Doesn’t matter what part. She talked him into watching a movie or a show and she’s the one who ended up falling asleep, despite her claims that it’s “only 7:30”.
I thought at first she was really pissed off, but now I see she’s asleep.
tygalilee has it. Arlo didn’t really want to watch anything, Janis talked him into it and now she can barely stay awake.
We all know what they really want to do, this talk of movies and TV is just pro forma; but alas, time is catching up with them, and before Arlo can finish undressing (you’re going to tell me those are just badly colored pants?), Janis has already fallen asleep.
The “chill” part of “Netflix and chill”. It’s never about the “Netflix” part.
Regarding panel 2: does Arlo really think they’ll be watching more than one season of anything tonight?
Besides, it’s my observation that for many shows, the second season is the best: The first season, they’re still finding their way, and after the second season they’re running out of fresh ideas.
“Regarding panel 2: does Arlo really think they’ll be watching more than one season of anything tonight?”
No but later you’ll have to watch the stupid later seasons and that’s really painful that it’s probably not worth starting season 1 if the cost is that you have to also watch five additional awful season.
Now it is possible that some guys can watch one season without having to watch the remaining five but not all of us know the times of our death to schedule it right so the option of stopping after one season just isn’t available to us.
“does Arlo really think they’ll be watching more than one season of anything tonight?”
The trend is towards shorter seasons.
Arlo’s problem with that is that even if they find a new, interesting show to watch, there won’t be much of it and they’ll be right back in the same situation in a couple of days or a week’s time.
My general complaint is the movies… they pay the $$$ to get the very top tier of movies, after the home copes sales drop off. And they get a lot of movies that were… never big in theaters. But there’s a broad range of movies in between, that they don’t have… which would be the exact ones I’d want a movie streaming service for. I either went to the theater for the big movies, or I decided I didn’t want to see them. But the ones that I wanted to see but not enough to pay $12 for (plus $4 more for approximately 11 Mild Duds)… that’s what I wish my streaming movie service had.
James, those in-between movies are almost always available for streaming from Amazon for about four bucks. And you can pop your own popcorn.
They’re also available from Redbox for about $1.50 each, and for ignoring for free. If I wanted to buy into 37 services, it wouldn’t bother me that everything I wanted isn’t on the same service. But that’s not what I want. So, no, CBS, I’m NOT going to get your new streaming service, even if your exclusive Star Trek show was any good. No, Disney, I’m NOT going to get your new streaming service. No, whoever else, I’m not going to get your new service, to get one show I might be interested in.
Rage, James, RAGE against the dying of the light.
Rage? No, that’s reserved for what Disney has done to the Star Wars franchise since buying it. They burned up any remaining goodwill by torching the expanded universe because JJ Abrams was too lazy to learn it. They made one good movie, one OK movie, and two absolutely awful movies with the franchise. It’s time to hire Daniel Craig to play Han Solo and start over with new producers.
This happens about a half of the time I sit down to watch a movie in the evening with my significant other and she generally acknowledges that it will happen. That is a notable improvement from earlier in our relationship when it happened 80%+ of the time and she very much did not care for that fact when I brought it up in an attempt to steer the evening television ritual toward something shorter.
Originally, I thought it was Janis saying, “This part’s important!”
To which I thought, “Clearly she’s talking about foreplay, and the joke is that she considers discussing what to watch on TV (and then watching it) as part of foreplay, which Arlo is slow to catch on to, resulting in Janis pouting. Maybe this should be on the Arlo page.”
But then I saw that it was actually Arlo speaking in the last panel, blowing my well-thought-out viewpoint out of the water.
I think we have been conditioned to believe that there is something Arlo-ish in every Arlo and Janis.
“They’re also available from Redbox for about $1.50 each, and for ignoring for free”
You lost me, James: I thought you said you wanted access to those in-between movies. Getting what you want from Amazon, essentially creating the James Pollock Network, seems to satisfy that.
You lost me, James: I thought you said you wanted access to those in-between movies”
I want access to everything I want to see on one service. Not necessarily right away (they want to make more money selling people Blu-Ray disks for $30 for a couple of weeks? Fine. They want to squeeze every dollar they can out of the theatrical release? Fine. What I don’t want (and won’t pay for) is everybody with the slightest bit of content leveraging it into a subscription of their own streaming service.
I find that it generally takes a year for most (but not all) shows to hit their stride and figure out what they are doing.
We are (for example) watching Frasier nightly on Hallmark (well, used to be nightly, but no longer on weekends, and not during any time they think it is Christmas and run their Christmas movies instead – which led Robert to get Frasier on DVD, complete series). The show actually starts off pretty weak. If not for the carryover of “hey, we liked him on Cheers” I am not sure it would have become a hit if people did not stay with it. The characters needed a year to become who they are in the later episodes.
Mad About You made major changes in their second year which helped them a great deal – although left some oddities as there two different versions of their wedding and who was the best man at the wedding due to a flash back several years in that does not match the stories in the first year. They even make a joke about the changes. The first year “Paul’s” best friend (and best man) is Selby. By the second year Selby is gone except in one later episode they are talking about people no longer in their lives and “Paul” says “Yeah, like whatever happened to Selby?” which gets a laugh.
The Andy Griffith Show had a pilot shown as part of the Danny Thomas Show. Andy is not the most honest lawman and is hitting Danny Thomas with what were the typical joke charges for Yankees driving through the south at that time. He is also the judge, I believe. Frances Bavier plays a different character – not Aunt Bea – and she is so stupid that she is still paying the undertaker for the suit that her husband was buried in some years before.
Some shows need a big of settling in and finding their way to become good. Then again, some stay too long.
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Doesn’t matter what part. She talked him into watching a movie or a show and she’s the one who ended up falling asleep, despite her claims that it’s “only 7:30”.
I thought at first she was really pissed off, but now I see she’s asleep.
tygalilee has it. Arlo didn’t really want to watch anything, Janis talked him into it and now she can barely stay awake.
We all know what they really want to do, this talk of movies and TV is just pro forma; but alas, time is catching up with them, and before Arlo can finish undressing (you’re going to tell me those are just badly colored pants?), Janis has already fallen asleep.
The “chill” part of “Netflix and chill”. It’s never about the “Netflix” part.
Regarding panel 2: does Arlo really think they’ll be watching more than one season of anything tonight?
Besides, it’s my observation that for many shows, the second season is the best: The first season, they’re still finding their way, and after the second season they’re running out of fresh ideas.
“Regarding panel 2: does Arlo really think they’ll be watching more than one season of anything tonight?”
No but later you’ll have to watch the stupid later seasons and that’s really painful that it’s probably not worth starting season 1 if the cost is that you have to also watch five additional awful season.
Now it is possible that some guys can watch one season without having to watch the remaining five but not all of us know the times of our death to schedule it right so the option of stopping after one season just isn’t available to us.
“does Arlo really think they’ll be watching more than one season of anything tonight?”
The trend is towards shorter seasons.
Arlo’s problem with that is that even if they find a new, interesting show to watch, there won’t be much of it and they’ll be right back in the same situation in a couple of days or a week’s time.
My general complaint is the movies… they pay the $$$ to get the very top tier of movies, after the home copes sales drop off. And they get a lot of movies that were… never big in theaters. But there’s a broad range of movies in between, that they don’t have… which would be the exact ones I’d want a movie streaming service for. I either went to the theater for the big movies, or I decided I didn’t want to see them. But the ones that I wanted to see but not enough to pay $12 for (plus $4 more for approximately 11 Mild Duds)… that’s what I wish my streaming movie service had.
James, those in-between movies are almost always available for streaming from Amazon for about four bucks. And you can pop your own popcorn.
They’re also available from Redbox for about $1.50 each, and for ignoring for free. If I wanted to buy into 37 services, it wouldn’t bother me that everything I wanted isn’t on the same service. But that’s not what I want. So, no, CBS, I’m NOT going to get your new streaming service, even if your exclusive Star Trek show was any good. No, Disney, I’m NOT going to get your new streaming service. No, whoever else, I’m not going to get your new service, to get one show I might be interested in.
Rage, James, RAGE against the dying of the light.
Rage? No, that’s reserved for what Disney has done to the Star Wars franchise since buying it. They burned up any remaining goodwill by torching the expanded universe because JJ Abrams was too lazy to learn it. They made one good movie, one OK movie, and two absolutely awful movies with the franchise. It’s time to hire Daniel Craig to play Han Solo and start over with new producers.
This happens about a half of the time I sit down to watch a movie in the evening with my significant other and she generally acknowledges that it will happen. That is a notable improvement from earlier in our relationship when it happened 80%+ of the time and she very much did not care for that fact when I brought it up in an attempt to steer the evening television ritual toward something shorter.
Originally, I thought it was Janis saying, “This part’s important!”
To which I thought, “Clearly she’s talking about foreplay, and the joke is that she considers discussing what to watch on TV (and then watching it) as part of foreplay, which Arlo is slow to catch on to, resulting in Janis pouting. Maybe this should be on the Arlo page.”
But then I saw that it was actually Arlo speaking in the last panel, blowing my well-thought-out viewpoint out of the water.
I think we have been conditioned to believe that there is something Arlo-ish in every Arlo and Janis.
“They’re also available from Redbox for about $1.50 each, and for ignoring for free”
You lost me, James: I thought you said you wanted access to those in-between movies. Getting what you want from Amazon, essentially creating the James Pollock Network, seems to satisfy that.
You lost me, James: I thought you said you wanted access to those in-between movies”
I want access to everything I want to see on one service. Not necessarily right away (they want to make more money selling people Blu-Ray disks for $30 for a couple of weeks? Fine. They want to squeeze every dollar they can out of the theatrical release? Fine. What I don’t want (and won’t pay for) is everybody with the slightest bit of content leveraging it into a subscription of their own streaming service.
I find that it generally takes a year for most (but not all) shows to hit their stride and figure out what they are doing.
We are (for example) watching Frasier nightly on Hallmark (well, used to be nightly, but no longer on weekends, and not during any time they think it is Christmas and run their Christmas movies instead – which led Robert to get Frasier on DVD, complete series). The show actually starts off pretty weak. If not for the carryover of “hey, we liked him on Cheers” I am not sure it would have become a hit if people did not stay with it. The characters needed a year to become who they are in the later episodes.
Mad About You made major changes in their second year which helped them a great deal – although left some oddities as there two different versions of their wedding and who was the best man at the wedding due to a flash back several years in that does not match the stories in the first year. They even make a joke about the changes. The first year “Paul’s” best friend (and best man) is Selby. By the second year Selby is gone except in one later episode they are talking about people no longer in their lives and “Paul” says “Yeah, like whatever happened to Selby?” which gets a laugh.
The Andy Griffith Show had a pilot shown as part of the Danny Thomas Show. Andy is not the most honest lawman and is hitting Danny Thomas with what were the typical joke charges for Yankees driving through the south at that time. He is also the judge, I believe. Frances Bavier plays a different character – not Aunt Bea – and she is so stupid that she is still paying the undertaker for the suit that her husband was buried in some years before.
Some shows need a big of settling in and finding their way to become good. Then again, some stay too long.