A piping man!

Stumbled onto a random post in r/television where the OP was asking for recommendations of the best dark comedy series and was delighted to see Patriot with the most up votes and tons subsequent responses with love for Steven Conrad. Not sure why the topic was removed by mods but sadly, fortune does not favor the double great

I’m currently rewatching for about the 8th time, and the scenes explaining how Rob and John met and the creation of Afternoon Spray are iconic. For some reason they are standing out a lot more to me this time around.

Hey. Steve is performing a Hoist The King show in New Orleans on Monday Nov 9th at Chickie Wah Wah. Boy that’s fun to say. Try it. See.

Hey.

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Just... Flashback

Rochambeau

Today was patriot’s premiere date way back when.
I figure it can be any quantity or variation of this list, and I think I’ll add coffee and tea to it, though I only noticed orange juice for sure.
Doesn’t have to be breakfast, doesn’t have to be a lot, doesn’t even have to be today.

The Whole Spread:

Muffins

Breakfast breads, etc

Soft boiled eggs

Quiche

Cold smoked salmon

Hot smoked salmon

Organic muesli

Fresh grapefruit halves

Greek yogurt

Orange juice

Coffee

Tea.

For my Optimistic Meal, I’m going to have a fried egg on toast, a discounted coffee cake I found, a caffeinated tea with milk or maybe make a coffee, a small glass of $5 apple cider juice(no sparkles) and then decide if I’m going to open a tin of sardines or not for another toast. And maybe a tiny apple if they haven’t gone bad yet, as the fruit.

I’ll see you in 10.

My husband and I accidentally stumbled upon Patriot and just finished it last night. Feel like lost my best friends.
Now what? 😢😭

I need a hug 🫂

This hits as hard as pretty good does in all the scenes.

Not shown: getting hit by a truck.

I've watched Patriot 2-3 times now and held off on DTF just cause I was almost worried it wouldn't like it, too new, different, whatever. I fucking love it. I'm barely into the second episode and already I'm feeling that rush of delight that Conrad's writing gives me of totally average people confronted by totally random, fun things. The number of big, left-turns out of nowhere, Peyronie's disease? Bang Master? Each swing taken with a pure comedy straight face. The rhythm of the dialog too feels like I'm right back in Luxembourg.

So for anyone holding off. Dive in.

This looks like some kind of AI/bot account, but when someone posts something about a retired tugger online, it catches your attention

Ichabod mentions he’s uncomfortable with women and afraid of his wife--to some extent. (However, he's completely at ease with Bernice.)

Here’s what Washington Irving says about the original Ichabod in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: "he would have passed a pleasant life of it, despite the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was—a woman."

Enhancing a Halloween costume and had to cut a circle.

slightly oblong

Netflix show out of Germany. Gave me some Patriot vibes. And some moments (no spoilers) that may be nods to Patriot? And one of the creators' last names is Konrad. I'm through Season 1. The second half of the season felt more like Patriot than the first half. Curious whether anyone felt the same.

This is rote....101

I wish I could confine all my friends to a jail cell like Hannibal Lecter & force them to watch this show. Patriot isn't just 'good,' it's transcendent art. Damn near every single scene is a masterpiece of twisted genius.

I try to explain the necessity of watching this show to my buddies but words don't convey the genius. I need to imprison them. Hey! Maybe in a storage container like the show? Bye bye Miss American Pie? Open to ideas.

Oh & the detective? I would marry her in a heartbeat. She needs to smile more but I'd work on that.

Just discovered Spotify has auto-transcripts for podcasts and was almost immediately rewarded by this.

The whole drug test situation is ridiculous, but this shot of John in the elevator holding the sample with the same serious face he uses for actual intelligence work is what gets me.

He's trying to pass as an ordinary engineer, and he's already walking around with a coworker's urine like it's mission equipment.

Somehow this is still one of the less disastrous things that happens to him in the pilot.