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“I hope everyone gets better, the folks that are still in the hospital….. I’m praying for you….. see you next week!”

Yeah, it’s a break in style, but I think it makes sense in-universe! The ‘production’ crew are Tim’s lackeys and have no respect for Gregg (There’s an earlier episode where Gregg says to cut the lights and they don’t, waiting for Tim’s direction).

My stupid fan-theory: the “production” is some lovecraftian, beastly apparatus of Tim. The show will never stop, because Tim is the show. His cosmic weight instantly pulls in all passer-by’s to have their life’s destroyed through the mundanity of two, soulless men reading movie synopses and muttering “5 bags, and 2 bags of soda”. The production is the beast

Omg I forgot Dr. San hangs himself

reminds me of probably my favorite joke of this season which is Toni having that really macho intro music blaring when she's first introduced, it's a wordless joke but it's really deeply funny once you understand like 4 things about the show

Gregg finds so much joy in Tim murdering 20 kids that when he finally gets an episode to himself to host, he can’t even talk about the movies. Now that’s a 5 bagger move

see thats something I really love about it, the constant bickering and sniping between them would feel kinda forced if not for the fact that they really do each have dozens of reasons to hate each other. its a very palpable hatred that a lot of comedies use but don't really earn the way this show does

Otm. The hate is palpable, it’s the fuel to every episode.

Watching the Trial for the second time and it’s an amazing piece of satire on how Trump won the presidency. Maybe obvious to others, my Australian eyes didn’t see it the first time tho

Tim is genuinely great in how he is able to catch the vibe of a certain type of American guy without going in for obvious parody of specific people. Tim also seems to have a good sense of detecting right-wing trends early, like his character's turn to alternative medicine long before COVID (because of "Obamacare")*

*Like during the Obama administration I noticed the right-wingers in my Washington exurb start to get interested in what had previously been left-coded things like backyard chickens and acupuncture because Obamacare poisoned all our food and medicine.

It really shows up how lame pretty much all other liberal comics’ satire of the trump era is, everything else feels cheap & reactive where this managed to anticipate the bizarrest stuff years in advance and really get into how these guys think

xps tim & Gregg have a Walt-Jesse level toxic relationship at this point, so much ill feeling but they can’t extricate themselves from each other — & there are moments where they reveal they do sort of care for each other a bit, but always in an ultimately abusive way

It’s very funny how they both seem not fully conscious of how much the hatred is driving how they think, like Tim basing his whole self-help cult around the idea that watching lots of films is dangerous or Gregg spinning his resentment of dekkar into a dislike of all music

managed to anticipate the bizarrest stuff years in advance

2011:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USA5v08NcEU

I've probably pointed it out before but Tim trying to explain why he's trying to pay for Ayaka's abortion despite being staunchly pro-life is maybe the best encapsulation of Republican 'logic' I've ever seen

You need options

Sometimes situations occur

The situation had to be evacuated

Getting a little choked up at the 40 years of Jaws 2 montage (which is actually a Jaws 3 montage; movie buffs will know). So great to see so many people around the world celebrate such a massive milestone. Jaws 2 made it! to think we're only 4 years from the big 50!

the people’s joker (written and directed by on cinema editor vera drew) is so good

well this is not where I was expecting this to go

https://www.heinetwork.tv/episode/district-attorney-of-san-bernardino-press-conference-05-02-2024/?mc_cid=583ac50863&mc_eid=71f031f5c9

the fact that the shooter was calling for Toni still seems to be an outstanding point, especially since in retrospect she did get kinda weird when the subject of computers was brought up?

lmao that Tim was right when he said it was "just some dude"

i was assuming that joaqin is joey p's real name? or am i missing something

nah, Joey's supposed to be Italian and he ain't 27, plus whoever it was got shot and nearly bled to death, whereas Joey was healthy enough to beat both Tim AND Gregg's asses during the Oscar Special

still kinda suspicious that Joey happened to be in Mexico while it went on, not to mention Tim pointing the finger directly at Amato. maybe he just inferred what everyone watching did but I'd assume he knows *something*

gotta say the show is almost starting to remind of something like Breaking Bad, it's leaving all these little crumbs around pointing at a larger story but there's still so much left to be revealed. I wonder if G. Amato's interest in HEI points and Matt's own crypto scam are gonna be linked in any way

“Timothy Newman”

cant tell if having all this potentially being nothing is irritating or brilliant

Like the Breaking Bad analogy above, this show is always misdirecting you. It’s brilliant of course.

"it is a crazy conspiracy theory created by what is clearly a mentally-compromised...nutcase" joey is so good

congrats to bill brown

Bill Brown, a king’s king.

What’s Joey P’s deal? He’s a far better actor than what I’ve come to expect.

I think Tim was looking for someone normal to play a normal person instead of the usual weirdos they have in the extended Tim and Eric universe

he's the only person in the show's history to give actual movie reviews lol