TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[ghostrunner]

To be simpler about it, BCS hasn't really had any "Holy [expletive], what just happened?" moments and I think BB had a few of those in the first season.

[MrSaigon]

Yeah of course, but "it's better" is shorter and easier to type than all of that. I thought the hyperbole was a given. I'm just really enjoying it in a way that I didn't with breaking bad up until about season 3. I'll start putting asterisks on my posts.

To my credit I only tried to solve infinity multiplied by Breaking Bad Season 1 multiplied by better for a few minutes.

[Vidor]

To be simpler about it, BCS hasn't really had any "Holy [expletive], what just happened?" moments and I think BB had a few of those in the first season.

They've only aired three episodes!

[jim]

So nobody thought the acting was pretty terrible in the 3rd episode in BCS? I loved the first two episodes but some of the dialogue was just brutal in the 3rd episode - I'm talking about his lawyer girl friend and the two investigators. Terrible.

[33anda3rd]

"Comedy shows should have less balls" - news at 11.

Perhaps you can explain to me how showing a pic of Eddie Murphy in 1990-something when his career is at its lowest and saying "Look Kids! A Falling Star!" equates to having balls. Truth is, it doesn't. It equates to an easy potshot taken at someone at their low point. Balls is Jon Stewart taking on powerful people at their peak. Balls is Louis CK being as nakedly honest as he is about his darkest feelings. Balls is Richard Pryor talking about his addiction. David Spade's Hollywood Minute was the opposite of balls. Balls isn't insulting people with lazy easy jokes, that's not edgy.

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Breaking Bad's first season wasn't that great. I watched it, then didn't watch the show again til middle of season 3 when everyone was going nuts for it. I caught up and it was season 2 that did it for me. But season 1 was pretty lame.

[Jocephus]

im willing to agree with you on the hierarchy of jokes but that doesn't mean its not funny. you have a "high ground" on everything, coffee, beer, bourbon, food, baseball, movies. i dont mean it as a negative, not at all. it can make it difficult to converse though sometimes...even on such a ridiculous topic.

[33anda3rd]

You're right, I have very high standards. It makes me difficult. I argue with people who think that Spade calling out Murphy is "ballsy" and not "easy" because my standards are such that I see right through the "ballsy" BS and call it what it really is.

OTOH, in the bourbon thread I've long held that people should drink what they like, regardless the price point, stumped for Benchmark at $12/1L as a must-have and a great value. I've said how much I love MacGruber and other dumb comedies. I've said how much I love Hardee's and Monicals Pizza and been shouted down for both on this board.

So maybe I have standards and dig in on certain things, but am not quite the all-encompassing elitist you're making out here.

[heyzeus]

Are we supposed to pretend there isn't an ages-old comedy tradition of ripping on the foibles of celebrities? If that brand of humor isn't your cup of tea, that's fine, but it's absurd to single out Spade simply because Eddie Murphy (who himself made a nearly identical joke about a former SNL cast member on camera) was sensitive about it.

[33anda3rd]

Wrong + Wrong = Right
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Also, go through the annals of mocking the foibles of celebrities. You are not going to find any Paris Hilton sketches on SNL right now because, seriously, who needs to take a shot at Paris Hilton? There are no Bill Clinton sketches. That's all done, it's over. They joke about Paris Hilton when she's at her height, then they move on to what's current, and they poke fun at the Kardashians. When the world forgets about the Kardashians (which is overdue by about a half hour) they'll move on to another vapid celebrity. But they won't go back to the Kardashians in 6 years and go "haha, career is over, you suck now" because, really, why bother? Good comedy hits by pointing out something we maybe don't all see about a celeb when they're at their height, or that we do see but no one is calling out. It doesn't wait for someone to be at their lowest then hit.

[Jocephus]

You're right, I have very high standards. It makes me difficult. I argue with people who think that Spade calling out Murphy is "ballsy" and not "easy" because my standards are such that I see right through the "ballsy" BS and call it what it really is.

OTOH, in the bourbon thread I've long held that people should drink what they like, regardless the price point, stumped for Benchmark at $12/1L as a must-have and a great value. I've said how much I love MacGruber and other dumb comedies. I've said how much I love Hardee's and Monicals Pizza and been shouted down for both on this board.

So maybe I have standards and dig in on certain things, but am not quite the all-encompassing elitist you're making out here.

im reminded of when conan and schlansky go to dinner. conan makes a comment about tasting the tuscan sun in olive oil and jordan says "of course, if its tuscan olive oil" and conan says "you dont have to say it like that".