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
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
I think the guys using the mailbag to passive aggressively torment/spring surprises on each other is my favorite gag
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
best comedy on earth
― imago, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
when you've got movies like Tom Cruise in them
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
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?
― . (Michael B), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
It’s my favorite television thing. You really need to immerse yourself (similar to the Best Show).
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
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 Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
I got into it through the spin-off, Decker.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/tim-heidecker-and-greg-turkington-to-star-in-new-film-mister-america/
― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
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.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
didn't realize it until I went back but Tim's speech was a lot less garbled pre-brain surgery
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
for some reason the Oscar Specials are not on the Adult Swim streaming channel
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
he just... he wasn't going to be in that situation
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
how come there are no animated gifs of Tim's guitar wanking faces, that shit is comedy gold
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
choices have to be on the table
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
you must be talking about Star Trek II
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
which as Trekkie and non-Trekkie alike knows, takes place in San Francisco
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
haha
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
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
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 06:15 (four years ago) link
(No idea where that rogue 'hi' came from so that would be sic gripe #1., I'm sure.)
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 06:18 (four years ago) link
I graciously accept your thanks for my recommending that playlist to you
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 06:53 (four years ago) link
I completely don’t get this
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 07:13 (four years ago) link
Popcorn Classic is a really useful term for a certain kind of movie.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
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.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
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
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
eh I think starting in the beginning obscures what a slow build this show is
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
"Tastes like a mouthful of dirt."
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
Todd Rundgren appears in the last episode of Decker...I knew that voice was familiar!!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
"Why was he fired, did he forget to wipe down the microwave?"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
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)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
all 5 hours right here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWJcqISKJ
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
oops. I meant right here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWJcqISKJQ
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
the trial is astonishingly great. you HAVE to watch the full thing and not just the highlights.
― Vape Store (crüt), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
― 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
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
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
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
no!!!!!!!
― Vape Store (crüt), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
Has anyone started an On On Cinema at the Cinema podcast yet
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
lolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK_iydsYSiI
― Οὖτις, Friday, 5 July 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVuw80sbFZA&list=WL&index=5
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Friday, 5 July 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
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.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Saturday, 6 July 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
Can you guess which album changed Gregg's life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4ZLquouHc
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
kurt roder
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 7 July 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
trying to get into this... its humour is not completely lost on me but it’s also extremely fn boring... hmm
― flopson, Sunday, 7 July 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
It's probably okay to just stop if you don't feel like it's a five-bagger.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 July 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
Wait, never mind, Toni already knows she was the target
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 11 March 2024 02:59 (one month ago) link
G Amato straight-faced singing that hymn from memory is maybe the most insane thing they’ve done on an Oscar Specail
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 11 March 2024 03:00 (one month ago) link
so uh Tim's going into witness protection now right
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2024 03:22 (one month ago) link
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 insteadI just don’t know what all this means for baboon
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 11 March 2024 03:22 (one month ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2024 04:07 (one month ago) link
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
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 11 March 2024 07:41 (one month ago) link
HEI NEWS Update:https://t.co/ab7F0yXv37 pic.twitter.com/1nguyBXw6o— On Cinema at the Cinema (@OCATCOfficial) March 11, 2024
― Chris L, Monday, 11 March 2024 13:36 (one month ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2024 13:53 (one month ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:30 (one month ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:39 (one month ago) link
the first thing he says when he and Tim start arguing backstage is "I told you not to talk to her"
― c u (crüt), Monday, 11 March 2024 15:42 (one month ago) link
I love how Tim ignores the many, many clear warnings that Joey gives him before getting decked
― c u (crüt), Monday, 11 March 2024 15:44 (one month ago) link
He was begging to get his ass kicked even more than usual on these specials.
― Chris L, Monday, 11 March 2024 16:14 (one month ago) link
can't help but wonder if Joey's "softball team" is about to pay him a visit
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2024 17:24 (one month ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2024 17:25 (one month ago) link
oh god movie links
― ivy., Monday, 11 March 2024 20:21 (one month ago) link
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
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 11 March 2024 20:41 (one month ago) link
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!
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 11 March 2024 20:45 (one month ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2024 20:46 (one month ago) link
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
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 11 March 2024 20:54 (one month ago) link
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?
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2024 21:00 (one month ago) link
I don’t think they had a 1-day option for buffs 😕
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 11 March 2024 21:03 (one month ago) link
it really was the knock out
https://imgur.com/9FPhTTQ.gif
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2024 21:34 (one month ago) link
At least the Kettleheads out there got some content
― latebloomer, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:08 (one month ago) link
“I know what Paula Poundstone’s signature looks like and that ain’t it!”
― latebloomer, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:35 (one month ago) link
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
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 03:33 (one month ago) link
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.
― blatherskite, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:19 (three weeks ago) link
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”
― H.P, Monday, 15 April 2024 03:07 (one week ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 03:12 (one week ago) link
“I hope everyone gets better, the folks that are still in the hospital….. I’m praying for you….. see you next week!”
― H.P, Monday, 15 April 2024 03:13 (one week ago) link
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).
― H.P, Monday, 15 April 2024 03:14 (one week ago) link
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
― H.P, Monday, 15 April 2024 03:18 (one week ago) link
Omg I forgot Dr. San hangs himself
― H.P, Monday, 15 April 2024 03:19 (one week ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 03:19 (one week ago) link
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
― H.P, Monday, 15 April 2024 03:23 (one week ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 03:28 (one week ago) link
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
― H.P, Monday, 15 April 2024 09:20 (one week ago) link
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.
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 15 April 2024 15:18 (one week ago) link
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
― subpost master (wins), Monday, 15 April 2024 16:12 (one week ago) link
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
― subpost master (wins), Monday, 15 April 2024 16:22 (one week ago) link
managed to anticipate the bizarrest stuff years in advance
2011:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USA5v08NcEU
― Evan, Monday, 15 April 2024 16:27 (one week ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 21:22 (one week ago) link
You need options
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 15 April 2024 21:52 (one week ago) link
Sometimes situations occur
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 00:05 (one week ago) link
The situation had to be evacuated
― H.P, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 00:11 (one week ago) link
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!
― H.P, Thursday, 18 April 2024 01:43 (five days ago) link
the people’s joker (written and directed by on cinema editor vera drew) is so good
― ivy., Thursday, 18 April 2024 02:53 (five days ago) link