Studio Execs have Rights Too

November 15, 2007 9:34 PM

There's another side to the Writer's Guild Strike. [YouTube, single link] Moe Gaull is striking against Writers Guild treatment of studio executives. Financially, this could hurt him bad. Two of his six houses could be at risk of this drags on. Hear his struggle.
posted by SansPoint (23 comments total)

I feel like this could've gone in the existing thread about the strike.
posted by dismas at 9:37 PM on November 15, 2007

I'm pretty sure that's Teevee's Frank from MST3K.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:00 PM on November 15, 2007

I never got past "Two of his six houses could be at risk".

All I can say is "fuck him and fuck all six of his houses".
posted by newfers at 10:03 PM on November 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

Ok, the writers' strike is now officially too boring for words.
posted by mediareport at 10:05 PM on November 15, 2007

OH MY FUCKING GOD TV'S FRANK!!!!
posted by dirigibleman at 10:18 PM on November 15, 2007

This is yet another WGA Strike FPP which features writers' posts to YouTube.

Earlier today we had: Getting paid is the name of the game.

Yesterday: Quick to the internets!

"As the WGA strike enters its second week, the writers have begun to flood the internet with brief videos explaining (and even making light of) their situation. A small collection after the jump."

Do we need a new FPP for every creative YouTube video produced from the striking Hollywood writers?
posted by ericb at 10:25 PM on November 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

The writers say YES.
posted by mediareport at 10:27 PM on November 15, 2007

But this one is TV's Frank! C'mon! You can't possibly be arguing that TV's Frank doesn't deserve his time in the sun...


...can you?
posted by ook at 10:35 PM on November 15, 2007

Like the rest of the former MST3K-ers who are putting comedy content on the Intarwebs (what are there, 17 different sites they're doing now?), TV's Frank will benefit big-time from a long strike and a lack of "old media" competition. I smell conspiracy.
posted by wendell at 10:41 PM on November 15, 2007

This is yet another WGA Strike FPP which features writers' posts to YouTube.

No.

NO!!!

TV'S FRANK!!!

THIS IS TV'S FUCKING FRANK!!! RESPECT!!

!
posted by dirigibleman at 10:49 PM on November 15, 2007

Hey newfers, want to join my poker night?
posted by roll truck roll at 11:04 PM on November 15, 2007

Those damned WGA running dogs stole TV's Frank's spitcurl! They must be stopped!
posted by Iridic at 11:10 PM on November 15, 2007

Did the actors go on strike too???
posted by dhammond at 11:10 PM on November 15, 2007

Can we have a redundant-single-link-YouTube-FPP-writers' strike, please?
posted by Reggie Digest at 11:23 PM on November 15, 2007

I don't know who TV's Frank is, but he bloody well looks like the the Mayor of Toronto.

I thought it was tongue in cheek. C'mon. 'We as studio moguls are the aggrieved party' — HELLO, Moe Gaulle, Studio Chief... 'Let's just say now we'll have to tell stories without stories'. WoooHa, BRILL.
A great act, not the actor out of work living in his 80 sq.ft. trailer.

What, you're telling me Moe is serious¿ Nah, no way.
Well done.
posted by alicesshoe at 11:55 PM on November 15, 2007

newfers: It's nice to see Unemployed Actor On Bicycle isn't the only one over whose head the joke has flown.
[NOT NEWFIST]
posted by Reggie Digest at 1:15 AM on November 16, 2007

Did the actors go on strike too???

I dunno about the actors, but I fully expect the miners to come out in solidarity, returning the support for the times when the airwaves went dead in support of the various US miners strikes.

Had it not been for the writers support, the media would never have ground to a halt and the miners would never have won.

Oh, wait...
posted by PeterMcDermott at 2:17 AM on November 16, 2007

I never got past "Two of his six houses could be at risk".

All I can say is "fuck him and fuck all six of his houses".

Um... you know it's a parody, right? "Moe Gaull"...?

Ok, the writers' strike is now officially too boring for words.

Yeah, they should get someone to punch up the story with a few pop culture references and a wacky misunderstanding.
posted by hjo3 at 2:39 AM on November 16, 2007

Fuck me. If that's the standard of you average WGA-member's work, it's no wonder nobody wants to pay them
posted by Jakey at 2:48 AM on November 16, 2007

"Moe Gaull" (why do I keep reading it as More Gall?) so you're telling me this is, like a joke? A ha. I was wondering what that whooshing sound that ruffled my friseur was...
posted by From Bklyn at 4:41 AM on November 16, 2007

I thought his delivery was great, very clean deadpan. I don't know why some people are hating on him.

(And, well I guess folk like newfers are the reason they invented the laugh track.)
posted by The Monkey at 5:18 AM on November 16, 2007

Nostalgia aside, this is weak and half the people here didn't even realize it was a joke. Last post before deletion!
posted by intermod at 5:32 AM on November 16, 2007

It wasn't that bad, I laughed.

I'll see your last post and raise you ...
posted by From Bklyn at 5:34 AM on November 16, 2007