The "Ripping Off The Best Show" Thread

[Hugman 3.0]

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.

[NJL]

I recently saw the movie Step Brothers.  Did anyone else find the Billy Joel cover band to be treading on familiar territory?

[adamfromohio]

I laughed at the movie Ghostbusters and I also laughed at The Best Show.



Conspiracy?

[dcgut]

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.

[tonyh]

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"

[NJL]

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

[samir]

The first episode of that new Norm McDonald show had a segment called WAIT, WHAT.

[buffcoat]

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

Probably even more likely considering Walsh and Sanz are both close and longtime personal friends of Tom (as opposed to Friends of Tom).

[Hugman 3.0]

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.

[Hugman 3.0]

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.

[JonFromMaplewood]

Today I heard Noam Chomsky refer to Laurent Gbagbo as a munch.

[daveB from Oakland]

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!!!"

[Steve in North Hollywood]

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?

[adamfromohio]

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.

[Rhymes with Don Draper]

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.