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3 minutes ago, UnpopularTrousers said:Cheetos
UGH. Thanks, yeah, I totally forgot about those Cheetos!
Still though, that extremely unbranded, clunky brown box of cherry pie makes me want to draw comparisons to the Mitchum's breakfast and create a whole corruption/purity thing via branding. It's a dumb thing that I crave.
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I've been (probably over)thinking about the use of straight-up Raisin Bran Crunch in the breakfast scene from this episode. For some reason, that one cereal box has really heightened the show-within-a-show vibe I've been getting from the Mitchums and a lot of the rest of the Vegas characters; like a frameless "Invitation to Love." It stuck out to me so much that it felt like a commentary on product placement in prime time TV, or possibly a device to tell us something about the space the Mitchums inhabit versus the rest of the Twin Peaksiverse.
For comparison, I went back and scanned through the first pancake breakfast scene with Dougie, Janey-E, and Sonny Jim. Here, I believe all the logos for the flour, juice, and other food items are either turned away from the camera or otherwise inscrutable.
Is this anything? Has there been any other prominent use of a real-world food or other product in the show to this point (original run/FWWM/return) that I'm forgetting?
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Don't ever change, Doug!
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Toad sounds:
Hahaha! My dog was so baffled by these sounds, and seemed genuinely concerned for my speaker.
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One of my most memorable Dad jokes is that whenever we were sick or had a runny nose, he would say:
"If your nose runs and your feet smell, you're built upside down!"
, and excellent first post.
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Worst. I went into the templates to add one, and discovered there's already support for it, and it's basically impossible to miss in the settings unless you're a blind fool. So... sorry this took years.
My life is improved. Thanks Doug!
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Would still like it if these forums linked to the main Idle Thumbs site in the template somewhere. I know you guys are busy, though!
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Ben Stein is arguing that Mike Brown being a particular height, weight, and "on marijuana" meant that he was armed and dangerous.
I thought he was smart.
Miss the days when "Nixon staffer and son of a Nixon staffer" was a weird throwaway fact about him, rather than a painful, defining clue to his psyche.
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So are none of the Idle Thumbs guys aware that there is a new Bugs Bunny show currently running on television now?
Granted, it's nothing like the old cartoons(it's actually like this weirdly mundane sit-com, and what little
there is, is generally portrayed as taking place inside a character's head), but it doesn't really play into that image that they think the character represents currently either.Was not aware, either!
The discussion on the episode reminded me of
and A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith, made by the Spümcø (Ren & Stimpy) crew in the late 90's. -
No way so put those brakes back on, the man is going through some heavy shit right now so I'm not going to discredit what he said because of a freaking spelling error.
Leveraging said shit in a post just to get people's ire up and then slap them with it in a follow-up isn't the most productive discourse, though.
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I got and watched the hell out of that Donkey Kong Country VHS, as well as the Banjo Kazooie tape that arrived a couple years later. Unfortunately, I was never able to buy an N64 and play it back then, so my personal hype level surrounding that game has only continued to build and build over the past 17 years, reaching an unhealthy stage.
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So you guys finally inspired me to finish this one I started when episode 70 came out, so probably almost 2 years ago at this point. I'm lazy.
Coincidentally enough it's also sort of a Sean thing, but it's also one of those moments that both Jake and Chris also start riffing on.
I don't know enough editing to properly animate so it ended up being a very slideshow-y thing, which took up a lot of time for me. If anyone has some good workflow tips, please reveal (i use photoshop and premiere)
I thought this was great!
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From the comments on that story:
"David Eggers says:
(Metallus!, Idle Thumbs)
I don't really know how Jaws got leashed in the first place. The developers should probably explain that in more detail."
Love that that joke still had legs on today's episode.
Not exactly a true comments section. Idle Thumbs features often included space for other Thumbs writers and friends to write second/alternate opinions. Many years ago, I chose to contribute that dumb thing to Ben's piece.
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Just got to the Jaws Game section; Majesco's showing at E3 2005 was a huge part of old Thumbs coverage. Why not read the preview?
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Welcome, dudes!
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The Smash Brothers is definitely the goods.
Embarrassingly, after all the discussion and endorsement on the podcast, it took Flynn actually embedding the first episode of The Smash Brothers in a post on this very thread to get me to finally watch it. I'm really glad I did, but bummed at how low the bar had to be set for me to actually invest the time.
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Argh dropbox is blocked at my office but I'm dying to see the finished Vanaman. This is the best thread.
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Hmm, I provided beer at E3 2005, which I was old enough to buy, 9(!) years ago. Gosh.
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Idle Thumbs is also pretty directly responsible for my having a job in video games, due to my hearing the reader mail where Jake talked about what a choreographer does at Telltale and thinking that I could do that. Thanks, Thumbs! (Thumbs.)
Wow!
Idle Thumbs: gettin' people industry jobs since like 2005, probably.
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This thread is excellent, not least because it taught me about nested spoilers. (I've been away for awhile )
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I'm really happy that Idle Thumbs was 3 or 4 different things but the community stayed up and active through all the different phases, even/especially the parts where nothing was really happening.
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Props to DE who worked on the Steamworks update. Really stoked at the response so far.
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Just started getting into this and already hit a mission blocker so I can't complete "Aria: Eclipse." Let's see what tech support suggests.
Twin Peaks Rewatch 47: The Return, Part 12
in Twin Peaks Rewatch Episodes
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Oh shoot, we are undone by this absolute badass.