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02/04/2006: Late Nite SNL

Do what you will.

Edit: I did the packaging (the bookends, not the actual toons) for the five LEGO spots found here. Check ‘em before they’re eliminated.

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Discussion Thread: 45 comments

First Post!

Chestnuts roasted by StarfleetCaptainRob @ 02/04/2006 10:51 PM EST

I’ve been capturing screen shots from all my DVDs ever since I learned how to. I got Akira, Robotech and He-Man screen shots so far and I’m very proud of this. I need a more constructive hobby, like shaving small mammals.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 02/04/2006 10:51 PM EST

And the "got" before Akira should have been "have".

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 02/04/2006 10:53 PM EST

Or Lincoln Logs or Legos… hobbies don’t get much more constructive than that.

Chestnuts roasted by Bludge @ 02/04/2006 11:02 PM EST

Yay! I just got home from my job at bed bath & beyond and i am on the phone with my girlfriend who is currently reading her fan fiction of harry potter!

Chestnuts roasted by Mike the Great @ 02/04/2006 11:31 PM EST

The opening SNL sketch is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I kinda lost interest in Pokemon when they started switching Ash’s friends around (Brock/Mystie rule, everyone else sucks) and giving us lame new Pokemon (I sorta cried when Charizard left, that was a great episode, along with the origin of Meowth). The first Pokemon movie was cool, the others sucked.

I liked Pokemon Pinball (of course, it’s hard too screw up a pinball game) and the first series of Poke RPG’s. Could never beat them though. Never quite understood the point of Pokemon Snap (Let’s take pics of pokemon, Yawn.)

Allison, where have you disappeared to? We miss you here.

Can’t wait for SNL. Watched Grizzley Man on Discovery Channel last night (it’s on again tonite). GREAT Documentary and I can’t believe it got the Oscar snub (especially with the overrated Murderball and Penguin movie, I haven’t seen Aristocrats yet).

Can’t wait to watch the Superbowl commercials tomorrow (could care less about football itself). That would make a great article.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 02/04/2006 11:31 PM EST

I’m watching SNL, and in my opinion, it’s great.

Chestnuts roasted by LuLu @ 02/04/2006 11:47 PM EST

Just watched the 2nd to last disk of Lost, soon off to bed. I really wanted Shannon to die, though I’ll have to be content with her Abercrombie brother. Feh…bedtime.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 02/04/2006 11:59 PM EST

Ahh… I saw some of those spots and was wondering what your hand was in them. Admirable.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 02/05/2006 1:58 AM EST

Ha, I’ve been picking up the Exo-Force sets. They ain’t bad.

Chestnuts roasted by Jester @ 02/05/2006 2:47 AM EST

Can I tell you a secret? I will usually only post is there is less then 50 comments. Mostly I just don’t have time or the desire to read through more then that, but surveys are probably the exception. Ok…that’s my secret.

Oh, and I also need to finish my financial aid application. Heading back to college after some time off is scary, but it’s nice when you have some financial backing. I really do hate filling out all the forms, but I already got burned once by procrastinating on the (way back when I was originally applying to college) so I’ll just suck it up. Wooo!

Chestnuts roasted by Mad Cow @ 02/05/2006 8:23 AM EST

RewolfJ : was there a vulpix KFC beanie? I would SO buy that.

Chestnuts roasted by Kittycatgirl @ 02/05/2006 10:47 AM EST

I was just searching ebay and found this.

Chestnuts roasted by SuperRecoome @ 02/05/2006 10:58 AM EST

Holy crap, you guys, I’ve figured it out. I just caught myself seriously considering making a two-hour run to Dallas to see if I could find a closing Toys R Us and pick up some Exoforce kits on the cheap, and I came to a frightening realization. You know the posts Penny Arcade has been running for the last couple of days on those viral marketing plants in forums? Well, Matt is the logical next step! Here’s what I’ve pieced together of the evil plan:

Step 1: Hire a corporate shill to start a website with a significant focus on merchandising and advertisement from previous decades. This will simultaneously inspire materialistic urges in the readers AND frustrate those very same urges by only displaying items which may be procured only with difficulty. Side note: a competent shill might be able to negotiate a system of commissions or straight-up wages from eBay, if he can prove that his readers are utilizing the service at an increased rate.

Step 2: Continue drawing new readers for five years. Main objective during this phase is to foster a sense of community and trust among the readers, or "marks." Side note: Photog: stroke of marketing genius, or statistical fluke?

Step 3: "Land" a job with Nickelodeon, despite the fact that the shill has been on the payroll since day one.

Step 4: Periodically show commercials for items with massive growth potential, ostensibly to show off the proud fruits of the shill’s labors, but actually designed to whip the fanbase (which should be quite sizable at this point) into a slavering, disposable-income burning frenzy.

Step 5: Profit.

Don’t you see? We’ve all been played from the beginning! Matt is Nick! Nick is Matt! SOYLENT GREEN IS FIRST QUARTER ADVERTISING REVENUE PROJECTIONS!

This will be my last post, my friends. I’ve just pissed off some very powerful people. I’ve got to forge deeper into the Bible Belt, find someplace where Nickelodeon cannot reach. The rest of you, get out while you can, before you are induced to buy again.

Good God. There’s someone at the door. It’s too late. Tell…tell Bizarro Poop to take a grammar course. Farewell, sweet XErs. Farewell.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 02/05/2006 11:19 AM EST

Interesting theory, Jedoc. However, I think you have it all wrong.

Step 1: Steal underpants.

Step 2: ?

Step 3: Profit.

Oh shit, now I’M the one who’s going to be taken out.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 02/05/2006 11:25 AM EST

Wow, I never knew that Legos could be so bad-ass. I don’t know how the voice-over guy could keep a straight face with how over-the-top it was.

My question though, is why do those two opposing forces want that stupid mountain so much? Can’t they just spread out across the land? Is this supposed to be a big metaphor for the Israeli/Palistinian conflict?

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 02/05/2006 11:36 AM EST

I’m wiring lights into my dagobah diorama tonight. I live like a mother-truckin’ rock star.

Chestnuts roasted by King Peter @ 02/05/2006 12:00 PM EST

King Peter… I don’t know if it’s the fact that I’m listening to T. Rex right now (alluding to the whole rock star thing) or the massive amounts of alcohol I’ve consumed, but your post had me HOWLING! Ah well, back to my own rock star existence.

Chestnuts roasted by Bludge @ 02/05/2006 12:04 PM EST

King Peter- I love you. I mean your diorama. That’s what I meant.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 02/05/2006 12:06 PM EST

SNT!!!!!

SNL!!!! 1/2 hour in, I’m loving it! Kelly Ripa & Alec Baldwin, and no one noticing Steve carrying him in the carpet. The Viagra Clock.

And Maya’s back! And in top form too!

All of the ads and short sketches so far seem to be from a Steve Martin ep: the Teddy Bear Holding a Heart, the Don’t Buy Anything if You Can’t Pay For It. The Digital Short was funny too, with him & Will Forte looking like they were going to kiss. Speaking of which, the Ultra Zoom Theater was hilarious as well. Was the cameras zooming Kenan out of frame and then not zooming at all a part of the sketch or improvised?

and Prince is kicking some ass right now. Lets hope the rest of the hour is as good as the first 1/3rd of this show!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 02/05/2006 12:09 PM EST

King Peter — just checked out your diorama, and it is diorockin.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/05/2006 12:10 PM EST

Looking for help with a school project! I need to talk to someone involved with marketing children’s products so I can do a report in class. I just have to ask about a dozen questions and it could easily done by email. If anybody would like to help, drop a line to squee4242livejournal @ yahoo . com (take out the spaces). Thanks in advance!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 02/05/2006 12:11 PM EST

Oh wow Pete you should have mentioned you linked the Dagobah pics! That is wicked sweet.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 02/05/2006 12:23 PM EST

We have SO MUCH Exo-Force stuff at work I just can’t walk by it without shaking my head in disdain.

No one’s buying it, but the idiots that put out my frieght keep jamming it onto the shelf, making that section bigger each week. -.-;

Matt, I really have no clue what you mean by bookends and whatnot, but the shorts look good, all around

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 02/05/2006 12:27 PM EST

SNL does indeed rule tonight. And they just showed Jimmy Fallon as I was typing.
Maybe, there’s hope.
I just started a myspace. After doing so, I realized everyone I know and knew and probably will know has one. I’m late.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 02/05/2006 12:28 PM EST

I hate MySpace. It’s evil.

only 2 complaints about this bitchin’ SNL now:

1) Weekend Update: good, but too short (maybe this is why it was good?)

2) The Prince Show: Love this recurring sketch, but they missed out in involving the REAL Prince!

Ok, so far, here are the cameos I saw:

-Kelly Ripa
-Alec Baldwin
-Jimmy Fallon
-Brian Williams (2nd Digital Short)
-Conan O’Brien (also 2nd Digital Short)

ok, My memory is too short, I forgot if Fred Armisen met someone famous before he was with Brian Williams?

Almost done! Tonight is Awesome!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 02/05/2006 12:44 PM EST

Darth Poop: Congratulations! You are on the Internet and aware that grammar does, in fact, exist. As glad as I am to see this, you may have been too quick in your self-correction. The use of "got" is perfectly acceptable in the context you’ve provided, though I understand your wariness regarding "got" and "have" confusion; it’s alarming how frequently the two are used interchangably. Of course, if you intended a more passive meaning, you may disregard this message.

By the way…
Mixing a fictional title borrowed from popular culture and the always charming word "poop" - hilarious!

Chestnuts roasted by Tougi @ 02/05/2006 12:49 PM EST

ok, everyone I know except invader.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 02/05/2006 12:51 PM EST

I believe Matt means the Downloading…Exo-Force stuff and Pre-loading… To Be Continued. I think that is what he worked on.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 02/05/2006 12:52 PM EST

It seems like SNL is already over by the time I get home. No fair..

But we did watch The Blues Brothers tonight…it was awesome, as always.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 02/05/2006 12:53 PM EST

Every time someone types Exo-Force I think of the toy line from the early nineties with the same name instead of the Lego’s.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 02/05/2006 12:54 PM EST

I got sectaurs on dvd. W00T!
With the commercials intact.

Chestnuts roasted by americandeadguy @ 02/05/2006 1:33 PM EST

Nice spots. I can’t wait until you do Halloween commercials later this year.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 02/05/2006 2:04 PM EST

Nice ads, have you been working on any other programs for the network?

I am looking forward/waiting for the Super Bowl, I hope the Seahawks win. Being a lifelong Bengals fan, I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if Carson Palmer wasn’t brutally injured by the Steelers. (then again who knows if the Bengals would have won!)

Chestnuts roasted by mjf7583 @ 02/05/2006 3:43 PM EST

I just wanted to say how much I love X-E, because it doesn’t get said often enough. If I had to pick one site on the internet to read for the rest of my life, this would be it. I’d just flip through articles about Ninja Turtles, Christmas, Halloween, and disgusting chili from Wendy’s forever.

Here’s to Madd Matt and all his evil glory. Cheers.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt(#2?) @ 02/05/2006 3:47 PM EST

Matt(#2?- I was thinking the same thing yesterday, about how if I could only view one website it would be X-E.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 02/05/2006 4:36 PM EST

The commercials are always the best part of the Super Bowl (I never really cared much about the football part.) The Super Bowl just started here, so far the commercials are a bit weak but will hopefully improve (the Full Throttle ad with the semi-sized FT can was pretty good, don’t know why they didn’t flatten the Red Bull truck, I thought they would.)

Speaking of football Matt, on occasion you have said you were a "baseball card poser". Did you ever collect football cards too? I was a sports card poser in general, and probably had a zillion football cards as well, even though I didn’t know a halfback from a safety from a nose tackle.

Chestnuts roasted by Destro @ 02/05/2006 6:11 PM EST

Never was a football card poser, but I did spend a brief period as a hockey card poser, which abruptly ended when my friends called me out on it and I couldn’t name three hockey players.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/05/2006 6:15 PM EST

Matt, something similar happened to me, when some friends who not only watched football but actually played football as well asked me some questions about basic rules of football and I didn’t have a clue. Poser: exposed.

I would have probably gotten into hockey and basketball cards as well, but my local mom and pop convienence store at the time only had football, baseball, and GPK cards. It was an awesome store, a bit like a smaller version of Easy Video. Cards, cheap/weird candy, cheapo toys, great stuff. Shame stores like that are almost nonexistant these days.

Commercial update: The Burger King Whopperette commercial was REALLY bizarre.

Chestnuts roasted by Destro @ 02/05/2006 6:35 PM EST

I collected Little Mermaid trading cards. And Panini stickers. Sports are icky.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 02/05/2006 6:36 PM EST

JLAJRC, I got banned again b/c of my IP #. I wasn’t home last night and missed SNL, but I’m gonna watch it b4 I go to bed tonight, since Steve Martin hosted. I bought the Best of David Spade and Alec Baldwin today on DVD. My mom said Baldwin was in the 1st sketch. What was Jimmy Fallon doing there? My mom fell asleep and missed him if he was on. My boyfriend and I sing "Barry Gibb Talkshow" alot–I have the real song, Nights on Broadway, on my iPod. LOL.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 02/05/2006 9:25 PM EST

I am in awe of King Peter’s wicked diorama.

And I used to collect hockey cards, but I love hockey, so no posing here. I have the Canadian Olympic hockey logo tatooed on my lower back.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 02/05/2006 9:32 PM EST

I appreciate the praise. I’d actually forgotten about having posted that; when I checked my site meter today it said something ridiculous like 62 hits today alone. I got mighty confused.

An interesting thought occured to me today in reguards to it though. Its 2 feet deep, 3 feet long, and about 2 feet high. I have absolutely no idea what I’m going to do with it when I’m done. I mean like, I don’t know where I’m going to put it. I’m thinking I’ll have to build some sort of cabinet storage rack thing…and if I’m going to do that I might as well do another diorama. I’ve been tossing around the idea of an ewok village.

At any rate, with luck and patience it should be wired with shiney lights (oooo shiney) before the weeks out, so check it out again.

And by the way I don’t think I mentioned this at the time, but Matt, your coverage of the Revenge of the Sith midnight madness at toys r us in times square was the balls!

Chestnuts roasted by King Peter @ 02/05/2006 9:48 PM EST

I’m in the bible belt! It’s too late, they know where we all are. We need Roddy Piper to show up so he can chew gum and kick ass.
Sentai Mountain? Are there five of them, in differnt colors? Then, they combine into MEGA-ULTRA-GIGA-MOUNTAIN!
Which would make a better live action movie, Kingdom Come, or Watchmen?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/06/2006 1:14 PM EST

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