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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

kurt roder

I thought Toni was the intended target

Yeah I’m sure, of course Tim won’t admit it

Wait, never mind, Toni already knows she was the target

G Amato straight-faced singing that hymn from memory is maybe the most insane thing they’ve done on an Oscar Specail

so uh Tim's going into witness protection now right

xps when they were arguing Tim said to G something about having been busy dealing with Matt’s murder & said “I asked you for help, I didn’t ask you to do that”

I think it’s pretty much what we’ve all assumed over the course of this season tbh, senile mobster g Amato sent Joey to intimidate Toni so she wouldn’t testify against Tim, he killed Matt instead

I just don’t know what all this means for baboon

my guess with all this is the Amatos need to launder a ton of money which is why they found all of Tim's 'properties' attractive, including HEI Points. G. Amato is the boss but Joey is probably the one really in charge. he probably had Amato's son killed and is obviously invovled with Kaili. but I guess they see Tim as an asset and someone who they really don't want investigated since he's now tied up with their criminal enterprise. the original plan with Toni was probably just to intimidate her but Call of Duty expert Matt Newman perhaps knew something may be up (since he was apparently talking on Discord about it?) and things went south. guessing Matt's father knows about his shadiness too which is why there was a scene at the funeral. so Tim didn't really 'approve' the plan but he knew what was happening. they could've gotten away with it too if not for both Tim and Joey being such hotheads

Well joey does bottle things up

Another way to see it though is that Gregg is just so annoying that it might end up bringing down the Amato crime family

HEI NEWS Update:https://t.co/ab7F0yXv37 pic.twitter.com/1nguyBXw6o

— On Cinema at the Cinema (@OCATCOfficial) March 11, 2024

great season/Oscar special but I'm a little disappointed that we probably aren't getting the Baboon/Pep Shop Boys movie now. Deck of Cards was so funny I actually felt exhausted by the end of it.

as funny as it was I gotta admit seeing Gregg-as-Dumbledore get flung to the ground like that was pretty disturbing, he didn't deserve that

also is G. Amato the first person to actually point out the shoddiness of the production like that? I know Tim and Gregg needle each other over their stuff a lot but overall it seems everyone in-universe is happy to play along and pretend On Cinema is some legit enterprise, Amato going "well it was clear this was not very good" was the first time I think a character ever started the obvious like that

the first thing he says when he and Tim start arguing backstage is "I told you not to talk to her"

I love how Tim ignores the many, many clear warnings that Joey gives him before getting decked

He was begging to get his ass kicked even more than usual on these specials.

can't help but wonder if Joey's "softball team" is about to pay him a visit

replay is now up btw, I rewatched the end to see if I could figure anything else out and noticed when Tim is backstage cursing out Joey and G. Amato he walks past Gregg who says "Tim! Oppenheimer won!" lmao

oh god movie links

I don’t know if I’ll watch live again tbh but glad I did at least once, during movie links frogbs & I both just posted “oh no” at the same time & I wondered how many ppl were also saying/typing “oh no” at that moment

I do need to watch the recording just to see the 10 minutes that the stream was down — I need to know how many Hei points that guy won!

in the Discord it was a LOT

in the Office Hours Patreon Tim gives credit to the "crowd" who did a remarkable job of staying stonefaced the whole time, which apparently caused IRL Tim to wonder if any of the bits were landing. though I did see one audience member really struggle to keep it together when "Big Bird" came out

I’m not really into liveposting & would only come here in the breaks but I had to post at that moment

The extras were great, big laugh early on was the cut to the woman absolutely cramming a funnel cake

hah same I had to post mostly to find a way to look away from the screen while that was happening

had the Discord feed on the side for a while because they capture great screencaps but it became too distracting

favorite extra was prob the woman working the booth who looked absolutely miserable. was the implication that everyone had been there for 3 days?

I don’t think they had a 1-day option for buffs 😕

it really was the knock out

https://imgur.com/9FPhTTQ.gif

At least the Kettleheads out there got some content

“I know what Paula Poundstone’s signature looks like and that ain’t it!”

wonder how long Joey sticks around in this series. it doesn't really make sense to have him but OC does find a way to make its best characters stick around so I'm sure we'll see him. would be really funny if Tim holds a major grudge against him for beating him up during his own special and found ways to get his ass kicked worse and worse

Scorsese’s secret life as an obsessive VHS archivist

It’s a shame the show’s season has ended—I can easily imagine Gregg boasting of how he’s in talks with Scorsese re: the VFA, similar to the storyline about him writing to Tim Burton.

Rewatching currently, hit season 9 and the back-end of that season is a massive peak in this show. Particularly the run of ep 7. Gregg and Mark shit all over Tim killing 20 kids, ep 8. Joe comes in to tell his potato story while calling Tim who informs he’ll be out for the next episode and looks forward to watching last weeks episode and ep 9. “On the advice of my council, we are here to talk about the movies”

that slow zoom in on their faces during that part where Mark & Gregg find out Tim is going to be back is hilarious but also one of those moments that weirdly bothers me, like it's the kind of humor that SNL does, which is kind of the polar opposite of how On Cinema is

“I hope everyone gets better, the folks that are still in the hospital….. I’m praying for you….. see you next week!”

Yeah, it’s a break in style, but I think it makes sense in-universe! The ‘production’ crew are Tim’s lackeys and have no respect for Gregg (There’s an earlier episode where Gregg says to cut the lights and they don’t, waiting for Tim’s direction).

My stupid fan-theory: the “production” is some lovecraftian, beastly apparatus of Tim. The show will never stop, because Tim is the show. His cosmic weight instantly pulls in all passer-by’s to have their life’s destroyed through the mundanity of two, soulless men reading movie synopses and muttering “5 bags, and 2 bags of soda”. The production is the beast

Omg I forgot Dr. San hangs himself

reminds me of probably my favorite joke of this season which is Toni having that really macho intro music blaring when she's first introduced, it's a wordless joke but it's really deeply funny once you understand like 4 things about the show

Gregg finds so much joy in Tim murdering 20 kids that when he finally gets an episode to himself to host, he can’t even talk about the movies. Now that’s a 5 bagger move

see thats something I really love about it, the constant bickering and sniping between them would feel kinda forced if not for the fact that they really do each have dozens of reasons to hate each other. its a very palpable hatred that a lot of comedies use but don't really earn the way this show does

Otm. The hate is palpable, it’s the fuel to every episode.

Watching the Trial for the second time and it’s an amazing piece of satire on how Trump won the presidency. Maybe obvious to others, my Australian eyes didn’t see it the first time tho

Tim is genuinely great in how he is able to catch the vibe of a certain type of American guy without going in for obvious parody of specific people. Tim also seems to have a good sense of detecting right-wing trends early, like his character's turn to alternative medicine long before COVID (because of "Obamacare")*

*Like during the Obama administration I noticed the right-wingers in my Washington exurb start to get interested in what had previously been left-coded things like backyard chickens and acupuncture because Obamacare poisoned all our food and medicine.

It really shows up how lame pretty much all other liberal comics’ satire of the trump era is, everything else feels cheap & reactive where this managed to anticipate the bizarrest stuff years in advance and really get into how these guys think

xps tim & Gregg have a Walt-Jesse level toxic relationship at this point, so much ill feeling but they can’t extricate themselves from each other — & there are moments where they reveal they do sort of care for each other a bit, but always in an ultimately abusive way

It’s very funny how they both seem not fully conscious of how much the hatred is driving how they think, like Tim basing his whole self-help cult around the idea that watching lots of films is dangerous or Gregg spinning his resentment of dekkar into a dislike of all music

managed to anticipate the bizarrest stuff years in advance

2011:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USA5v08NcEU

I've probably pointed it out before but Tim trying to explain why he's trying to pay for Ayaka's abortion despite being staunchly pro-life is maybe the best encapsulation of Republican 'logic' I've ever seen

You need options

Sometimes situations occur

The situation had to be evacuated

Getting a little choked up at the 40 years of Jaws 2 montage (which is actually a Jaws 3 montage; movie buffs will know). So great to see so many people around the world celebrate such a massive milestone. Jaws 2 made it! to think we're only 4 years from the big 50!

the people’s joker (written and directed by on cinema editor vera drew) is so good