I see yinz are playin' Clue. Well, lemme tell ya how it ends.

June 11, 2012 12:25 PM

He's a film critic. He's a sports fan. He's a family man. He is Pittsburgh Dad. [warning: occasional laughtrack]
posted by specialagentwebb (14 comments total)

100% accurate, I can testify.

Picksburgh! Jumbo! Stillers! Irn!
posted by Chrysostom at 12:49 PM on June 11, 2012 [2 favorites]

Aw man, I wanted to like it but wow, really not funny, I am an easy laugh but not even a smile.

So scripted, and not in a good way.
posted by Cosine at 1:06 PM on June 11, 2012

So, this FPP is nothing but open pandering to the Pittsburgher Mefites?

I'm OK with that!

(North Side views of heaven, represent!)
posted by IAmBroom at 1:35 PM on June 11, 2012 [3 favorites]

Needs to redden up the durn laugh track 'en at. Aiello's.
posted by rudster at 2:01 PM on June 11, 2012

Cosine: "Aw man, I wanted to like it but wow, really not funny, I am an easy laugh but not even a smile.

So scripted, and not in a good way."

Maybe it's a nostalgia thing? Yeah it's scripted, but most of the humor is of the "oh my god, that's EXACTLY what my dad would say" type.
posted by specialagentwebb at 2:04 PM on June 11, 2012 [1 favorite]

Maybe it's a nostalgia thing? Yeah it's scripted, but most of the humor is of the "oh my god, that's EXACTLY what my dad would say" type.

Gotcha, my dad not so much, but yeah, gotcha.
posted by Cosine at 2:51 PM on June 11, 2012

Does "smoking tobeys" mean anything to the Picksburt-ites out there? A friend's mom is lovingly incoherent sometimes, and she's talked about smoking some kind of plain old plant (the tobeys) like a cigarette/cigar.

Also, pierogies.
posted by Evilspork at 3:08 PM on June 11, 2012

This was when she was a kid, so her memory of it might be going, too.
posted by Evilspork at 3:09 PM on June 11, 2012

Evilspork: "Does "smoking tobeys" mean anything to the Picksburt-ites out there? A friend's mom is lovingly incoherent sometimes, and she's talked about smoking some kind of plain old plant (the tobeys) like a cigarette/cigar."

Smoking Tobies. Western Pennsylvania is weird sometimes. I say that in a loving way.
posted by specialagentwebb at 3:20 PM on June 11, 2012 [1 favorite]

He put Jag right in his name.

Proven authentic.
posted by meinvt at 4:06 PM on June 11, 2012 [1 favorite]

Evilspork: "Does "smoking tobeys" mean anything to the Picksburt-ites out there? A friend's mom is lovingly incoherent sometimes, and she's talked about smoking some kind of plain old plant (the tobeys) like a cigarette/cigar.

Also, pierogies."

Dude, smoking pierogies is just wrong.
posted by IAmBroom at 12:35 AM on June 12, 2012 [1 favorite]

Needs more chipchopped ham and gumbands.
posted by kinnakeet at 5:44 AM on June 12, 2012

Yinz goin' dahn the Strip later? Seeya down Primanees.
posted by kgasmart at 10:33 AM on June 12, 2012

Smoking Tobies. Western Pennsylvania is weird sometimes. I say that in a loving way.

Thanks, makes perfect sense now.
posted by Evilspork at 5:33 PM on June 12, 2012