eastbound & down/danny mcbride

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.