Chapo Trap House - Reviewing Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

from episode 285

[@bbrbbr-on2gd]

I really want an Aaron Sorkin Cancel Culture movie, and it somehow involves Russiagate. I'm just putting this out there for the universe.

[@morganboes7641]

Why would you curse the universe like this

[@diegowushu]

Don't put that evil on us! Don't you do it!

[@LaurieKoudstaal]

Even better, it could a TV series! With 6 seasons, at least.

[@jasondaveries9716]

i could definitely get behind this. Weirdly enough though, sorkin's last film: The trial of the Chicago seven, was actually very good i thought

[@grnmjolnir]

@@jasondaveries9716 I have a feeling it’s because he stuck to the history and that kept him from Sorkining all over the place

[@RememberShuffle]

31:00 “I don’t think people are gonna go back and listen to this podcast 10 years later” um, oops

[@RIP_Greedo]

It’s very amusing to compare this to 30 Rock, which premiered at roughly the same time. For one thing, especially in retrospect, these shows don’t seem like contemporaries at all. Studio 60 feels like a 90s project. The most important difference was that early on 30 Rock figured out that the show within the show was bad and had no pretenses about it. Meanwhile Studio 60 never gave up the idea that their stupid sketch comedy show is not only funny but actually important and edgy when to the viewer it so plainly isn’t any of those things.

[@nicanornunez9787]

Well one is a comedy the other is an epic political drama. I think Studio 60 error is showing the stupid sketch, the Felix interpretation of DBZ is perfect. But you don't show Goku you just pulp fiction every episode, like the joke of plain trains and automobiles. I mean if you could just write such a great sketchsthe show wouldn't be watched for the drama.

[@nicanornunez9787]

Epic drama as in tv genrenot like is awesome and sad

[@RIP_Greedo]

@@nicanornunez9787 Studio 60 is not an epic political drama what are you on about?

[@Calcagno1988]

@@nicanornunez9787 Hell, the DBZ comparison is why I find Mr. Satan’s character so baffling. The world of DBZ is one where the public knows about people who can shoot energy beams, make copies of themselves, grow extra limbs, grow fifty feet tall, regrow limbs, like just the stuff from OG Dragonball, and somehow it’s this greasy Hulk Hogan type with no magical powers that’s considered the World’s Champion???

[@GrimReader]

Don't you dare slander TGS like that.

[@baljot1231]

they probably only watched a handful of episodes for this but god I wish they had seen the episode where DL Hughly takes Chandler to a black comedy club to see an up and coming comic that they could potentially hire and I swear to god the guy they originally go to see starts doing some unga bunga shit on stage and Chandler's whole demeanor is like how dare you waste my time with this while DL Hughly is profusely apologizing, like begging for forgiveness. Sorkin is one of those people who should be absolutely banned from writing any characters who aren't exactly like him

[@Snootypriss]

Thanks for sharing that, sounds fucking hilarious.

[@baljot1231]

@@Snootypriss kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHbUZ51jnJmlfKs So I actually misremembered this, Chandler is actually kinda just unfazed by the whole thing, it's DL Hughly who is ready to lynch this guy. He straight up says "what that guy needs is a Colt 45 and a bucket of fried chicken" jesus fucking christ

[@christianhargrave8907]

Sorkin autocorrects to Dork In

[@mumdangerous]

Charlie Wilson's War is some histrionic trash but Hoffman's rant in the CIA office should be in the Smithsonian

[@tewodrosii2875]

I listen to that rant in the morning as I wake n Bake, its awesome

[@jingbot1071]

Will should talk like the start of this video all the time, man.

[@marcusianparrish]

🤣

[@marcusianparrish]

and Matt should talk like the old timey radio guy

[@raptormoments]

they need to break down the Sorkin Entourage episode

[@gpainter1000]

Sorkin also makes sitcom writers smart, but not funny in Bring the Ricardo’s. He writes Lucille Ball as a tough as nails genius who is not funny at all off screen.

[@collindysart6472]

Awful movie.

[@emmy8526]

So bizarre that this walk-and-talk fictional pseudo-political speech specialist think he has any insight or capacity to write comedy and about comedy.

[@mlbp2567]

Imagine making a movie about Lucille Ball and making it as dry as possible

[@tewodrosii2875]

Tbf, Lucille Ball didn't fuck around business wise. That's how we got star trek

[@willywonka7812]

D L Hughley's daughters both have men's names. Sorkin on the company teat

[@raptormoments]

it's funny that Aarons parents gave him a feminine name, its gotta bother him

[@PR0MAN01]

More people know Gilbert and Sillivan from fucking Mass Effect 2 than actual Gilbert and Sullivan, and the alien singing it is like 85. Jesus Sorkin does not have his finger on the pulse of culture.

[@musicalnotextr]

Was literally thinking of Mordin Sollus when they referenced G&S.

[@atreides213]

@@musicalnotextr He is the very model of a scientist salarian.

[@topleybird2443]

It’s a generation thing, Zoomers know them from Mass Effect, Millenials (like the Chapos) know them from The Simpsons

[@dirrdevil]

Mordin is not 85. He's only about 35, which is like 85 in Salarian years.

[@RememberShuffle]

54:48 “she’s accosted by a Tom of Finland drawing” lmao

[@barryo924]

55:27 literally kramer’s street toughs

[@berdyderg900]

It's nighttime for half the year no matter where you live

[@Baseballnfj]

Alaska.....

[@berdyderg900]

@@Baseballnfj everywhere else too

[@Baseballnfj]

@@berdyderg900 nighttime is a very dark time for me.

[@berdyderg900]

@@Baseballnfj I know the feeling :)

[@tlengland2007]

Love when felix brings up kate upton

[@tidigimon]

Felix really loves coming back to that Tom of Finland line huh

[@Iwatchedyouchains]

I think we all yearn for a more masculine time

[@sebastiangorka200]

cuz its never not funny

[@Blackening]

Game recognize game

[@billytitus1519]

Shut up Virgil

[@marcusianparrish]

Nice ep # drops

[@Calcagno1988]

Dammit so it was THIS episode that makes me think to myself every time I see a poster for Women Talking, I always say to myself “Women Do Be Talking Like That”…

[@jonathannathan1754]

Every time Matt does that Common commercial it’s still funny

[@jonathannathan1754]

Yup, still funny

[@yeaforbes1]

I have never seen Studio 60 so when i saw the image for this vid I first thought it was the shitty knock off of 30 Rock from an alternate universe

[@collindysart6472]

Felix reviewing The Interpreter starring Nicole Kidman when?

[@beebgegegeg-xr3cm]

Soar, pimp!

[@idklol4197]

17:28 based moment from matt there

[@dirrdevil]

Listening to this episode in 2024 and the discussion of Joe Biden is just as true as ever.

[@berbishmcglerbish8994]

At last

[@robelkton7800]

A small nitpick, but Modern Major General comes from Pirates of Penzance, not HMS Pinafore

[@meamishere1166]

Does Felix not like *"Collateral?"*

[@manuelchavarria]

Yeah, that stuck out to me, too -- Collateral rocks.

[@tewodrosii2875]

@@manuelchavarria eh, it gets...pretentious

[@ChewyThomson]

Remember seeing that epic trailer for the Social Network and then watching it and realizing that it was Sorkin all the way through and not even Trent Reznor and David Fincher could save it?

[@iwazhear77]

False

[@macnsteez3938]

Except they did save it, it's a good movie lol. Probably the best thing Sorkin has done

[@GrimReader]

Garfield and Fincher were doing everything they could and the Sork just bodies them with his evil

[@Hamun002]

Hey, I loved John Belushi's deli guy, its charmingly offensive!

[@daricklapaglia4337]

30 rock has an episode where one charactwr thinks their skit is too smart and funny and its actually just shit. Much better show

[@wal_pur_gis]

What episode?

[@Hamun002]

55:35 is this where the gay mafia shit came from?

[@TheNickNuttall]

The Joe Biden part feels bad to hear this far in.

[@jfrsnjhnsn]

It’s amazing how a show with such a great cast could just be such garbage

[@MakiPcr]

Those Biden comments did not age well

[@berdyderg900]

That's okay, neither did he

[@speed0spank]

We absolutely will come back 10 years later, especially for reading series 👀

[@berdyderg900]

That felt quite personal as I listened back to this shit almost a decade later