eastbound & down/danny mcbride

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)