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Chris Rezendes
2005-02-13, 02:04
I just finished watching this show, and, as usual, there was no shortage of cheese to laugh at. Now, I've been laughing at this show since I was a teenager, in no small part due to my grandmother, who legitimately enjoys Chuck Norris in all of his endeavors. She thinks he's the toughest guy in the world, and she legitimately thinks that he could take Bruce Lee in Bruce's prime. I'm getting beside myself.
Anyway, as I was watching tonight, a new thought occured to me- is this bad on purpose? I couldn't help but wonder, did the producers seriously have fun making this bad so they could laugh at it, like a cheesy 70's blaxploitation spoof on MadTV (Funkenstein comes to mind)? Did Chuck laugh at how shitty this was? I think if I was an actor working with such awful material, I'd have a blast.
So, what do you think?
powersofterror
2005-02-13, 02:11
It was awesome when I was a little tottler. But after I saw Bruce Lee kick Chuck's ass in his first movie ever I started thinking differently. Haha, jesus, he had his share of chest hair...
Silent Night 6 6
2005-02-13, 02:16
Bruce Lee Vs. Chuck Norris.....that's even funnier than Walker Texas Ranger.
SmotPoker
2005-02-13, 02:47
no i dont think this was meant to be funny, because all his movies were cheesey too. unless he means everything he does with his career as a joke.
Silent Night 6 6
2005-02-13, 04:31
Well, hey.....I think he's been starring in promoting excercise machines lately.
You want genuine cheeseness? Walker Texas Ranger is nothing. Try a mid-to-late-nineties movie called "Point Blank", starring Mickey Rourke. A group of prisoners escape and take a people in a shopping mall hostage. It was so bad to the point it was actually entertaining. And the scene where Mickey's brother dies......... HAHAHAHAH!
Try and find it folks, probably in that tiny corner of the local video store that still has VHS.
guitar_demon
2005-02-13, 10:24
i hate this show so fucking much
why don't I know what you're talking about?
guitar_demon
2005-02-13, 11:31
cause your from iceland :p
hehe so it's a tv show only showed in the us or somthing? :p
guitar_demon
2005-02-13, 11:54
yea i guess some other places get it, like australia but you must not, but dont worry its NOT good
Disincarnate
2005-02-13, 12:07
remember watching this sow a few years back that time the walker guy used to remind me of tim allen ....hehe
LordofStorms
2005-02-13, 12:17
Bruce Lee Vs. Chuck Norris.....that's even funnier than Walker Texas Ranger.
:rofl: So true. :rofl:
I watch Walker whenever I can.. awesome show! I think it might have been a joke.. if you ever watch Connan, he had this lever he pulled and it would randomly play a walker clip.. and one time Chuck came on and they just had a good laugh.
hehe so it's a tv show only showed in the us or somthing? :p
you dont have TVs in Iceland, you silly little boy
TheDreadfulHoroscope
2005-02-13, 19:14
My dad actually met chuck norris.Hes like 5 ft tall, and on the show they just have him stand on boxes and crap like that.
I haven't watched it for like 4 years, I don't remember much about except it was just another boring action show.
If you wanna talk about cheesyness to the point of humor though, watch the 3rd most recent matrix movie, the script was so poorly, it was hilarious.
all matrix movies are poorly written..
Walker is pure comedic genius.
TheDreadfulHoroscope
2005-02-13, 19:22
all matrix movies are poorly written..
Except the first one had a fairly decent concept, but the other 2 were wannabe Zen bullshit.
Silent Night 6 6
2005-02-13, 20:00
And the Matrix brought on this whole thing of action scenes in movies where they do this slow-motion shit.
powersofterror
2005-02-13, 20:16
Which was cool. But then they over did it. And so did the rest of the world.
Chris Rezendes
2005-02-13, 21:09
I watch Walker whenever I can.. awesome show! I think it might have been a joke.. if you ever watch Connan, he had this lever he pulled and it would randomly play a walker clip.. and one time Chuck came on and they just had a good laugh.
Yeah, I remember that, it's probably the funniest thing I've ever seen on Conan, and I watch him a couple of times a week, so I've seen a lot of his stuff. It started out innocently enough, right? He said something about NBC buying the company that owned all the Walker episodes, and he said all he had to do was pull a secret lever and it would play a clip. It was always the cheesiest, funniest clips, too.
He would do it every time the show hit a lull, sometimes not even during a lull, I even remember him doing it in the middle of an interview. And then after a few weeks, he got out of hand, and Chuck Norris came to end Conan's villainy. That was too fucking awesome. The fact that Chuck Norris can sit back and laugh while his is being ridiculed is one of the reasons I thought maybe I was right, maybe Walker was just a big inside joke. Or, maybe it was just meant to be serious and Chuck has a good enough sense of humor that he can just sit back and laugh at it anyway.
Dissection
2005-02-13, 21:28
I don't have a problem with Transient, but decided to joke anyway. :)
haha, conan had the lever that when you pulled it, it would show a clip from Walker Texas Ranger.. that was great :rofl:
all matrix movies are poorly written..
Walker is pure comedic genius.
I'll agree with that, to a slight degree. It's so cheesy it's worth watching occasionally.
i_hate_nu_metal
2005-02-14, 11:46
hehe so it's a tv show only showed in the us or somthing? :p
it's not new. it's been on for ages. for the better part of the nineties, I believe. I don't know how come you guys don't get it, though, I'm from Yugoslavia, (or what's left of it), and we used to get it all the time. Not that that's something to brag about. If you guys don't get the show, it only means the TV execs in Iceland have more common sense than their coleagues in Yugoslavia, or the US for that matter. The show is a piece of crap.
In a nutshell, Chuck Norriss is this bad ass Texas Ranger, (a cop with a cowboy hat), who has this really cool gun that he never has to use, cause he can kick everyone's ass in hand to hand combat. This show deserves to be :ban:
Manowar, the only thing you need to know about Walker, Texas Ranger is that it's better than Neighbours.
Infinity
2005-02-15, 02:59
8. Walker, Texas Corpse
Your characters supposed to be 40
But you have to be at least 80
The make-up department should win an emmy
For making people think your alive
[Chorus:]
Chuck Norris- you're really fucking old
You're the worst singer I have ever heard
You're even worse than I am
You should be climbing out of a grave
While you sing the fucking theme song
[Chorus]
You look like you just got embalmed
And were shopping for a coffin
Your partner looks fucking stupid
Being black and wearing a cowboy hat
:D :D :D
rabbifoodslicer
2005-02-15, 14:50
haha, conan had the lever that when you pulled it, it would show a clip from Walker Texas Ranger.. that was great :rofl:
that was honnestly one of the funniest things i ever saw...it was completely ou of context... you would just see him roll of a two story building and say some cheesy line...heh
LordofStorms
2005-02-16, 16:27
Watched the show for the first time in a while today,lol I can't beleive I used to take it seriously.Chuck Norris used to be my idol. :p
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