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“if there’s anything you could say to your daughter right now, what would it be”

“objection! …….speculation”

^^ one of the best jokes in the whole thing

gregg’s facial expressions during the trial should be painted and hung in the louvre

otm

the full airing of the song, and all the solos, is brilliant

tim slapping the table in time with “empty bottle”

i have the right to call expert witnesses and pay them whatever i want

tim’s closing statement is a work of art, especially when he starts asking why the dead kids aren’t on trial

uhhh let’s give a shout out to the electric sun 20, we wouldn’t be here without them… unfortunately. i wish they were here, we could celebrate with them. but they’re not

has anyone dared drop the dkr “oscar fever” in the club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvPenlsYS4M

absolutely the most incredible gregg segment in the entire show

very curious where they got those video greetings from

i don't know... i just thought... i think billy graham is in hell

we have been watching your movies for decaaades. we have learned so much about the earth people and we have figured out a way to simulate popcorn on mars. it is called dollorrrrc. it tastes 99 percent like popcorn but it is made from intergalactic flowers grown on mars. but tell me, can you take meet the great one? your leader .... humphrey bogart

very curious where they got those video greetings from

― frogbs, Monday, January 17, 2022 11:06 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

IIRC there was a tweet in the weeks before the special soliciting video greetings to celebrate a very special anniversary (not specifying who or what it was)

is it his death trip or is it his awakening? that’s kind of the mystery, it’s almost like an old sherlock gnomes movie

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

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If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Is Bigfoot real? It's a question I've been hearing a lot lately.

latest Office Hours has Mark and Gregg on it

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

they're not playing their OC characters but the vibe is a lot like the Oscar Specials

its really fun seeing them doing basically the same bits but allowing themselves to outwardly laugh and enjoy it

my respect for Gregg went up tenfold when he ranked the Doobie Brothers higher than the Velvet Underground

Turkington has like...Norm Macdonald levels of quickness

"All the evidence in this case proves... the hitchhiker is being a ghost. And this case is now closed."

So there is an hourlong (!!!) Valentines Day special and it’s already incredibly awkward 2 minutes in

Lmao at the horribly dyslexic Tim trying to read a bunch of wallet IDs

Can HEI Network stuff be easily / reliably streamed to a TV, or is it intended to be computer-based?

you can cast all of it, it’s all youtube and vimeo

I clicked on the Office Hours at random and landed on Tim's dead-on Tom Waits impression.

I couldn’t watch it the website seemed to be slammed

i couldn't watch it live due to the site issues but i watched it this morning and it was great

I'm more than happy to pay for it but the fact that you can't just like, YouTube it kinda sucks. I can cast it of course but casting is laggy at my house for some reason and kind of a hassle

probably having a couple of OC freaks over for the Oscar Special so I really hope they get things sorted out

Valentines Day special was great. Wendy Kirby sure does know how to look uncomfortable. Why was Tim all zonked out (again) in the end? He looked like he was roofied which has a uh....pretty dark implication

I thought the same, though it could also be an after effect of health problems stemming from his all-shake diet. Tim’s in-character explanation was, “Those concerned with my health need not worry, aside from my diabetes which has returned I was so excited about the special i was administered a mild sedative intravenously before our acoustic Empty Bottle performance."

in a members-only hei network article he claimed he was drowsy due to a mild sedative administered intravenously that apparently was necessary b/c he was so excited about the special

every appearance of Manuel he is more and more like Tommy Wiseau. specifically the way he acts as "Johnny" in The Room.

one thing I love about Heidecker's stuff is how he finds people who are just naturally funny and just makes room for them in the series. I can't think of anything else that has such a strange and assorted cast

now here's a weirdly relevant clip

RIP Sally Kellerman. Here’s a timely clip from her appearance on the 2nd On Cinema Oscar Special @timheidecker @greggturkington @OCATCOfficial pic.twitter.com/LeEqCsNBPC

— Connor Richards (@crichards1995) February 24, 2022

took a break from my rewatch when i got to mister america, but i've since resumed and just finished oscar special 8. i was legitimately going to produce a ranking with detailed explanations of each placement (e.g. i feel like anytime one of gregg's finales is sort of good/successful it's automatically a lesser oscar special, cf. the living painting, kramer vs. kramer 2), but it turns out they're still very hard to rank. 5 (jaws 2, mark suffocates) is my pick for the best, 7 on its heels for containing gregg's best finale

finally going to watch the heilots and season 12! i'm so excited

one consistent thing about the Oscar Specials is that the Mark Proksch bits are always the funniest parts, so I was bummed that he was barely in the last one. god the 6th Special where he's hooked up to all those life support machines and Gregg is "interviewing" him, asking why so and so wasn't nominated and getting the response "It was a truuuue traaagedy"...a soundbite from one of the earlier Oscar specials

when I rewatched the 5th one I was left wondering if anyone watching live actually thought something happened to Mark? they break the 4th wall just enough in that part, you definitely don't feel like you're watching a comedy anymore

i would make the same argument, with the only exception being that mark isn't in 7 at all. 7 was very special though, the culmination of everything that had been building since tim's tantrum at the end of season 10 and mister america

I watched the 5th Oscar Special live, and while I didn't think Mark was actually in IRL danger, it was definitely the most shocking thing I'd seen on the series by that point

and gregg's concept for the 7th special was perfect: dressed as the joker, the mobile vfa decked out with arthur memorabilia intended as a preview for the next year's 40th anniversary celebration...

i forgot to mention this at the time but one of the most amazing scenes in season x is when it cuts to a gregg segment and in the 360 vr view you can see mark in bed hooked up to machines

For me the “James Dean” reveal ending of one of the earlier Oscar Specials was the most shocking mainly because I wasn’t sure if the guy was aware what was going on, or if he actually believed he was James Dean.

that was the third one! which is probably my favorite after 5 and 7. mark as the three stooges is the peak of comedy

as far as I could gather the James Dean guy was the sort of person who appeared on Tim & Eric, they're acting but maybe not 100% aware of what the show is or what kind of humor they're going for. from what I've heard the bit in the Oscar Special where Tim is really yelling at him wound up rattling him and he had to be calmed down after the shoot. I guess the panic in his eyes was real. also seems he was declining mentally pretty quickly which is why he had to be replaced in Decker.

heilots ranked:

mark's cavalcade of characters >>>>>>>>>>>>> xposed > rock house >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> popcorn shuffle

i know what i like and it's: mark porksh

i forgot to mention this at the time but one of the most amazing scenes in season x is when it cuts to a gregg segment and in the 360 vr view you can see mark in bed hooked up to machines

maybe my favorite moment in the series

I would love more Rock House, I think it's super cool when this show gets way outside of its own universe. that's what makes the trial so great. also Ax and Manuel are just naturally funny in this context. its so on the nose it almost could've aired as-is on MTV 10 years ago

Xposed is also really funny but the humor is very similar to Decker. Rock House is just something else entirely

i did really love rock house, manuel in particular shines