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[TVC15]

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Would that I could forget that fateful evening in the autumn of 2006 when I first heard the shrieking, beckoning clarion call of Kentucky Fried Chicken's Famous Bowl. I was fast-forwarding through the commercials of a Tivo'd episode of The Venture Brothers. The commercial for the Famous Bowl came on. I thought it was a Tim & Eric sketch.

Patton Oswalt is purty funny.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

The Bowl scares me. First, it's depressing for KFC, as if they woke up and were like "well, I can't be fucked to present this attractively" and just tossed all their leftovers into a second bowl. Secondly, it's depressing for customers, because The Bowl is just two straps short of a feed bag.

[TVC15]

Should I purchase a bowl and see if I can mail it to you, as an experiment in what the postal service will and won't deliver?

Also:  http://www.avclub.com/content/blog/my_year_of_flops_case_file_100

They just did a My Year of Flops Entry for Ang Lee's Hulk.  Is this movie worth giving a shot?  Keep in mind that I am kinda anti-comic book movie, and anti-ang lee, but I have heard a lot of people with taste defend this movie.  Although a solid portion of them probably like ang lee in general.

[The Fake Shemp]

Not a big Ang Lee fan, but I dug the movie.  It's best when it doesn't get to comic-booky, but the end is a trainwreck.

[Eel O'Brian]

those famous bowls are, believe or not, fucking awesome

although the bojangles bowls are much better

[Eel O'Brian]

i fail to see how combining things you were going to eat already into one bowl suddenly makes them worse

do you guys eat all your corn, then all your mashed potatoes, then the gravy, then the chicken?

i bet some of you freak the fuck out if the food on your plate touches, too

[TVC15]

i fail to see how combining things you were going to eat already into one bowl suddenly makes them worse

do you guys eat all your corn, then all your mashed potatoes, then the gravy, then the chicken?

i bet some of you freak the fuck out if the food on your plate touches, too

Why not just go the extra step and put all the food in a blender, so it can be consumed even more easily?

[Van Cruncheon]

i fail to see how combining things you were going to eat already into one bowl suddenly makes them worse

do you guys eat all your corn, then all your mashed potatoes, then the gravy, then the chicken?

i bet some of you freak the fuck out if the food on your plate touches, too

oh god, you hit on one of my weird peccadilloes -- while i don't freak the fuck out, i do indeed dislike it when different food items touch on my plate (unless it's like rice and tikka masala, or refried beans and rice), and i do eat all the individual components separately. gravy is a sauce, although i will make some effort to keep it from the veggies or the cranberry sauce

[Eel O'Brian]

well, not wanting cranberry sauce to get in your peas is understandable, but i have been combining my beans and rice (with a spoon of brown gravy on top) since childhood.

[TVC15]

Even better, Eel, how about you just consume the vomit I produce?  The food comes pre-masticated and partially digested, and heck, I'm just going to waste it on a toilet that can't appreciate it in the first place.  This way, the food gets enjoyed three times:  When I first eat it, when I first puke it (I have developed an almnost-fetish for the act of vomiting), and when you re-eat it.  Heck, if you develop some fetishes on your end of the equation, the food can be enjoyed upwards of four to five times.  Now that's a deal!

[Howard Alan Treesong]

i fail to see how combining things you were going to eat already into one bowl suddenly makes them worse

do you guys eat all your corn, then all your mashed potatoes, then the gravy, then the chicken?

i bet some of you freak the fuck out if the food on your plate touches, too

oh god, you hit on one of my weird peccadilloes -- while i don't freak the fuck out, i do indeed dislike it when different food items touch on my plate (unless it's like rice and tikka masala, or refried beans and rice), and i do eat all the individual components separately. gravy is a sauce, although i will make some effort to keep it from the veggies or the cranberry sauce

YES I eat my food separately I am not a savage or a 6-year-old

[Eel O'Brian]

i can just picture a pea falling off your spoons onto your mashed potatoes and you jumping up from the table flapping your hands and screaming omigod omigod omigod DINNER RUINED

hahaha you fucking girls

[Howard Alan Treesong]

also, Ang Lee's Hulk is better than the reputation would suggest, but still short of good

[Eel O'Brian]

jesus christ you all better stay the hell away from soup, i hear they combine all kinds of food items in that

[TVC15]

i can just picture a pea falling off your spoons onto your mashed potatoes and you jumping up from the table flapping your hands and screaming omigod omigod omigod DINNER RUINED

hahaha you fucking girls

You see, people, this is a man's man.  He won't be bitching when some bile ends up in TVC's Famous Stomach Slurry.

[Eel O'Brian]

chicken burrito - chicken, beans, rice, cheese, and sauce combined together

omigod it's all touching i can't handle it

[T234]

I almost stabbed a man once for trying to put tartar sauce on my plate at a fish fry.

[Eel O'Brian]

beef stew, fucking forget about it, it's all gravy and meat and carrots and potatoes and onions rubbing up against each other in a bowl of sin

[T234]

I like mixing my stuff together, I just don't like tartar sauce.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

see, here's the thing

some flavors are meant to be enjoyed together

some are not

there's a difference between combining multiple unique flavors into a single culinary sensation, and just throwing your whole damn dinner in a bucket

[Barry Egan]

i can just picture a pea falling off your spoons onto your mashed potatoes and you jumping up from the table flapping your hands and screaming omigod omigod omigod DINNER RUINED

hahaha you fucking girls

 

[Eel O'Brian]

chicken, corn, mashed potatoes and gravy must never touch, they aren't meant to be enjoyed together

you're all just finicky gals

[Barry Egan]

it's strange how many people have posted themselves eating the KFC bowl on youtube.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

[Eel O'Brian]

it's strange how many people have posted themselves eating the KFC bowl on youtube.

i dunno if i'd go that far, it's just a tasty convenient dish to be enjoyed in the privacy of your own home

[Eel O'Brian]

i would normally agree, but they use their popcorn chicken in those bowls, and that popcorn chicken is pretty tasty

[Barry Egan]

it's strange how many people have posted themselves eating the KFC bowl on youtube.

i dunno if i'd go that far, it's just a tasty convenient dish to be enjoyed in the privacy of your own home

Its almost voyeurism!

[Barry Egan]

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[Saint Cornelius]

I gotta go with Eel_O_Brien here, y'all pansies need to sack up.

But all I really came in here was to say: yes, the AV Club rox my box.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

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[Saint Cornelius]

What's really awesome is the David Cross vs. Patton thing that's been going on over there. Wow, so it's not just videogame nerdlingers that like to fight online, but comedy nerdlingers as well? Sheeeeeeeeeeit.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

"over there"? I know not of what you speak

[The Fake Shemp]

You know what I speak of, Patel the Grey.

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Patton's brown eye sees all!

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[Saint Cornelius]

"over there"? I know not of what you speak

Are we not talking about The Onion AV Club?

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Is David Cross in some kind of feud with Oswalt or something?

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery, living mound lumbering against it. It shall not find me! God, that gravy! The window! The window!

Is the end some kind of literary reference I'm not getting?  Heart of Darkness or Shakespeare, maybe?

[TVC15]

Is David Cross in some kind of feud with Oswalt or something?

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery, living mound lumbering against it. It shall not find me! God, that gravy! The window! The window!

Is the end some kind of literary reference I'm not getting?  Heart of Darkness or Shakespeare, maybe?

I just figured a Lovecraft or Poe generic reference, similar to the opening paragraph. 

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Looks like a Lovecraft short story:

http://readdle.com/sc/3/89.chtm

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or a degenerate. When you have read these hastily scrawled pages you may guess, though never fully realise, why it is that I must have forgetfulness or death........

.......The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

[TVC15]

At first I thought the beginning was a rip of The Tell-Tale Heart or something, but I was too lazy to look.  Knowing that it was either Poe or Lovecraft was enough for me.

[Bloodwake]

I thought it was fucking hilarious myself. That bowl sounds like a shitload of nasty, and I'm a pretty big fan of KFC, having grown up ten miles away from the first one.

[Eric P]

Is David Cross in some kind of feud with Oswalt or something?

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery, living mound lumbering against it. It shall not find me! God, that gravy! The window! The window!

Is the end some kind of literary reference I'm not getting?  Heart of Darkness or Shakespeare, maybe?

it's the end of Dagon by HP Lovecraft

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

[CajoleJuice]

i can just picture a pea falling off your spoons onto your mashed potatoes and you jumping up from the table flapping your hands and screaming omigod omigod omigod DINNER RUINED

hahaha you fucking girls

I used to be like that. When I was 12.

[Cormacaroni]

I love the name...Famous Bowl. Self-fulfilling prophecy at its finest.

Has anyone tried that thing Tycho talks about on the PA podcast? Cheesecake wrapped in hamburger with some sort of caramel sauce? I nearly choked just imagining it.

[BlueTsunami]

The only things I can stomach at KFC are the pure meat part of the chicken (Not the Skin and not the shallow meat) and the macaroni and cheese (whatever its actually made of, I don't want to know)

Other than that, I only eat KFC cause I'm eating at someones house who ordered it (I'll never buy it myself).

The Famous Bowls are a testament to the lazy though...though what do you guys think of Shepards Pie? Its pretty much the same thing...just home cooked (and god knows I love me some Shepards Pie ).