[The Jewish Cunthead]

I love Entourage but I guess is where the anti-HBO crowd comes in. Let's hear it.


(31)Entourage


vs.

(34)Robot Chicken


Voting ends Tuesday 10/30

[Batman]

It's a sit-com, you have to pay extra to see it. What more is there to say?

On the other hand, I've seen a little of Robot Chicken, and it just seems to be trying too hard at the geek humor. The Emperor taking a phone call from Darth Vader? Mmmmyeah, no. I'm abstaining.

[Courtney]

The two reasons to watch Entourage: Kevin Dillon and Jeremy Piven. I love this fuckin show.

[punk/core]

Here's my argument for this one: Entourage is fucking awesome, and Robot Chicken fucking sucks.

[salmonjunkie]

punkerhardcore said:

Here's my argument for this one: Entourage is fucking awesome

Quoted for truth.

[Krydor]

Robot Chicken rocks. 1776!

[Jack Quinn]

Entourage is a good show, but I don't really consider it funny. Robot Chicken makes me laugh, it gets my vote

[Lori]

I've never seen Entourage, and I'm in love with Seth Green's brain. Geek humor is the best!

[Lucky]

I like Entourage very much. Its one of only 2 sitcoms I watch regularly on TV these days. If I'm really pushed, I'm not sure its worth acclaim. Its fun and Piven's great, but otherwise its a lot of hot chicks and cutesy Hollywood TMZ type references. And Dillon who I really don't love at all.

And I'm sort of realizing how derivative the smarmy, asshole character on TV has sort of become. Scrub's Dr. Cox. Entourage's Ari Gold. House. I get the impression How I Met Your Mother's Neil Patrick Harris. If I watched more sitcoms I bet I'd find more like Earl or that ugly guy from the Office. So while Piven is great I'm not sure him being the best part of the show makes it terribly unique. Especially when as great as Piven is I'm not sure he's better than Hugh Laurie or John C. McGinley.

On the other hand Robot Chicken tries to hard a lot. Serg is right. The show loses me. A lot. But its like 12 minutes so like Aqua Teen Hunger Force the bad episodes can never turn me off too much. And unlike Aqua Teen the pace of the show changes 2 dozen times an episode so it can suck for 10 minutes and then have a killer closing segment. And I'm a geek so some of the nostalgia strikes me as awesome. I love those extended segments probably more than I don't. But it has flops. I saw some Thundercats one recently that I had to drag through.

Plus Robot Chicken is COMPLETELY guilty of a big pet peeve I have. Making comedy of the easy observational shit that we've all joked about a million times. Shaggy and Scooby are stoners. Cheetarah's weirdly hot for a toy/cartoon. COBRA and GI Joe are absurdly incompetent for what they are and weirdly violent for a kid's show. I'm waiting for a segment on Smurfette being a slut. I never want to give credit to people when I've heard their jokes from my friends a decade ago. But Chicken brings all that silly stuff to life and acts it out so that's where it comes.

I'm probably voting Robot Chicken.

[DevSop]

Someone did the Smurfette as a slut thing, but for the life of me I can't remember where it was. It may have been a Family Guy thing or a South Park thing....but I know for sure I've seen a drunk, slutty Smurfette with makeup all over her face somewhere.

[punk/core]

devilsoprano said:

Someone did the Smurfette as a slut thing, but for the life of me I can't remember where it was. It may have been a Family Guy thing or a South Park thing....but I know for sure I've seen a drunk, slutty Smurfette with makeup all over her face somewhere.

That was a TV Funhouse segment on SNL a few years ago. They did a Smurfette version of the Anna Nicole Show.

[creepy]

I've never seen Entourage, but the thought of a bunch of Hollywood dickweeds hanging and trying to get movie roles and an agent that's a dick and says things like: "Hug it out, bitch" and a guy named Johnny Drama just doesn't appeal to me. I've seen a few scenes where they are just hanging out talking. Wittily. Never cracked a smile.


I've also never seen Robot Chicken. I'll probably abstain.

[Batman]

luckylopez said:

Plus Robot Chicken is COMPLETELY guilty of a big pet peeve I have. Making comedy of the easy observational shit that we've all joked about a million times. Shaggy and Scooby are stoners. Cheetarah's weirdly hot for a toy/cartoon. COBRA and GI Joe are absurdly incompetent for what they are and weirdly violent for a kid's show. I'm waiting for a segment on Smurfette being a slut. I never want to give credit to people when I've heard their jokes from my friends a decade ago.

That's exactly what I was trying to get at. Except, you know, put into words.

[Lucky]

Yeah, that stuff annoys me. Its just that Robot Chicken plays it out for us to see that makes it notable. Its not just us sitting around making cracks, its actually seeing the stuff we're joking about. Plus there's some legitimately amusing "original" stuff in there. And like I said, it all flies by quick enough not to get annoying.

The clip that sold me on Robot Chicken was a "Behind the Music: Electric Mayhem." I love my muppets and Electric Mayhem I love most of all.

Its 10 or so minutes of nostalgia with a few gems. Its cute. Not great.

[salmonjunkie]

lori said:

I've never seen Entourage, and I'm in love with Seth Green's brain. Geek humor is the best!

Then you would've loved the episode of Entourage that Seth Green was in, playing himself.