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Rob Helmerichs
05-30-2009, 01:21 PM
I'm really looking forward to this (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/smoke_monster_from_lost_given_own?utm_source=a-section). I've always thought the Smoke Monster was the most neglected character on the show. And doing it as a sitcom is just pure genius.
MirclMax
05-30-2009, 01:32 PM
I think casting Lea Thompson is a mistake.

However, I'm thrilled that its a Chuck Lore production .. hopefully there will be some great Vanity Cards at the end.
hummingbird_206
05-30-2009, 03:55 PM
lol!
ADG
05-30-2009, 04:23 PM
You know, I'm embarrassed to say I clicked on the damned link :(
Graymalkin
05-30-2009, 04:40 PM
If I were to click on this link -- which I haven't -- I would fully expect either (1) a rickroll or (2) an Onion or YouTube parody. Not interested in either, so I won't be clicking on the link.
jschuur
05-30-2009, 04:41 PM
I saw the leaked pilot the other day and it was great. I hear they're replacing Dustin Diamond with Christopher Mintz-Plasse though. Not sure how I feel about that. Clearly Screech's oeuvre has earned him this prestigious role.
MikeMar
05-30-2009, 04:49 PM
If I were to click on this link -- which I haven't -- I would fully expect either (1) a rickroll or (2) an Onion or YouTube parody. Not interested in either, so I won't be clicking on the link.

not hard to hover over the link and see that it is The Onion :D

answered that question

and very funny :)
WO312
05-30-2009, 05:09 PM
not hard to hover over the link and see that it is The Onion :D

answered that question

and very funny :)
+1.

Especially this part..."Though the project has been in development for almost a year, negotiations reached a standstill last winter when representatives for the mysterious, billowing actor expressed concern that their client would risk being typecast as "just a smoke monster" if the role were carried into a new series."
philw1776
05-30-2009, 05:29 PM
"ABC sources reported that the series will transplant the evil black cloud from the island of Lost to the suburbs of Chicago"

When will we be mature enough as a society to cease stereotyping clouds?
Rob Helmerichs
05-30-2009, 05:45 PM
"ABC sources reported that the series will transplant the evil black cloud from the island of Lost to the suburbs of Chicago"

When will we be mature enough as a society to cease stereotyping clouds?
That might be the point of the new show. To confront and breakdown stereotypes.
busyba
05-30-2009, 10:33 PM
I wonder if ABC is going to get angry letters for giving a black cloud a white wife.
hummingbird_206
05-30-2009, 11:46 PM
I wonder if ABC is going to get angry letters for giving a black cloud a white wife.

And another lol! Sorry I'm not contributing anything useful to this thread, but I'm sure finding it entertaining, thanks all!
RGM1138
05-31-2009, 12:59 AM
Didn't that thing have a guest appearance on Stargate: Atlantis? Or am I thinking of a different entity entirely?

Bob
Rob Helmerichs
05-31-2009, 07:30 AM
Didn't that thing have a guest appearance on Stargate: Atlantis? Or am I thinking of a different entity entirely?
I thik for the first couple of seasons he stunt-doubled for Joe Flanigan's hair, until ABC found out he was moonlighting and made him stop...
Graymalkin
05-31-2009, 08:05 AM
Oh, well, if it's the Onion, I may look at it, after all. :D
Bettamojo5
05-31-2009, 10:26 AM
Tony Stewart (Smoke) can guest star as the wacky next door neighbor!:D
DougF
05-31-2009, 10:55 AM
I'm only going to watch if there's no laugh track. That automatically means it's intelligent TV.
Fl_Gulfer
05-31-2009, 11:07 PM
It is the only one on the Island to not have a flash-back. So maybe this will be it's story.
Fl_Gulfer
05-31-2009, 11:16 PM
Well another waste of airtime, why don't they just call it Archie Bunker. Anyone that get's 2 million a show should be shot. Nothing against Lea but that is stupid.. We pay by suffering with 10 min's. of commercials for a 30 min. show.
I quit watching sitcoms after the last funny one ended (Soap). I hope it good for those of you who choose to suffer through it.
Actors are just another reason for our bad economy, GREED.
aaronwt
05-31-2009, 11:22 PM
I think casting Lea Thompson is a mistake.

However, I'm thrilled that its a Chuck Lore production .. hopefully there will be some great Vanity Cards at the end.

Wow!
Lea looks very different!
Peter000
06-01-2009, 01:03 AM
Funny!
"And of course, you'll be hearing lots of its classic catchphrase, 'Brrrrr, chk-chk-chk-chk, muuuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrhhh,'" Lorre added.
Magister
06-01-2009, 10:39 AM
This was good, since the link worked. The Onion used to be blocked from here.
sieglinde
06-01-2009, 06:55 PM
Would a cloud of dark smoke stand out that much in Chicago? Of course the actor is in danger if he ventures out on a real windy day. (What am I thinking? This will all be shot on a sound stage in Burbank!! Silly me!)
BriGuy20
06-02-2009, 04:59 PM
I don't know which of you know this is a joke and which of you don't.
tewcewl
06-02-2009, 05:39 PM
I don't know which of you know this is a joke and which of you don't.
I'm pretty sure everyone's on the joke.
Rob Helmerichs
06-02-2009, 05:56 PM
Wait, what?











:D
DevdogAZ
06-02-2009, 07:52 PM
I'm pretty sure everyone's on the joke.
There's at least one that I don't think is.
BitbyBlit
06-03-2009, 01:00 AM
That might be the point of the new show. To confront and breakdown stereotypes.

Although this is the first show to have a phasexual couple, I hope they don't get too political, and focus more on the humor involved in this couple's relationship.

Who wants to start a drinking game for whenever they use some variation of the "You've got a smokin' body" joke?
Rob Helmerichs
06-03-2009, 06:57 AM
"You've got a smokin' body"
"Solid!"
sieglinde
06-03-2009, 04:12 PM
Joke? What joke? I believe everthing on the internet.

Actually a South China newspaper once picked up a story from the Onion and ran it as a real news item.
busyba
06-03-2009, 04:37 PM
Joke? What joke? I believe everthing on the internet.

Actually a South China newspaper once picked up a story from the Onion and ran it as a real news item.

Considering how they like to suppress "real" news, I doubt that was an accident. :)
philw1776
06-04-2009, 07:58 PM
Joke? What joke? I believe everthing on the internet.

Actually a South China newspaper once picked up a story from the Onion and ran it as a real news item.

I posted this over in AVS Forum and ubernerd nimrods there condescendingly told me that The Onion was satire! :eek: Who knew???
Rob Helmerichs
06-04-2009, 08:25 PM
I posted this over in AVS Forum and ubernerd nimrods there condescendingly told me that The Onion was satire! :eek: Who knew???
Wait, what?
Delta13
06-04-2009, 10:29 PM
I posted this over in AVS Forum and ubernerd nimrods there condescendingly told me that The Onion was satire! :eek: Who knew???You just march right back over there and tell them all about that Chinese newspaper! We'll see who gets the last laugh.

("ubernerd nimrods"? Wow. :))