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  2. Posted

    Instant yes from me, although I do have some gripes over the underdevelopment of Emily Watson's character. Generally for a love story to work, the leads should be equally as interesting as one another. This clearly is not the case in Punchdrunk love where Adam Sandler exhibits all of the quirk and Watson is haplessly swept up into his chaotic momentum.

     

    That said, thankfully the movie works on so many other levels. Through the pulsating sound design balanced with visually striking moments, the movie feels like a living organism, expressing it's anxiety and wonder on a hypnotic, subconscious level. PT Anderson knows how to make a film.

     

    Ultimately, the film takes a risk on Sandler, an actor grounded in obnoxious frathouse comedy, to give an uncharacteristic dramatic performance, and it chose very well. Barry is an atypical romantic lead. He is wounded in ways he doesn't understand well enough to share, he seems uncertain of his place in any sort of social context. His anxiety about exporting uncharted emotional territory manifests in ways that only seem necessary in the mind of a nervous person (the airline points on pudding cups sequence, for example). It is this imperfection which makes him so much more relatable than prototypical male romantic lead, and why I made sure to show this movie to the woman who would become my wife very early on as a warning of what a relationship with me could potentially be like. 9 years later, still no cornea damaging car-crashes, so there's that.

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    Just heard this fantastic episode yesterday and laughed my ass off from end to end.

    The rapport between Tompkins' Santa and anything Lauren feels like throwing at him is consistently great, whatever podcast it may be on.

    So imagine my surprise when, as late as I am to listening to this, I found out that

    THERE WAS NO FAN ART OF BUMPKIN (the Pumpkin Reindeer)!!!

     

    So I made some.

    DWQpSdpVoAAI-hy.jpg

    https://twitter.com/...941661322338304

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    I don't know if there's any damn rules or whatever but I'm bumping this. Might as well since it still hasn't been played and still completely rules.

     

    People have been downloading it this month, I thought maybe it was put into an episode I haven't heard yet. Doesn't seem to be by who knows, maybe word of mouth is that THIS IS A REAL PARTY JAM WORTH LISTENING TO OFTEN

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    Catching up on my CBB's and MAN did the start of this episode deliver big laughs.

    They hit the ground running, Tompkin's impression of Tom Lennon was incredible.

    And then at the end Scott displays knowledge of the band Failure which, although he was confused at first, he corrected, and it meant the world to me since they're my favorite band ever (plus he wasn't too far off...he straightened himself out by saying Ken Andrews by name, but the other name he was confusing it with was Greg Edwards, the other founding member of the band).

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    Posting this again, because it has not been used.

     

    Takin' A Plug Break by Fourth Grade Security Risk

    https://soundcloud.c...in-a-plug-break

     

    Yeah, it's two minutes long. Use whatever part of it you want.

    I tried to do a short edit but that edit was shitty. This is the greatest piece of music I have ever produced, in honor of my love for CBB.

     

    I have always hoped that Scott and a receptive crew would join in on yelling "TAKIN' A PLUG BREAK" and not even notice that it was a full length song because they were just having a great time. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY I CAN REPAY THEM FOR ALL THE JOY THAT THEY HAVE BROUGHT TO ME

     

    IF THIS IS UNSATISFACTORY THEN I AM A FAILURE IN LIFE AND DO NOT DESERVE THE GRACE OF SCOTT.

     

    The end.

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    Well it's Hollywood Cats

     

    and we're going down meow,

     

    going to, Inglewood meow.

     

    Everybody do your cats and trim your claws

     

    there's fur and litter and, lots of yarn.

     

    Get a drink, from a bowl,

     

    then go walk in front of a computer screen that someone is using.

     

    Hollywood cats,

     

    take out your barbed penis.

     

    This is Comedy Bang Bang.

     

    Check out the cats it's the Hollywood cats, meow.

  18. Posted

    I THINK Scott said he enjoyed/missed the Hollywood Facts theme so they'd use it in bonus episodes. Of course, just listening to an episode there's usually no sense of it being anything more than a regular episode. Also I think the release order mighta gotten bumped due to Harris' death - which maybe just maybe has priority over would you rather theme continuity.

     

    Or I could be mistaken about ALL of this.

  22. Posted

    The early days used to have a lot of planned breaks for music which were every bit as terrible as the Jukebox Jury songs, they just happened to come from famous people.

    I think with some of the stellar work we've heard in the plug songs, maybe some of the better received submissions could have their artist just thrown in from time to time in a break, if pre-recorded music breaks were to ever again be incorporated in the show.

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