Anyone seen it? Their unparalleled command of logic and immaculate use of profanity made me a quick fan. Their episode on mediums is one of the best commentaries on psychic culture I've ever seen. So I was a bit disappointed to see their episode on paranormal investigation, bluntly titled 'Ghost Busters.' Their usually smooth logic was replaced by snide stop-and-go accusations and the whole epsidoe relied on manipulating interviews and investigation footage to make the subjects seem like jackasses. I couldn't find any clips online, so feel free to share them if you've got them.
I haven't seen it yet, but now you've got me intrigued.
Thanks Tom.
By the way, what's with the "scab" thing?
I've got this particular season on disc. If I can figure out how to upload it to youtube or something, I'll link it here.
And the Scab thing is mostly thanks to this windows form auto-fill fiasco. I participate in an online writing workshop (in which my handle is 'the scab'... long story) in a forum that I think uses this same engine, so when I changed some profile info last night, it auto-filled in some other fields by itself. Embarrassing. :-\
Quote from: Tom Bevis on May 15, 2009, 02:28:45 AM
I've got this particular season on disc. If I can figure out how to upload it to youtube or something, I'll link it here.
And the Scab thing is mostly thanks to this windows form auto-fill fiasco. I participate in an online writing workshop (in which my handle is 'the scab'... long story) in a forum that I think uses this same engine, so when I changed some profile info last night, it auto-filled in some other fields by itself. Embarrassing. :-\
I encourage you to ask Miller when you meet him, but I think he's trying to find out, Tom, if you've crossed any picket lines lately. ;)
Oh my god, Brian, you would sooooo love
P&T! The first time I saw it, I turned to Max and said, "I can't believe they've custom made a TV show for me!" I became a full-on fan. (When I had premium cable channels, that is.) Most of the time, they were dead-on, but occasionally one of their episodes would get it so wrong, it would also make me wonder if Dick Cheney had paid them a little visit and made them do an obligatory bash-on-liberals episode just to stay on the air. Or, it would seem as if they'd lost sight of their "bullshit R.A.D.A.R." and the show would just become mean-spirited instead. Almost every series, though, with this kind of agenda falters like this at times. (
South Park and
Drawn Together immediately come to mind, the latter show landing far more goose eggs per season than the former.)
My plans to overthrow corporate America have been exposed! P^/
Tom, I must admit there are certain words that pique my curiosity. ;D No worries, I was just wondering how you came to call yourself by this term.
Karl, I am really intrigued by your description of P&T. Have they released the episodes on DVD?
Quote from: PPI Brian M on May 15, 2009, 04:55:41 PM
Karl, I am really intrigued by your description of P&T. Have they released the episodes on DVD?
Five seasons of them are available on DVD. (The complete Sixth Season isn't available yet.) There are almost seventy episodes so far, but here are a few especially relevant selections from their episode guide, some of which I haven't personally seen:
- Ep. 101 24 Jan 2003 Talking to the Dead
- Ep. 110 28 Mar 2003 ESP
- Ep. 112 11 Apr 2003 Ouija Boards / Near Death Experiences
- Ep. 209 05 Aug 2004 Death, Inc.
- Ep. 303 09 May 2005 Conspiracy Theories
- Ep. 310 11 Jul 2005 Ghost Busters
- Ep. 312 25 Jul 2005 Signs From Heaven
- Ep. 404 24 Apr 2006 Cryptozoology
- Ep. 505 19 Apr 2007 Exorcism
- Ep. 603 03 Jul 2008 NASA
Sherlock, I had no idea you liked this Penn and Teller show. I've got all the seasons released so far and disc and I've been a big fan for a while. It seems for sure like something that would have come up in conversation by now. Nuts. I always watch it and think 'man, I wonder if this Sherlock guy has seen this show,' then I automatically discount the thought, assuming the show might be too crass for your tastes.
And to settle the score and the 'scab' thing -- I became the moderator of aforementioned online writing workshop during that silly writers' strike. Thanks to a comment I had made about the strike being our class of writers chance to get our foot in the door and the mysterious circumstances of the proceeding moderator's resignation, I affectionately became known as the Scab. And, I suppose, it stuck.
Wow. I see.
What did you think was so "silly" about the Writer's Guild strike?
I think Tom's being facetious . . . errrr, right, Tom? 0:<
Entirely. ;)
(I fear the thread has died when we get shorter and shorter comments, culminating in the wonderous one-word response. I'm waiting for someone to just post a period or some equally perplexing response consisting only of punctuation.)
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Brilliant. You, sir, are my hero.
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There is no prize for second place, my friend.