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Personally for me I get a lot of humor out of the juxtaposition when he reads the synopsis. Something about the way the clips are always of a movie that takes itself very seriously with lots of drama and action, and yet completely undercut by the voice of this disengaged illiterate idiot painfully trying to get to the end of a blurb.

― Evan, Wednesday, July 17, 2019 2:08 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

his reading of the Storks synopsis makes me fall out laughing every time

Vape Store (crüt), Thursday, 18 July 2019 02:26 (five years ago) link

'Next up, The Wall, starring John Semen...uh, duh, I'm sorry...John Cena, directed by Doug Semen...Lyman......Liman.'

Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 July 2019 02:30 (five years ago) link

does anyone have any theories about how Tim got Axiom and Manuel under his thumb?

Vape Store (crüt), Thursday, 18 July 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link

I always thought of them as LA music scene equivalents of Greg - pathetic mediocrities who nevertheless cling to Tim because he has access to a tv show, and also that Tim always pays for everyone’s drugs

One Eye Open, Thursday, 18 July 2019 02:51 (five years ago) link

there’s this little smirk Greg makes sometimes when he’s making some banal long winded observation that kills me for some reason

brimstead, Thursday, 18 July 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link

Gregg: and i would say it's about time because those of us who are Oz-Freaks have been waiting since 1939, which is when the last Wizard of Oz movie came out - it was a MGM picture starring Judy Garland

Tim: Oh!

Gregg: and to wait this long to find out the next chapter, it's kind of a burden. a lot of people have passed on who saw the original and never got a chance to see the next chapter, so that's kind of a shame.

Karl Malone, Thursday, 18 July 2019 03:20 (five years ago) link

ok, i know i'm still early on but S2E5 is my favorite so far. the oz review and then the stuff about Colin Farrell was enough to make it a classic, but this made my side hurt

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

the clip doesn't even include the bit before where he suddenly announces that he's going to do this segment for the first ever time, or the conversation they have in the dark afterwards, as the credits roll, about how gregg made tim promise to never "do the political stuff again" after the podcast

Karl Malone, Thursday, 18 July 2019 03:28 (five years ago) link

idk why but every time tim mispronounces an actor's name i completely lose it, thankfully it happens in every single episode

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, July 10, 2019 12:57 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

When not in character on the Office Hours podcast he tends to do this legit accidentally, and he told a caller some months back that he is always mangling names and words irl but for On Cinnema just kind of leans into it

d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 18 July 2019 03:29 (five years ago) link

It's another great Colin Farrell movie. I feel like this guy doesn't know how to make bad movies.

Karl Malone, Thursday, 18 July 2019 03:31 (five years ago) link

xp Cinnema!

d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 18 July 2019 03:34 (five years ago) link

"we're not in kansas anymore, toto"

Vape Store (crüt), Thursday, 18 July 2019 04:35 (five years ago) link

there’s this little smirk Greg makes sometimes when he’s making some banal long winded observation that kills me for some reason

― brimstead, Thursday, July 18, 2019 3:01 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

It’s like a side-eye scoring one for himself.

... (Eazy), Thursday, 18 July 2019 06:30 (five years ago) link

Greg's smirk is a meme in our household

imago, Thursday, 18 July 2019 07:04 (five years ago) link

the laws of physics demand at least one bag of popcorn

This single sentence echoes through my mind at least two times a day!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 18:28 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is probably my favourite line from the whole series.

Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 18 July 2019 10:15 (five years ago) link

I was shocked last night to see him defy physics in giving zero bags to Snowden!

Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link

i can already tell that decker vs. dracula isn't going to last for a whole season, regardless i really respect the direction gregg took it in

american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:41 (five years ago) link

My new favorite is manifestations of Tim's massive dysfunction that unfold right there onscreen but that no one ever explicitly calls attention to. Things like Tim's ongoing physical abuse of Mark and his serial arson are mentioned offhandedly if at all.

Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link

Oh hey, Mark once again has facial trauma no one is talking about. And hey, yet another building has been destroyed by fire. Weird.

Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:49 (five years ago) link

does anyone know what Tim is doing here, I assume this is in reference to some Oscar moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHebKoIFRKE&feature=youtu.be&t=1h52m16s

can't believe Gregg doesn't break character

frogbs, Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link

can you try posting again

Evan, Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link

maybe the embed doesn't work. I think you can just click on the link

its 1:52:16 into the 2nd Oscar special

frogbs, Thursday, 18 July 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48O1DEdMYKw

this song will be stuck in my head all day

american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link

omg the dekkar "oscar fever"/"empty bottle" mashup at the start of the fourth oscar special

american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link

dekkar the only band that deserves five bags of popcorn

american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link

RENEVANT

Vape Store (crüt), Saturday, 20 July 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link

i'm standin' on a bridge of spies
i'm sick of hearin' all your goddamn lies

Vape Store (crüt), Saturday, 20 July 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link

^ goes through my head at least once week

Vape Store (crüt), Saturday, 20 July 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link

The Relevant

My nephew accidentally swalled five quarters and thee dimes. (Old Lunch), Saturday, 20 July 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link

I was bored this afternoon so I searched and found an old tweet of mine from 2011 astro-turfing the OG podcast lol.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 21 July 2019 01:30 (five years ago) link

Should I post it here? Then y'all will know my notsoweird twitter.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 21 July 2019 01:30 (five years ago) link

mad max
he gives the ladies heart attacks

american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 July 2019 05:39 (five years ago) link

oh my fucking lord the cgi tom cruise jr.

american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 July 2019 06:03 (five years ago) link

mark proksch is a gift

american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 July 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link

feel like i gotta talk to my therapist about the whole james dean subplot

american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link

I've been watching the trial in bits and pieces over the weekend (which is a must for any On Cinema head, as the highlights don't fully capture the awe-inspiring magic) and just got to Tim calling Nicholas Meyer (co-writer of Star Trek IV) to the stand. OMG, I must've laughed for a solid minute at Gregg's muttering 'no...no...' from the gallery as Meyer describes the plot of the movie he wrote. This is really the culmination of every ridiculous thread of the On Cinema universe, just astounding.

Yeah that was an amazing capper to that running joke

Οὖτις, Sunday, 21 July 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link

the best part is that Gregg gets escorted out of the courtroom believing he's been proven right

Vape Store (crüt), Sunday, 21 July 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link

Believer interview with Tim:

JP, our tour manager, who I’ve worked with for many years, and who I’m very close with — we are picking up some VHS tapes for Gregg, which we sell at the show, and Gregg is finding them at various thrift stores as we drive all over. And Gregg really gets into it, and he’s going on about some horrible movie we found, and I look at JP and say, “The funny thing is, there’s a lot of Gregg in Gregg.” And he looks at me and goes, “There’s a lot of you in Tim!” And I go, “Really?” And he’s like, “Yes.”

also, a real review:

I’m not kidding when I say that Paddington 2 is the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. It’s so clever and funny. I’m not kidding. Watch it. First of all, everyone in the movie is a great, accomplished actor. It looks like Wes Anderson, but without being so heavy-handed. I liked this way more than I liked Isle of Dogs, which I feel is so in on its own joke. Paddington 2 has great British humor; it’s unpretentious, genuinely funny. Emotional. Very emotional. And [the first] Paddington is also good, but this one is better. And I wept.

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 22 July 2019 01:38 (five years ago) link

I read a few years back that Gregg's character is based largely on his 12-year-old self.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 July 2019 03:11 (five years ago) link

With that in mind, how much do you identify with your character on On Cinema?

I think when I was 12 or 13, that was probably about where I was at. It was really before I got into punk rock, which was something I was only into for about a year before the corruption started to become apparent and I moved on. I was super, super into watching movies when I was a kid, and this was before home video was really readily available—or at least not readily available to me, because we didn’t really have any money for that—but I didn’t know anyone who owned a VCR or anything, so I was really into going to art house theatres and going to the multiplex and paying for one movie and then trying to stay there all day, slipping from one to the next trying to see as many movies as I could. I had a little book where I kept track of everything that I saw and rated them all. I was super into it.

I think that I kind of lost that interest at some point. I still like movies, but I might watch a couple a month—as opposed to that point, when I was 12 or 13, when I would watch, like, 40 a month and document them all. But I think that that character on On Cinema is less like me than Neil Hamburger is like me.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 July 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link

can irl Gregg move his neck or is that particular physical tic specific to the character himself? The way he has to move his whole upper body to turn his head towards somebody seems like such a wierd affectation.

Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link

that's a great interview that chimes with the experience of meeting the great man

imago, Monday, 22 July 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link

love it

Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link

Here's a clip where he's pretty mobile lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfu4XJ4qqKY

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 July 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link

oh man, didn't know there was a Caroliner connection

Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link

Tim name dropped this guy in that interview; apparently the work of two guys. New to me at least!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzWw910b2zM

Evan, Monday, 22 July 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link

yeah those guys seem promising

Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link

can irl Gregg move his neck or is that particular physical tic specific to the character himself? The way he has to move his whole upper body to turn his head towards somebody seems like such a wierd affectation.

― Οὖτις, Monday, July 22, 2019 8:11 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

been wondering this myself

gbx, Monday, 22 July 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link

Until yesterday I did not know that Gregg was Neil Hamburger. Despite doing an (awful) internship at (interning here is) Drag City in 2006, I’ve never heard or seen any of his Hamburger material

Karl Malone, Monday, 22 July 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link


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