True Blood/Billy Mays Open Thread • So look, my DVR didn't tape True Blood last night for some reason. So I haven't seen it. Was it good? NO SPOILERS! Just kidding. I ain't care. But, so, also, Billy Mays died? And that is just really sad. And I don't really know what else to say about that. Maybe you do. This is a place for all of your True Blood and Billy Mays comments. You be the blog.
Posted at 12:30 PM in Comment Party!
Tags: Billy May | Death | Infomercials | True Blood | Vampires
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I'm not neccesarily mourning over Billy Mays loss, but I absolutely cannot STAND Vince Offer (aka the Shamwow guy) and I know that people are going to make him the new "pitchguy". Billy Mays at least had some class.
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Sookie used OxyClean to get blood out of her sheets.
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Billie at least had some BEARD, which goes a long way. He was a good soul.
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You shut your whore mouth when Billy Mays was talking. It was that simple. May he forever shout in the heavens above us.
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When you type "true blood billy mays" into google this page is the only thing that shows up. Breakin' new ground, you guys!
But also, thinking of Billy Mays reminds me of those fantastic parodies that youtuber 'jaboody' did.
I don't know. You're right Gabe, Talking about Billy Mays is hard. I nedd to gather my thoughts but there's definitely something here.
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That's how my sister and I memorialized him. "Someone's eating spaghetti in the shower again." R.I.P. Billy Mays.
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Was it good? Spoiler: No.
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All I have to say is that Linsday made it clear that celebrities will continue to die until she gets a job. The ball's in your court, guys.
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"Hi Friends! Billy Mays here! Are you tired of wasting time cleaning up spills? Everyone is dead. Everyone you know is dead."
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I've never commented on videogum before this moment, but you need to know how hard I just laughed. I LAUGHED SO HARD.
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You do realize that Iran is assassinating our celebs so we ignore the goings-on in Tehran, right?
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there would be so much inherent irony in that if it were true.
they should be killing spencer pratt if they wanted us to ignore death.
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Billy Mays is gone, yet True Blood still exists. I thought Obama was supposed to fix this shit.
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Fucking green to white technology.
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ohh trueblood, now we have minotaurs in this show. it never ceases to amazing me the fantastical shit this show continues to come up with... and the crazy shakes witch continues to make people horny and dance, but now she is making pigs disappear!!!!!! holy shit
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I need to say that I'm genuinely sad with the death of Billy Mays today. I've thought of this in the context of two dynamics.
1. He was on the cusp of being a real pop culture icon (and at 50?)
-Billy Mays has been busting his ass for over a decade now and seemed to be taking on a role often played by Chuck Norris, Adam West, or William Shatner. To make it sadder, it wasn't like he hated this role, often embracing it and parodying himself (I saw a Leno once when he was using his selling voice and reciting Hamlet)
2. He (to me) legitimized a really stupid business.
-Within the last two months I started watching "Pitchmen", which happens to be great television. It really demonstrates how dedicated he and Anthony Sullivan are to really trying to show how serious they take their work. It's not a game, it's an actual process that requires a borderline Ph.D. in marketing, and they fucking know how to do it.
But it all is just kinda gone, leaving so much potential, and I think it makes this death more sad than any other as of recent.
So what are you saying, Mark? Are you saying that his death is sadder than most occurring now?
Yes, that is EXACTLY what I'm fucking saying. Billy Mays is the Jeff Buckley of recent celebrity deaths.
Rest in peace, Billy Mays. I certainly will miss you.
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What is it about True Blood? That show is a serious train wreck of a train wreck, and yet when it is on the television I keep wanting to watch more of it despite how shitty it is. It's like crystal meth for my eyes; swelling and bulging at the sight of the worst acting and most threadbare characters on television.
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How about Hung?
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Billy Mays NOT here.
:(
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here's true blood gabe - http://www.ninjavideo.net/video/29068
& SPOILER sort of: someone DOES get their back scratched, like the title "Scratch My Back" implies. what a quality show this is.
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I need to say that I'm genuinely sad with the death of Billy Mays today. I've thought of this in the context of two dynamics.
1. He was on the cusp of being a real pop culture icon (and at 50?)
-Billy Mays has been busting his ass for over a decade now and seemed to be taking on a role often played by Chuck Norris, Adam West, or William Shatner. To make it sadder, it wasn't like he hated this role, often embracing it and parodying himself (I saw a Leno once when he was using his selling voice and reciting Hamlet)
2. He (to me) legitimized a really stupid business.
-Within the last two months I started watching "Pitchmen", which happens to be great television. It really demonstrates how dedicated he and Anthony Sullivan are to really trying to show how serious they take their work. It's not a game, it's an actual process that requires a borderline Ph.D. in marketing, and they fucking know how to do it.
But it all is just kinda gone, leaving so much potential, and I think it makes this death more sad than any other as of recent.
So what are you saying, Mark? Are you saying that his death is sadder than most occurring now?
Yes, that is EXACTLY what I'm fucking saying. Billy Mays is the Jeff Buckley of recent celebrity deaths.
Rest in peace, Billy Mays. I certainly will miss you.
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Really sad about Billy Mays, just last week he was on Conan with Anthony Sullivan promoting their show Pitchmen. It was a great interview, very fun and he was a great entertainer/salesman.
Now on to True Blood, for those who watched and happened to catch Hung after, what is up with the Nintendo Wii product placement? Did HBO make some sort of deal with Nintendo? On Hung it wasn't so obvious, but Vampire Bill owns a Wii and the young vampire Jessica doesn't know what it is? I was curious about the last shot of Daphne's back. Finanlly, who does Tru Blood think it is, taking a break after only three episodes?
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Really sad about Billy Mays, just last week he was on Conan with Anthony Sullivan promoting their show Pitchmen. It was a great interview, very fun and he was a great entertainer/salesman.
Now on to True Blood, for those who watched and happened to catch Hung after, what is up with the Nintendo Wii product placement? Did HBO make some sort of deal with Nintendo? On Hung it wasn't so obvious, but Vampire Bill owns a Wii and the young vampire Jessica doesn't know what it is? I was curious about the last shot of Daphne's back. Finanlly, who does Tru Blood think it is, taking a break after only three episodes?
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Billy Mays was not my lover, he's just a guy who said that OxiClean is the one, and now we miss him a ton...
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I managed to snap this shot while driving along the lake this morning....
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Having just become aware of Billy Mays last Thursday (it's not my fault, I live in Europe!), I was actually kinda sad to hear the news about his death. He disappeared before I got to appreciate him.
And if you'd watched last night's True Blood, I'm pretty sure the entire recap would've been just one word: NO.
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Poorly played, Gabe.
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I liked Hung, but what was with Thomas Jane's occasional "sitcom" acting? I felt like when he "parents" his "kids" he is "phoning it in" or "channeling Major Dad".
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The only way True Blood could get any better (worse!) would be if they introduced Tyrese as Lafayette's long lost brother!
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Billy Mays was a god among men. May he rest in peace.
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Can we talk about the REAL issue here, which is Gabe's latest attempt at pawning off work while he clips toenails and eats cold cereal - you be the blog. A weekend without Lindsay and it's already come to this?
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There is a new monster and its poison forces Anna Paquin to add screams and yowls to her repertoire of Suuthahn Accaint-speak. Also, Jason Brick-House does not appear without his pants on anywhere in the episode. GRADE: C-
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So, Gabe, since there's no new True Blood ep this Sunday, are you going to catch the rerun of ep 3 and recap for us? Pretty please with liqui-pecan pie on top?
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