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On Saturday night, we started watching "Heroes". mirmingi recommended it and since just about everyone else seems to be into it, I decided we should join the frenzy.
So we watched
And watched.
And watched.
And... you get the picture ^^;;;
Yesterday, we started after lunch and only paused for dinner. Our projector had a long workday XD
We're up to episode thriteen (which will be next).
And if that's not an indication of whether we like it or not, lemme say this:
Holy CRAP.
I don't think I've ever watched something this intense and gripping. The storyline is totally unpredictable - unless you're yamasagi, but he is hopeless anyway. I wouldn't have thought that something as generic as "story about people with super powers" could be translated into something this memorable. Characters? Brilliant. Plot? Exciting as hell and makes you curse the human need for sleep ;)
So... yes, we love it. Hard.
Thanks to mirmingi for talking about it and making me wanna try it out. I won't forget ^_^

I recently discovered this shop on eBay. They print bags with costum logos.
Well, I wanted a bigger one anyway so I gave them two image fiels and asked whether they could put that particular logo on a bag for me.
The woman running the shop said sure thing, so I ordered.
When the finished item came in the mail, I was kinda impressed.
Even I didn't expect the thing to turn out this good...

( Woah Oo )

Also, happy tenth anniversary to everyone's favourite satirical, scandal-inducing cartoon - South Park!!
MTV Germany (They've had the rights to the series for a couple of years now) ran a countdown of the ten best episodes, as voted by users on their website.
"Woodland Critter Christmas" came fifth. I'd never seen it before but I think I now have a favourite episode. Stan refusing to do what the narrator says and the two arguing half the episode? Awesome, especially considering the narrator was played by that (un)fortunate audio crush of mine. I'm sure they had one helluva time dubbing that thing XD

On the other ahnd, I still don't have the slightest idea what to think about "Good Times with Weapons". Sure, the "Americans don't care about violence as long as there'S sex and nudity to ban" message of the episode was just brilliant. But the anime references? It just yelled "Japanese animation = Mindless violence" at me. Maybe I'm totally mistaken here, but I dunno really. Sometimes, I just get pissed when stuff I love gets parodied and I can't quite see the intention. I guess it's one of my more severe character flaws.

Eddie Murphy lost his voice. His German voice, to be precise. Yes, that's right. Randolf Kronberg, who voiced Eddie since like, forever, died on March 2.
Holy hell, we got ourselves another big hole in the dubbing scene.
The last huge one was when Elisabeth Volkmann (a.k.a. Marge Simpson) passed away last year. They found someone new but most Simpsons fans loathe her because she's a crappy choice indeed >:|

Also, I wanna see This Film Is Not Yet Rated (Note that each of the six words is a different link concerning the movie! Ha, I rule >:D). Badly.

If you want to see Stephen Colbert switching in and out of character, download this. Wow. On the one hand, he scares me a bit. On the other, he seems like such a sweet, friendly guy *swoons*

What? There's a new Precure anime? Again? It's called "Yes! Precure 5" (ANN AnimeNfo) Crap, I haven't even completed the first one yet.! Anime producers, I hate you. Nah, not really. Guess I'm just toooo slooooow XD

And then... Is it just me or is Robbie Williams about to turn into the third Pet Shop Boy?
Don't get me wrong, I think them working together is pretty damn cool. "She's Madonna" is a good song even though the bridge sounds an awful lot like that in "Being boring". But I suggest everyone who likes some nice elctronic tunes check out "We're the Pet Shop Boys" (it's on Robbie's new album "Rudebox"). That one simply rules :D

Finally, a nice take on the infamous "Responsible Drinking" episode of Even Stevphen. As much as I adore Jon/Stephen, Stephen/Steve does indeed need more love. And I'm not even mentioning Jon/John here ^_~

Random moment from a December 2006 show of c't TV - They're talking cheap notebooks.

Mathias: "What CPU is in there?"
Georg: "It has an AMD Sempron 3500+"
Mathias (who has obviously no idea what that is): "Ah, that one..."

Hehe, dork ^_^

And just a moment ago, this happened (show of Dec 9, 2006):
Georg *waves to camera* (I swear, he never, NEVER does that!!)
Jessy *drops off chair ded*
... geez. I am so weak.

Today, during lunch, mum tried to quote something from german bash.
And right when she was supposed to get to the punch line - which was only one word - ...
... she couldn't remember it XD
Bro and me were laughing our asses off.
Well, she finally remembered the word and the thing was still funny O_O;;;
Ah, mum. Bless her <3

BTW, Comedy Central Germany decided to show TDS after all.
... as a stream on their website.
Wow, that reeeeally improves things for me.
Not.
God, I hate them *keeps ignoring the channel*
Well, apart from Nightwash. First show on the new network - today at 10:15 PM. Cuz I love me some KJ :)~~~

My article of the week is certainly this one.
Read it, it's frickin' hilarious. Amazing parody on both computer illiteracy and over-protective/dictatorian parenting.
But what's at least as funny is the fact that 98% of the people commenting didn't get that this acticle is a spoof.
To quote one of the intelligent ones, "anyone who knows the first things about computing will be in hysterics".
Amen.

Made two new icons for our guys' first shows of the new year.
The "Awwww" one (check it out on my icons page) was necessary cuz Jon keeps being cute on purpose, thereby reducing me to a brainless, squealing lump of fangirl-ism. Or something like that. And I feel like it's getting worse. Completely ebil, I tell ya >:D
And Stephen announcing the new year whilst being all grumpy in the beginning of his Report? Priceless. So there you go, this is my "Meh" icon XD
Guess what? I'm currently getting more Reports from December. Oh noes. Sometimes, I disgust myself. Well, not really. Maybe just a bit O_o
But y'know, even if I wasn't such a hopeless victim of fandom, I still wouldn't have a life. I'm just happier and better informed that way ^^
Actually, I'm surprised that I still get most of the stuff that's going on on both shows. Before I got into them, I figured it must be difficult for someone who isn't even from the country. Turns out it's not. They just explain and display the stuff so well, it's as if you were watching a very funny and very clever version of the news :D

I dunno whether I mentioned it before (and to be brutally honest, I'm too lazy to check XD), but soon, there will be a German version of Comedy Central.
Sounds good? Yeah, in the beginning, it did, since the US CC runs a couple of fine shows, like South Park, the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Of course, me and various other German bloggers hoped that the German CC might air the latter two as well.
But the closer we get to the channel's launch date, the less likely it gets.
The schedule for the first week is out and they're mainly showing re-runs and recycled material. Blergh.
Well, it would have been nice to watch the "real" TDS and not those Global Editions on my TV but right now, it looks like it's not gonna happen.
Which means... back to BT.
And... god... I can't wait for TDS to start again! Tomorrow, folks =)

BTW, I grabbed "America - the audiobook". Didn't manage to listen to the whole thing yet, but so far, it's pretty funny ^^

And while I'm at it...
Here, have a TDS/Jon Stewart fic REC:
Hilf Mir! bycobrasnaps. Very cool, very unusual and very powerfully written :)

*checks tonight's TV schedule*
Ewgh. Bloody fuckin' nothin'.
Whatever. I have enough stuff lying around to get me through weeks without 'net - and, indeed, TV - access so no worries there ;)

Somehow, people are geting a little too rigid with cutting the commercials out of The Daily Show before releasing it to BT.
They don't even leave Jon's "We'll be right back" in there. Come on, now you're REALLY overdoing it =_=
But yesterday's show was once again GREAT. And it looks like Jon's getting better (he announced he has a cold two days ago, poor sweetie) :D

BTW, important question for you Americans: Are there more commercial breaks over there than there are here? I noticed that TDS gets interrupted every ten minutes or so. How long is such a commercial break?
(We get about six or seven minutes, and there's at least 20 minutes between them, sometimes more)
I think I heard Japan gets a lot of them, too...

I don't like this article.
If the writer of that text knew how many cool and intelligent Germans actually WATCH the original and that they Do indeed GET IT... they still wouldn't care.
Meh.
However, my last piece of information on that matter is that TDS on German Comedy Central was canceled in favour of... a call-in show. Ow. Ow ow ow! Oh my god, if that isn't depressing, I dunno what is T_T

First, some similarities between Boffle and MPFC I discovered (mainly from watching only the first episode and a handful of random clips):

- The mix of quite intellectual and really clever stuff with absolute, mind-rippling nonsense (Their vox pops, where they only show the weird answers and you have NO IDEA what they're on about are just pricelss!)
- Their use of links ("We need someone to go through that door" - which leads to the next sketch)
- The sudden going out of character ("I can end this sketch in forty-five seconds")
- And, not to be taken that seriously, the fact that Stephen Fry is almost as good at shouting (complete with cracking of voice) as John Cleese *lol*

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Now, some YouTube links:

Barman
That one nearly killed me. Seriously. Their timing is brilliant.

Censored
From episode one. "And then the sketch ends with us going to bed together" - "..... violently." *snort* Though I know a couple of fics that beat them to the punchline on this one, hehe ;)

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I wonder why people keep remarking upon the Python similarities. I doubt they were EVER trying to hide it ;)

Major Donaldson
Speaking of obvious. Hugh's German accent is bad as always, but OMFG teh slash. It's almost as if Stephen were out of character in this one from a certain point on. Hey, you can dream, can you? XD

My Dear Boy
This one is almost too much. Gay men playing gay men (especially that... type O_o) always scares me a bit. But it's still hilarious.

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Monday: Hugh Laurie. Wheeee~!
Friday: Stephen Fry (... on US TV. Dun get it, but that's damn cool!)