eastbound & down/danny mcbride

no thread? this show has been on for two weeks people.

is it good?

i don't know yet. i need one more episode to decide.

i liked, probably overrated, fist foot way. dling.

link for download plz

the clips i've seen are hilarious, dude is a good riffer

i didn't even recognize john hawkes

i was just thinking about whether there was a thread about this

first ep seemed ok

didnt really like this guy in what i've seen him in before but i havent seen foot fist

it's maybe the most inappropriate comedy on tv right now. the cocaine scene last week was out there.

dood he was the best part of pineapple express

yeah he was hilarious in pineapple express, in tropic thunder... his character sucked so it wasn't his fault. the scene in last week's episode when he finds out that he's a chaperone was hilar

link for download plz

ehhhh torrents

ehhhh aight

it's a pretty slow burn but i like it. the second episode was good despite will ferrell. if stiller shows up, i'm bailing.

hahah, the improv scene b/w him and ferrell was kinda painful. dunno why they decided to air it

i liked the 2nd ep more than the 1st. will ferrel was bordering on unfunny tho

as always, curious what the britishes think about this too

liked the bit where he attends the middle school dance on ecstasy

only watched the first ep, does it get better?

i thought so

thought this was aight-to-good but have maybe od'd on this kind of thing a little. was surprised by amount of swearing/drugs etc.

they ought to get terence malick to do one.

liked him in Pineapple Express but I don't know about this...basically all through the first episode I kept thinking it was like the middle section of a Will Ferrell movie (the part where the comically unselfconscious and/or redneck athlete thinks his career is over before the big comeback at the end) before I even saw WF's name in the credits. dude seems capable of not jacking WF's schtick but obviously isn't concerned with trying not to.

I like this more than The Fist Foot Way although i'm exactly not sure why. It's definitely not laugh out loud funny, but there's something there.

oh yeah: when i rev'd fist foot way i didn't know about this project, and said something like 'feelin it; it's a bit like a pilot for a series tho'. but they could just as easily have made that situation the basis for a series, and made this one into a film.

not as good as i hoped.

wow that was dreadful. where the lols at.

Haven't watched the third episode yet, but so far it seems like the redneck version of Kath & Kim - more surreal discomfort than laugh-out-loud lolz.I keep waiting for Andy Daly to completely flip out...

Any scene where he's listening to his own audio book = instant LMAO

the guy is too hateful imo.

It really is pretty horrible.

I still like it!

guess i'm a d mcbride stan tho

i absolutely love this show. the 2nd ep kinda sucked but other than that it's been genius

4th ep was solid imo. The band teacher was hilarious for once.

also lolld at the jizzing in the pantz

honey, i love you and think you're a terrific girl but you have clothes like a fuckin' dickhead

llolll

ok this episode was great. the principals name is the same as my last name. and everyone calls him by his last name. so that's a little weird for me.

the stevie janowski character has gotten more enjoyable. i couldn't take him at the beginning.

this show is amazing. the will Ferrell Ric Flair impersonation episode kind of sucked and had me worried but the past two have picked right up where the first one left off.

I put a big Kenny powers quote in a thread on ilm about "Spoonman'" but no one got it

saw the 1st three - its super uneven sometimes in charming way - def potential to get awzom

thought ferrell was hairlarious btw

what was the farty synth song playing when he showed up at the dance

Ferrell was funny in this last one.

the story about his son walking in on him and his wife having sex was suitably O_o and xD

I'm a huge McBride stan. Bust-Ass!

episode five was pretty awesome

drugs, alcohol, pornography, free basing w/oj, human trafficking, dog fights/orgies, darkness...

XD @ this ep

you think he's gonna strike the guy out but instead he takes out his eye

yah i was like will it be a strike out or a home run we will see what this show is all abt here then THAT lol

loooooooool http://twitter.com/KFUCKINGP

this show is so fucking class. hope there's another season

i love that it is 6 episodes like TEH BRITISH

# Kenny Powers brings some fucking new meaning to the term STIMULUS PACKAGE.10:28 PM Mar 8th from web

LOL

warmed to this show with 4&5. especially 5: taking out darryl-from-the-office's eye was kind of amazing.

i think i really warmed to it when Stevie Janowski started with the whole Kenny Powers emulation stuff. so fucking funny

yah that dudes super hilarious he was so rad at the cookout - also kenny powers seemed kinda typical and easy at first but his evolutions pretty well played - expected it to either go full loser or just redeemable and resigned but as evidenced by head hunting at the dealership hes channeling his mojo in sweet directions

something abt the way danny mcbride talks is just compelling

Otm. like at the cookout when Stevie asks Kenny what he thought abt putting on the promotional dvd Kenny says I think that's cool as shit, make it look like it was your idea seemed somehow profound.

where the lols at.

― cutty, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 02:32 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a little bit precious wasn't it?

I'm just hoping they've ended it like that to drive some new arc nest season (if there is one), and not to be heavy and significant

# Sweet Jesus, Sally Fields in "Not Without My Daughter." My jeans just fucking broke their shit.about 2 hours ago from web

What's his name, fuckin' Shrek?

^^^ haha

yah that dudes super hilarious he was so rad at the cookout - also kenny powers seemed kinda typical and easy at first but his evolutions pretty well played - expected it to either go full loser or just redeemable and resigned but as evidenced by head hunting at the dealership hes channeling his mojo in sweet directions

― ice cr?m, Sunday, March 22, 2009 11:39 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

something abt the way danny mcbride talks is just compelling

― ice cr?m, Sunday, March 22, 2009 11:40 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

totes agree with all of this - at first i was super skeptical and now i love it... some of the best swearing dialogue ever!

i play real sports, not trying to be the best at exercising.

also the scene where he's walking down the hall pumping his hips and doing the pistol finger thing with music playing in slo mo and then it cuts to non-slomo, no music, everyone ignoring him, is still f'ing killing me

the scene that kills me again and again:

sister in law is explaining how to use ebay and he asks her why she's helping him and she goes into this long bit about how she believes in helping family members because it bestows blessings on her blah blah blah
and he's playing with a pair of y-fronts all this time and interrupts her, holding the y-front open so that her face is visible through the hole and goes

"This is where my dick goes"

me = completely. destroyed.

Listen here you beautiful bitch, I'm about to fuck you up with some truth

couldn't get in to this, tho i really wanted to and there were some great parts :(

im gon resecreen the first three eps coz it really took off after that imo

definitely

im gon resecreen the first three eps coz it really took off after that imo

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, April 7, 2009 11:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hmmm i got off at 3, thought it was okay but kinda boring

it got really awesome from ep 4 srsly

couldn't get in to this, tho i really wanted to and there were some great parts :(

― "Hey, We're Clubbing!" (Police Squad) (jim), Tuesday, April 7, 2009 7:15 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah...i don't know what format the character would've worked in better (movie? sketches?) but i don't know if it's enough to support a half hour series...they stretched the premise so thin in 6 episodes that i was relieved they stopped there and gave it a nice little arc, more than that would've been overkill.

I reckon this as a movie would've been too foot fist way-like.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002244.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&query=eastbound

# I told you assholes that the only thing you had to worry about getting renewed was my fucking subscrip to "Preggo Punani Quarterly."10:19 AM Apr 8th from Tweetie

im gon resecreen the first three eps coz it really took off after that imo

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, April 7, 2009 11:16 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i did that and i found that the first few were just as good - it was just a matter of me getting into the show's groove

let's fuck the kids

^lolllll

Listen here you beautiful bitch, I'm about to fuck you up with some truth

― wilter, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 00:13 (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"scott will finger you with his penis"

i'm talkin bout goddamn me!

scene in observe & report was rofl too

i never even realized that (darryl-from-office guy) is the batter in the first episode when kenny powers has his meltdown in the majors. such a great scene too, the announcer is just subtle enough leading up to the "the nail in the coffin of a career" line for it to be hilarious

office darryl craig robinson and danny mcbride have pretty similar awesome dumpy dude charisma and fascinating speech - theyre both fringe players in the apatow world prob too enigmatic and strange for starring roles in that broad approach - should do a buddy picture together

WOULD CAMP OUT FOR THAT BUDDY PIC

you gotta pitch that to lamp n max man. genius.

wd watch tht too

anyway, yeah, re-screening and gotta agree w/slocki, once you appreciate the show's groove the earlier eps are just as good as the later ones

if stiller shows up, i'm bailing.

― Win A Car From Suicidal Tendencies! (jeff), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 01:17 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^lollllllllll yeah, pls say no to this in sn2

also: "I saw your dick."

aw buddies^

its far out that david gordon green has fallen in w/the bizarro apatow b team - george washington to eastbound and down is some pretty strange logic

btw anyone else find the eyeball episode to be like way better than the rest

ya it's really strange that he's gone from malick guy to pineapple express comedy guy

its cool tho to see in his comedy work theres still an attention to detail and strangeness that doesnt usually come w/straight up lolz

ya it's really strange that he's gone from malick guy to pineapple express comedy guy

― s1ocki, Monday, April 13, 2009 5:25 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yrs truly did a big thing in a magazine on how it ISN'T that weird coz (eg) david o russell was in on 'anchorman' and what's-his-name wrote 'i now pronounce u chuck and larry' ETC.

though obviously it is pretty weird.

except terry malick's favourite film of the 00s is... zoolander.

'what's-his-name' = guy who did 'election'.

it's weird in the same way the altman guy who did 'magnolia' then did 'punch drunk love'; or that the guy who co-wrote 'the royal tenenbaums' then did 'starsky and hutch'.

not to impinge upon yr important magazine work but both david o russell and alexander payne have been making funny relatively big straightforward movies their whole careers while david gordon green was down south bootstrapping weirdo shit w/non actors

'magnolia' then did 'punch drunk love'

these aren't that difft!

not quite true of dor, who was making documentaries about immigrant labour or whateverthefuck early on. and 'spanking the monkey' can't have been *much* bigger than 'george washington' rite?

but for purposes of the article, all three are 'sundance kids', to use the inherited discourse, with 'indie cred' but less well-known 'frat pack' connects.

xpost

other purpose of article was saying "these aren't that difft!" lol.

and shit what's her name from 'spanking' was in 'undeclared' so well there you go.

what was weird was when pt anderson took a bunch of time off directing to write for snl!!

i have learned from wikipedia that maya rudolph is his gf - this maybe has something to do w/it

btw is was one episode - and his then gf fiona apple was the musical guest

and shit what's her name from 'spanking' was in 'undeclared' so well there you go.

uniting the universe here

a lot of ppl ask me, "kenny powers, you're a giant star, you can get any woman, have you ever paid for sex?" the answer is yes, I have, several times in fact. and it's actually kinda cool. you can negotiate practically anything and sometimes even just kinda do stuff in the moment which you never agreed to pay for and it goes by without much argument.

I know that one of us has had their own personal stylist and one of us shoplifts their shit from Fashion Bug.

and the mind of a fuckin scientist

I loved this.

Listen here you beautiful bitch, I'm about to fuck you up with some truth

― wilter, Tuesday, April 7, 2009 7:13 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

Yes!!! Also, I may have got misty eyed at the last episode. I want more.

i might say that in a serious irl situation and see how it goes

http://www.guilamuir.com/ideasource/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/man-presenting-at-a-business-meeting.jpg

http://www.avalonhotelchippewafalls.com/images/meeting.jpg

Yeah Joe, you probably should. Let us know how that works out for you.

sometimes u hav to challenge yrself

"and the mind of a fuckin scientist

― sonderborg, Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:44 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink"

this whole thing is hilare.

the intonation on 'just a man with a mind for victory and an arm like a fucking cannon' is amazing, the way he kind of slows down the last two words.

like the shape of the series, how the start of the fifth ep, following the end of the tape, sort of replays the start of the first, and now he's 'just an average man with execeptional hair'.

Nice Five Easy Pieces ref with the ending

watched part of david gordon greens high end mumblecore epic all the real girls the other nite and danny mcbride has a pretty big supporting role in this serious film

yah he's pretty funny in it too

tht ws his breakout role wasn't it?

first thing i saw him in. its got that guy from parks and recreation too.

i was not aware of him until the pineapple express or tropic thunder whichever came 1st

i hav since seen the fist foot way and part of all the real girls

bandwagoneering from the ice cr?m here, not like cutty and I

just fucked you up with some truth

listen here u beautiful bitch

watched part of david gordon greens high end mumblecore epic all the real girls the other nite and danny mcbride has a pretty big supporting role in this serious film

― ice cr?m, Friday, 24 April 2009 07:35 (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yah he's pretty funny in it too

― genei-jin & tonic (cozwn), Friday, 24 April 2009 07:50 (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yep. w/ the whole shotgun arms thing. and how he tells the girl he's chatting up that his learning of pedal steel guitar is far more impressive then her learning of the trumpet or whatev

that^ doesnt sound that funny, but it is. v kenny powersesque

Is it really awful that I find the beautiful bitch line to be sort of . . . hot?

Oh shit, did I just post that?

looooooooolll

he seems like quite a sweet dude in interviews too

I sort of love him. It's true.

yeah i will h8 anyone who doesnt <3 him

I think my gf dislikes him but she's misguided like tht :)

Yeah, it should be a sort of litmus test. Do you like Danny McBride? No? Ok then, fuck off now pls.

Erm but not yr girlfriend. She doesn't need to fuck off. Sorry!

haha xpost shenanigans

nah, she has wack taste on some things, it's fine :)

I think gf only 'doesn't mind him' :[

whr is srs girl who aims danny mcbride

HERE!!!

he is universally popular at my house.

;-)

oops - xpost

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squint eyed w/cold-sore emoticon?

wilter, i <3 you but sometimes i suspect you are an emoticonman.

ha it's exactly how i look when i watch eastboundanddown

emoticonomical w/the truth

the shrimp throwing scene guys

lol @ tittays in that scene

ok the fiance had awesome boobs. it has to be said.

I mean the one who was engaged who used to be his ex whose name I can't remember.

yuh the dressed like a dickhead one

yes!

bad clothes, great tits

the peak of the series for kenny powers is seeing her tits.

u guys are talking abt two dif ladies fyi xp

its the crazy whore from the bar who dresses like a dickhead - he takes her to the cookout at april the ex and futures house and she causes all sorts of commotion

o yeah. i was referring to the alco/horrible/tits out one

hey ice cram there's def some good gif-making potential from this show btw

xp

theres a gif of failed shrimp toss on my bløg - i didnt make it tho - i think grady did

i was not aware of him until the pineapple express or tropic thunder whichever came 1st

i hav since seen the fist foot way and part of all the real girls

― ice cr?m, Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:55 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

HOT ROD was the first thing i remember him from (had seen all the real girls but it's kind of wack rly and id forgotten it).

HOT ROD is really good.

i dont believe u

high fiving scene was LOLZ

^^^

babe wait babe wait wait babe babe babe wait

ive seen hot rod twice but i was so drunk both times that the only part i can remember is "cool beans".

Kenny = David Wells?

Kenny = David Wells?

Based on this, I'm going with Kenny Powers = Lenny Dykstra
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4084962

Oh yeah we were totally talking about different ladies. Whoops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9-itE5qns

A+

loooong interview w/ jody hill - http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/30/the-jody-hill-interview-part-1-eastbound-down-kenny-powerss-mullet-evolution-stevies-dark-secret-and-race-drugs-and-religion-in-the-american-south/

Another thing that the first season didn’t confront was religion in the South. I can’t believe how religious the South still is, but I think that was a good decision for the show. However, the premise you guys originally had for the fifth episode—and HBO didn’t go for it—involved Kenny going to church and Satanists. *laughs* Can you talk about that?

Jody Hill: *laughs* Yeah, well, we always had Casey, Dustin’s wife, as this religious character. And we had this entire religious episode where Clegg was kidnapped by devil worshipers, and Kenny had to go and get him back. *laughs* And the episode was going to be almost like an action movie, where Kenny and Clegg wake up and there’s all of this *séance* white chalk in their faces. *laughs* But we wanted the kind of devil worshipers in the South who wear baggy black raver clothes and are into Star Wars and stuff…*laughs*

can you believe danny mcbride is 32? maybe it's the mullet on the show that ages him.

that does surprise !!

rewatched pineapple exp the other day, fuk he and franco out-class rogen in that film

in acting ability and general hilariousness

otm - mcbride has been genuinely hilarious in everything except "tropic thunder" in which he had a horrible role

How in God's Name is he 4 months younger than me?

So is this show actually popular? It's so. . . uncomfortable.

I still haven't seen it!

I can't believe he's only 32 either! E, you need to see it. You would love it.

i can't believe he's 32

I would have guessed late 30's.

Maybe even early forties.

i would have guessed late 1980s or even early '90s

this show is fucking amaaaaaaaaaazing. i didn't even like foot fist way that much but i loved this shit.

honey, i love you and think you're a terrific girl but you have clothes like a fuckin' dickhead

― latebloomer, Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:41 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

Remember me, Jefferson Davis Middle. I was your savior. I was your knight in shining armor. And each of you were the chinks upon my armor. Each of you were the chinks! You all were the chinks! Remember me, my chinks.

haha

ep. 5 is easily the best because not only does it have the great eyeball climax, but the first half of the episode is kenny coming to terms with the idea of him being a "normal person" i.e. wearing fake glasses and insulting everyone.

agreed that ep was the tits

no, ep 6 had the tits

>>humor<<

Am watching this (yes, again) with someone who has never seen it before and the lols they're having are awesome to witness. Just looked up Danny M's age to confirm that he's only 34 but nope . . . HE IS 32! How is this guy one day short of just a year older than I am?? He looks so much older but maybe it's just the mullet/facial hair? Crazy.

aren't you a lady?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JXZ60T8CL._SS500_.jpg

(Sorry, sorry...)

x-post lol. Yes, I am a lady. Just meant that he looks older than most 32 year olds I know both m or f.

yeah maybe it's just the mullet and facial hair that make him look older than you.

and deric, if that incorrectly posted image was directed at me, i don't know what you are referring to

thk god mad men watchers aren't eb&d watchers iamrite

Why doesn't this show profile the NBA??? Why so exclusionary Danny McBride????????

as a celibate, straight-edge chess champion with a crew cut who never swears, i just feel like this show doesn't reflect me, my friends, or my family

Just taking the piss, cutty, thinking you were misreading ENBB's post to suggest that she was the one with the mullet and facial hair. A gentle ribbing.

And I agree: McBride looks much older than any of the early-30s people I'm acquainted with. He makes me feel like I look approximately twelve.

I reckon if we tried we cd get danny mcbride to post here

you know, like this
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XJseql2u5l0/Rkajda_rq7I/AAAAAAAAAq0/vSvpBclPMaw/s320/bruce_willis_ichat.jpg

no, sorry, that's not what happened deric

x-post - omg!!

Also, I still don't see what was so confusing about my post. :-( oh well.

And I agree, I think Danny would be 100% on board with posting here and that it would be 100% awesome if he did. Let's make this happen.

i just watched season one via netflix. didn't know anything about the show, and had the same reaction as many here. was kind of unsure 'til i think episode 3, then fell in love with it during episode five. will probably buy the dvd, even though it's only six eps. seems to have great replay value. i must now see everything else McBride is in. didn't like him much in Tropic Thunder, but enjoyed him greatly in Pineapple. foot fist way is on netflix queue now.

He's v funny in hot rod

just watched season one episodes 1-3 on The Netflix. oh man so choice. this is my current favorite show ever!

http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/2009/09/04/adam-and-katy-mixon/

Wow, Katy really does have that southern babydoll voice.

man this is great.

i know this is ridiculous but i kept thinking that this is a classic post-cold-war tv show. the superpower is suddenly just a normal country in a multipolar world, with even pipsqueaks like afghanistan posing a challenge. and the only way to keep going is by pumping yourself up with a bunch of feel-good bullshit.

i've never seen tropic thunder or pineapple express so danny mcbride is a whole new thing for me. wow. his steez is so real. i know several guys like that, or who wish they were like that. will ferrell came off like a goddamn amateur in the scene they had together.

i've only seen the first two episodes so far but does the love interest ALWAYS look like she's just been cold-cocked by a 31-inch hillerich and bradsby white ash?

he doesn't have much to do in 'tropic thunder' but he's etienne geoffroy st. hilaire in 'pineapple'.

<3 <3 <3 DM

pineapple express would have been a failure without his presence

Just bought some other movie he was in recently that may or may not be about karate but haven't watched it yet.

i just realized that when tombot gets older he's going to look exactly like this guy:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370035/

OK I can totally see that but I think it's also a little harsh on Tombot. That dude is sorta busted looking fraternal twin.

Yeah, that is way harsh Tai.

really? i think John Hawkes is pretty handsome! maybe his nose is a little mashed.

i would so hate this show if it starred will ferrell. i don't know what danny mcbride brings to it. could it be.. acting?

Wait - is that the guy that plays K Powers brother? He's better looking in general than a lot of the pics on IMDB but I still think he's a way hagard version of Tombot.

he was also great in deadwood

x-post "harggard" obv. too early.

omg I give up

http://lbkstjude.com/hagar_epee.jpg

LOL

who else is psyched for the hagar HBO show

He is a motherfucker with some dark secrets, it will be fantastic.

wonder if broomhilda will show her tits

actually danny mcbride as hagar and john hawkes as his twerpy sidekick could work

deadwood guy is writing it

we should do a thread on what comic strips should become HBO shows... i'm voting ADAM

dagwood is kinda mad men-esque

haha

dag men

i watched a couple more of these and my opinion has soured. it's really just incredibly thinly written. if there's a plot point or a character is struggling with something, well, you can bet the writers are going to hammer-drill it into your brain about 5000 times in time-honored apatow/snl fashion. at first i was like "wow gina gershon, awesome!" and then what happens with her? nothing. and kenny's "fuck buddy" - the writers don't allow her any reality, they just rub her nose in how awful she's supposed to be. it's like some kind of iron man competition to see who's capable of rising above the shitty material to actually seem real.

pineapple express would have been a failure without his presence

― cutty, Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:41 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but whatever, danny mcbride is awesome and hallelujah for this showcase for him.

xpost heh yep

also hallelejuah for a show with at least a couple of real southern accents.

that does not include farrell's. jesus christ, he veers between black southhern preacher, white alabama and some other shit.

i don't know how fair it is to expect a show to get into really deep character development in six half-hour episodes and still have like jokes and a plot as well

tracer wants more development of herpes girl!

honestly, if you read through the thread, i was ambivalent about this show around episode 3, but a true believer by the end of episode 6.

when's the next series start?

dude the entire show is hopelessly about 'character development'.

not than an accent has anything to do with that. I just wanted to bash ferrell, really.

yeah what cutty said. if u read the thread most people went from slightly ehhh to fully omg with this.

ferrell is weirdly off in his first appearance tho, yup.

Tracer Hand otm about everything

"you look like a retarded michael myers"

hay tracer hav u seen ep 5 - cause if not WATCH IT and report back

^^^^^ yes.

... dr cock'n'balls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf9j4QnVK-s

how shitty would this show be if we had like... seen his fuck buddy's childhood

pretty much every character in this show changes in some significant way and reveals more of themselves than you see at first... tracer hand what are you talking about

even his disapproving sister-in-law is given way more depth and way more to do than most comedies would allow that kind of character

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

s1ocki i'm not talking about some cliche hack move to show "depth" i would just like to have stayed with gina gershon and the beguiling class friction that was developing between the powers bros and her instead of racing off to a "pitch off" (nb. a term i have never heard but wouldn't that be a battle between pitchers?). likewise i would have liked to see fuckbuddy put kenny in his place once or twice, or least be allowed to be funny. likewise has it not occurred to anyone in the writing team that stalking your large betitted high school sweetheart is about 1% sweet and about 99% lame as all hell? oh i know i know - our hero is the man child and his myopic whims must be nurtured as a virgin lily. whatever. i wonder if will ferrell's got a script lined up about an aging comic whose schtick has gotten so tired after repeating himself too often that he starts pitching tv series which are just padded season-long versions of his movies but they don't get renewed... and then... he comes back... to prove to himself if to no one else... that he still has what it takes...

i would agree that basically every character besides kenny & the schoolteacher is underwritten and not terribly funny

if no one said that then i would agree with my own brain

oh i did like the principal actually, there was something extra about him. something weird. he never gets offended by anything but sometimes he lays down the law in a way that even kenny respects.

xpost haha

"large betitted"!

the fuckbuddy character has plenty of funny moments - you really wanted to see her stand up to kenny and tell him what's what?!

likewise has it not occurred to anyone in the writing team that stalking your large betitted high school sweetheart is about 1% sweet and about 99% lame as all hell?

it's... supposed to be... pretty lame.

there were a few things about the show that didn't sit real well with me.

like, i don't mind if the characters have some backwards ideas about sexual relations - they weren't supposed to be enlightened individuals in any way, but the way the camera lingered on her melons throughout the show - even when he first started trying to get her back and was kind of creepy and aggressive about it - convinced me that the writers were just as complicate as the characters, and that I as a viewer was supposed to be, too. no reason was ever really given for why he liked her except that he lusted for her body, so it rang kind of false when he suddenly cared so much for her toward the end. kind of undermined that whole aspect of the show.

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the other thing that bugged me, and i am probably totally over-analyzing it, was that the only non-white character to get any kind of significant screen time was the black baseball player, played by the always awesome Craig Robinson, who ends up an antagonist who gets sonned in the worst kind of way. What a waste of a funny actor, too. When they first introduced him, I was really hoping he would end up one of Powers' fuck-up friends.

that would be 'complicit', sorry.

i liked the show a lot, i just thought those things could have been done better. those things and Ferrell, who will hopefully be too busy working on a new shitty movie to chew up any more scenery in the next season.

sorry dudes but melissa already did this schtick about 1,000 times more annoyingly on the mad men thread, you're always going to be a b- at best so you might as well give it up

I thought the fuck buddy was pretty hysterical nad wished there was more of her tbh.

the scene where powers first notices his old flame and the camera zooms in not on her face but her tits is comedy genius you rubes

yeah they make sure you know kenny's a bonehead but i don't see any signals that his thing for her is supposed to be lame. or that she's supposed to be lame which she pretty much is. i mean the show's 100% invested in kenny's thing for this DRIP.

signals like sad trombone sound effects kinda thing?

well i don't know - how did YOU figure out that "it's... supposed to be... pretty lame"?

cos all the ppl are lame?

this show is basically just danny mcbride saying funny stuff

i don't even know how to begin to answer that xp

i honestly don't think i even understand your criticism. you want the show to not only portray sad sack characters but also somehow underline how lame they are?

i'm just sick of every wedding crashers/whatever modern bromatic comedy plot where the hero's unquenchable love for the already-taken lady is some inviolate truth in the middle of everything regardless of how certifiably lame the girl in question is. it would be instantly five thousand percent better to have april at least be sort of a ditz. or have a personality at all actually!

it would also be five thousand percent better if she had awesome, fridge-rattling sex with the principal.

fridge rattling sex

have you finished the series yet btw?

yep! it was shorter than inglourious basterds.

hahaha

if you include buying the popcorn

Jody Hill really is not shit without the incredible Danny McBride, I don't know why the assertion that this show is kind of halfassed on paper should provoke "uh the name of the show is Mad Men not Black in America pt. 2 with Soledad O'Brien" criticisms

I was rewatching Foot Fist Way the other day and w/o the first-watch "omg what is this" factor it is such a hot mess. just like Napoleon Dynamite with a behavior disorder

Tracer i'm revoking my otm from upthread

A B C have we met

you guys fucked once

because A B C is as easy as 1...2...3

some dude i hate you

you seem angsty, you should go listen to some Built To Spill :)

idk why i made any of those posts but i stand behind them

I bet if I scroll upthread I will see a post I made which makes this exact same point but I do love this show and I want McBride and Robinson to do a buddy movie together. Maybe as an incentive for saying "no thank you" to meth for Robinson like a watchable version of Clerks 2

well i don't know - how did YOU figure out that "it's... supposed to be... pretty lame"?

how did YOU figure it out?

ILX

calvin the show seems to be totally unaware that the romantic lead is a drip and that kenny's fixtion with her is lame, i.e. it sends no "signals" to this effect. therefore i did not figure it out. because the show depends on us taking kenny and april seriously as a possible item. like for instance, when kenny's in the bar talking to someone off-camera that it's time to take it to the next level and settle down the big punchline is that he's talking to the skank ho. haha wooo. my contention - and i fully realize this is "imagine the show i wish existed rather than the show as it is" territory - is that the show would have been 5000 times better if it turned out he was actually talking to april. she either says "kenny what in the fuck are you talkin about" or she says "i'm sorry were you talkin?" although like i said the show depends on us taking it seriously so we can't do that. i think it gets in the way of the interesting stuff - i.e. the stuff with gina gershon, i.e. the stuff at school (do we ever actually see kenny relating to any kids? doing his actual job? i'd a million times rather see that than another insipid romantic comedy rerun).

also relax dudes i wouldn't be talking about the show this much if it wasn't interesting in a few big ways.

mainly, the way in which it stars danny mcbride.

you seem to want kenny to make the right choices in life. he will never do that.

GABRIEL HIT ME UP WITH A SHRIMP!

x-post exactly and that's kind of the whole point.

fridge-rattling sex with the principal

Uh Culter is never going to have "fridge-rattling sex" with anyone. I thought the sex scene between the two of them was perfect because c'mon that's the only kind of sex that guy is ever going to have with anyone.

calvin the show seems to be totally unaware that the romantic lead is a drip and that kenny's fixtion with her is lame, i.e. it sends no "signals" to this effect.

she's not a drip – she's pretty much retarded. as in the pitch-off scene when kenny knocking craig robinson's eye out meets with her approval.

in terms of making the right choices, that episodes with kenny saying "i will never pick up a baseball. ever. fucking. again." and then well uh...

http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Kenny_Powers_sounds.aspx

the show seems to be totally unaware that the romantic lead is a drip and that kenny's fixtion with her is lame, i.e. it sends no "signals" to this effect

the show depends on us taking kenny and april seriously as a possible item.

do we ever actually see kenny relating to any kids? doing his actual job?

this is not the most sophisticated show and i'm not a huge fan but wow did it ever just whoosh clear over your head somehow

ouch

you guys are misunderestimating me. i don't care about kenny making the right choices. if he made the right choices he wouldn't be kenny! i don't know. somehow we got off on the wrong foot here. maybe i should start over. POP A BREW. FUCK. ETC. who gives a shit?

misunderestimating?

Tracer, no offense, but I'm glad that you don't write television shows.

Or rather: I'm glad that you didn't write for this particular television show.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7809160.stm

Deric i love you and think you're a great girl but you pull your punches like a dickhead.

it's called eastbound and down not happy ladies

it's unfair and missing the point to make EB&D a fall guy for the uninteresting-ladies-in-romcoms syndrome but that's the way i roll bitches

Ha ha. That came off dickhead-ier than I intended, but I really only meant to say what you seem to acknowledge yourself: that you kinda seem to miss the point of the show. Interesting ladies are probably likely to be in short supply on a show which is such a paean to loserdom.

what mark s said about "white lightnin" in sight and sound applies here too i think:

your attention is entirely dragged away from the world you're being called to be astounded by or sympathetically caught up in -- the degradation and delusions, the spirit and capabilities of white American working-class life ... back towards the well-trod stunt skills (and aesthetic self-regard) of people we already probably know too much about; a parade of the established sensibilities, techniques and values that already clog up the cultural space this is (supposed to be) a contrast with.

i'm holding out for it though.. i think the premise is holding it back - will he or won't he make it back to the bigs; will he or won't he come to terms with the answer - and once they get away from that it might settle into something more like my dream show

isn't white lightnin' a horror movie? i haven't seen it, so can't really parse mark's piece. if we already know what the degadations etc. of white american working-class life *are*, as mark does, then im not entirely sure who it is we know too much about – whose aesthetic self-regard.

and im not sure to whom the 'aesthetic self-regard' bit refers w/r/t this series – "just an average guy, with exceptional hair", maybe.

who in eb&d do we already know too much about? what cultural space does its makers proposing it as a contrast to?

idk, im not looking for reasons not to like something!

Spoiler: Kenny will not make it back to the majors.

as always, curious what the britishes think about this too

― cutty, Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:19 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i love it. episode 6 is this thursday, so am looking forward to seeing if it can outdo ep 5 which was really rather special.

yuh ep 5 was always going to be hard to surpass iirc

I reckon if we tried we cd get danny mcbride to post here

― cozwn, Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:58 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you know, like this
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XJseql2u5l0/Rkajda_rq7I/AAAAAAAAAq0/vSvpBclPMaw/s320/bruce_willis_ichat.jpg

― cozwn, Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:59 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol i know that guy (the one who ichatted w/bruce willis)

also tracer hand in this thread = http://s5.tinypic.com/oqhmc0.jpg

Oh relax.

actually this is more appropriate:

http://i35.tinypic.com/331n2a0.gif

http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/e/e3/Spr_3e_054.gif
http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/5/5d/PinRS054.gif

meowth dats right

RAISE YOUR STANDARDS, ILX

j/k

lol man, it's cool if u dont 'get' eb&d... i dont understand like... i dunno... scrubs. nm i guess

did u know psyduck's french name is PSYKOKWAK

cankles i just like to nitpick things to death when they don't meet completely arbitrary targets i have set up in my mind, i.e. i "get" mr rogers but would prefer to see him develop a series arc with mr mcfeelie in which they both learn the meaning of sacrifice and honor

http://mediocritycomplex.com/uploads/kenny.powers.jizz.dance.gif

http://mediocritycomplex.com/uploads/kenny.powers.jizz.dance.gif

lol throws it like pixie dust

probably my favorite episode!

They're filming season 2! it will be set in Mexico, new regulars, but Stevie will still be around

http://www.deadline.com/2010/04/eastbound-down-heads-to-mexico-for-season-2-adds-new-regulars/

How do ppl feel about it coming back? I love it so much that I'm hopeful but it ended sort of perfectly and I'm worried that a 2nd season is going to ruin it.

oh stop

it's back on 26 september

im siiiiiiked

cutty's fucking in, enbb's fucking out

gonna give the new season the benefit of the doubt because the new female lead looks like this

http://www.gotofree.net/galeri/model/Ana-De-La-Reguera/Ana-De-La-Reguera-i145198.jpg

will she use stunt boobs?

totally psyched, hope it's somewhat de-ferrellized

love this show so much

afaict McBride gets half his moves from the Ferrell playbook regardless of whether WF is actually involved in the project at hand

yeah :(

the first season felt to me like they had a movie script and padded it out into enough episodes for a mini-season, so i'm hoping for the second season the writers start really digging into things a little more. mcbride is a really good actor i think, he can handle it.

I am concerned that the supporting cast from s1 won't be around but prob I will never get tired of hearing Danny McBride swear

Totally fascinating interview with John Hawkes (Deadwood and a million other things, including playing Kenny Powers' brother) - he says he won't be in Season 2 :(

Some interesting stuff (he seems to have pretty mixed feelings about the experience): http://www.avclub.com/articles/john-hawkes,41960/

RIP Tombot's older doppelganger

he seems more ambivalent about lost

it's interesting that he says he was on the fence about being the straight man or riffing; for my money he was totally written as the straight man and he basically played it that way - but you could tell there was something a little bit tentative about it - his eyes were searching for things, looking for openings, which as a straight man he really wouldn't be doing

but i really liked that they didn't go with a big stereotypical construction dude - there are actually quite a few nice guy, gentle contractors out there like that

love how skinny and pale he was next to danny mcbride... them drinking beer in the pool...

wow, when i watched e&d i totally forgot he was sol star.

is this old?
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/36a8ceb3f0/kenny-powers-gets-signed-by-k-swiss

http://www.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/eastbound_and_down_season_two_poster_02.jpg

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

mucho lols

just realized i had never seen the 6th episode. awesome.

Trailer
http://www.hbo.com/video/video.html?view=grid&vid=1118618&autoplay=true

for all my shillyshallying above i am super glad this is back

I can't wait.

Anyone watch this then? They may have been fairly cheap lolz but i did find Kenny's midget sidekick pretty funny. Could maybe do with dialing back on the amount of slow-mo sequences set to music though.

unless said sequences are ana de la reguera's ass accompanied by spanish 'night moves'. could maybe do w/ like 3 episodes of just that.

great episode though - that speech on the mound was beautiful. kenny fucking powers.

It was fun, glad it's back, but if this season is only 7 episodes, i wish twice as much had happened in that one.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/danny-mcbride,45475/

The A.V. Club: Are you following the British-TV formula again this season for your episode count?

Danny McBride: Yeah, we follow the same formula. We liked how many episodes there were of The Office, Spaced, Alan Partridge, a lot of the British shows that we found we like. As fans, we like to watch multiple episodes, week after week, but as the creators… It’s really just written by Jody [Hill, co-creator], myself, and another writer, Shawn Harwell. We chose seven this year. That was about how many we felt like we needed to get our story across this year, and how many we felt like we could comfortably write without having to start to farm the work out to other people. It was important for us to have our hands on every part of the script.

"I would say that my biggest flaw, my Achilles heel, is my tireless work ethic."

In the same interview he maintains there's be a three-season cap. Wonder where that third one's headed. (xp)

Congressional hearing imo.

yeah, steroid accusations, probly

I think people weren’t sure—especially with the main character, who’s an asshole...

I'm glad he cleared this up.

fuck your donkey, bitch

i did find Kenny's midget sidekick

Deep Roy! Playing a pretty good Mexican (for all I know).

laughed all the way through. the speech was brilliant and actually, cheap lol, but him wanking while the noise of the clint eastwood film was on in the background actually made me laugh out loud, the expression on his face.

really enjoyed this. loved the music throughout - especially the end credit song.

http://www.viceland.com/int/v17n9/htdocs/bring-it-in-home-514.php?page=1
This article from Vice rather tragically reveals that Ana de la Reguera was wearing a "Booty Pop" for her scenes.

i've only watched the first ep and i already love this so i can't wait to see what comic wonders the beloved fifth ep holds in store

danny mcbride is awesome obviously but god almighty i am tired of this mode of ferrell-esque storytelling where the main character is Really Good at Something, runs away from it, hits rock bottom, then has an epiphany (which is both mocked AND heavily leaned on to provide an emotional charge) and returns to glory - if not as successfully as before, then at least it's making him happy. this is the plot of Elf, of Anchorman, etc etc

at bottom it's an incredibly conservative worldview, i.e. you can't - and probably shouldn't - run away from your Authentic Self. this show is conservative in other respects too, i.e. the corny gentle family scene around the table which we are supposed to be in awe of or something. i guess that's mexico though - it's either crazy assholes or soulful natives with whom one can reconnect to the Authentic Vibes that Matter

i guess that's north carolina though - it's either crazy assholes or soulful natives

ugh authentic vibes that matter are the worst

there were no 'authentic vibes that matter' in this episode, gimme a fuckin break tracer

you mean that one nice-seeming neighbour he had a conversation with?

btw in case u didnt notice dude emphatically did not 'return to glory'

i mean the family that he sat down and had a soulful dinner with, who helped him wash off his burro and remind him who he was

(i have only seen ep1)

btw i DID notice that he didn't return to glory but "if not as successfully as before, then at least it's making him happy"

i just wish this show didn't have to have these moments-of-shit™ that are both played for laughs and actually relied on to provide narrative heft. but without these there's actually nothing happening. still big <3 for danny mcbride though

i actually thought ep1 was pretty weak (foul-mouthed little person? really?)

im not sure he's... happy?

i mean, he made it big young, failed spectacularly, and has failed at everything ever since

Great thing about season 1 was that his 'comeback' was knocking a dude's eye out. Then that went nowhere and he ran.

let's fuckin fuck each other

there's no i in team but theres a u in cunt

didn't think this ep was that good.....just like, v few laughs.

ya :(

yup... s2 delivering fewer lols so far. move to mexico feels gimmicky

and kind of like.....nothing happened. the reintro of steve didn't tell us anything new about steve, was just a rehash of past glories (and he's not a hugely funny character anyway imo)

i guess his entrance scene was sort of funny, but when the ball game fizzled out so did the chance of anything interesting happening in the episode. v confused stuff all in all, if this is all the ideas they have after just one ep of s2 it doesn't bode well.

steve getting shot was funny

i remember the first few eps of s1 seeming lame and then i went back and thought they were genius so who knows

i loved s02e01 but not this latest one

Steve's sudden orgasm in the middle of his sentence while with the prostitute made me laugh harder than anything else in the episode, but I thought it was okay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6KFbu7ygvNA

i remember the first few eps of s1 seeming lame and then i went back and thought they were genius so who knows

― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Thursday, October 7, 2010 9:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah im holding on to this coz i had the same experience, but basically this has been a 'massive let-down'

this week's ep was great!

Agree Garda, these naysayers are crazy. The scene at the dinner table, with Kenny describing his sexual adventures (while the million year old grandma cackles) is one of the best so far.

i didn't like last week's but the first week and this week were good. the titties/ass discussion was hilarious too.

http://imgur.com/fCZqI.jpg

you came out of her vagina? i was just up in there.

shit what did he say to the midget...i laughed my ass off. "what are you the king of"....something something.

...moustaches

hahaha. loved it.

yeah the showdown with the midget was fucking hilarity

http://www.tombolaoffun.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/deeproy_neverendingstory_teenyweeny.jpg

"Where the fuck are you from? You're not from Mexico."

good again this week. the bit where he flipped the finger to the coach and went right, then left, then rose up from beneath the window made me laugh so hard.

I don't like to hear depressing shit about no-name dickheads. that shit's fucking up my vibe.

I felt bad for Stevie.

that whole first scene with Don Johnson killed. Slits at the end made me kind of sad tho.

the whole "have you ever rode a jet ski up a mountain" exchange was amazing.

this season is making me really think about how much i liked the supporting cast from season 1, ditching everybody except Stevie, who's for me perhaps the most unpleasant character on television right now, has pretty much killed whatever amount of enjoyment i got from this show.

^OTM.

yeah stevie isn't funny at all really, i hoped they'd only brought him back for one ep but no. this most recent ep was back to shitness really after two good ones...

He doesn't seem like a good actor either. His timing is really weird.

the only times he's funny are as a foil for kenny to be selfish/awful/arrogant etc. stevie's own lines just aren't funny. the plot is also all over the place this season.

lold at stevie's “If I found out I had a half black brother or a whole black brother I’d be very upset.”

also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf0j1rmZVbM

BFUCKINGW?

The Star 80 reference two eps ago killed me.

http://yosposbitch.org/images/kennyup.gif

Renewed for a third (and final, right?) season.

this season is making me really think about how much i liked the supporting cast from season 1, ditching everybody except Stevie, who's for me perhaps the most unpleasant character on television right now, has pretty much killed whatever amount of enjoyment i got from this show.

― some dude, Monday, October 25, 2010 4:41 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark

i was thinking this yesterday. stevie is a really funny character but only when he appears in like, one scene an episode. there is really no other supporting cast this scene (at least that appears with any kind of consistency)

okay end of this last one was v effectively emotional..

"The Pavilion's closed...Myrtle Beach just ain't what it used to be."

major carolina lol there

The scene where stevie's trying to play the doofy little casio keyboard with headphones on while all the mexican cousins are watching tv and he turns around to look at them with that face..... I was laughing so hard it was painful. I'm more of a Stevie apologist than most of y'all it seems though, so

was there more cringe office humour in this season? it felt like it :-(

sup

Stevie's unpleasantness is what makes him so funny!

i haven't listened to it yet, but creative screenwriting's latest episode is with mcrbide and hill: http://creativescreenwritingmagazine.blogspot.com/2010/11/eastbound-down-q.html. these are usually pretty interesting interviews.

"The Pavilion's closed...Myrtle Beach just ain't what it used to be."

major carolina lol there

― glengarry glenn danzig (latebloomer), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 2:09 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark

Haha, that killed me too.

I love Stevie btw.

penultimate episode almost redeemed this mostly shitty season for me. i've begun to pretty much hate all of Jody Hill's clueless antiheroes, but i think i'd watch a show or movie with Adam Scott playing a slicker more articulate version thereof.

maria's head popping up from under the blanket with a tecate box atop it is among the better tv sight gags i ever did see

last two eps were really good. Feels like a bit of a "b-side" season overall but still one of the funniest things on TV.

maria really weirds me out

was that the last ep of this run?

yes it was ronan. anybody have any idea what the gibberish was that came out of Kennys mouth when Tits Grande told him the baby was his.

i thought stevie got funnier in the last few eps. highlight of the season was probly kenny with don johnson though. jet ski vs. atv convo was awesome

i got feelings during this season that this might be a bad show for assholes and that i might be a bad person for liking it

on the other hand, let me know when you catch bin laden, i got some champagne on ice

u may be onto a clever marketing campaign there

don johnson was painful imo, having the main character's parent(s) show up and be some older TV icon doing an impression of the main character is one of the laziest sitcom cliches.

no he was great

if he was 2 1/2 men doing the exact same thing but copping a couple of charlie sheen's mannerisms nobody would call it "great" is all i'm saying

everyone runs to 2 1/2 men.

cliché or not, it worked for me. everybody reacts to Kenny with anger, befuddlement, or supportive acceptance of his character flaws. it was a nice change of pace to have him interact with someone similar to himself, and see how he reacts (sometimes one-upmanship, sometimes impressed by bullshit). I'm glad it only lasted for one episode, but it worked within the context of the show.

xp - charlie sheen's mannerisms aren't funny though, and this show has been full of lazy cliches since ep1 anyway

don johnson was painful imo, having the main character's parent(s) show up and be some older TV icon doing an impression of the main character is one of the laziest sitcom cliches.

This majorly otm. I really enjoyed the last episode though, actually quite affecting.

man this show was so much better in the last episode with the old awesome supporting cast back. big mistake to ditch them for this season.

I haven't read this thread because I've only seen one ep of the new season. So behind but pretty psyched to catch up this weekend.

uhh

?

last two eps killed imo, and the end was oddly moving [via kurt vile]

WOuld I like this

idk

there's funny shit in every ep, but it took me a while to <3 the first season. by the end i was hooked. but the second series is a patchier.

so watch the first ep!

I did...it was good, but didn't blow me away. Too much slo-mo with loud music! I liked enough to keep watching though. Also I have learned not to judge first episodes too harshly.

Too much slo-mo with loud music!

well, fortunately, they drop that gimmick after ep one

lol j/k

going to the school dance on pills (trentemoller!) is as early as ep 2 y/n?

it's either 2 or 3 yeah

i mean that's stone cold classic

it's so good

there's funny shit in every ep, but it took me a while to <3 the first season. by the end i was hooked. but the second series is a patchier.

third season's going to be apache-er.

probs quote this (internally) more than any other tv show

gettin drunk on the reg, fuckin good times on the reg... basically the kind of shit most other men dream about

yachts on the reg

i mean that's stone cold classic

yeah, keep going adam

ah here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYvKwoWNOl4

OK so I am already almost done watching season two and I like this! My wife likes it too even after I told her she probably wouldn't. So...good job, ILX!

What else should I watch now? Community?

That Trentemoller tune is great too. I sort of like the Black Keys thing too, is that bad? HBO shows love the Black Keys!

I really like the guy who plays the baseball team owner, sorry can't remember his name. The rich guy. It's a really strange performance.

Too much slo-mo with loud music!

yeah watching Observe And Report recently i realized that Jody Hill is basically from the Wes Anderson school of "check out this sweet montage set to a gem from my record collection every 15 minutes"

The first episode had like four or five of those though! It did calm down a bit, plus the music is all pretty great. Oogum Boogum in the ep I'm watching right now. I looked for a YouTube of the Trentemoller song so I could hear it again and ALL the comments are like "Kenny Fucking Powers"!

xpost

Agree with some dude, Observe and Report was over the top with that; Eastbound and Down does it much better.

I really like the guy who plays the baseball team owner, sorry can't remember his name. The rich guy. It's a really strange performance.

michael peña, 'army' from the shield innit

I can't remember if they did much slomo w/music in season 1 but it was p.noticeable throughout season 2

^^^ can't believe a 'shield' man could have missed that

yeah watching Observe And Report recently i realized that Jody Hill is basically from the Wes Anderson school of "check out this sweet montage set to a gem from my record collection every 15 minutes"

― some dude, Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

that was maybe my no.1 beef with observe and report - aside from it being unfunny - it was just a nonstop barrage of musical montages. by the end of the movie i was practically seething whenever the next montage started... its so fuckin narcissistic cuz hes just showing off his gd ipod, not trying to entertain us

Some blog put together a soundtrack for season one a while back, think it's gone now though. Was surprised to find out that the sad organ music that plays throughout is a Tindersticks track, assumed it was an original.

http://drunkondreams.blogspot.com/2009/03/eastbound-down-soundtrack.html

http://www.playlist.com/playlist/15364872459

"Take the computers out of your ears!"

Always find myself rewatching this show with everyone I know who hasn't seen it

Like, 4 times already--and I was pretty late getting into it myself

2nd season better than first btw

Went through it in a couple days and now I miss Kenny Fucking Powers =(

2nd season better than first btw

no it isn't fyi

I thought they were about even. More LOLs in the first but I like Mexico more than rural NC

Wasn't so into Don Johnson for some reason.

any scene where kfp isn't the big asshole is a problem

rural suburban

biggest

I missed Will Ferrell, surely the greatest comedian of our era

screen comedian, at least. Chapelle standup might win out for pure LOL

season 2 severely handicapped by lack of Clegg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI8x94EVQ7E

<3 <3 <3

awesome!

http://www.kennypowersjerseys.com/blogs/news/1247592-download-kenny-powers-audio-book

"Oh yeah Kenny Powers does have famous hair doesnt he?"

just an average man, with exceptional hair. nothing more, and nothing less.

haaaaaa

:D

He's not wrong either.

I'm the man who has the ball, the man who can throw it faster than fuck.

Fist Foot Way is kinda disappointing. I wanted more lols!!

I think I wanna watch both seasons again

Foot Fist Way is fucking horrible.

http://www.break.com/index/kenny-powers-k-swiss-uncensored-video-2081649

finally watching s2, not sure why i waited so long, but this shit is amazing

i just have to note two things i love about this show:

1. amazing use of music.
2. when the go to a freeze frame and the big yellow letters zoom in:
EAST
BOUND
&DOWN
it's pretty badass

Other than the midget's jokes ("I'll rip your fake mustache off!" "HA HA I always bring a spare!") my wife and I haven't found much to laugh in Season 2. Don Johnson appearance doesn't leave me particularly hopeful for that changing.

when they're riding the ATVs around in slow motion and this song is playing and it cuts to their faces in time to the music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YG2SgGTrz4
yes!

s2 petered out a little at the end as it got a little too heartwarming/nice but i still really enjoyed it.

ha id say the opposite, last ep (or two eps? can't remember which one had matthew mcconoughay (sp)) rly picked up imo

Yeah, i think the Don Johnson appearance was the nadir. As soon as they mentioned Kenny's father i knew there would be a wacky cameo of some sort

But yes, the freeze frame title sequences are the best

season 2 definitely a step down from 1, but still p great

"tha's racism, man... i love to racism, bro!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=cf3z3J-RV40

(trailer for season 3)

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7552472/kenny-powers-eastbound-sends-open-letter-tim-tebow

Haha that's great.

yayyyyyyyy

LOL.