Marinating Melvin | Chapo Trap House

Episode 732 - Marinating Melvin (5/15/23)
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It’s Ted Lasso, folks! Yes, after many years of consternation around this show in the Discourse, many requests for review (and Will watching a bunch of that Good Doctor show and reporting back it was actually pretty ok), we decided to take a look at this footballing Yank and his relentless positivity. So, here’s our review of Ted Lasso and what it’s psychotic cheeriness says about TV and America.
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[@zachsyme]

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." -Mel Brooks

[@FreakyFriday4Phaggs]

*Joe Pera* does what Ted lasso pretends to, 100× better.

[@sonicextremities9570]

positivity but as a passive and decorative character, not there to club your over the head or tell you how you should be feeling about something: just there for the vibes

[@wgjung1]

Ted Lasso is a long episode of Black Mirror.

[@HesGotaGun505]

Wha’ if the footy was evil?

[@lmackenzie9198]

What if, right, what if Netflix signed in to *you*?

[@Badtown1988]

I’m aware of the concept of suspension of disbelief, but just the mere fact that a midwestern American football coach is portrayed as anything other than a money-hungry sociopath was simply too far fetched for me to accept.

[@alistercaddy1208]

My most favoritest move of those football coaches is how they repeatedly, shamelessly say they are going to quit to spend time with their family and then take a higher paying coaching or private sector gig or run for office as an honest, salt of the earth family man. It's like, you're one of the richest people in the state and you just lied to everyone about spending time with your family. And the cherry on top: a LOT of them don't even win that much.

[@jonsinobi]

I have a very good friend who is so stressed in his life (despite receiving what I consider to be a decent amount of validation, at least compared to me), that he has explicitly stated to me that he cannot watch anything that makes him even a little bit uncomfortable or that features characters being "mean" to each other. It only occurred to me now that he is the absolute target audience for Ted Lasso.

[@TheFlash-rh2el]

There’s nothing wrong with that.

[@ChewyThomson]

I'm not the kind of dude to tell people to nut up, but damn that is soft.

[@4DRC_]

​​@@ChewyThomson I dont even think it's a matter of being 'soft.' The conditions as of late, particularly post-covid, are just so bad for some people that they just don't have much capacity left for extra stress beyond what they're already under just trying to survive under late capitalism. And its increasing swaths of people. The ruling class has already decided it won't yield any capital to improve the situation, all its going to do is start putting Prozium in The Treats. No decrease in how hard we're being driven, just more to numb the pain.

[@BentKneefan]

That's just anxiety. I can't watch a horror movie without reading the plot summary first because it's way too tense otherwise. Never watched Ted Lasso though.

[@plutarchtheoligarch1657]

​@Antonio Gramsci neo liberal daycare.

[@101tyman]

It’s crazy because My Name is Earl is a show literally about a guy trying to do good and be better and that wasn’t insufferable and preachy the way so many shows are now.

[@campfortson4387]

As an early gen Z man, its truly awful how even shit from the 00s we took for granted in terms of entertainment quality.

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

I’m glad I’m not the only person to remember this, in retrospect, gem of a show.

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

Earl also had flaws and there was tension that was dealt with in a satisfying, meaningful, and thought out way that felt earned. The fact that he still really messed up from time to time is part of what made the show and his quest to be a better person even better.

[@Mannydamon]

Hey! That show is like a wine from Bordeaux, it had body and aged well. Nice to have after life has passed. Quite the show

[@101tyman]

@@BigHomieGayAss1917 literally a flawed protagonist!

[@rorylynch1203]

Watching Ted Lasso is like freezing to death in the snow

[@nicanornunez9787]

Lol

[@OpiatesAndTits]

1:25 “all I wanna be is Ted Lasso, all I wanna be is Ted Lasso, all I wanna be is Ted Lasso”

[@pr00de]

3 billion cookies from Tesco

[@emmy8526]

You forgot the most hilarious part of the Sudeikis prostrating himself in front of Olivia Wilde’s car thing: it was because she was about to deliver a dose of her special homemade salad dressing (not a euphemism, I think) to Harry Styles. Next season Ted Lasso should coach a Ukrainian team - then truly it will be liberals’ most beloved show ever. Generally, I find there’s a sinister undercurrent to Ted Lasso (I made it though three episodes and they were already treading water on plot). You get the vibe that every character is a villain actually and the show is like the TV spin version concocted by the characters’ PR teams. Like I imagine the Ted Lasso marriage had Stephen Crowder dynamics actually.

[@elsanto2401]

Felix dropping the Resident Evil Revelations 2 references. I cant imagine he played it; did he watch the 8 hour long Noah Caldwell Gervais video or did he just scroll through the wiki in a fit of ADHD secondary consumption?

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

Yes to all three

[@blackdog9698919]

"An American football coach is hired to manage a British soccer team; what he lacks in knowledge, he makes up for in optimism, determination and biscuits." shoots self

[@quadabyte8933]

Ted Lasso seems like the mirror world version of Ron Swanson

[@interzoa]

Jan 6th Ted Lasso now we're cooking

[@librarygary1618]

I always figured this show was just Jason Sudeikis ripping off Danny McBride's schtick with an AppleTV budget, but I didn't know it was this bad.

[@sheriffliberty9302]

it's based on a soccer ad NBC(?) did which was just Jason Sudeikis doing Danny McBride and it was way funnier

[@TheFlash-rh2el]

It’s the type of show that becomes victimised the closer we get to an election. Shows like Ted Lasso are very liberal - very much Biden propaganda - but unless there’s a need to criticise the target audience (I.e an election) then it’s left to liberal all over the place.

[@gaiusleviathan8110]

I just flew in from The Silo and boy, are my farms tired!

[@Mannydamon]

Senator Mitt Romney is a fan of Ted Lasso. Let that sit in for a while. Remember he dressed up as Ted Lasso? I remember

[@macnsteez3938]

"it's just such a positive show! After all the negativity of the last 5 years it's just the best" Actual quote from my godmother. My parents love it too (we're Australian lmao) I think middle class boomers worldwide have needed a palette cleanser for the Trump years (or the Morrison years in our case) and this stupid show was perfect for it

[@ugliestjbfan4040]

That Ted Lasso cold open deeply fucked up my vibes at work😢

[@dontletmebrown]

"If Ben Folds was injected with extra chromosomes" had me cackling

[@CNYKnifeNut]

Ben Downs

[@mugiwaraboshi37]

My parents like this show which is how you know it’s bad.

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

My parents stopped watching it after a bit, and my mom actively disliked it lol

[@hyperionman420]

Matt describing Keemstar as a sumerian ziggurat had me out loud hollering

[@garcalej]

Ted Lasso is basically the male version of Emily in Paris. And there is nothing at all good to say about that particular show. The Europeans are not waiting on us to come save them from their ennui or their justified feelings of impending disaster with our cheerful “can do” spirit and soma-induced denial. They look at our gormless, grinning faces and wonder how it is a people who’d sooner give their boss a get well card than demand a four day work-week EVER had the balls to become a democracy in the first place.

[@ChewyThomson]

I look at France, where the whole country riots if you ask them to work an extra hour and then you have the comment section under any Fortune article where people are openly blowing guys like Elon Musk for disrupting work by making people sleep under their desks overnight like George Costanza or whatever the fuck anti-worker bullshit he's invented this week. Honestly, Americans (my fellow Canadians too, but we sorta have healthcare at least) are the most cucked people on Earth.

[@tewodrosii2875]

@@ChewyThomson because we all know we can't win that war. america would faster let pogrums happen than revolution if it meant it still got its treats.

[@QUAKERSATTACKS97]

The biggest crime of Ted Lasso is the terrible soccer choreography. There was more and better soccer in Kicking and Screaming than in the entirety of Ted Lasso

[@phyllisford2130]

The show they're describing around the seven minute mark is Xavier: Renegade Angel. Basically Xavier is a relentlessly positive New Age-style guru who goes around helping people in such a way that his help usually results in, like, half the town dying or something like that. Highly recommended.

[@nothing-2-live-4]

which way to the lake

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

@@nothing-2-live-4 frittata!

[@ads2903]

I think it's the funniest show I've ever seen. I'd love to see Chapo cover this show!

[@inprofile741]

Once I saw Linkedin posts like "12 Ted Lasso Leadership Lessons", the show's neolib/ PMC grift was given up. The "believe" in US imperialism-biden photo op was the cherry on top of (another) shit sundae.

[@nicolev2028]

Felix watching Ted lasso for our sins

[@RIP_Greedo]

Ted Lasso always seemed to me like an artifact from the Demolition Man universe

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

Oy, have joy joy day bruv.

[@Muzikman127]

The Pizza Hut demolition man universe, or the Taco Bell demolition man universe?

[@Mynutshard]

They still got it. Great listen

[@YungM.D.]

This show is like the polar opposite of Succession: every character is nice, and every mystery/secret trait revealed right away. No tension; no stakes. Just people being nice and realizing everyone has a good side to them. Succession had stuff left ambiguous about characters up until the final two episodes for Christ sake! Like imagine if S1E2 of Succession it was like “Also Logan had a sister who died; and it was the polio he might’ve given her, which is why his uncle beat him and gave him those scars he doesn’t like people to see!” Imagine how much weaker the rest of the show would be knowing all that right off the bat and having other characters openly empathize with him and talk it over with him and he becomes nicer because he got rid of his trauma.

[@GrimReader]

And also as a mirror to Succession everyone lies about not watching Ted Lasso

[@Wilbo23]

"Until he stops bringing coffee"😂

[@GermanHawaii]

She Ted on my Lasso til I GOOOOOOOOOAALLL

[@lmackenzie9198]

You know the re-Neducation centre from the Simpsons ep. Treehouse of Horror V? “Just relax and let the hooks do their work.”

[@whentheleveebreaks4732]

The Simpsons is gay

[@lmackenzie9198]

@@whentheleveebreaks4732 Hell yea dude!!

[@Dawt_Calm]

I didn't bother watching because I thought Ted Lasso was a spinoff featuring Andy Bernard from The Office.

[@grock1199]

The council of dads review episodes felix mentions were great because he did them with his sister and him having her on was like when Kyle's cousin visits on south park

[@julymagnus493]

Guys wouldn't it be so flipping epic if there was a Ted Lasso Rick and Morty crossover? Ted could address Rick's trauma and help him move past his dead wife. 100% awesome imo.

[@PopeSlayer69]

I think Ted Lasso should talk to the guy who made that show because man that guy did something I guess no idea

[@LeZer0]

Faith in humanity = restored

[@supermarx]

Would it be as good as the Bones/Family Guy crossover?

[@PR0MAN01]

While i usually disagree with Chapos wider views on media and culture. Theres nothing better then them ripping into some liberal slop entertainment.

[@TheFlash-rh2el]

Succession next. The last episode has frustrated me because all-of-a-sudden we’ve time traveled back to November 2016 - the liberal 9/11. It always reverts to being about that idiotic election.

[@AMPR45]

I too base my enjoyment of media on whether or not people I hate like something.

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

@@AMPR45 Yes the only thing preventing me from liking Ted Lasso was the fact that Libs like it. Absolutely. There are Libs who also like The Boys but the difference is The Boys is genuinely good, so therefore I don’t mind liking it if Libs do, and apparently the pod hosts doesn’t mind either since they’ve made positive comments about The Boys before.

[@minamur]

​@@BigHomieGayAss1917you're replying to a comment that wasn't replying to you. why?

[@AMPR45]

@@BigHomieGayAss1917 ok

[@kolbydroberts]

Hey Matt, I've watched 3 episodes of the Silo. I think you might be on to something, I am starting to suspect the Silo.

[@PopeSlayer69]

sometimes felix will start a bit and I am laughing and into it and then I'll stop paying attention for a second and it's like a whole new episode when I come back. (yep, 4 conjunctions suck me)

[@SchnappM]

Chapos please write a spec script about evil college football coaches, i know you have it in you

[@eliseocolonjr2133]

Just replace Ted Lasso with Urban Meyer

[@CNYKnifeNut]

2023 version of the white savior trope

[@JeffreySmith84]

My wife and I still have a number of friends who are perfectly pleasant as individuals but when they come together as a group just bring out the worst shitlib tendencies in one another. The last few years I've had to endure parties and get togethers where they'll bond over their shared obsession with this awful TV show called Ted Lasso. I'm sure these guys will articulate it far better than I ever could but my kneejerk position is that it's the perfect show for lower middle class, woke 30-something liberals. They're the types that hated Bernie in 2020 and still think working class people like my wife and I are pitiful charity cases because we didn't have a trust fund or get help from our boomer parents to buy a house. Anyway, Ted Lasso just feeds into their political mindset that conflict should be avoided and a positive mental attitude is all that's missing from your life if you're unhappy. It's the perfect show for anyone who reduces politics to pop cultural signifiers complete with ham-fisted dialogue and two-dimensional characters.

[@rf3471]

Agreed with that statement I unfortunately have to work for neolibs who love Ted lasso and one of my employers told me that I didn't you know work hard enough and go to college and do what her granddaughter did which is basically what she did do Teach for America and is now making her way to f****** Law School piece of s*** Neo liberals

[@idklol4197]

My girlfriend's husband never shuts the fuck up about Ted Lasso

[@dogeared100]

Did we watch the same show??

[@nowaht]

They didn't even get to the Christmas episode. It would have broke them

[@macnsteez3938]

Does Ted even Lasso anyone in this show?

[@eliseocolonjr2133]

This is why Irsay got away with hiring Jeff Saturday. Americans really believe in that underdog, out-of-nowhere bs.

[@GrimReader]

You're telling me the constant bit of Lasso not liking tea doesn't absolutely kill each time? Office gif. The shit one with hope not the good one with misery. Will may have nailed it, in the UK any major club footballer is constantly DMing teenagers, getting shit faced in bullshit clubs and being the dumbest fucks around, Lasso shows a truly positive world because the players just aren't constantly being sexual predators.

[@mattryan1999]

Felix watches Noah Caldwell Gervais, confirmed

[@nickelback3360]

Which is good on him

[@mattryan1999]

@nickelback3360 Absolutely. Noah's the GOAT

[@reezespiecez997]

As he should

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

Noah is pretty good, the only thing that ever made me do a double take was his CoD: WaW section of the CoD video. Aside from that, great stuff

[@nickbooze9766]

Nice. When does Felix bring it up? Or alluded to it?

[@comradechill]

im gayer than ted asso

[@deathmagneto-soy]

Do you have a cookie duster and assless chaps?

[@bunyipz2040]

I translated that to english and now i ass ass ass

[@shanemac1646]

You know who didn’t watch Ted Lasso? Virgil Texas

[@crashingspectacular]

Thesis: Ted Lasso Antithesis: The Bear Synthesis: ?????

[@SophisticatedBanjo]

That show where Gordon Ramsey is uncharacteristically kind to child chefs?

[@LoisKl]

29:04 exactly.

[@adriandavies8097]

And that's what really matters

[@heidimelcarek3677]

Oh, you mean like Ray Epps? A total fed lackey? Gotcha

[@ar2042]

Silo is pretty good. Lots of Fallout vibes

[@Lightningkuriboh]

Felix please do an episode on succession

[@PopeSlayer69]

Gotta wait til the end at this point

[@blah146568766i87]

This current season has been so self-important and strangely paced it’s nauseating

[@PopeSlayer69]

@@blah146568766i87 People are happy that a show is kinda good because everything else is so bad but the show runners take that to mean that they are saying something important, not just making an entertaining show for people to consume an hour a week. Honestly the show has lost most of what made it good anyways.

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

@@PopeSlayer69 The thing that makes me excited and confident in House of the Dragon is that it is so removed from our current political moment and our reality, as well as being based on an already existing story. As such, rendering this kind of turn impossible.

[@TheFlash-rh2el]

@@PopeSlayer69 The ending is November 2016 revisited. There, now Felix can tackle Successsion.

[@jerseygunz]

Look everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, but sometimes you just need some cheap wholesomeness

[@I_can_do_20_push-ups]

Do you?

[@maknavickas]

If you need that then just go to church, at least there you would get some social interaction as a bonus.

[@5508Vanderdekken]

Whatever helps you get through the day, no judgment

[@pr00de]

Watch the damn Muppets, not this shit.

[@glovesflared]

Better to watch foreign cartoons from the Soviet Union that you can't read

[@ecceignarus3600]

What is this 'best video ever' co-starring Keemstar? Someone here must be enough immersed in Chapo lore to know.

[@funnybutt2068]

Mom's Basement with Lil Xan and some other guy I can't remember

[@5508Vanderdekken]

Memorial stream for some rapper who died?

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

Probably Mom’s Basement

[@tewodrosii2875]

Lil xan keemstar and adam 22 on moms basement. when you hear someone on the show use the word "clout" its because that video explained it pretty well in motion lol

[@jman7826]

Yes you finally made a Yankee! Yes we finally made a yankee! Yes you finally made a yankee out of me! I love you Ted Lasso!

[@nowaht]

The show rode that line between optimistic and saccharin. I think season 2 fell on the other side and just became banal.

[@TheFlash-rh2el]

I’ve seen this response in a lot of shows. It feels like the new brand of regular Democrat propaganda I.e I know we used to be bad people but if we work together we can achieve anything. My profile is The Flash. The Flash is the worst example of Biden TV I can think of.

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

​@@TheFlash-rh2elIs that even a good descriptor for it? Seems the Flash is just overgrown teen drama spliced in between Shonen battles and training, at least from what I remember watching

[@TheFlash-rh2el]

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 Early on it was. After season 3 the creator changed. It then went more scientific and, basically, a show like Superman and Lois. Very “midwestern” and the writer who took over was the best out of the group. After two seasons, though, he left and a new writer came on. This writer began writing Biden tv. To the point where he became afraid that The Flash’s red suit made him look like a Republican hero. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding his run because he was too deep into politics while writing. The whole thing became: good blue team Vs bad red team. The red are EVIL and the good are the strongest thing in the world - if they stick together regardless of which “side” they came from, or which “colour costume they’re wearing.” The whole thing builds up to a side character becoming a new hero, draped in blue, called “Virtue” to come and save them all. Once Virtue is in the show, everyone joins together and the red team loses. It really should be called “mask off” cinema, as it really is present in the mask off era. To the point where the team, during the final season, are fighting “Red Death” and her team of villains and there is a scene of literal “masking off.” Around now there will be a lot of shows and movies with midwestern/southern villains because there is an election coming up.

[@Alex-od7nl]

who actually gets apple plus?

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

I have Apple tv so it just sort of comes together as a package

[@whentheleveebreaks4732]

People who can afford it.

[@SamanthaCZimmerman]

people who upgrade their phone and get two months free (and then forget to cancel it for like four months after that)

[@Alex-od7nl]

@@SamanthaCZimmerman I guess I don't have to worry about that, since I never get anything but the cheapest android on the market, and use it until it breaks.

[@colonialstraits1069]

6:30 They already made that show, it’s called ‘The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret’ with David Cross.

[@tewodrosii2875]

I LOVED THAT SHOW

[@sarahl701]

That was such an excellent show

[@OrinLinwe]

"When I meet a new girl, I let her go through my phone, delete anything she wants". ...are you dating a 13-year-old? You know that's illegal, right?

[@ebbtides]

I frew up :(

[@hemingshark327]

49:00 might just be my favorite chapo joke

[@Riley-nq3tc]

The second I heard Bill Lawrence, creator of *Scrubs* was one of the heads behind this show I knew I'd never watch an episode. Like admittedly he's been involved in one or two decent shows (Spin City is good) but those were all co-creations. Anytime he has an outsized influence on a show (Particularly compounded by Sudekis' weird post divorce determined positivity) it's just the worst tripe. I guess I'm glad it's doing well cause I actually don't mind Sudekis but everything I've heard about this show, including the baby brained praise, has turned me away Also either Felix is a big time RE head or a viewer of Noah Caldwell Gervais

[@RayLRhodes]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who dislikes Scrubs.

[@rickkroll]

Noah! 🎉

[@cerrytrews9141]

Your Scrubs take is insane to me but I just looked through the rest of BL's notable work and WOOF... he has been a part of some real rough productions

[@dajoker-vd9ur]

Never heard of this show, will never watch it, I care absolutely nothing about it. This was still funny to listen too, I love when the boys are on form.

[@nohbuddy1]

My friends showed me the first like 4 or 5 episodes and I thought it was cute but incredibly generic. Lasso comes off as a guy who is a con artist but I guess he's supposed to be genuine

[@SpaceTimeTurtle]

Ted Lasso, the friendliest smiling frontal lobotomy. I never wanted to watch it before..... and I still don't. :):)

[@1302Lennox]

Best show in a long time. Ted Lasso is such a profoundly stupid show and I feel crazy living in a world where almost no one understands this.

[@sammosaurusrex]

I’m sorry, I’m still stuck on the “Keith as Gunga Din” thing, I can’t stop thinking about it

[@Fucyallfr]

Felix was on fire

[@safirouhi1651]

19:40

[@idklol4197]

1:06:39

[@nicolev2028]

Chapo remake guardians of galaxy spacehog scene challenge

[@marcuswalters8093]

24:07 Olivia Wilde seems exactly like the kind of person who would try to kill you with like, zero cause. I feel like she wouldn't even seem that angry as she did it. 52:45 it could be worse, they could have made like, three movies from it like what happened to Jonny English. The character started life as being in a series of ads for Barclaycard.

[@planetfixer]

id let her tbh she was put on earth to make me happy

[@tewodrosii2875]

@@planetfixer respect yourself. shes not Margot Robbie.

[@planetfixer]

@@tewodrosii2875I'll defer to your judgement then hoss

[@cliftonvasquez3688]

I did not expect Moira Burton representation in a Chapo episode 27:48

[@idklol4197]

3:46 wtf is that noise will made

[@jonsinobi]

Will has been doing that since the show began. I would actually pay good money for a supercut of everytime Will tries to formulate an idea and gibberish tumbles out instead.

[@conor2439]

If Paul Schraeder had directed it, I'm sure Will would have loved it.

[@tommyhowsthepeeping]

because paul schraeder isnt a talentless hack

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

Lasso: A Life In Four Chapters.

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

I can’t get the mental image of Ted Lasso wearing brown military uniform with a hachimaki trying to commit seppuku with a tanto out of my head now lmao

[@conor2439]

@jennifer steben PS is the GOAT for sure. Actually this got me thinkijg how much I would like to see him actually direct an episode of Ted Lasso.

[@weejockpoopongmcplop]

What was the Gianna Michaels thing a reference to? I tried searching "Gianna Michaels" and "shooting" but the results weren't terribly helpful.

[@condor237]

Big Jack Horner

[@Gum_Cuzzler]

🍈🍈

[@bunyipz2040]

Never heard anyone but Chapo talk about this show, no mother in law, no man on the street , no friends, no one.

[@jordank5328]

Really? My office was obsessed with it when it came out, my brother works at a school and the principal literally gave a staff meeting saying they needed to be more like Ted Lasso.

[@docdarlin5491]

What civilians actually use AppleTV tho? All the viewers are media critics watching on corporate accounts.

[@HesGotaGun505]

Only the White House press secretary. Curious…

[@agristina11]

A ton of ppl in my life drone on about it

[@ultravioletiris6241]

@@jordank5328 oh gawd . What an NPC

[@stevescamlikelylantz8921]

Don't worry be happy.

[@PuddingAtheist]

Ted Lasso's a soap opera

[@noahklinger7083]

The boys won't like it, but the perfect antidote to Ted Lasso is Bojack Horseman (occasionally guest starring Olivia Wilde). You know why? Because in that show, being a shitty person your whole life is NOT forgiven in 30 seconds, or even 30 minutes. Sometimes, people aren't forgiven at all. Narrative cliches are avoided. Past trauma is not an excuse for current awful behavior. If they'd get off their damn high horse and watch the show maybe they'd appreciate it. Bonus: it ends.

[@tommyhowsthepeeping]

bojack is ted lasso for people who think theyre too smart for ted lasso.

[@noahklinger7083]

@@tommyhowsthepeeping So, perfect for Chapo.

[@theoleadfoot2864]

I don't need to see depression horse show

[@ozymandias___868]

Sad horse progrum 😐

[@edgarallenjoe6494]

haha the cop is a cat

[@tcf5361]

How have they not reviewed Andor yet? It's the best Star War to ever Star War

[@jacobcurley4742]

Lmao

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

Andor is too well written and actually competently done to probably make any fun content about. It’s the same reason they never made a commentary series about the original trilogy, but did so for the prequels.

[@Newt0rz]

​@Big Homie Gay Ass I was wondering about that when Matt brought up Apple TV's catalog and somehow missed Severance. The only good thing on there.

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

@@Newt0rz True, need to get RLM on the pod so they can exchange some views and opinions on some shows and movies.

[@TheFlash-rh2el]

Andor and the third season of Superman and Lois is supposed to have some MEAT in the scripts too.

[@UnderrealmLich]

"The three most cynical people you know confront the embodiment of positivity"

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

I wasn’t aware this episode was about them shitting on Mister Rogers.

[@Badtown1988]

Still somehow less cynical than cum town.

[@stilgar2007]

Of course these black-hearted pagan communists find Ted Lasso torturous.

[@minamur]

you know these people? i've only listened to their podcast.

[@garcalej]

@@BigHomieGayAss1917 Don’t ever compare Fred Rogers to Ted Lasso. One was an adult who taught kindness and patience to children. The other is an adult who talks to other adults like they are children.

[@RayLRhodes]

7:10 That's just standard "US vs. UK" crap.

[@Gum_Cuzzler]

Also baseball is an objectively shitter sport than soccer. I don't think I've been to baseball game where I didn't just eat a street meat hot dog, drink a couple 14 dollar beers then fall asleep.

[@Badtown1988]

Nah. A baseball game is an experience, even for people who don’t give a shit. It’s peak American maudlin fantasy and maybe the best event in North America to people-watch at. Soccer you have a 50% chance of having crooked refs, they add time to the clock with no hint of an explanation, world class athletes fake cry on the field in order to obtain a penalty on the other team, and the stadiums are soulless dystopian concrete slabs. Fuck soccer.

[@hudsondolezal3553]

Lmaooo soccer sucks so much any game that can end 0-0 is not fucking good lmaooooo

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

@@hudsondolezal3553 spoken like a man who’s never gone to a Pirate’s game

[@minamur]

really, if you think about it, watching sports isn't really what sports are for. really, sports a for playing. you can only get excited watching it if you convince yourself to be invested in it.

[@hudsondolezal3553]

@@minamur for sure, in that case baseball is a lot more fun to play yourself than soccer imo

[@sethhovis6444]

It is much easier for people to open up to a random stranger who comes across as understanding. I know that doesn't really apply to Ted though. I liked the show. I think what people find appealing is what we always have found appealing; Ted keeps trying. Tenacity and commitment are near universal values no matter how misguided the cause.

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

Bigger issue is how everyone in the show seems to do that

[@g-money1247]

I don't find it appealing.

[@elizabethrogers1667]

blirst

[@wgjung1]

'Much better sport, baseball" Ok They are so wrong about that one. Baseball is closer to billiards or darts. It's closer to a pub game than a real sport.

[@GrimReader]

How you fitting a baseball game in a pub?

[@Carlos-Mora]

​@@GrimReaderthe dugouts, of course. Players need something to do while they wait for their turn on the field

[@Ssalamanderr]

@@GrimReader very carefully

[@thats4thebirds]

What a cynical ass place lol

[@theotherdude1998]

Commissar, arrest this man.

[@nathanhavens622]

And then they came for Ted Lasso. Can’t let us feel good for even a little while, can you?

[@minamur]

watch your show, no one's stopping you.

[@adammoore8991]

@@minamur im stopping him. he is no longer allowed to watch ted lasso. i disallow everyone reading this from enjoying ted lasso

[@nathanhavens622]

@@adammoore8991 Thank you. At least you have the guts to say it.

[@garcalej]

@@nathanhavens622 Friends don’t let friends watch Ted Lasso. That’s all we’re saying. We cannot allow a fellow traveler to fall into the black hole of basic without attempting at least some form of intervention. Hate us now, but someday you will thank us for trying to pull you back from the edge.

[@nathanhavens622]

@@garcalej Haha. In a twist…Ted Lasso might be the ONLY thing that keeps someone from jumping over the edge when all anyone ever sees otherwise on the horizon is more cynicism…more nihilism…more darkness.

[@MictlanisWaiting]

im sorry but they talk about this show the exact way they make fun of liberals for talking about the joker movie lol, like JFC relax bro its a show about a nice guy getting into antics lol

[@supermarx]

Does anyone outside of New York like 30 Rock? The most up it's own ass show in the history of television.

[@GayTier1Operator]

yeah it’s funny

[@stilgar2007]

Yep, we like it here in Denver.

[@icarusearthbound]

Colorado Springs and we like it

[@sethshaffer681]

It's one of the best written shows of all time up there with like first decade Simpsons, Futurama, Seinfeld and Arrested Development. Of course there's ton's of people everywhere that love it.

[@dickdingus775]

It's a hilarious show but you are 100% correct that it's up its own ass

[@chrrrles9363]

Watching one and a half seasons only to slag it on a podcast. Ted Lasso is boring... why try to bore us too?

[@patrickholt2270]

For science.

[@thechairman1024]

"Cultural commentary"

[@glovesflared]

So I can get my slop. My snout descends yet again.

[@stevensmith1031]

Nothing going on in politics anymore lol

[@tewodrosii2875]

Ive seen it, theres nothing left

[@LeftyPlaat]

Is there some kind of advantadge to holding on to tension as long as possible? Is it evil to have a fantasty where conflicts are resolved quickly, would it not be worse to see them take longer? This is certainly the guys at their most dirtbag, I don't care for this show. Its just, wow this is jaded listening. I supose to complaint is the positivity is the toxic kind, or forced and oppressive and resolving conflicts but sharing trama is not real solidarity? Certainly is in my world...

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

Yes there is an advantage to holding on to tension for as long as possible. Because I recently watched The Boys recently I will use it as an example. Part of the enjoyment and *tension* of the show is about Homelander, a fucking sociopathic Superman, struggling with his place in the world and trying to get some actual human connection because he craves it so deeply. This is made more interesting by the tension of the fact they he could essentially wipe every human off the face of the earth. This is heightened by the fact that he is becoming obviously more unhinged and mentally unstable, even laying out in detail how he would meticulously destroy America’s infrastructure and start frying govt. officials with his eyes. The fact that it’s almost written in the stars that he will at some point snap and start genociding humanity is part of what makes the show so suspenseful and tense to watch. In short, just watch the brief talk Alfred Hitchcock gives about the bomb under the table and why tension is important to film, or even tv in this case.

[@umamicommie]

Using positivity personally is well and good but when it becomes the best way to be in the world as told by us by corporations, it ultimately isn't resolving people's issues but group coercion to not make people feel bad.

[@4DRC_]

Real positivity is good but Ted Lasso is false consciousness.

[@minamur]

tension moves a story along. if it comes and goes in a flash, what's moving the story? also, if it happens twice, can there even be tension?

[@Mynutshard]

Imagine writing this comment. Embarrassing

[@ellie3910]

Wow, Chapo’s opinion on this show is the same as it was months ago, before they’d even watched it? Imagine my shock when the cynics hate the show they were hoping to hate.

[@willfischer6007]

I’m gay

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

It would have been funny if they were actually cynical and pretended to like it as a bit, that would have actually rocked

[@acetate909]

We found the Ted Lasso fan in the audience. What's it like having the most basic and boring personality in your city?

[@macnsteez3938]

I don't even disagree with you but saying "imagine my shock" just made me think of the Paul Joseph Watson soyface lmao

[@RayLRhodes]

They had watched the trailers, which are usually good indications of what the show is like.

[@damianalejandro6959]

Silo has Rebeca Ferguson in it, who i'd watch doing anything, including resolving the misteries of a dumb plot

[@pr00de]

I've been waiting for this

[@fwowncwown]

I don’t watch tv so I don’t get it.

[@mtunit]

Ted , who ?