i like you can see the fear in his eyes when he starts to go off
― balls, Friday, 14 March 2014 23:36 (ten years ago) link
"all the black man gets is a PLATE OF WHITE LIES" while Shirley looks completely petrified
― Neanderthal, Friday, 14 March 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
The moment when drops the mic is perfectly timed.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 15 March 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
And the sight of a huge Payday skittering out of the room...I fucking lost it.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 15 March 2014 03:02 (ten years ago) link
The payday gag was lost somewhere over the altantic. I assume it's some kind of snack bar.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 15 March 2014 03:35 (ten years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y4jJaJ3mUCQ/T_r4MZkuLrI/AAAAAAAANMU/sNMgiVwgR-8/s1600/hershey-payday-bar-1.85oz-24-count.jpg
― Clay, Saturday, 15 March 2014 03:37 (ten years ago) link
Making an early 90s VCR game the central conceit of an episode gives me the feeling that Dan Harmon et al are gloriously flying the Enterprise straight into the sun just to see what they can get away with.
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Saturday, 15 March 2014 07:01 (ten years ago) link
Ps we had the I, Robot VCR game when I was 13
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Saturday, 15 March 2014 07:03 (ten years ago) link
This episode was great. And now I also know that my complete dragon strike boardgame at home is worth something.
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 15 March 2014 07:30 (ten years ago) link
this was a brilliant episode, and still for all that dean pelton was the MVP
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Saturday, 15 March 2014 11:46 (ten years ago) link
Chang's confession was great too
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Saturday, 15 March 2014 13:16 (ten years ago) link
On some level the show feels less ambitious than it did in season 2, even though its basically doing the same thing. Only then it felt like "who knows where this could go?" And now its "celebrations of obscure reference points that still focus on the emotional dynamics between the characters, that's what we do." I used to worry the show would turn Family Guy but its got way too much heart to do that right now. So it's a little low impact and I can't imagine non-nerd people who aren't already into it getting into it, but I don't care because I'm so grateful for it.
― da croupier, Saturday, 15 March 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
Great episode!
And wow, Gina Gershon has been taking care of herself.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 15 March 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
D&D episode next week!
― jmm, Saturday, 15 March 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
nice
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 15 March 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
is Spencer coming back for it?
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Saturday, 15 March 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
"we didnt learn nothin"
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 15 March 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
best part was gillian jacobs turning around after the dean scutters away, brief moment where she looks like she's about to lose her shit
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 15 March 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
yeah i caught that too, she's almost in pain keeping it in
― balls, Saturday, 15 March 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Both her and Joel look directly at the camera for a split second
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Sunday, 16 March 2014 01:35 (ten years ago) link
also loved the bit where abed and annie shared a look that basically said "we do not want britta to live with us"
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Sunday, 16 March 2014 08:22 (ten years ago) link
Thought that last episode was mixed. The VHS half was enjoyable, especially Gilligan, but not really actual-laughing-funny. The textbook story was kind of boring and confusing.
I've really enjoyed this season, but something about it is almost starting to remind of Red Dwarf, although maybe that's just a hangover from last week.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 16 March 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
The textbook part was the most conventional part of the ep!
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 16 March 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
It did kind of remind me of that lame episode where everyone was stuck in the garage at a Thanksgiving dinner for some reason.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 16 March 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
eh I thought it was cute they had Vince Gilligan in the nerdy storyline while the rest of the cast was in a BB style heist & betrayal plot
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Sunday, 16 March 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
The vcr game was hilar cos some of those games were convoluted and ridiculous.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 16 March 2014 20:04 (ten years ago) link
not quite sure what the exemplars were of the genre that the textbook plot was based on, but the musical cues were perfect.
― eric banana (s.clover), Sunday, 16 March 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
a simple plan
― balls, Sunday, 16 March 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
i love that beat where Gilligan gives an instruction on the game and then he pauses forever til you think the tape is stuck and then he yells GO or whatever
brought back vhs game memories
also the convoluted rules made me lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 March 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
cf in parks and recs Ben Wyatt's Settlers of Catan geek out and the ridiculous game he invented and bequeathed to his bean counter colleagues
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Sunday, 16 March 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
yeah the vcr game details were nailed so great i have no idea how that played to someone who never played one of those awful games
― balls, Sunday, 16 March 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link
we had one that our aunt gave us & it had like 900 perforated cardboard pieces, we tried playing it & it was so boring & confusing. i think it was pirate themed? maybe? idk. mum was mad we didnt play it more and we were like mum it's the WORST
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 March 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
I'd never even heard of VCR games before, but the basic idea came across right away. Also the characters had no idea either -- bafflement was the whole point.
― jmm, Sunday, 16 March 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link
yeah i'd never played one but the concept was clear and hilarious
― da croupier, Sunday, 16 March 2014 22:38 (ten years ago) link
Man YT is lousy with clips of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vXc-bXbfVg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOqJij2y_zQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcWL8rqPpMw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VliKrIgerFw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcSvATl1Mn8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ra7gLA4JaA
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Sunday, 16 March 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vXc-bXbfVg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOqJij2y_zQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcWL8rqPpMw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VliKrIgerFw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcSvATl1Mn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ra7gLA4JaA
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Sunday, 16 March 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
I remember VCR trivia games, like it'd show you a scene from a movie and you'd have to guess the movie or something ("Scene It" I think it was called?). But our VCR was too crappy to take full advantage of something like Pile Of Bullets; the lag time between hitting FFW on the remote and the VCR actually fast-forwarding would've killed all the fun.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 16 March 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
Which also serves as a reminder that every single robocop thing except for the original Verhoeven flick has been garbage
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Sunday, 16 March 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
my vcr board game story: we used to have atmosfear - http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1881/atmosfear-the-harbingers - when i was growing up. we tried playing it once or twice and then it got tucked into a random vcr box until a few years later when my then ~2yo sister turned it on thinking it was a baby genius movie. she was so frightened that from then on if you asked her if she wanted to watch baby genius she'd say, "no, too scary."
― Mordy , Sunday, 16 March 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
lool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 March 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
haha that's awesome
― balls, Sunday, 16 March 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
I used to have this one basketball VCR game but it was shitty because unless you picked a random point to start the VHS tape (thus delaying the start of the game), every game always started the same! DVDs kinda brought back this type of thing since it's easier to jump around (ie, SceneIt etc).
and then our friends growing up had us playing a horse race betting game, thus exposing me to gambling at a nice right age.
also did anybody ever play the interactive CAptain Power game shit?
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 16 March 2014 23:17 (ten years ago) link
― eric banana (s.clover), Sunday, March 16, 2014 4:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't know that it was meant to be anything more than 'hey it's organized crime/drug cartel shit only with textbooks instead'.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 16 March 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
was thinking googling "heist gone wrong" would yield some good results but didn't bother.
― eric banana (s.clover), Monday, 17 March 2014 00:32 (ten years ago) link
nah i'm struggling to think of other examples than a simple plan but basically the plot involves small group of friends find some loot that's possibly ill gotten, decide to split it up amongst themselves instead of report it or whatever and then eventually greed and paranoia lead them to betray and destroy each other until whatever larger powerful evil force the loot originally belonged to arrives to deliver the final blow. no country for old men has elements of this, treasure of sierra madre as well but there are some that fit it more specifically. basically a variation on monkey's paw.
― balls, Monday, 17 March 2014 00:38 (ten years ago) link
Not sure if mentioned here but VCR star was the dude who created breaking bad hence drug deal subplot
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 17 March 2014 00:40 (ten years ago) link
the captain power video tapes were more like a video game where you use the toy jet as the controllerhere's a link the second tape
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6nqsq_captain-power-training-video-2-bio_shortfilms
I believe you have to destroy the sears tower
― jbn, Monday, 17 March 2014 00:44 (ten years ago) link
i'm struggling to think of other examples
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_and_a_Comic_Book
something about it is almost starting to remind of Red Dwarf
Most inexplicable comparison between two things I have heard all year.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 17 March 2014 02:07 (ten years ago) link
I'm not really sure why I felt that (probably just the sci-fi association from last week) but something definitely sent a Chris Barrie -shaped shiver down my back. Something about the lameness and intransigence of the characters and being in a confined situation. But it passed pretty quickly.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 17 March 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
nah i'm struggling to think of other examples than a simple plan but basically the plot involves small group of friends find some loot that's possibly ill gotten, decide to split it up amongst themselves instead of report it or whatever and then eventually greed and paranoia lead them to betray and destroy each other until whatever larger powerful evil force the loot originally belonged to arrives to deliver the final blow.
― Nhex, Monday, 17 March 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link