[cfgeeks] Ooooh... Shiny!!

[Kevin Korb]

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On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, syberghost wrote:

> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 09:08:19 -0500
> From: syberghost <syberghost at gmail.com>
> To: Central Florida Geeks <cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org>
> Subject: Re: [cfgeeks] Ooooh... Shiny!!
> 
> On 12/4/06, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:
>>
>>  http://www.epguides.com/RobotChicken/
>>  This is a short collection of shorts.  The episodes are only about 12
>>  minutes long each and are a bunch of real short "skits" made with stop
>>  motion animation using toys.  Very funny.  Only show in this list that
>>  is still on TV (Adult Swim).
>
> Consistently funny, largely because the 15-minute format saves them
> from the mess Saturday Night Live gets into of not having an ending.
> They just get in, make the joke, and get out.

Very true.  I could never get into SNL except for a few of the best
skits that can be seen elsewhere.

>
> Whedon connection; executive producer, writer, and voice artist Seth
> Green, who played "Oz" the werewolf on Buffy.

Yeah, Oz was a very cool actor and Seth Green has a pretty good idea of
what is funny.

>
> Also, you'll be amazed how often the character making fun of some
> celebrity is actually voiced by that celebrity.  One of my favorites
> was Joey Fatone as himself (and Pat Morita as himself, in one of his
> last roles) in "Enter the Fat One."

Yeah, I first noticed that when they had Sara Mechelle Gellar playing
the voice of a Buffy doll but it happens a lot.

>
> Last but not least, this fairly-recent bit in which the crew of the
> Enterprise faces certain doom:
>
> http://www.devilducky.com/media/51627/

That had to have been their best skit ever.  I loved the way it ended.
The little Hitler one was probably second best.

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