September 25, 2011
"OK, Alex, I'll take 'funny animal sounds' for 400 Crowns!"
Steady on your buzzer, contestants! And the answer is: "Crickets, crickets, crickets."
Bzzztttt...
Fred, you rang in first. What's the question?
"What did Pinocchio pull out from his wooden butt-crack after falling on ol' Jiminy?"
Oh, sorry, that's wrong. Anyone else?
Bzzzzzzttttt...
OK, Ethel, what do you think?
"Oh, I know. What did Buddy Holly pull out from his wooden butt-crack after falling backwards on stage?"
Oh, sorry, nIce try, but no one here gets that allusion.
Last chance. How about it, lit...
Bzzzzzzzzztttttbzzztttzbbtbtbtzzzzzzz...
OK, cool it on the buzzer. So how about it, little guy with the hair? What do you say?
"What is the sound you hear when you ask the question: so, what's up in the Cerebus art world, recently?"
RIght!
...
Heh. That was fun to write.
And for my non-Cerebus followers, there was this character, see, who was a merged entity of ... well, that is too complicated, but it ended as one kinda gross character called "Fred, Ethel, and the Little Guy with the Hair." So, as one entity with 3 parts, it's funny to think about them playing a game show. There's why only a singular buzzer, y'see, and... oh, never mind. It's much funnier if you already know all this. Now I see why Dave never tried to explain his jokes.
...
Let me plug the new season of "Fringe" while I am at it. I am not sure you can really jump on, but like many an Abrams production before it, Season 4 of "Fringe" is meant to be a jumping on point because there was a re-boot of sorts. Unlike the re-boots that unfortunately plagued "Alias" (which I loved, for the most part, by the way), this re-boot is completely within the plot of the overall story, and has a very cool tip-of-the-hat to Credit Dauphine (or maybe APO) near the end.
And maybe only for the fans, but I am telling you, this does not happen that often on scripted TV: I was riveted to my computer screen, watching the pirated, commercial-free download of the episode, wanting to see what happened next - at every moment.
And before you get all up in my ISP over it, I would have gladly paid for my download because I am in China and away from my DVR, but those idiots at FOX have an 8-day delay on showing the new episodes on line, they are not pumping them over to hulu, and they did not make the season available at iTunes until the end of the summer following the end of the season. Puh-lease. Way to make it easy to get the new viewers in. Morons.
Steady on your buzzer, contestants! And the answer is: "Crickets, crickets, crickets."
Bzzztttt...
Fred, you rang in first. What's the question?
"What did Pinocchio pull out from his wooden butt-crack after falling on ol' Jiminy?"
Oh, sorry, that's wrong. Anyone else?
Bzzzzzzttttt...
OK, Ethel, what do you think?
"Oh, I know. What did Buddy Holly pull out from his wooden butt-crack after falling backwards on stage?"
Oh, sorry, nIce try, but no one here gets that allusion.
Last chance. How about it, lit...
Bzzzzzzzzztttttbzzztttzbbtbtbtzzzzzzz...
OK, cool it on the buzzer. So how about it, little guy with the hair? What do you say?
"What is the sound you hear when you ask the question: so, what's up in the Cerebus art world, recently?"
RIght!
...
Heh. That was fun to write.
And for my non-Cerebus followers, there was this character, see, who was a merged entity of ... well, that is too complicated, but it ended as one kinda gross character called "Fred, Ethel, and the Little Guy with the Hair." So, as one entity with 3 parts, it's funny to think about them playing a game show. There's why only a singular buzzer, y'see, and... oh, never mind. It's much funnier if you already know all this. Now I see why Dave never tried to explain his jokes.
...
Let me plug the new season of "Fringe" while I am at it. I am not sure you can really jump on, but like many an Abrams production before it, Season 4 of "Fringe" is meant to be a jumping on point because there was a re-boot of sorts. Unlike the re-boots that unfortunately plagued "Alias" (which I loved, for the most part, by the way), this re-boot is completely within the plot of the overall story, and has a very cool tip-of-the-hat to Credit Dauphine (or maybe APO) near the end.
And maybe only for the fans, but I am telling you, this does not happen that often on scripted TV: I was riveted to my computer screen, watching the pirated, commercial-free download of the episode, wanting to see what happened next - at every moment.
And before you get all up in my ISP over it, I would have gladly paid for my download because I am in China and away from my DVR, but those idiots at FOX have an 8-day delay on showing the new episodes on line, they are not pumping them over to hulu, and they did not make the season available at iTunes until the end of the summer following the end of the season. Puh-lease. Way to make it easy to get the new viewers in. Morons.
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