Videogum Emergency Alert: The Room Is Going To Be On TV Tonight!
The Room is going to be on The Cartoon Network's Adult Swim at midnight and 2:30 AM tonight. No word on whether the epic sex scenes will be included, but TAPE THAT SHIT. Related: whoever is in charge of publicity for The Cartoon Network is probably...very busy, but come on, they have to have Google! If you're here for the first time or something and don't know why this is huge news, you can catch up here. (Thanks to Patrick for the last-minute tip!)
UPDATE: It's not showing up on the actual cable DVR listing, but it would be the most esoteric April Fool's joke ever, so it's probably best to tape everything anyway just in case.
Posted by Lindsay at 7:37 PM in Videogum Emergency Alert
Tags: The Room | Tommy Wiseau
[raises hand] Why am I now regularly seeing live action stuff on Cartoon Network? Adult Swim gets a pass, I guess, but srsly, are cartoons that hard to find?
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ya'll no i cant wate for dis show to come on. i be waitin all nite! IT S AWSOME!
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Can you please leave now?
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I leave for a few days and this guy comes in?
I'm so excited.
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But what are they going to do about Lisa's smushed boobs and Tommy's crater ass? TV MA!
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Fingers crossed this isn't an April Fools Day joke.
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why do i have to drive to texas tonight? goddamn it.
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it all be part of da lords plan he got for you. go wit da flo and everytin gonna be alright
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that is sage advice my child. It is my plan for all my children to indeed go with the flow.
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Let's hope they don't put it in a tiny window in the bottom right corner without sound, a la the Aqua Teen movie.
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Thank you, Lindsay. Thank you. I hope to finally be initiated into this cult.
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I wish I knew what that was so I could be excited too :/
I will follow the link so I can join the mirth.
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why am i worried they're going to show saved by the bell instead
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Chances are they'll show it since they're also showing the Tim and Eric episode starring Wiseau.
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I'D WATCH THIS BUT I'LL BE IN ALASKA HUNTING WOLVERINES LOL
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Adult Swim is nothing if not esoteric. I'm putting my money on this is an April Fool's joke. (Record it anyways because I want to see what Adult Swim does this year for April Fool's and don't have TV so you should post it).
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Oh, that would be a horrible, horrible April Fools prank.
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Wait, I don't mean that it would be a horrible, horrible April Fools prank for Adult Swim to show "The Room", I meant it would be a horrible, horrible prank for this Patrick fellow to have sent in a fake tip.
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just DL it off the internets
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I DON"T HAVE THE INTERNET
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Everyone should tape it. Having a copy at home is great. My wife and I leave it open on the computer and play random scenes, a la Conan/Walker Texas Ranger, to brighten our moods. The Room is practically pharmacological. "No prahhh-blem Denny, and remember..."
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So if "Robot Chicken" is preempted, what am I going to watch at midnight to make myself really really angry?
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Comcast needs to update their schedule CAUSE setting the DVR to record like 9 15 min shows sounds like a house of PAIN. And then watching those 9 shows in the correct order.
I guess I could just record the first show and set it to extend an hour+, but that would be too smart of me.
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I recorded it through the comcast listings without even thinking about it. Why couldn't I just make a custom recording for 2 hours? Now I get to watch it all in 15 minute intervals. Smart.
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Well. That works too, but since I'm on the west coast the times are all messed cause channels like Toon and CC don't always adjust for pacific time. I checked in at 12, but it had been playing for 30 min already. boooooo.
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I'm sensing an April Fool's prank. BUT the showing has been complimented with the TAEAS:GJ episode with Tommy Wiseau... So I don't even know...
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I'm sensing an April Fool's prank. BUT the showing has been complimented with the TAEAS:GJ episode with Tommy Wiseau... So I don't even know...
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I'm getting so excited I might just Hugh Jackman myself!
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The time has arrived. We'll see if this is a hoax.
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IT'S ON!!!!1!
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OH MY GOD, IT REALLY IS ON.
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LIVEBLOGTHISSHIT!
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Yes!!! I was just thinking about renting this movie later this week. I heart Adult Swim.
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SEX SCENE WHAT
WHAT JUST HAPPENED
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They're using black boxes of various sizes for the sex scenes. It only makes it more ridiculous.
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The censorship of this movie has made it 20 times worse. OMG THIS IS AMAZING. BLACK SCREEN, MUTED SOUND!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
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Oops, no boobs.
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The music reminds me of a Disney Channel Original Movie. WHAT ARE YOU FOOLS WATCHING.
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The music is amazing. I wonder if there's a "The Room" soundtrack out there.
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VIDEOGUM THANK YOU SO MUCH for letting me know about this, I would've never known otherwise. It's on right now and it's blowing my mind. Lisa is sooo beautiful.
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are mr. wiseau's lines dubbed? what the
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We live in CO, it's 10:00 here and it's not on. Cartoon Network hasn't even turned into Adult Swim... are you guys in east coast time?
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yes, MD here.
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DO NOT DUPLICATE COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL.
Pfft, as if Adult Swim.
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Looks like [as] is lurkin' on Stereogum.
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Wow. I fail at commenting.
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I'm pretty sure that was Wiseau's doing.
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Mark is such a fox.
I will be waiting for him tomorrow at noon.
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What has science done. This black box should live in my TV.
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We invited all these people... made a facebook group, got all dressed up (not really) only to find out we're behind schedule?!?!?!?!
Two hours to wait. BUT IT"S SO WORTH IT.
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Does anyone else think this looks like one of those softcore porn movies they show on Cinemax late at night... but without the softcore porn?
Oooo sex scene. Gotta love that black box. And the smooth jazz/R&B
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Can somebody ID this song? I want to play this at my funeral.
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It's on you guys!
AND ITS SO GOOD!
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Ohh, pricelss.
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I liked the black screen best!
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do NOT duplicate this copyrighted material
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I can't thank you enough for this. Although I'm going to have a hard time waking up for my 7:30 class tomorrow morning....fuck it, it's a "Film and Media Arts" class, I can just tell them I was studying =]]
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Imagine how I feel, I'm in the Navy, for godssakes!
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Who's their creepy friend that keeps coming over?
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Such elaborate drink pouring!
and also, magically appearing pizza.
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1 sex scene/12 minute ratio.
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I'm so excited that I get you guyz' Twitter alerts to my phone, or else I wouldn't be watching this AMAZING MOVIE RIGHT NOW.
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And so the drama begins.
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"The test results are in and I definitely have breast cancer"
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"The computer business is too competitive." It's on! I want to be the guy who decided how big and where the black boxes should be. (Yay!)
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did you know that chocolate is the symbol of love?
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ARMS UP!
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Jersey Boy and his expressions = priceless
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Lisa is so deceitful, just like all women.
Also the chocolate kissing is disgusting.
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"It's really tragedy how many kids..."
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"If I was a burglar, you'd be my best friend!" Lisa's mom is already my favorite.
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Ahh, the Gerber baby life insurance commercial! Not targeted to The Room at all. (Or is it?)
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Americans have all the fun... :(
I'm just gonna buy this on Amazon.
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OMG, green screen!
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it's incredible how funny this is. like all the talent and money in saturday night live hasn't made me laugh this hard in years.
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Oy! Jewish mom.
Bubulah!
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the scenes without tommy are less magical... loverboy
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a friend found sassy modeling pics of mark (greg sestero) in some 2006ish alternative apparel catalogs. now i know why he was so busy.
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"I like to think about your arms around me. It excites me."
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"I did not hit her, I did naaat"
CLASSICZ
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I want to see this movie from Betty's POV.
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how old is danny. he strikes me as somewhere between 14 and 38.
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"If a lot of people just love each other, the world will be a better place"
Can we get a Nobel Prize up in here?
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"YOU ARE TEARING ME APAAAART LISAAA!!!!1"
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YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, LISA!
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did tommy wiseau direct that ad with the shaven headed swimmer? wtf was that??!
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Lisa is just horrible. I'd have throat-punched her long ago.
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"Actually, I got a little bit of a tragedy on my hands."
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World's smallest triangle!
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Lets get the chat room going... "The Room" chat room party y'all http://videogum.com/archives/liveblog/the-2009-academy-awards-livebl_054011.html#
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"That's life."
-Tommy Wiseau, 2009
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Oy! I got shpilkas in my gonecktakazoinks!
-mom
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is there really that much of a difference between tommy wiseau and say, christopher walken in communion. Oh my god, I just forgot about the genius of Communion, the movie where Christopher Walken gets abducted by aliens.
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Too many good quotes here to possibly single out any specific one.
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And so the "cheep, cheep, cheep, cheeeeeeep" begins. Also "You're both weird."
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My favorite part of the movie is the eleventeen thousand plot holes.
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Tommy Wiseau's delivery of how he met Lisa is inspired. It's like he was making it up as he went along.
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I'm pretty sure that's what actually happened
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"It was an out of state check" might be the most believable part of a feature film love story ever, though.
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I think my favorite part so far was when Johnny laughed at the story about the girl getting beaten up so badly she ended up in a hospital. HAHAHAHA! WHAT A CRAZY STORY MARK
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Loving Mark's Canadian tuxedo.
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the devil's weed has made Mark go INSANE
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The San Fransisco background looks like a dystopian nightmare version of SF
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Mladen really did outdo himself with the music...
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I think that mini-chicken dance is the most believable part of the movie so far.
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"Have any of you ever SEEN a chicken before?"
-Michael Bluth
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DAMMIT! Beat me to it.
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Wtf? Football? In tuxedos? Get with it, Danny.
Also: What happened to the drugs he bought? That's serious business right there.
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For those counting at home, 5th sex scene.
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Wisseau only gets the "effect" part of "cause and effect"
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TOTAL BLACK? WHAT AM I MISSING?
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The overuse of the black bars to the point of full-screen implies much hard core sex than is actually in the movie. It's like the Unnecessary Censorship version.
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Next time it cuts to commercial or after it's over, you guys gotta check out the music video tribute song these dudes made for the movie. Super elaborate and they obviously know the movie very well. I-i-i-it's a football breeeeeeak!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx-Fc0iVF2A
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Fact: The Room has a better plot point than Crank 2.
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OMG - I just caught it .... how long has it been on?????????
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About an hour and a half.
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THAT'S what this movie needed: a musical piece!
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OH MY GOD, I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE HOW GREAT OF AN ACTRESSTHE MOM IS.
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I feel awkward just watching this onscreen party.
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What time is this over? 2:30?
Sleep or "The Room", sleep or "The Room"...
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"wait I have something I want to show you"...
MY VAGINUHHHHH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddyZvAhRBdA
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leave your stupid comments in your pocket!
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Lisa's master plan was to invite everyone over and then tell them all to go outside. WHAT A GENIUS.
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who the hell is this character played by a cross between david hasslehoff and ron livingston?
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Tommy Wiseau's face looks like it's made from clay or it's some sort of prosthetic... and that's awesome.
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"I feel like I'm sitting on an ATOMIC BOMB waiting for it to go off"
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I was seriously wondering if following VG on Twitter was necessary. What a fool I was!
ps: Do NOT duplicate this copywrited material!
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Who is this new guy because he is rivaling the Mom in being my favorite. He looks so super pained. I CAN'T NOT TYPE IN CAPS ABOUT THIS MOVIE BECAUSE IT'S SO SUPER AMAZING.
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is Lisa wielding some sort of mind control over this party? let's go outside for air. let's go inside for cake.
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if they apparently have this patio that they're all currently getting fresh air on, WHY do they hang out on the roof and 'play football' in the alley?
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That escalated quickly.
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and deflated twice as fast.... wait... more fighting!
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Aww, poor Johnny.
:(
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I was seriously wondering if following VG on Twitter was necessary. What a fool I was!
ps: Do NOT duplicate this copyrighted material!
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did you see - that kid made tommy wiseau out of bendaroos!
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bendaroos is made of genuine tommy wiseau hair
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Everyone is always leaving as soon as they show up on the screen... wtf?
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THE ROOM Fun Fact: The music is by a guy named Mladen Milicevic, who is a professor at Loyola Marymount University here in LA. Yes. Someone associated with this movie is teaching others. I think if LMU starts staffing more people from the Room, they can finally take down USC and UCLA for the film school title.
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will he see about that??? because I didn't catch whether he'd see about it or not.
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Tommy, you do have friends! You have obsessive Denny at your side!
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Is this where he turns into the Hulk?
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Wait, I thought the mom said Lisa knew Johnny for five years, and now they're screaming about knowing each other for seven years? Have I just not been paying attention?
And geez, these people drop friendships like THAT.
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Tommy Wiseau SMASH!
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I can now die peacefully, thanks to Tommy's 'rage' scene.
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oh my god. this is the greatest apeshit scene of all time.
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OMG THIS IS THE MOST POWERFUL SCENE I'VE EVER SEEN. LOOKIT HIM PUSH OVER THAT CANDELABRA WITH SUCH DISDAIN AND THE TEARZ AS THEY STREAM DOWN HIS CRAGGY FACE.
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What really got me was how he scattered that bowl of decorated fruit.
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wake up? HAHAHAHAHAH
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I'm waking my entire neighborhood cackling like a banshee at this lunacy... and why the fuck was he humping that dress?
and why does he keep his suicide gun in a conveniently located special box?
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SERIOUSLY?
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holy shit, i truly did not see that coming. holy. shit.
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My heart is crying.
:(
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I FEEL LIKE MY BRAIN IS MELTING. WAKE UP, JOHNNY!!!!!
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LEAVE US!
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Cue the 'Adagio for Strings.'
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HE'S IN A BETTER PLACE!
Actually, he's in the same place with a hole in him
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Single clap for The Room, pass it on: *clap*
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I LOVE HOW IT JUST TURNED INTO PORNO MUSIC DURING THE CREDITS. HOLY SHIT, THAT MOVIE WAS UNREAL.
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the strangest thing is that... i want to see it again.
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Me too. I'm so glad I made my DVR manually record this shit.
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That was amazing! I think Tommy Wiseau might be a soulmate of Vincent Gallo but... you know... with out all the doucheness.
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Maybe I'm just overtired, but my actual thought process was - "A black box? But who is he having sex wit -- OH SHIT".
And that's it? It's over?
Thank you Lindsay - without this post I probably would have never experienced the lunacy that is "The Room".
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*clap*
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'Violin played by Giovana.' Wtf?
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L'ouvre de Tommy Wiseau is truly peerless...
also - the Time Life Quiet Storm music during the credits: PERFECT.
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who knows where i can download "My Rose" by Kitra Williams?? i feel like seducing my lady with it for sexy times... then subsequently calling her a bitch repeatedly, trashing my apartment, and shooting myself in the head with my conveniently placed pistol. you know, just another friday night.
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Guyz, I think we need to write a love letter to Wayman Davis and Kitra Williams for that beautiful mood music.
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Okay, if anybody's watching the commercials, does the marketing group for Ronnie Milsap's hymns realize that that commercial's a bit too close to a Tim and Eric skit?
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To be honest, I saw that commercial when I turned on Cartoon Network and thought it was Tommy Wiseau pretending to be blind at first.
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i still can't tell if wiseau is in on the joke... and this is not me being willfully obtuse.
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i honestly thought that ronnie milsap thing was a tim and eric sketch... it isn't?
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That shit's real, surprisingly. When it came on earlier in the night I thought it was a T&E promo.
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OMG!!! It's back.. I can watch it from the beginning. My life is complete.
or I THOUGHT it was coming back on... I'm very confused. This is all very absurdist.
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speaking of commercials, what about all those Life Alert commercials? y'know, for the senior citizens watching Adult Swim(??)
or, I guess, the tiny percentage of viewers that are statistical outlier levels of fat
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i cannot wait to watch The Room again.
anybody else still going to be here for round 2 after this Tim & Eric episode??
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Ok, Im sorry but I need to vent somewhere. THEY DIDN"T AIR IT ANYWHERE ELSE BUT THE EAST COAST???
I just watched 2 hours of crappy cartoon network shows... only for MORE crappy-ness. WTF?!?!?! and nowhere did it say that that would be the case.
Well shit. Good job Wiseau, I'm buying the DVD.
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I'm in the Midwest and they played it here..... but I only caught the last 30 minutes or so. whatever you have to do.... see this movie.
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What? Really? I don't know... I seem to have stepped into a parallel universe where The Room is non-existant.
I'm watching Red Dawn instead... AVENGE ME!!!! Seems fitting.
Plus, we just checked it again, and NOTHING.
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i feel like i just watched the brown bunny only it was good
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Lindsay, Thank you so much for bringing this movie into my life.
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It's back MUTHA FUCKAS!
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Everybody keep an eye out for kd lang in her cameo role as the florist.
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so THAAAAT'S what the creepy dress rubbing was all about at the end! i get it now!!
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Did Christopher Dane Owens have some part in this soundtrack?
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normally i'd give that a heartly LOL, but not tonight. no, not when it's competing with the brilliance that is The Room.
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I know.... too much. too soon. I'll just bask in the brilliance.
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I will stand in the way of a bullet
I will run through a forest of flames
I will climb the highest mountain
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this is the saddest hook-up of all time.
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Once was enough, I couldn't bear to watch this movie alone; I had to bring out the laptop and comment incessantly about it.
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How could they do this to Johnny.
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i know... he's his best friend.
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how cinemax missed out on getting the rights to this is beyond me
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Was anyone else disappointed when Denny didn't ask Lisa and what's-his-face to toss the football around with him there at the end? LOL
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If you're planning on lovemaking anytime soon, then you should pick up the soundtrack. Clearly.
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I was disappoiinted that Denny didn't ask Lisa and what's-his-face to play with the football with him there at the very end.
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Fuck's up with that kid Denny?
and why is everyone telling that chick she's beautiful????
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hhhhaa dunn drink, you nuh daaaaht
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THERE IS A GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's on. Im going to cry.
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"I finally got the test results back - I DEFINITELY have breast cancer."
LOLZ
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"what are these characters doing here!"
my thoughts exactly, lady
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Ewww she's on the sex couch!
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this is a revolving door of senseless cameos... no one spends more than 3 minutes in frame at a time.
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what KIND of money???
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You know better Denny!
You almost got keeee-ooooohhhhled!
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loving the reiteration of the characters' roles. by the characters themselves.
"johnny's like your father, denny, and we're your friends. we're going to help you"
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I DID NOT HIT HER! OH, HI MAHHK.
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Ok so nobody saw him on the stairs AND everyone has to leave after making a 5 second appearance lol
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WHY would denny tell johnny he loves lisa....
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Lets go eat hooooooon
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Do you understand life?
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Let's go eat, HOH!!
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Why does everyone keep telling everyone else not to worry?
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Still can't believe this was not a prank. It's a St. April Fools miracle!
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i get the feeling Johnny misunderstands the duties of a psychologist.
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BTW, "You didnt get any tips from your job?" "Whatever."
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"i got a new client"
"really, who?"
"i can't say, it's confidential. anyway, how's your sex life?"
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you've got to know what it is and isn't appropriate to discuss....
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sounds like these actors skipped Moaning 101 at the Cinemax School for Softcore. good grief.
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Im diggin his red gloves
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i'm glad they included that random football scene, because before, i had no idea that johnny and mark were best friends.
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Becca-oneal? lol
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you've unmasked my identity and now I have to kill you.
:(
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"It's bullshit, I did nah"
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slow. clap.
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gdn everyone
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Bray-vo, En-core!
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Funny as it was, this is the epitome of pop-culture madness. The irony is good to an extent, but watching this makes me feel soul-less.
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I can only imagine :'(.
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I settled down to watch Robot Chicken last night and instead this was on. I immediately ran downstairs to my DVR and DVR'd the entire evening of Adult Swim. Now I can watch it whenever I want! In 15-minute segments! (ugh.)
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all this videogum obsession about this movie still does not do it justice... absolutely amazing haha
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Wait...that was 'THE ROOM' on Adult Swim last night? I thought I was watching some random episode of 'Tom Goes To The Mayor' guest-starring Stephen Pearcy from Ratt.
Huh.
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saved it to my netflix queue. and if i like the room, netflix says, i'll also like um bad lieutenant and adaptation? so true!
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Damn it, I don't check videogum for one day and this is what I miss. I was looking forward to seeing it in a few months when it finally comes to Vegas, but now I am just angry that I missed it on television when I had a chance. Now the wait seems even longer.
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I want to THANK YOU AGAAAAIN for telling us about this. I feel like a changed person.
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Thoroughly enjoyed this but I get the feeling it only gets better watching with a large group. The flower shop scene was hands down my favorite part (Youtube "The Room Flower Shop") They really had to race through that dialogue so they could squeeze in another sex scene.
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its not on i checked
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Hello, Very nice site. Universe help us, dont worry man.
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