Checking out Troma’s YouTube channel reminded me of Troma’s Basement: a comic segment introducing a Troma film on the Bravo cable channel in the UK (different from the Bravo channel in the US IIRC) in the mid 90s. About as good as you can expect for a near-zero-budget mid-90s UK cable TV framing device.
Episode 1 https://youtu.be/Qj4sdcYfuV8
First time I saw the comic duo of Xander Armstrong and Ben Miller.
A great app. I use the (FLOSS) LibRedirect browser extension to automatically send YouTube links to FreeTube.
Ah, practising the deeply held moral principle of “I’m alright, Jack”.
:D :D :D
I kinda wish they’d stuck with the bag gimmick and “original rap” throughout just to see how the crowd received it.
The Voice decades before the show was invented!
That 5-minute video looks like it the same budget as the entire movie of Do the Right Thing. I guess that Killing Me Softly money really had the record company splurging on the follow-up projects. :)
We’ve enjoyed it. The second season story arc about a charismatic figure who latches onto white supremacy politics as his latest grift is a little close to the bone in the current climate.
(And I personally had a little fun spotting posters for Canadian punk bands like D.O.A. and No Means No in the background, as it was one of those of Stephen J. Cannell shows among the first wave of US productions shot in Vancouver.)
It’s available for free streaming on a few channels but unfortunately, the whole story arc about the record company is just cut entirely as, like a lot of shows from the 80s, they couldn’t license the music rights.
Me: “Oh, racially integrated, rare for a US band, especially back then.”
Checks Wikipedia: “Oh, they’re British… -ish. Keyboardist is Rod Temperton. Wait! That Rod Temperton???”
Yes, the keyboard player is the bloke who wrote Off the Wall , Rock with You and Thriller !
Wait, Severance and Spacey were both in this?
Recently watched Wiseguy for the first time, where they were paired up as creepy brother and sister, must have been only a few months before this was shot.
Look at the character built in those did spend their flitting off time to Miami condos and casinos somewhere. One even became president!
It is in mint condition and that upsets me even more.
You’d prefer it was… soiled?
So AI is just three Netflix executives in a trench coat?
Can’t wait til we see the Enterprise’s main view screen full of flying toasters.
The Undiscovered what??!? Oh, there’s a final “ry”. The Undiscovered Country.
A sort of 2D holoprogram where everyone’s an NPC. Ask Quark for the “Retro Package”.
Just wave your arms and shout. They’re more afraid of you than you are of them!
Interesting read, thanks.
And TIL of the Beachy Amish, who absolutely do not go around on horsedrawn surfboards with Annette Funicello.
Thanks, somehow I both overlooked that and never would have thought that’s what it meant.
You’re welcome :)