who else is psyched for the hagar HBO show
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
He is a motherfucker with some dark secrets, it will be fantastic.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
wonder if broomhilda will show her tits
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link
actually danny mcbride as hagar and john hawkes as his twerpy sidekick could work
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
deadwood guy is writing it
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
we should do a thread on what comic strips should become HBO shows... i'm voting ADAM
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
dagwood is kinda mad men-esque
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
dag men
i watched a couple more of these and my opinion has soured. it's really just incredibly thinly written. if there's a plot point or a character is struggling with something, well, you can bet the writers are going to hammer-drill it into your brain about 5000 times in time-honored apatow/snl fashion. at first i was like "wow gina gershon, awesome!" and then what happens with her? nothing. and kenny's "fuck buddy" - the writers don't allow her any reality, they just rub her nose in how awful she's supposed to be. it's like some kind of iron man competition to see who's capable of rising above the shitty material to actually seem real.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 September 2009 09:55 (fourteen years ago) link
pineapple express would have been a failure without his presence
― cutty, Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:41 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― deus ex lawnmower (latebloomer), Friday, 25 September 2009 09:57 (fourteen years ago) link
but whatever, danny mcbride is awesome and hallelujah for this showcase for him.
xpost heh yep
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 September 2009 10:04 (fourteen years ago) link
also hallelejuah for a show with at least a couple of real southern accents.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 September 2009 10:05 (fourteen years ago) link
that does not include farrell's. jesus christ, he veers between black southhern preacher, white alabama and some other shit.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 September 2009 10:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't know how fair it is to expect a show to get into really deep character development in six half-hour episodes and still have like jokes and a plot as well
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 25 September 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
tracer wants more development of herpes girl!
honestly, if you read through the thread, i was ambivalent about this show around episode 3, but a true believer by the end of episode 6.
― cutty, Friday, 25 September 2009 12:43 (fourteen years ago) link
when's the next series start?
― cozwn, Friday, 25 September 2009 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
dude the entire show is hopelessly about 'character development'.
not than an accent has anything to do with that. I just wanted to bash ferrell, really.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 September 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah what cutty said. if u read the thread most people went from slightly ehhh to fully omg with this.
― history mayne, Friday, 25 September 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
ferrell is weirdly off in his first appearance tho, yup.
Tracer Hand otm about everything
― some dude, Friday, 25 September 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
"you look like a retarded michael myers"
― cozwn, Friday, 25 September 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
hay tracer hav u seen ep 5 - cause if not WATCH IT and report back
― ice cr?m, Friday, 25 September 2009 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^^ yes.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 25 September 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
... dr cock'n'balls.
― history mayne, Friday, 25 September 2009 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf9j4QnVK-s
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Friday, 25 September 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
how shitty would this show be if we had like... seen his fuck buddy's childhood
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Friday, 25 September 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty much every character in this show changes in some significant way and reveals more of themselves than you see at first... tracer hand what are you talking about
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Friday, 25 September 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
even his disapproving sister-in-law is given way more depth and way more to do than most comedies would allow that kind of character
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRAugLwSQNI
― cutty, Friday, 25 September 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
s1ocki i'm not talking about some cliche hack move to show "depth" i would just like to have stayed with gina gershon and the beguiling class friction that was developing between the powers bros and her instead of racing off to a "pitch off" (nb. a term i have never heard but wouldn't that be a battle between pitchers?). likewise i would have liked to see fuckbuddy put kenny in his place once or twice, or least be allowed to be funny. likewise has it not occurred to anyone in the writing team that stalking your large betitted high school sweetheart is about 1% sweet and about 99% lame as all hell? oh i know i know - our hero is the man child and his myopic whims must be nurtured as a virgin lily. whatever. i wonder if will ferrell's got a script lined up about an aging comic whose schtick has gotten so tired after repeating himself too often that he starts pitching tv series which are just padded season-long versions of his movies but they don't get renewed... and then... he comes back... to prove to himself if to no one else... that he still has what it takes...
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 September 2009 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i would agree that basically every character besides kenny & the schoolteacher is underwritten and not terribly funny
― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 September 2009 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
if no one said that then i would agree with my own brain
oh i did like the principal actually, there was something extra about him. something weird. he never gets offended by anything but sometimes he lays down the law in a way that even kenny respects.
xpost haha
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 September 2009 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"large betitted"!
― A polar bear you can see in a snowstorm (rockapads), Friday, 25 September 2009 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
the fuckbuddy character has plenty of funny moments - you really wanted to see her stand up to kenny and tell him what's what?!
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Friday, 25 September 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
likewise has it not occurred to anyone in the writing team that stalking your large betitted high school sweetheart is about 1% sweet and about 99% lame as all hell?
it's... supposed to be... pretty lame.
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Friday, 25 September 2009 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
there were a few things about the show that didn't sit real well with me.
like, i don't mind if the characters have some backwards ideas about sexual relations - they weren't supposed to be enlightened individuals in any way, but the way the camera lingered on her melons throughout the show - even when he first started trying to get her back and was kind of creepy and aggressive about it - convinced me that the writers were just as complicate as the characters, and that I as a viewer was supposed to be, too. no reason was ever really given for why he liked her except that he lusted for her body, so it rang kind of false when he suddenly cared so much for her toward the end. kind of undermined that whole aspect of the show.
possible spoilers follow.........the other thing that bugged me, and i am probably totally over-analyzing it, was that the only non-white character to get any kind of significant screen time was the black baseball player, played by the always awesome Craig Robinson, who ends up an antagonist who gets sonned in the worst kind of way. What a waste of a funny actor, too. When they first introduced him, I was really hoping he would end up one of Powers' fuck-up friends.
― A polar bear you can see in a snowstorm (rockapads), Friday, 25 September 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
that would be 'complicit', sorry.
― A polar bear you can see in a snowstorm (rockapads), Friday, 25 September 2009 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― A polar bear you can see in a snowstorm (rockapads), Friday, 25 September 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 25 September 2009 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought the fuck buddy was pretty hysterical nad wished there was more of her tbh.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 26 September 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Saturday, 26 September 2009 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 26 September 2009 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
signals like sad trombone sound effects kinda thing?
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Saturday, 26 September 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
well i don't know - how did YOU figure out that "it's... supposed to be... pretty lame"?
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 26 September 2009 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
cos all the ppl are lame?
this show is basically just danny mcbride saying funny stuff
― cozwn, Saturday, 26 September 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't even know how to begin to answer that xp
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Saturday, 26 September 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Saturday, 26 September 2009 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 26 September 2009 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link