season 2 just started i really love this show!! more joeks per second than any show id say
av club has an interview w/ the creators:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/vernon-chatman-and-john-lee-of-xavier-renegade-ang,23741/1/
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 February 2009 05:42 (nine years ago) Permalink
http://www.pffr.net/NYBillboard.jpg
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 February 2009 05:46 (nine years ago) Permalink
The premiere was just insanely fast-paced. Almost disorientingly so. Regardless, it was great.
― Jouster, Saturday, 14 February 2009 08:17 (nine years ago) Permalink
Good Christ in Heaven, they gave this show a SECOND season?!
― kingfish, Saturday, 14 February 2009 08:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
i don't get this show
― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 14 February 2009 10:43 (nine years ago) Permalink
The second season premier was like watching a nightmare.
― burt_stanton, Saturday, 14 February 2009 15:45 (nine years ago) Permalink
haha ty for that burt
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 February 2009 17:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
This show astounds and confuses me every time. But I really like it.
― Jouster, Saturday, 14 March 2009 00:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
yo vernon did wondershowzen too right
― Duderonomy 1:69-420 (iiiijjjj), Saturday, 14 March 2009 01:14 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeahand that new show Delocatedwondershowzen is the best
― turtles all the way down (Face of Wolf), Saturday, 14 March 2009 02:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
clutch the dark purple hairs of the orangatan of normalacy and ride nigga ride!
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 28 March 2009 17:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
had the old lady pretty wet last night up to her cankles in tears
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 28 March 2009 17:27 (nine years ago) Permalink
AVC: Okay, the question that people ask when they see Xavier for the first time is “What the fuck?”
JL: There’s cum on that question! That’s a self-answering question! That question fucks itself, and its babies are the answer, and the answer is “What the fuck?”
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 25 April 2009 22:55 (nine years ago) Permalink
This is the best new TV show.
― fillibustar superstar! (Abbott), Saturday, 25 April 2009 23:53 (nine years ago) Permalink
― fillibustar superstar! (Abbott), Saturday, April 25, 2009 7:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
i only just now started to watch this -- i don't think you're supposed to get anything (except that Xavier is kind of a clueless dork). i like it too!
― Bosko Balaban Stats For Season (Eisbaer), Sunday, 26 April 2009 04:32 (nine years ago) Permalink
It's a little scary, how much I hate this show.
― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Sunday, 26 April 2009 12:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
Abbott OTM. The DVD features suspiciously dead-on fanmentary for those who don't get it.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 14 February 2010 02:35 (eight years ago) Permalink
just started watching this, it doesn't really go off the deep end until the baby-eating episode, which...holy crap.
― Simon H., Monday, 15 February 2010 17:17 (eight years ago) Permalink
i loved wonder shozen, but do not like this
― oh, wrinkle... pause (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 15 February 2010 17:18 (eight years ago) Permalink
I think maybe you need to watch it more before you cast judgment. A lot of times, I've found I don't like something at first, and then I give it a little time and eventually I warm up to it. Don't write it off yet, give it some time and see what happens. After all, life's too short to be a critic right? :)
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 15 February 2010 17:33 (eight years ago) Permalink
I loved this show straight up - saw the baby-eating episode while hanging out in a bar and thought, "this is amazing". Can't wait to see what these guys come up with next.
― Spectrum, Monday, 15 February 2010 18:29 (eight years ago) Permalink
ohhhh i hate this show
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Monday, 15 February 2010 18:48 (eight years ago) Permalink
I would hate this show as well, but I theoretically like it in a world where I'm more familiar with the new age nonsense it's making fun of. I heard that the animators who work on it hate it, though.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 15 February 2010 18:52 (eight years ago) Permalink
i like this show lots and lots, but it does threaten to disappear up its ass in that it's all about wordplay (a wonder showzen carryover) first and foremost and zinging new age/religious horseshit is secondary. both of which makes xavier more limited in its appeal than wonder showzen was. so folks who aren't into wordplay or mocking new age/religious cliches are gonna be predisposed to not like it at all. that's what i think, anyway.
― there can be only but steam that smells of shit and weaklingness (Eisbaer), Monday, 15 February 2010 18:59 (eight years ago) Permalink
show is funny but also creeps the hell out of me, esp since I only seem to catch it at 3 am
― iatee, Monday, 15 February 2010 19:02 (eight years ago) Permalink
also, i think that this wonder showzen clip was a dry-run for xavier in so many ways:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1AHDNTXYSA
― there can be only but steam that smells of shit and weaklingness (Eisbaer), Monday, 15 February 2010 19:09 (eight years ago) Permalink
Have you guys seen Final Flesh yet?
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Monday, 15 February 2010 19:12 (eight years ago) Permalink
this show fucking kills it
― plax (ico), Saturday, 27 February 2010 18:01 (eight years ago) Permalink
Oh man... Final Flesh...
― Shannon Whirry and the Bad Brains, Sunday, 28 February 2010 01:53 (eight years ago) Permalink
Final Flesh (From The Creators Of Wonder Showzen)
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 28 February 2010 03:21 (eight years ago) Permalink
damnesia you is fukkin bonkers
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 4 April 2010 06:14 (eight years ago) Permalink
also it helps 2 have subtitles turnt on 4 these epis so u dont miss joeks fyi
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 4 April 2010 06:16 (eight years ago) Permalink
Yes! They're so densely packed (visually, aurally, mentally, etc.) that the closed captioning helps. And, in a way, I'm glad the episodes aren't half an hour each. At half that length, they're absolutely exhausting/exhilarating.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 4 April 2010 06:23 (eight years ago) Permalink
Just saw this for the first time. Wow, really amazing.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 February 2011 20:00 (seven years ago) Permalink
My iPod is named "Dark Notion" thx to this show – that episode cracked me up so hard (w/the ridic goth boy called himself Society and Dark Notion...I need to get this shit on DVD).
― totally small truffles (Abbbottt), Friday, 4 February 2011 20:12 (seven years ago) Permalink
"Clutch the dark purple hairs of the galloping orangutan of normalicy and ride nigga ride!"
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 6 February 2011 09:02 (seven years ago) Permalink
"One time I created something called....a thurrito! It's a burrito, within a burrito, within the heart of that same burrito. Its a total mind-blinder, but you don't hear me bragging about it all over your face."
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 7 February 2011 21:07 (seven years ago) Permalink
man i want to watch this right now
― plax (ico), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:14 (seven years ago) Permalink
We call them truth humps. We tend to judge each show by how many TH's we have per episode. Our minimum is 10, our maximum is 40. What's the THPM, like how many truth humps per minute. We also do the LLPM, how many lady-lumps per minute.
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 17 July 2011 03:01 (seven years ago) Permalink
AVC: Is Highway To Heaven the inspiration for Xavier? JL: We based it on Michael Landon’s life. If you really understood it, why would you ask that question? VC: If you took Michael Landon to his logical conclusion, that’s Xavier. But we always have taken a format and then tried to not make it parody or not just rely on the format as a mold for our nightmares.JL: I’d like to say we honor the format.http://www.avclub.com/articles/vernon-chatman-and-john-lee-of-the-heart-she-holle,64560/2/
JL: We based it on Michael Landon’s life. If you really understood it, why would you ask that question?
VC: If you took Michael Landon to his logical conclusion, that’s Xavier. But we always have taken a format and then tried to not make it parody or not just rely on the format as a mold for our nightmares.
JL: I’d like to say we honor the format.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/vernon-chatman-and-john-lee-of-the-heart-she-holle,64560/2/
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:47 (six years ago) Permalink
p excited 4 the heart, she holler tbh
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 November 2011 02:04 (six years ago) Permalink
ahahaha oh this
― lovely cuddly fluffy dope (imago), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:18 (four years ago) Permalink
show is pure noize
― beef in the new era (wins), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:47 (four years ago) Permalink
yh it rly is rly it rly rly is
― lovely cuddly fluffy dope (imago), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:49 (four years ago) Permalink
If is an amazing show
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:54 (four years ago) Permalink
Iiiit
<3
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:55 (four years ago) Permalink
heart she holler was unwatchable doe
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:56 (four years ago) Permalink
yep
― polyphonic, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:57 (four years ago) Permalink
this is like uh they finally made a show for ppl whose smartness and silliness are in eternal conflict for zenithal occupation of their brainspace
― lovely cuddly fluffy dope (imago), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:59 (four years ago) Permalink
i miss this show
― spread to fuck the fruit (Eisbaer), Sunday, 16 February 2014 03:56 (four years ago) Permalink
fairly certain this is the greatest tv show ever made
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Monday, 3 March 2014 19:44 (four years ago) Permalink
The Squatopia episode probably my favorite. I just rewatched it last night for like the 10th time and discovered something new: the juggler guy in the very beginning throws three fireballs into the air, yet only catches one in his hat. The other two fall out of the sky at different parts in the rest of the show. One sets the fascist on fire and the other kills the punk rocker who is trying to kick out the slave.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 16 March 2014 17:29 (four years ago) Permalink
"Dreams, they are the hurricanes that wash the soul-filth from the super-dome of our night-mind."
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 16 March 2014 17:36 (four years ago) Permalink
This is probably the most subversive TV show ever aired.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:04 (four years ago) Permalink
It's epically anti-authoritarian.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:06 (four years ago) Permalink
Like, it blows past any political/social/spiritual concepts of authority and finds Reason at the heart of it all and just eviscerates it.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:08 (four years ago) Permalink
I dunno; I think its deliberate obtuse random weirdness, great tho that is, can undercut any subversion. The show is so acutely bent that none of it could justify that "sub-" prefix; it's not slipping under anybody's radar anytime room.
The show's aesthetic is a great pairing with Tim & Eric's, tho; grotesquery and absurdity thru early 90s VHS tech vs late 90s 1st-gen home PC 3D software.
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:31 (four years ago) Permalink
so this (co-written by vernon chatman but the brainchild of another pomo animation genius called david oreilly) is fucking incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxPyN6IK1tM
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 00:26 (four years ago) Permalink
httpsssss httpsssssssssssss
Interesting! I really like the style. Looks sort of airbrushed.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 May 2014 16:30 (four years ago) Permalink
Has its own thread now.
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Friday, 16 May 2014 16:54 (four years ago) Permalink
Ask it here, I guess: why would ILX rather discuss Tim and Eric than PFFR?
― imago, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 19:19 (three years ago) Permalink
Tim and Eric are currently releasing content and PFFR aren't.
Also, the last thing PFFR made -- The Heart, She Holler, in 2011 -- was really bad imo.
Xavier, Wonder Showzen, and Delocated are all aces though.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 19:42 (three years ago) Permalink
The Heart She Holler also existed in 2013 and is coming back in a few weeks for a third season. It definitely is their hardest project to enjoy, I think, but they're still active. I was thinking of them when "Too Many Cooks" was getting so much attention just recently... seems like a PFFR-influenced kind of thing (maybe not directly, but the sensibility is sort of similar).
― Jouster, Sunday, 16 November 2014 07:04 (three years ago) Permalink
imo THSH is amazing
and yeah, cibdidersarion of their place in the cultural cabin inspired by talk of tooo many books
― imago, Sunday, 16 November 2014 09:44 (three years ago) Permalink
early talk about The Shivering Truth would seem to place it in the 'extremely promising' category
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 11:14 (six months ago) Permalink
Whoa. Never saw this, until just now. The babies episode. This is amazing and hilarious.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 9 February 2018 12:38 (six months ago) Permalink
chomsky honk
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 February 2018 14:47 (six months ago) Permalink
Escape to Squatopian Freedom is amazing
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 February 2018 14:48 (six months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rwPPrxjqKY
― am0n, Friday, 9 February 2018 16:22 (six months ago) Permalink
"you're the sad figment of my twisted psyche's tragic dividend"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:42 (six months ago) Permalink
i rewatched this over the weekend. one of my favourite shows ever for sure
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 22:52 (six months ago) Permalink
just watched awful sci-fi movie 'the arrival' and the aliens in it had xavier legs lol
https://i.imgur.com/iZ6G79L.gif
― am0n, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 19:32 (six months ago) Permalink
frittata
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 19:50 (six months ago) Permalink
ly-eeef... ly-eeef... ly-eeef...
― am0n, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:21 (six months ago) Permalink
pffr should go on chapo
― imago, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:31 (six months ago) Permalink
This was all new to me, cause I'm slow. I'm amazed by how poor the first three episodes are, but then with the baby eating one it just gets into gear and becomes really, really awesome.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:37 (six months ago) Permalink