Snakes In The Ball Pit => How I choose to spend my time => TeeVee => Topic started by: Nifty Nif on January 10, 2016, 02:34:27 am
Title: Did anyone else watch Home Movies?
Post by: Nifty Nif on January 10, 2016, 02:34:27 am
Or was it utterly forgotten? ('99-'04, mostly on Adult Swim) I've got it almost memorized, so just try me.
Title: Did anyone else watch Home Movies?
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on January 10, 2016, 09:37:56 pm
Frequently while hammered and at my friend's house.
Title: Did anyone else watch Home Movies?
Post by: CormansInferno on January 11, 2016, 11:51:32 am
It's a legitimate cult hit. At the time, though it had a really dedicated following, it never got good ratings on Adult Swim. Loren Bourchard has repeatedly said the last 2 seasons only exist because Adult Swim liked the show enough to give it more seasons.
Title: Did anyone else watch Home Movies?
Post by: Nifty Nif on January 11, 2016, 12:09:50 pm
Season 4 is so, so good. It's such a shame that it's the last season because it was SO much better than all of the other ones. I generally watch it while hammered, myself, but sometimes my boyfriend and I will break out into "The Wizard's Baker" or songs from "Bye, Bye Greasy." The show even inspired us to look up Emo Philips' stand-up comedy (spoiler: it's not great, mostly garden-path jokes). Maybe if parts of season 3 weren't completely unwatchable, we'd have even more of it.
Title: Did anyone else watch Home Movies?
Post by: CormansInferno on January 11, 2016, 01:50:58 pm
Wait, isn't the 3rd season the one with Louis CK as Brendon's soon-to-be-absentee father? I really liked that one.
I don't think the quality of the show had much to do with it. It was always sort of a square peg in a round hole in the Adult Swim schedule, paced completely different from all their other shows, etc. But the Catch-22 is the show wouldn't have continued if it hadn't gone to Adult Swim. I was at a conversation with Bourchard about a month ago and he was told by a UPN exec on the night Home Movies premiered "Your show is cancelled, and if I even hint at renewing it, I'll be fired."
Title: Did anyone else watch Home Movies?
Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on January 11, 2016, 01:58:22 pm
Honestly, Home Movies, Space Ghost, Sealab, and Cowboy Bebop (being broadcasted) fully cement early adult swim as rad shit
Title: Did anyone else watch Home Movies?
Post by: Guts Going Nutz on January 12, 2016, 06:10:04 pm
I watched the Home Alone movies if that counts.
Title: Did anyone else watch Home Movies?
Post by: Nifty Nif on January 12, 2016, 08:44:45 pm
Wait, isn't the 3rd season the one with Louis CK as Brendon's soon-to-be-absentee father? I really liked that one.
I don't think the quality of the show had much to do with it. It was always sort of a square peg in a round hole in the Adult Swim schedule, paced completely different from all their other shows, etc. But the Catch-22 is the show wouldn't have continued if it hadn't gone to Adult Swim. I was at a conversation with Bourchard about a month ago and he was told by a UPN exec on the night Home Movies premiered "Your show is cancelled, and if I even hint at renewing it, I'll be fired." CormansInferno, January 11, 2016, 01:50:58 pm
You're right, I think I meant season 2. A lot of weird episodes there, but it picked up in season 3.
Title: Did anyone else watch Home Movies?
Post by: KingKalamari on January 13, 2016, 07:21:30 pm
That show was a treasure that I still find myself quoting from time to time.
...It's time to pay the price
Title: Did anyone else watch Home Movies?
Post by: speedbath on February 09, 2016, 01:22:30 am
Is the series still on Netflix?
I watched it on Adult Swim when I could, and then with Netflix I was finally able to see them in order.
Brendon Small has been a guest on Comedy Bang Bang a few times, doing characters with funny voices. It's really fun to hear that again.
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Post by: Bobsterfest on February 15, 2016, 01:33:25 pm
Many, if not all, of the episodes are on youtube, including this one, my favorite:
Title: Did anyone else watch Home Movies?
Post by: Nifty Nif on February 15, 2016, 10:35:30 pm
Excellent choice. This one is my personal favorite: