The '90s pastiche songs over the credits are so great. That one at the end of ep 2 or 3 where it's clearly meant to sound like Alice in Chains, Chili Peppers, and Stone Temple Pilots all at the same time! Even the production and drumming is spot-on (and funny).
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
is craig wedren (from shudder to think) still scoring this?
― na (NA), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
it looks like he is
― na (NA), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
Aug '91 seems super specific. They purposely focused on pre-"grunge" '90s, or an era way before the term was completely burnt. It existed but the kids hadn't yet gone apeshit for grunge. So the horrible post-'80s "get with it, this is the '90s man" costume choices felt super on point.
2 or 3 of the songs towards the middle seemed like legit syncs and not Craig Wedren soundalikes. Am I nuts or were The Sundays in one episode? I didn't feel like Shazam'ing or Googling this lol
"Slacker? Oh you mean like that movie that came out 5 weeks ago?"
The whole sequence that concludes with Ronald Reagan repeating "Shit on my shit" while shaming George Bush into shitting on his shit felt like I was watching a Stella short from the early 2000s -- it felt like the logical next step past the "Dance Enis Dance" short, a blend of absurdity/awkwardness that they nail better than anyone else. This was definitely my favorite part lol.
― billstevejim, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
oh whoops, there's a ***spoiler*** in that last post, but I guess this thread is full of them already.
― billstevejim, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
I guess I'm kinda bummed Netflix couldn't shell out for 2 or 3 more cheap '90s syncs. Wain/TheState/Stella always did such a great job with finding the perfect/funniest song choices and it would've been cool to hear a few more of them.
― billstevejim, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
still listen to "Higher and Higher" from the movie whenever I need to get amped up
― frogbs, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
my wife was laughing at me bc i was telling her how the main theme gets me pumped up and then when it kicked in i was pumping my fists dramatically
― na (NA), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
the broken wine glasses bit was great
― Neanderthal, Monday, 7 August 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
I had the day off and the house to myself so i ate some mushrooms and watched every episode today. top notch! would watch again.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
lol
Many asking us did @mshowalter purposely fall in this scene? Answer: No. https://t.co/kCyxrZR0V7 @WetHot @MargueriteMorea— David Wain (@davidwain) August 7, 2017
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
that was a great fall. there were so many good moments like that.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
And now there's
http://io9.gizmodo.com/wet-hot-american-summer-is-getting-its-own-comic-book-1797612515
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 August 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
I just realized this and Twin Peaks (ie the only two shows I'm watching) are both about characters named Coop
― na (NA), Monday, 7 August 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link
!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 August 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
pizza is really yummy for me
― del griffith, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
the 90s lighting in that spin doctors mac & cheese sequence was so perfect.
king of the camp and rain episodes though, so great. five stars.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 04:24 (six years ago) link
this was way less consistent than the prequel episodes, some of the plot lines didn't have much going for them. but the good stuff was good, the last episode was great.
― iatee, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 04:47 (six years ago) link
Walla-walla Hoo!
― DavidLeeRoth, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
omg the video call
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 03:54 (six years ago) link
yeah agree with iatee that the last season was funnier. this season started and ended strong, but the middle episodes coasted a bit. a lot of the plotlines were not as funny as I think they had the potential to be (like Rudd's "King of Camp")
there's one Debbie Gibson-type song they play at the dance that is phenomenally good for a style parody, from the bits I heard. waiting for the full version to surface somewhere online
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 10:19 (six years ago) link
The first episodes seemed almost entirely joke-free - just way too many dead patches
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 11:17 (six years ago) link
I still haven't got over how bad Search Party was (similar writing team) and it's made me residually grumpy about WHAS
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 11:20 (six years ago) link
Huh to me this is much funnier and more consistent than the prequel season.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/craigwedren/sets/wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-selected-songs
― Evan, Thursday, 10 August 2017 03:30 (six years ago) link
xpost otm. not that I didn't like the prequel but I found myself being ok with watching an ep at a time whereas I blazed through this season
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 10 August 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link
the prolonged Q&A after the "confetti payload" reveal was great
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 10 August 2017 03:33 (six years ago) link
Rudd's plot line did feel curtailed. In King of Camp they seemed to be suggesting that he and Deegs would find some kinship and bond but then that just never happened and Deegs didn't show up again.
― na (NA), Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
yeah the king of camp thing didn't really go anywhere and wasn't that great. although deegs cracked me up
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
i just loved the long road warrior intro to king of camp. cracked me up.
― scott seward, Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
I liked Search Party!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
Haven't seen Search Party but Wain isn't involved, right? WHAS humor feels very Wainy.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
Deegs was funny
― na (NA), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
i really enjoyed the first half of this, the second half had its moments but got a little bogged down in plot and had too much reagan/bush instead of just stupid jokes which is all i care about
christopher meloni was once again the all-star, him fighting the can in the winnebago was amazing
― na (NA), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
or in the last episode when the restaurant kitchen door swings open and you see emphatically tossing a salad
― na (NA), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
xxp showalter is def the most sentimental of the 3 of them. wain is the goofiest i think? probably the humor closest to mine. ian black seems v snarky + dismissive. i love them all. (thought search party was okay but not okay enough to get past the 5th episode.)
― Mordy, Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
My favorite part was Meloni and Pine bobbing in unison and saying "come oooon" when they were downloading the bunker blueprint.
Also Schwartzman's wave at Garofalo when they were watching the nuke in the sky.
― Evan, Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
Oh and Meloni meeting his daughter and not getting it. Meloni was insanely good throughout.
― Evan, Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
my favorite really dumb joke that made me laugh a lot was "can i use your bathroom? i really need to ... take a bath"
― na (NA), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
"Full Professor Henry Newman"
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
loved how the nanny murder was the one plot point that wasn't hand-waved away
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
these blueprints ... are literally kicking my ass
― na (NA), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
david hyde pierce calling in from home with emmys in the background was my favorite part of anything ever
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 10 August 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
+mustache removal
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 10 August 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Thursday, August 10, 2017 2:50 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
same
― gbx, Thursday, 10 August 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
Thanks for that link Evan. The song i'm looking hasn't been posted yet but hopefully soon
― Vinnie, Friday, 11 August 2017 01:17 (six years ago) link
this is really great so far, three eps in. i am loving the 90s references, they are delivered with the perfect amount of deadpan ironic nostalgia. i think it helps that it's gen x stuff from this generation of comedians.
lol that acoustic "rrreah reeeah reaah" song
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 04:26 (six years ago) link
i bingewatched this and thoroughly enjoyed it, but think it was a lil less funny than last year's version.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 August 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
Alyssa Milano was a fantastic new addition
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 August 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
yeah Milano was awesome.
they really upped the ante w the action movie stuff here. at one point Chris Pine was really OVER emphasizing certain WORDS and i realized he was doing a Keanu Reeves lol. ofc Schwartman plugs his head into a computer to hack.
lol everyone watching the download screen going "Come on! Come on!"
alo really loved the ending when the characters were asking Ronald Reagan to explain all their plothole questions.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 19 August 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link