The "Ripping Off The Best Show" Thread

[JuiceOne]

This Hour Has 22 Minutes was funny 20 years ago when it had CODCO people on it.

[dave from knoxville]

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.

[amiright??]

Dave, I am glad that you had the EXACT same response I did.

[Topher]

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.

[Crusherkc]

George Harrison - Wah-Wah

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419256/

[amiright??]

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...

[JuiceOne]

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.

[fonpr]

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.

[Mr. Colin]

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.

[buffcoat]

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.

[Sashamak]

What are the chances that most if not all of the Entourage movie as envisioned on  last night's show is the actual movie?

[BadGuyZero]

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.

[JackB]

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.

[Bryan]

This article 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.

[Topher]

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!"