like, william tell has gone blind and can't hit the apple, so peabody places a "small but powerful magnet" in the apple, attracting william tell's arrowhead and making him hit it dead-on, which like okay maybe it is just how smug peabody is with his little bow tie about his Genius Solutions that could not possibly ever work that gets on my nerves
but then i mean i guess that is the point of peabody and sherman
i dunno
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
haha well i watched them over and over too, but that was at an age where i wasn't likely to dismiss anything for being contrived. for me all the supplemental shorts were like broccoli to get to the rocky & bullwinkle dessert, but peabody & s-man always felt like the best of those to me.
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i definitely need to revisit this stuff with ~adult eyes~
oh, i did not become militantly anti-peabody until i was an adult. fair.
i usually only see r&b these days when i visit my parents, when my dad and i generally settle in for one or two sessions per visit. between segments we hold efficient and informed quorums re: whether or not this next one should be skipped. my mom rolls her eyes in a different room.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i know the animation gets knocked a lot but R&B are among my favorite character designs ever, i could stare at this all day:
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/35164_469705949198_602254198_6442641_397531_n.jpg
and the bumper where they grow in the ground like flowers... how did they even think of that??? that's just flat out brilliant animation.
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
haha thats great
bullwinkle appreciation was definitely a thing that was passed onto me by my dad. he'd take me to the bar with him when i was like 5 and i'd sit around drawing bullwinkles for hours and then the bartender would stick them on the beer fridge.
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
the internet went down in the middle of this important conversation and it became a housewide crisis involving 4 of the 6 residents standing around behind each others' shoulders saying HEY TRY CLICKING THAT but i'm back and here is the post i saved in a text file before rebooting my computer:
r&b always has great design, like all four of the main characters are just perfect and expressive and awesome, and i love things like the two opposing mirrored short/tall duos, and the flower bumper, and Fearless Leader's scarred wedge-head, but the actual animation was i believe farmed hurriedly out to a mexican studio and done really cheaply and last-minute and without a lot of communication and that's why it's always weird and distorted and has demented perspective and fucked-up colors and lacks any kind of consistency from episode to episode. but then that mirrors the plot; that is kind of its whole charm. so yeah i love it.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
your dad story is also great. am now curious to see if this is a common dadthing.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i miss tennessee tuxedo
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
why am i watching battlefield earth at 2:30 in the morning
whyyy
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Thursday, 17 March 2011 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link
ha my dad also loved R&B
he also tried to sell me on barney miller but i wasnt really feeling it
― D-40, Thursday, 17 March 2011 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Rocky & Bullwinkle def a thing with my dad. One of his proudest moments was giving his college comp essays Fractured Fairy Tale type titles.
― manic pickle dream gherk (los blue jeans), Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
LOADS of new bad tv shows and Shanachie music docs
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
is day of the dolphin worth watching
what abt deadhead miles? written by terrance malick?
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Oooh, Netflix has the TV miniseries "The Stand" streaming. Haven't seen that since '93 or whenever it came out. Loved it then.
― musicfanatic, Sunday, 3 April 2011 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
And upthread, thanks for mentioning Monsters. Didn't know that was even out yet on dvd, let alone streaming.
― musicfanatic, Sunday, 3 April 2011 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
twin pks
― timbo slice (D-40), Sunday, 3 April 2011 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link
wait srsly
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Sunday, 3 April 2011 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yup
― timbo slice (D-40), Sunday, 3 April 2011 08:01 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome!
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Sunday, 3 April 2011 08:03 (thirteen years ago) link
watched Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey last night. lots of good footage of leon theremin, clara rockmore, robert moog, and a brief but very strange segment with brian wilson talking about "good vibrations" and how it connected with "25 year old children." definitely worth watching!
― original bgm, Sunday, 3 April 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
hal ashby's the landlord
― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
you know it would be cool if they had a "random episode" feature -- sometimes i have like 30 mins to burn & think "i could watch a random episode of 30 rock or arrested development on netflix" but i inevitably end up combing thru the descriptions or avoiding doing that altogether -- so a 'random episode' thing would be cool imo
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 7 April 2011 08:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Close your eyes and click.
― Jeff, Thursday, 7 April 2011 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
hal ashby's the landlord - is this good? it's been sitting in my queue for months
― Darin, Friday, 8 April 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
2010 Moby Dick:That infamous whale is bigger, badder and a whole lot stronger in this sci-fi reimagining of Herman Melville's classic tale of the battle between man, sea and sea creature starring "Xena" alum Renée O'Connor as the (traditionally male) narrator. But the boat -- now a high-tech submarine -- is also bigger, and Capt. Ahab (Barry Bostwick) is as determined as ever to settle the score and take down the mighty sea mammal that maimed him.
― I saw this awesome photo of a marmot (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
226 minute version of Once Upon a Time in America is available on streaming!
― Mordy, Friday, 6 May 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
the incredible shrinking woman, starring lily tomlin, ned beatty, and charles grodin is on instant watch. besides being joel schumacher's first film, it's a great companion piece to morgan: a suitable case for treatment
― ♥, (remy bean), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
- HR Pufinstuf, Bravestar, He-Man, Inspector Gadget, Shazam, She-Ra, South Park, Voltron- All the Hellraiser movies- The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick- All the "Masters of Horror"- Yo Gabba Gabba- Tuvalu <-recommended
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 June 2011 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
if i had a bunch of w33d and no responsibilities, my weekend would be set with that list there.
― tylerw, Friday, 3 June 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
MAN AMERICAN NETFLIX IS SO MUCH MORE GOOD
― Alderaan Duran (Will M.), Friday, 3 June 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
someone tell me what all south park episodes are good after abt season 5
― johnny crunch, Friday, 3 June 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Awesom-OThe Losing Edge
― nuclear power, jet propulsion, radar, laser beams, cordless phone (abanana), Friday, 3 June 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
someone tell me what all south park episodes are good after abt season 5― johnny crunch, Friday, June 3, 2011 3:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― johnny crunch, Friday, June 3, 2011 3:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Oh man, the first four episodes of season 6 are all great for starters... Looking at the wiki episode guide for that season, you can't go wrong with any that I can see. There should be a least a few laughs to be had in each.
― musicfanatic, Sunday, 5 June 2011 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Btw before it gives horror a bad name, most of the masters of horror series is middling to terrible, although there are a couple of good ones in there
― just malorted a little bit in my mouth (jjjusten), Sunday, 5 June 2011 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
October Country
― Jeff, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Mike The Situation's workout video is streaming.
Perhaps this is only relevant to my interests but whatev.
― polyphonic, Saturday, 18 June 2011 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
ill wait til he releases "tanning" & "laundry" 2 complete the trilogy
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 19 June 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
It is unbelievable how many times he says "situation" in this thing, geez.
― polyphonic, Sunday, 19 June 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Dr. Bronner doc looks interesting
― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
its fine, better subject than filmmaker imo
curious about this pinball doc that just showed up
― ride the dronosaur (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
^yea i queued the pinball 1
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
I watched this anime called "Dead Leaves" that is 30% terrible and 70% amazing. Wish it had been in Japanese instead of dubbed.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Also a jellybean doc!
― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
read some reviews on that jellybean doc and they were pretty mixed
― ride the dronosaur (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
crawlspacefilm socialisme (as of 1/10)
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 January 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
in canada: twin peaks
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Sunday, 8 January 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
Crawlspace seconded. It's sleazy and terrible and absolutely amazing, especially Klaus Kinski's endless collection of Cosby sweaters.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Sunday, 8 January 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
watching "when we were kings" again so great
― dead precedents politics as usual (Hunt3r), Sunday, 8 January 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link