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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Hugman 3.0 on April 12, 2011, 06:51:23 PM
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Don't you all think it's time we started a thread to post our paranoid pop culture watchdogging?
I'll start.During the Frankenstein sketch on snl last week, Frank banging around with the wrench while people were talking was lifted right off of everyone's favorite handyman, Carl.
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I recently saw the movie Step Brothers. Did anyone else find the Billy Joel cover band to be treading on familiar territory?
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I laughed at the movie Ghostbusters and I also laughed at The Best Show.
Conspiracy?
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I did a couple episodes of a podcast that included some bits that I wrote. I was worried they would seem too best show-ish so I consciously tried to steer away from that. Guess what? Still seemed like a rip off too me. I suppose if you listen to something so often for so long it starts to sink in.
I no longer podcast.
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There's a commercial I have seen a few times that seems like a Best Show rip-off. It is for an insurance company. A bunch of agents are standing around a contraption that is, if I remember correctly, a cross between a car, a house and a boat (and half party machine). They are discussing whether or not they could insure it and one of the agents asks "is this thing even legal?"
The response is: "define legal"
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In defense of my 'conspiracy' I suggest you listen to 12/04/01. Danny Phipps of the Joel cover band Glass Houses calls in at about 1:26, he even explicitly references a fellow BJ cover band that only plays his music form the 90s.
80's Billy Joel Doo Wop Sucks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAX8x2qOxM#)
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The first episode of that new Norm McDonald show had a segment called WAIT, WHAT.
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In defense of my 'conspiracy' I suggest you listen to 12/04/01. Danny Phipps of the Joel cover band Glass Houses calls in at about 1:26, he even explicitly references a fellow BJ cover band that only plays his music form the 90s.
80's Billy Joel Doo Wop Sucks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAX8x2qOxM#)
Probably even more likely considering Walsh and Sanz are both close and longtime personal friends of Tom (as opposed to Friends of Tom).
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My intention is for this to be a place to post all suspicions, legitimate or otherwise, and was not an attempt to mock anyone in particular. I do like to make fun of us in general though, because face it, we are immense dorks.
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There are two types of Best Show Nerds: Gilberts and Lewises. When someone screams "NERRRRRDS!" at us, the Lewises ask, "Where are they?" To which the Gilberts reply, "I think he means us."
I'm a Gilbert.
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Today I heard Noam Chomsky refer to Laurent Gbagbo as a munch.
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That reminds me of the famous debate in which William F. Buckley told Chomsky, "if you act up on this show I'll punch you in the mouth ... you fart!!!"
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I recently saw the movie Step Brothers. Did anyone else find the Billy Joel cover band to be treading on familiar territory?
Another joke that was used in Step Brothers was the katana sword with Randy Jackson's autograph on it, much like the White Album signed by Peter Benchley. But since Tom goes so far back with the UCB crew, I imagine he and Adam McKay are probably in contact once in a while too. Maybe McKay asked to borrow the joke?
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I once saw an episode of Hee Haw where a guy got a BANANA pie thrown in his face, and then the other night I was at a Harlem Globetrotters game (they won, by the way) and someone got a WHIPPED CREAM pie thrown in their face. I fucking hate plagiarism.
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Probably everyone on this forum including me has inconspicuously ripped-off The Best Show once or twice since we each started listening to the show.
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Probably everyone on this forum including me has inconspicuously ripped-off The Best Show once or twice since we each started listening to the show.
I haven't. You munch.
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I sure have. All the Best Show colloquialisms have worked their way into my personal vernacular. Sick.
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The other day on Facebook one of my friends said something about Donald Trump being something of a creep so I "borrowed" Tom's line about how Donald Trump was so dumb he managed to lose money on casinos. I felt a little bad about stealing a line w/o acknowledging the source, but then this morning he same friend stole my line and I was annoyed that I didn't get credit for a line I didn't come up with in the first place.
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The other day on Facebook one of my friends said something about Donald Trump being something of a creep so I "borrowed" Tom's line about how Donald Trump was so dumb he managed to lose money on casinos. I felt a little bad about stealing a line w/o acknowledging the source, but then this morning he same friend stole my line and I was annoyed that I didn't get credit for a line I didn't come up with in the first place.
I did the exact same thing. I didn't use the line, but rather the fact, which I'd say is up for grabs.
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In his Celebrity Apprentice recap from this week, Tom stole my joke about Trump Jr. looking like an American Psycho. I guess he's been eavesdropping on my wife and I as we sit on the couch and watch that wonderful television program.
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This whole thread is just a ripoff of other threads from a while back.
Clearly you saw them and then tried to pass the idea off as your own.
How dare you...
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This whole thread is just a ripoff of other threads from a while back.
Clearly you saw them and then tried to pass the idea off as your own.
How dare you...
suck fudge (another one of mine).
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On this week's Comedy Death Ray Radio Tim Heidecker and Neil Hamburger did a whole bit about Bernie Taupin's original versions of his Elton John songs. Pretty blatant, that one, but it was still pretty funny.
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On this week's Comedy Death Ray Radio Tim Heidecker and Neil Hamburger did a whole bit about Bernie Taupin's original versions of his Elton John songs. Pretty blatant, that one, but it was still pretty funny.
Yes blatant, yes funny. The whole idea of "Neil Hamburger" "portraying" "Bernie Taupin" is like a 1000-layer cake of weird meta-hilarity. I don't know what a 1000-layer cake is, but that's the metaphor I'm going with.
That CDR episode also featured sorta sideways references to the notorious Billy Bob Thonton CBC interview, and it also featured Kevin Smith mockery. Those things are also sorta-kinda vaguely Best Show territory.
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Just saw this posted on Spinner about the Black Lips (a Best Show fave, obvs). The subject of the piece loosely has a BS relation, but one line up front in the piece really caught my eye...
Black Lips Say They're 'GG Allin Light,' Credit Him for Bodily-Fluid-Filled Shows
Throwback garage rockers Black Lips decided to class it up a bit on their new album, 'Arabia Mountain,' and work with producer Mark Ronson. But the mirth and mayhem that usually surrounds the band may have infected the superstar producer -- literally.
http://www.spinner.com/2011/06/08/black-lips-arabia-mountain/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Spinner+%28Spinner.com%29 (http://www.spinner.com/2011/06/08/black-lips-arabia-mountain/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Spinner+%28Spinner.com%29)
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Anyone catch that episode of 30 Rock (not sure what season, but fairly recent) where Alec Baldwin is addressing the crew, mentioning Philly. Tina Fey stands up and says something very PBR... "Philly Ruuules!" etc. Cut back to Alec Baldwin and something zooms past him. Alec Baldwin: "Did you just whip a battery at me?"
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Anyone catch that episode of 30 Rock (not sure what season, but fairly recent) where Alec Baldwin is addressing the crew, mentioning Philly. Tina Fey stands up and says something very PBR... "Philly Ruuules!" etc. Cut back to Alec Baldwin and something zooms past him. Alec Baldwin: "Did you just whip a battery at me?"
Tina Fey's from Philly (Upper Darby, to be exact, which is right next to Philly. And it's probably more Philly than Philly -- there are a lot of expats like myself in the city proper yet UD has none) so I think that might explain that.
This isn't connected, but The Best Show is the only national media outlet that has ever tackled the weirdness that is life in Philly. Even better, TBS actually shows a love of Philly (through PBR and Tom's love of the city, and that a ton of callers/fans are from Philly). It's Always Funny does to an extent (I haven't watched too much) but they've never done the accent.
However, we're innundated non-stop with movies (and about 20% of every SNL sketch) about Boston that are supposedly filled with charming dockworker types that have fun accents! I lived in Boston (Somerville, but still) for three years and met absolutely zero people in that city who spoke like that.
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Tina Fey's from Philly (Upper Darby, to be exact, which is right next to Philly. And it's probably more Philly than Philly -- there are a lot of expats like myself in the city proper yet UD has none) so I think that might explain that.
This isn't connected, but The Best Show is the only national media outlet that has ever tackled the weirdness that is life in Philly. Even better, TBS actually shows a love of Philly (through PBR and Tom's love of the city, and that a ton of callers/fans are from Philly). It's Always Funny does to an extent (I haven't watched too much) but they've never done the accent.
However, we're innundated non-stop with movies (and about 20% of every SNL sketch) about Boston that are supposedly filled with charming dockworker types that have fun accents! I lived in Boston (Somerville, but still) for three years and met absolutely zero people in that city who spoke like that.
Yes. I agree. But the battery whipping ? didnt the 30 rock writers donate last marathon?
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This isn't connected, but The Best Show is the only national media outlet that has ever tackled the weirdness that is life in Philly. Even better, TBS actually shows a love of Philly (through PBR and Tom's love of the city, and that a ton of callers/fans are from Philly). It's Always Funny does to an extent (I haven't watched too much) but they've never done the accent.
However, we're innundated non-stop with movies (and about 20% of every SNL sketch) about Boston that are supposedly filled with charming dockworker types that have fun accents! I lived in Boston (Somerville, but still) for three years and met absolutely zero people in that city who spoke like that.
You just don't hang around the docks enough.
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I have "ripped off" or "quoted" or referenced the best show in lyrics in the past. I wrote a christmas song last year that contains this line..
"back in the reindeers' stable, which was now renamed the hut"
You can listen to the song here
http://soundcloud.com/anthonymackey/the-christmas-band (http://soundcloud.com/anthonymackey/the-christmas-band)
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Tina Fey's from Philly (Upper Darby, to be exact, which is right next to Philly. And it's probably more Philly than Philly -- there are a lot of expats like myself in the city proper yet UD has none) so I think that might explain that.
This isn't connected, but The Best Show is the only national media outlet that has ever tackled the weirdness that is life in Philly. Even better, TBS actually shows a love of Philly (through PBR and Tom's love of the city, and that a ton of callers/fans are from Philly). It's Always Funny does to an extent (I haven't watched too much) but they've never done the accent.
However, we're innundated non-stop with movies (and about 20% of every SNL sketch) about Boston that are supposedly filled with charming dockworker types that have fun accents! I lived in Boston (Somerville, but still) for three years and met absolutely zero people in that city who spoke like that.
Yes. I agree. But the battery whipping ? didnt the 30 rock writers donate last marathon?
As a resident of this glorious city, I thought I should clarify: TBS and 30Rock were simply mirroring back the unfortunate reality of Philadelphia sports fans - they really do throw batteries at people: http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/sports/local_sports/041610-worst-philly-sports-fans-moments (http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/sports/local_sports/041610-worst-philly-sports-fans-moments)
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On the last episode of Children's Hospital someone said "Jerry from Ben & Jerry's."
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The Investigation Discovery Network is going to start airing a show that sounds an awful lot like Shout Network series Crime Scene Cleaners. It's called True Grime: Crime Scene Clean-up.
http://investigation.discovery.com/tv/true-grime/#icpgn=idnavshtg (http://investigation.discovery.com/tv/true-grime/#icpgn=idnavshtg)
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"No Republican has ever won the White House without winning Ohio. Asked if Romney could manage it, political director Rich Beeson retorted: “If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, every day would be Christmas.”
from: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/opinion/collins-ohio-gets-the-love.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/opinion/collins-ohio-gets-the-love.html)
Rich Beeson kind of sounds like it could be a Newbridgean name, doesn't it?
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Synchronicity--I'm reading that Stephen King book about time travel and the JFK assassination (I don't particularly recommend it; not that good), and that phrase appears in there as well. It ain't the same without "helluva" though.
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There are lots of "Landing on Water" references in Knocked Up. I think a guy in that movie even wears an iron-on "Landing on Water" shirt. This seems like a stretch, but at this period in time, Tom made fun of Landing on Water a lot. No, I'm not going to get screen shots.
Also, I always felt the use of "Heat of the Moment" in 40 Year Old Virgin wouldn't have happened without Christina the Yes Fan's defense of Yes and Tom's subsequent revivification of Asia.
Also, Big Dipper is coming out with a new album. They owe their reuniting to Tom's deciding to reunite them and actually doing it on-air. They should ask Tom's permission before recording new material.
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This week, on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, a character does a drunken strip tease while Bad Companying someone. I think my wife was confused about why I found it so funny.
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Seems like a Zachary Brimstead impression at 40:10 on this week's Comedy Bang! Bang! ("184 Aziz Ansari, Bob Odenkirk, Neil Campbell, Mike Hanford, James Adomian") at the end of a segment with Scott Aukerman's political satire singing troupe.
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Seems like a Zachary Brimstead impression at 40:10 on this week's Comedy Bang! Bang! ("184 Aziz Ansari, Bob Odenkirk, Neil Campbell, Mike Hanford, James Adomian") at the end of a segment with Scott Aukerman's political satire singing troupe.
Speaking of Zachary Brimstead rip-offs (rips-off?), this Paul Robeson dude sure sounds...familiar. I can only assume he's wearing a cumberbund underneath that shirt.
Paul Robeson - Ol' Man River (Showboat - 1936) J.Kern O. Hammerstein II (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-s#)
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I recently saw the movie Step Brothers. Did anyone else find the Billy Joel cover band to be treading on familiar territory?
Another joke that was used in Step Brothers was the katana sword with Randy Jackson's autograph on it, much like the White Album signed by Peter Benchley. But since Tom goes so far back with the UCB crew, I imagine he and Adam McKay are probably in contact once in a while too. Maybe McKay asked to borrow the joke?
Re: this: the guitar signed by Kid Rock and Paul Ryan.
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In the latest episode of Comedy Bang Bang, PFT is back as Garry Marshall character. He starts to describe his wild youth as a member of a gang. Sounds awfully familiar to the roots of a guy round these parts, no?
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The Makerbot 3D printer obviously rips off an idea from the 2002 show featured in the latest Best Show Gems, where the guy from Mother 13 is working on a way to print furniture on your computer printer.
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The Makerbot 3D printer obviously rips off an idea from the 2002 show featured in the latest Best Show Gems, where the guy from Mother 13 is working on a way to print furniture on your computer printer.
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Maybe we should change the name of this to the "Best Show Prophecy Thread"!!
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Not sure about other people ripping off The Best Show but i have heard similar bits that Tom does from other shows. The only one i can think of off the top of my head is the Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park segment Tom did.
The Tom hanging up on people before they get to finish is probably not Tom ripping off other people but just a classic standard thing ive heard on many other radio shows.
The "get off my phone" thing is just more of an homage too.
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What is the Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park segment?
And yes, I will not claim to have invented the idea of hanging up on people.
Tom.
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What is the Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park segment?
And yes, I will not claim to have invented the idea of hanging up on people.
Tom.
Not really a bit or anything just you guys discussing it i think you even had the woman that starred in it on the show too.
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the woman
Lisa Jane!
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And yes, I will not claim to have invented the idea of hanging up on people.
Tom.
Is this up for grabs, Tom?
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There was an incredible 'HOW DARE YOU' by one of the bad guys in the movie 'Lincoln' by Steven Spielberg. Yet another blatant rip-off of TBS by Pulitzer Prize winner Mr. Tony Kushner.
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Of course I am the one millionth person to use "how dare you". But to play the high culture/low culture game - as if someone who does a dopey radio show could ever come up with something worthy of a guy who wins awards - is not a nice sentiment.
Tom.
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And yes, I will not claim to have invented the idea of hanging up on people.
Tom.
Is this up for grabs, Tom?
I hung up on Barbara Lynne DeLoache in 1963 when I was 5 (she told me she was going to kiss me at school the next day. GROSS.)
Do you guys think anyone ever hung up on anyone before that? Maybe I was a trend-setter!!!
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Sorry Tom, I was being dumb and failed at trying to be funny. That particular moment reminded me of your show and brought a little personal comic relief to all the heavy courtroom stuff. Your show is good medicine and far from being dopey.
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And yes, I will not claim to have invented the idea of hanging up on people.
Tom.
Is this up for grabs, Tom?
I hung up on Barbara Lynne DeLoache in 1963 when I was 5 (she told me she was going to kiss me at school the next day. GROSS.)
Do you guys think anyone ever hung up on anyone before that? Maybe I was a trend-setter!!!
Phone-calls from girls at 5 years old. Quite the heart-throb we got over here.
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I just watched an episode of Up All Night where Will Arnett told someone to "Roll With It" like Steve Winwood.
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I'm a little late on this, I was hoping to call into the Best Show with it, but I think this is the biggest rip off in the entire thread. I present to you, from the Canadian sketch show This Hour Has 22 Minutes, from their Christmas special, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuSAbLBiho (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuSAbLBiho) A Storage Wars Christmas. Which has Barry Weiss himself buying Santa's sleigh, sound familiar?
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I'm a little late on this, I was hoping to call into the Best Show with it, but I think this is the biggest rip off in the entire thread. I present to you, from the Canadian sketch show This Hour Has 22 Minutes, from their Christmas special, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuSAbLBiho (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuSAbLBiho) A Storage Wars Christmas. Which has Barry Weiss himself buying Santa's sleigh, sound familiar?
The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
Sorry about that.
:/
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Covering their tracks.
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Off topic, but can anyone explain what the Scharpling - Fogelnest dust-up is about? Following TS on Twitter but don't know the back story....thanks in advance!
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What Scharpling/Fogelnest dust-up?
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I'm a little late on this, I was hoping to call into the Best Show with it, but I think this is the biggest rip off in the entire thread. I present to you, from the Canadian sketch show This Hour Has 22 Minutes, from their Christmas special, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuSAbLBiho (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuSAbLBiho) A Storage Wars Christmas. Which has Barry Weiss himself buying Santa's sleigh, sound familiar?
The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
Sorry about that.
:/
Damn. I can't find a reasonable substitute either.
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The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
Sorry about that.
:/
I assure you, you're not missing anything. This Hour Has 22 Minutes is very occasionally funny, but that sketch was pretty rough. TBSOWFMU ripoff or not, that stunk.
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What Scharpling/Fogelnest dust-up?
Sorry, that was imprecise, it's more like he's making references to Fogelnest (who I never heard of except he profiled TS and Jon Wurster in Spin?) on Twitter like calling him out and it sounds like bad blood.
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What Scharpling/Fogelnest dust-up?
Sorry, that was imprecise, it's more like he's making references to Fogelnest (who I never heard of except he profiled TS and Jon Wurster in Spin?) on Twitter like calling him out and it sounds like bad blood.
I am 97.4% sure they are joking. The lines are too good otherwise. Scharpling: "Bobby Slayton might be "the pit bull of comedy" but @jakefogelnest is the Pitbull of comedy. "
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I know Dave's the math guy here, but I'd even put that number up at 100%. Tom and Jake do that kinda stuff on Twitter all the time, you probably just don't usually see it because you're not following both of them. They're pals.
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We are friends. I love Jake. In all seriousness he's one of my favorite people and a truly hilarious guy who I also hold a lot of admiration for as a person.
Please don't tell him I wrote this or I'll never hear the end of it.
Tom.
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Not sure about other people ripping off The Best Show but i have heard similar bits that Tom does from other shows. The only one i can think of off the top of my head is the Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park segment Tom did.
The Tom hanging up on people before they get to finish is probably not Tom ripping off other people but just a classic standard thing ive heard on many other radio shows.
The "get off my phone" thing is just more of an homage too.
I guess i was wrong, being that their are just some tv shows, movies, etc., and things that are in the cultural lexicon at certain times, their are also some shows besides Tom's that go by the theory "everybody's already talking about it" so why give it more attention.
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Maybe its just me, but the announcer's voice and delivery in these Verizon FIOS commercials ("the moment where you GET IT"), sounds a lot like Tom.
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Isn't Jake on here from time to time?
He posts in lots of colors, and scrolling text, and calls everyone "pet"... at least I think that's him.
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On the new Comedy Bang Bang (194 Kristen Schaal, Neil Campbell, Pamela Murphy) Pamela Murphy's Nancy Cooper character from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, says that she only shops at Wawa.
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On the new Comedy Bang Bang (194 Kristen Schaal, Neil Campbell, Pamela Murphy) Pamela Murphy's Nancy Cooper character from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, says that she only shops at Wawa.
Wawa is a real store.
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On the new Comedy Bang Bang (194 Kristen Schaal, Neil Campbell, Pamela Murphy) Pamela Murphy's Nancy Cooper character from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, says that she only shops at Wawa.
Wawa is a real store.
I laughed out loud the first time I saw one. Was the store named by an infant?
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On the new Comedy Bang Bang (194 Kristen Schaal, Neil Campbell, Pamela Murphy) Pamela Murphy's Nancy Cooper character from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, says that she only shops at Wawa.
Wawa is a real store.
You're tellin' me.
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On the new Comedy Bang Bang (194 Kristen Schaal, Neil Campbell, Pamela Murphy) Pamela Murphy's Nancy Cooper character from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, says that she only shops at Wawa.
Wawa is a real store.
I laughed out loud the first time I saw one. Was the store named by an infant?
I think Curtis Mayfield started the chain.
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George Harrison - Wah-Wah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usGObvP42GM#ws)
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I think you by Porn at them.
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This Hour Has 22 Minutes was funny 20 years ago when it had CODCO people on it.
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Friend of Tom Bob Kerr is a current writer on the show. So unless you want him to come to your workplace and criticize the way you're dusting the shelves at the Wawa, be polite.
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Dave, I am glad that you had the EXACT same response I did.
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On the new Comedy Bang Bang (194 Kristen Schaal, Neil Campbell, Pamela Murphy) Pamela Murphy's Nancy Cooper character from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, says that she only shops at Wawa.
Wawa is a real store.
I laughed out loud the first time I saw one. Was the store named by an infant?
I think Curtis Mayfield started the chain.
It's actually owned by the pedal company.
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George Harrison - Wah-Wah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usGObvP42GM#ws)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419256/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419256/)
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On the first episode of the Jeff Garlin Show, Jeff and Larry talk about how much it would cost to get Larry to see/do something - like go see Eat Pray Love or listen to a record...
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Friend of Tom Bob Kerr is a current writer on the show. So unless you want him to come to your workplace and criticize the way you're dusting the shelves at the Wawa, be polite.
Bob can absolutely feel free to criticize what I do! That's what happens when you create something and release it to the public. I drew the Horse from Jock Squad card from last year's premium. Shit all over it! I was saying that as a Canadian, This Hour Has 22 Minutes has a comedic legacy from 20 years ago that simply can't be matched today.
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Came across this comment on Amazon regarding a Roscoe Mitchell record.
Posted on Mar 10, 2011 3:57:24 PM PST
A Dinosaur-Shaped Car says:
May you some day be less ape-eared.
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I have been catching up on last year's episodes of the That One Guy Who Hates Pod Tomcast, and it's . . . disturbing. At least one recycled Best Show topic per episode, including a long unfunny bit about barbershop. Ooh boy.
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Not Ripping of the Best Show, but The Office last week was a Friends of the Best Show festival: James Urbaniak, Chris Gethard, Eric Wareheim.
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What are the chances that most if not all of the Entourage movie as envisioned on last night's show is the actual movie?
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What are the chances that most if not all of the Entourage movie as envisioned on last night's show is the actual movie?
At some point a studio will take a popular film or TV franchise and allow it to be crowd-written by fans. Imagine if they made a "Friends" movie from plot points provided by fans of the show. That thing would shatter box office records even if it was a complete turkey [high likelihood of that happening]. People would PAY to see something just to see if any of their ideas made it in. Those who succeeded in that respect would likely return for repeat screenings with family and friends just so they could point out the moment they were responsible for being in the movie.
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I don't know if it was a ripoff, but there was an extremely Best Show-esque moment on The Office several years ago. Michael had an appointment at a high school where, 10 years previously, he had promised to provide full college scholarships to all graduating seniors (with the mistaken assumption that he would eventually get rich). Now he had to go in and tell them that no scholarships would be forthcoming.
Pam: Michael, this is a horrible, horrible thing that you have done!
Michael: Well...
He had that great, "We could debate it all day, but it's really neither here nor there" tone that Wurster has perfected.
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This article (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/05/what-if-we-never-run-out-of-oil/309294/) in the Atlantic details how the Japanese government ripped off the Best Show by naming a new research vessel "Chikyu".
The Chikyu, a floating barrage of superlatives, is the biggest, glitziest, most sophisticated research vessel ever constructed, and surely the only one with a landing pad for a 30-person helicopter. The central derrick houses an enormous floating drill with a six-mile “string” that has let the Chikyu delve deeper beneath the ocean floor than any other ship.
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Not sure if anyone else has gotten to the Arrested Development Season 4 episode where Argyle Austero (Tommy Tune!) says "I don't like it....I Love it!"
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Paul Scheer plays Vin Diesel's brother in the episode of Comedy Bang Bang recorded live in Austin. I think it was released just this morning. I like Scheer, but the voice he uses here is a little too close to the voice of Gary the Squirrel for me, down to the modulation of his voice (higher pitched and faster) when he gets overly excited about something.
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Paul Scheer plays Vin Diesel's brother in the episode of Comedy Bang Bang recorded live in Austin. I think it was released just this morning. I like Scheer, but the voice he uses here is a little too close to the voice of Gary the Squirrel for me, down to the modulation of his voice (higher pitched and faster) when he gets overly excited about something.
DFK ... I'm listening to the CBB episode now. Thought the same thing you did. The "Bill Diesel" character claims to have been bitten by a squirrel, or perhaps a "squirrel/snake". Maybe the squirrel bite contributed to the vocal similarity?
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Not sure if anyone else has gotten to the Arrested Development Season 4 episode where Argyle Austero (Tommy Tune!) says "I don't like it....I Love it!"
A few of Ron Howard's lines in the Lunar Excursion Module seemed Best Show-y to me. I may be too attuned to S&W's style though.