Be Excellent To Each Other

No joey, omnipotent.

Ross, I'm so sorry.

Most of the best stuff does seem to involve Joey.

Friends is plenty homophobic. Every time someone mentions that Ross' wife is a lesbian everyone howls with laughter. It's mostly good stuff, though.

I was powerful in love with Rachel when I was younger, but now it's all Phoebe all the time.

I'm team Monica.

FEEX

I can only get off on Shark VHS tapes.

That's not strictly true, and I think a lot of it is the fact it was just meant to be "WELL THATS SURPRISING". But it definitely jars now.


No, team Monica. Although more team Chandler.

But the best Friend? Listen here.

https://m.soundcloud.com/sanspantsradio ... ng-friends

Watching it through a modern prism Ross is the absolute worst. I mean he is anyway, but more so.

I'm probably team Phoebe these days too.

He really was, even through the then prism.

It's probably why he did so believably well as Captain Sobel.

I'm powerful homesick at the moment and to be honest this is like chicken soup for the soul.

We've been watching Friends as well and all I can keep thinking is "This is in 1080p! They filmed it in widescreen! 20 years ago!"

I love you Dave

It was - lots of things were. You get crew standing at the sides of the screen sometimes though, because they expected it to be cut to 4:3.

There's one I spotted on an aeroplane, hang on...

Eh, can't find it.

Is it just out of shot?

It was actually shot on film, so they could go up to 4k if they wanted to

That makes no sense. That means you could do 8k then surely? Or infinity k?

I can't help you. My mind blew.

Series 1 Ross is actually a Simon Peggish everyman.

Fuck I love this show. After this I'm going to rewatch ER.

He's a wet fart. He could've asked Rachel out in episode 2. Gimp

That is literally what I just said.

HC has the entire series on DVD, which when I looked at it a couple of years ago, looks for all the world like it was recorded onto VHS from an NTSC feed and then faithfully transferred to DVD. It's that bad, quality wise.

Snow. And a dog shitting.

Isn't that the famous panther of Bradford?

That is my nom de guerre.

We are outside of our new house trying to break in because the lock doesn't work.

Have you got the right house?

Have you called a locksmith?

Does Myp frighten you when drunk.

Yes.
Yes, can't come for two hours, no other local ones.
Always.

He would have been just out of a 4:3 shot, yes. You can see him clearly on widescreen.


That would have been better if they were a bit more solid on Friends - Phoebe is by far the smartest (and the toughest). Funny, though.

Ummmm
mainly everyone needs to listen to all the plumbing guys' stuff. On the specifics though, no, they're completely right.
yes, yes they are! Listen to all their shit!

Aaaaaaaaaah the one with the blackout!!!!!!!!!

Do you know what 4:3 is?

Jill Goodacre!

An upside down fraction.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!!!!!!!

Chandler is , like empirically, the best friend.

Also "vestibule" is a great word.

Has been near the house?

Isn’t it a lens format created by Olympus?

We had to break in to our 2nd house on the day we moved in, not because the lock didn’t work, because the solicitor had lost the keys. My father in law broke the window on the kitchen door and my wife had to lean in and knock the bolt on the bottom of the door with a hammer to get it open. I knew little of this as I was in the van we’d hired to move our stuff.

I will buy bump keys before I move.

It's not true. Film doesn't have infinite resolution, if you blow it up too much it gets grainy. Buffy seasons 1 and 2 are shot on cheap/coarse 16mm and they're grainy as fuck at even DVD resolutions.

Speaking of Buffy, it's the God Emperor of shitty 16:9 transfers of content originally matted for 4:3. You can see boom mikes, the edges of sets, and random crew members standing around in the wider frames.

Speaking of content being remastered into different aspect rations, I once lost a bet because some frames of Ghostbusters are larger in 4:3 than they are in 2.35:1. A friend swore blind you could see Ray's hands in one shot of the TV cut (specifically, that he drops his PK meter when they see Slimer.) I said no way, they always cut the 4:3 frame out of the middle of the wider cinematic original frame. I was mostly right as a general rule but catastrophically wrong in this specific instance, there are some shots where they had a larger frame and it looked OK so they used it.

This is the ongoing lie of digital - decent film stock is really high resolution. I think it's something like 35mm goes up to 4kish before diminishing returns set in, 70mm is way past 8k. But it does have to be high quality film stock treated well by good cinematographers, focus pullers and so on to be evident.

It probably was. People just don't care about quality when they can get it done in a quarter the time and make the same money anyway. I guess you know that though. Not you personally, but photo stuff you've seen.

I was hugely irked by Invader Zim when they finally released a dvd set - it only happened because of piracy but the couldn't even be arsed using a good deinterlacing setting so it looks worse than what people recorded off satellite broadcasts.

Wasn't the joke meant to be how he was clueless about it all, and we are meant to be laughing at Ross?

Q.V. Sheldon Cooper

Sheldon is quite obviously a facsimile of a person with autism and I feel uncomfortable laughing at him because of that.

I'd never given that any thought.