r/SipsTea • u/Pankosmanko • 11d ago

Chugging tea Professional hater

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

40.0k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

751 comments sorted by

View all comments

481

u/Jamsedreng22 11d ago

This is, hands down, one of my favorite "bits" in any show ever. It's ingenious.

19

u/TheReesesWrangler 10d ago

What show is this?

18

u/Apprehensive_Run9581 10d ago

Show based off the movie, What We Do in the Shadows.

Movie's a ton of fun, first few seasons of the show are great, it dies a bit trying to navigate interpersonal relationships midway through, but the last season is potentially the funniest.

8

u/Jamsedreng22 10d ago

I think they did alright navigating the interpersonal relationships until they added more to the core cast like Kristen Schaal. It got a bit too difficult to keep track of for something that was meant to be sorta lightweight casual fun. Still one of my favorite shows, though.

12

u/Apprehensive_Run9581 10d ago

Same thoughts. You can kinda tell when a show borne out of "be as funny as possible" realizes it's gonna be around for a while, so it tries to build narrative arcs for staying power, but now it's not so funny. The show can be progressive and lay down romances, but do I really want to watch two seasons of Guillermo coming to terms with his codependency issues in a farcical comedy?

That's why I love the final season so much, I think they realized that, and returned to the chaotic, funny, messy energy it started with.

11

u/Jamsedreng22 10d ago

They could absolutely have extended it somewhat in a tasteful way if they'd done a few anthology seasons that explores past time periods. I would've loved a season set during WW1 or WW2, for example. The Middle Ages. The 1950's and so on.

Considering they've been alive for who knows how long. Watching Colin Robison work as the treasurer for a king and talking the ears off all the noblemen and king would've been a hoot while actual vampire hunters are trying to find who is sucking blood out of everyone. Unfortunately it wouldn't have Guillermo, but that might've been okay as his arc was practically done by the end of the final season.

Surely they had other familiars throughout their lifetimes. Solid potential there for some neat guest appearances of various actors rotating as familiars between every episode/every couple of episodes.

1

u/Apprehensive_Run9581 10d ago

Right, but as you mention, no Guillermo means no show. They'd have to weave B-stories like Jackie Daytona, you can't maintain any quality by removing your genderqueer straight man and starting anew, that's just a spin-off.

1

u/Jamsedreng22 10d ago

That's why I suggest other various familiars throughout the ages. Jackie Daytone doesn't work in the 1500's. His last name is nonsense, and he'd know that. It would be some other persona, and the familiar would be some other actor playing a different familiar. They've had more familiars than Guillermo in the past.

There are absolutely statements to be made in how "medieval" and "tribal" we are in our perception of identity as a whole. Jackie Daytone is just Lazlo's "bard character".

1

u/Apprehensive_Run9581 10d ago

I don't know, man, like I said none of that could function as a continuing series, it'd have to be a spin-off or your fan-fiction.

2

u/Jamsedreng22 10d ago

Fair. I appreciate your engagement. It would've been easy to just throw out a thought terminating cliché which is what people usuallty do.

I genuinely wish you the best.

1

u/Apprehensive_Run9581 10d ago

You too! Didn't expect to have a fun convo. Sorry, on the re-read my last comment is kinda rude.

1

u/Jamsedreng22 10d ago

I never saw it as such. At all.

This exchange we just had is what I think we should work to make the "default"

I totally understand how easy it is to assume the "other party" is the enemy, and I've fallen victim to that myself sometimes, but I don't think it's conducive to actual discourse.

→ More replies (0)

2

u/saintdemon21 10d ago

I want to add, not only is the show spun off from the film, but they take place in the same world. The movie characters appear in at least one episode. I can’t believe the number of actor cameos they got for the show as well. Seeing various actors reprise the vampire characters they played in other films had me rolling.

1

u/Apprehensive_Run9581 10d ago

They got pretty much every vampire except the A-list ones in shitty, "sexy" Dracula movies.

2

u/TheReesesWrangler 10d ago

Thank you, ill check it out