Television

So AT&T, Amazon and Roku can all suck my ass. HBO Max is not available currently to stream on either platform (coincidentally these are the two platforms that we use in our home for streaming). That being said, I found a work around (for the Amazon TV at least) and am now watching Porky Pig attempting to murder Daffy Duck.

here’s the resource I used if anyone else doesn’t wanna wait for these giant corporations to work out their bullshit...
 
We had a trial subscription to AppleTV+ and started watching Central Park. It's the new animated musical series from the creators of Bob's Burgers, with a pretty stellar cast... Leslie Odom Jr, Daveed Diggs, Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Titus Burgess, Stanley Tucci. There are several songs in each episode, and they're putting them up on Spotify as each episode airs...

This one has been stuck in my head for the better part of the last two days...

 
I mean the title of the theme song was “ Suicide is Painless”...


Indeed. And the movie was dark and even a bit acid trippy at times. During this re-watch I'm impressed with much of the writing, it gets literary at times and also contemplative at times. (which I do remember in later seasons especially) But of course there's the silly/campy stuff all throughout.
 
Indeed. And the movie was dark and even a bit acid trippy at times. During this re-watch I'm impressed with much of the writing, it gets literary at times and also contemplative at times. (which I do remember in later seasons especially) But of course there's the silly/campy stuff all throughout.
I LOVE the movie much more than the TV Show. Altman’s movie is way more nihilistic (and thus IMO way funnier) than the tv show plus I absolutely hate the canned laugh track on the TV show. Elliott Gould will always be my Trapper John. Though, Donald Sutherland is great, Alan Alda is my favorite Hawkeye.
 
I LOVE the movie much more than the TV Show. Altman’s movie is way more nihilistic (and thus IMO way funnier) than the tv show plus I absolutely hate the canned laugh track on the TV show. Elliott Gould will always be my Trapper John. Though, Donald Sutherland is great, Alan Alda is my favorite Hawkeye.

I was going to mention the laugh track. I really wish I could watch it minus that...it's more distracting than anything. And there's that ONE GUY I can hear every time. I heard him on the Brady Bunch when I was a kid too. Professional laugher I guess.

I should re-visit the movie, it's been awhile. Hard to argue how great Alan Alda is as Hawkeye. And I'm noticing even more what a pro Jamie Farr is. He earned his bigger role later on for sure.
 
I was going to mention the laugh track. I really wish I could watch it minus that...it's more distracting than anything. And there's that ONE GUY I can hear every time. I heard him on the Brady Bunch when I was a kid too. Professional laugher I guess.
Could have been someone who was recorded for the Laff Box in the '50s and was long dead before The Brady Bunch or M*A*S*H* ever made it to air.
 
Could have been someone who was recorded for the Laff Box in the '50s and was long dead before The Brady Bunch or M*A*S*H* ever made it to air.

Wow, I find this super interesting, thanks for sharing!
 
Could have been someone who was recorded for the Laff Box in the '50s and was long dead before The Brady Bunch or M*A*S*H* ever made it to air.

This is sending me down a rabbit hole in search of that certain laugh I've always heard on sitcoms. I haven't found it yet, but I found this...which I find pretty damn funny.

 
Big SNL fan. Wally Ferensten, he does cue cards for SNL for forever (as well as some late night shows).
He made me a custom cue card as it would be formatted for SNL, but I couldn't get anything NBC had the rights to. So I mocked it, lol.
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It’s WILD that in addition to the costumes and the pressure of live TV and last minute rewrites and worrying about laughs and all the rest, they gotta read this guy’s own personal Comic Sans from off camera with his hands in the way and whatnot.
 
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