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Last week I was at a bar to watch a baseball game which got rained out. So they put on AMC and what was on? That’s right, Jaws 2.

idk if I'm too jizzle jammed right now but the 3 "high-budget" seasons of Decker are so fucking funny

― frogbs, Friday, August 6, 2021 10:32 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

I watched these all before I even knew what On Cinema was so the episode where they're watching the VHS tape of Decker's Oscar winning movie in which Kington is played by Manuel was just the most confusing shit

even now I feel like I'm missing a few things. why was James Dean replaced with the Son of Dracula? why did they spend an entire episode talking about "...wings" ?

oh god i just lost my shit remembering the vfa archive of the future

funniest moment for me is Decker abruptly shooting the nation's Top Military General in the head in the courtroom and the judges just react by yelling at him "You better have a good explanation for this!"

second best is the Vice President (this is a Tim & Eric Awesome Show guy, right?) hanging his head and saying "Yeah, its true. I made a deal with the devil and...I guess I'm just gonna have to pay for it"

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ok I looked up what happened to the James Dean actor, apparently he started going into mental decline so they had to stop using him. its not really explained in-universe.

one thing I found out though is that he was legitimately spooked during the Oscar Special where he's introduced and Tim goes off on him, I guess he wasn't expecting him to explode like that and thought the anger might've been real. the "I'll pull my knife out" line was unscripted, Gregg says "stop putting the camera on him" presumably so someone can explain to him what's going on

makes me wonder who in the OC universe maybe wasn't quite aware of what was going on. Dee Thompson (the dude who snuck into the Oscars) was definitely not an act but I think he was one of those guys who will just go anywhere he's invited. Larry Turman (the guest reviewer/professor on an early season) seemed genuinely annoyed with Gregg, I could almost buy that he wasn't quite in on the joke

the one I really wonder about are the Rat Pack impersonators who were there to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Rat Pack movie. the Dean Martin/Joe Mantegna impersonator in particular keeps cracking these lame one-liners which are totally at odds with the humor of the show and it seems to catch Tim off guard ("You're trying to upstage me!"), it's like they were told it was a comedy show but not much else. they also appear to be genuinely surprised when they get booted out!

Film buff rescues more than 20,000 VHS tapes set for dump

i can't believe they were just about to throw away so many bond classics

oddly the URL for that story has changed - must have still been breaking when I posted

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-58261702

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he is applying for funding to create a national archive

that guy otm

We do this every MONTH at the VFA. Nice to see other smaller archives springing up. This guy has the right idea! Landfills are for orange peels and old tires, not #certified #popcorn #Classics. https://t.co/Xe2OUamtso

— The REAL Mister Movies (@greggturkington) August 19, 2021

the OCX episode after the VR stuff (where the Delgados finally get to Tim) is some amazing shit, Tim's bit about standing on the bridge threatening suicide unless he can get On Cinema back is maybe his finest moment as an actor. he's so good at expressing that brooding, barely-concealed rage while others are talking, all the episodes where he has to play it "straight" to appease the Delgados are so good

also lmao @ Tim asking Joe Estevez about Avengers and Joe just going "oh, I haven't seen it"...little things like that are so funny to me

lmao best one of these so far

Gregg Turkington vs. the Cinderella flash mob pic.twitter.com/1KhXzJIKXl

— Gredits (@GreggMovieEdits) August 29, 2021

i need some Jaws sugar

lol (CW: Newsmax)

Remarkable @OCATCOfficial content https://t.co/nKFy4ZJtJa

— Kernel John Decker (@timheidecker) September 16, 2021

Date for new season is 10/6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mghY2_cleCg

logged in and indeed I have a wallet address

glad to see larue is doing well

whoa, the dress rehearsal for Zero Hour happened on January 6th?! (2019)

getting the feeling that something bad's gonna happen at this party

Yep.

Is it just me or is Toni kind of good looking without the glasses and her hair down?

the Toni Newman character is so great because she's someone who's so recognizable in real life; the "wine mom" who seems fun and affable but once you get to know her you realize she has some truly insane beliefs and drinks as a way to cope with the abuse her husband is putting her through. I know neighbors and people at work who are just like that, they're kind of sympathetic characters but also happen to post a lot of anti-vaxx shit on Facebook. despite that you rarely see a character like that on screen. they really found the perfect actress for it too.

“Oh no, Tim’s going to be mad at me again!”.

"I don't know how I can do the show without talking about this"

"Just pretend it's a Bond movie"

Adam Driver....from....Fast and the Furious 7

RJ's Shake Shack is a major Chekov's Gun here

lol just rewatched it and noticed that Axiom is now listed as the "tambourine player for DKR"

Season is progressing very quickly.

guessing all the stuff about Tim's debt w/ the Delgados and the prenup getting voided in the 7th special is gonna come up soon

What a nice cat ….had a great time …played him some stuff …laughed a lot https://t.co/h8s5E4B33C

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) October 16, 2021

james bond is the opposite of a terrorist

might as well bump this while the on sinema at the sinema thread is still contemporary. i am back in the on cinema game. i jumped back in roughly where i left off (season 6), and then went back and rewatched starting at season 5 just for fun. currently watching the 3rd oscar special and am glad to see that tim has switched to non-alcoholic Organic champagne for this special

Spoiler: Tim no longer has problems with alcohol.

wow, the last 20 minutes with james dean is just a debacle by the end, good lord

I have not watched this show but everything I see involving it seems so incredibly in-jokey that I don't think I have the energy?

it is one of the most self-referential shows of all time

I feel the same as akm.

i tried this while i was bedridden and recovering from a near death hospitalization for like three months and even then i didn't feel like i have the time to get up to speed with it

I'm glad I got in at the beginning, don't know how I'd catch up if I was starting now.

wow, the last 20 minutes with james dean is just a debacle by the end, good lord

at the end tim starts doing the real deep, top of the lungs, kind of "GET HIM OUT OF HERE!!!" at james dean

Karl I think you will really appreciate the later seasons

Ya I just looked up Season 6 and wow you haven’t even made it to Axiom and “Empty Bottle” yet wtf

thing is, i have also seen the entirety of the trial of tim heidecker, the full version. so i have an idea of the tragedy that is about to unfold. dr. san doesn't fool me

not like he fooled all of you

Personally I think Lucky Season 7 is the best but 10 and 11 are right up there and this new one is a lot of fun so far, not to mention the Oscar Specials and the uhh “high budget” seasons of Decker which honestly are some of the funniest things I’ve ever seen

Fun fact: the “Space Wall” episode features a voice cameo by Todd Rundgren!

this might be a clue as to where things are going:

When your brothers and family abandon you, it’s time to join a new family pic.twitter.com/vfgp1Vj9m6

— Axiom of Rock House (@axiaofficial) October 25, 2021

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