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Half the Tim & Eric thread is about this show so I think it deserves its own thread

Granted I'm only like 13 hours into this thing but it's possibly one of the best comedic achievements of the 21st century

also this video is wonderful and I watch it every day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUE5_Mnelwc

Worth looking for: the episode of The Best Show from a couple years back where Tim and Gregg take up about an hour of the show arguing over whether or not Tim actually saw the Tom Cruise remake of The Mummy.

I never really gave a shit about the Tim & Eric show but I am 100% on board with this as pure genius, Turkington hooking up with him was a godsend.
I'm on season 9.

feel like I'm doing a marathon to catch up but even then I can only watch like a handful of these in a row otherwise I will succumb to severe couchlock hypnosis

I think the guys using the mailbag to passive aggressively torment/spring surprises on each other is my favorite gag

best comedy on earth

when you've got movies like Tom Cruise in them

i watched the first episode of this afew days ago.....does it get better? or do you just have to immerse yourself in the voib for a few episodes before you can get into it?

It’s my favorite television thing. You really need to immerse yourself (similar to the Best Show).

Immerse, my friend. Let it wash over you.

Six seasons of uncritical plaudits for every film under the sun was a magnificent setup for Tim's excoriating Ant-Man review.

I got into it through the spin-off, Decker.

https://pitchfork.com/news/tim-heidecker-and-greg-turkington-to-star-in-new-film-mister-america/

Oh god there are Oscar specials and a 12 hour long youtube clip ;_; I am going to have to watch it, I'm afraid. These guys are unreal.

didn't realize it until I went back but Tim's speech was a lot less garbled pre-brain surgery

for some reason the Oscar Specials are not on the Adult Swim streaming channel

i watched the first episode of this afew days ago.....does it get better?

at first it just seems like a shitty half-assed parody that does not feature any actual jokes, but as time goes on, the layers of comedy really accrue in an ingenious way

probably said this in the other thread but Tim's explanation of why he's paying for Ayaka's abortion despite being a staunch pro-lifer is the purest distillation of the right-wing ethos that I've ever heard

he just... he wasn't going to be in that situation

how come there are no animated gifs of Tim's guitar wanking faces, that shit is comedy gold

he just... he wasn't going to be in that situation

choices have to be on the table

i watched the first episode of this afew days ago.....does it get better? or do you just have to immerse yourself in the voib for a few episodes before you can get into it?

I don't know how to explain this to you but the "Stump the Buff" segment where Tim nails Gregg on the Star Trek/San Francisco trivia question is just as dramatic as the scene in Breaking Bad where Hank figures out who Heisenberg is

you must be talking about Star Trek II

which as Trekkie and non-Trekkie alike knows, takes place in San Francisco

haha

This playlist seems to comprise the definitive chronology of the On Cinema-verse (countdown to exasperated sic post detailing, at length,what's missing from said hi playlist): https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRT5PdjVF-ipL5SPXbmZXzfBchXVR8JTo

(No idea where that rogue 'hi' came from so that would be sic gripe #1., I'm sure.)

I graciously accept your thanks for my recommending that playlist to you

I completely don’t get this

Popcorn Classic is a really useful term for a certain kind of movie.

I thank u, sic, although I spent a long while watching a different, much less complete YT playlist (after starting on the even less complete playlist on that one website) so I just wanted to make sure no one else made my stupid mistake. I give this latest playlist five bags of popcorn and a hundred cups of soda.

The later seasons of Decker aren’t on youtube btw, but iirc they stop interacting directly with On Cinema episodes so it doesn’t stand out badly

(The two Ant-Man movies also don’t appear in the playlist, but do very much affect On Cinema video and twitter content )

forks if you were starting at an early point, try dropping in on a S4 or 5 episode, when the Tim vs Gregg tone is better established & there’s loads of backstory, to see if it pings any better with you

eh I think starting in the beginning obscures what a slow build this show is

er starting in the MIDDLE

the whole of season 9 seems to be an extended satire on how annoying having dinner service at the Alamo Drafthouses is

"Tastes like a mouthful of dirt."

Todd Rundgren appears in the last episode of Decker...I knew that voice was familiar!!

"Why was he fired, did he forget to wipe down the microwave?"

if someone "completely doesn't get" the show at the beginning, pushing on through twenty episodes of more of the same is probably going to bore and annoy them

oh yeah, the full real-time Trial Of Tim Heidecker coverage isn't on youtube either, just 10-15 minutes highlights from each day (iirc that's all I watched, then switched over for the full verdict)

all 5 hours right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWJcqISKJ

oops. I meant right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWJcqISKJQ

the trial is astonishingly great. you HAVE to watch the full thing and not just the highlights.

the whole of season 9 seems to be an extended satire on how annoying having dinner service at the Alamo Drafthouses is

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, July 3, 2019 11:24 AM (forty-nine minutes ago)

the satire of the kind of fake fancy junk food you get in north america - e.g. everything coming with truffle aoili - was very good

I would say you can watch highlights of the trial until Tim fires his attorney and starts defending himself, then switch to the full thing

no!!!!!!!

a couple of my old acquaintances recently started a video game podcast. I listened to one episode and thought about On Cinema the whole time. one of the guys has probably played 20,000 hours of video games but has absolutely nothing insightful to say about them, it's so spot on that I've almost come to view Tim & Gregg as real people

Has anyone started an On On Cinema at the Cinema podcast yet

lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK_iydsYSiI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVuw80sbFZA&list=WL&index=5

I just watched shakey's clip the other day. It wouldn't be nearly as beautiful without the interviewer's overt lack of interest in Gregg's banalities.

Can you guess which album changed Gregg's life?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4ZLquouHc

manuel playing matt newman?

whoa did they actually get Eric Roberts?

i’m glad gregg is pushing back on big orkin and their lies

Oh my god the last 40 minutes of this have been incredible

Oh shit Toni

lol

Front Porksch Cam

i think eric roberts may be going off script lol

Holy shit Tim’s movie was incredible

Last hour or so of this has been insane, feels like this has gone way off the rails even for an Oscar Special

Eric Roberts trying to steal some time

Lol yes I have no clue what Eric Roberts is doing either he doesn’t really know anything about the show or it’s some high concept shit , either way I’m laughing my ass off

Ummm did Tim just murder Joey Patron

wow they really brought the house down with this one

he should’ve murdered that bullshit artist eric roberts

this was such a sweet moment that I'm sure will be edited out

https://bsky.app/profile/jambatt.com/post/3ljh2hssbs227

which moment is that? (i can't see the bluesky post)

there was a brief bit where they caught Tim and Gregg genuinely laughing at something, unaware the cameras were on them

They were laughing at Toni interviewing G. Amato on the red carpet.

Joe Estevez's moment of clarity at the end ("I need to go dry out") before walking off felt like a big pay-off.

wonder if Tim made it to Wells Fargo this morning

hopefully the replay is up tonight, I can't wait to watch Tim's movie again. this show is usually such a slow burn but that just had me dying from start to finish. it was so good I was starting to worry it was the series finale. in particular: Mark doing Joey Patron as WC Fields, Tim casting the adult film actor to play himself, and all the digs at Corwyn's musical ability, the whole thing felt like fanservice in the best way

only hit me afterwards how messed up the whole thing was, obviously it explains why Joe, Manuel, and Ax were so cagey with Toni as to what the movie was actually about, also the casting of Axiom in particular is deeply fucked up. Tim extending the gunfight scene to like a full minute and then making Toni watch it, holy shit

They were laughing at Toni interviewing G. Amato on the red carpet.

it seemed gregg got a genuine laugh out of tim when he did that “…from? ….herbie fully loaded!” bit

amazing final shot

https://i.imgur.com/IzREkQF.jpeg

manuel's corwyn wig was incredible

Manuel: The truth is man...I really suck at music. I can't sing, I can't play instrument, and I can't do anything musical

Axiom: Ah man, that sucks

yessss here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhrkrUoLu7w

Just realized Tim’s look for this season was Jesse Watters

Bryan Johnson, surely?
https://i.imgur.com/IIbFGWg.jpeg

I’m dunno, the eyebrows and pompadour are what made me make the connection to Watters.

bryan johnson was my guess too

dying to know what Gregg thinks of the title Highest 2 Lowest

yeah I am very much waiting to hear how he catalogues the Naked Gun franchise now, he could go 100 ways with that

back October 1st!!

seems a little early given the Oscars are in March

https://s3.amazonaws.com/dev1.mtimg.com/product_photos/imgs/000/102/945/full/On_20Cinema_Chaplin

Tim just did a long AMA about the show, pretty fun read

https://www.reddit.com/r/OnCinemaAtTheCinema/comments/1nck1ky/tim_heidecker_meta_ama_friday_september_19th/

main takeaways for me: Decker is probably done for good, they still want to do OC 'spin off' stuff but the main show takes a lot of cash. no plans to ever end the show though they've discussed what it might look like. no spoilers for S16 though Tim's hinted his new look is gonna be...something

some stuff I did not know - Axiom was cast solely from a headshot, he asked if he could bring his friend Manuel along, and they found them funny enough to make them recurring characters. and Tim really DOES get drunk during the specials.

I’m pretty sure Tim one said that he met Axiom at Guitar Center but maybe that was a joke

that's how they met in-universe

I remember someone claiming that was actually the real story but apparently not

he did wind up answering my question:

CritterJams

Is it an intentional decision to get actors from as diverse a background as possible for the show? I'm thinking in particular of the scenes where it's like...you, Wendy Kirby, Michael Matthews, and Manuel, outside of this show it's impossible to even imagine anything that would bring that particular group of people together. Is this part of a broader strategy to create an environment where a wide variety of funny things can happen, or do you prefer inexperienced actors who maybe don't understand what the show's about to enhance OC's in-universe "amateur hour" vibe? Or are these the same thing? Apologies for the convoluted question, but to me this is the thing that makes OC stand out from everything else I can think of.

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ha ha yeah we love thinking about that. Why these people would ever be together if it wasn't for Tim and Gregg. I don't know if it's a question of experience or inexperience but some people just have it and some don't. I think it all comes down to who is delivering the most honest performance, and sometimes that someone who really has a technical approach and a trained background in it or someone who is just naturally comfortable with being themselves.

ACT LIKE AN ADULT

ACT LIKE AN ADULT. PEOPLE ARE HERE FOR EXPERTISE.

lmao at Gregg realizing for the first time in his life what a kids movie is

META: I saw Zac aka Dr. San today at the coffee shop this morning. Not remarkable because he used to live in my neighborhood (he was roommates with Gregg at one point), but notable because this was the first time I've seen him since OCATC. We chatted real quick and i'm gonna take the family to see them tonight.

I have nobody else to tell this to so here you go.

I have no idea where the season is headed and that’s both exciting and scary.

Yeah the shift to a live audience should be fun. Trying to imagine the kind of people they would have fur an audience crammed into their hotel room.

praying that it'll be the activity room at G Amato's nursing home

the way he said "facility" makes me think it is

indeed I was just thinking "this feels too much like an old school season of On Cinema, something crazy is gonna happen"

kinda have the feeling that Tim's sudden onset dementia means they're not gonna let him leave

omg that could be it. it does seem surprising that in 15 seasons neither of these two men have ever been institutionalized (aside from being briefly jailed for 19 counts of murder)

Gregg finally gets the captive audience he's been craving all these years

there's now a HEI Network app you can download to your TV, been wanting something like this for years, the fact that it's happening now is a pretty good indication that they plan to keep this going a while