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Hulu never heard of the Muppets prior to the new flim.
Okay, but that's so worth watching, too. It's no Muppet Treasure Island, but I :heart: Jason Segel.


Okay, it's also no Muppets Take Manhattan or Muppet Christmas Carol, but I think it says a lot when I believe my fifth favorite Muppet movie is still pretty damn awesome.
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I absolutely loved The Muppets. Jason Segel was the muppet of a man that they needed.

I remember watching the behind the scenes stuff for Forgetting Sarah Marshall being amazed at his talent. That was a great movie. I was surprised to hear in interviews that when he tried to write the silliest dream for his young male protagonist to have he took from his own life. In his early twenties he was an amateur puppet maker and wrote a puppet rock opera. He put that in as a place holder but people loved it. He said he never dreamed that he would have actually been able to make it a reality.

It was that work that let others know of his talent and passion for puppets. He was later approached to join with the Muppets and he was absolutely thrilled. He worked his butt off on that script. In a later interview I hear him relate that when it came time for the first round table reading with the actors he was delighted that they came with their puppets in hand. When Kermit the frog read the first of the lines that he had written he burst into tears and cried for a good fifteen minutes. Like big giant man sobbing. He said all the other looked at each other like, "Woah, what have we gotten ourselves into." :giggle:

He also managed to live the ultimate fan boy fantasy. He got to write his alter ego into Whistling Walter, and will get to live as a Muppet forever. That is some serious reverse Pinocchio/Peter Pan stuff right there. I absolutely loved it.

Oh, and for those HIMYM fans. Eighties Robot was a prop Jason made for that show and included in the film. It was featured in Robin Sparkle's Canadian kids show.
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Old 04-30-2012, 01:07 AM
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Oh, yeah, dude. When Eighties Robot came on screen in the Muppets, I was all like, "squee! Eighties Robot!" :headasplode:

Pretty sure he made is HIMYM debut in Let's Go To The Mall, but chronologically I don't know if that came before or after the math-space-porno thingie with Glitter.
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Old 05-27-2012, 01:06 PM
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These are fucking great.

Just archive-binged all 14 of them.
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The sign in to your account web page? My, my candy flipping has taken it's toll, young lady.


Really, what's it all about?
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Old 05-27-2012, 08:17 PM
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Oh damn, I was logged in when I posted it and it went right to the page. It's "Smart Laughs" from TED Talks.
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I am logged in and it goes right to the page for me.
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I don't have a netflix log in, but chunks does. So I don't get to see the flix.
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I just finished watching It, the movie that made Clara Bow a star and "It Girl" an idiom still in use today. It's silent but deadly, fast-paced, funny and sweet without being treacly. Clara is genuinely irresistible. Her acting is natural and joyous with none of that overwrought mugging that makes so many silent pictures look goofy in hindsight.

Also heads up for a very young and absurdly good-looking Gary Cooper in a bit part as a reporter.
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"Bramwell" (on Netflix). British series about a young woman who becomes a doctor in Victorian London and opens a clinic slums. (According to comments over at IMDb, however, the fourth, and final, season is a mess.)
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I'm watching this documentary about Absinthe right now and it's awesome. There's tons of history, vintage films, photographs, famous paintings, advertising, both pro and con. You see where the farmers grow the herbs and dry them, and where they turn them into absinthe in some killer vintage copper small batch distilling machines.

Most of it is in French with English subtitles because of the interviews with French authors, producers and museum curators, but a couple of American experts represent, including one guy who seems all scholarly and soft-spoken but you can tell he totally knows how to party. I swear he looks like his heart is breaking when talks about the prohibition.

You'd better have a bottle handy when you watch it, though, because I am jonesing like Toulouse-Lautrec up in this bitch.
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Default Re: It's pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of it. Also it's on Netflix Inst

Hulu has a documentary up called Wordplay, with a focus on how the New York Times crossword came to be, and it also follows the fortunes of a few favorites and past winners in the annual crossword solving competition that Will Shortz (NYT crossword editor) set up.
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Default Re: It's pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of it. Also it's on Netflix Inst

It's not obsucre, you've probably heard of it but it's also on Netflix Instant. I just finished my run through How I Met Your Mother. I'd somehow already seen most of them via syndication. But now I'm pretty sure I'm almost totally caught up with the series, having caught what I guess is at least half of the most recent season.

Ensign Steve is totally right. Ted is totally a girl analog. I have only two other take aways: Neil Patrick Harris is completely awesome. Marshall is the most decent character. Also, how many Whedon alumnus can you fit into this show? NOT ENOUGH.

The other thing I'm watching, also not obscure and you may have heard of: Supernatural. But I'm not going to bore nobody by going on about how much fun it is or how it's this nexus of things I enjoy.

But now that I'm all run out of HIMYM, I'm debating what to find next. :boythink:
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The other thing I'm watching, also not obscure and you may have heard of: Supernatural. But I'm not going to bore nobody by going on about how much fun it is or how it's this nexus of things I enjoy.
I've just started watching Supernatural, Bort. I'm halfway through season 2 at the moment.

I'm liking it a lot.

And those boys are very easy on the eyes.
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I really love that show, although if you'll take the common advice you'll pretty much stop after Season 5. I might have done that had it not already been Season 6 when I discovered it. The thing that becomes more obvious to me on rewatch is that while I prefer Dean as a character I'm much more like Sam. It's a youngest child thing, I think.
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I've got 7 seasons on USB sticks. I'll probably end up watching them all. It's a shame but it happens to a lot of series that they gradually become poor after a few seasons.
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Was season 5 when the Heaven/Hell story arc began? If so that's when I really started to follow Supernatural. Up until this story arc it seems to just be a monster hunt of the week show and I didn't find that interesting.
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The big Heaven vs Hell super no holds barred apocalypse has roots leading all the way back to season 3. But at the time season 5 was being filmed, no paperwork had been signed for subsequent seasons - at least, not until the time s5e15 (or so). Thus the finale was originally written with the series ending, but reworked when new seasons were signed.
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Yeah, I don't actually watch that show but other people in the house do and every once in a while I overhear some dialog like about lucifer and archangels, and I'm like, are you watching that bible show again? LOOOL!
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Season 5 wraps up the angels and armageddon arc. At the end of Season 5 their creator and show-runner left. It has struggled to find its way after that. As good as that story arc was, I think it might help if they dialed back on that a bit and went back to more standalones. There's a new show-runner for the new season and he was an original writer on the show, so maybe it will get its mojo back.
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We're watching Citizen Ruth tonight, because he'd never seen it and it's on the Netflix Instant. My most favorite and hilarious movie about abortion. :aww:
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I don't know what I had in my history that prompted Netflix to recommend House of Pleasures to me (no, seriously), but I saw the synopsis and I was like hell yeah I'll watch that. It's a French movie about a bunch of women that work in a brothel around 1900, and it was pretty damn good. :thumbup:

The music is all weird, though. At first I thought it was notable that they used American music and it was all in English, but then waaaay too long into the movie I realized that it was rock and roll music specifically and it was completely anachronistic. Fucking French, I swear.
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OMG I just added that to my queue like two days ago! I found it browsing the foreign films, though. Netflix didn't catch on to my many and varied perversions and suggest it to me.
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I don't know what I had in my history that prompted Netflix to recommend House of Pleasures to me (no, seriously), but I saw the synopsis and I was like hell yeah I'll watch that. It's a French movie about a bunch of women that work in a brothel around 1900, and it was pretty damn good. :thumbup:

The music is all weird, though. At first I thought it was notable that they used American music and it was all in English, but then waaaay too long into the movie I realized that it was rock and roll music specifically and it was completely anachronistic. Fucking French, I swear.
A lot of French rock bands sing in English. I can't remember exactly why, perhaps a rebellion thing, but one band I like was considered to have taken a risk by having one song on an album in French.
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No, I mean it was like American music like Moody Blues and stuff. It just took me that far into the movie to figure out that it wasn't the geography that made it sound so inappropriate to me.
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