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I want Judd Apatow and Maria Bamford to be in a series of 11 buddy cop movies that feature extreme violence and cameo appearances from 1990s supermodels.
posted by xingcat at 6:27 PM on October 5, 2013 [7 favorites]


There were a lot of young ladies in the nineties that made poor decisions!
posted by charlie don't surf at 6:28 PM on October 5, 2013 [3 favorites]


Came for Maria Bamford and the nostalgia. Did not leave disappointed.
posted by figurant at 6:42 PM on October 5, 2013


Ginger. The fifth one was Ginger Spice.

You're welcome.
posted by koeselitz at 6:47 PM on October 5, 2013 [3 favorites]


I lost it at the Unabomber bit. "I don't wanna judge, because you don't know when you're gonna go off into the woods and start doing math problems and get a lot of great ideas."
posted by jason_steakums at 6:48 PM on October 5, 2013 [6 favorites]


eh, just Fair

comparing Weird Al to the Unibomber? I yelled at the screen.

And if that had been done in the last couple weeks, the obvious answer to 'the Fifth Spice Girl' would've been Pumpkin.
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:11 PM on October 5, 2013 [3 favorites]


Painting a Snoopy costume? I think Bamford was thinking of the painted Snoopy sculptures that are still located around Minnesota.
posted by jiawen at 7:14 PM on October 5, 2013 [1 favorite]


Haha oh man, Reality Bites. Oh Noes, The Man put silly graphics on my home movies grar grar, but my art! How can you deny the world something so real and so true!

At least Singles was a bit satirical.
posted by Ad hominem at 7:18 PM on October 5, 2013 [3 favorites]


Love the feeding-hand biting when the Dolly Parton/Desert Storm cover comes up.
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 8:14 PM on October 5, 2013 [1 favorite]


Wow. I don't think I really knew how old, and old-seeming, Judd Apatow was. It's really hard to pull of that perennially-immature thing when you're as old as these people are old. Speaking as a fellow old. This ...just eh.
posted by Miko at 9:30 PM on October 5, 2013


Wow! Could we get more promotional annotations on there? I almost saw Bamford and Apatow for a sec....
posted by Samizdata at 10:53 PM on October 5, 2013 [1 favorite]


I wanted to like it.
posted by LarryC at 11:28 PM on October 5, 2013 [2 favorites]


They shoulda done the 80's or the 60's or some even numbered decade.
posted by sammyo at 12:38 AM on October 6, 2013


Maria Bamford is awesome in all sorts of ways, but quick repartee and cultural references are not really her shtick, so this kinda felt a bit awkward to me. Had some moments (unibomber) but had a bit more potential than actual laughs.
posted by OHenryPacey at 12:43 AM on October 6, 2013


The awkwardness and mismatch between the topic and Bamford are precisely what made it work.
posted by brundlefly at 1:17 AM on October 6, 2013


that was so painful I couldn't watch it
posted by mary8nne at 2:18 AM on October 6, 2013 [6 favorites]


I wasn't super into this, but I love Maria Bamford so much I could watch her eat yogurt. She's, think, the best comedian alive.
posted by to sir with millipedes at 4:41 AM on October 6, 2013


Speaking of the '90s, that was like watching Awakenings after the medication stops working.
posted by Optamystic at 4:43 AM on October 6, 2013


Am I the only person from whom Maria Bamford's "cutesey" voice grates like fingernails on a blackboard, and who thinks that she should give Adam Sandler back his shtick (and that he should, in turn, vow never to make that voice again)?

I want to like her, I really do, but that cloying Kewpie-doll voice just squicks me out.
posted by kcds at 5:42 AM on October 6, 2013 [4 favorites]


That's just her voice, man. It's not a character.
posted by to sir with millipedes at 6:02 AM on October 6, 2013 [6 favorites]


Yeah, not liking Maria Bamford because of her voice is like not like Dylan because of his voice. Good work missing out on genius because you're way into conventionality I guess.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 6:42 AM on October 6, 2013 [3 favorites]


This is awkward as hell tho I hope they got paid a lot for this ad. I do love how Bams accidentally(?) says "He hasn't aged a gay" about Ben Affleck.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 6:43 AM on October 6, 2013 [1 favorite]


"because you're way into conventionality I guess"

I'm so into conventionality that I go to conventionality conventions. That's right. Con cons.
posted by history_denier at 7:41 AM on October 6, 2013 [4 favorites]


I liked it. I chuckled throughout.

All of the undergrads on campus are wearing high waisted pants, dayglo stuff, and tank-tops with crazy geometric shapes on them. The opening all-niter party at the student union was "all 90s everything". Now I guess I understand how my older brother must've felt when every new band coming out was trying to sound like Joy Division.
posted by codacorolla at 8:19 AM on October 6, 2013


> quick repartee and cultural references are not really her shtick

Doesn't help that Apatow is so damned impatient. Let a lady work, man!
posted by morganw at 9:31 AM on October 6, 2013


The best thing about Maria Bamford's querulous, high pitched actual voice is knowing she can flip into a refined, rich, radio presenter perfect voice on a dime. It's actually kind of eerie.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 10:07 AM on October 6, 2013 [1 favorite]


All of the undergrads on campus are wearing high waisted pants, dayglo stuff, and tank-tops with crazy geometric shapes on them.

They are selling turtlenecks that snap in the crotch at Forever 21. *Shudder*
posted by drlith at 10:38 AM on October 6, 2013


Yeah Bamford's shtick is her own, Sandler be damned. Her smarmy white woman impression is hands down amazing, whether it be her mom, former coworkers, agent... They all have their nuances. I guess I found her a little grating at first years ago but she grew on me fast. The same can be said for Mary Mack, who I thought was biting Bamford's shtick until I learned more about her.
posted by lordaych at 12:29 PM on October 6, 2013


They are selling turtlenecks that snap in the crotch at Forever 21. *Shudder*

I saw an honest-to-God overalls with only one shoulder strap snapped the other day.
posted by codacorolla at 12:40 PM on October 6, 2013 [2 favorites]


I was underwhelmed with this as well, despite being a fan of both Apatow and Bamford. I think the format itself was the problem. The whole piece seemed to be "Name something from the 90s that seems either really dated today (Spice Girls) or was ridiculous (Demi Moore in increasingly outrageous magazine covers) and it will be automatically hilarious", when in fact it comes off more as two people making really tired jokes that have long since past their freshness date.
posted by The Gooch at 1:40 PM on October 6, 2013


In my head, David Tennant was staring in gobsmacked disbelief and screaming, "What? WHAT?"

Because... what? That was like watching really awkward paint dry really awkwardly.
posted by Emperor SnooKloze at 2:23 PM on October 6, 2013


In the nineties, we didn't have things like Wikipedia, which I need to figure out who on earth these two boring people are
posted by 4ster at 3:14 PM on October 6, 2013 [1 favorite]


Maria and This Lady are related, yes?
posted by alex_skazat at 10:37 AM on October 7, 2013


I saw an honest-to-God overalls with only one shoulder strap snapped the other day.

Too soon.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 12:35 PM on October 7, 2013 [1 favorite]


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