Reno 911 cracks me up....I can't wait for the 2nd season to come out on DVD. I had saved that episode on my DVR before last gaming session and I showed this segment to my gaming group...how funny. "I'm wearing boots of escaping!" BANG!
It's obvious someone in Reno 911's production crew is a gamer.
Having been a police officer for sixteen years AND a gamer a lot longer than that made this one even funnier for me....although I don't know if I'm allowed to use the line "I've got about ten points of beat you with my stick left." Might not look good at Internal Affairs, he he he.
Awesome! The role-player was comedian Patton Oswalt. He also did a voice on Home Movies as an obsessed role-player at a ren-fest. I think it is in the 3rd season of that show (hopefully will be coming out on DVD soon). I have Reno 911 on my netflix queue, this little taste might push those discs up to the top!
I'm reminded of a call I handled a long time ago on suspicious subjects. It was a gaming group of teenagers whose parents didn't allow them to play D&D at their respective houses, so the kids rented a storage unit for the summer and put old sofas, a crude table and some folding chairs in it so they could have a place to game. A passerby saw them gaming at 11 pm and thought they were burglars.
They thought I was going to "bust" them for something, but they were very surprised to find out that I knew exactly what they were doing and that I didn't pre-condemn them as satanists or just weirdos. Of course, nobody had been shot with an arrow, either.
I love my wife and kids--they got me Reno 911: The 2nd Season for father's day!!
I think there's another clip in there where the DM of the gaming group gets hosed down with pepper mace.
Thanks for the clip!
Reno 911 has given us a few good D&D spoofs. They always cast accuracy to the wind but only so they can crush tons of game jargon into each colorful sentence.
Here's to hoping they keep it up.
I love my wife and kids--they got me Reno 911: The 2nd Season for father's day!!
I think there's another clip in there where the DM of the gaming group gets hosed down with pepper mace.
Right. The one where he's telling the officers all of the things he's immune to like prismatic sprays and junk. Too funny.
Hah! That's awesome. Anyway, have you ever seen E.T.? in the beginning the little loser kid's brothers are playing d&d. They has a real big dungeon set up.
Hah! That's awesome. Anyway, have you ever seen E.T.? in the beginning the little loser kid's brothers are playing d&d. They has a real big dungeon set up.
Yeah, and in the movie TAPS Tom Cruise wants to play D&D, days before he goes apescat and starts suicidally shooting at the national guard.
<nostalgic sigh>
Ah, I miss those Mazes and Monster days... when people thought gaming was dark and dangerous. I was like... Rockstar Dangerboy on that school bus.
"Don't make me roll one of my funky black dice... you've seen the cautionary 20/20 report... someone might die."
Speaking of Mazes and Monsters, I left a user comment on IMDB.com. All the user comments are a worthy read... they truly illustrate D&D in Pop Culture with insightful recollections of the gaming world's crazier days in terms of the general public's perception of us. Well, 'they' were insightful anyway. I was just running my mouth as usual.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0084314/usercomments
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My daughter, bless her heart found this. Thought it would fit here and I am sure you will all enjoy it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S9aApo92AU
Further, last weekend we went and saw the Blue Man Group : How to be a Megastar 2.0 tour. Anyone familiar with the blue men will know they have scrolling signs that you can read before the show. Well this time the signs were trying to get you to join the Modcast via text message on your cell phone. Costs $1.99 plus whatever you text message rate is for your provider and during the concert you get text messages on your phone. It was fun.
Anyway, one of the strings talks about how nerds put the Modcast together and how nerds were great at inventing things so you should really try the Modcast. They invented things like ... Dungeons & Dragons ... well ... maybe that isn't the best example ... but you know what we mean ... so join the Modcast.
So D & D in Pop culture is still around a year later. LOL Enjoy the video.
Hah! That's awesome. Anyway, have you ever seen E.T.? in the beginning the little loser kid's brothers are playing d&d. They has a real big dungeon set up.
Where do you think my longtime nickname comes from? In the scene following the D&D in the kitchen scene, Elliot is getting off the school bus the next morning and has the following exchange(or something to the effect of)with one of his classmates:
"Sino-supremist!"
"Oh yeah? Zero Charisma! Zero Charisma!"
Always amused me, as I had started playing 1ed. D&D only a year or so before the movie came out.
If you can understand french, and want to laugh your arses off, go to You Tube and search for a clip called Farador (or search for Dungeons Dragons Spoof and you'll eventually find it).
One of the funniest things I've ever seen concerning D&D...
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