People with streaming services: is this show available?
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1992 FoxTV comedy. "Woops!" (sic). Post-apocalyptic sitcom. I remember liking it, but memory's a strange thing, Enid.
Looks like it never got a DVD release, and it isn't on any pirate sites. Longshot, but is it available ANYWHERE?
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@lorne-kates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPx178VfNpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVYUyFCrSqM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJwC3sPtB6gThat's 1-4. 5 doesn't seem to be on YouTube unfortunately.
Also, dunno why you'd remember liking it, because boy was it absolute shit.
Edit: I have searched high and low for E5, and I'm out of ideas.
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@lorne-kates I found this: http://www.thewatchseries.ac/serie/woops_ but you've to sign up.
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I watched it during its original run, which I believe overlapped with part of the run of fellow Fox network show "Herman's Head".
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@boner The three cancelled episodes:
https://i.imgur.com/kixnPfc.png
So we know something about their date handling.
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@pie_flavor said in People with streaming services: is this show available?:
So we know something about their date handling.
Dates are hard; let's go
shoppingwatch crappy TV.
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@pie_flavor said in People with streaming services: is this show available?:
So we know something about their date handling.
The last 3 episodes were never aired. I was hoping for an "official" stream or DVD so they'd be included.
I wonder if Fox would sell me the distribution rights for a few dollars.
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@lorne-kates said in People with streaming services: is this show available?:
I wonder if Fox would sell me the distribution rights for a few dollars.
Worth asking.
I spent ages trying to find a way to watch Get A Life. Also a Fox show, IIRC-- the Chris Elliot sitcom where the joke is that he's 30 years old but still lives like he's 12-- because I remembered this great episode where the cardboard submarine he bought from a comic book like 15 years previous had finally arrived ("allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery") and he built it with his dad as a male bonding exercise and while they were testing it in the shower with a closed door the water built up and they almost drowned in their stupid cardboard comic book submarine.
Anyway, it hit one of the streaming services (and is gone again I guess?) and it turns out my memory of that episode was a lot funnier than the actual episode.
EDIT: apparently at some point Get A Life hit DVD, and you can buy the complete series from Amazon for like $37. Huh.
Another show I've been meaning to re-watch was Eerie, Indiana. Remember that? There was this episode where one of the neighbor families was immortal because every night they slept in tupperware. It was the perfect mix of weird and hilarious. Or at least it was in my memory.
EDIT: it's on Amazon Video, and included with Prime. Huh!
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People with streaming services: is this show available?
That is a really good website idea ... oh netflix don't have a public api anymore :(
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@blakeyrat said in People with streaming services: is this show available?:
Another show I've been watching to re-watch was Eerie, Indiana. Remember that? There was this episode where one of the neighbor families was immortal because every night they slept in tupperware. It was the perfect mix of weird and hilarious. Or at least it was in my memory.
I remember that show. And that episode. There was some great weird funny stuff in it.
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@blakeyrat said in People with streaming services: is this show available?:
Get A Life
Yeah, I remember liking that one. I still think of it when I hear REM.
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Also, re: Herman's Head, yup that was on my "must watch lolz". I'm pretty sure Woops! aired back to back with it.
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@lucas1 said in People with streaming services: is this show available?:
That is a really good website idea ... oh netflix don't have a public api anymore
Netflix stopped improving their site in any meaningful ways years ago.
They still don't have a "back 15 seconds" button. (The far and away most common video control operation I want to do when I miss a line of dialog-- not only does Netflix not have a button, it usually rebuffers even if you only go back a few seconds. WTF! I had a "back 15 seconds" button on my physical DVR with a 4800 RPM hard drive back in 2003, but here in 2018? That futuristic space-age technology no longer exists.)
They still don't have any "playlist" feature. (I'd like to make a playlist of, say, Star Trek episodes in air-date order so you could watch them properly instead of having to watch all of TNG before starting DS9 before starting Voyager, for example, when those series' all overlapped in reality. Or even just a playlist of the Voyager episodes that didn't suck I could share to people.)
They've been spending all their money on making shows and movies and promoting their own shit.
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@blakeyrat I feel like the thumbs up/down vs star rating thing was a good change. They certainly haven't improved the actual stream part of the website, though.
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@pie_flavor It's a mu change for me because I don't use their recommendation system at all and never intend to.
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@blakeyrat why? It's linked me to some good shit, and it takes a fraction of a second per thing.
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@pie_flavor I have eclectic tastes. If you use recommendation systems they always end up trying to pin you to one specific genre.
If they want me to use the feature, THEY have to sell it to ME, and they haven't yet done that. Since I disagree with the entire premise of the feature (that I want a list of things to watch that are similar to things I've watched in the past), I'm guessing that's going to be a pretty fucking hard sell.
EDIT: moreover it's part of a terrible trend in software developer where developers try to make their products "smarter" while removing or ignoring the basic features everybody had 10 years ago because you don't need those anymore.
Everybody on Facebook was perfectly happy with the simple chronological list of updates, but no Facebook had to make it "smarter" with some asshole buggy AI broken shit, which everybody hated, then to "fix" people hating it they let you actually bribe them to make the asshole buggy AI do the thing that everybody had by default only a couple years ago.
Netflix "recommendations" vs. "playlists" is a good example of this. Every video site years ago had playlists, but no Netflix is "smarter" than playlist so they have these sophisticated recommendations instead. Thing is, I was perfectly happy with playlists, I want to use playlists, but Netflix has nothing for me. "Fuck you, Blakeyrat" is what Netflix says to people like me. Because their software has to be "smart".
Fuck smart software, I just want shit that works.
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@blakeyrat said in People with streaming services: is this show available?:
Fuck smart software, I just want shit that works.
I'd be fine with smart software if they all had an option to say "No. Fucking stop that. I'll take care of things myself."
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@lorne-kates said in People with streaming services: is this show available?:
I'd be fine with smart software if they all had an option to say "No. Fucking stop that. I'll take care of things myself."
The handjob option.
"I appreciate the effort, but it's better and easier if I just do that myself."
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@blakeyrat said in People with streaming services: is this show available?:
Eerie, Indiana. Remember that? There was this episode where one of the neighbor families was immortal because every night they slept in tupperware. It was the perfect mix of weird and hilarious. Or at least it was in my memory.
Wow, I remember that episode properly now you've mentioned it, it was one of my vague TV memories from childhood. Had no idea what it was. I'll have to see if it's available.
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@blakeyrat They cancelled Marco Polo. I really liked it.
Oh well. The show got really weird when the cut Chinese lady drowned herself.
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@blakeyrat said in People with streaming services: is this show available?:
I have eclectic tastes. If you use recommendation systems they always end up trying to pin you to one specific genre.
Out of curiosity, did you like Napoleon Dynamite?
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@masonwheeler Yeah it was pretty funny.
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@pie_flavor said in People with streaming services: is this show available?:
So we know something about their date handling.
-1 as a guard value?
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@pie_flavor said in People with streaming services: is this show available?:
@blakeyrat why? It's linked me to some good shit, and it takes a fraction of a second per thing.
It's pretty much never recommended anything I actually want to watch.
Seems they keep giving me the shit with the lowest ratings, and even though I do enjoy the odd turkey, it has to be proper turkey.
