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Gregg’s feed just took him into the bathroom.

is Tim getting Jokerfied

Oh my god what is going on here

Holy shit

no :(

This is like a direct callback to MT BTL 3.0 at the last one

man, what a show

so did everyone's stream lock up when the accident happened? feels like maybe the stunt didn't go off as planned and they're gonna be filming something to fill it in on replay

The main stream locked up but Gregg's stream did not. I figured it was intentional.

I think I also saw a bit of a jump cut in Gregg's stream so that part might have been prerecorded?

https://i.imgur.com/YtlH3p9.jpg

also I'm pretty sure the cake was supposed to fall? he held that at quite an angle

Apparently you could hear on Gregg’s stream during Manuel's tribute segment a couple words of out of character coordination of the show with Tim before Gregg muted his stream.

so are we to assume that LaRue is with Tom Chaplain right now

tim said during the credits that larue was injured but going to be okay. i hope that's true

btw some pretty interesting plotlines regarding Pastor Lewis that seemed to be...not yet fully explored

okay so i'm confused, i have HEI network sub, and there are streams for both tim and greg's i can rewatch.... should I have two screens on the go? And how many minutes before Tim's did greg's start to try to sync them?

or am i overthinking completely and i should just watch them one after the other

I'd say a sync up is essential to the experience. Kinda surprised they haven't added that as an automatic option yet.

idk how long they'll leave this up but there's a dress rehearsal on the hei network

https://www.heinetwork.tv/saturday-test-7/

Gregg started earlier than Tim with a showing of the Popcorn Classic "The Affairs of Cappy Ricks", but you can try to sync them a few minutes into Gregg at Doc's house, when Gregg and Tim are talking to each other on the phone on air.

thanks, will try it out later with a pair of laptops

That dress rehearsal’s so interesting early on, getting to see everyone interact as themselves.

its so wild. i clicked into it randomly and tim was explaining to toni how the pastor was cut out of the show bc the performer they cast didnt want to get tested o_0

yeah it definitely felt like Pastor Lewis & Tim meeting in the afterlife was supposed to be a bigger story, the whole "she didn't want to be here because of you Gregg" thing didn't make much sense to me

what's the best way to watch this after the fact. There are two streams that need to be simulcast?

ah sorry I should've checked a few posts up

back in the hei life again

Gregg’s stream ostensibly started 14 minutes before Tim’s (but in practice was running a few minutes late, and lagged more as it went on). Try starting them with that split, and you can pause to sync them later if it doesn’t line up right.

dang it, the rehearsal stream was taken down (at least for non HEI network subscribers)

The Father? What's the sequel, The Son? Followed by The Holy Spirit? Now that's a movie I'd see.

I think I also saw a bit of a jump cut in Gregg's stream so that part might have been prerecorded?

― eisimpleir (crüt), Sunday, April 25, 2021 10:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

can confirm that i didn't hallucinate this

one thing I really love about this series is how all the various parts are played by actors from totally different backgrounds with varying levels of acting skill. including a bunch of people you'll never see in a comedy show again. what other show has a cast like this?

the real MVP is joe estevez. his improv skills are underrated. although it's impossible to work out how much is scripted and improv.

I doubt much of anything that they have Estevez do (outside of Decker) is scripted in terms of learning lines, but iirc he's briefed more than the other regulars on the overall plot.

You get the impression, by contrast, Michael Matthews was given basically no prep for this: while his glee and confidence as Laroux in earlier stuff sell the character as created, here it felt like the actor was told nothing, so his own haplessness at improv sold Laroux' out-of-depthness.

during "The LaRoux Report" there's the part where Gregg says "this report has no legal standing" and he goes "yes, it does" and that gets both Gregg and Tim to break so I imagine that line was ad-libbed

agreed though that Joe is the best, he's kind of the perfect companion for both of them - he's appeared in 200 movies but doesn't have anything interesting to say about any of them, and he's good-natured and affable enough to put up with Tim. plus he's enough of a D-lister to genuinely appreciate any kind of show who would want to honor him. he's probably my favorite guest on the show.

Toni is also very good, her character is very recognizable but not something you see represented a lot on screen. very dark humor to the bits where she's like "uh-oh, Tim's mad at me again!" and just heads to the bar (despite possibly being pregnant). only part of that character that doesn't work for me is her son who is way way too good looking to be a pissbottle gamer

during "The LaRoux Report" there's the part where Gregg says "this report has no legal standing" and he goes "yes, it does" and that gets both Gregg and Tim to break so I imagine that line was ad-libbed

this was an incredible moment

I gotta set aside time to watch again to catch more details.

felt like toni was breaking for most of the special but that was kinda great in itself, like it simultaneously works as a form of compartmentalization for the character for her to laugh at tim's abusive fugues,,,,, uh sorry if that's dark

also... idk, i love matt, his single syllable responses even further garbled by the zoom stream plus intermittent chugs from the infinite mountain dew bottle... fuckin lost it

the glitchiness of remote video streaming technology really brought back first oscar special vibes for me lol

I want to say that since he grew the beard the guy who I lays Matt looks super familiar to me. Was he one of the Hobbit Heads in an early Special?

*Plays* Matt

but he IS handsome.

yeah tim trying to play games with matt was probably the hardest i laughed. the kid may be more goodlooking than your standard pissbottler but imo he is very good as a zero affect/no personality teen, perfect foil for tim.

I completely lost it during last year's special when they showed a bunch of father/son stock images and then cut to Matt Newman

the part at 50:30: link

I guess it makes sense in that Tim naturally gravitates towards good looking people - his DKR buds were (presumably) chosen for their looks, the CGI Tom Cruise Heidecker was a male model, he's always very particular about what people wear on the show - so maybe he just wants to be a father figure to him b/c he's good looking

felt like toni was breaking for most of the special but that was kinda great in itself, like it simultaneously works as a form of compartmentalization for the character for her to laugh at tim's abusive fugues,,,,, uh sorry if that's dark

yeah it was hard to work out how much of that was intentional. she clearly broke character when Tim was ripping off the posters but some of that was intended to be nervous laughter - watching her entire pyramid scheme crumble on live TV as Tim was wearing the face mask (which I thought really worked because Tim complains about literally everything), it felt like she was laughing just to assure the audience "it's okay, he's not really hurt". also I've kind of gathered her character is drunk all the time and possibly marked by past traumas and therefore she doesn't really give a shit about anything anymore

lmao he was trying so hard not to crack

https://www.facebook.com/1094372519/videos/10225159799797476/

oh you might not be able to see that, it's Manuel's Al Pacino impression

hoo ah

my other big regular lol during the special was the way all of tim's pacino tributes digressed toward johnny depp