"Wet Hot American Summer"

But I thought the State was pretty lame except for 1 or 2 skits, while I'm an obsessive Kids in the Hall fan.

(haha jus tkidding)

well there you go.

specifically the MONTAGE where COOP tries to get the GIRL.

Is your Mom Prince?

WHAS has some great bits, but like all Michael Showalter-related projects, it feels a bit like a missed opportunity.

these movies that keep on telling us they're "Future Cult Classics!!!!" are hit and miss. this one was just meh-inducing okay. so miss.

Did you get to the scene where they go to town, Alex?

rudd ("andy") keeps losing kids and taking their buddies for a ride off the side of the road... the short dude from the state on the motorcycle trying to catch up with the other dude... the nerds rolling their 20-sided die? i mean, i just don't get how you can't like it.

yes, alex. i don't know you, but over the course of writing this post, i have decided that you ARE, in fact, old.

My favorite part is when the goth girl says "that's just one mixtape!" or something.

And now there's

http://io9.gizmodo.com/wet-hot-american-summer-is-getting-its-own-comic-book-1797612515

I just realized this and Twin Peaks (ie the only two shows I'm watching) are both about characters named Coop

!

pizza is really yummy for me

the 90s lighting in that spin doctors mac & cheese sequence was so perfect.

king of the camp and rain episodes though, so great. five stars.

this was way less consistent than the prequel episodes, some of the plot lines didn't have much going for them. but the good stuff was good, the last episode was great.

Walla-walla Hoo!

omg the video call

yeah agree with iatee that the last season was funnier. this season started and ended strong, but the middle episodes coasted a bit. a lot of the plotlines were not as funny as I think they had the potential to be (like Rudd's "King of Camp")

there's one Debbie Gibson-type song they play at the dance that is phenomenally good for a style parody, from the bits I heard. waiting for the full version to surface somewhere online

The first episodes seemed almost entirely joke-free - just way too many dead patches

I still haven't got over how bad Search Party was (similar writing team) and it's made me residually grumpy about WHAS

Huh to me this is much funnier and more consistent than the prequel season.

https://soundcloud.com/craigwedren/sets/wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-selected-songs

xpost otm. not that I didn't like the prequel but I found myself being ok with watching an ep at a time whereas I blazed through this season

the prolonged Q&A after the "confetti payload" reveal was great

Rudd's plot line did feel curtailed. In King of Camp they seemed to be suggesting that he and Deegs would find some kinship and bond but then that just never happened and Deegs didn't show up again.

yeah the king of camp thing didn't really go anywhere and wasn't that great. although deegs cracked me up

i just loved the long road warrior intro to king of camp. cracked me up.

I liked Search Party!

Haven't seen Search Party but Wain isn't involved, right? WHAS humor feels very Wainy.

Deegs was funny

i really enjoyed the first half of this, the second half had its moments but got a little bogged down in plot and had too much reagan/bush instead of just stupid jokes which is all i care about

christopher meloni was once again the all-star, him fighting the can in the winnebago was amazing

or in the last episode when the restaurant kitchen door swings open and you see emphatically tossing a salad

xxp showalter is def the most sentimental of the 3 of them. wain is the goofiest i think? probably the humor closest to mine. ian black seems v snarky + dismissive. i love them all. (thought search party was okay but not okay enough to get past the 5th episode.)

My favorite part was Meloni and Pine bobbing in unison and saying "come oooon" when they were downloading the bunker blueprint.

Also Schwartzman's wave at Garofalo when they were watching the nuke in the sky.

Oh and Meloni meeting his daughter and not getting it. Meloni was insanely good throughout.

my favorite really dumb joke that made me laugh a lot was "can i use your bathroom? i really need to ... take a bath"

"Full Professor Henry Newman"

loved how the nanny murder was the one plot point that wasn't hand-waved away

these blueprints ... are literally kicking my ass

david hyde pierce calling in from home with emmys in the background was my favorite part of anything ever

+mustache removal

loved how the nanny murder was the one plot point that wasn't hand-waved away

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same

Thanks for that link Evan. The song i'm looking hasn't been posted yet but hopefully soon

this is really great so far, three eps in. i am loving the 90s references, they are delivered with the perfect amount of deadpan ironic nostalgia. i think it helps that it's gen x stuff from this generation of comedians.

lol that acoustic "rrreah reeeah reaah" song

i bingewatched this and thoroughly enjoyed it, but think it was a lil less funny than last year's version.

Alyssa Milano was a fantastic new addition

yeah Milano was awesome.

they really upped the ante w the action movie stuff here. at one point Chris Pine was really OVER emphasizing certain WORDS and i realized he was doing a Keanu Reeves lol. ofc Schwartman plugs his head into a computer to hack.

lol everyone watching the download screen going "Come on! Come on!"

alo really loved the ending when the characters were asking Ronald Reagan to explain all their plothole questions.

I had the opposite experience to last season - I thought this started bad and got better as it went along. The storm episode is maybe an all-time WHAS highlight. The whole terrifying "shit on my shit, shit on my shit" bit is still making me laugh. In the last episode, "the food critic review is in - very delicious!" is like one of the great non-sequitur deliveries of our time.

Also, fight scenes were pretty good! That I wasn't expecting.

This had some great stuff in it, but (also) think on the whole it was weaker than the first season.

The confrontation between Bush, Reagan, and the camp ppl towards the end felt like it went on for three episodes and was mostly not funny.

ur not funny

The longer that sequence went the funnier it got because it just added to the goofy absurdity.

Yeah idk, looking forward to a rewatch. Some stuff in the first season didn't really land for me on the first go around, but I got a lot more out of it when I rewatched it a few weeks ago.

The confrontation between Bush, Reagan, and the camp ppl towards the end felt like it went on for three episodes and was mostly not funny.

I think it's a good joke...it was just the exact same joke that they used at the end of the prequel and jon hamm delivered it better

"Okay, I’m hearing you, and what I’m hearing is that what is bothering you is that many lives were lost. Now I don’t have an answer that I feel is going to satisfy you…"

Watched the making of on Netflix the other day, really enjoyed it. Then I went to watch the original film and it wasn't on Netflix canada blaaaaag

it isn't on Netflix in the US either

loved it, though probably not as much as First Day of Camp. Chris Pine was the MVP in all his scenes. those Keanu-esque line readings....

lmao @ David Hyde Pierce's cameo too.

Not even a big fan of this franchise but the first episode or two of this was the funniest thing I've seen in a long, long time

Favorite detail: the made-up Spin Doctors song that plays during the upbeat kitchen montage

day...bi-det