xavier: renegade angel

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/

p excited 4 the heart, she holler tbh

ahahaha oh this

show is pure noize

yh it rly is rly it rly rly is

If is an amazing show

Iiiit

<3

heart she holler was unwatchable doe

yep

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

i miss this show

fairly certain this is the greatest tv show ever made

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.

"Dreams, they are the hurricanes that wash the soul-filth from the super-dome of our night-mind."

This is probably the most subversive TV show ever aired.

It's epically anti-authoritarian.

Like, it blows past any political/social/spiritual concepts of authority and finds Reason at the heart of it all and just eviscerates it.

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.

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

httpsssss httpsssssssssssss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxPyN6IK1tM

Interesting! I really like the style. Looks sort of airbrushed.

Has its own thread now.

Ask it here, I guess: why would ILX rather discuss Tim and Eric than PFFR?

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.

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).

imo THSH is amazing

and yeah, cibdidersarion of their place in the cultural cabin inspired by talk of tooo many books

early talk about The Shivering Truth would seem to place it in the 'extremely promising' category

Whoa. Never saw this, until just now. The babies episode. This is amazing and hilarious.

chomsky honk

Escape to Squatopian Freedom is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rwPPrxjqKY

"you're the sad figment of my twisted psyche's tragic dividend"

i rewatched this over the weekend. one of my favourite shows ever for sure

just watched awful sci-fi movie 'the arrival' and the aliens in it had xavier legs lol

https://i.imgur.com/iZ6G79L.gif

frittata

ly-eeef... ly-eeef... ly-eeef...

pffr should go on chapo

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.

shivering truth s2 is really great, a big improvement over s1 (whose better episodes were in the second half as well - all very much like xavier)

......how did I not know this exists

i just binged the whole thing (both seasons) in one go lol. probably v bad for me

my picks are probably e4 and e5 of S1 and e3 and e4 of S2 but as i say the whole second season is great

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surprised to hear trey parker!

vernon chatman has been a writer on South Park for years - he voices Towelie

no I knew that I just don't think I've heard his voice in a non SP thing for a long time

the full list of guest stars is great. s2 closer for example has julia davis and miranda july

the PFFR rolodex is wild

this show is basically "what if black mirror was good" + a ton of body horror and jokes

i would say more (chris morris') jam than black mirror, but with a seriously unhealthy helping of malignantly reified abstract existential tropes

could be, also seems several people have uploaded it all to YouTube which I'm sure has helped a lot. previously you could only find clips and compilations.

I agree the show fits into the Tim & Eric/YTP stuff that was popular in the mid-00s but it also sometimes reminds me of those Vine/TikTok compilations where it's just a bunch of really strange/unpredictable humor coming at you really quickly and there's no way to really describe what's going on or why it's funny

xra's energy is still to be found in the work of, say, podel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_n8toR4Bxo

hell yes, more of this stuff please

pilotredsun maybe fits too though his stuff is less funny and more downright unsettling

another podel while i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLJiIZt0FEY

the key isn't just weird shitposting, it's weird shitposting that's had loads of effort and paralogical thought put into it

maybe conner o'malley speedrunning southland tales in 10 minutes counts too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm6VOgmv9-c

yeah a lot of my favorite things are ideas that are incredibly stupid or insane that regardless have crazy amounts of effort put into them, it's why I love On Cinema and Lasagna Cat and even Neil Breen films. XRA just makes you feel like a pure observer, there's some internal logic to how it works but nothing you can figure out or predict, you can't discern a thing about the writers' views, and you can't identify with a single character outside of maybe Popo the Gorilla

hah yes "Rebranded Mickey Mouse" definitely fits especially the second half which in pacing and plot basically IS an episode of XRA

all happening so quickly, and so inaccurately

great show

i have bad news and a snack for you

Computer, explain!

"Xavier, according to my research, something very weird has happened here"