bartshan-83 Posted July 25, 2005 Posted July 25, 2005 So I'm watching the Replacements last night on TBS and then afterwards, the Waterboy. During each movie, TBS keeps incessantly driving this ad for their new show, "Minding the Store" into my head. They bill it as a show about "The Comedy Store", a famous comedy club on Sunset in LA that started such careers as Jay Leno, Chris Rock and Jim Carrey. They show clips of comedians and then this goofy clip of some dumbass bartender chick who claims the only drink she knows how to make is Coke. Well, a few years ago I was in LA and I went to this place and I laughed my fuggin ass off. Definitely one of the funniest experiences of my life. So that fond memory plus the fact that I was being pounded over the head with advertisements at each commecial break prompted me to check it out. Here is where eveything starts to suck. The first person I see as the show starts is Pauly Shore. I think "OK, he is just someone who performed there too once. He will go away soon." WRONG! WRONG! Turns out, the entire !@#$ing show is about HIM!!! They never mentioned this once in the 97 previews they showed me during the two movies I watched. I'm so shocked that some network actually gave him a show that I can't stop watching. Apparantley, his mom owns the place and the show is a reality show about him trying to run it. THAT and the other side plot is that Pauly is looking for a woman to settle down with because, get this, he is tired of banging Playboy bunnies!! So not only was the show terrible (imagine a Pauly Shore movie and then imagine he isn't trying to be funny) but I get to learn that this has-been, never-was monkey has been hitting it with gorgeous 19 year olds for the past 15 years. I don't think I will be able to eat anything today.
Beerball Posted July 25, 2005 Posted July 25, 2005 So he's getting what? An 80 year olds sloppy seconds or rejects. Who wants that anyway?
udonkey Posted July 25, 2005 Posted July 25, 2005 I'd rather watch Pauly Shore than some Patsie coaching my joke of a football team.
Ennjay Posted July 25, 2005 Posted July 25, 2005 That's interesting. I didn't see the promos you did WITHOUT Shore, but I saw so many WITH him in recent weeks I made a point of running the other way from this show. So when they're right on top of a broadcast they shift marketing gears and drop Pauly (who's show it is) from the promos. The network's got to have a lot of confidence in the show (and a lot of negative feedback for the original spots) to pull a move like that.
KD in CA Posted July 25, 2005 Posted July 25, 2005 I think Son-in-Law is a really funny movie... 389481[/snapback] That is one of those bad movies that I always seem to stop at if flipping around the channels. If nothing other than to see a young Tiffany Thiessen in the striptease scene.
bartshan-83 Posted July 25, 2005 Author Posted July 25, 2005 That's interesting. I didn't see the promos you did WITHOUT Shore, but I saw so many WITH him in recent weeks I made a point of running the other way from this show. So when they're right on top of a broadcast they shift marketing gears and drop Pauly (who's show it is) from the promos. The network's got to have a lot of confidence in the show (and a lot of negative feedback for the original spots) to pull a move like that. 389557[/snapback] Yeah, I put 2+2 together once I saw Shore wasn't going away after the first 5 minutes. I remember seeing disturbing ads for the last few months that he was actually getting his own show. But I didnt remember the title, and part of me thought it was some sick, tasteless joke. And then with the commercials not mentioning his name once during the movies, I fell for it. The one saving grace was that his mom makes him do this stupid sh-- and instead of doing it, he makes this mexican guy and big fat guy do it for him and they mess it up.
Ramius Posted July 25, 2005 Posted July 25, 2005 hmmm, every ad spot i saw for the show was basically pauly shore and nothing else? maybe they decided to remove him from the spots, so there would actually be some people willing to watch it?
Gavin in Va Beach Posted July 25, 2005 Posted July 25, 2005 Come on Bah----dee, he's The Weas---el...
lawnboy1977 Posted July 25, 2005 Posted July 25, 2005 So I'm watching the Replacements last night on TBS and then afterwards, the Waterboy. During each movie, TBS keeps incessantly driving this ad for their new show, "Minding the Store" into my head. They bill it as a show about "The Comedy Store", a famous comedy club on Sunset in LA that started such careers as Jay Leno, Chris Rock and Jim Carrey. They show clips of comedians and then this goofy clip of some dumbass bartender chick who claims the only drink she knows how to make is Coke. Well, a few years ago I was in LA and I went to this place and I laughed my fuggin ass off. Definitely one of the funniest experiences of my life. So that fond memory plus the fact that I was being pounded over the head with advertisements at each commecial break prompted me to check it out. Here is where eveything starts to suck. The first person I see as the show starts is Pauly Shore. I think "OK, he is just someone who performed there too once. He will go away soon." WRONG! WRONG! Turns out, the entire !@#$ing show is about HIM!!! They never mentioned this once in the 97 previews they showed me during the two movies I watched. I'm so shocked that some network actually gave him a show that I can't stop watching. Apparantley, his mom owns the place and the show is a reality show about him trying to run it. THAT and the other side plot is that Pauly is looking for a woman to settle down with because, get this, he is tired of banging Playboy bunnies!! So not only was the show terrible (imagine a Pauly Shore movie and then imagine he isn't trying to be funny) but I get to learn that this has-been, never-was monkey has been hitting it with gorgeous 19 year olds for the past 15 years. I don't think I will be able to eat anything today. 389455[/snapback] I'm not quite sure what commercials and previews you saw of this who, but every single one I watched had nothing but Pauly Shore in it. The whole premise of the show is that he is taking over "The Comedy Store" from his mother, who was the owner during its heyday of the 70s and 80s. He is basically doing what he can to revitalize the store I guess.
Wacka Posted July 25, 2005 Posted July 25, 2005 You would think that hanging around the Comedy Store and seeing the best commedians, he would have learned what worked and what didn't. Of course the Weeee....asel was probably doin' the doobage too much.
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