Show About Games Show: Nerds & Red Rings

[Nikolaz72]

Enough with the hate. This isn't bad at all. Reminiscent of Robot Chicken in the switching between skits. Still, if I'm honest, RROD was the best bit this week.

Also: Kitchener-Waterloo? Wow. Coolest thing to come from there since my wife and Steph Dilts.

You can't just dismiss criticism like this. The show's meant to be a comedy and some of us didn't laugh, at all. I actually got bored and found my mind drifting off which meant I had to skip back and watch it again as I hadn't been paying attention (considering the show's only about 5-6 minutes long that's something of an achievement). I'm not just hating the show for the sake of hating it, I liked the previous two episodes, on the whole this series definitely appeals to my sense of humour, but this episode was an epic fail for me; slow, predictable and boring.

I get the jokes, I see why they're supposed to be funny and why they probably sounded funny on paper I guess it's just the delivery that didn't work for me. It's a well produced, well written show though so don't think I'm just hating, I just didn't like this episode.

To be honest i think Zero Punctuation is ment to be comedy aswell. I only laughed in 4 of the episodes, does this mean it HAS TO GO by your logic?

 

[Imper1um]

Meh, stick with actual sketches of gaming, not sketches of shows. You're not SNL.

RRoD Sketch was interesting, but only gave me a smirk.
Pillow quest was slightly amusing.

 

[MasterProcrastinator]

I thought this episode was actually the best so far. I didn't exactly get much amusement out of the previous two, but this one I enjoyed quite a lot. All of 'Pillow Quest' was funny, 'The Big Bang Theory' parody was pretty funny (even if I do like TBBT). I thought that the Red Ring sketch was the weakest of the three, but it was still significantly better than a lot of stuff I saw in the first two episodes. I thought that the title was actually the best part of the Red Rings sketch - 'Overanalyzing the Obvious', great stuff. And the "the rings still glow among us" line was also quite amusing.

Overall, this was a much better episode, probably because there were more skits, meaning we didn't have to endure the bad for long, which meant that we were more willing to accept and enjoy the good. A definite improvement.

 

[beefpelican]

I think I like your fast jokes the best. But judging from the comments, the prefrences go 50%my way 50% the other way. So whateves.

 

[kaizoman]

Huzzah, someone besides me thinks that Big Bang Theory is a steaming pile!

Um... They were giving it a nod... Big Bang Theory is genius!

 

[Emil Andersson]

Meh. I didn't really laugh and only smirked when the pillow went instead of the guy...but the rest was sub-par. I want more amazing sets like the LBP part again. That was by far, your best.

As the wise man said. Don´t think that I will be sticking around to watch if it continues like this.

 

[beniki]

*sigh*

I understand you were trying to be funny. I get the jokes you're trying to make. I'm tired of waiting for you to get better at delivering them.

Can we have Doraleous back now please?

 

[hipster666]

A rapid fire comedy sketch show that isn't funny. Well at least it's novel... I was trying my best to laugh at this but the most amusing thing was seeing how few comments this episode provoked compared to last week. They better seriously rethink who is writing this show before it gets canned.

LRR-related again, but totally check out "RapidFire" [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/archive/all/date/desc?search=rapidfire] on their website.

Fast-paced sketches actually done well.

I think there's some confusion here? I said that Show About Games Show wasn't funny, nothing related to the LRR team at all. I also agree that they are very funny and the SAGS team could learn a lot from them. Rapidfire is hit and miss, but the ratio of win to fail is good and the keep it fast enough so you remember the good and forget the bad.

 

[Migratingchimp]

How did this show win the escapist show contest and get on here?
Was everything else this year just that much crap?
Lastly, why do I keep watching it hoping it will get better?

 

[Migratingchimp]

Yes Doraleous would be spectacular. Take this garbage off the site, Hell that singing brit chick was better

 

[FlitterFilms]

Enough with the hate. This isn't bad at all. Reminiscent of Robot Chicken in the switching between skits. Still, if I'm honest, RROD was the best bit this week.

Also: Kitchener-Waterloo? Wow. Coolest thing to come from there since my wife and Steph Dilts.

You can't just dismiss criticism like this. The show's meant to be a comedy and some of us didn't laugh, at all. I actually got bored and found my mind drifting off which meant I had to skip back and watch it again as I hadn't been paying attention (considering the show's only about 5-6 minutes long that's something of an achievement). I'm not just hating the show for the sake of hating it, I liked the previous two episodes, on the whole this series definitely appeals to my sense of humour, but this episode was an epic fail for me; slow, predictable and boring.

I get the jokes, I see why they're supposed to be funny and why they probably sounded funny on paper I guess it's just the delivery that didn't work for me. It's a well produced, well written show though so don't think I'm just hating, I just didn't like this episode.

To be honest i think Zero Punctuation is ment to be comedy aswell. I only laughed in 4 of the episodes, does this mean it HAS TO GO by your logic?

I didn't say this HAS TO GO. This person did ...

Again quite a bad episode, with zero laughs or even a small smile on my part.
The Escapist has so much good videos... Drop this and try something else.

Last time I watched it, anyway.

... maybe you meant to quote them. Or one of the others who did.

I don't think this HAS TO GO, it's clear some people liked this episode and I liked the previous ones so I'm going to stick with the series for now. People should be free to criticise and if you don't want to be criticised then an open forum on the internet is probably something best avoided.

I would never say any show HAS TO GO as I'm not under the impression my opinion holds any sway over the decisions of people I've never met and a website I have no control over.

 

[Xman490]

Xbox after 2007 FTW. Speaking of Plants vs Zombies, it's coming out on PSN, and the mobile app for it will eventually get game modes besides replaying levels.

 

[SkiCross]

I like the Big Bang Theory parody; great job on catching the voices and mannerisms. Pillow Quest zinger after the credits, "Don't you look pleased as punch". Good stuff.