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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
BrunoMattei said:
VERY true! The similarities are pretty eerie when comparing RLM to Doug Walker's circus shit show. They both shoot everything inside a studio or a warehouse in RLM's case. RLM actually builds sets for Half in the Bag and the occasional set for Best of the Worst (mostly the Halloween episodes). The tape destruction bits are actually creative. The tape destruction bit at the end of this one episode outmatches EVERYTHING Doug and Rob Walker have done with their studio:

Doug and Rob are just incredibly exceptional. They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a studio and they just shoot in the studio without any sets with 1 camera... Which is what they could have continued to have done if they shot at their home. Or, they could have rented a studio for a day shoot with their little acting troupe and get all the sketches shot in a day.
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AKTUALLY....

This is mostly true, if you check out the rough (assumed) floorplans of both the RLM 'studio' and the Channel Awesome studio they're both pretty much the same size and make up. They're both set in industrial units on industrial estates which have a few offices, a small kitchenette, then the main "warehouse" portion with a fairly large reception and waiting area.

RLM has turned the main section into the viewing room which we all know and love, with likely one office still in use for actual paperwork reasons.

CA has done the exact same with the old reception/waiting area taking on a similar role, its where the big sofa and TV is located for them to watch films (usually on netflix now) and where Tamara shoots her never seen/just saw series.

The big difference is in their use of the rest of the area they have. CA, due to the collapse of Doug's other ideas is now mostly turned over to three small sets.

One is used by Walter Banasiak for his Best/Worst Top 5 videos (pretty much the only thing worth watching these days) one is used for the Orbit Report and the now seemingly dead Awesome Comics (not been shot since March on CA).

One of the other offices was also repurposed into a green room and seems to be the largest of the offices available.

Doug then shoots in one of the smaller offices to keep the acoustics down.

Jim Javroz also has a small corner turned over to his prop/set workshop with occasional "awesome builds" vids coming out.

RLM in comparison has the enormous Mr Plinkett's House (easily a 20x30 ft set).

The Re:View/specials red curtain spot (which gets reused and redressed for BOTW and other gag segments)

Then there's the Plinketto/Wheel of Misfortune storage room (of which we usually only see one or two corners of) with the remainder turned over to genuine equipment storage because they do still do the wedding videos/other film services side of things.

And then to top all that off they repurposed the old storefront/reception zone into the Lightning Fast VCR repair set.

RLM certainly has the larger studio (Large corrugated structure as seen on various external shots) but they also use the space (and their budget) far better than CA ever has done or sadly ever will.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:

Then there's the Plinketto/Wheel of Misfortune storage room (of which we usually only see one or two corners of) with the remainder turned over to genuine equipment storage because they do still do the wedding videos/other film services side of things.
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AKKKTUALLY...

Jay confirmed in a chat way back in 13 or 14 or so that they don't do wedding videos anymore. That they're 100% focused on RLM content.
 
BrunoMattei said:
AKKKTUALLY...

Jay confirmed in a chat way back in 13 or 14 or so that they don't do wedding videos anymore. That they're 100% focused on RLM content.
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AKKKKKKKKKKKKTUALLY.

Then they have a lot of equipment for how little of it they need to use.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Yeah, Rich is the bull.
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Plot twist. Thanks to jay's masterful camera work Rich Evans is simultaniously the bull, the cuck, and the fat chick being porked

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Man, I remember watching Brad Jones review Nail Gun Massacre back when I was in high school. Jesus.

Sad they didn't land on Vibration. Might have been a fun watch.

its a drama about a rocker who loses his hand(s?), becomes homeless and a drunk. There's also some things about 90s Dance music too.

Or


PS James is the worst
 
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Autistic screed while I watch the new BotW:
I wish Mike and Jay had more BotW banter because they’re the two with the best chemistry, but one is usually behind the camera. Actually in the new Plinketto they’re wearing the same thing (black v neck and jeans).
I used to watch ace of cake (show about cakes) and the main decorators in that remind me a lot of Mike and Jay, you may notice a visual resemblance:
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Duff (left) is the head of the enterprise and decorates off-set, wacky colored, schlocky cakes. Geoff (right) does artsy fartsy bullshit like making goethic cathedral cakes. They’re friends making cakes.

Another duo is Patrick McHale (Over the Garden Wall) and Pendleton Ward (adventure time).
Visuals:
Ward:
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McHale:
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They’re both friends who went to the same school who both had successful shows on Cartoon Network. In a talk McHale said “Ward is getting into 3D animation but he has always had a different standard from me for what’s ‘good’ and keeps sending me all these things me makes.” Which I took as “he makes ironically bad shit but I also enjoy it.”

So I guess my ramble is there’s some archetype of skinny white dude who loves artsy stuff with schlock loving fat white guy and they work together and are friends.
 
Mike's on his own to review the latest Maze Runner movie.

 
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