don't think a single American TV journalist summed up the Israeli/Palestinian conflict better than John Oliver last night
― frogbs, Monday, 17 May 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:
ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
the episode last week on police interrogations was really good. actually brought back a memory of being 13 and getting "busted" for 2 counts of shoplifting even though I didn't steal anything the first time, and wasn't even there the second time. they used all the tactics in this episode, the whole "We have you dead to rights here" thing, the "I'm just trying to help you but I can't if you're gonna lie to me" line, the "how can you be sure you didn't block it out of your memory" argument, using my "confession" even though a minute later I said "no, I didn't do it, I want to see the video" (what do you know, they didn't have it, but if I wanted to challenge it they were going to slap on another charge of "lying to a police officer"), fucking wild to see it all laid out like this. nobody believed me that I didn't do it! my parents didn't trust me for months after that! I thought I was going insane!!
― frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link
Racist idiots next door called teh police n me for trying to get them to leave a local paper I have delivered alone. I think that woman is a headcase. I 'd had the husband standing outside my door threatening me then 20 minutes later a cop is knocking on my door.So have always wondered what their required result was. I think they are beyond belief. His behaviour has left a lot to be desired at other time.sSo I've had that running through my head when I watch things like that.Am hearing that the Texas Death Row inmate who was interrogated when she was laready in extreme stress from her daughter dying mentioned as having a support/protest campaign talked about on a few podcasts I've heard thsi week. Think its teh same one.
& the night these idiots were trying that on with me I was actually trying to take part in a Human Rights campaign for First nations people in Canada. Unbelievable. White privileged morons.
― Stevolende, Monday, 25 April 2022 16:27 (two years ago) link
those sketches they do at the end of episodes are kinda hit & miss but the Korean Subway drama had me laughing nonstop. I would totally watch that series.
that sort of episode is the show at its best, tackling the sort of questions that are on the back of everyone's mind but never get any "real" news coverage. I live in a town of 55,000 and we have 6 Subways. one of them is literally less than a quarter mile away from another. nobody is ever at any of them.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
agreed, good topic selection and ending skit. almost unbelievable that the real thing exists
― Nhex, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
credit for incorporating it into the plot though, unlike this scene they showed from an actual #1 US TV show which still feels utterly unreal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQYwFND7rHE
― frogbs, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
lol we watched Happy Gilmore with my son this weekend. I hadn't seen it probably since it came out on VHS and had totally forgotten that it was also a 92 minute Subway commercial.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
fun gimmick last week they did one episode about HOAs and then another for anyone under 35 (who will never own a house) about Chuck E Cheese. no surprise but the Chuck E Cheese episode was a lot funnier
― frogbs, Monday, 17 April 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link
yeah, it was... though i kinda wish it had a better point to make me sit through the 30 minutes of that. At least the HOA one had some coherent point to it
― Nhex, Monday, 17 April 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
Oh my god I was wondering what was up with that billboard!! That’s a quarter mile away from where I used to live!
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:19 (six months ago) link
lol!!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 03:02 (six months ago) link
first two eps this season have been solid, can't believe I hadn't heard of "pig butchering" before, I get those texts all the time and even respond to them sometimes. big yikes when it's revealed who's actually sending them though
― frogbs, Monday, 26 February 2024 15:46 (two months ago) link