Friday Fight: Who Should Win The (Video) Gummys?
Even though Lindsay and Gabe are friends, they very rarely agree on anything. Every day, they have a fight about something. On Fridays, we publish one.
gabe: i know who you voted for in the gummies
gabe: but who do you think will actually win
lindsay: Well, Beverly Hills Chihuahua will grab the ironic vote.
gabe: take off that calloused shell, robertson
gabe: there is no ironic vote
gabe: let your guard down
gabe: for once
lindsay: I did, when I saw Slumdog Millionaire!
lindsay: my guard was down for like, an hour
lindsay: and I know that it's a 2 hour movie, but that's the best I can do
gabe: touche
gabe: i let my guard down when i saw quantum of solace
lindsay: I guess we're starting with movies - what movie did you like second best?
gabe: OH NO, JAMES BOND'S CAR DIED!
gabe: this was a really shitty year for movies
gabe: i think
gabe: there are a couple movies that i haven't had time to see because of all the breaking fart news around here
lindsay: HAHAHA
gabe: like slumdog and synecdoche
lindsay: whoa, I actually thought it was a great year for movies
gabe: but for the most part it's been a really unremarkable year
lindsay: but I followed movies much more closely this year and was more invested
gabe: step brothers does not a remarkable year make, lindsay
lindsay: but Baby Mama does!
gabe: no, seriously, i know you loved slumdog millionaire
gabe: because you won't shut up about it
lindsay: I know this is really cheesy, but SM
gabe: but what else was remakrable?
lindsay: made me want to see movies more
gabe: you didn't even see dark knight
lindsay: I know, and I'm really glad they're re-releasing it in january
lindsay: There were a lot of good documentaries this year
lindsay: Man On Wire, etc
gabe: i did not see that, either, but it blew your mind?
lindsay: And there were so many good comedies!
gabe: i mean, good or even great documentary, sure
gabe: but
lindsay: Baby Mama, Role Models, Step Brothers, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder
lindsay: that's a LOT of good comedies
lindsay: for one year
lindsay: it was the Year of the Comedy
lindsay: (you can quote me!)
lindsay: (just kidding)
lindsay: I even liked Don't Mess With the Zohan!
lindsay: though I believe it failed in its mission to solve the problems in the west bank
gabe: if you look at last year
gabe: with its there will be bloods and its no country for old men
gabe: this year just feels thin
lindsay: those movies were very serious though
lindsay: ok
lindsay: this was the year of hope
lindsay: last year was the year of despair
lindsay: this year was Comedy, Hope, and Vampires
gabe: ugh, the vampires
gabe: i guess we'd gone through a pretty long zombie cycle
gabe: it was time
lindsay: and now pirates are real...
lindsay: and robots are dancing or whatever
gabe: vampires won 2008
lindsay: and Hope
lindsay: how about TV?
gabe: i'm going to be honest with you
gabe: 30 Rock is not the best show on TV
gabe: SORRY
gabe: it is the second best show
lindsay: You are INSANE.
lindsay: I quit
gabe: it's not
lindsay: what is the best? From G's To Gents?
lindsay: (zing)
gabe: obviously not
gabe: friday night lights is the best
gabe: it is all hit
gabe: no miss
lindsay: It's not "on television"!
lindsay: And yes, FNL is a great show
lindsay: very very great
lindsay: I get it
lindsay: and this is very subjective, but it just doesn't DELIGHT me the way 30 rock delights people
lindsay: and me
lindsay: I'm never like "I wish I'd written this touching scene between a mother and a daughter set to the music of explosions in the sky"
lindsay: but I am like "I wish I'd written "Sex and Awesomeness!"
gabe: sure, me neither
gabe: i don't want to write friday night lights
gabe: and i think that's why i like it so much
lindsay: ooh, you want to WATCH it
gabe: it's outside of me
lindsay: well, theyr'e apples and oranges
gabe: well, i do think that i enjoy things more when i watch them completely uncritically
lindsay: apples that are on normal tv and oranges that are on direct tv
gabe: and the fact of the matter is that when i watch 30 rock
lindsay: I hope you watch slumdog that way
gabe: i always think "this is great, but it's not as good as arrested development"
lindsay: See, I think it's better!
gabe: you are way wrong on that times a thousand
lindsay: Though I am re-watching all of AD soon
lindsay: I've seen every episode
lindsay: but I'm taking a netflix refresher course
gabe: like, i'm willing to admit that friday night lights might not actually be better than 30 rock
gabe: and obvs they are different
gabe: but arrested development is DEFINITELY better than 30 rock
lindsay: FINE.
lindsay: Arrested Development can never disappoint us.
lindsay: AD is kurt cobain
gabe: no
gabe: AD is better than kurt cobain
gabe: AD never touched courtney
gabe: it slipped my mind for a second
lindsay: But there was nobody on AD as good as alec baldwin
gabe: again, i disagree
gabe: i think that alec baldwin's performance on 30 rock is way more one note than jason bateman on AD
lindsay: see, Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock, for me, totally transcends anything I've ever seen before.
lindsay: I rewind and rewatch immediately
lindsay: basically all of his scenes
gabe: well that's basically your version
gabe: of hanging his teen beat posters on your wall
lindsay: haha
lindsay: I own his book!
gabe: ?
lindsay: His recent book?
lindsay: A Promise To Ourselves?
gabe: yeah, so what?
lindsay: owning that book is like kissing a teen beat poster goodnight every night
gabe: you know what doesn't deserve a gummy?
gabe: the office
gabe: that show is treading more water than the hills
gabe: ALMOST
lindsay: Yeah
lindsay: Well, you know my feelings about how I just want it to go on forever like Days of Our Lives.
lindsay: or The Simpsons.
lindsay: but yes, you are correct
lindsay: one of the cameramen should commit suicide
lindsay: that would really pick that show up
lindsay: extreme shark jumping
gabe: the simpsons has been really bad this season too
lindsay: Sunday's was the best in years though
lindsay: the half hour apple ad?
gabe: with the apple store?
gabe: ugh
gabe: that was so dumb
lindsay: sponsored by apple
lindsay: I laughed several times!
gabe: sure
gabe: it still has tons of laughs in it
gabe: but that's the prolem
gabe: i don't want the simpsons to be a show that's "not as good but still better than most things on TV"
gabe: that's not what i've come to expect
lindsay: yeah
gabe: after 47 years of it being on the air
lindsay: well, it's been years since it's been something you make sure you watch
lindsay: like, if my DVR messes up I'm just like "oh well"
lindsay: I'm still not there with the office
lindsay: best web video?
gabe: that is a tough one
gabe: there were a lot of really phenomenal videos, obvs
gabe: i voted for Love In This Club
gabe: but
gabe: I actually think that i was wrong
lindsay: yeah, there were so many
lindsay: they were all great
gabe: i think bert and ernie MOP was the best
gabe: i rewatched it like 10 times last night
gabe: it's so good
gabe: MOP is a rap group, lindsay
gabe: rap is a type of music
lindsay: ah
lindsay: about mops?
gabe: close enough
lindsay: you don't own rap, gabe
gabe: no
gabe: but i do own rap albums
gabe: which is one of the differences between us
lindsay: I totally put Hey Ya! on the happy side of my 2004 breakup album!
lindsay: so take that back!
gabe: haha
gabe: that's so funny, my mom uses Hey Ya as her ringtone
lindsay: well, four years late!
gabe: zing
gabe: you zinged her)
lindsay: I would never zing your mom!
gabe: ha
gabe: i wonder how long we have until all of teh backlog is cleaned out on youtube
gabe: like, both christian the lion
gabe: and bill oreilly's freak out
gabe: were two of the best videos all year
gabe: but so old
gabe: eventually that well's going to run dry, isn't it?
lindsay: NO.
lindsay: Don't even say it.
lindsay: I will die that day.
lindsay: I think about this all the time!
lindsay: The old stuff is the best stuff.
lindsay: But you're right, one day the last person will go home for the holidays and find the last, dusty tape in their parent's garage.
lindsay: And upload the last weird cable access show.
lindsay: And then it Will Be Finished.
gabe: hopefully though
gabe: that dusty old cassette will be an old copy of
gabe: the ring video
gabe: and it will be finished
gabe: literally
gabe: for all of us.
lindsay: As foretold in the book of Revelation.
Posted by Lindsay at 5:45 PM in Friday Fight
Tags: The Gummy Awards
Bert and Ernie Ante Up is one of the few videos I play every time I think about it. Well, the only non-... Oh, I'm just going to stop right there.
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Bert & Ernie's "Ante Up" just does not get old.
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Im still racking up plays of Absolut Vodka and Drunk History: Cute Girl Version.
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Remember, it's not "jumping the shark" anymore, it's "went to Nana's". That's a thing now. Jumping the shark went to Nana's.
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I thought it was "nuke the fridge".
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Come on! The Vgl Gay Boys' Bernadette Peters movie review has to be a legitimate contender for best web video. Maybe? Totes?
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The Titanic should have been the end of mans arrogance.
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This whole conversation was hilarious, and I for one am glad I finally clicked through to actually read a Friday Fight. The Bert and Ernie alone just made my world a far more delightful place. Well done you.
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Enough with the AD vs 30 Rock. AD is dead. It died because its characters were fundamentally unlikable (although the actors like Bateman, Cera, and Arnet are funny in their own right). Nearly all of 30 Rock's characters are very likable, and every plot doesn't end with Liz whining about how her family keeps screwing her over and "arresting development" (how clever!). Also, narrations are usually disastrous. See: Pushing Daisies, Blade Runner.
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We're never gonna let it go. I think that for years to come, whenever a smart, funny TV show comes along, people everywhere will say, in unison "but still not as good as Arrested Development"
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