Lol, I tried Googling ‘Giancarlo Esposito’ and ‘Community’ and this came up, so I said to hell with it, I’m using this as my image. A while back it was confirmed that Espositio, most known for his role as Gus Fring on AMC’s Breaking Bad. Now for season 3, Dan Harmon had already booked the badass Michael Kenneth Williams, and I’d imagine they’d also book this scary character for an equally intimidating role. It is rumored that he will appear as Pierce Hawthorne’s late father’s associate. We can only imagine what he’d be like after meeting Pierce’s colorfully racist father. Speculate with me.
Normally this would fit into a single image of 24 for the Weekend Funnies. But seeing as it’s semi-movie related, I’ve decided to give it’s own slot to appreciate the hilarious portmanteau [definition here] created here. It’s reminiscent of other portmanteaus I’ve seen in popular culture, which I’m augmented this post with.
Dance sequences in TV is quite possibly one of the most mysteriously awesome things. ESPECIALLY if the show isn’t about dancing. While dancing in Glee is almost a given, Friends, Seinfeld, Scrubs, and other network sitcoms sometimes treat us with the main characters pulling a dancing routine right out of their asses. Warming Glow has compiled some of the best sites in Youtube videos. I almost compiled my own, but it would’ve been so similar to this list, it would’ve looked like I completely copied them. And I’m trying to cut back on the illegal computer blogging rules. So here’s the direct link instead. While It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia makes the cut with their dance themed episode, I think the finale dance for season 7 might make the cut. The video below the link
It might be out of taste because it’s totally so last year, but it doesn’t change the fact I stumbled into this amazingly well done RPG representation of one of the best dramas on television. It beat out Game of Thrones last year in my opinion, and with filming occurring this year for it’s final season, it’s the only reason why Game of Thrones will probably nab my favorite spot. I’m off topic, so let me circle back. Today I give you two different adaptations of a Breaking Bad Video Game. The one above was done by Johnny Utah who’s taken the Street Fighter Route to tastefully include small jokes made throughout the entire series, and the one below follows a more Japanese/Korean style RPG made by College Humor. Enjoy them both.
HBO’s Game of Thrones Season 2 premiered a couple of nights ago, and in true fashion, I was there to watch. Expect a review every week of my take on each episode. I will write these articles with no intentions of spoiling events from the book. However, I will use my knowledge of the book to possibly clarify plot holes that the series might be leaving out to compensate for the 700 page turner.
There are obvious spoilers for those who aren’t caught up with the show, but seeing as HBO released a public image of Sean Bean’s Ned Stark’s head on a pike, I guess, all bets are off when it comes to not spoiling season one. The 2-5 minute catch up seemed to me to be a good way to waste 2-5 minutes because it could not being to encapsulate the amount of things that escalated from season 1. All it served was a purpose to take out 2-5 minutes of additional actual show time. Hopefully, we won’t be seeing recaps anymore. More show less recaps.
But I suppose I’ll start with a recap for you all right now before I start getting into the show’s meat and bones. Ned Stark was beheaded for finding a scandal between the Queen and her incestuous relationship with her brother. In turn, the land Ned Stark ruled is up in arms for the unjust murder and his eldest son is bringing 20,000 soldiers to the capital to kill the the man responsible for his father’s death. Meanwhile the other Stark children are scattered across the country each facing their own difficulties, one disguising herself as a boy, one being crippled, the other North in the wilderness, etc. Meanwhile, everyone’s favorite character Tyrion Lannister, the non incestuous brother to the queen, returns to the capital to clean up the mess the Queen and her son, who is now King, has made. That’s probably the best I can do without writing another novel about it.
I’ve only been marginally impressed with SNL this year. Melissa McCarthy’s job as hosting provided the most laughs and very likely the season’s high so far. There were a couple of people who tried their best to bring their A-game, enjoyable veterans like Steve Buscemi and Maya Rudolph provided solid, but slightly stale performances, there have been an extremely terrible show or two like the Lindsay Lohan and Katy Perry episodes. And it’s a shame because I have a confessed love for the idea and publication of this sketch comedy show, and I’d like to see it shine. So in response, Warming Glow compiled a glorious list of fresh ideas for hosts that I believe would breathe a positive wind back into the relatively stale show.
Also, Sophia Vergara will be hosting this weekend. So prepare for cleavage…cleavage. I had nothing else to say. That’s more than likely the reason I’ll be tuning in.
The internet always blows my mind. When I stumbled upon this amazing find, I nearly sh!t my pants. For all of you raised in the 90s, or raised kids in the 90s [I think that’s what my target demographic is], you more than likely stumbled upon both of these shows: Captain Planet and Magic School Bus. Both shows employed children in supporting roles to a magical and mythical idol, Captain Planet and Ms. Frizzle, respectively. Little did we know the the time these shows were set in. But when you look at these two images, it’s clear one was a prequel to the other. All we need now is the dark back story about how Ms. Frizzle was hell bent on finding 5 elemental rings to summon an all powerful force that had the ability to turn the entire planet green and into a forest, killing millions in the name of Mother Earth. So she sent her kids to each recover a ring. When they recovered all 5 and brought them to her, she tried to kill them to harvest the rings. Threatened by their once insightful leader, kids banded together and ironically ran over her with the Magic School Bus. Vowing to completely forget the trauma that happened, they burned the Bus afterwards. Since then, industrial leaders have forever targetted the kids as green terrorists. This in turn have made the kids use the rings to summon forth Captain Planet himself to defeat the industrial leaders. Ms. Frizzle’s plan has succeeded. A very relavent Funny or Die video after the jump.
If you’ve been reading my blog for the past couple of months, every once in a while I’ll mention that ‘we’re not a video game blog/I’m trying to get into writing about video gaming’ rants. Well today is the announcement that I’ll be writing and posting video game related items more often and I’ve officially added it as a category. Soon enough I’ll add it to the list of banners as well as it’s own icon on the right. I think at this point, I’ve fully engulfed the ‘geek site’ mantra/persona as now I’m covering movies, television, and now video games.You can now expect video game morning banana oatmeals, full blown articles about games I’ve picked up on, and other gamer related culture. Read more regarding a little background on my own video game experience.
The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the earth. And a relatively badass named James Cameron [director of Titanic and Avatar] decided to find out what it’s like down there. And in true 21st century fashion, the man Tweeted from the deepest chasm of earth. While his motives are said to be for science and adventure, I’m hoping it’s going to contribute to his rumored ‘sea-world’ or Pandora for his next Avatar movie. Check out the article and Tweet below.
After 14 straight posts, I can honestly say that I am tired to the bone of writing about Game of Thrones. I truly can’t wait to get back into regular broadcasting, but I don’t regret that I did this week either. And there wasn’t exactly a lot of traffic this week, but I’m hoping as more and more people get into Game of Thrones, they start peaking their curiosities and stumble upon this website. I’ve talked about book differences, video games, parodies, and letters to the uninitiated, but it’s finally time to close out the very hard week. But we’re not completely donee with it yet either. Seeing as Game of Thrones season 2 starts this weekend April 1st, I’ll try and have a review posted for Tuesday’s main article for the next 10 weeks the show runs. So if you have been visiting my blog for the pure Game of Thrones reasons, be sure to stick around and visit next Tuesday for my take on each episode. Otherwise, if you’re a regular viewer, not into Game of Thrones, I refer you to here to change your mind, other wise, Weekend Funnies tomorrow will start us off for to the regular broadcasting.
Before Banana Feed returns to encompass all movie/television [and soon video game] news, I have one final thing to say to all my readers. This article is catered to those who have pretty much ignored this week’s posts due to lack of interests. Below, I’ve compiled a list of reasons why Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire can be watched/read by nearly everyone. Please take them to heart, because I employ you to listen to reason and buy/pirate the first season and be prepared to catch up on the second. For once this week, there are no spoilers in this post.
The more and more I talk about Game of Thrones, the more and more I need to do research and check my sources. While the books are immediate help, it can be touch and tedious counting the number of chapters or narrators. So to make things easier, I’ve just used Wiki sources and other online sources to help me in keeping up with SO many posts. All the problems I’ve encountered concludes one very true thing: The internet is a dangerous place.
Spoilers are EVERYWHERE. Whether they are voluntarily seen through wiki pages like the ‘A Wiki of Ice and Fire’ website like I’ve pictured above, or the dangerous waters of youtube video comments, one must be very careful where they tread so they not be spoiled. I try to include as many times as possible that if there are spoilers ahead, but the rest of the internet is not so kind. I’ve taken small glances into the youtube comments and seen just a glimpse of ‘_____ dies’ and I’m automatically ruined forever. Biased as I read the books, this is such an unfortunate thing to be affected with. So as season 2 unfolds and the internet, I warn you to be careful.
This is pretty much the reverse of the earlier post. Now I’m going to cite what points the book drove in better than the tv series. As the source material, I understand that there are an infinite ways the book is better at developing than the tv series, but what I’m trying to focus on here is my personal experience. The problem with just soley the TV series is that they try to cram so much mythlore and characters into a one hour block, that certain names don’t stick, and things you’re supposed to realize get lost in the constant perpetuation of trying to figure out what’s going. So here are some points that I thought were far better explained the in the book. More spoilers, as always.
I’ve been going on and on about the book vs. the series this week. And I’m actually rather glad that I was able to compare them hand in hand. It would be unfair to say the book is everything [even if it is the source material] because the TV series sometimes relays things that simply went way over my head. Hindsight bias tells me that ‘well duh, there’s the reference to _____’, but I’ll be honest, if I didn’t see it in the TV series first, I might’ve never known it was true. I just simply can’t wait to watch this season and be astounded what I forgot to read between the lines. Below are a couple of moments that the TV series taught me something the book didn’t. Obvious spoilers from season/book 1.
These are two articles posted on similar days about George R.R. Martin final worries before the season kicks off. There are spoilers relevant to the second book, but I don’t think much else is given away besides the names of some characters and the name of the major battle of book/season 2.
Dorkly created this awesome trailer recut with Game of Thrones and popular Disney characters. It’s very well done and sends shivers up my spine none the less.
Compressing a 700+ page novel into a 10 episode series is no easy task. That’s 70 pages of material in one hour. There is a lot that goes on in the book, and while making the book a TV series is the best way to represent it to encompass as much information as possible, producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss still had to cut corners to make both budget and time restrictions. So after both watching the series and reading the book, I’ve managed to find some key differences in scenes. I kinda hoped I wish I had a pen and notepad while I read to truly find every nitpicking detail, but I’ll just try and recall the biggest things off the top of my head. Obvious spoilers, bah doy doy. Spoilers contained within the first book.
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