Between the much-discussed premiere of “Girls” and an amazing episode of “Mad Men” (more on that later), not to mention the always excellent “Game of Thrones” and a notable gag on “The Simpsons,” last night was a busy night of television. Somewhat lost amid this embarrassment of riches was the fact that “Eastbound & Bound” aired its series finale. I won’t get into all the spoiler-y details, but I will say this: I am going to miss Kenny Powers. In three seasons and only 21 episodes — just over 10 hours of total screen time — he burrowed his way into my brain in a way few other television characters have. He burned fast and bright, then vanished, and we are all better for it. Leave ‘em wanting more, and all that.
As a tribute to the honorable Mr. F’n Powers, the heroes at Vulture put together a supercut of some of his greatest insults and put-downs from the show’s run. It’s as delightful as it is wildly unsafe for work, and serves as conclusive proof that the man could spin a phrase, if not a curveball. My personal favorites are the ones that begin with “I’ll be honest with you,” or “Let’s face it,” but you are certainly free to disagree with me on this, especially if your counterargument involves calling me a “strange Mexican Grimace” or just repeating the word butthole.
Anyway, if you’ve got two minutes and some headphones, I highly recommend this tribute. Vaya con dios, La Flama Blanca.
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Someone needs to do a best of Stevie supercut. I’m going to miss that bald headed freak.
With a run-time of about 28 minutes an episode, it actually works out to just _under_ ten hours, not over.
Beat it, nerd.
“Clothes like a fuckin’ dickhead” is and always will be my favorite. Like I need to reiterate that, because I’m pretty sure I use it too much.
+1
“What do I know? I know that one of us had his own personal stylist, and one of us shoplifts their shit from Fashion Bug…”
Am I the only one who didn’t enjoy this season? I was under the impression that it was still a comedy, and I can’t recall one thing I laughed at.
Obvious troll is obvious.
I thought the 1st season was funny and the 2nd season was OK. I tried the first two episodes of this season and didn’t laugh at all so I stopped watching. I’m a little curious about how the series ended but not enough to endure those last few shows.
“Chapter one. The new beginning of the book… There have been many great comebacks throughout history. Jesus was dead but then came back as an all-powerful god zombie. Ryan O’Neal had his ups and downs, but is now back, and better than ever.”
Not trolling, genuinely didn’t like the season. I loved the first two, but this one was just depressing.
The single-father plot didn’t work for me, but that just might have hit too close to home.
The creepiness in Stevie’s creepy/funny combo overtook the funny.
I enjoyed straight-laced Jason Sudekis more than stoner/wing-man Sudekis.
I was hoping we’d get some laughs from the ditsy college girlfriend, but there was nothing there (not even tits, man. not even tits).
I enjoyed Don Johnson’s return and the casting of Lily Tomlin and they played their parts well, but they still didn’t bring the funny.
I get that all the tragedy of the season sobered Kenny up enough to make the decision that he made at the end of the series, but I didn’t find anything funny about it, even darkly funny. Not a chuckle.
This season was not a funny one, and that’s all I wanted out of it.
Well sometimes you’re just wrong.
It’s been known to happen once or twice…or often.
If you didn’t find Ashley Shaffer/Cherry Blossom scene fantastic then you should be castrated ASAP
I didn’t really enjoy this season as a whole much either… but if you didn’t laugh at Dildo-Saurus Rex or McConaughey saying “Meanwhile you’re down here squirtin’ fire like a dragon’s pussy” or Kenny buying PS3 for a 1 year old… then I don’t really know what to tell you.
Needs moar Season 1 insults:
“What’s his name, Shrek?”
Goddammit, I told myself I wouldn’t cry.
First season of Eastbound was great…these last two have been terrible the proper way to have ended it is for Powers to get killed by comeback line drive to the head…….and Girls is fucking terrible
Aww, “cuntious” wasn’t on there? I love that one.
I liked season 2 the best. Kenny Powers with cornrows gets me every time.
Last night’s finale was bad, and really bummed me out that they ended it with such a whimper.