This is probably the most subversive TV show ever aired.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
It's epically anti-authoritarian.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
httpsssss httpsssssssssssss
Interesting! I really like the style. Looks sort of airbrushed.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 May 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
Has its own thread now.
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Friday, 16 May 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Ask it here, I guess: why would ILX rather discuss Tim and Eric than PFFR?
― imago, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
early talk about The Shivering Truth would seem to place it in the 'extremely promising' category
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 11:14 (six years ago) link
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 years ago) link
chomsky honk
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 February 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
Escape to Squatopian Freedom is amazing
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 February 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rwPPrxjqKY
― am0n, Friday, 9 February 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
"you're the sad figment of my twisted psyche's tragic dividend"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
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 years ago) link
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 years ago) link
frittata
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
ly-eeef... ly-eeef... ly-eeef...
― am0n, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
pffr should go on chapo
― imago, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
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 years ago) link
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)
― imago, Saturday, 4 July 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
......how did I not know this exists
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 5 July 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
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
― imago, Sunday, 5 July 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
Anime for people who hate anime [Started by the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.) in September 2015, last updated seven minutes ago by Mordy] 13 new answersxavier: renegade angel [Started by johnny crunch in February 2009, last updated thirty minutes ago by imago] 3 new answers
― imago, Sunday, 5 July 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link
surprised to hear trey parker!
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 5 July 2020 03:20 (three years ago) link
vernon chatman has been a writer on South Park for years - he voices Towelie
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 5 July 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
no I knew that I just don't think I've heard his voice in a non SP thing for a long time
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 5 July 2020 09:01 (three years ago) link
the full list of guest stars is great. s2 closer for example has julia davis and miranda july
― imago, Sunday, 5 July 2020 09:49 (three years ago) link
the PFFR rolodex is wild
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 5 July 2020 09:53 (three years ago) link
this show is basically "what if black mirror was good" + a ton of body horror and jokes
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 5 July 2020 09:59 (three years ago) link
i would say more (chris morris') jam than black mirror, but with a seriously unhealthy helping of malignantly reified abstract existential tropes
― imago, Sunday, 5 July 2020 10:06 (three years ago) link
well, I just found out about this show
― frogbs, Monday, 26 September 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
it's just your meat
― imago, Monday, 26 September 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
oh this is ILE, oops. watch XRE folks & tata
― imago, Monday, 26 September 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
I've never seen the whole thing, just clips, but the phrase "what doth life?" enters my brain regularly
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 26 September 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
my god there are an insane amount of jokes in this show
― frogbs, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
oh my god the baby eating episode is one of the most deranged things I have ever seen
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
if you mess with thee, she will punish thine
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 October 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
okay I've been seeing a lot of Xavier references/clips online lately which is odd because I genuinely don't think I'd ever heard of it before and I'm pretty sure I was watching Adult Swim during the time it was on. maybe it really was way ahead of its time.
amusingly one common experience seems to be people who fell asleep with the TV on, woke up at 3 AM and saw a bit of it then fell back asleep, only to discover much later it actually wasn't part of some weird dream
― frogbs, Friday, 8 September 2023 18:50 (six months ago) link
the burning person episode i'm guessing? lotta significant crystals being lost atm
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2023 18:55 (six months ago) link
Maybe having a resurgence because you can watch it on Max now?
I tried showing some to my wife and her opinion was that it's very much of its time, lol.
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Friday, 8 September 2023 18:55 (six months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:06 (six months ago) link
xra's energy is still to be found in the work of, say, podel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_n8toR4Bxo
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:10 (six months ago) link
hell yes, more of this stuff please
pilotredsun maybe fits too though his stuff is less funny and more downright unsettling
― frogbs, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:16 (six months ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:18 (six months ago) link
maybe conner o'malley speedrunning southland tales in 10 minutes counts too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm6VOgmv9-c
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:23 (six months ago) link