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    But the show is basically founded on people trying to throw people off their game...

     

    In a very different way, though. The "gotcha improv" thing CBB has built is about derailing in order to elevate. When, say, Scott interrupts a PFT/Andy Daly character with a complete curve-ball, it's to force the character into an even more outrageous situation (and it's done in the form of a dare/offer rather than a "we're done with whatever you were doing"). Tom's wasn't in the mode of pushing the bit onto a new track, it was just pushing it off the side of a bridge (indeed, as discussed above, when the character guests tried to incorporate the directions he'd brought it in he repeatedly shouted over them).

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    Good god, if Harris Wittels' or Paul Rust's dog died and he took 2 minutes to be sad about it since it came up organically, this thread would be 6 pages of people wishing him well and being sad about the dog dying...

     

    Unbelievable how much the tone of the comments shifts with different guests

    And they would have done it with some timing. If he'd brought it up at the top of the show, when the conversation was on him, it would have probably been an OK choice. Instead he brought it up in the middle of a character bit, one in which he already had shown a complete inability to give-and-take, interrupting every bit with a non-humorous road-block "hey hey I'm here too" tag. So when he drops that bomb, pretty much out-of-nowhere, it just comes off as the nuclear option of "this'll bring the subject back to 'me.'"

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    At around 1:15, Erin tries to get back to the characters by saying, "If I could just float an idea-" and Tom interrupts. Very quietly as Tom is talking over her, you can hear her say, "-or not."

     

    He acted almost like he didn't realize the other two guests were doing funny characters half the time, like he thought he was supposed to be doing Maron and was annoyed that these two weirdos were horning in on his "artist's pain" moment...

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    The fact that this ep could be so much fun despite a big dead weight interrupting with nothing funny to add on every other joke speaks to the amazingness of the other talent on the ep...

     

    The dog thing was really the wrong moment, though, wow. I'm not necessarily opposed to tone shifts but just zero sense of timing there. Also, it felt like Scott went from jokingly fed up to actually fed up with the "naming every tour stop instead of just saying check my website" thing during plugs.

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    Discussion of ADPPP starting around 12:00 in Andy's recent

    (though the whole thing is worth a watch), with talk about the possibility of season 2 from around 16:00, including discussion of the much speculated-about format question:
    "My thought is that there will be some new characters, but there will be some who, in the conceit of our world, have been given notes to resubmit."
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    Great to hear Guy on the show, always great to get someone equally larger than life going toe to toe with Jimmy.

     

    Also, re: the almonds thing, it totally is a scapegoating, and one of the things that gets missed in the conversation is that actually compared to comparable food products (sure, lettuce uses less water, but it's not nutritionally equivalent) almonds actually do pretty well--they're less water-intensive-per-calorie than any non-poultry meat, and less than a lot of legumes (garbanzos use a ton more water, and are also intensively grown in the area). Plus, it's much more reasonable to substitute away from an annually planted crop like garbanzos and leave fields fallow for a season than to abandon an orchard crop and end up with a lot of expensive firewood (or at least damage future production).

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    My real issue with the "brony" thing isn't so much their fandom as the fact that they feel the need to couch it in a moniker that is just this side of "nohomo" -- why can't you just be a "my-little-pony fan" without the "BUT IM ALSO TOTALLY A STR8 DUDE" gendered fandom name?

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    I appreciate that both this podcast and CBB drops on Monday mornings, it really brightens up the beginning of the work week for me, as cliche as that complaint sounds.

     

    Hah, for me it has made Mondays even harder, SO many of my "immediate-listen" worthy comedy podcasts already come out Mondays (CBB here on Earwolf; Jordan Jesse Go, My Brother My Brother and Me and Stop Podcasting Yourself over on Maximum Fun; Indoor Kids on Nerdist), adding another makes it even more of a traffic jam (I like being part of the drop-day internet conversation about most of these, so artificially spreading them out through the week isn't ideal)...

     

    Don't get me wrong, there are worse problems to have than all that amazing free content.

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  14. Posted

    Whatever happened to the roc? Might be a good way to get around.

    I think the party checked in with that enough times to realize that particular deus ex machina had sailed. Also totally understand why Blaine made that go away, easy transportation is great for getting a party to an adventure, but when one is underway it's not great for an adventure to just let the party fly over obstacles...

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    We have a theater here in Seattle with one of those small-theater-with-easy-chairs-and-sofas setups, and while I don't think it sucks generally I too have noticed that people have a harder time keeping theater-volume with their talking and overexpressive laughter, I get the feeling that maybe if some people aren't in gross velvet folding chairs they can't get it through their heads that they are in a movie and need to quiet down...

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    Y'know, clearly I'm in a minority, but I'm getting kind of tired of Victor and Tiny. Has always felt like kind of a one-note joke, always completely takes over anything else that was happening on an episode, and they're on the show on SO MUCH. Between Victor and Tiny and the also-kind-of-overwhelming Gino, I felt like the actual guest was pretty much drowned out of the show for the second half.

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    Since no one else is doing it, I will rise to the call of action from PFT himself!

     

    Idi Amin Dada was a president of Uganda. He was exiled. He did die (probably to hell). He performed atrocities throughout his eight year reign, killing many people and dumping their bodies into the Nile. He was played by Forrest Whitaker in "Last King of Scotland". As far as I could tell, he did not direct an Eagles documentary.

     

    Sam's West, Inc. (doing business as Sam's Club) is an American chain of membership-only retail warehouse clubs owned and operated by Walmart, founded in 1983 and named after Walmart founder Sam Walton

     

    Ajo Al's means "Garlic Al's"

     

     

    *Ahem* I do believe Mr. Tompkins said "we'll never know."

     

    Also, I think the fanonym needs to be "Spon-sors."

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    Seems like there was a misunderstanding on the Snopes article about the gerbil, the "true account" read was an quoting an example of the rumor that is passed around around, not part of the actual Snopes article, and is right under the great big red "FALSE." Directly below in the actual article about the rumor:

     

    Contrary to widespread public belief, "gerbil-stuffing" is unknown as an actual sexual practice, nor are we aware of a verified medical case of a gerbil having been extracted from a patient's rectum. Despite the assiduousness with which doctors record unusual items removed from patients' rectums in order to write them up as illustrative cases, we haven't yet found a medical journal article involving a gerbil removal.
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  24. Posted

    For people who have gotten the shirts, did you get any kind of shipping notification/did it show as shipped on the order page? Just wondering whether to be keeping an eye out for a package or not.

     

    :EDIT: Never mind, checked the mail today and there it was! I've never been prouder to wear a shirt with an f-bomb on it.

     

    As to the quality, to each their own, I guess. I find the fit to be just about exactly perfect, and definitely in the middle of the range for the size. The material is definitely lightweight, but not at all flimsy, and the construction appears to be of great quality. The poly/cotton/rayon blend (American Apparel calls it a "track shirt") wears super comfortable, probably the softest wearing standard T-shirt I own except maybe the Alternative Apparel 50/50 blends.

     

    Also it says fuck on it, so there's another point in its favor...

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