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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

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Question about the Star Trek gameshow episode -

Is the UK gameshow Countdown known/broadcast stateside? The countdown music they used is from that show, so I don't know if it was deliberate, or if the hackfrauds just found a thirty second timer they liked, which just happened to be that?
 
Puddleduck said:
Question about the Star Trek gameshow episode -

Is the UK gameshow Countdown known/broadcast stateside? The countdown music they used is from that show, so I don't know if it was deliberate, or if the hackfrauds just found a thirty second timer they liked, which just happened to be that?
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I only recognized the music because OSW Review uses it for their Ad Break Questionarium segment.
 
Preferred Penne said:
I only recognized the music because OSW Review uses it for their Ad Break Questionarium segment.
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They're the Irish wrestling guys, right? So they'd likely know of Countdown, and I guess if they're known in America, it might help spread "awareness" of the music.

For anyone who cares - in Countdown, two people have thirty seconds to make the longest words from randomly selected letters, and in the maths to use randomly selected small numbers to make a randomly generated number by adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing.
 
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Mola Ram said:
This has been showing up in my suggested videos lately too, but it's been on YouTube for years! I know it's from the "Western Ore Musical" but I have no idea why it's surfacing now.
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It's always been around. It's actually funny when I see RLM fans discovering all this old shit that's been there for a while. You've all seen The Grabowski's, right? Not willing to recheck the thread.

Did You Know? They did this because the genre they were given for the 48 hour film was "Western or Musical"

I miss when they did shit like this tbqh. But I guess it's way more profitable to just talk in front of the camera and do skits on half in the bag so I don't blame them.
 
Puddleduck said:
They're the Irish wrestling guys, right? So they'd likely know of Countdown, and I guess if they're known in America, it might help spread "awareness" of the music.

For anyone who cares - in Countdown, two people have thirty seconds to make the longest words from randomly selected letters, and in the maths to use randomly selected small numbers to make a randomly generated number by adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing.
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Countdown is real? I thought it was an IT Crowd gag.

Is the prize on Countdown actually a teapot like the IT Crowd stated?

 
Puddleduck said:
Question about the Star Trek gameshow episode -

Is the UK gameshow Countdown known/broadcast stateside? The countdown music they used is from that show, so I don't know if it was deliberate, or if the hackfrauds just found a thirty second timer they liked, which just happened to be that?
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I imagine nerds who constantly prattle on about UK "panel shows" know about it.

8 out of 10 cats was also briefly popular when compilations featuring their version of Vanna White started appearing on youtube.
 
X Pac Heat said:
It's always been around. It's actually funny when I see RLM fans discovering all this old shit that's been there for a while. You've all seen The Grabowski's, right? Not willing to recheck the thread.

Did You Know? They did this because the genre they were given for the 48 hour film was "Western or Musical"

I miss when they did shit like this tbqh. But I guess it's way more profitable to just talk in front of the camera and do skits on half in the bag so I don't blame them.
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The last time they did the 48 Hour Film contest was back in 2011 (Christ, that was a decade ago), and from the HitB they did on it, it sounded like they didn't much feel like doing it again. It's a lot of work to create a short film in that little time, and it's not like they're hurting for recognition these days. But they've got their regular productions down to a science now, and they still produce the occasional one-off short like their mockery of STD season 2. I can't blame them either for sticking to what works and branching out to similar-but-new formats when they find they want to cover something that wouldn't fit into an existing show.
 
Tepes Thot said:
This was a nice surprise for today. Rich and Jay made for a chill deep dive into this.

I had never heard of it though, and found it funny most of them went on to do their best work after it. I figured this was “my career is middling” material lol.
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Wow. Not much discussion about this episode here, but I suppose it's fitting, for a movie that, according to Rich, "was basically made to be forgotten as soon as possible." I guarantee that every Gen-Xer who watched this movie for this review came to the part with the Death Maze or the villain with the giant claws and said "Hey! I remember watching this when I was a kid!" Virtually no one remembers watching the full movie in its entirety, but everyone can remember some small part of it that stuck with them. I think that's because this movie was mostly made as a series of setpieces, designed by committee to appeal to young kids, tied together with the barest string of a plot. Also, the main hero was a black hole. All I could think of while I was watching him was that he was trying so hard to be Han Solo, while not even remotely pulling off being Han Solo. The Han Solo parody in Spaceballs was also trying hard to be Han Solo, but the character had a distinctive story arc, plus Bill Pullman had the endearing charisma to pull him off. I can't even remember the name of the guy who was trying to play Not-Han-Solo in Spacehunter, - that's how little of an impression he made. (He was a better Han Solo than Alden Ehrenreich in A Solo Story, so I'll give him that.)

I agree with Rich that this movie should have made more of an impression, with its art direction and its list of notable actors. It was extremely derivative of better movies, but so were all of the Italian schlock films that were knocking off Star Wars and Mad Max back in the early 80s, and many of those have developed cult audiences. Maybe if the movie had been allowed to go in the weird, pervy direction its first director wanted it to go, it would have been strange enough to garner a cult following.
 
The William Shatner / RLM feud is flaring up again today. Nothing on RLM's feed, but Shatner has been on a tear bitching about all the money they're raising off gullible fans. Among his daffier claims: Mike Stoklasa is worth $15 million.
 
Mola Ram said:
The William Shatner / RLM feud is flaring up again today. Nothing on RLM's feed, but Shatner has been on a tear bitching about all the money they're raising off gullible fans. Among his daffier claims: Mike Stoklasa is worth $15 million.
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Even if that were remotely accurate, that's still a lot less than Shatner's net worth.
Why is he so salty?
 
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