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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
If any of them had kids they would show up in videos, especially their warehouse hijinks. It would have definitely been revealed at some point either via slipup or something not removed in the background somewhere.

I really can't see Mike being as drunk as he is if he had a kid, I don't think Rich would let that happen just because of his own childhood.
 
mandatorylurk said:
If any of them had kids they would show up in videos, especially their warehouse hijinks. It would have definitely been revealed at some point either via slipup or something not removed in the background somewhere.

I really can't see Mike being as drunk as he is if he had a kid, I don't think Rich would let that happen just because of his own childhood.
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I dunno. They do seem intensely protective of their private lives (Mike getting embarrassing childhood images of Rich Evans on the Ellen show notwithstanding), and for the most part smart enough to know kids should really be kept away from the camera. Also, I'm fairly sure Jack has alluded to having kids -- one of their Wheel videos provoked the subject of how miserable it is to travel with children and Jack moaned a very knowing, "It's so true."
 
Mola Ram said:
I dunno. They do seem intensely protective of their private lives (Mike getting embarrassing childhood images of Rich Evans on the Ellen show notwithstanding), and for the most part smart enough to know kids should really be kept away from the camera. Also, I'm fairly sure Jack has alluded to having kids -- one of their Wheel videos provoked the subject of how miserable it is to travel with children and Jack moaned a very knowing, "It's so true."
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Jack's kids were featured in the 101 wacky kid jokes with kids video

 
Doctor of Autism said:
Believer is a rehash of the first exorcist movie without any of the things people liked about the original in favor of just doing the same song and dance of just making things bigger (two girls) and having the help of a returning character whose a jaded washout hated by their family. Then making the exorcism bigger by doubling the amount of exorcists to then have some sappy message about hope in the end even though the demon basically won.
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One immediate problem I had with The Exorcist: Believer is that it had very little build up. What makes the original Exorcist so effective is that it sets a level of normality that is eventually violated by the possession, but The Exorcist: Believer felt like it immediately started with jumpscares and camera tricks and generic spooky horseshit that made me roll my eyes. A generic modern horror in every sense of the word.
 
Mussolini’s Merkin said:
I thought it was pretty much confirmed that he and Jessie had a kid together?
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It’s possible. A lot of the RLM personal life tidbits I’m aware of happened on 4chan before the guys locked down their personal lives, which was before I became a fan. The son that supposedly belongs to Mike and Jessi may very well exist, but I don’t think the info is from a reliable source.

I can tell you with certainty that Jay isn’t Jewish though, lol.
 
Almighty Kevin said:
The Exorcist: Believer is that it had very little build up.
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The movie blew its load in the trailers. The only remotely interesting thing in the movie was the double posession. If that wasn't spoiled and they built it up more, I could buy it as a modern revamp/sequel. But it was just more of the same, clean, by the numbers popcorn thrill; a dissappointing excuse to eat a stick of butter over fluffy sugar.
 
Absurdist Laughter said:
The movie blew its load in the trailers. The only remotely interesting thing in the movie was the double posession. If that wasn't spoiled and they built it up more, I could buy it as a modern revamp/sequel. But it was just more of the same, clean, by the numbers popcorn thrill; a dissappointing excuse to eat a stick of butter over fluffy sugar.
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I also appreciated the Haitian Vodou angle, a faith that is typically depicted as antagonistic in cinema. But they didn't do shit with it, and it just felt like an empty pro-black virtue-signal.
 
Almighty Kevin said:
But they didn't do shit with it, and it just felt like an empty pro-black virtue-signal.
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Mate, I completely forgot about that story point, that's how little it is used. I mean, if the leant hard into it have a Loa and a demon posession would be interesting. Not to mention tickle at the religious horror angle the original did. You could go existential with it, are all religions bunk? Much potential but unfortunately in hands that wanted the paycheck more than to flex their creative muscles.
 
Almighty Kevin said:
I also appreciated the Haitian Vodou angle, a faith that is typically depicted as antagonistic in cinema. But they didn't do shit with it, and it just felt like an empty pro-black virtue-signal.
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The Exorcist, at its core, is a crisis of faith novel. Every Exorcist sequel, bar one, has failed to be even an interesting movie because they threw that angle out to focus on a flat horror story. The only exception was The Exorcist III, which was written by Blatty to be another crisis of faith novel and it’s better than the first Exorcist.
 
What if... Adam Sandler's films have all been the equivalent of underground railroads? A real life "To Be or Not To Be"?

Would it excuse Jack & Jill? Tough call.
 
McMitch said:
The Exorcist, at its core, is a crisis of faith novel. Every Exorcist sequel, bar one, has failed to be even an interesting movie because they threw that angle out to focus on a flat horror story. The only exception was The Exorcist III, which was written by Blatty to be another crisis of faith novel and it’s better than the first Exorcist.
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Agreed, the film would've been immediately more interesting if the "skeptic" father had died instead, and the mother who actually has faith in something is the one tangling with her possessed daughter. Instead they went with the boring played out arc of disbelief > direct experience with thing > belief.
 
Colin's not gay? What the fuck?

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Colin? Are you there? Can you type why you're not gay?
 
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