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 (eight months ago) link
the burning person episode i'm guessing? lotta significant crystals being lost atm
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2023 18:55 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:27 (eight months ago) link
hah yes "Rebranded Mickey Mouse" definitely fits especially the second half which in pacing and plot basically IS an episode of XRA
― frogbs, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:29 (eight months ago) link
all happening so quickly, and so inaccurately
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:30 (eight months ago) link
great show
― flopson, Saturday, 9 September 2023 22:59 (eight months ago) link
i have bad news and a snack for you
― frogbs, Monday, 11 September 2023 14:54 (eight months ago) link
Computer, explain!
"Xavier, according to my research, something very weird has happened here"
― frogbs, Friday, 6 October 2023 13:39 (seven months ago) link