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  1. I feel like I'm in bizarro world where I love CBB enough to bother posting and check the website and listen to every episode and so on. And I share this love with all of you -- and yet you liked this episode? I find Marino so weak (he does the same character in Children's Hospital, Wet Hot and Burning Love people!) and yet Scott kept going back to him.

    He uses every "buying time" improv trick in the book and then resorts to crass sexual angles for his joke. I would have loved to hear more from Tamara and Carly, and of course Steve.

    Idk, man. I downloaded this one first thing in the morning and started listening to it on my way to school without looking at the guests, and I had no idea that these people were characters for like ten minutes. And this is CBB! Marino just totally nailed the "dumb reality show contestant." I bought it. And for what it's worth, he just made me laugh. I don't really care if people stick to their same ol' shtick if it works. And his works for me.


  2. I had to do some serious research to "get" this episode, but I think it was worth it. I mean, from my perspective, Clifton is a character that isn't supposed to be funny. He's supposed to screw with your mind. Kaufman was the ultimate prankster, and the fact that we're still confused by Clfton's presence means that he's a pretty amazing creation.


  3. I would suggest that Transformers 2, or Transformers 3 would provide ample ammuntion for HDTGM rage fest. Michael Bay is just an awful, awful, terrible human being and him and his movies need to be stopped. Tell me I'm wrong? :)

    Yeah but who wants to watch those movies again? Seriously, they're like three hours long and mind-shatteringly dumb. It would be torturous.

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  4. Also, I've got to say, I know why the gang doesn't do Adam Sandler movies; they're friends with the co-stars. I get it. But these movies NEED to be discussed. NEED to be. Do Click, at the very least--from what I remember, none of their friends are in it, and it's just as bad as his recent abominations.


  5. I would be truly bummed if the gang went for something as obvious as Indiana Jones 4 or Phantom Menace. We get it. Fans hated them. They're played out. And frankly no one will ever top Red Letter Media's reviews of those movies.

     

    Batman & Robin, however, despite being "obvious" has never really recieved the dissection it deserves. Everyone hates it, yes, but it truly is one of those How Did This Get Made? movies, and it deserves discussion that goes beyond "it sucks and it killed Batman movies for half a decade." Phantom Menace and Indy 4 are actually "fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes. They have their supporters. But Batman & Robin is indisputably awful, and it's a movie where one can really learn something from a good dissection of its myriad of flaws. Not to mention it's actually an enjoyable watch--Star Wars and Indy are like friggin' three hours long and worst of all, boring. B&R is a bad movie classic of The Room and Birdemic nature. Not to mention it's a summer movie. Come on, gang. You've got to do it.

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  6. Truly an amazing episode...thanks for going with my suggestion.

     

    Chris Gore was dead on with the Japanese referencing the American version of Godzilla in Godzilla: Final Wars. Its one of the best scenes in that film. Some Japanese scientist says something to effect that there might be more than one Godzilla out there. Another scientist pops in "What about the one in America?" and the reply... "That didn't exist"... classic.

    Well now I officially have to watch this movie.


  7. Guys, this one is necessary: X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

    If you thought the computer in Speed 2 was ridiculous, there is a scene where an evil scientist (controlling a cyborg evil mutant guy with a computer) in order to kill Wolverine, literally types in the command "DECAPITATE"

     

    Here's an actual monologue from this script, apropos of nothing:

     

    WOLVERINE'S GIRLFRIEND:

    You know why the moon's so lonely?

     

    [Logan shakes his head. Kayla lies back, resting her head on

    Logan's leg as he plays with her hair.]

     

    She used to have a lover.

    Kuekuatsheu. They lived in the

    Spirit World and every night they'd

    wander the skies together. But one

    of the other spirits was jealous.

    Trickster wanted the Moon for

    himself. So he told Kuekuatsheu the

    Moon asked for flowers. He told him

    to come to our world and pick her

    some wild roses.

     

    WHAT?!


  8. I could not finish this movie. It's the first movie in HDTGM history that I simply could not finish. It LITERALLY was the most grating, awful thing I have ever seen. I thought the movie was over, and then I saw that there was an hour left. I skipped around and realized that the next hour would be literally the exact same crap that I had just endured.

     

    Also, I'm just going to say it: lizards don't eat fish.


  9. So, are we not going to talk about the fact that "That's My Boy" uses child rape as a premise for comedy?

    Well, the fact is that Adam Sandler has been making despicable comedies for a long time now. It just isn't even shocking or noteworthy any more. It's a sure bet that he's going to make tons of jokes at the expense of old people, fat people, gay people, racial minorities...basically anyone but Adam Sandler.


  10. Very funny ep, but also a bit of a train wreck. If Samberg wasn't promoting a movie, I wonder if Scott would have sat on the episode for a while and recorded an intro explaining what went wrong like he did for the Ed Helms and Will Forte episodes.

     

    BTW, it you listen back, there's a point where Andy starts making fun of how Adam acted during the press junket for Happy Endings while Adam is still in character. This seems to be the point when Adam starts to abandon the character.

    This definitely felt like the Forte episode in that something was just off. Not bad, but off. It started off fun and it was still entertaining but the energy was just...weird. It hit a point where Adam started seeming genuinely douchey, bashing on Sandler when Andy's promoting his Sandler movie, and bashing on the very show he writes on. Even though I found the episode over all funny, it also made me like Palley a little less (especially after his Christmas appearance, which amounted to "I'm so hung over! Being drunk is funny, right?"). That's the first time this has happened for me. In fact typically Bang Bang makes me like comedians I normally would never listen to (like Nick Swarsdon). Not saying I now find Palley to be a putrid pile of garbage or something after this appearance; just that I found him a bit "meh."


  11. The Bro not playing along with the WYR rules was a bit. And it was hilarious. Every time he'd blurt out "oh I'll take the vhs hands" it got me.

     

    I also loved the Bro as a thin veil for Adam to shit on things/people angle this time around.

    I did find the "Oh I'll just take the VHS hands" bit funny...I guess I just had a hankering for some good ol' fashioned WYR.


  12. This was probably the weirdest episode since...ever? There were things about this one that I completely hated, but I laughed the whole way through anyway. I was not a fan of Adam in no way trying to stay in character, and his complete unwillingness to play WYR, and I didn't think the show was any better for it. But it was still really entertaining, and as always, had me looking like a complete weirdo in the halls at school as I tried to contain my laughter.

     

    My main problem with it was probably just me being ignorant, but I had an incredibly tough time telling Bro and Andy apart--when they started getting into it, it was genuinely like the same person was talking.

     

    And yet once again, still a very funny episode, and the Woody Allen bit was bonus-clip worthy.


  13. Do yourself a favor and get any episode featuring Andy Daly and Jason Mantzoukas. Those two are insane together. And of course, the classic, Farts & Procreation.

    But everyone's going to throw out Andy Daly and Paul F Tompkins. A personal favorite of mine is Hologram Toes (http://www.earwolf.com/episode/hologram-toes/) Patton Oswalt is great, and it has one of the most under-rated characters in the history of the show: The Diner Marshal. And I'm qualified to make that statement because I have a blog on the internet.

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