The Stuck Up

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The Stuck Up

Postby Kathleen » 22 Apr 2013, 10:23

Muggings are getting so cliche these days.
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby ArchieO » 22 Apr 2013, 10:44

I love that you can still see the confusion in Beej's eyes, really sells it for me.

On a side note, two video's about muggings in a row, are the Runners coming back or something? ;P
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby ThrashJazzAssassin » 22 Apr 2013, 10:53

Fantastic writing, Beej! :mrgreen:
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby thatlaurachick » 22 Apr 2013, 11:22

Is it just me or did anyone else expect Beej to off himself at the line "he'll be fine."

Just me? Right then.
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby Graham » 22 Apr 2013, 11:43

thatlaurachick wrote:Is it just me or did anyone else expect Beej to off himself at the line "he'll be fine."
Oh, wow, that would've been extra dark :D

No, the dark video is next week's.
In what is apparently Crime Month™ here on LRR.
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby thatlaurachick » 22 Apr 2013, 11:45

Graham wrote:No, the dark video is next week's.
In what is apparently Crime Month™ here on LRR.


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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby empath » 22 Apr 2013, 12:04

...no, not just you.

To be honest, the closer was very formulaic (as intended, I imagine), but the stinger REALLY saved it!
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby Graham » 22 Apr 2013, 12:27

empath wrote:To be honest, the closer was very formulaic (as intended, I imagine)
You could say it was... clichéd?
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby empath » 22 Apr 2013, 12:42

I don't like to be repetitive in my diction. :D
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby Kathleen » 22 Apr 2013, 13:08

I actually really like how cliched the characters and direction are, while bitching about just that.
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby Kathleen » 22 Apr 2013, 13:08

I actually really like how cliched the characters and direction are, while bitching about just that.
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby Foxmar » 22 Apr 2013, 14:35

Loved this episode! No idea why but towards the end I was almost in tears. Paul and Kathleen really played their parts well. And Beej, wow your eyes sold it so perfectly. Was this Beej first writing credit as well?
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby Omnicrat » 22 Apr 2013, 18:29

I like to pretend that Paul and Kathleen were Olympian Gods, immortals from ancient times who have experienced everything society has had to offer from then to now. Probably not what was intended, but I like it. :D
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby The Architect » 22 Apr 2013, 20:42

Is it a bad thing that I want to see that couple run into a mugger with an overdeveloped appreciation for the classics?
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby Geoff_B » 22 Apr 2013, 23:23

Somehow I imagine Paul's character is related to the one who gets kidnapped and bundled into car boots on a regular basis. Same sort of seen it all before/trying to help bring variety but more highbrow :D
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby WAYF » 23 Apr 2013, 02:10

Ugh, this comments thread is so cliche... EVERY single week people just PRAISE LRR to the HEAVENS... It's overdone, people!

How about next week we analyze LRR's weekly video from a post-colonial historiographical perspective!
Or maybe we could take screencaps and photoshop cute and fuzzy animals into the background, and discuss how that affects the quality of the video!
Or, OR, we could all break into the Moonbase while Graham is still editing the video and suggest changes that he could make!
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Postby Geoff_B » 23 Apr 2013, 02:14

Or, OR, ORRRR we could all break into the Moonbase and edit the video ourselves? :D
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby Slack Mesa » 23 Apr 2013, 07:13

I usually post ironic comments, but just this once I'm going to be serious.

This video was funny, as was last week's.

But they both prominently featured guns.

Many of LRR's fans live in that country just south of Canada where it seems like every week brings another news story about somebody with a gun killing a bunch of innocent people. And in the next country to the south of that one, where drug cartels and the government are essentially at war with each other, shootings are commonplace in cities that were once considered safe.

I like dark comedy, but these last two videos haven't been in the "dark" genre so much as the "gun porn" genre.

Could we have some videos featuring props that aren't guns?
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby Drecon » 23 Apr 2013, 07:34

I'm pretty sure if someone did this to me they'd get all my money for being awesome. Seriously.
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby My pseudonym is Ix » 23 Apr 2013, 11:26

Slack Mesa wrote:I usually post ironic comments, but just this once I'm going to be serious.

This video was funny, as was last week's.

But they both prominently featured guns.

Many of LRR's fans live in that country just south of Canada where it seems like every week brings another news story about somebody with a gun killing a bunch of innocent people. And in the next country to the south of that one, where drug cartels and the government are essentially at war with each other, shootings are commonplace in cities that were once considered safe.

I like dark comedy, but these last two videos haven't been in the "dark" genre so much as the "gun porn" genre.

Could we have some videos featuring props that aren't guns?


I'm gonna disagree with you about this; "gun porn" to me invokes images of a particular style of action film, where a gun is almost an extension of the character and is idolised as some object of supreme manliness. In fact, I wouldn't consider of even 'dark', on the basis that the central theme is not death or any such thing but crime (and, indeed, about as minor a serious crime as one can get, since no violence is involved).

Plus... I could make jokes about pirates, whilst just a few thousand miles away there are people actively engaging in this trade in about the most violent and deplorable manner imaginable, and the joke could still be funny. Not would (not least because I'm not massively good at jokes), but it could still be made to be funny and light-hearted; like that Now Show joke about burying treasure. It is good manners for comedy to avoid going too close to the bone, but to exclude guns as mere props to aid a joke simply because they are a very serious problem seems like going a mite far.
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby Flewellyn » 25 Apr 2013, 22:50

Omnicrat wrote:I like to pretend that Paul and Kathleen were Olympian Gods, immortals from ancient times who have experienced everything society has had to offer from then to now. Probably not what was intended, but I like it. :D


I think I am going to interpret all LRR videos from this perspective from now on.
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby empath » 26 Apr 2013, 14:19

Moonbase == Mount Olympus

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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby Jenelmo » 26 Apr 2013, 23:12

Now we just have to figure out what the Functions and attributes of our new gods are
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Re: The Stuck Up

Postby DmitriW » 27 Apr 2013, 07:55

New gods? We LRRmons have been worshiping the Moonbase-dwellers for years, whippersnapper.
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Re: The Stuck Up

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