10-11-2015, 03:10 AM
Guys, if you haven't checked it out, I highly recommend the hit CBS TV show known as Scorpion. It's one of those special-government teams needs to solve crimes no one else can run-of-the-mill bullshit type shows, but it's so far removed from reality, that it transcends into a glorious realm of televised entertainment.
The hook of the show is that all of these guys are GENIUSES, and I will be using caps lock around that word forever now, because that's what the show is. It's caps lock for your earholes because they say the word genuis and its synonyms at least fifteen times per episode. That is not an exaggeration, I've done the math.
Anyways, they're led by this dude named Walter O'Brien, who's a real guy and also, a real fraud. Here's his publicity AMA for the show where you can discover what kind of person could inspire this masterpiece. When he's not jerking off his IQ score (which has been shown to be exaggerated and also guys IQ tests are really silly and irrelevant in the first place), he's lying about ATTACHING CORDS TO AIRPLANES WHILE THEY TAKE OFF INTO THE SKY. That's a scene, in the show, that was originally "based on a true story".
From that point on, I think the writers realized what shit they had gotten themselves into and just flatly said to eachother:
And pump they did. This show follows cartoon logic, and not in the usual schlocky "ooh all of the bad guys never hit the main characters with bullets" kind of way, I mean in the plotlines themselves. One of my favorite episodes has our GENIUSES hook up, and I'm not joking, a friggen Car Battery to an aging FBI agents brain to help him do parkour and catch a terrorist with a blue finger. I mean, this is premium-grade whacky hijinks, only every week for multiple seasons. Two weeks ago, they robbed a cuban bank vault WITH A HOT DOG.
I know I'm usually one for sarcasm and exaggeration, but seriously guys, give this show a chance. On the surface and in every existing advertisement, it looks painfully groan-inducing, but underneath the generic surface lies a creamy, delectably zany show written by middle schoolers.
The hook of the show is that all of these guys are GENIUSES, and I will be using caps lock around that word forever now, because that's what the show is. It's caps lock for your earholes because they say the word genuis and its synonyms at least fifteen times per episode. That is not an exaggeration, I've done the math.
Anyways, they're led by this dude named Walter O'Brien, who's a real guy and also, a real fraud. Here's his publicity AMA for the show where you can discover what kind of person could inspire this masterpiece. When he's not jerking off his IQ score (which has been shown to be exaggerated and also guys IQ tests are really silly and irrelevant in the first place), he's lying about ATTACHING CORDS TO AIRPLANES WHILE THEY TAKE OFF INTO THE SKY. That's a scene, in the show, that was originally "based on a true story".
From that point on, I think the writers realized what shit they had gotten themselves into and just flatly said to eachother:
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SpoilerAnd pump they did. This show follows cartoon logic, and not in the usual schlocky "ooh all of the bad guys never hit the main characters with bullets" kind of way, I mean in the plotlines themselves. One of my favorite episodes has our GENIUSES hook up, and I'm not joking, a friggen Car Battery to an aging FBI agents brain to help him do parkour and catch a terrorist with a blue finger. I mean, this is premium-grade whacky hijinks, only every week for multiple seasons. Two weeks ago, they robbed a cuban bank vault WITH A HOT DOG.
I know I'm usually one for sarcasm and exaggeration, but seriously guys, give this show a chance. On the surface and in every existing advertisement, it looks painfully groan-inducing, but underneath the generic surface lies a creamy, delectably zany show written by middle schoolers.