Episode 4 - Patently Silly

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Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Kathleen » 30 May 2011, 09:08

http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/checkpoint/104/

The working title of this episode was 'Spider Surprise'.
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Serisothikos » 30 May 2011, 09:13

Patent filing humor is the best humor, and that isn't sarcasm.
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Ed. » 30 May 2011, 09:52

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
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby MowDownJoe » 30 May 2011, 10:01

For some reason, I couldn't imagine Kathleen being scared of spiders, so her freaking out got me rolling.
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby The Gecko » 30 May 2011, 10:04

Same. You guy's clothes and hair all messed up at the end made me laugh too.
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Yaxley » 30 May 2011, 10:13

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.
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby ecks » 30 May 2011, 10:42

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.
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Vanguard » 30 May 2011, 11:00

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
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Trisha Lynn » 30 May 2011, 13:46

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.


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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby semysane » 30 May 2011, 14:56

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
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Graham » 30 May 2011, 15:05

Thanks Trisha!
I understand that Memorial Day is a big holiday in the US, so I guess whoever makes them usually are doing things?
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Trisha Lynn » 30 May 2011, 17:04

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.


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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Metcarfre » 30 May 2011, 17:12

That was a great episode! "Sadpants McGee" and "SPIDERS!" had me in stitches.
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Slack Mesa » 30 May 2011, 18:25

That episode was dense with comedy.
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Postby arch4non » 30 May 2011, 19:35

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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Helix » 30 May 2011, 19:49

^This is awesome^
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby tak197 » 30 May 2011, 20:02

arch4non wrote:Image


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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby WAYF » 30 May 2011, 23:01

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.


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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Dared00 » 31 May 2011, 02:29

Will there be E3 News Bytes this year?
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Jon Lock » 31 May 2011, 04:46

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!
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby AlexanderDitto » 31 May 2011, 07:17

I started laughing when Paul's bit came on... and I was laughing so hard I was crying at the spiders.

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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Kathleen » 31 May 2011, 09:51

arch4non wrote:Image


Holy shit this is amazing.
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby semysane » 31 May 2011, 13:37

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
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby Kathleen » 31 May 2011, 15:23

Eh, I didn't get that. My portray of spider fear is so realistic, they don't think it's real.
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Re: Episode 4 - Patently Silly

Postby AlexanderDitto » 31 May 2011, 19:17

Kathleen, your delivery of the spider joke was what had me laughing the hardest.

The fear was palpable.

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