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Yeah, I was advised to avoid season 4 by enough people. At some point I’ll watch it and form my own opinion, but currently there’s just not enough time.

Thursday’s episode was great, though I felt the ending was a bit of a cop-out.

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I’d like to purchase my Portable Pecos Pesos Purse using the Pecos Pesos payment plan, please.

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And now for season 5. Two episodes in, it’s not hilarious, but it’s promising. Jonathan Banks was good. I couldn’t say how much better season 5 is than season 4, which I haven’t watched, but tonight I had quite a few chuckles and one or two good belly laughs, courtesy of Abed, of course. Plus the familiar whooshing sound of references going over my head, which just makes me extra giddy about the ones I do get. Bring it on.

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I’m seeing it on Sunday.

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Yep. I cracked up.

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Oh!

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If Bibby were still around, he’d have rummaged around the junk yard for an actual old Fiat and made one from that.

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Oh my god, if the RDX set builders had seen this, they’d’ve had a cherry red one to match the couch.

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I wonder if Neil Innes knows Ken Plume is using one of his songs as his theme tune.

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I still don’t play this and probably never will, but I love that Tanya’s town is called Rutland! Makes me want to drop in and watch RWT. :)

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Avenue Q has adult-themed Muppets too.

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Ha ha, I win. (At least stateside.)

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Indian+Restaurant&find_loc=Los+Angeles%2C+CA

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Apropos (well not really, but I didn’t want to start a new thread) :

http://io9.com/5893615/absolutely-mindblowing-video-shot-from-the-space-shuttle-during-launch

I don’t know about “absolutely mind blowing,” but certainly awe-inspiring.

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> I’m moving soon

Shit. I was planning a trip to Denver and was going to look you up. Where are you off to?

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TO MAKE ME JEALOUS.

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Currently enjoying DWDW 2 about Robert’s Rebellion.

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*excuse

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That is so awesome. I’ve been to Houston twice visiting friends, and one of them works at Johnson. So I, too, have no exceuse for not visiting.

You’re also a great photographer, btw.

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Points from the podcast:

1. The show not making it very clear that Jon never betrayed or intended to betray the Night’s Watch: that was true for me. I was *pretty* sure of it, but certainly had my moments of doubt.

2. Talisa being basically invented in order to be slaughtered: Maybe you’re right that that’s why she was invented, but in practice she contributed much more than that. Robb and Talisa’s early conversations about the cost of the war, and his falling in love with her and eventually choosing love over duty, both added depth to his character. I was remembering Robb telling Bran to not look away from the execution of the deserter in the beginning of season 1, and Talisa called that back by forcing Robb not to look away from the war casualties.

3. The viewers expecting the Starks to make a comeback because of their last appeal to Walder Frey: yes, growing up on a diet of Hollywood endings, I was absolutely taken in, and I’m sure that’s also exactly what the producers wanted for numerous reasons, of which I’ll just point out two. First, going all the way back to season 1, they put Ned Stark on the cover of the DVD and also reissued the first novel with him on the cover. Because of that, even after he was killed, I thought, “The Starks are the ones we’re supposed to root for, so they’ll eventually win.”

Another contributing factor is the fact that in the opening titles, the violins join in playing the main theme just as Winterfell is shown. The violins in an orchestra often represent the hero. Even when they changed the order in which the houses were shown, they always lined up Winterfell with the violin entrance when they could easily have used that moment to highlight a different house. Now that I’m thinking about it, they may finally have done that this season, but Winterfell was highlighted enough (I’m pretty sure it was at least the twenty episodes of season 1 and 2) that it was certainly intended to have an unconscious impact on the viewer, and it did on me.

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This podcast is extraordinarily well done. Go listen now.

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Very nice of you/them to indicate where the book spoilers start.

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Freeze the video at just the right moment and you get a triple-thumbs-up from Ian and Gromit.

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> even “meh” Red Dwarf fares better than the best episode of Two and a Half Men.

Yes. But “meh” rainbow test pattern also fares better than TaaHM.

I’m taking a breather having listened to nearly the first half of the Ouroboros one.

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I want to read that. No I don’t. Yes I do. No I don’t.

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Hooray! Hooray! It’s Danny’s special day!

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So what did you do when you got to “Fun, fun, fun”?

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I missed P2P’s RD IX fan trailer! *off to YouTube

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My gut reaction is, no. Even if it were an episode such as Si describes, I’d be afraid of it feeling gimmicky or contrived a la Duane and Ace in “Emohawk” (especially since we already had that storyline with “Fathers and Suns”). If Doug could avoid that, and give Holly some solid woofers, then I guess I’d be willing to give that idea a chance – but Doug would be setting himself one tough writing assignment.

As for bringing back the character full-time, I agree with Stephen and Ridley that it wouldn’t work. Having said that, if an episode contains good jokes and/or character development, I’ll probably like it at least partially.

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It’s very effective; so much so that it gave me nightmares as a kid.

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Rosie from the IntroCast doesn’t like Doctor Who.

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Aw. We’re a nice bunch. There’s a lot of fan love here, not just for Red Dwarf, and especially when one whose work touched our lives has just passed on. For example, I wore my Where the Wild Things Are shirt last week in memory of James Gandolfini.

I also regularly Google people and things that others talk about on G&T that I’ve never heard of. :)

> Shame he only made on contribution to Star Trek TOS. The Enemy Within is brilliant.

Yes! One of my favorite TOS episodes, actually.

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Even having nothing to do with this game, I’m verily enjoying this thread.

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Cheers Ben, we’ll be in touch.

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Why not. Congratulations, cunts. ;)

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Anyone who has ever sat down and checked updates on G&T before checking their own e-mail, is the site’s cunt. I qualify. Who else does?

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Welcome Tanya! Now we have three Jonathans and two Tanyas. Intriguingly, we also have two monkeys.

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Well… okay. Googling ‘iain lee cunt’ will steer you in the right direction.

I’d recommend not posting in that thread, though, since bygones are bygones now.

(My God, that thread is 5 years old!)

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It’s our Cappsy’s birthday. Show him the love, people.

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Since he’s not a time lord, I think he’ll have to settle for the lite version:

Symes And Relative Dimension In Near-Earth Space

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> If/when I schedule the thing you’re more than welcome to join us!

Excellent!

> Do you have my email address?

No.

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That sounds excellent. I have relatives in Kentucky, so maybe I’ll make a trip out of it sometime. :)

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Knightmarathon? Count me in.

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Hi. Welcome. :)

> I’m looking for the Red Dwarf discussion which I assume there must be

I like that show.

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My Okie side of the family loves that movie, and many of them can quote it as easily as I can quote Red Dwarf lines. The leg lamp inspired a running gag at our Christmas parties, in which mannequin legs got passed to a different man each year in the Dirty Santa game. They finally ended up as the bumpers for Uncle Mike’s boat.

Oh, the shenanigans we got up to in the rollicking Reagan years!

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> Butter-pat is a substance that the swedish doesn’t have a word for

Until now, I never knew butter-pat was a different substance from butter. In American usage, a pat is the small, square piece of butter you get when you slice off the edge of a stick of butter, so I thought that’s what the line referred to.

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> PEACE IN OUR TIME

LEE’S IN OUR SYMES

> Come up and see me some Syme.

Ben, he already has! Driven through Pasadena on the 210 lately?

https://plus.google.com/109070721920307211940/photos?hl=en&socfid=web:lu:kp:placepageimage&socpid=1#photos/at/109070721920307211940

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> And my only edge is being raised lower-class hillbilly … good for cussing, maybe not for spelling.

Whereas I was brought up to be a pretentious wuss who believed that people who cussed were bad people. As a kid I once asked my aunt why those guys playing ping-pong kept saying “bullcrap.” Told that it’s a swear word, I started crying because I had said it out loud!

If I could talk to ten-year-old me, I would shake her by the shoulders and say, quit being such a goodie-goodie twat.

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>>MORE INFO PLZ!

>WHAT HE SAID!

WHAT THEY SAID!

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Why is Z fighting with S for possesion of CUNT? Is CUNTZ a word now?

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> Twix isn’t hollow here either, it’s the same theory as a Tim-tam explosion – you suck the tea through the biscuit section.

Jo has just made my tea breaks 200 times better.

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