[Public Access] TCGS
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2014
- This week on TCGS - no characters, no costumes, no musical guest, no house band, no hula hooping.
Just us on screen taking calls from people who used to watch our show but don’t anymore, so they can tell us why.
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The Chris Gethard Show is the weirdest (and often times saddest) weekly comedy variety show that streams live on the internet, broadcasts live on Manhattan Public Access, and is available for download as a video podcast. Anything can happen. No cool kids.
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I hope everyone at TCGS knows that there are a lot of us who are kind of silent viewers. I can't watch it live most of the time because of work and find it hard to be consistently active in the community because of that, but that doesn't mean we don't love TCGS. I guess we need to be more active, that's on us I guess. But I think the thing that feels most different since TCGS has come back is people on the show keep saying how it's different or not as good. I wouldn't have even thought about it if it didn't seem like you guys felt less enthused about it. We love you guys, and I just love watching you all enjoy each other.
I agree. It seems like the cast and crew are the only ones doubting themselves and thinking the show needs to start fresh. I'm all for new ideas but TCGS is as good as it's ever been. That 15 minute chant of "Eat more butts" that turned into a musical jam session is one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
I to can't watch live but I do watch on CZcams. In fact it's the only thing I look forward to on a Friday night.
You nailed it, Casey, when you said that you enjoyed seeing this group of creative, funny people simply enjoy each other's company and friendship for an hour or so. That's exactly what drew me to this show in the first place.
I also have to say that I agree with JD when he says that the message boards have taken this whole concept of evolve or die and made it into some sort of request line for the show. It never seemed to be intended for that. I'm pretty sure the question, and this whole thing, was about trying to get people to show their support. I guess you can translate all these selfish attempts by posters to put their spin on the show to be signs of support, but I get your frustration, JD. This show isn't meant to pander to a particular niche audience. These episodes are expressions of a voice that I see silenced elsewhere. I am consistently intrigues, regardless of the topic or the show's supposed 'success.' All these episodes seem like successes to me, and I rarely understood this show as a serial, but as a bleeding force that goes one into another.
The show cannot die right now. It's too contemplative. Too complex. Too timely, and too forced. Just the fact that we've all come to put in so much thought and speech into where the show is now show's us that things are still happening within its frame.
Dru Morrison Agreed. I really felt for and agreed with JD for a lot of this episode. Though this show is interactive and I love that, we also have to trust that these guys are wonderful creative people and they know what they're doing. I don't go on the message boards but from this episode it seems like they've taken a less supportive turn. It seems like it worries some people that a lot of the viewers watched the show at their lowest points, but isn't that great? This show helps people, it's the bright spot in their week and that really means a lot. That's something special.
I've been watching for the past two years, basically never missing a live episode. I'm one of those people that found you guys at one of my lowest points and I felt very lifted up watching the show and your unique public access community. I'm in a much better place now but that doesn't make me feel like I want to watch the show any less. All I can say is that I don't think there is ANY production of a tv show that works harder than you guys, even with episodes where you have nothing prepared. You do everything out of pocket, have a lot going on in your personal lives and you really have no one supporting you but yourselves and your fans and it feels good to watch that hard work. All I can say is that I understand why you would feel the way you do in this episode and I'm going to love you no matter what, even if you decided not too long down the road to stop the show. However, don't think that if you decide to stop the show that, that has to be the last show. We all thought it was done when you did the pilot for CC but you came back. If you wanted to stop but then come back a few years from now, just fucking do it. You have a lot of dedicated fans like myself that would always start watching again. Do whatever you want! The fact you guys do whatever you want is what is so great. Just go with the flow, but I promise you that I'll be watching forever. TCGS4Life.
ill never stop watching this show its helped me through hard times and its always been fresh and entertaining to me..keep up the solid work!!
I stopped watching because the run ended and I got to watch The Special Without Brett Davis. Then that ended and I got to watch Chris Gethard Presents. Then there was a pandemic. So I started over.
For what it's worth, to anyone who worked on the public access run, this truly changed lives, and continues to do so. Thanks.
This ep is probably the closest that the TCGS crew have gotten (or may ever get) to a public catharsis post "pilot." You don't need a "new direction," just a new perspective. Love you guys!
First off, Hot Dog Parrish is a magnificent alien being and he has an odd insight into life that even we humans don’t have. Second, this was a great episode. After watching the episode back, I feel like there’s even more promise for the future of the show than I sensed while watching live. It already seemed so cathartic. Everyone seemed to agree that the news of the show’s death has been greatly exaggerated. They’re all just as happy to work together each week as ever. They’re just taking time to process their feelings after the pilot. They’re disappointed, but they’re not dejected.
Only Gethard seems like he’s being flattened by the feelings, as he’s projecting a false weight onto himself from thinking he has to carry everyone else’s baggage on his shoulders. And as they expressed, that’s just not something he has to do.
And even Gethard laughed his ass off a lot in this episode. It was visibly obvious at times that he was remembering why he loves doing the show, giving fist bumps and hugs, cheering caller comments, etc.
It’s clear that he wants to keep playing with everyone each Wednesday, but he has to learn to let himself want to play. And without feeling like he’s steering them all down a blind alley, which only he feels he is doing.
This episode is just bizarre. Feels like a break up.
Watching all of these later on, when the Fusion shows are just about to start, is so weird. It's not nearly as hard to watch if I'd been following week-to-week at the time and was worried about the existence of something that means so much to me, but it is tough, in the best possible way. What other show would ever do something like this, let alone have it turn into something so wonderful and so worthwhile?
A lot of people really nailed it here, especially Hot Dog (god bless you, Hot Dog) and Emma Noble and Johnny from the LLC. It does kind of feel, as a viewer who's been watching 4-5 of these every work day (and some other days), who's been hooked from the start and who has yet to see a single episode I didn't love, like this was a thing that needed to be aired/mourned/what have you to some extent. I personally didn't notice a drop off in quality at all (and I feel like watching in quick succession might highlight that?). It sucks that Chris feels, however incorrectly, that he let people down. It sucks that it didn't get picked up. None of that should stick (and I don't think any of it did stick), but you gotta acknowledge that kind of thing. I think?
There isn't one "best" episode of TCGS, partly because it does too many things. But this is one of the best.
One of the best episodes yet.
This episode was pretty hard to watch. It felt like that moment before a breakup when the other person 'needs to talk' and tells you they're no longer feeling it. I agree with Casey M's comment and everyone else. I still love TCGS as much as ever, and it had some of its best episodes of all time after the filming of the pilot. I still need this show around as I've not yet gotten out of my depression. Pit-stop for the depressed? Sure, but it's something rare and special that a TV show can build such a positive and welcoming community for those people in need. I really hope TCGS doesn't go away.
Only 7 years late! But that's my point, what you're doing lives on with the Internet, this is not T.V.,, this is not ephemeral. You are making art, that will be around for those of us in the future still dealing with a lot of things that this show holds near and dear to their hearts: depression, anxiety, uncertainty, fear, doubt. While this was hard to watch, I needed it so much. I feel even further connected to the show, because of shows like this - it's f*cking real. And reality is not always pretty, reality is hard and sometimes things suck but we push through because we are humans, and we find a way. Mad love from the future!
I'm relatively new to Chris Gethard and the show. I watched the first episode they did with Tru TV and I remember thinking "What the fuck is this absolute chaos?" About a month ago(my timeline could be off. Whenever Chris's AMA was.) I came back to it, and began watching older episodes. I began to understand the show, and very quickly fell in love with it. I began to see how vulnerable and honest everyone was willing to be. It was both funny and touching, but it also managed to make me feel like I was part of a community without ever being there. But this episode from three years ago has cemented that love for the show. I'm currently in a spot professionally where I'm going from zero to a hundred. I've been a minimum wage nobody for four years since graduating high school. Then four or so months ago I stumble in to the opportunity to not only manage a store in the upcoming months, but also to join the owners team of advisers on a new venture if all goes well. I am absolutely terrified of ruining this opportunity, and I have been for days since talking to the owner. But this episode has calmed all of that. Sure, the pilot didn't work out. But you went for the big shot, you applied yourselves, and when it failed you allowed yourselves to be open, and vulnerable, but you pushed on and hit cable. You have just shown me that failure is not the end. Sure, if this all goes wrong and I do a terrible job, its a set back. But a set back does not mean to stop fighting for what you love.
I am so insanely glad that this discussion, which I can see seemed like it was the beginning of the end for the show at the time, was able to take place. It adds context to where the show is now. And on top of that, it has been able to help me personally. There is a long road to walk, but with so many more episodes left to watch, at least I will always know I am not walking it alone.
A big thank you to Chris, every other member of the cast and crew both now, and back then, and of course, a big ol thank you to the audience. None of you have met me, but you have all helped me. Without Chris, there is no show. Without the cast and crew, no show. And with as fun and loving of an audience as you have, without those fans, there would be no show.
I too started watching on TruTV, and couldn't make sense of it. I knew I liked it, but it was really, really weird. I ended up only watching occasional episodes of it then (and now I feel completely guilty, since it was cancelled), but a few months ago I stumbled onto these episodes on CZcams, and they've been fantastic!
I didn't get The Human Fish, or Vacation Jason (or the other various "random" characters on the TruTV series, but their characters had so much time to grow and become back in the day!
As depressing as this episode is, the aquarium/baseball game story is one of the funniest things ever.
"I tried to expliain to them who you were..." :D
I watch this show 30 episodes at a time when im depressed and scared and then take month lonh breaks of not from watching.
I'm a new viewer and I have great fun watching this show. Hope I haven't come to the party too late.
It’s 2017 and I’m still watching these. I watch them with my best friend and roommate and boyfriend and I asked them last night what their favorite show is and they both said this is. We currently still watch it but this show is the best, it fucking rules. I’m so glad it exists and that these people continue to incorporate people. I love you all.
Erin Jordan heck yep!!!!!
I've never stopped and never will, you guys are even on my Plenty of Fish profile lol....
You forget that you are living "The Next Chris Gethards" dream.
I discovered this show like a month before the last MNN episode but this did make me sad about some of the fandoms I have been a part of and lost touch with over the years. I never once thought about how the creators feel when fans leave...
Love the show and especially Conner. We're almost to 2016, buddy. Hope you guys have like 20 seasons on Fusion so I can slowly lose interest.
What happened with Omar and Shannon? did something go down?? Also, did rob malone have beef with chris over something? I couldnt tell if the yelling match between them a few episodes back was legit?
It's really heart breaking to hear how bad Chris felt about missing that one pilot knowing they ended up with two series on networks after this.
This is my go to when feeling depressed.
I really felt the call about watching because depression made Sam need the community feel of the show, 'cause that's exactly how I've ended up mainlining 150+ episodes in three months this year. It's just a little heartbreaking knowing that the community that I'm longing for happened a decade ago.
You know what Mike Watt has been saying to hecklers for over thirty years now? START YOUR OWN BAND. It's your show, Gethard. It's nice to be nice, but audients who tell you how to do your thing better should GET THEIR OWN SHOW.
Man, Mimi had it right. There’s nothing that punctured the creator/consumer binary like this show. So many social media influencer types pretend to do it but you can see the $ in their eyes. This feels real, even all these years later it feels like a room anyone could walk into and be a part of.
Wow...depressing concept...Much love in South Korea!
I had to stop to make more room to watch the wwe network.
Why and when did Shannon leave? O.o
wait is Juan actually random George, I really can't tell if that was a bit or not
Have they shown the pilot to IFC yet? I feel like that would be the perfect channel to host the show. Besides a bunch of UCB people like Scott Aukerman are already on. Can't they pull some strings?
This was really a return to form for them. Vulnerable and blindly meandering. Depressing and hilarious, etc. I do think that Shannon hosting the first episode after they found out the pilot didn't get picked up and her just saying that quickly and then dropping it was a really terrible idea. Nothing against her, and her energy and style is critical to the show, but I think die hard viewers needed geth to at least be the one to say it and give a few minutes on everything, or at least remind us to watch ep 100 (hundo).
33:17 call was so bad that it turn good.
I wish this show was still a thing. I'm hanging on by a thread and stuff like this makes it feel worth it to soldier on. But now that it's gone, I have a hard time seeing the point.
I hope you’re still hanging on. : )
I love Mimi! She's so sweet!
the crowd was particularly gross this episode
Hey Geth Heads,
If you love The Chris Gethard Show (esp. if you never stopped watching), you'll love Geth's new project: Chris Gethard Presents. There's even an episode where they resurrect TCGS! czcams.com/video/MXD_PzqqdZo/video.html
Agh! Brian Miller @brianisagoblin from Tablepop is here!
I mean, I've never stopped watching, but... Three wrestling episodes...
What gets me with this show is that it can vary greatly on quality. One episode can be absolutely hilarious but the next 3 are meh or not even worth watching. I watched wrestling as a kid but 3 episodes of it was way too much especially in a row. Gethard's name is on the show but it shouldn't live or die just with him. He has a whole crew of talented people.
Not really about good or bad..i tune in every week regardless of the guest or theme cuz you never know whats gunna happen. Good or bad it was an experience and i havent found another show like that.
now he does Beautiful Anonymous
emma's so damn pretty
I dont feel great after watching this....all I can say is that I care about the show and I support anything they do...except Hotdog he's a weirdo!