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It's been announced that this season will be the final season for the show.
I think that's fitting, as the characters do seem to be evolving (especially Chip, who's the main character really), and this season would seem like a natural ending point.
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3 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
the guest stars think "middle aged" is "old"???
Yeah, at first I said "hospital" or "nursing home" too (even "early bird buffet" occurred to me like it did to Ellie Kemper), then I realized the question said "middle aged", not "elderly". So really, Thomas Lennon who guessed "golf course" was the only one who had his head in the game.
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2 hours ago, Superclam said:
I don't think so, but I haven't found any confirmation that's it's been cancelled, or renewed for that matter.
I think Mike Myers is working on a sketch comedy show for Netflix, so that might have conflicted with him doing another season of this.
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19 hours ago, peeayebee said:
For the first question, about someone Amish being arrested for decent exposure, I came up with ankle. I think the phrase was something like "It was the first time the police busted someone for showing too much BLANK." Showing too much clothing? No sense.
Same! My answer of "ankle" was so so off from what everyone else wrote I started wondering if somehow I misunderstood the question.
I also said "insulin" for the sweet question, so was vindicated when Alec suggested that as well.
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I immediately thought of "V" for the "It Ain't Nothin But a ___ Thing", then thought "Wait, is this too dirty of an answer for TV?" But that was clearly the ideal answer.
Just as a side note as a male, that contestant was very cute I thought.
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I notice that the remaining 2 episodes of Match Game airing in July are part of this same group of shows that have been airing (Season 4), but starting with the August 7th episode it appears to be a new "season" of shows (production code 508).
I did notice in the most recent episode that Alec made reference to it being 2018, so apparently the ones they've been airing have been in the can for quite a while.
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9 hours ago, Irlandesa said:
I think it's because Skin doesn't have much meaning. Since they were looking for a movie title, something with a little more punch was required.
Yeah, it wasn't particularly funny, but it was accurate. I too was trying to think of something weather-related but couldn't come up with anything that made sense. I guess I can see "pain" because of the rhyming factor. I also thought of "diplomas" for the smart suit question but that was a pretty odd question.
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Why did everyone react like "Orange Skin" was a bad answer for the "Purple Rain" question? That seemed like a fine answer to me.
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I thought this was a great episode. They managed to involve all the major characters, and also Dale's daughter who I had forgotten about. I like how the theme of this season is "Chip growing up" too. It seems like they might be leading up to maybe him taking over the rodeo at the end of the season and finally becoming responsible.
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This Sunday's episode is "The Chainsmokers vs. 5 Seconds of Summer" and is a replacement for the previously scheduled episode, which was the cast of "Black-ish" vs. the cast of "The Goldbergs". Looks like that episode won't be airing any time soon. I wonder why- maybe they're saving it for closer to when those shows premiere in the fall.
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On 5/24/2019 at 12:56 AM, catlover79 said:
. Also, what's up with the abbreviated opening?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed (and is annoyed) by this. Also, I really hate the pointless return-from-commercial-break-only-to-throw-immediately-to-another-commercial-break that they do in the middle of the show now.
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"American Horror Story" was such an on-point answer to that particular question that Ryan Murphy...um...kind of used that as the jumping-off point for a season of the show.
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Yeah, clearly they didn't write this episode in mind with it being a series finale, and they even were sort of setting up the next season at the end with Helen becoming one of the students.
I noticed that the NBC ads before the show described it as the "series climax", which is a weird term I've never heard before.
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On 5/16/2019 at 12:16 PM, iMonrey said:
This seemed like another episode shown out of sequence. Surely there has to be some follow-up to last week's episode. They basically just escaped their execution, they're not out of the hotseat yet. Or does the Vampire Council think they're dead?
Weirdly, no. "Animal Control" was supposed to go in between "Citizenship" and "The Orgy", otherwise the episodes have been mostly shown in production order. Next week's is the season finale so perhaps it will be addressed then.
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On 5/12/2019 at 1:56 PM, cpcathy said:
I howled with laughter at the Chopped parody and the kitten on a bun. Whoever did this one and House Hunters is really tapping into something we all feel.
Both of these were written by Kent Sublette who's one of the co-head writers for the show right now along with Jost & Che.
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11 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
I loved that Barry just as effortlessly blew off the shit-pie-eating part (because he wanted to save Gene) as he effortlessly got the opportunity to read for a lead in a "feature" because he was tall.
The way Jay Roach kinda seemed intrigued by how Barry read for the role makes me think they just might consider him for the part, even though he walked out of the audition. It would be funny if Barry stumbled into success without even trying.
(That was the real Jay Roach, btw- and the real Allison Jones. If you watch any good comedy TV show or film made in the last 10-15 years you'll invariably see Jones' name in the credits as the casting director).
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On 5/10/2019 at 11:05 AM, Princess Sparkle said:
I wonder if Sophie Turner will show up for a Game of Thrones sketch (she seems the more likely Jonas brothers wife than Priyanka). I'm sure the Jonas Brothers themselves will end up in at least one sketch; the last time they were in two - the Fourth Jonas and a Digital Short - and I'm sure they'll be able to hold their own with Emma. Really looking forward to this one.
Sophie was actually the second guest on Fallon's show last night after Thompson. So she's definitely there in the building if she wanted to make an appearance on the show.
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On 4/25/2019 at 1:56 PM, iMonrey said:
This was, for my money, the best episode yet. And it seemed as though it should have been episode number 2, since they introduced Jeff in episode 1 and haven't mentioned him since. I was sort of disappointed with the previous few episodes because I didn't think they were as funny as the pilot but this one was hysterical.
The animal control episode was actually the eighth episode produced. They've played around a little bit with the order that they've shown the episodes. The production order of the episodes was:
1- Pilot
2- City Council
3- Manhattan Night Club
4- Werewolf Feud
5- Baron's Night Out
Then two episodes that haven't aired yet ("The Trial" and "Citizenship") are 6 and 7 and "Animal Control" is 8.
So yes, they waited quite a while to bring back Jeff from the pilot.
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On 4/27/2019 at 7:38 PM, Ailianna said:
Anyhow, she's also definitely not the first to get a rating changed, though it's not common (though it's apparently not common to appeal either). Under 5 minute of Google-fu have turned up articles talking about The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Last Vegas, and neither claimed to be the first.
There's a pretty thorough list here. It's happened like 12 times in the last 7 years, so fairly rare I guess. Some of the movies it happened with barely got a theatrical release- the comedies "Yoga Hosers" and "Barely Lethal". I guess the most notable case was last year when Clint Eastwood's movie "The 15:17 to Paris" got arbitrated down from an R to a PG-13.
It's kind of hard to tell what the "first" movie to have this happen with was. The PG-13 rating's only been existence since 1984. From what I can tell from this list, the first movie to get arbitrated down from an R to a PG-13 was the Mel Gibson movie "The River" which came out in December of 1984. This was followed by the movies "Mask" and "Desperately Seeking Susan" in 1985.
Before that, you had movies that managed to get their rating lowered from an R to a PG like "Poltergeist", "Tootsie", and "Terms of Endearment".
Weirdly, the MPAA's website (filmratings.com) doesn't even mention an appeal for "Mean Girls", the movie Rebel cited. I do remember on the commentary track on the DVD Tina Fey talking about how they had to change some things to get a PG-13- changing "have you had your cherry popped?" to "have you had your muffin buttered?" (the latter seems DIRTIER, to be honest) and also "masturbated with a hot dog" to "made out with a hot dog".
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This whole episode gave me extreme Coen brothers vibes, with the surreality mixed with moments of sudden violence and a general "We're all screwed" tone. Not to mention that Stephen Root has worked with the Coens several times before.
Hader did a great job directing this episode.
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On 4/18/2019 at 12:49 AM, saoirse said:
I love this show so much - and it's nice to see that they're getting name guest stars - Vanessa Bayer last week, Nick Kroll this week! I think that bodes well for the future of the series.
Nick Kroll's character ordering "blood-le service" in the club was a funny bit of synchronicity with his Bobby Bottleservice character on his own show.
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I always enjoy the hard cuts to the "BARRY" title card and this was the funniest one yet.
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11 hours ago, lou ann b said:
If it truly is Kenan's last show,he'd better get the best farewell a cast member has ever gotten.
I feel like they may have chosen Rudd for just this very reason- he's an affable host who goes along with anything, and doesn't mind sharing focus with other guest stars, cameos, etc.
His first time hosting, Beyonce was the MG and there was all the attention that the "Single Ladies" dancers sketch got. His second time the MG was Paul McCartney. Last time he hosted it was One Direction, plus there was also the big "Anchorman" reunion when they did the Bill Brasky sketch at the end of the show.
So I'm figuring it being Kenan's last show, combined with DJ Khaled as the MG , means we're bound to get lots of cameos, other musicians appearing, probably a big final blow-out "What's Up With That" sketch, etc.
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Nice try.
Edit: For real though, the lineups for May were just announced:
May 4th- Adam Sandler/Shawn Mendes
May 11th- Emma Thompson/Jonas Brothers
May 18th- Paul Rudd/DJ Khaled
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Season 4 Discussion
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Yeah, I said "throw a glass of wine in someone's face", so we were in the same ballpark.