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Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 09:08
by Kathleen
http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/checkpoint/104/

The working title of this episode was 'Spider Surprise'.

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 09:13
by Serisothikos
Patent filing humor is the best humor, and that isn't sarcasm.

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 09:52
by Ed.
the balloon bit still got me i was like oh it will be a bunch of deflated balloons but the spiders thing ha me loling

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 10:01
by MowDownJoe
For some reason, I couldn't imagine Kathleen being scared of spiders, so her freaking out got me rolling.

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 10:04
by The Gecko
Same. You guy's clothes and hair all messed up at the end made me laugh too.

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 10:13
by Yaxley
I thought the pacing of the feature story was really good. Like, yes this is stupid and we'll make fun of it for that, but we won't belabor the point. Especially not when Clip Art Guy is right there begging to be mocked.

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 10:42
by ecks
And yes, those images are completely real in case anyone else was wondering.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20110118032.pdf
After seeing page 15 I originally thought that this product would allow people to grow some kind of insect mandibles, but on closer inspection it turned out to just be a headset.

Spiders are just 8 legged micro-bears.

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 11:00
by Vanguard
Relevance to Halo: Reach to Plato's Cave Allegory by PoonHunter37

That might be one of the funniest things I've ever read in my entire life. Well done, whoever came up with that. Image

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 13:46
by Trisha Lynn
The post-spider reveal was my favorite part, as was the part where you were "talking to Notch" because you actually did get a chance to talk to him during Desert Bus, and it's not entirely inconceivable that he'd listen to you.


Trisha Lynn
...also started the SE thread in the PA forum for ya...

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 14:56
by semysane
Trisha Lynn wrote:...also started the SE thread in the PA forum for ya...

Link, if anyone is interested: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=142688

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 15:05
by Graham
Thanks Trisha!
I understand that Memorial Day is a big holiday in the US, so I guess whoever makes them usually are doing things?

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 17:04
by Trisha Lynn
I think it's up to individual posters and whomever gets there first to post the PATV discussion threads. I've seen different people do different comic discussion threads, etc.

You should PM a moderator and get them to sticky it for you.


Trisha Lynn
...and a happy Memorial Day weekend to you, too...!

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 17:12
by Metcarfre
That was a great episode! "Sadpants McGee" and "SPIDERS!" had me in stitches.

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 18:25
by Slack Mesa
That episode was dense with comedy.

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 19:35
by arch4non
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 19:49
by Helix
^This is awesome^

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 20:02
by tak197
arch4non wrote:Image


Win.

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 30 May 2011, 23:01
by WAYF
This was the best yet. And it was great how Graham seemed (to me at least) to be genuinely happy when he said "Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold". Really nice touch which made that segment perfect.


Also, I don't even play Minecraft, and even I can appreciate the sheer volume of time-wasting that putting Minecraft on Droid (or any portable device) would have.

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 31 May 2011, 02:29
by Dared00
Will there be E3 News Bytes this year?

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 31 May 2011, 04:46
by Jon Lock
Paul's segments, as ever, remain a joy. It really feels as though you guys have hit your stride with CheckPoint. How cool to see ENN's successor coming into its own. Congrats!

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 31 May 2011, 07:17
by AlexanderDitto
I started laughing when Paul's bit came on... and I was laughing so hard I was crying at the spiders.

Wonderful.

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 31 May 2011, 09:51
by Kathleen
arch4non wrote:Image


Holy shit this is amazing.

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 31 May 2011, 13:37
by semysane
Oh hey, looks like the PA thread finally got stickied. And apparently, as a community, they greatly disliked the delivery of the spider joke, lol

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 31 May 2011, 15:23
by Kathleen
Eh, I didn't get that. My portray of spider fear is so realistic, they don't think it's real.

Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Posted: 31 May 2011, 19:17
by AlexanderDitto
Kathleen, your delivery of the spider joke was what had me laughing the hardest.

The fear was palpable.

A++++