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    Is it just me or was Zmuda not really even in character? I didn't hear it all, but the parts I heard just sounded like Bob Zmuda telling Andy Kaufman/Man in the Moon stories and occasionally saying something racist or dirty to the girls while referring to himself as Tony Clifton. Didn't he used to disguise his voice a little more too?

    Yeah, that was odd. The best parts of the appearance were the Man in the Moon stories, which were clearly told from the point of view Bob Zmuda and not some hacky comic/lounge singer. Would anyone believe that Tony Clifton would have the kind of stroke to offer Jim Carrey the lead in the movie?

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    I understand and appreciate the role that the Tony Clifton character played in Andy Kaufman's comedy, but I never found Clifton's act itself to be very entertaining or funny. To be honest, I never thought you were supposed to find him entertaining or funny -- that was part of the bit. Clifton's appearance on CBB didn't really change my mind.

     

    I haven't seen Clifton's current stage show, so I don't want to be too quick to judge, but it always seemed to me that a big part of the gimmick was the pushing of audience buttons. Clifton's appearance on CBB seemed to be so divorced from that button pushing that I questioned why Zmuda continues to trot out the character, at least in the context of CBB, so many years after Kaufman's death.

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    I agree. The best episodes are the ones of legitimately bad movies. I didn't really like the Crank movies where the guys just fellated the director. Now, they are basically just promoting a new movie. Ah well, i guess when you work in Hollywood, you can't just make fun of bad movies without fear of getting blacklisted.

    It's a mini-episode. Normally those are really short and just announce the next movie and provide a little background. If you're bothered by that, just skip it and wait until next week for the Godzilla episode.

     

    Personally, I like the extra content in the mini-episode. It was a really solid interview.

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    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.

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    You could have done an entire show over this scene alone:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrEAOjLoR6Q

     

    Did the black guy really say "This is not a dream!"????

     

    And why does that lunatic keep talking about how fast the boat is going after its already crashed ashore?

    Wow. That's terrible. The element of suspense feels like it has been completely removed and the bits intended to be comedic are ham-fisted and out of place.

     

    Also, are we expected to believe that the mother checking out the room with her son didn't hear any of the chaos and destruction outside until the ship was right outside her window?

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    Morrissey interview was great. I remember I used to hear a lot of these fake interviews with song clips cut in on the Dr. Demento show when I was a kid. They were always so terrible. Part of the problem is that it's so difficult to understand lyrics that have been cut out of context like that. Scott's are still bad, but he knows how to do something so that it's bad in a funny way. Also he keeps them short and simple, and I love how he inserts song clips by completely different people, and himself, at the end just to drive home the absurdity of everything. I would love to see more of these, and if Scott doesn't mind me giving advice: make it as ridiculous as possible.

     

    Only Soft Talkerman would revive the old Dickie Goodman bit.

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    I greatly enjoyed this episode. However, the Saul Goodman segment was kind of odd. I love Bob Odenkirk and I love Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad, but it didn't sound like B.O. doing S.G. on this episode. He wasn't quite animated enough or something. It sounded more like a Robert Evans impression.

     

    Still a great episode. It just threw me off a bit.

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    This movie begs to be a HDTGM pick. It's inexplicable. It's as if someone thought "We have the music of the Beatles and we have the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. That's all we need for a hit movie."

     

    Here are some high(low)lights:

     

    The movie has no spoken dialogue. In fact, the only person who talks in the movie is George Burns who provides some narration.

     

    The movie has basically no plot. Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees play a band that makes it big in Pepperland. Mean Mr. Mustard steals some kind of magical instruments from Pepperland and dsitributes them to different villains. The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton have to retrieve them. They do. When they are retrieving the last instrument, well, I won't spoil it.

     

     

     

     

     

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    When they are retrieving the last instrument, Peter Frampton's girlfriend, Strawberry Fields, gets knocked down during a struggle and falls to her death. Everybody mourns. Then Billy Preston (because they couldn't get a real Beatle) shows up, sings "Get Back" and brings her back to life.

     

     

    For some reason, the producers felt they needed to shoehorn every song from the Beatles's Sgt Pepper album into the storyline. The problem? The songs of Sgt. Pepper have no connecting story. It's pretty hamfisted.

     

    Also, some of the performances are truly nutty. For instance, Steve Martin plays one of the "villains" in possession of Pepperland's instruments. He plays some kind of plastic surgeon who taps people on the head with a littel hammer and instantly transforms them. He performs Maxwell's Silver Hammer, which, other than the chorus seems to have nothing to do with his scene. He also performs it in full 70s "Wild and Crazy Guy" mode with really strange phrasing and spastic movement.

     

    It's really, really bad, but watchably bad.

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