TV 20 - Sorry no fancy title

[Handyman]

John Adams is fantastic!

 

[Handyman]

 

[SJHovey]

You know what I like about the Burns' documentaries? Besides being well done, there are always these tiny nuggets of information of which I was completely unaware, that I usually find quite interesting, or at least amusing.

Take the current series.

I was generally aware that following the British surrender, there was a sizable exodus of people from the U.S., people who had been loyal to the British side. I had just never given any thought to where they went, until this series, when I discovered that a significant number of them fled to ... Nova Scotia??

I've been to Nova Scotia. 40 years ago I had the chance to sit in a bar in Halifax and drink beer with some very friendly Canadian types, but as I sat there I silently wondered, "who the fuck would choose to live here?"

I grew up in North Dakota, so I understand isolation. But there is North Dakota "isolation," and then there is Nova Scotia "isolation," which is a different beast altogether.

But now I know the answer to my question.

 

[Spartanforlife4]

Weird and out of place is his schtick. It's getting a bit old.

He's the opposite of Hernandez. He's a one trick pony.

Maybe Marcello blends in so well I don’t notice him in other sketches, but I’ve thought he was a one trick pony. It seems like he gets rolled out only to yell with an accent. And I’ll never figure out how Domingo became the biggest character in that sketch, he doesn’t do anything in it. Hopefully it’s retired now with Sabrina closing the loop since it started with her song.

All the PDD guys are weird and out of place, that’s pretty much all their comedy has been since I started following them. It worked for Twitter vids and some of their stuff in YouTube is great, but I thought they’d branch out eventually. Instead they pretty much always relied on the guest host walking into their writing room. OTOH people just have their niche. Tina Fey’s made 30 Rock, Kimmy Schmidt, and Mr Mayor and you can immediately tell it’s hers by the pacing and joke structure.

 

[French Rage]

Weird and out of place is his schtick. It's getting a bit old.

He's the opposite of Hernandez. He's a one trick pony.

I mean, like, it works when it's a pre-recorded bit like PDD where the whole point is they're awkward and it's just them being them. In a regular normal live sketch, though, I'm just very aware he's one of the PDD guys and as a result he doesn't meld in with the sketch. It also doesn't help he's a foot taller than everyone else and has a very noticeable pointy face. I don't even think he's trying to be weird and out of place in the live sketches, he's trying to be a regular sketch performer, but it just doesn't work.

 

[French Rage]

Maybe Marcello blends in so well I don’t notice him in other sketches, but I’ve thought he was a one trick pony. It seems like he gets rolled out only to yell with an accent.

I think two Bad Bunny episodes in recent memory didn't help that. Props to Bad Bunny for playing along, but he delivers his lines slowly and awkwardly, so I think they throw Marcello in there to go very loud and very high energy to counteract that. So he's very over-the-top in those episodes.

I did like his Sebastian Montascalco (sp?) impression in the last episode, cuz that guy suuuuuuuuuucks.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

I grew up in North Dakota, so I understand isolation. But there is North Dakota "isolation," and then there is Nova Scotia "isolation," which is a different beast altogether.

But now I know the answer to my question.

And then there's Newfoundland. At least Nova Scotia is attached to mainland Canada.

 

[Russell Jaslow]

You know what I like about the Burns' documentaries? Besides being well done, there are always these tiny nuggets of information of which I was completely unaware, that I usually find quite interesting, or at least amusing.

Take the current series.

I was generally aware that following the British surrender, there was a sizable exodus of people from the U.S., people who had been loyal to the British side. I had just never given any thought to where they went, until this series, when I discovered that a significant number of them fled to ... Nova Scotia??

I've been to Nova Scotia. 40 years ago I had the chance to sit in a bar in Halifax and drink beer with some very friendly Canadian types, but as I sat there I silently wondered, "who the fuck would choose to live here?"

I grew up in North Dakota, so I understand isolation. But there is North Dakota "isolation," and then there is Nova Scotia "isolation," which is a different beast altogether.

But now I know the answer to my question.

Well, back then, pretty much any place in North America was isolation. The population density was pretty darn low. Even the cities were hardly populated by today's standards (though, certainly not an isolation living). So, for most, they were essentially going from one isolated spot to another.

Growing up on Long Island, I learned about this fact. LI was very pro-British, which is why when Washington lost the Battle of Brooklyn, he never returned, knowing he had no chance of winning. When the British surrendered, there was a mass exodus from LI to Canada.

 

[Kepler]

Growing up on Long Island

Beg pardon? Where? Have we done this before?

 

[Russell Jaslow]

Beg pardon? Where? Have we done this before?

Yes, we did this before. I would have thought you would remember by all my similar to you sports and local political references.

Smithtown. And I believe you were Huntington.

 

[Kepler]

Yes, we did this before. I would have thought you would remember by all my similar to you sports and local political references.

Smithtown. And I believe you were Huntington.

Correct.

I have no memory of this. Well, that's just great.

"There's food in my mouth! It's already been chewed!"

 

[Kepler]

Well, back then, pretty much any place in North America was isolation. The population density was pretty darn low. Even the cities were hardly populated by today's standards (though, certainly not an isolation living)

1775 largest Colonial cities, their population, and an equivalent Minnesota town today:

In K

43 Philadelphia --> Cottage Grove, MN
25 New York City --> Faribault, MN
16 Boston --> Bemidji, MN
12 Charleston --> Victoria, MN
11 Newport --> Little Canada, MN

 

[Slap Shot]

I would watch a 12-hour, $30M budget production on Thomas Paine.

His Common Sense pamphlet is the current focal point late into Ep 2 of 6.

btw with 30 minutes left of this episode (out of 2 hours) very little time has been dedicated to anything related to battle/war, and instead goes into great detail about the mindset of the people, the stark differences in philosophies and ways of living from one state to the next, the inspiration behind what first was just a, "leave us the hell alone" desire with no thoughts of war/independence hardly being had, etc.

 

[MissThundercat]

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[dxmnkd316]

1775 largest Colonial cities, their population, and an equivalent Minnesota town today:

In K

43 Philadelphia --> Cottage Grove, MN
25 New York City --> Faribault, MN
16 Boston --> Bemidji, MN
12 Charleston --> Victoria, MN
11 Newport --> Little Canada, MN

This is fantastic. I had no idea they were that small!