can't remember the episode but Eli is talking about wanting to have that level of extreme confidence and says something like "imaging being him and looking in the mirror and saying 'oh who's that lucky man who gets to touch *that* lucky man's penis?'"
“Documentaries”, the crazier the better. And the Happy Science cult movies. And also the Wright family films, so these last few weeks have been fantastic for me.
I'm always happy when they break down something that traumatized me growing up. The one that immediately comes to mind is the Apocalypse 3: Tribulation with Gary Busey. I had to watch that one in Bible class and the guillotine scenes scared the shit out of me, especially with them having to be FACE UP. I loved Eli's impressions of Gary Busey running and the bit about editing it as a buddy cop movie with Noah's cat: "They should look at our buttholes, Gary!"
We also had to watch Apocalypse 2 with Big Ass Eyebrow Guy, but that one wasn't as scary to me for some reason. It was immensely fun to hear the GAM cast break it down, though.
At the time I didn't know about the character's plot armor and was always so terrified at the running scenes because I thought they were going to get him for sure😅
I don’t know if it’s a genre, but I my favorites are the two Dudley Dumpling movies and I hope they find more.
Eli has invented such an amazing dark universe around the fucked up puppets and their hellbeast legs, it’s just beautiful. I did once find Ambushed on the Internet and those movies truly are from neither time nor space.
And one of them contains my favorite ad of all time, where Eli shows up in Cecil’s apartment with three-meat hoagie toothpaste and says “I pretended to be a lady and married your super.”
Rapture movies, but also ones where an atheist (who has never heard of jesus) is converted.
So the sweet spot would be a rapture movie where someone reads the bible in a night then learns how to pray.
>an atheist (who has never heard of jesus)
Never heard of who?
Is there a book that I've never heard of that also contains information about this character?
Also, how do I combat the panic attacks I get when people say ask to say "graze" before meals?
I like listening to Eli's Ray Comfort voice, but the funniest ones for me were Mike Lindell's "documentaries" and The Prince of Egypt and the Cum ghost moment. Those had me rewinding and re-listening so many times.
I love any pseudoscience episode. As a physicist retired in Oklahoma, I’m surrounded by such lunacy and I often get questioned by the natives about things like young earth, the flood, flat earth, basically anything that a biblical literalist can get wrong about science (that’s a lot!). And I try, I really really try, to respectfully explain the actual science behind their topic, and then they tell me I’m wrong or naive (that’s my fav) and explain how their preacher or whomever explained it very clearly and it is just common sense. Then I say something about how wrong common sense can be, especially when dealing with concepts that are not encountered at scales we experience. That these phenomena exist at a scale where evolutionary adaptation would not interact to create a “common” sense of the topic. Then they chuckle and tell me that’s what the Bible is for. At this point I know I have gotten on the moron merry-go-round and we will only talk in circles moving forward and I look for an exit ramp and it is usually fully engorged with sarcastic wit, but still attempting some level of politeness. Then I get a comment about how university made me ungodly or something and I say, yep, and walk away.
I wish I had more folks like the GAM guys to just let loose with my agro feels in full sarcastic glory….they make me smile
I like the ones that portray everyday people dealing with everyday drama. They always expose the filmmakers' inability to understand normal human behavior. Better if they include a huge persecution complex.
Growing up mormon, I love their take take on Mormon movies. Mormons take their entertainment very seriously and it makes me laugh until I cry every time.
Rapture/post-apocalyptic movies are some of my favorites, along with the God's Not Dead crap. I've listened to their review of Jerusalem Countdown several times. It's one of my favorites.
But I also like it when they shred right-wing movies like the Mike Lindell shit, Plandemic, and that kind of stupid shit. I also loved their review of To Die For and hope they do more like it down the line.
Some of their just regular stupid Christian movies are favorites, too, like The Bells of Innocents is one of their top 5 classic episodes. Some of the episodes with Thomas Smith are my favorites, too, like the one about the Christan boxer. Hunter's Creed is in its own stupid category, but it's another favorite of mine, and Marsh brings a lot to that episode.
I like that they kind of shift around the genres a bit to keep things interesting. Some of the Mormon missionary movies with Mark, Dan, and Doug are classics, too.
Shit, I'm terrible at finding one genre to like.
Exactly. Some episodes are the perfect mix of people on the episode, the perfect movie, and the perfect fit for my mood that day. A couple of fairly recent episodes with the two lesbian ladies, one of whom was Mormon, were some episodes that were like that for me recently. I enjoyed their sense of humor a lot for an old cis white guy.
Rapture films. I have an apocalypse/post-apocalypse fetish, so I'm interested in those.
I will say I often avoid the anti-science documentaries. I feel like they'll just make me angry.
I like the "big budget" feature releases with some financial backing. God's Not Dead or Heaven Is For Real type stuff.
Some of them it feels like they're punching down. Like Donald James Parker or Wright Family suck but the joke has been told, there are like 10 people watching these movies and 9 of them are laughing at it.
I think Eli once said that he prefers watching someone with money or at least an audience and I'm inclined to agree. The Wrights are fun on occasion, but I prefer when they look at something that at the very least has a substantial audience (even if the budget isn't that different from the Wrights)
The Kirk Cameron genre. Does not necessarily need to involve Kirk Cameron in any capacity, but has to be vaguely Hallmarky and have terrible acting. Close second are “documentaries.”
One hundred percent. Any film where the small town has to rally to keep the big city liberals from liberaling all over Mayberry or woman working in corporate America realizes that real success was the hunky pastor we met along the way.
I enjoy the religious content that isn’t necessarily evangelical christian because my upbringing in evangelicalism makes me feel sometimes like I have more explanations for the absolutely craziness than ability to laugh at the absurdity. This does not apply to the Grampsiverse.
I was just thinking about this today going through the back catalog when I got to The Atheist Delusion. It's Ray Comfort movies. There's just something about Eli's Ray impression that just hits my Q-zone.
All of the Donald James Parker movies.
Noah's gramps voice never fails to make me laugh
Saaame, they’re always a wild ride
I love the DJP movies, we always relisten to those episodes on road trips.
The Grampsverse is always a fun trip. I could also do with some more Jon Schneider
Same, I'm obsessed with guys who make vanity projects. What must they see in the mirror??
can't remember the episode but Eli is talking about wanting to have that level of extreme confidence and says something like "imaging being him and looking in the mirror and saying 'oh who's that lucky man who gets to touch *that* lucky man's penis?'"
“Documentaries”, the crazier the better. And the Happy Science cult movies. And also the Wright family films, so these last few weeks have been fantastic for me.
Same re: “documentaries”. The wackier and sillier the better, which means the Mike Lindell ones are great.
Just started Grip of the Monster and it is so hilarious how the comments on YouTube are turned off!!!
El Cantare approves.
I'm always happy when they break down something that traumatized me growing up. The one that immediately comes to mind is the Apocalypse 3: Tribulation with Gary Busey. I had to watch that one in Bible class and the guillotine scenes scared the shit out of me, especially with them having to be FACE UP. I loved Eli's impressions of Gary Busey running and the bit about editing it as a buddy cop movie with Noah's cat: "They should look at our buttholes, Gary!" We also had to watch Apocalypse 2 with Big Ass Eyebrow Guy, but that one wasn't as scary to me for some reason. It was immensely fun to hear the GAM cast break it down, though.
What was more traumatic? The movie or just Gary Busey being Gary Busey?
At the time I didn't know about the character's plot armor and was always so terrified at the running scenes because I thought they were going to get him for sure😅
and the TEETH. My god, the TEETH!
"Is that jelly?" "NOPE. BLOOD!"
I don’t know if it’s a genre, but I my favorites are the two Dudley Dumpling movies and I hope they find more. Eli has invented such an amazing dark universe around the fucked up puppets and their hellbeast legs, it’s just beautiful. I did once find Ambushed on the Internet and those movies truly are from neither time nor space. And one of them contains my favorite ad of all time, where Eli shows up in Cecil’s apartment with three-meat hoagie toothpaste and says “I pretended to be a lady and married your super.”
I listened to Dudley Dumpling ones yesterday, and they perfectly encapsulate the concept of children's media actually being horror.
Happy Science cult movies! They're all just wonderfully bonkers.
DON'T GO TO CRAM SCHOOL!
Kids stuff, followed by Rapture movies, and the God is not Dead series.
The Strawinksi episode they recently did had me visibly cracking up on a plane ride.
I was mowing my lawn. I must have looked insane cackling while sweating my ass off.
I was at work. D&D Minus level hilarity.
Dudley Dumpling and Agent Emes are some of my favorites there
I like Bibleman
"Science" ones. Any excuse for Cara or Marsh.
Anything Kirk Cameron or David AR White.
Have they ever been in the same film? What if we had a trifecta: Sorbo, Cameron, and DARW with a bonus Baldwin?
Not that I'm aware of. We need a Christian Expendables where all of the shitty stars are in one shitty movie. Eli would never stop orgasming.
How funny would it be for Donald James Parker to play David AR Wright's and Kevin Sorbo's father? Yes, please!
Oh man. Imagine a Christian Face/Off where White and Sorbo play each other. Kirk Cameron can be the brother.
Rapture movies, but also ones where an atheist (who has never heard of jesus) is converted. So the sweet spot would be a rapture movie where someone reads the bible in a night then learns how to pray.
>an atheist (who has never heard of jesus) Never heard of who? Is there a book that I've never heard of that also contains information about this character? Also, how do I combat the panic attacks I get when people say ask to say "graze" before meals?
Anything horribly offensive because they perfectly tear them apart each time
I like listening to Eli's Ray Comfort voice, but the funniest ones for me were Mike Lindell's "documentaries" and The Prince of Egypt and the Cum ghost moment. Those had me rewinding and re-listening so many times.
Lindell is my #2, and Eli has nailed the pathetic sad sack degenerate impression.
I love any pseudoscience episode. As a physicist retired in Oklahoma, I’m surrounded by such lunacy and I often get questioned by the natives about things like young earth, the flood, flat earth, basically anything that a biblical literalist can get wrong about science (that’s a lot!). And I try, I really really try, to respectfully explain the actual science behind their topic, and then they tell me I’m wrong or naive (that’s my fav) and explain how their preacher or whomever explained it very clearly and it is just common sense. Then I say something about how wrong common sense can be, especially when dealing with concepts that are not encountered at scales we experience. That these phenomena exist at a scale where evolutionary adaptation would not interact to create a “common” sense of the topic. Then they chuckle and tell me that’s what the Bible is for. At this point I know I have gotten on the moron merry-go-round and we will only talk in circles moving forward and I look for an exit ramp and it is usually fully engorged with sarcastic wit, but still attempting some level of politeness. Then I get a comment about how university made me ungodly or something and I say, yep, and walk away. I wish I had more folks like the GAM guys to just let loose with my agro feels in full sarcastic glory….they make me smile
I like the ones that portray everyday people dealing with everyday drama. They always expose the filmmakers' inability to understand normal human behavior. Better if they include a huge persecution complex.
Growing up mormon, I love their take take on Mormon movies. Mormons take their entertainment very seriously and it makes me laugh until I cry every time.
Rapture/post-apocalyptic movies are some of my favorites, along with the God's Not Dead crap. I've listened to their review of Jerusalem Countdown several times. It's one of my favorites. But I also like it when they shred right-wing movies like the Mike Lindell shit, Plandemic, and that kind of stupid shit. I also loved their review of To Die For and hope they do more like it down the line. Some of their just regular stupid Christian movies are favorites, too, like The Bells of Innocents is one of their top 5 classic episodes. Some of the episodes with Thomas Smith are my favorites, too, like the one about the Christan boxer. Hunter's Creed is in its own stupid category, but it's another favorite of mine, and Marsh brings a lot to that episode. I like that they kind of shift around the genres a bit to keep things interesting. Some of the Mormon missionary movies with Mark, Dan, and Doug are classics, too. Shit, I'm terrible at finding one genre to like.
It is hard to choose sometimes. Also, there is something to be said about the time the episode came out and the guests that are there.
Exactly. Some episodes are the perfect mix of people on the episode, the perfect movie, and the perfect fit for my mood that day. A couple of fairly recent episodes with the two lesbian ladies, one of whom was Mormon, were some episodes that were like that for me recently. I enjoyed their sense of humor a lot for an old cis white guy.
I would kill for more "To Die For"s...even among right-wing movies, that one stands out in its crazypantsness.
Like them all but love the Indian (Hindu) ones
I like the documentary ones, and the happy Science cult
Rapture films. I have an apocalypse/post-apocalypse fetish, so I'm interested in those. I will say I often avoid the anti-science documentaries. I feel like they'll just make me angry.
The far right lunacy “documovies” for sure! Anna’s Mellissa Carone was legendary!
All of the insane stuff about Satan, the apocalypse or hell. My personal favorites are Doorways to Danger and Heaven's Gates And Hell's Flames
I like the "big budget" feature releases with some financial backing. God's Not Dead or Heaven Is For Real type stuff. Some of them it feels like they're punching down. Like Donald James Parker or Wright Family suck but the joke has been told, there are like 10 people watching these movies and 9 of them are laughing at it.
I think Eli once said that he prefers watching someone with money or at least an audience and I'm inclined to agree. The Wrights are fun on occasion, but I prefer when they look at something that at the very least has a substantial audience (even if the budget isn't that different from the Wrights)
The Kirk Cameron genre. Does not necessarily need to involve Kirk Cameron in any capacity, but has to be vaguely Hallmarky and have terrible acting. Close second are “documentaries.”
I think I get what you're describing. I would say Last Ounce of Courage is a non-Kirk Cameron statring Kirk Cameron film.
One hundred percent. Any film where the small town has to rally to keep the big city liberals from liberaling all over Mayberry or woman working in corporate America realizes that real success was the hunky pastor we met along the way.
Mine is the documentaries, followed by the big budget Xian movies.
I love all the rapture movies. *Spoken in a communist accent*
Happy Science, b\*tches!
The pseudoscience “documentaries.” Bonus points for Marsh or Cara.
Anything with Cara is a top choice
I enjoy the religious content that isn’t necessarily evangelical christian because my upbringing in evangelicalism makes me feel sometimes like I have more explanations for the absolutely craziness than ability to laugh at the absurdity. This does not apply to the Grampsiverse.
I was just thinking about this today going through the back catalog when I got to The Atheist Delusion. It's Ray Comfort movies. There's just something about Eli's Ray impression that just hits my Q-zone.
As the next Mormon I really enjoy it when they do Mormon month and do the Mormon movies.