>it's a DFW and Pynchon prank their wacky Irish neighbor James by switching his schizophrenia meds with sugar pills episode
What's your favorite episode of David Foster Wallace's World?
>>7731842
The eschaton two-parter
I hate the training arc on Namek. It's all filler
I like the one where he's making up stories about audience pussy to impress his writer buddy, so his pal bets him he can't pull tail at the next book reading they go to.
Obviously Dave isn't very good with women, and the whole idea of 'audience pussy' is ridiculous, so he hires some escorts to pretend to be book groupies.
>>7731842
People complain they had too much fan service, but ayn rand's pantsu was fappable as hell.
>>7731842
I liked it how James didn't even care and just kept working on his last book.
>S1:EP04
>"The Grass Is Always Greener"
>DFW and Pynchon switch places for a day to see what it's like in each other's shoes. Palahniuk brings a gun to school.
>>7731874
>ayn rand's pantsu
>>7731863
but then he is surprised there is a real book groupie and he gets really excited, and ends up trying to show her off, and she genuinely likes him, but then he ruins it by showing her off too much, and he has to sit down and explain everything to her and we have no idea who is wrong in the situation and it is all somehow just banal and sad
My favourite episode was the one where DFW tried to befriend the morose seeming foreign exchange student Franz out of pity because he thought he was morbidly depressed. The end is the best because it turned out Franz was pulling major pussy and laying more pipe than a plumber. It also foreshadows the series finale which I won't spoil for anyone who hasn't finished it.
great thread
>>7731990
david thought franz was hilarious though
i doubt he would really pity him
Why did Stirner spend the entire last half of Destruction of the Meme Trilogy arc trying to find the dragon balls? It didn't make sense with his character
>>7731842
I like the series finale where Pynchon finds Wallace in the garage, hanging by a rope.
>>7732020
>watching anime for the plot
>>7731896
>Palahniuk brings a gun to school.
Anyone remember the episode where Pynchon and Wallace meet that Burroughs guy who they think is just some dude who gets his kicks from bestgore but it turns out he's actually a serial killer? Oh and Hemmingway gets into a barfight regarding Fitzgerald's penis size.
>>7731842
the ending where he fucking kills himself. it was so sad, but a tour de force that changed the face of television forever.
>>7731842
>it's a "mean old Harold Bloom" tries to foil DFW's plans episode
I liked the episode where Mr. Nabokov got falsely accused of hitting on female students, and DFW and Pynchon came to his rescue by arguing Mr. Nabokov's behaviour was a way of teaching the girls how to avoid real predators outside school.
Remember when DFW and Pynchon got stuck in that never ending Argentinian library?
The one where DFW is trying to hide his secret gay affair with that Stephen King kid who goes to public school down the road.
The one where they spend most of the episode spitroasting Zadie Smith in a hellhole in Mexico only for her to leave them for that BEE guy.
>>7732104
That actually sounds like a great show. Cartoon-style DFW and other (changing most episodes) literary personalitys exploring literary settings
I thought the fart joke with Nora in the Pilot was crass, poorly timed, and too forced for the plebs. It should've opened with Nora going through the hall (with the camera following her while people 5 steps behind her make grimacing faces) to kiss Joyce for the first time and have Joyce whisper literally dirty nothings in her ear while he tries to hide his boner.
BUT NO, we had her say "HI guys, I'm Nora, Jimmy's Boyfriend!" as a loud rumble from her belly tummy erupted with a noxious noise.
Though DFW's reaction was hilarious and total screencap material. His "Wow, now that's what I call an explosive introduction!" pun to Pinecone was facetious and cringey; borderline Carlos even.
I like the part when Dave nude while on the phone with Sadie Smith clipping his toenails when Pynchon comes in and starts unzipping and rezipping everything in the room with a zipper.
>it's a Dave and Franzen question a common social behavior while running errands together episode
>>7732050
yeah. Especially with Pynchon by his side nodding and handing him the belt.
My personal favorite was another prank they pulled on James by shooting live ammo into his tower house.
>its a tax related panic attack episode
>it's a flashback to pynchon's time in the navy with dfw playing benny profane and joyce playing pig bodine episode
>it's a Pynchon's autistic asian druggie nephew drags Dave and Tom along on a drug fueled adventure through the streets of New York. Only to end with Dave having an anxiety attack and getting arrested. *zooming out camera shot of Dave in cuffs getting put in a cruiser while Tao and Tom run away
featured Tao himself
If I had any drawing skill at all I would make these comics for you guys
>S1:EP15
>Brief Interviews with Underground Men
>The boys host a dinner party for a strange Russian man who keeps pacing back in forth in the room talking to himself. Things take an awkward turn when he has a seizure and Dave in a panic tries to administer CPR but in the end they manage to see the true light of the Orthodox faith.
>>7731849
same with the rocket arc
>>7733273
Fuck off with your Taoposting Danny/Fatherdubs
>>7733277
Just use an online tool that helps make comics for you
Like,
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/
Except maybe a less gay one
>>7733311
>it turns out the underground man was upset because he was bullied by Mr. Nabokov
>>7733932
He has a history of it
>The case was discussed for four months by an investigative commission headed by the Tsar, with Adjutant General Ivan Nabokov, senator Count Pavel Gagarin, Count Vasili Dolgorukov, General Yakov Rostovtsev and General Leonty Dubelt, head of the secret police. They sentenced the members of the circle to death by firing squad
>>7733311
>S2:EP9
>"Dave Be Cry"
>Transfer student Ta-Nehisi Coates (special guest star Ludacris) and Dave are partners on a race relations research presentation, but personal differences keep the boys from making any progress. Only after Dave embraces the persona of a banana wearing, pot smoking, and ebonics speaking philosopher are they boys able to understand one another and finish their presentation.
it was bit tasteles how they played a laugh track once wallace's dead body was discovered
these are all gold
>>7735639
You go to admit the sign that said "performance art" was pretty good though.
>S01E19
>A-Plot: Dave keeps sneaking into Pynchon's office at night in order to add unwanted footnotes and endnotes to his manuscript. With very little forewarning, Pynchon signs Dave up for a public speaking event in retribution.
>B-Plot: Mr. Nabokov befriends his enemy, Dostoevsky, in an attempt to get closer to his nymphet daughter.
It's too bad no one on /lit/ has animation skills.
>>7735724
I'd be willing to write scripts for this if someone on this board has the ability to animate the show.
>S2:EP10
>"Bloom of the System"
>Dave finds himself in a bizarro world with its own Joyce, Pynchon, Palahniuk and Bloom. Pynchon starts working a job for no reason. Joyce dates Mary Karr, gets handy. Bloom scrapes his dried come out from between pages 238-239 of Gravity's Rainbow. The bizarro crew replaces the real one and no one notices. Dave 'hangs' himself, but the rope is replaced with Jason Segel at the last second—ends with freeze frame on Dave's face.
>It's another DFW meets the Beat Generation episode
Why do they keep doing this?
>S2EP11
>Sun and but so Steel
>Dave starts to feel excluded from the gang when Tom invites over a new friend Yukio whose behavior becomes increasingly more radical. It climaxes when shocked Dave finds what he thinks is a blood trail but it ends up James had another red wine accident.
>S04E12
>Spiral Honey
>Dave interrupts Tom in the middle of something to make a five minute reference to a recipe he mentioned only to remind Marcel of something he ate in his youth and but so he proceeds to spent the rest of the on-time reminiscing.
>>7735799
Burroughs is just too funny!
>>7731842
>that series finale whereDFW tries to get back on antidepressants but they don't work anymore so he hangs himself and David Lipsky gives a eulogy at his funeral
>it's a James goes to the shopping mall stream of consciousness point of view episode.
>>7735861
Directed by David Lynch
>>7735260
Top fucking kek.
>S3E15 "Yale to the King"
>Just a day away from having to deliver a crucial speech, Bloom becomes cursed by a sorceress undergrad with the ability to only speak in Slam Poetry. Desperate for a body double, he hires David, only to realize much too late David's commitment to being Harold Bloom.
>>7735977
*just how David's commitment .. goes
>the episode where pynchon discovers a time machine and he and dfw go a couple decades forward in time and dfw breaks down when he discovers his status as a meme while pynchon hides the knowledge of dfw's future suicide as he speculates on the nature of the causal loop he's found himself in
feels galore, to be honest.
>S02E07
>"Oh, Pinecone!"
>Pynchon causes some friction with Jamesy when, after a long, productive day (6 whole words, in order!), he comes into his bedroom, only to find Thomas furiously masturbating on his bed. He then goes to DFWs room, where Dave is trying on different bandana's.He briefly knots one around his neck, foreshadowing the series finale.The real trouble doesn't start, though, until DFW invites his cool cousin, DeLillo, over for dinner, and Tommy embarrasses everyone by talking about how much the sausage reminds him of a Negro's penis
S2E12 "The HRT in Our Stars"
>When he fails to win the heart of David with his writing, John Green tries to win his heart -- with love -- by beginning the process of physically transforming into Mary Karr. Finally able to shed his masculinity and male privilege once and for all and realizing his full potential, John embarks on a mission to finish off male writers -- forever.
>>7736048
no mention of dicks in cheerios 5/10
S5E19 - Imagine the Greatest Conversation You've Ever Had/Bloom's Day
>David, in a desperate attempt to better his depressive self, joins what he thinks is a suicide prevention charity group, only to realize too late that he has become part of a Suicide Advocacy Hotline. When Harold Bloom brings out the big cannons in an armed attempt to eliminate Infinite Jest, he finds an surprising criminal ally - Brett "The Stinging Bee" Easton Ellis.
>S02:E03 - A Supposedly Fundie Thing I’ll Never Do Again
>Dave takes his buddy Jon Franzen on a Caribbean cruise ship, which is promptly taken over by masked Islamist extremists. Franzen encourages them to give up violent jihad for bird watching as a path to enlightenment. He is thrown overboard. The terrorists partake of the all-you-can-eat buffet and fall into a post-prandial lull which allows passengers to subdue them, showing how the promise of unlimited satisfaction can destroy any ideology. DFW returns home to write a 60,000-word magazine piece on the ordeal, most of which consists of footnotes and a recounting of his editor’s efforts to trim the article.
>>7736275
>DFW returns home to write a 60,000-word magazine piece on the ordeal, most of which consists of footnotes and a recounting of his editor’s efforts to trim the article.
Kek'd.
S3E8 - "Mopey-Dick"
Dave gets an attack of severe clinical depression and spend all day in bed. No one likes Dave when he's depressed, so Pynchon and Nabokov decide to prank him until he feels better. Meanwhile, Joyce tries to recreate the sweet smell of farts in his laboratory.
Crapped this one out for you guys :)
>>7736553
Congratulations. Well done.
>>7732920
Make Harold bloom an antagonist with genuinely good points and DFW an imperfect and pretentious literary equivelant of Bojack and it would be 10/10
>>7736571
new reaction image
>>7736553
>that pynchon
Posters 43 replies 71. I'd like to meet whoever is writing these plots either she has a lot of time on her hands and thought of these before, or is on a wicked binge of benzos.
I say she because they wrote wiping off come instead of cum
>>7736818
this. who is this semen demon who writes these episodes?
>>7736818
cum is a disgusting porn valley malaprop
SHOE OAR SHELF
>>7736818
I wrote about 4. Putting about 1 minute into each.
>>7736553
take out the middle row
>>7736553
damn...
>>7731842
I like the episode where DFW lectures his kids on watching too much TV, doing drugs, and not "taking life seriously!"
I think it is the one called "Infinite Jest"
>>7736818
I've had two posts ITT so far, one an idea and one a comment. Honestly I can't get the concept of a DFW sitcom out of my head. I was driving to school this morning and my music system isn't working, so I was just alone with my thoughts: immediately DFW's World came to mind and I imagined the opening bars to "I'm Just a Kid" by Simple Plan playing over an opening montage of Amherst, the Midwest, and DFW's messy bedroom as credits written in a cute late 90s Rugrats font flashed along the bottom of an imaginary frame.
There's nothing that could be more insulting to DFW's legacy than turning him into a cartoon character. It's the one thing I think he would hate more than anything else. But for some sick and perverse reason, that's the precise fun in it. Transforming a beloved tragic writer into a series of highly specific literary references and adolescent jokes is like pissing on his grave and humping it at the same time.
>>7731842
The episode where Dave and the Franz are going on Charlie Rose and find out Mark Leyner is going to be there too. Dave panics because he talked shit about Mark in the magazine, and the Franz has to make everyone friends again.
DFW plans to attend an upscale singles event on New Year’s in the hopes that he’ll have somebody to kiss by the time the ball drops. Becoming increasingly self-conscious in the hours leading up to the gathering, he buys an expensive toupee and arrives wearing it. The added confidence turns him into a charismatic babe magnet, singing an impressive Scots-language rendition of the Auld Lang Syne and eventually luring multiple gorgeous socialites to a fivesome in the coat check room. Things are going smoothly until, in the throes of passion, his wig is peeled clean off. Humiliated, he tells the women he has to be honest with them - he has cancer, is in his second round of chemo therapy, and was wearing the toupee out of love for his handicapped son, who shaved his own head to donate the hair as a gift to him. The lie is enough to elicit “pity sex” from two of the four women, which DFW gleefully accepts, saying “What is a boy to do?”.
Following an argument over constantly misplaced ramekins of nuts, Pynchon and Joyce install closed-circuit cameras in their apartment and discover Joyce’s notorious alcoholic brother Simon emerging from a ceiling grate to steal one. They spray cayenne pepper into the ducts to flush him out and confront him, at which point he reveals that he’s been living there for almost two years, pinching scraps of food and a making a luxurious suite out of the labyrinthine apartment’s many unused rooms, several of which Pynchon didn’t even know existed.
DFW takes the attractive new widow in his building out to an elegant dinner at Le Cigare Volant. About an hour into their date DFW notices the arrival of John Green and becomes distracted and irritable when John is given a better table than him. Upon overhearing John order a chocolate torte for dessert, DFW excuses himself from the table, slips into an alcove behind a potted fern and waits for an unsuspecting busboy to walk by, whom he strangles and leaves slumped in the the corner. Donning the boy’s uniform, he proceeds into the kitchen and carefully administers several drops of sodium cyanide to a chocolate torte. He ditches his disguise and returns to the table, but finds his date biting into the first piece of a chocolate torte she had ordered in his absence. After several quick convulsions the woman dies at the table and DFW, thinking fast, props her upright with a nearby coat rack and carries on a stilted, awkwardly one-sided conversation with her corpse to avoid suspicion until he receives the cheque. After showering the lifeless body with false appreciation over her insistence that ‘dinner is on her’, DFW leaves without paying.
Pynchon decides to finally buy a Wave Pounder 450, but finds that it is emphatically not good for fishin’, cruisin’ or just plain tubin’ - and that the “Fun Deck” is anything but.
>>7736275
>S02:E15: Consider the Lobster
>For the season finale, DFW travels to the Maine Lobster Festival on assignment for "Gourmet", enjoying his newfound fame as a magazine hack. Hunter S. Thompson, in town for the event, gets Dave high on mescaline. Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou appear to Dave as murderous anthropomorphic lobsters. Emerging from his psychedelic trip, Dave realizes he has hacked to death the two beloved black literary icons. Dave is caught and charged with the crime, but White Male Author Privilege earns him an acquittal at trial.
>>7738522
this.
>>7731842
>Season 2 Episode 12
>David has to go to Germany for an interview. In the morning Pynchon slips some hallucinogens into his coffee as a prank, causing hilarious antics as David struggles to remain coherent on television.
Here's the episode in case anyone wants to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxUY0kxH80
>Season 7 Episode 8
>Davey goes to Davos. Pynchon comes along and goes around pranking various World Leaders. Hollbecque joins in on the fun and hilarity ensues.
>>7739345
this is gotta be drugs
>>7740448
gotta be
This entire thread is just a bunch of meme tier authors of genre fiction who have no discernible talent.
>>7735730
I'm down to start animating some of these when I get free time(though I dont know if "skills" is the right word). If I could get a script I could attempt at least an animatic
I hate the episodes where he just pontificates.
> It's a Kafka fishing for compliments by discrediting his own work episode.
Every time Dave says something sad, there is canned laughter, its a running gag in the last season.
"But I am being sincere.." After he practiced his "this is water speech" in front of BEE and Pinecone, who is rolling on the floor laughing. "So cheesy...hahaa." BEE just smirks whilst getting head from a 15 year old boy.
Camera zooms in on Dave's contorted face.
" I want to die.." More laughter and fade to black
That episode where everyone hears of a new literary giant entering the arts scene and possibly taking our protagonists' places. This new figure isn't seen until the end and it's revealed at the end that Gass is just a fat old guy who hates his wife and parents
Someone pls write a script for this
>>7744704
agreed. this really would be hilarious. it'd be a way to maybe inject literature back into the public sphere.
>>7744710
I'd actually really enjoy animating something like this. I'd write it myself but I can't think and can't write
>>7744793
same. I truly have no discernible talent. Stephen King easily bests anything i've produced.
>>7731842
>S01E12
>DFW Gets Stuck to the Ceiling
>>7732064
>grumpy old neighbor Bloom
Those episodes are the best. I loved the one where DFW decides to covertly build a tennis court in Bloom's kitchen.
what about the episode where Melville's ghost visits the class and explains the importance of spermaceti, causing DFW to yell a sexual slur very loudly?
Can't wait until the next episodes get posted!
> S03E10 "Dave be cry".
> Dave gets in trouble for trying to talk a black student in ebonics. Calls it a "rhetorical boner". Subplot: The Franz runs afoul of feminists (again!).
>Burroughs has pranked old man McCarthy's prescription with a medley of psychotropic drugs. DFW throws the girl he likes out of a moving car! Ellis and Delillo try to buy drugs off the new kid named Coates
David Foster Wallace gets into a fight with Hemingway, the school bully, while defending Mary Karr and the cupcakes that she baked for Miss Woolf. Hemingway beats up David after school and warns him to expect the same treatment the following day.
At home, Pynchon consoles and encourages a crying David to reason with Hemingway. Joyce takes David away from Pynchon and says, "Well, thank you very much, Mrs. Maharishi Gandhi!" Pynchon angrily sighs at Joyce. Joyce then urges David to bend the rules and fight dirty. Taking Joyce's advice, David is beaten up again. David turns to the toughest member of his writing posse, Herman Melville, who introduces David to Cormac McCarthy, the crazed hairless proprietor of an army surplus store. He instructs David on rude provisional species and how to skin Indians, then David declares war on Hemingway and his sidekicks.
David enlists Hemingway's other victims in his army and trains them for combat. McCarthy commands from David's apartment as David leads his forces into battle. Ambushing Hemingway and his sidekicks, they commence saturation bombing with water balloons. Hemingway's thugs surrender, and Hemingway is taken prisoner. He threatens to beat up David as soon as he is untied. McCarthy drafts the armistice treaty, which states that Hemingway will retain his position and name, but will not hold any actual power. Then, David and Hemingway sign the treaty. Then, Pynchon enters with a full banana breakfast, and peace prevails.
>S03E12
>Dave gets in shape
Scene: Dave sitting on the couch in a wife beater surrounded by chips, ice cream, fast food ect. Dave is fat and has a greasy appearance
>Enter PYNCHON
Pynch: Dave man, what are you doing? I haven't seen you in a week
Dave (sleepily): Oh nothing man I've just been hanging out here watching the tube
>camera pans over to where DAVE was facing and there is a cardboard box with a picture of a flatscreen on it
>Pynchon turns and notices it
Pynch: Wow man, when'd you get that, its not banal at all!
>Dave brushes chips crumbs off of his stomach, which is a pot belly. A joint falls to the floor neither appear to notice
Dave: I found it last saturday on the curb, would you believe old man Joyce (he pronounces it Joize) just threw it out?
>Pynchon begins to enter further into the room
Pynch: Some people don't know the value of things--WHEW!! Dave! You smell terrible
>Observing him
Pynch: You look terrible too, you gotta pull your act together man, you have a book signing in two weeks. You better have your act together by then.
>Dave begins to get up, more crumbs fall to the floor, as he turns we see a bandana stuck to his heel
Dave: Two weeks?!?! I cant beleieve I forgot. I've got to prepare!
>Exeunt Dave
>Pynchon pockets the joint from earlier, winks at the camera and leaves.
>>7745535
Scene: A weightlifting gym, all we see are heavily muscled meat heads and extremely fit women
>Camera pans over to Dave and Kafka at the registration desk, they are signing up
>Dave is in another wife beater, this one reads MUSCLEMAN on the back, his gut is stick out from underneath it. Kafka is dressed in all black under armor and is wearing toe-shoes
>As they approach, Dave takes the lead
Reception girl: Hi! How can I help you today?
>Dave visibly anxious, begins to look wildly around the room, anywhere but the cute reception girl
>Kafka observing his friends anxiety chuckles to himself and approaches the desk
Kafka: Hi my friend and I were looking to sign up at this gym
>he winks at the girl, she visibly blushes
Reception girl: Okay I just need you to fill out these forms.
>hands both of them forms, Dave still wont meet here eyes, he has now begun to sweat and his bandanna is clearly wet
>They fill out forms and return them to the reception girl, she looks them over
Reception girl: Great! Now I just need to take your pictures for the IDs
>Dave is visibly panicked
>Girl takes Kafka's photo and prints his ID
Kafka: You should probably give me your number, in case there's a problem with my ID
>Girl blushes and begins to write her number down
Reception Girl: Of course, you can call me if you have any questions.
>She sets up to take Dave's photo, he is extremely sweaty and still refuses to even look in her eyes
Reception Girl: Sir, would you please look into the camera? Sir? The camera?
>Dave is even more panicked then before
>she takes his picture regardless then prints his ID, handing it to him
Dave: ( shouting) I want your number! In case I need to ask you something
>reception girl is visibly frightened
Reception Girl: You can call the front desk if you have any problems, please move along now
>Dave heartbroken proceeds into the gym, while kafka apologizes for his friends behavior and follows
Dave: (to kafka) What a "Kafkaesque" situation.
Kafka:(in response) It was so banal.
>Scene ends as they laugh in unison.
>>7745594
Scene: The weightlifting gym
> a crowd has gathered people cheering and shouting
>Kafka and dave leave the bench where they where working our (low weights) and join the crowd
>They push their way to the front and see JOYCE benching a seemingly impossible weight
>As he pushes it off his chest a series of farts can be heard
>poot poot poot poot
Dave: Wow look at old man Joyce, I had no idea he was so strong!
Maybe he can teach us a thing or two.
>the crowd begins to disperse due to Joyce having finished lifting and the smell
>>7745444
Thank you for writing this.
>>7731842
S02E05 - "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again...Again."
>The episode where Dave receives a call on his bedroom hamburger phone from a supposed member of the Les Assassins des Fauteuils Roulants (A.F.R.) saying he kidnapped Pynchon and threatens to kill him if he does not bring the actual copy of "The Entertainment" that tied together the S01 arc, so he drives out to meet the A.F.R. at the local Whataburger, finding him next to a booth with a wheelchair, a trenchcoat, some nice rouge blush, a box of poutine on the table, and a comical handlebar mustache. Yet after the five-minute tense standoff in the booth with some of the best monologue-trading on irony and sincerity the show has ever devised, Dave slowly watches the wheelchair assassin's face start to melt under intense interrogation, the mustache finally falls off and as Dave screams with the howling fantods we discover it's just Dave's Superfan again, shaking his copy of Broom of the System that he never got signed. Pynchon busts out of the Womens Bathroom stall, standing but still rope-tied to part of the toilet seat. Chase ensues with Scooby Doo-esque music montage.
>>7735260
Still the best one
More threads like this one please
>>7746103
Someone please make an episode as inspired by this gif.
>>7746103
what possessed him to wear those pants
>>7746130
Probably what comes as a result of getting fashion advice from Pinecone senpai.
>S3E03
>Rabbit is Rad
>Dave invites his friend Updike to town for the weekend, but is dismayed to find that most of his friends think Updike is a chauvinist jerk. Desperate to convince his posse that Updike is actually a cool guy, Dave invites him to Zadie's big lecture on race and gender. However, things soon get out of hand when Updike tries to pick up some "audience pussy." Can Dave save his friendship, or will he have to tell this rabbit to run?
>>7746103
I like how there are people who try to work against the whole "DFW is a meme" thing but then gifs like this prove what a meme he was
>S2E15
>Consider the Dinner
>After being invited to Hemingway's house for a lobster dinner party, Dave has a moral conundrum over whether it's ethical to eat a creature that has been horrifically boiled alive for our gustatory pleasure. Knowing that if he refuses, Hemingway will call him a "sissy boy," Dave resolves to eat the lobster as long as he makes a point of not enjoying it. Meanwhile, Tom attempts to sabotage the party by breaking into Hemingway's house and replacing all the lobsters with bananas.
>>7746221
top kek
>S4E11
>A Nice Day for Eschaton
>Dave brings Tom to the park to play the game he just invented called Eschaton. However, things soon go south when Tom refuses to play by Dave's rules and dresses up in a pig costume while running around the tennis court knocking Dave's game pieces over. Meanwhile, Nabokov, instead of officiating as game master, wanders off for a peek at the playground.
>>7745741
>s01e09
>James is excited to finally show off his home city of Dublin to Dave, but it's inhabited by a race of people who communicate entirely by farting in heroic couplets
>Sub plot:Pynchon gets lost in one of Dublin's many toilets
>S1E12
>Double Date
>While heading downtown to try out the new marijuana dispensary, Dave and Tom run into two cute coeds Dave finds quite sincere. After they agree to a double date, Dave is nervous about messing it up while Tom is ready to have a good time. Things go well for Tom, who entertains the girls with his quick puns and song parodies, but Dave is mostly ignored after flubbing his monologue about tennis being the perfect metaphor for dialectic. Jealous of Tom's success, Dave suggests that they take a group photo, knowing that it will set off Tom's phobia. As soon as the camera comes out, Tom catches a case of the howling fantods and chucks a pie into the girls' faces. No one gets laid that night, but Dave is content in knowing that he was the bigger man.
>>7746453
the quality has really started to wane
> it's a Dave talks to his class about grammar for two hours episode
>>7746561
thats a season 1 episode though! Of course, t's never been the most consistent show
>>7746330
right in the feels family, right in the feels.
>>7746312
spoilers: It has actually been honourably boiled alive. We find this out from Mishima who makes his début in this episode.
>>7746312
Can someone please inform me of the connection between Pinecone and bananas?
>>7746382
Someone please photoshop the cast of the program onto the heads of the Scooby Doo characters.
Bloom would work well for that old man. Everyone else can help me fill in the rest of the image.
>S3E24 (season finale)
>Don't Sweat It!
>As he's preparing for his speech following his MacArthur grant, Dave finds that someone has snatched all his bandannas! Now how is he going to dam up the torrents of sweat from pouring down his forehead? With only hours to spare before the big night, Dave races around town to catch the culprit. Was it Zadie, the fellow bandanna bearer who is always looking for a new addition to her collection? Or could it have been old Tommie Pinecone up to his tricks again? As his leads keep coming to dead ends, Dave begins to suspect the worst: that soulless psycho Bret has teamed up with the worst of the worst, the big bad Bloom.
>>7746797
get a load of this pleb
>>7746797
>>/tv/
>>/mu/
>>/r/books
really bugs me about how idiots like you will spout memes like the cool kids without reading any of the authors in question
>>7735260
>banana wearing
>>7746797
In an early chapter of Gravity's Rainbow, the character Pirate Prentice makes a huge ridiculous breakfast where everything has bananas in it. Pretty funny chapter
>>7746846
haha its wacky isnt it! pynchons like your wise professor but like a cool one who wears shades and puts his feet up on the table...you think your gonna be reading some genius war and peace type stuff but then you hear tommy go "NOOOOPE!" and take a bong rip haha
>>7745535
that joint needs to have been catching fire to the house unbeknownst to them, shown in varying stages of incineration throughout the show, much to the amusement of the crowd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ga3oT_AZe0
>>7745444
sounds seven samuraiesque
>>7746797
Gravity's Rainbow. One of the character grows a bunch of bananas so they use it to make a whole bunch of food with
>>7746919
i'm not a big fan of DFW in general, I don't particularly care for his books, and the whole "how to live life" - Suicide Bandana thing, but this video, i like this DFW. only a small glimpse of it though.
>>7746836
People claiming to actively read on 4chan? Nice one buddy.
>>7746802
Haha now that'd be a good image for the cover art on the Blue-rays.
>>7746941
you liiiike him. you want to marrrry him.
>>7746986
>wants to marry dead guy
Folkpartist detected.
15000 seconds in photoshop
>>7747039
sorry I don't have enough creative energy in me anymore. just finishing that pic alone cost me precious time I could be working on my erotic mystery epic
>>7747064
Davey would be disappointed.
>>7747064
switch all the characters to dave and his pomo friends and we might have a meme
>>7747017
>eschaton court
>infinite jest cover behind him
10/10
i dont feel like doing it but someone screencap
>S01E6
>The Grass is Always Greener
>Joyce and Pynchon decide to form their own noise rock garage band (heavy use of pitched down farts or whatever the memes demand). They try to keep it a secret from Davey, but when he finds out, they reveal that they tried to keep him out of the loop because they just wanted to make cool songs without having to listen to Dave drone on about sincere expression. Dejected, dave takes a walk, and stumbles upon an advertisement for an open position in a local jazz band. When he goes to meet them, he is greeted by a diminutive drummer named Oskar and Ezra the ladies man/pianist/poet. Under the direction of the prodigious percussionist, the trio hit it off swimmingly. When Dave hears that Joyce and Pynchon's band is auditioning for a gig, he convinces Oskar and Ezra that the trio should audition too, but doesn't mention that his main motivation is showing up James and Tommy. As the audition day grows closer and closer, Oskar and Ezra invite Dave to a small "get together" for a little bonding time, but when things get political, Dave finds out that he got more than he bargained for.
(references to Ezra Pound and Oskar, the main character of The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass.*)
*The Tin Drum is excellent modern German literature, but nobody talks about it because it's not meme-status here.
>>7746504
kekekekeked
>>7747171
good one
>>7731842
this is probably the best thread on /lit/
>>7748076
it is.
>>7748177
too bad everyone is too busy with Gene Wolfe.
>>7747171
It's okay anon, I read The Tin Drum
>>7748372
Meh I've been enjoying both this thread and all of the Gene Wolfe ones.
>It's a show is observably declining in quality episode when the only guest star they can get is J. Green
>>7748076
has anybody saved it for posterity?
>>7749435
Don't worry, the archive will get it.
>>7749479
What archive?
>>7749435
You do know how to press CTRL-S yourself, right?
>S02E04: Birds of a feather
>After Sadie Smith scolds the boys for the lack of diversity in their bookshelves, David and Thomas decide to go on a trip to a Middle Eastern bird sanctuary. As their guide explains the character of each of the birds, Pynchon gets bored and starts feeding them bananas, with various effects. As they get to the final bird, the whole thing is revealed be a Sufi pun and in a fit of rage Dave throws the guide out of a moving car. The episode ends with Smith convincing the judge not to find them guilty of hate crimes because they at least made an effort to learn about other cultures.
>>7748833
It's a
>People get serious about someone being silly
Episode
>Its a based Umberto Eco conspiracy theory episode
Archive this thread.
Someone's got to write/animate these sometime.
>that episode where Pynchon and Irvine Welsh have a competition to see who can dive furthest down the toilet
>the winner gets to patent the 'diving down toilet' trope while the loser has to pay up
Sort of picture this series as being like the sitcom Young Ones but with po-mo writers.
>>7749929
I can't help but think of it as Beavis and Butthead but with /lit/ jokes.
David Foster Wallace hangs himself
James Joyce goes blind and has Sam Beckett finish his magnum opus for him
Thomas Pynchon makes a cameo in a film based on his novel Inherent Vice where he shows his arm to the world for the first time
There I saved you watching the damn thing
>Dave gets a job writing fortune cookies leading to customers complaining about how they are all the size of a short novel complete with endnotes.
Saturday morning and I wake up to new episodes!
>>7749480
rip in peace wasoru
>>7750573
this
>>7750573
Don't worry... I saved all the NotPynchon threads. :^)
I see the show needs more writers.
>>7751795
do you have anything more recent than the time he was on around september?
Pilot episode
Start with the Greeks
Dave recently moves into town and throws a house warming party. Naturally a ton of Greeks turn up with hospitality being their thing. Dave has a heart felt conversation with a man who shares the same opinions on water and finds someone with a similar interest in paradoxes. later on Dave starts to suspect one man to a god in disguise when he hears him making a Dionysian chant and but so he grants all his demands for wine only later to find out it was his alcoholic neighbor. Things go awry when Diogenes defecates in one of Daves Nike shoes and Socrates dies of alcohol poisoning.
>>7752492
This kind of episode seems like more like filler rather than a pilot.
>>7750573
it's coming back don't worry
>>7742691
>BEE just smirks whilst getting head from a 15 year old boy.
>the episode when Dave discovers Pynchon's banana fixation and ends up Freudian slipping on a banana peel
>>7735730
I 100% have animating skills and could totally produce this
>>7757943
my god, please let this happen. please.
>the Noir detective episode where Wallace keeps messing up the interrogation by awkwardly asking the suspect if 'this makes sense to you'
You guys are the only people I still have fun with.
>>7758705
That will end too.
Does someone want to open up a google drive or something to start screenwriting?
>>7759094
If we start a Fb they might go ahead and delete this thread like they've done with others just recently.
>>7759094
just let it die
>>7736553
I like how you only used a reference pic for Pynchon.
>>7759110
this
>>7759559
agreed. at least we produce memes here in this thread.
>that one episode where David follows everyone around and explains the entire plot to the camera in detail while they look visibly annoyed with him
>yfw you realize that was all unscripted and it was actually supposed to be a serious episode but DFW was fucking around on set
> S02E01
> After David's death in the finale of Season 1 Pynchon spends most of his days bingeing on high-resin dope and watching television. But during a strangely edited commercial for toblerone the ghost of Joyce appears in the room and tells Pynchon that David's soul is trapped in a copy of Hamlet guarded by Harold Bloom. Pynchon gathers a team of writers to storm Bloom's home and resurrect DFW
>>7760262
Tell me more? Who is on this crack team of writers? Does Bloom have a team of his own like I'd imagine?
>>7758049
TOO GOOD
>S01E17
>Laundry messes up David's bandana just before an important event. He tries to use a pillow cover, but it fails at the worst moment.
>>7760919
I hate the episodes where he goes and kills himself on accident.
DFW has the deepest lore
>>7745396
Remember in season 7 when they did basically the exact same episode again but tried to make it look like they hadn't run out of ideas by adding lame meta jokes? "First time as a farce second time as intertextual pomo" etc? That's when I stopped watching.
>>7761766
Wasn't that the episode with Morgan Freeman as James Baldwin?
>>7761821
Eddie Murphy would actually make an interesting James Baldwin if you think about it.
>>7761821
Yes, it was. He actually did a pretty good job considering what lines he had to work with.
>>7761834
Kayne and Chris Rock really covered for him and broke through the drab exposition with their cutting edge humour and knowledge of dank may mays.
>>7738597
>Dave panics because he talked shit about Mark in the magazine
Is this real? Does anyone have a link?
After a night involving altogether too much absinthe, the boys find themselves in a French town whose name they can't pronounce, and all people seem to do is stick eggs in their vaginas and fart meatily.
They eventually get an audience with the town elders, who turn out to be Bataille and Genet. An orgy ensues, and the ghosts of the boys childhood girlfriends appear and masturbate to the scene.
Then Joyce and Genet have a fart-off, and Joyce loses by a hair's breadth.
>>7762136
Sort of. Mark Leyner is one of empty postmodernist writers targeted in the Wallace essay "E unibus pluram: television and U.S. fiction.", and the two of them plus Franzen were on Charlie Rose together.
S02:E05 "Good old Freon"
After getting a call from Zadie Smith asking if she can pop over later for a cup of tea and some marijuana, Dave spends 5 hours obsessing over her choice of words, and sentence structure, concluding that she could only have meant that she is coming over for a booty call. This gives him a case of the howling fantods, and he spends three more hours in an engaging in prolonged onanism so he is able to last long enough to satisfy Zadie's voracious appetite. Dave gets so nervous that he weats more than he's ever sweated in his life. It's unbearably hot in his kitchen. He can't go outside in case anyone sees how sweaty he is. The AC's all the way up. It's no good. Dave climbs inside his refrigerator to calm down. Exhausted from his arathon act of self-manipulation, Dave falls asleep in his freon coffin.
When Zadie turns up he's still sleeping there. Just as Dave's finished talking himself out of this pickle, Zadie asks if they can have there tea and marijuana now. Turns out Dave only has coffee and chewing tobacco! Foiled again!
>>7762820
Ironically, Dave confessed how jealous he was of all those guys. In a letter to Franzen he wrote:
>“Right now I am a pathetic and very confused young man, a failed writer at 28, who is so jealous, so sickly searingly envious of you and Vollmann and Mark Leyner and even David F–kwad Leavitt and any young man who is right now producing pages with which he can live … that I consider suicide a reasonable — if not at this point a desirable — option with respect to the whole wretched problem.”
>>7763173
> doesn't even abbreviate with respect to to w/r/t
he must have been down
>>7762210
that's my favorite episode, too.
bump. we should also write episodes in the other thread to get a fresh start there.
>>7762876
an oldie but a goodie. This one has aged well by modern standards.
>It's the episode where DFW and Joyce have to help a deranged astronaut and his fatalistic wife repair a damaged airplane on a beach before a bizarre apocalyptic event destroys them all.
Guest starring J. G. Ballard
>It's the episode where DFW and Pynchon have to escape from a labyrinth constructed from the dreams on an infinite number of tigers only to find out they're unwittingly reenacting the plot of Don Quixote.
Guest starring Jorge Luis Borges as Martin Fierro and Himself
>>7760919
underrated
>It's that double episode where Dave and Thom are invited by their old friend Leo to spend a week in Astapovo
>forty minutes of Leo lecturing them on agriculture
>somehow the best episode ever
>>7760274
Pynchon, Mac (McCarthy) and Ol' Donny D are the band that's destined to save Dave's immortal soul
Bloom has nothing but the ghost of Cervantes and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of grad student minions
S03E012: Pine Barrens
Things really kick off in the penultimate episode of the third season, when old man Joyce is so infatuated with his current mistress that he asks Dave and Tom to carry out a basic errand for him, but things take a turn for the worse when the ex-KGB agent they visit acts a little bit too flippant for Dave's liking, who talks too fast for the Russian to understand and takes everything he says too literally, and a hilarious fight scene ensues in which Tom ends up saving Dave from being choked to death by choking the Russian with a metal bar until submission. Realising they accidentally killed the best friend of Joyce's high finance offshore hedge fund manager located in Zurich, they set off to Pine Barrens to dispose of the body. However, things go from bad to worse when the supposedly dead ex-KGB agent escapes, and Joyce tells Tom and Dave they're being pursued by sixteen Czechan separatists, and our two favourite protagonists find themselves lost in the woods at night, with Dave making desperate efforts to turn the whole ordeal into some sort of meta Blair Witch Project performance art.
Guest starring Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer, and Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter.
>>7764177
>he killed 16 Czechoslovakians
>guy was an interior decoratorhis house looked like shit
>>7762876
This is my favourite.
bump/
>S04E07
>Dostoyevsky comes to visit. At first it's a lot of fun. They discuss his books, and morality, and dosto demolishes DFW views on both. However, after a while it's clear that D. brought no change of clothes and will neither shower nor brush his teeth. Eventually they confront him. Dosto laughs and says: "I wasn't being spiteful, it's just some subtle Russian humor". They all laugh. Fyodor Mikhailovich kisses them both and then leaves without saying a word.
I know you're supposed to think that the first two season are the best and that it went downhill after the third, but dammit, I'll always have a soft spot for season four. The ummotivated guest appearences, and setting most of the episodes in the apartment to save on money, may be considered "low" humor, but it always cracks me up.
>>7745594
>Dave: (to kafka) What a "Kafkaesque" situation.
>Kafka:(in response) It was so banal.
pure poetry
>>7764177
Pine? More like Pinecone, am I right?
S3E2 "The Average Detectives"
>Dave and Tommy go to Mexico City for Spring Break, after a few days of immense sunburn Dave ponder's his new lobster hue to Tommy for 20 minutes only to find Tommy left looking for cartel grade marijuana, after running into each other later they stumble into a coffee shop with a bunch of teens doing slam poetry, Tommy assumes the identity of Roger Mexico to hit on a girl named Maria and DFW strikes up conversation with an older guy wearing glasses and eventually challenges him to a tennis match. DFW drives to the beach the next day where the courts are supposed to be wearing his lucky bandana for the match only to find his opponent holding swords, there's a misunderstanding and a sword-fight breaks out, Dave accidentally beheads himself, Tommy has been having sex with Maria for days smoking her dad's marijuana, and the episode ends with Jimmy running into Tommy saying "we've got to get back home" because he's been wrongly convicted of 300 cases of anal and vaginal rape, they stuff DFW's body in the trunk and drive back.
>Guest starring Oscar Isaac as Bolano.
>>7765440
Nice. I love how they got Mira Gonzalez to make a guest appearance as Mira Gonzalez.
bump. new thread time soon?
new day new bump
new day, new thread?
we should get a google docs going to screenwrite the best episodes
>>7770667
I usually hate when /lit/ does stuff like this but I would be all for it here
https://youtu.be/APgEvQsCFyg
>>7772708
Who put Gene Wolfe into a biker cosplay? I love that episode where he goes under cover with that biker gang.
dave's world
>>7772911
that's the name, don't wear it out.
>>7731842
I used to come to /lit/
This is why I don't come to /lit/ anymore
>>7775056
You're on /lit/ right now, you moron
So uh, pretty new to DFW, only read infinite jest.
I am interested in his theory about irony's role in the modern culture and the need for sincerity, is it explored in some of his essays? If yes, which ones?
>>7772708
what just happened
>>7776470
>hasn't ever seen DFW
>>7776443
E Unibus Pluram. It's mostly about television, but there's some discussion of literature as well.
If this was filmed rather than animated, it wouldn't be too hard to pull off
>>7777225
this.
>>7777946
this was a good thread but not as good as '>he doesn't read footnotes'
>that flashback episode about how Bloom lost his buddy Blake to a fatal glass of beer and has despised the folly of youth ever since
Didn't think they could actually make me feel for the old bastard.
>>7779136
It's a great episode in and of itself, but the fact that after that they completely ignored that character development and went back to writing him as ONLY a cartoon villain is a huge blemish on the show imho.
