Actuality. Yes. Up. Yeah. Continuing.

[Actuality. Yes. Up. Yeah. Continuing.]

ACTUALITY-YES-UP-YEAH-CONTINUING?!

[Episode BO2014.3 — Best of 2014 Pt 3]

Man. Scott has never seemed older than when he has to ask Engineer Cody Sam what one of the most iconic songs from the history of video games is from.

 

Also, Voyager had The Doctor and Scott Bakula Presents Star Trek had T'Pol, but everyone knows these things.

[Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them...]

...for there be of them that will themselves laugh and PFT isn't here today.

[Episode 324 — Golden Duchess Cruise Lines]

Personally, I just find it weird that when some people say "Hey, your actions kinda make me uncomfortable." there's a distressingly large subset of people who feel like it's their job to say "Hey, fuck you for feeling uncomfortable, I know my rights." and push harder instead of "Oh, sorry. I don't really agree that I did anything wrong, but I can stop to make everyone feel better."

 

But that's just my opiniooooooon.

[Episode 326 — 2014 Holiday Spectacular]

Rockafire Explosion had a YouTube resurgence some 5-6 years ago due to taking requests from the Internet at large to see horrifying animatronic puppets sing weird shit. Here's some highlights:

 

 

 

[Episode 100 — Junior]

I just want to love this episode for loving Emma Thompson so much.

 

That's the most important takeaway from watching this awful movie: Emma Thompson is a radiant star who is the best part of anything she's in.

[Episode BO2014.2 — Best of 2014 Pt 2]

[Episode BO2014.2 — Best of 2014 Pt 2]

I just want to point out that Scott said they were presenting a baker's dozen of episodes at the top of the episode and now I have no idea what Scott's definition of a baker's dozen is. 11? Does he think that a baker's dozen is because bakers are all jerks and will only give you 11 instead of a dozen?

[The CBB Guest Network - redux]

By the looks of it, it's actually a binary system with PFT and James Adomian.

 

Though, Adomian has been in eclipse this year, hopefully he'll return bright as ever next year.

[Episode BO2014.1 — Best of 2014 Pt 1]

I always go into the Best Ofs thinking "I've heard all the eps they're gonna play, I'm really only listening to this for like 30 minutes of Scott and PFT banter" but it's never true. Listening to the eps again is always a goddamn treat and I catch stuff I missed or forgot and end up giggling for a solid 2 hours.

[Episode 19 — U2 Holiday Special]

I don't mean the author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

 

Spacehog did a good cover of that!

[Episode 326 — 2014 Holiday Spectacular]

This episode should've pretty much been called Comedy Bang Bang All-Stars. Utterly a joy and it's gonna be sad come next best-ofs season when it's forgotten due to being so far in the past.

[Episode 99 — A View To a Kill: LIVE]

My bond girl name: My username.

[Episode 97.5 — Minisode 97.5]

Can I just say how long and hard I've tried to get Scott Aukerman to ever say "Vajayjay Leno" and then it was so easy for Paul?

 

I'm so excited right now.

[Episode 97 — Rhinestone: LIVE!]

Speaking to NYC as a country music mecca:

 

What if this actually is a works where records don't exist? Live music is king and getting and keeping your stars for your clubs is the way to get rich in the music business. And if you ran the biggest country music bar in NYC, you'd have the market cornered in the biggest city in the country. It all totally makes sense as an alternate universe where Edison failed to get recorded music off the ground.

[Episode 320 — Charging Kids]

Maybe it's just because I'm an old Buffy/musical theatre nerd, but the bit of mixing up Eliza Doolittle and Eliza Dushku fucking killed me every time. In an episode literally littered with great bits, this was the Greatest Bit to me.

[Episode 96 — Monkey Shines]

Come on now, guys. There is no way this guy is evil.

 

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Golly!

[Episode 96 — Monkey Shines]

No, sorry, it still makes no sense. The audience knows that monkey didn't really kill anyone. People know how movies work. They don't dive out of the way of the screen if a train comes barreling towards the camera anymore. And even if you somehow discovered a completely unsavvy country bumpkin who had never heard of a movie before, telling him or her that the monkey was in fact a composite of six monkeys wouldn't do anything to help disabuse that person of the belief that a monkey might go crazy and try to kill them.

 

I literally said that no one believes the monkey killed anyone. That's actually right there in the thing you quoted. The point is that monkeys are SO incapable of killing people as depicted in the movie that they couldn't even get one monkey to PRETEND to do it. They needed lots of monkeys. Saying one monkey did all of the acting makes it the tiniest bit more plausible that one monkey could actually also do the things in the movie, when just one monkey couldn't even pretend.

 

Also, fuck you for telling me what I do and don't do when I see that movie about the train coming at me.

[Episode 96 — Monkey Shines]

No, I totally get what June is saying in terms of the crediting the monkeys:

 

Look, no one (who is sane) will watch American Psycho and believe that Christian Bale is a serial killer in reality- he's an actor! But to play a convincing serial killer on screen makes you believe that such a person could exist. If someone can mimic one accurately, then there's a level of belief in the possible existence.

 

No one who sees Monkey Shines is going to believe that the monkey who played Ella is a murderous primate. It's just an actor monkey. But if one monkey can convincingly portray a serial killer monkey, you can get the impression that such a thing could exist- however, one monkey didn't play a serial killer monkey. It took a team of monkeys to create the impression of a serial killer monkey, so the monkeys are so innocent of the possibility of a serial killer monkey that there's not even a single monkey actor who could possibly even pretend to be one. But crediting just one gives the illusion of the possibility.

 

It's a subtle point, to be sure, but I'm not sure it's wrong!

 

And, believe me here, I feel like I've gone off the deep end for thinking I understand June.

[For my money, Edward Scissorhands beats Edward Paperhands every time.]

For my money, Edward Scissorhands beats Edward Paperhands every time.

[Episode 317 — Tash.2]

Natasha has to come back. She's one of those people who doesn't even have to go along with the bit- she's so weird and interesting just being herself that it's magic.

[Episode 313 — Gumbo Challenge]

The guy from The National was on and didn't play music. Aimee Mann has been on multiple times and has never played music. Same with Jon Wurster - okay, a drum solo might not have fit.

 

I think having Wurster on to play would be great as long as Todd Glass was also on and he just played live the entire time.

[It's Monday, so you know what that means- I'm not wearing any underwear!]

It's Monday, so you know what that means- I'm not wearing any underwear!

[Temptation - Tyler Perry]

Since they're literally the only two Nabooian women we encounter, maybe Padme is just the Naboo equivalent of Amanda and 50% of the female population is named Padme and why the hell am I wanking that movie into trying to make sense fuck you.

[Episode 313 — Gumbo Challenge]

Engineer Cody Cody already getting ragged on at the beginning of the episode made me certain I was in for some good shit, but oh my god. Sanz killed it. He killed everything. Everything is fucking dead because he killed it so much, from 'Dante' to Aaron.

 

Also, I have to agree with not being excited for him simply because my first and most prominent exposure to him was SNL. At the time, he came off as Jimmy Fallon's counterpart for unreasonable and distracting corpsing, so I always wrote him off. But just like Fallon has shown that he's a really funny and charismatic dude in the right context (and SNL rarely seems to actually be the right context for anyone), this is the right context for Sanz, because he is funny as hell.