Oh we're increasingly getting busses with good AC now here and I have a flat rate ticket and can just go sit in one on a hot day. And I alway have 3 MP3players with me in case two run out of power.
Thank you!!! I was perfectly content being all ambiguous about it for most of my life, but I feel like I'm done with that dance now. I don't think it's going to be a stunning surprise to anyone. :D
Yeah the modern Freudian was the shit. It was still good to have someone to talk at, it helped getting my thoughts in order no matter what.
I am fortunate in that I had to go to Wikipedia to figure out who Lineham/Glinner is. I know Big Train and bits of Garth Marengi, but otherwise I'm not familiar with him or his stuff. Not even with Father Ted. Though I listened to a BBC thing celebrating it once.
The April/Douglas stuff I can deal with? I mean, yeah, the punchline that Douglas just misheard her and turns out transphobic after all was cruel. But before that is a long stretch where the both of them are charming together and April was lovely and kind of real. She felt not at all like a Trans butt of joke character in a TV series to me. I can keep all that and dismiss the turnabout.
I mean without that sort of compartmentalization how could I have enjoyed something like The Breakfast Club?
For me it's the IT Crowd episodes that have long stretches of vile stuff woven into it that I want to avoid. Like the one about the calendar shoot (that felt almost like a Big Bang Theory episode?) or the one where Roy keeps hiding from his cave woman coworker.
I should get a backup mp3 player at some point. If I'm out all day my phone juice can get dangerously low, and I don't want to get caught away from home with no access to a cab if my leg gives out. I should also ride some of the routes I don't normally take so I know where they go, especially the north side of town.
The sad thing is that Father Ted was/is really good, a genuine classic. And Black Books of course. And I rather like Hippies. But I often wondered why he'd work with a co-writer and then never work with them again (while claiming on podcasts that he wanted to do a project with them again and it would happen one day). I imagine we've got the answer there. He's only in about five seconds of Garth Marenghi, which is otherwise the greatest comedy of its era.
GOD you're right, the calender episode would totally be a BBT episode. (I hate that show so, so much. For many, many reasons, not least because every time someone here finds out I am a nerd, they ask if I go to SDCC. Nobody in this building makes enough money to go to SDCC, it's more expensive than Disney World, but it's the only con they've ever heard of.) The cavewoman episode is just gross, a completely unnecessary subplot. Roy is a bad weekend away from joining an incel group.
Having your life support systems and entertainment suite tap into the same fuel source is just bad practice. I'm sure it killed a starfleet ship or two.
All my MP3players are approaching the age where they become characters. One of them was the one that came with the neat Greek music on it. It blacked out on half of it's screen now, but it soldiers on.
I found a few new parts of town this year that they secretly built since I scouted the place on bicycle. One had good food!
I can't find the Father Ted show I listened to on the radio. I think it was mostly some of the actors talking about how it was, making it. I came away with the impression that I would probably like it, yes.
And Black Books of course. And I rather like Hippies. Is Hippies a show too? Or is Black Books a show and it has Hippies that you rather like? Garth Marengi is hard to find outside the Youtube clips. But that is really on my to-do list.
Yeah that was gross & baffling. Roy alone can be adorable as the incel waiting to happen character! And funny! But when it's both Roy and the show itself being like that, nope thanks.
And the bad thing is the calendar episode would be among the extra annoying BBT episodes if it was one.
Oh but I loved the whole long 'Smoking on the Job' sketch they did when they changed the Reynholms in season 2, just to end this on a positive note.
SDCC must be the con thing that they go to then. I kind of thought they made a fake one for their show.
We have whole new parts of town that, when I was younger, were literal farms and if you were there it meant you were fucking lost. Now there are houses and megachurches and weird strip malls.
Oh. Oh. You need to see Black Books. Bernard Black (Dylan Moran) is a grumpy, alcoholic bookseller who doesn't understand why people keep bothering him wanting to buy books. Manny Bianco (Bill Bailey) saves his life and his shop in the first episode after accidentally swallowing a copy of The Little Book of Calm. Fran Katsenjamer (Tamsyn Greig) is his longtime bestie who owns the gift shop next door. It's on youtube if it's not blocked in the EU. There is also a truly strange DVD extra called Black Dolls, in which the characters are played by ragdolls and Bernard puts Manny into a time machine that is actually a microwave oven. This may be posted separately.
Hippies is not quite classic, but has Simon Pegg, Julian Rhynd-Tutt, Sally Phillips, and Darren Boyd as mid to late 60s hippies trying to put out an underground newspaper. It blows hot and cold, but you get stuff like the gang putting on a Hair-like musical that includes the characters of Jesus Christ and Hippie Horse. "And why does Jesus always stick close to hippie horse? Because Hippie Horse is EVERYTHING Jesus wants to be!" Also on youtube unless etc.
It also looks like Darkplace is up again. Plus Matthew Holness has written an actual Garth Marenghi horror novel called Garth Marenghi's Terrortome.
I don't know if they go to actual SDCC or not -- I've never seen the show with the sound on, but my McDonalds had it on their TVs with subtitles for like two years, when I'd get dinner before grocery shopping and cabbing home, until they thankfully got rid of the TVs. I only just realized that the televisions have been gone for at least a year, because my hatred made them invisible.
Okay, I looked it up and there's at least one where they go to SDCC, but they live in Pasadena (location of Disneyland, northish bit of Los Angeles) so it's not a huge trip for them if they get a satellite hotel. Apparently Sheldon also tries to run his own con, but I don't know how that turns out because I got bored and closed the tab.
Oh it's show that is familiar from 'gifs I couldn't connect to any particular show'. I had that same effect with Miranda, makes you feel right at home.
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Date: 2023-07-14 11:07 pm (UTC)Thank you!!! I was perfectly content being all ambiguous about it for most of my life, but I feel like I'm done with that dance now. I don't think it's going to be a stunning surprise to anyone. :D
Yeah the modern Freudian was the shit. It was still good to have someone to talk at, it helped getting my thoughts in order no matter what.
I am fortunate in that I had to go to Wikipedia to figure out who Lineham/Glinner is. I know Big Train and bits of Garth Marengi, but otherwise I'm not familiar with him or his stuff. Not even with Father Ted. Though I listened to a BBC thing celebrating it once.
The April/Douglas stuff I can deal with? I mean, yeah, the punchline that Douglas just misheard her and turns out transphobic after all was cruel. But before that is a long stretch where the both of them are charming together and April was lovely and kind of real. She felt not at all like a Trans butt of joke character in a TV series to me. I can keep all that and dismiss the turnabout.
I mean without that sort of compartmentalization how could I have enjoyed something like The Breakfast Club?
For me it's the IT Crowd episodes that have long stretches of vile stuff woven into it that I want to avoid. Like the one about the calendar shoot (that felt almost like a Big Bang Theory episode?) or the one where Roy keeps hiding from his cave woman coworker.
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Date: 2023-07-19 08:02 pm (UTC)The sad thing is that Father Ted was/is really good, a genuine classic. And Black Books of course. And I rather like Hippies. But I often wondered why he'd work with a co-writer and then never work with them again (while claiming on podcasts that he wanted to do a project with them again and it would happen one day). I imagine we've got the answer there. He's only in about five seconds of Garth Marenghi, which is otherwise the greatest comedy of its era.
GOD you're right, the calender episode would totally be a BBT episode. (I hate that show so, so much. For many, many reasons, not least because every time someone here finds out I am a nerd, they ask if I go to SDCC. Nobody in this building makes enough money to go to SDCC, it's more expensive than Disney World, but it's the only con they've ever heard of.) The cavewoman episode is just gross, a completely unnecessary subplot. Roy is a bad weekend away from joining an incel group.
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Date: 2023-07-21 07:08 pm (UTC)All my MP3players are approaching the age where they become characters. One of them was the one that came with the neat Greek music on it. It blacked out on half of it's screen now, but it soldiers on.
I found a few new parts of town this year that they secretly built since I scouted the place on bicycle. One had good food!
I can't find the Father Ted show I listened to on the radio. I think it was mostly some of the actors talking about how it was, making it. I came away with the impression that I would probably like it, yes.
And Black Books of course. And I rather like Hippies.
Is Hippies a show too? Or is Black Books a show and it has Hippies that you rather like? Garth Marengi is hard to find outside the Youtube clips. But that is really on my to-do list.
Yeah that was gross & baffling. Roy alone can be adorable as the incel waiting to happen character! And funny! But when it's both Roy and the show itself being like that, nope thanks.
And the bad thing is the calendar episode would be among the extra annoying BBT episodes if it was one.
Oh but I loved the whole long 'Smoking on the Job' sketch they did when they changed the Reynholms in season 2, just to end this on a positive note.
SDCC must be the con thing that they go to then. I kind of thought they made a fake one for their show.
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Date: 2023-07-21 07:39 pm (UTC)Oh. Oh. You need to see Black Books. Bernard Black (Dylan Moran) is a grumpy, alcoholic bookseller who doesn't understand why people keep bothering him wanting to buy books. Manny Bianco (Bill Bailey) saves his life and his shop in the first episode after accidentally swallowing a copy of The Little Book of Calm. Fran Katsenjamer (Tamsyn Greig) is his longtime bestie who owns the gift shop next door. It's on youtube if it's not blocked in the EU. There is also a truly strange DVD extra called Black Dolls, in which the characters are played by ragdolls and Bernard puts Manny into a time machine that is actually a microwave oven. This may be posted separately.
Hippies is not quite classic, but has Simon Pegg, Julian Rhynd-Tutt, Sally Phillips, and Darren Boyd as mid to late 60s hippies trying to put out an underground newspaper. It blows hot and cold, but you get stuff like the gang putting on a Hair-like musical that includes the characters of Jesus Christ and Hippie Horse. "And why does Jesus always stick close to hippie horse? Because Hippie Horse is EVERYTHING Jesus wants to be!" Also on youtube unless etc.
It also looks like Darkplace is up again. Plus Matthew Holness has written an actual Garth Marenghi horror novel called Garth Marenghi's Terrortome.
I don't know if they go to actual SDCC or not -- I've never seen the show with the sound on, but my McDonalds had it on their TVs with subtitles for like two years, when I'd get dinner before grocery shopping and cabbing home, until they thankfully got rid of the TVs. I only just realized that the televisions have been gone for at least a year, because my hatred made them invisible.
Okay, I looked it up and there's at least one where they go to SDCC, but they live in Pasadena (location of Disneyland, northish bit of Los Angeles) so it's not a huge trip for them if they get a satellite hotel. Apparently Sheldon also tries to run his own con, but I don't know how that turns out because I got bored and closed the tab.
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Date: 2023-07-26 02:53 am (UTC)And like, does he dedicate one episode of everything he makes to his 'small people vs people who do not filter their speech' thing?