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It's still laugh til I cry humor. Did last week feature Q giving Birds and Bees chat to his parents? ####### hilarious.
Sheez. Swear filter test: is flickin banned? rickin?
There were a bunch of people standing around watching, so I would have to imagine they were treating it as a set and keeping underage people out of the "line of fire."
You know that also adults can sue you for sexual harassment if you strip naked in front of them. That means they would have had to get consent most likely of each person entering the park which takes the fun out of not realizing they are being part of the show
It's probably just me, but I find the show to be funnier when I'm not thinking about the legality and litigation ramifications of each bit.
'Brony said:
New fan of the show. Found out about it because Q is also a regular on a Kevin Smith friends podcast 'Tell Em' Steve-Dave'. Love this show, almost always brings the funny.
Same here.
Everyone I've turned on to it locally has become a slavish devotee. Online, responses have been as tepid as "it's OK" to exultations like yours. Personally, I love it.Too bad the season finale (and possibly series finale, as TruTV has yet to renew the program for a third season, although confidence is fairly high) is tomorrow night. There are something like 25 episodes in re-runs though, Tru typically blasts them out in mini-marathons of 2 hours or so on weekends.These guys are quite accessible via facebook and twitter as well. I've had multiple correspondences with all 4 of them. In fact, last summer, I got Joe all riled up by calling Murr a dork several times on social media, to the point where he mentioned it (and me, though not by name) in one of their podcasts. I was sitting in my car eating a chicken sandwich listening to the podcast when he brought it up - got a good laugh from that.
Where do you access their podcasts?
Search "tenderloins" in iTunes or go to thetenderloins.com. The Tenderloins is the name of their comedy troupe - they've been doing sketch comedy for years prior to pitching and selling "Impractical Jokers"
Why wouldn't it get picked up? Bad ratings? This better not go the route of Chappelle's Show. (Although not as funny) This is some clever, hilarious stuff.
I don't know, they went through the same thing last year after season 1 ended and were eventually picked up. I think the ratings are pretty good, actually - I know they drew just over 2 million viewers for the first time a few weeks back, that's pretty solid for a basic cable show. This past Thursday, it finished 3rd in the 10 PM time slot among basic cable shows in the 18-49 demographic behind two things I've never heard of : "Suits" on USA network and "Big Rig Bounty Hunters" on History Channel. "Ridiculousness" on MTV and "American Dad" also had more total viewers, but were lower in the key marketing demographics. Week before that, it finished second to MTV's "Buckwild" in the 18-49 demo.
That's great to hear!
That was from 2 weeks ago, and last week, it dropped back down to 1.6 million viewers. Not sure why it swings so much from week to week (or even if that's that big of a swing)
anything over a million on basic cable, for a show as cheap to make as IJ should be a no-brainer to renew, unless the execs ant to appear on an ep of World's Dumbest...
So if Im reading that right, almost half of the viewers are women?? Im shuked.
My wife (39), sister-in-law (43), and mother (68) all LOVE the show. My wife actually is the one that saw it and recommended it to me.
You're doing God's work.
The thing I worry about is the more popular it gets, the harder it will become to make the show work. It wouldn't be nearly as funny if everyone knows "that's the guy from Impractical Jokers".I think that's already happened a few times (if not more) in season 2. The way the one chick was so willing to go up to the guy and petition for "wash it after", I thought she definitely knew who he was. But the show is still hilarious, and I'm glad to see season 2 has been extended.
You're right. Shows like this have a limited shelf-life for that exact reason.Last night's "season finale" was odd - almost like they threw together a bunch of left-over clips they had lying around and themed it as an "all Joker vs. Joker" show. No scoreboard, no punishment per se. I know whenever they have a "Joker vs. Joker" challenge or one guy "sits out" a challenge, it's because that person or persons' footage in that challenge is unusable for air. Either it's not funny enough, the subject in question refuses to sign a release form, they have audio issues, etc.
TESD has been around a while - I think they're nearing 200 podcasts. I've thought about going back to listen to some of the older ones, but I figured everything they'd be talking about would be outdated, so I never did.
I listen to a lot of the Smodcast stuff (listening to Fatman on Batman right now), but not TESD for whatever reason. I was listening to Smodcast a few weeks ago at work and forgot it was still playing when I got up to go to a meeting. When I got back, TESD was playing and I thought it was pretty good so it made the rotation.
A bunch of different stuff - comics, the "Comic Book Men" and TESD world, day-to-day life stuff. Q's been on it for a long time, not sure if he's been on since Day 1 or not. I know he's been around the View Askewniverse for a while - you can actually see him in the beginning of "Dogma" at the airport when Loki (Damon) is talking the nun out of believing in God.
The hot dog and donut props were 
