eastbound & down/danny mcbride

ha yes

i think kenny will discover that he's ready to be a major league dad, possibly husband.

― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:05 PM (4 days ago)

gr8080 OTM

I wept during the ending of this. This season was genuinely deep and beautiful.

otm best show ever

I'll miss Kenny Fucking Powers.

I don't think anyone's mentioned Stevie's wigs!

Just watched the whole run of this show for the first time. Pretty good, but I'm not 100% sure I get it. Some of KP's speeches are funny, lots of the serious moments and stuff are genuinely touching.

But then you have Will Ferrel stepping in and just being obnoxious. I'm sorry, I just really have grown to loathe him. He's not funny, he just gets by on silly voices and calculated wackiness. He's a bullshit unfunny comedy mogul like Adam Sandler, only maybe more pretentious.

This show was fun to watch, but it felt like it really had a lot of ideas packed into a short space. The tone would be serious and genuinely affecting, meaningful montages happening, and then we'd be stuck watching Ferrel pull out some dusty sub-SNL southern redneck stereotype, requisite gross-out humor intact.

Kind of wish KP had stayed in Mexico a little longer and developed with the team down there (the coach there was my favorite character), and I kind of wish there was more reality calling him out for basically acting like a spoiled baby. But yeah I guess that's the point, he's sort of an anti-hero. A huge baby who always goes on about how big a man he is but can't handle anything. The very last episode at least redeemed the character.

I read an interview with McBride where he talked about Jody Hill and David Gordon Green having such different styles, that they would just write to fit their strengths (or something to that effect), which is there can be some tonal differences (i.e. Ferrell's rich buddies firing cannons at KP).

Also that stupid wig WF had on. It was a "Look at how wacky I am wearing this wig!" wig.

Prob hard for the writers to say no to Ferrell though, being a producer and all.

I agree that his style of comedy (over the top, overplaying) is at odds with McBride, who tended to truly inhabit the soul of KP.

...and therefore the scenes between them were always kind of awkward

i totally get why people think farrell sucked but i still thought he was hilarious, cant help it

yeah same here

Well at times it felt like the KP character could basically have been played by WF and it would be right up his alley. But far less subtlety.

HBO has picked up a 4th season.

!!!!!!!

8 episodes i think.

WHA?!

lol I thought it was over

Still reaching for the zenith. Blast off bitch.

http://i.imgur.com/YNbe4.png

nice that katy fucking perry is pumped about the news

I love this show so, so much, but I feel like they nailed it with the end of Season 3.

I really don't like that @kfuckingp Twitter account - I seem to remember that some fan dude started the account and quickly picked up a shitload of followers, and then he was reluctantly allowed to carry on. Whoever runs it seems to use it to either sell stuff, try to creepily get freebies, or to just generally not really get the humor that makes the show work at all. Maybe that's not the case anymore, but it's just kind of a bummer.

i recall seeing the @kfuckingp account break character around the end of S1 and mention it was a paying gig and he was looking for work now that the season was over

Might be a bad move, it was very satisfying to leave it on an almost perfect run.

Can't imagine this show failing. Even a fail would be a victory.

i finally started s3 last night and am now haunted by the line "this gorgeous sunset is rockin' my nuts off"

when does s4 start?

Stevie Little contributes mightily in this movie about dude finding himself in a coffee shop:

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTg4NTE3Njg2OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDU0MjQ2OQ@@._V1_SX214_.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=IbbSFX_NXho

Not that funny a trailer but still excited. I thought it had ended!

Blast off bitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eesk-ipWz_w

back!

the guest stars always seem pumped to be on a show that's so caustic.

If I gave Ken Marino his own show, I would call it "Ken Marino Goes Dark."

loved this ep

gonna watch this tonight, so stoked

have meant to see this sometime, since baseball player idiot and not a "omg-better-than-Dostoevsky" drama

still got it! so dark

kind of bummed the whole first ep asks you to assume he's been effectively emasculated since the end of season 3 just to start a story arc of him breaking free from his new domesticity, but it i'm still excited for this season

there's just something about the way danny mcbride is so totally present in the role of KP... like even just watching him dance in slow-mo or catching a brief closeup of his facial expressions during April's acceptance speech-- he plays KP so fully and artfully, its a level of performance that's so rare in comedy IMO

great to see tim heidecker and ken marino

kind of bummed the whole first ep asks you to assume he's been effectively emasculated since the end of season 3 just to start a story arc of him breaking free from his new domesticity

know what u mean but it was worth it, just glad they didn't stretch it out any longer. scene where he walks out of the room & breaks the vase was hilarious

that's what happens when people get into air battles

is it just me or was episode 2 one of the best of the series and episode 3 the worst

who wants to pet this wolf

http://www.abload.de/img/stevie1hosa3.gif

who wants to pet this wolf

― sleepingbag, Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it doesnt have papers obv because of their goddamn oral history

^yes

is it just me or was episode 2 one of the best of the series and episode 3 the worst

3 was definitely weaker but nowhere near as terrible as the episode where Will Ferrell's character has Stevie dressed up as a geisha.

really hope there's no will ferrell this season

Episode 3 was good! 4 was quite poor though, 5 medium.

near as terrible as the episode where Will Ferrell's character has Stevie dressed up as a geisha.

― ΙΧΘΥΣ blindness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ

Yeah I liked the total bizarreness of that one.