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TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

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state of hockey said:
From what I've heard the Ducks are now the bad guys after nearly a generation of success, and Bombay pretty much follows the exact same arc he did before but with a new underdog team.

Really no matter which way they go with this it is going to be pretty bad.
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The first one is the only one that doesn't suck.
 
Just watched the first two episodes of the Q doc on HBO. Fascinating. I knew/know about 20% of it and there's still plenty of "holy fuck" stuff. It's fun watching with Dr. Mrs. who is a complete virgin regarding any of Something Awful, Gamergate, 4-chan, etc. Watching her eyes pop out of her head like Alice through the looking glass realizing this is a whole parallel universe is great!

Also: the opening credits are the best since Game of Thrones and better win awards. They alone are worth hours of study.
 
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Kepler said:
Just watched the first two episodes of the Q doc on HBO....

Also: the opening credits are the best since Game of Thrones and better win awards. They alone are worth hours of study.
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Eh I regularly skipped the Game of Thrones opening. The Black Sails opening theme was way better in my opinion
 
The commercial for (not quite) Mighty Ducks looked like something on Funny or Die. I mean it looks laughably bad not even "its stupid but it is Di$ney" bad. I can't imagine the amount of cocaine it took to think this was a good idea...
 
Kepler said:
Just watched the first two episodes of the Q doc on HBO. Fascinating. I knew/know about 20% of it and there's still plenty of "holy fuck" stuff. It's fun watching with Dr. Mrs. who is a complete virgin regarding any of Something Awful, Gamergate, 4-chan, etc. Watching her eyes pop out of her head like Alice through the looking glass realizing this is a whole parallel universe is great!

Also: the opening credits are the best since Game of Thrones and better win awards. They alone are worth hours of study.
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I plan to watch after it gets another couple episodes in. I spent too much time researching Q over the last year so I know if I start I will want to not stop.
 
Coming 2 America was far better than I anticipated especially after seeing the previews so who knows about MD? It's not going to be high art that's for sure but no reason it can't be fun. Lauren Graham filling out a Gophers sweatshirt is reason enough alone. :^)
 
Kepler said:
D2 was crap. I'm sorry if this violates some Flyover Tundra shibboleth.

I'll say this for D2, though. It's Citizen Kane compared to D3.
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I remember disliking D3 immensely, but I have almost no recollection of D2 which likely means I found equally awful.
 
I saw an International House Hunters (I know, I know, it's Dr. Mrs.' fault) and the couple were from Holland, MI and all I could think of is everything Miss. T has told us about Holland, and so I hated them instinctively.

They were coming from a 5300 square foot house and trying to recreate it in Savoy.

Fuck them.

Also, their 20-something daughters had the worst vocal fry I've ever heard. Nice to see it has even permeated the sticks.
 
Kepler said:
I saw an International House Hunters (I know, I know, it's Dr. Mrs.' fault) and the couple were from Holland, MI and all I could think of is everything Miss. T has told us about Holland, and so I hated them instinctively.

They were coming from a 5300 square foot house and trying to recreate it in Savoy.

Fuck them.

Also, their 20-something daughters had the worst vocal fry I've ever heard. Nice to see it has even permeated the sticks.
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If my move to the Philippines had been able to be delayed by 1 week I would have been on International House Hunters. My boss sucks.
 
Kepler said:
I saw an International House Hunters (I know, I know, it's Dr. Mrs.' fault) and the couple were from Holland, MI and all I could think of is everything Miss. T has told us about Holland, and so I hated them instinctively.

They were coming from a 5300 square foot house and trying to recreate it in Savoy.

Fuck them.
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Unsurprisingly, they sound like Exhibit A for higher income taxes. Holland is lovely, but a lot of the citizens suck and have virtually nothing in common with Dutch people today. Much like the UK, The Netherlands sort of took America as a prime chance to rid themselves of a lot of their unwanted "waste people" (aka white trash) and later on their religious hardliners joined them.

Calvinists truly are some of the most miserable, hateful, self-loathing people in world history.
 
Kepler said:
I saw an International House Hunters (I know, I know, it's Dr. Mrs.' fault) and the couple were from Holland, MI and all I could think of is everything Miss. T has told us about Holland, and so I hated them instinctively.

They were coming from a 5300 square foot house and trying to recreate it in Savoy.

Fuck them.

Also, their 20-something daughters had the worst vocal fry I've ever heard. Nice to see it has even permeated the sticks.
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Did it show the house they had in Holland? At that size, they likely lived on or near Lake Michigan, in which case their net worth is somewhere in the ballpark of $Texas.
 
Kepler said:
D2 was crap. I'm sorry if this violates some Flyover Tundra shibboleth.

I'll say this for D2, though. It's Citizen Kane compared to D3.
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Oh D2 is bad, but it’s hilarious bad. Iceland, knuckle puck, “you look like you just got out of the shower” Bombay, “let’s go shake their hand” Gunner Stahl, all terrible outside of Julie “The Cat” (who should’ve started!) but it’s glorious to this Millennial. It’s not the Roadhouse of hockey movies (that would be Youngblood) but it has its place as a hilarious, cheesy hockey movie.

D3 is just an abomination.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Oh D2 is bad, but it’s hilarious bad. Iceland, knuckle puck, “you look like you just got out of the shower” Bombay, “let’s go shake their hand” Gunner Stahl, all terrible outside of Julie “The Cat” (who should’ve started!) but it’s glorious to this Millennial. It’s not the Roadhouse of hockey movies (that would be Youngblood) but it has its place as a hilarious, cheesy hockey movie.

D3 is just an abomination.
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D2 is one of those movies that you just have to take at face value because if you scrutinize it at any depth it all falls apart.

Iceland didn’t even play international hockey until 1999, but it does make a good name for a foe. Trinidad and Tobago? Someone must’ve really wanted an excuse to get steel drums into the movie.

Charlie somehow getting mad they have to wear USA gear rather than their Ducks stuff at an international competition. It’s not like it’s just the Ducks team, they added like seven people. It would’ve been like Jordan and Pippen saying they should wear Bulls jerseys in ‘92 for the Dream Team.

Goalie removes his mask during play? And it turns out he actually changed uniforms with another player? All good according to whatever rule book these guys are using, apparently.

On the plus side, I believe it’s the only instance of major penalties being called in the entire series. The refs in D1 and D3 really didn’t like calling anything more than a minor.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
D2 is one of those movies that you just have to take at face value because if you scrutinize it at any depth it all falls apart.

Iceland didn’t even play international hockey until 1999, but it does make a good name for a foe. Trinidad and Tobago? Someone must’ve really wanted an excuse to get steel drums into the movie.

Charlie somehow getting mad they have to wear USA gear rather than their Ducks stuff at an international competition. It’s not like it’s just the Ducks team, they added like seven people. It would’ve been like Jordan and Pippen saying they should wear Bulls jerseys in ‘92 for the Dream Team.

Goalie removes his mask during play? And it turns out he actually changed uniforms with another player? All good according to whatever rule book these guys are using, apparently.

On the plus side, I believe it’s the only instance of major penalties being called in the entire series. The refs in D1 and D3 really didn’t like calling anything
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Kids in South Central LA inexplicably playing roller hockey? A player coming off the bench to lasso someone getting two minutes? Yeah, the premise behind anything in the movie is flimsy at best. And that’s what makes it so hilarious.

TSN’s Bardown has a breakdown of every bad or missed called in the movie.
 
Slap Shot said:
Coming 2 America was far better than I anticipated especially after seeing the previews so who knows about MD? It's not going to be high art that's for sure but no reason it can't be fun. Lauren Graham filling out a Gophers sweatshirt is reason enough alone. :^)
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Meh. I can Google Image that and not watch whatever dreck Di$ney decided to greenlight so Emilio could pretend people still know who he is.

And none of the Ducks movies make any sense if you just break them down. My roomie and I once stayed up until like 4am watching the original and pointing out everything wrong with it. Made me love it more ;^)
 
Jimjamesak said:
Kids in South Central LA inexplicably playing roller hockey? A player coming off the bench to lasso someone getting two minutes? Yeah, the premise behind anything in the movie is flimsy at best. And that’s what makes it so hilarious.

TSN’s Bardown has a breakdown of every bad or missed called in the movie.
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As someone who grew up in a non-hockey area, I loved it, probably because I could not pick out all of the holes in it. (Also I was like 9 years old.) I was very disappointed as an adult to find out Iceland was not in fact a hockey superpower. I also loved the original NHL team's name and logo, not the lame one now, which I think puts me among the minority here.
 
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