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Weekend Discussion Thread: Timing is Everything

Alert reader Ken writes in and says:

Sometimes it’s all in the timing. Example: In STARFIGHTERS when Bob Dornan is in the bar with his buddy acting all cool and calm after his flight he pauses and looks down at the same time that there is a missing frame in the film (because missing frames are a kind of ruling aesthetic in crappy movies like this), which elicits a resounding BELCH from one of our riffers. Sure, it’s a juvenile gag, but the timing is PERFECT; you would swear that that was what happened in the movie. :-)

So what are your favourite perfectly timed moments–those little (riff) moments when everything comes together?

What he said.

And keep those topic suggestions coming!

Bittersweet Hearts

Alert regular Goshzilla made this kewl graphic with all the “bittersweet hearts” used in the sketch on the show.

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Of course, on Twitter there’s been #rejectedcandyhearts going on all week. I felt a little funny about contributing because Joel, who invented the concept, is now Twitter. But even he volunteered a few (which brings this back on topic), such as “I’m old,” “Low life” and “I’m awful.”

Bill Corbett offered: “Welcome To The Terrordome,” “Fellow Brony?” and “The Heart Wants What It Wants.”

Any phrases you’d like to see on a candy heart?

New Short from RiffTrax…

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See a sample or download it here.

Joel Makes Podcast Appearance

Last weekend Joel popped in at the SketchFest live show of the podcast Harmontown. He shows up at about the 42:30 mark. (Parental warning: some salty language.)

Josh Doing Fine After Surgery

One of the fundamental tenets of this site is: as fascinated as we — and our readers — are by every detail of the cast members’ doings, we also believe they deserve a private life. We do our best to avoid reporting any personal info about the cast members here, unless they volunteer it.

So, when Josh missed several Cinematic Titanic shows last year, and fans were told only that it was due to illness, we left it at that.

But recently Josh revealed what happened in a series of tweets:

1 month ago today, I had a kidney removed due to cancer. Now I don’t have cancer and I’ve been doing stand-up all week. #feelinglucky
The cancer was discovered when I had a CT scan of my colon and my kidney photo-bombed it. #feelinglucky
I have hesitated to be public about it, but I felt like people should get to hear a happy cancer story once in a while.
Thanks to everyone for your warm and caring wishes. It feels better than my cynical ass would have anticipated.

We have no doubt that we speak for all of our readers in expressing our delight that Josh has made a full recovery and in wishing him all the best.