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No Gregg?!

was talking w my wife about this last night and we agreed the only logical endpoint for On Cinema universe is for Gregg and Tim to murder each other

Or, alternately, to remain hopelessly intertwined for the rest of their natural lives. Which is, arguably, just a more protracted version of the scenario you posit.

lol yes

oscar fever with the thains of shire is the best version

it's christmas for tinseltown I DON'T NEED FUCKIN' FLUTE IN THE SONG

lol at tim trying to name two films that were nominated this year: "rome" and "green bay playbook"

green bay playbook made me lose it

ok yeah i take it back, the peak of this show is tim eating a raw cup o noodles

jaw

poor mark

speaking of Mark I can't believe I hadn't seen this yet, god this show is the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc8UUAk_6lA

i really think mark is a genius

the three stooges impersonations, the audition videos where he just reads the script verbatim including the locations and motivations, the two extremely traumatic near-death sequences in both the fifth and sixth oscar specials

WC3P0 is his crowning achievement imo

Mentioned in the T&E thread, but for those who didn't make the connection (as it took me way too long to do, myself), Mark was the pie-sitter on Better Call Saul.

WHAT

it's certainly become clear just how much the office underused him

not to mention he was K-Strass the Yo-Yo guy, which I still think is one of the funniest things to ever happen to local morning news

K-Strass is one of my favorite things ever, complete genius. He had a big part in the What We Do In The Shadows TV series and was pretty funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj9VF7LyffU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nyZqO0AclU

K-Strass & his On Cinema persona are basically the same character

just gotta get out! just gotta get right mama mia!!!!

tim: "wind beneath your wings. bette midler. beaches. barbara hershey."

gregg: "thank you! finally!"

lol now that i've finished this i don't know what to do with myself

maybe force someone to rewatch the whole thing with me

it's only three weeks to wait for the movie

haha I've tried to make a few converts, not sure I've been at all successful. it's something of a hard sell when you tell people they have to start at the beginning and it's super-slow at first.

xp

yeah i showed my gf, and before that my ex, the first few eps. both heidecker fans, not stoked on on cinema

when you tell people they have to start at the beginning

stop telling them this! they can jump in later when the mythology and interlacing feuds have started to build up, and pick things up from context, and/or go back & fill in once they've got a feel for it.

idk I initially started at season 10 and was like "wtf is this" I had to go back to the beginning

I was super late to the game despite being a fan of both dudes. It seemed like too much of an investment back when I didn't know the magic I was denying myself.

My brother is also a big T+E head but I haven't sold him on On Cinema yet.

He's even seen all of Decker without realizing all the texture and context he was missing.

a good introductory episode of this is when tim vapes and says his thoughts are coming out of his nose

idk I initially started at season 10 and was like "wtf is this" I had to go back to the beginning

yeah S10 is way too late, I mean before Decker. S3 or S4 have enough of the rivalry and side-characters established to get the feel for it, without the whole universe being so huge as to be completely confusing.

this guy m/l knows what's up:

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

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, July 4, 2019 4:16 AM (two months ago)

you def wanna start 1-2 seasons before "Lucky Season 7" because I think that's where the show goes off the rails for good

and I mean that in the best possible way, of course

He's even seen all of Decker without realizing all the texture and context he was missing.

this was me for a couple years, I recently rewatched 'em all and they are so much better once you're familiar with On Cinema. it explains so much - why Kington is the "Master of Codes", why Tim is so zonked out during the Hawaii season, the whole "Gregg Turkington's Decker vs. Dracula" thing, and why the budget is so much higher from "Decker: Unclassified" on. like my main complaint about Decker was "there's a lot of weird random things going on" but it all makes sense if you watch On Cinema

Even just those moments when Gregg clearly starts ad-libbing about one of his filmic obsessions and Tim loses his cool just before the scene is abruptly cut in the middle of a word. Or Gregg's reaction when Dr. San shows up.

"we're not doing that right now"

i can't imagine the twist of port of call hawaii being nearly as hilarious without on cinema

just set empty bottle as my ringtone

"Your son is in hell Delgado! That was his choice!"

last year it was "Oscars so White", this year it's "Oscars so A through M"

"Your son is in hell Delgado! That was his choice!"

this got one of the biggest laughs from me out of the entire series

ha yeah, same here! loves how he loses it and smashes up the chair etc.

Season 11 next week

Fuck yesss... I finished season 10 today, and felt a pang of sadness, as if two of my best friends had died.