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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

trying to get into this... its humour is not completely lost on me but it’s also extremely fn boring... hmm

It's probably okay to just stop if you don't feel like it's a five-bagger.

"Do you find yourself struggling with..."

"...mental health issues?"

think ill stay at it for a lil longer

What have you watched / listened to so far?

Me, I just bore witness to the cancellation of Decker season 3 this evening, so it's difficult to put myself back in the headspace of several years ago when I watched a handful of On Cinemas and said 'IDGI'. Suffice it say, I'm glad I got over myself.

now we will never know if Agent Kington would have defeated Dracula

The effects at Dracula's castle were a whole 'nother level of special. I particularly liked the table that followed Gregg around for a while.

On Cinema On How To Behave At The Cinema

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVuw80sbFZA

hey guys

"as we all remember so many years ago, a couple of years ago we had the death of osama bin laden, killed in action after we spent years hunting him for the murder of 9/11"

I would've liked to see Sasha Baron Cohen play the Osama role

this is already amazing by episode 9

omg I am on the trial now

"What led to your prior arrests?"
"... Misunderstandings"

"Objection! ... Tonguetwister?"

i'm pretty much where brad is, i think - i watched all of S1 in one sitting and loved it. absolutely drove my partner crazy though, i think.

i love all the talk about how good it is to see some famous, sometimes washed up, actor "back on the big screen"

i love all the talk about how good it is to see some famous, sometimes washed up, actor "back on the big screen"

― i was once Z S, but now i am larry buttz (Karl Malone), Wednesday, July 10, 2019 8:32 AM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

we haven't seen russell crowe in a while

"It's great seeing Brendan Frasier back in a movie again, I've always loved him, and I love looking at Katherine Heigl, she's just the kind of woman I like, in terms of beauty, and sex appeal, she is hot, she is a 10, actually"

"If you've seen the movie, you'd know it's an animated movie about a squirrel"

"You have to admit the technology now is so good that some of these animated movies look like real life"

"Some of them do, but when a squirrel starts talking, you generally know it's an animated picture"

You imagine there ought to be a real life Gregg out there, absolutely ecstatic about the selection of dusty old extremely forgettable VHS movies in some bin at a thrift shop, next to a some CD cases of old computer software, AOL trials, Yanni, baseball games for PS2 etc.

Thank u for reminding me of the Nut Job review, frogs. Tim's overreaction to Gregg's joke about it being the name of Tim's autobiography was my first big On Cinema laugh.

Just recently saw some Neil Hamburger footage for the first time since I started watching this show. I don't know how I'd forgotten the extreme disparity between the two sides of Turkington, but it was a stark reminder.

I love that they generally never review actual hits, tentpole pics, oscar winners etc. not even huge mainstream garbage (MCU, Star Wars, Pixar etc) its almost always b-list shit that instantly vanishes from the public consciousness.

aka popcorn classics!

idk why but every time tim mispronounces an actor's name i completely lose it, thankfully it happens in every single episode

I especially like a) when assumes that the first and last names were transposed and b) when he assumes that the name on the card must be a misprint because it's not written in the same way that it left his mouth.

If the mispronunciations are tickling your funny bone, watching Decker might actually kill you. Exercise caution!

Tim is great at it. I find it funny cause it reminds me of my dad tbh.

I think it's fair to say that Tim Heidecker is the unparalleled master of awkward, error-prone, completely unearned arrogance.

Well theres trump

Well, yeah.

“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

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