Just ejected this barely a quarter of the way into it. A co-worker of mine forcibly leant it to me with zealous promises of unbriddled hilarity. Swing and a miss. Obviously a parody of the prototypical early 80's summer teen flicks ala "Meatballs", "Little Darlings", "Caddyshack" et al., but didn't seem especially well done (read: not really that funny). Or am I just too old? Or did I give up on it too soon?
your thoughts?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link
But I thought the State was pretty lame except for 1 or 2 skits, while I'm an obsessive Kids in the Hall fan.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:06 (nineteen years ago) link
(haha jus tkidding)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:17 (nineteen years ago) link
well there you go.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link
specifically the MONTAGE where COOP tries to get the GIRL.
― planescapin' 'til dawn (Homosexual II), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― S!monB!rch (Carey), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― S!monB!rch (Carey), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Is your Mom Prince?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:32 (nineteen years ago) link
WHAS has some great bits, but like all Michael Showalter-related projects, it feels a bit like a missed opportunity.
― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Friday, 12 November 2004 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link
these movies that keep on telling us they're "Future Cult Classics!!!!" are hit and miss. this one was just meh-inducing okay. so miss.
― lemin (lemin), Friday, 12 November 2004 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Did you get to the scene where they go to town, Alex?
rudd ("andy") keeps losing kids and taking their buddies for a ride off the side of the road... the short dude from the state on the motorcycle trying to catch up with the other dude... the nerds rolling their 20-sided die? i mean, i just don't get how you can't like it.
yes, alex. i don't know you, but over the course of writing this post, i have decided that you ARE, in fact, old.
― joe schlamola, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
My favorite part is when the goth girl says "that's just one mixtape!" or something.
― Magic City (ano ano), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:39 (nineteen 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
I had the opposite experience to last season - I thought this started bad and got better as it went along. The storm episode is maybe an all-time WHAS highlight. The whole terrifying "shit on my shit, shit on my shit" bit is still making me laugh. In the last episode, "the food critic review is in - very delicious!" is like one of the great non-sequitur deliveries of our time.
Also, fight scenes were pretty good! That I wasn't expecting.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 19 August 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
This had some great stuff in it, but (also) think on the whole it was weaker than the first season.
The confrontation between Bush, Reagan, and the camp ppl towards the end felt like it went on for three episodes and was mostly not funny.
― circa1916, Saturday, 19 August 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
ur not funny
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 19 August 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
The longer that sequence went the funnier it got because it just added to the goofy absurdity.
― Evan, Saturday, 19 August 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
Yeah idk, looking forward to a rewatch. Some stuff in the first season didn't really land for me on the first go around, but I got a lot more out of it when I rewatched it a few weeks ago.
― circa1916, Saturday, 19 August 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
I think it's a good joke...it was just the exact same joke that they used at the end of the prequel and jon hamm delivered it better
― iatee, Saturday, 19 August 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
"Okay, I’m hearing you, and what I’m hearing is that what is bothering you is that many lives were lost. Now I don’t have an answer that I feel is going to satisfy you…"
― iatee, Saturday, 19 August 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
Watched the making of on Netflix the other day, really enjoyed it. Then I went to watch the original film and it wasn't on Netflix canada blaaaaag
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 19 August 2017 23:55 (six years ago) link
it isn't on Netflix in the US either
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 August 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
loved it, though probably not as much as First Day of Camp. Chris Pine was the MVP in all his scenes. those Keanu-esque line readings....
lmao @ David Hyde Pierce's cameo too.
― nomar, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:10 (six years ago) link
Not even a big fan of this franchise but the first episode or two of this was the funniest thing I've seen in a long, long time
Favorite detail: the made-up Spin Doctors song that plays during the upbeat kitchen montage
― Evan R, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
day...bi-det
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 January 2024 02:11 (two months ago) link