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Post by criterionmaster on Apr 24, 2006 6:53:49 GMT -5
Any shows that you think we might not have heard of that you want to recommend.
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Post by criterionmaster on Apr 24, 2006 8:01:30 GMT -5
I love the show The Critic and while it may not be obscure it is forgotten. I don't think it gets the credit it deserves. Anyone else on here like the show?
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Post by PTAhole on Apr 24, 2006 14:55:56 GMT -5
Duh, I own the DVD, unlike you.
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Post by Evan on Aug 21, 2006 10:37:52 GMT -5
The Super friends is an exellent show.
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Post by BarrSnacks on Jun 3, 2007 23:55:41 GMT -5
The show NCIS is a great show. It usually does good in the ratings, but I have never heard of anyone else who likes it except my cousin, who loves it. The season is over, but re-runs are on. It is on CBS at 8:00pm on tuesdays.
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Post by criterionmaster on Jun 30, 2007 0:42:04 GMT -5
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Post by sacrilegend on Jun 30, 2007 6:36:51 GMT -5
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Post by sacrilegend on Jun 30, 2007 6:54:25 GMT -5
Bernard Black (Dylan Moran) runs a bookshop, but he hates all people and doesn't sell many books. Manny Bianco has been appointed to help out at the shop, and Fran Katzenjammer is Bernard's longterm friend who, until recently, had a shop (I don't know what she sold there) next-door. Mostly she just sits around the bookstore with Bernard and Manny.
Dylan Moran, the writer (and "Bernard Black"), is "David" in Shaun of the Dead (haven't seen that). He made his acting debut as Ian Lyons in the 1998 BBC series How Do You Want Me?
Some good quotes from Black Books:
Bernard: I'm a quitter. I come from a long line of quitters. It's amazing I'm here at all.
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Bernard: [phone rings] Manny? Manny, phone. Manny.
[sigh]
Bernard: Oh, I'll get it, shall I?
[picks up]
Bernard: Hello?
Manny: [on phone] Bernard?
Bernard: Manny. Where are you? The phone's been ringing.
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Fran: Do you know nothing about modern culture, Bernard? Beckham, Posh, Pokemon...
Bernard: Pacman. It's pronounced Pacman.
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Fran: You said he had a funny smell.
Bernard: He did. He did. He had a living beetroot smell.
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Bernard: Look at his face. I bet his cornflakes try to crawl out of the bowl.
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Bernard: You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.
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Manny: Do you think I should wash my beard?
Bernard: I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.
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Bernard: Who are you?
First Customer: I'm a customer.
Bernard: Oh, right.
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Manny: There's a girl.
Bernard: A what? You know I don't approve of you seeing other girls- people. Who is she?
Manny: Roweena, a friend of Anne's. I met her once and was hoping to meet her again.
Bernard: Oh, I see.
[Mockingly]
Bernard: Roweena! Roweeeeena! And what am I supposed to do while you're doing the underpants charleston with this insane, blind tart?
Manny: Why are you getting so angry?
Bernard: I can't help being angry when I'm furious! So, before you go off to raise your bearded freak circus, what's she like?
Manny: She's nice.
Bernard: She's nice, she- dont make me sick into my own scorn. What are her prospects? Does she play the viola? Does she embroider? Is she kind to the servants?
Manny: I don't know. All I know is I like her and there's a good chance that she likes me.
Bernard: [Later] Well, we're going to this party because I'm trying to picture this girl who likes you and all I can see is you in a dress.
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Bernard: [selling a book] Enjoy. It's dreadful, but quite short.
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Customer: [brings back copy of Tempocalypse] I bought this for a friend, and they didn't want it, i was wondering if i could exchange it, preferably for the money
Bernard: [grabs the book and begins flicking through it rapidly then stops] Aha! sand!
[collects some onto his finger]
Bernard: Manny!
[sprinkles it into manny's mouth]
Manny: [tasting the sand] Sardinia... South... Porto Scuzo... The little beach by the monastery.
Bernard: [to customer] Get out!
[shoves his book back into his hands]
Customer: Damn!
[leaves]
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[after Manny has swallowed "The Little Book Of Calm"]
Doctor: Well, it's bad news I'm afraid, Mr. Bianco. 'The Little Book of Calm' has become lodged between the small intestine and the pancreas. If it rotates a centimetre or two to the left, you'll be dead in seconds.
Manny: Oh my God!
Doctor: No no, hold on a moment, that's just the worst case scenario. The other possibility - and this is far more likely - is that 'The Little Book of Calm' will move to the right, where it will enter the renal canal. If this happens, you could live for anything up to, ooh, ten years, one year, who knows?
Manny: Oh my God!
Doctor: Because of the massive scarring caused by 'The Little Book of Calm', however, it is possible that you will be in a massive amount of pain...
Manny: [interrupting] Oh my God! Oh, sorry.
Doctor: ...during that time.
Manny: Oh my God!
[the Doctor's beeper goes]
Doctor: Sorry, I'm going to have to go. We'll operate tomorrow, see if there's anything we can do about it. There's a good chance you'll survive - a thirty percent chance, I'd say - so try not to worry about it. As the book itself says,
[holding the X-Ray up to the light]
Doctor: 'whenever you're in a tight spot, try to imagine yourself marooned on a beautiful desert island'.
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[attempting to fill in his tax return form]
Bernard: "What is your mother's maiden name?" What's her first name? I just knew her as "Ma"! That'll have to do.
[writing on the form]
Bernard: 'Ma. Possibly deceased'.
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Customer: Look, there's no other way to say this, but I didn't come in here to be insulted.
Bernard: Well, I didn't ask for the job of insulting you. In another life, we could have been brothers. Running a small, quirky taveria in Sicily. Maybe we would have married the local twins instead of wasting each other's time here in this dump. But it was not to be. So hop it.
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[after Manny has ran away and suffered a series of unfortunate calamities over the phone]
Fran: Well, where is he? How can I find him?
Bernard: Well, you could become a terrible event and happen to him.
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Manny: Bernard, I was wondering if you might have a word with Fran. Tell her that I'm looking after Jason and he doesn't appreciate her trying to flirt with him.
Bernard: Ssssh!
[meowing is heard]
Bernard: You hear that? He's up there... mewing in the nerve centre of his evil empire. A ground rent increase here, a tax dodge there? he sticks his leg in the air, laughs his cat laugh... and dives back down to grooming his balls!
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Bernard: My oven can cook bits of oven!
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Post by sacrilegend on Jun 30, 2007 7:00:20 GMT -5
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Post by chrisspielberg on Jun 30, 2007 8:25:49 GMT -5
OH MY GOSH!!! I LOVE BLACK BOOKS!!!! It started here in England in 2000 and ran until 2004. Dylan Moran is, in my opinion, one of the greatest comedians today; so surly and grumpy but in a funny way and Bill Bailey is an absolute legend, although he's not so much funny funny as weird in this show.
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Post by chrisspielberg on Jun 30, 2007 8:33:12 GMT -5
Fran: Come to my apartment tonight and we'll watch the walls!
Manny: No, Bernard's going to stay here and watch the thermometer with me. Aren't you Beranrd?!
Bernard: I don't know! Walls, thermometers, it's all so interesting. I just have to that when I flip the coin it somehow explodes and kill's me!
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Post by chrisspielberg on Jun 30, 2007 8:36:15 GMT -5
Dylan Moran, the writer (and "Bernard Black"), is "David" in Shaun of the Dead (haven't seen that). He made his acting debut as Ian Lyons in the 1998 BBC series How Do You Want Me?Well i haven't senn How Do You Want Me? but apparently it's good, but Shaun of the Dead is an absolute classic even though it's only like 3 years old! There's a thread for it in 'Contemporary Films and Classics' now! |
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Post by sacrilegend on Jun 30, 2007 9:12:53 GMT -5
I haven't seen it. I'm still deciding if I will, and if so, when. You should try to get your hands on Black Books, it'll be worth the trouble (it was for me, at least). youtube.com/results?search_query=black+books&search=Search a few clips, if you feel like watching something so funny you'll die...  |
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Post by chrisspielberg on Jun 30, 2007 9:41:38 GMT -5
I actually have series 2 and 3 on DVD! Cheap off eBay!!
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Post by sacrilegend on Jun 30, 2007 18:24:32 GMT -5
Seriously serious? You're my best e-friend of the day!
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Post by devconn88 on Jul 16, 2007 19:52:19 GMT -5
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Post by criterionmaster on Jul 17, 2007 23:04:29 GMT -5
"strangers with candy" is an awesome show. i used to watch it all the time, and then watched some again on comedy on demand. have you ever seen that one episode with those super long laces on those shoes?
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Post by eatawiiner on Jul 18, 2007 8:12:03 GMT -5
I've been watching hella wonder years lately on ION television from 9 to 10 central time.
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Post by devconn88 on Jul 18, 2007 8:20:49 GMT -5
"strangers with candy" is an awesome show. i used to watch it all the time, and then watched some again on comedy on demand. have you ever seen that one episode with those super long laces on those shoes? i have the series dvd set |
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Post by criterionmaster on Jul 18, 2007 18:39:15 GMT -5
I've been watching hella wonder years lately on ION television from 9 to 10 central time. say what? there is a channel that shows "wonder years"?! i have never heard of that channel. what do you have? digital cable? "strangers with candy" is an awesome show. i used to watch it all the time, and then watched some again on comedy on demand. have you ever seen that one episode with those super long laces on those shoes? i have the series dvd set awesome, yeah, there are many episodes of the show i still need to see. have you seen the movie yet? |
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Post by devconn88 on Jul 18, 2007 19:50:06 GMT -5
yeah it was disappointing, they ran out of material
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Post by eatawiiner on Jul 19, 2007 8:20:01 GMT -5
I've been watching hella wonder years lately on ION television from 9 to 10 central time. say what? there is a channel that shows "wonder years"?! i have never heard of that channel. what do you have? digital cable? i have the series dvd set awesome, yeah, there are many episodes of the show i still need to see. have you seen the movie yet? I got dish networks top 100 i think. Its the ION station, they show like Mamas family, Whos the boss, and paid programming all day until 9 my time, and for that one beautiful hour I get to get blazed and laugh my ass off at one of the funniest shows ever made. His older brother wayne is something of wonders, he's like in three grades above Kevin, but he's such a douche he concerns himself with whats going on at the middle school so whenever their at home wayne'll be like "so kev i heard you quit the band" in front of the parents just to patronize him, gets me every time. |
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Post by criterionmaster on Aug 5, 2007 20:53:19 GMT -5
has anyone seen the show "undeclared"?
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Post by criterionmaster on Aug 5, 2007 22:29:27 GMT -5
that show was DA BOMB!!!!!! sucks that they cancelled it tho. yes! i just watched the whole series, well, a few days ago i finished, the same night my computer broke. it was so great. each episode was like a teen movie cliche, yet done in a perfect way, with really fun and cool characters, that was actually enjoyable to watch, i love it so much. i really want to buy the series. if you liked that show, you should check out "freaks and geeks" by the same dude, it is soo much better, which might seem hard to believe, but it is. |
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Post by PTAhole on Aug 6, 2007 5:31:02 GMT -5
I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but I've seen the first ten episodes, and it's absolutely fantastic. Freaks and Geeks does crush it, though.
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Post by PTAhole on Aug 6, 2007 15:05:15 GMT -5
  The worst show of all time. It was created by Saban, the team behind Power Rangers and VR Troopers, however, while those shows are so bad they're great, Mystic Knights just sucks. It is sometimes very funny, but most of the time groan inducing. |
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Post by criterionmaster on Aug 12, 2007 18:03:03 GMT -5
haha, it looks TERRIBLE!!
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