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!kino unironically supermassive loss
eraserhead was the only horror ("horror") movie to ever get to me and its nothing now but it unsettled and inspired me a ton for years and i will never forget
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THE VACCINE DID IT!!! !commenters !
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Don't make like of this, Fight Club was the most important film of the generations
Trans lives matter
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it was you
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Very sad, impossible to overstate how much this man's work means to me. And I know so many others who can say the same. One of the brightest spots in a dark time of my life during the pandemic was when my ex and I rented a local movie theater for my birthday and showed a double feature of Sunset Boulevard and Mulholland Drive for all our friends. Twin Peaks: The Return is one of the most beautiful, creative, and moving pieces of art I've ever seen. My first high quality comment on this site was about how Inland Empire should be considered one of the great films.
It's so sad to see him go because it's another sign of the end of an era. So many of our great filmmakers have already gone and so many will soon. I thought of this a lot while watching Oh, Canada by Paul Schrader a month ago. At this point I don't think these masters owe us anything and any project they complete now is a gift. But to see someone like Lynch go means that a major moment in art and human expression now lives permanently in the past.
It's been 8 years since Twin Peaks: The Return came out. I didn't really expect anything more from him. But it was nice knowing he was around. Now he's gone but his films and stories and music and performances will live as long as we keep watching.
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Mulholland Drive (in theater) is one of the best movie experiences you can have.
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Laura Harring
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It is wild in every picture of Lynch with an insanely sexy women they clearly love the guy. Seriously, look at the body language in any pic of him with a woman lol it is actually funny once you start looking. And he somehow never looked awkward or like a try hard or anything.
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TheyShe almost didn't make it this far.When Laura was twelve, living in Texas, she got a bullet in the head.
Stray fire from a drive-by. She survived, obviously.
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Twin Peaks : The Return is literally the best TV I've ever seen. Absolute art.
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More like absolute fart. That shit was so boring, I couldn't even make it past the first episode without nodding off. David lynch's worst project. Love and swagggg btw - Lil B
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You literally could not be a bigger strag.
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Yeah yeah yeah.
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I totally realize most people are going to disagree with me here but I feel compelled to say that killing David Lynch for a joke wasn't a very kind thing to do. We have seen TONS of posts from vulnerable populations talking about how Twin Peaks is a source of support and humor in a dark time. Irony and dirtbagism aside, taking away that support without warning was not okay. You can say I'm being silly, or humorless or reactionary. Whatever. I love David Lynch and I love this community. But sometimes I come home after dealing with ableism and our nightmare reality all day, and this man was one of many things that make me feel better. It wasn't a good feeling to find this sub closed for the sake of irony. Maybe that's laughable or pathetic. But for me, it's true.
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He was a giant in an industry full of creative midgets.
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Everything else sucks so fricking bad except for like 4 other Tv shows i can think of and none of them were made in the last few years.
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Mommy is soooo proud of you, sweaty. Let's put this sperg out up on the fridge with all your other failures.
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keep yourself safe
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You should.
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This is me
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The Return is the greatest season of television ever.
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That's a pretty great double feature.
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Yeah dude it was amazing. It really landed with everyone too, you know how people can be about old movies lol. Thankfully it turns out none of my friends are plebs. And Sunset Boulevard really feels so modern and current anyway.
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Wtf is this shitty pasta and where did it come from
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I'm gonna say it. Twin peaks wasn't that good.
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Season 1 and half of season 2 were good, but apparently Lynch had a moid diva moment and got mad because the audience (and then the network) told him to reveal the killer. He got mad, and the second half of 2 killed the show. It was frickin awful lol. He apparently wanted to make the whole show about the mystery of her murder, but nobody wanted that shit but David.
Season 3 happened 25 years later in the story, and it was awful. His peepee suckers loved it, but he answered no questions and it's like it's just a show where everyone takes LSD and nothing makes sense.
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frick those suits king
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Did you like Twin Peaks, carp? It was the first Rated R movie my mom took me to so FWWM has a special place in my heart.
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Your mom took you to fire walk with me? Fricking lol
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Yes, because I was into it and saw it was showing. I don't remember it but I'm sure I was confused af.
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That's actually so funny. Such a fricking dark film with teenage drug use and incestuous r*pe and what not. And so different from the tone of the show. I'd have been fricked up by that as a kid!
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Does you're mom hate you? That's the only lunch movie @PillsburyDoughboy haven't watched all the way through cause it's terrifying. Trans lives matter
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It was lol. I just rewatched everything like 2 weeks ago and was freaked out.
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I used to just suspect that you were r-slurred, but now you've confirmed it fully.
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You're forgetting that Kyle MacLachlan started dating Donna's actress during production and she decided to be a massive c*nt and demand that Cooper not get with Audrey which is why they had to introduce Annie and Billy Zane's character out of nowhere and waste an ungodly amount of time on them. Season 2's behind the scenes were really something.
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Oh shit I didn't know that! I wanted Cooper and Audrey to get together too! Now I need to go read about it.
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That was the whole point of the show though. The murder mystery was a plot device too bring attention too all the little goings on in the town the show was named after. Little self-contained stories that bring you into the characters lives and show you that all lives, even trans lives matter
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Yes, it was great season 1 but time to wrap it up, Lynch.
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Obvious bait
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The Return and Fire Walk with Me are great. Original series is uneven.
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This is correct. S1 is wonderful imo but S2 falls apart after Lynch exited. FWWM and The Return are absolute highest level achievements though.
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BIPOC
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Yeah his stuff was just more weird than good and knows how to make cinematography nauseating. He's functionally the Donnie Darko director, except with a couple bangers.
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Sounds like Marvel movies are a little more your speed
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I'm more of a Michael Bay transformers and Len Wiseman Resident Evil kind of guy.
If I want to feel nauseated, weird, and pretentious, I'll watch some disgusting John Waters movie. It'll just make me vomit all the way instead of that kitty footing around and RANDOM (uh, it's not random) Lynch does.
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Nobody does surreal las good as Bunuel. Idk why but watching a Lynch film always makes me feel like I'm watching something very imaginative but devoid of a soul.
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How so?
And what would you recommend of Bunuel?
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Lynch's characters feel like they written by an mega neurodivergent—which they indeed were. I can't take them seriously. They feel like an alien's surface level understanding of human beings…just gets old after a while. I can usually tolerate that stuff if I find it funny, but I just find Lynch tedious. I agree with the dramacel upthread, give me John Waters weirdness any day over Lynch's.
Belle De Jour is probably the best starting point for Bunuel.
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I dunno... Looks like typical French crap, but I'll give it a try.
!Kino, Bunuel or David Lynch. Which is better?
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I hate to take the bait like this but John Waters and David Lynch have wildly different goals. Lynch is really not trying to shock/provoke/nauseate like Waters is. I love John Waters dearly though, Female Trouble is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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This is cope. He doesn't do it as explicitly as Waters, but Lynch is like one of those weird sound pitches that makes your skin crawl and shit your pants or a fun house that's painted in these weird angles so you keep tipping over even though everything seems normal at first glance. But it's on purpose.
80% of people I've met in real life who love David Lynch have been the most insufferable r-slurs that seem like adult versions of teenage hardcore Donnie Darko fans. Lynch was a great dramatard in real life, and I think most of what he filmed was just to frick with people.
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Yeah that explains everything.
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The most overrated director of all time
Melodramatic bull shit for stoners
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Wrong. Trans lives matter
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This neighbor probably ain't even watched any Douglas Sirk and he's bitching about melodrama 😂😂😂
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Why yes I like Alice In Chains
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FRICK YOU
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I like Lynch and never cared for it lol.
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I've tried to get into it about 3 times and get bored and annoyed by the pointless surrealism every time. I actually like surrealism, but he always put it in needless places.
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Yeah you're an r-slur. Just own up to it.
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You are a dingus. Trans lives matter
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I've been debating whether to check it out, saw a few episodes and started to nod off.
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Bummer
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Anyway
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oh shit I just rewatched all seasons, plus FWWM, and season three. I just subbed to /r/twinpeaks too. I felt like he was getting revenge on everyone being a frickin diva with the shitshow that is season 3.
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I'm gonna cook some carp tonight I swear to god!
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lol, !marseyfans, we've got a carptoss gif.
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make sure it's still alive when u start cooking it bb
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omg hi
@PillsburyDoughboy!!! okay so this is like super awkward omg but basically i had to remove ur comment bc u didnt say
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I refuse to watch Twin Peaks just to spite my brother, he hates that I keep calling it boring.
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You trippin watch it while it's still cold outside literally the coziest show ever
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Noooo everyone has to enjoy the same media as me
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Your brother's right, you're a fricking cute twink.
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He never said that, he hates when I call people cute twinks
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Missed the point of season 3, lol, hardly a fan
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No, I got the point. It's still terrible. Frick Lynch in his emphysema for that shitty "nothing in life has closure" bs.
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What was he doing then?
RLM missed the point too, it's not unusual. Just sad when so confident
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RIP, that dude had some sick hair
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He saw what a future under Drumpf would bring, and it was too horrifying even for him!
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He was a cryptochud who got reprimanded and had too apologize for saying trump might not be the Hitler 2.0 the first time around. Trans lives matter. Change you're heart or die
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If you recognize at all his penchant for 50s style Americana then it should be no surprise that he would have an affinity for the likes of Trump and Reagan. Idk why this horrified people so badly. Jk ofc I do.
He also had a general distrust of modernity that is abundantly evident as far back as Eraserhead and as late as Twin Peaks: The Return.
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Goated king
I'll forever kneel
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Twin Peaks was kino
Dune was kino (though incoherent)
Mega rippers
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Dune is so crazy and creative and strange. It doesn't work as a movie but it's not the utter disaster people say it is lol. It's a fun watch as long as you know what you're getting into.
Also pretty funny to see like half the cast of Twin Peaks in a sci fi adventure.
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Strongly agree (love Kyle MacLachlan), also technically Lynch wanted it to be two movies and if he had gotten his wish it would've probably been way less incoherent
It's far more creative and artistic than the remakes
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I don't dislike the new Dune films but I really don't think they're nearly as good as people make them out to be. My main issue is that I do not feel anything whatsoever for the characters. The plot zips along so quickly that we never get a chance to sit with anything.
Every modern adaptation of an epic sci fi/fantasy novel just makes me even more appreciative of what Peter Jackson was able to do with his LOTR films. And even he couldn't recreate the magic with his awful Hobbit films (many reasons for this tbf, some were out of his control).
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I've only seen the first Dune movie remake, and it was dreadfully boring. The plot twist of the Atreides are being conspired against is extremely simple (fat man want money) and telegraphed from the start. Paul becoming Jesus is telegraphed from the start. Everything is incredibly simple and linear. It's such a shallow sci-fi setting. No one would give a shit if not for the worms.
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Dune is literally the only thing David Lynch has done that I hated (that I've seen, haven't watched Hotel Room or On the Air).
I've watched it three times and hated it every time.
Recently watched the Denis Villeneuve films and whilst I didn't hate them, I didn't really enjoy them all that much either.
I guess I just don't like Dune.
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Dune the books actually sucks (a lot), guy tried and failed to imitate Tolkien and ended up making a shallow setting that pretends to be deep by giving long elaborate proper names for every minutae
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It's actually over
. No more Twink Peaks related content. I always hoped they would make a Season 4 to redeem themselves after the horrible garbage slop of a show that was twin peaks the return, but it's practically impossible now. Sad loss for kinocels. Rip btw - Lil B
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I was filtered by twin peaks season 3 but darn
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I watched it with a friend and once had the realization that he actually got it. I was just watching it for the surrealism when I was stoned but he made an offhand comment that made me realize there actually was an deeper overarching plot that had escaped me. Am I just a midwit?
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I've watched The Return five times in full and revisited individual episodes many times. The more you watch it the more it actually completely holds together. It's extremely dense and long and at times tests the viewers patience more than any other TV show besides Too Old To Die Young by Nicolas Winding Refn (another goated show that I have to imagine filtered 90% of people, and I can't blame anyone who didn't like it).
To be honest I think the best approach is to just take it all in on the first viewing. Don't try too hard to "get it", I think trying to decode Lynch is a fools errand anyway. He operates most effectively on an emotional plane imo, just let the show take you for a ride. It is NOT an epic puzzle box show. He is trying to convey themes and messages and ideas, but it's simply not a show where all questions are answered. The universe is filled with endless unknowable mysteries and possibilities.
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There's a four hour video on YouTube breaking down all the symbolism and shit in twin peaks. The guy who made it is an obnoxious cute twink who misses the forest for the trees, but seeing how consistently and intentionally symbolism is used in the show gave @PillsburyDoughboy a way deeper appreciation for lynch. Trans lives matter
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Funny you should use that phrase because he also tried using it as a way to back up his schizo rambling.
"FOREST FOR THE TREES - TREES, SAWED INTO LOGS AND MADE INTO TELEPHONE POLES! SAWING LOGS IS A EUPHAMISM FOR SNORING! I'M SO INTELLIGENT!"
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Yeah he's an obnoxious cute twink. Trans lives matter
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My dad watched that show back when it was globoslop. I remember when the last season came over 20 years later he told me with excitement to watch and something about "quem matou Laura Palmer". Me, being an absolute zoomoid had no idea what was that was about.
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Twin Peaks used to air after Fantástico because it was too shocking for Brazilian audiences
It genuinely was a cultural phenomenon
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David lynch is one of the realist motherlovers out there
This neighbor said I'll sit with a cow to get this b and award.
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Lost Highway is one of my favorite films ever. Rest in peace to one of the best
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God tier movie with an even more god tier soundtrack. The way it's bookended with I'm Deranged by Bowie is exquisite. I will always remember driving into Burlington VT for NYE in 2018 with my friend, he's maxxing speed and blasting that song and Driver Down by Trent Reznor from the soundtrack as I did shots of tequila and started snorting lines. Slept with a beautiful art ho that night. Thank you David Lynch and Bowie, thank you Trent Reznor, and thank you to the Medellin cartel.
All these moments living in the past forever. Makes me sad.
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Mulholland Drive gets all the praise but Lost Highway is the one that does it for me. A beautifully strange moebius strip of a film.
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Mine is Eastern Promises but then I checked what other movies I liked by him. Turns out it wasn't even directed by David Lynch. So I guess I have only heard his name in passing
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This makes me very sad. Twin Peaks is one of the best shows ever and the Return
was amazing 
considering it had been 20 YEARS since the previous season. I named my rdrama 
account after TP. RIP, he was a true artist.
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Coopercels be seethin over Dougiechads
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The Dougie Jones arc was unbelievably frustrating on first watch but becomes extremely funny on subsequent viewings. The way he sends Tom Sizemore into a downward spiral is so god darn funny.
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Confess
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Countless great Dougie moments
Mr. Jackpots
Jade give two rides
fork in the outlet
oh right the casino brothers lmao with Belushi
The whole Dougie Jones bit is stretched to an insane length and it continues to be funny and then becomes moving at the end. It's good stuff lol.
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The "Jade give two rides" setup and execution was so simple but flawless lmao
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It was really the perfect "long gap sequel" because it engaged so directly with the concept of nostalgia and time itself. It wasn't just Season 3 rehash zone.
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