminded me of some Amy Schumer bit?) and then the receipt skit ... which *was* funny! But then it went toilet humor again and I thought, really? That's where you wanted to go with it? Sigh. Why does life have to be so hard?

the baby sketch was hilarious, perhaps the problem is you

toilet humor isn't bad in and of itself--it's bad when it's a crutch, but robinson's work has an insane level of commitment to toilet humor.

I thought the In Memoriam bit was funny, it's true. But it's probably still me.

Poop is funny - shoutout American Vandal Season 2 on Netflix! - I just thought it was lazy that they had at least two skits that had funny premises that went screaming poop humor when they really didn't need to.

Tiebreak: I just watched the baby sketch and it was not funny. I kind of made a noise at the throat slash thing though.

First ep of Imposters not bad! Will continue

xp maybe i just reflexively laugh at everything that sam richardson does, and that's why i loved the baby sketch so much (i didn't like it as much as the scrooge sketch, which also involved richardson)

I love Sam Richardson. I have actually never heard of Tom Robinson or Detroiters and have no recollection of him on SNL? weird.

i do think it gets better as it goes along

i do think it gets better as it goes along

i do think it gets better as it goes along

i do think it gets better as it goes along

i do think it gets better as it goes along