Trailers Without Pity is a semi-weekly animated web series for NBCUniversal/Bravo’s Television Without Pity which reviews movie trailers. It’s written, voiced, and edited by my brother Omar and myself. Additionally, I handle all illustration, design and animation. The series has run on TWoP’s site since October 2008.
Here is our most recent episode:
This episode guide links to blog posts with embedded versions of each video housed on Omar Gallaga’s blog Terribly-Happy where some of the production and ideas are given context, and also provides direct links to the videos on Television Without Pity,
Season Zero
| Episode | Movie | Description | TWOP link | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Hancock | Originally called Trailers Trashed, this was the test-run episode that led to Trailers Without Pity. | N/A | June 24, 2008 |
Season One
| Episode | Movie | Description | TWOP link | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-1 | Quantum of Solace | In the debut episode, Pablo and Omar try to figure out how much Quantum is in a Solace. | TWOP link. | Oct. 7, 2008 |
| 1-2 | Watchmen | Is Zach Snyder really legendary enough to pull off adapting the graphic novel? No, it turns out. | TWOP link. | Oct. 20, 2008 |
| 1-3 | Fast & Furious | Vin Diesel goes vroom vroom! 2 much so. | TWOP link. | Nov. 3, 2008 |
| 1-4 | The Tale of Despereaux | Little adventurous, possibly suicidal, mouse — big world. | TWOP link. | Nov. 11, 2008 |
| 1-5 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Wait a minute, if he’s aging backward and his wife dates him when he’s a child, does that make her a pedophile? | TWOP link. | Nov. 17, 2008 |
| 1-6 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Harry looks deeply into the pensieve and we look deeply into Harry’s movie trailer. | TWOP link. | Nov. 24, 2008 |
| 1-7 | Star Trek | To boldly reboot a tired franchise with Hot Uhura and the bad guy from Heroes… | TWOP link | Dec. 2, 2008 |
| 1-8 | Valkyrie | A movie about Nazis released on Christmas day? What could be better? | TWOP link | Dec. 10, 2008 |
| 1-9 | Bride Wars | Animated Samuel L. Jackson lends a hand to sort through this chick-flick shit. | TWOP link. | Dec. 16, 2008 |
| 1-10 | Terminator Salvation | We came back to the future to tell you about this movie… but not too much because… PARADOX! | TWOP link. | Dec. 24, 2008 |
| 1-11 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Remember when Hugh Jackman did that Air Jordan homage, fighting a damn helicopter? Good times. | TWOP links. | Jan. 6, 2009 |
| 1-12 | Monsters vs. Aliens | The Poor Man’s Pixar scores by not being a fakey-fakey Howard’s End knockoff. | TWOP link. | Jan. 22, 2009 |
| 1-13 | Knowing | The premonitionistic thriller suffers at the hands of Omar’s Nicolas Cage impression. | TWOP link. | Feb. 3, 2009 |
| 1-14 | G.I. Joe | In which Destro has no cool mask and The Baroness gains a boob job. | TWOP link. | Feb. 18, 2009 |
| 1-15 | Tranformers: Revenge of the Fallen | We’ll put in some jive-talking robots and make Megan Fox run around for three hours. What could go wrong? | TWOP link. | March 4, 2009 |
| 1-16 | Funny People | We’d line up for anything Judd Apatow does, no matter how serious and self-important he might get; that’s the problem with this movie, actually. Bonus audio clip! | TWOP link. | March 21, 2009 |
| 1-17 | Public Enemies | Michael Mann lines up an incredible cast for some gangster action, see? Mwah, see? | TWOP link. | April 1, 2009 |
| 1-18 | Where the Wild Things Are | Omar finds himself less psyched about the movie than most by making the mistake of reading the book as an adult. | TWOP link. | April 14, 2009 |
| 1-19 | G-Force | Relax, hip comedians. We’re not going to take you to task for cashing the paycheck on a crappy movie like this. Much. | TWOP link. | April 28, 2009 |
| 1-20 | The Boat That Rocked | Before it was renamed to Pirate Radio, this romantic comedy/music romp seemed promising. | TWOP link. | May 12, 2009 |
| 1-21 | Inglourious Basterds | Holy crap, what are we gonna do with 800 Nazi scalps? We’re gonna need, like… a Scalpatorium! | TWOP link. | May 27, 2009 |
| 1-22 | Brüno | Sacha Baron Cohen goes beyond Borat into way gay territory. Hope you like comedic assplay! | TWOP link. | June 10, 2009 |
| 1-23 | I Love You, Beth Cooper | The more teen movies change, the more they stay exactly the same. It helps when you steal like crazy. | TWOP link. | June 23, 2009 |
| 1-24 | District 9 | How clever was that documentary-style trailer that never showed the aliens? Too clever. | TWOP link. | July 8, 2009 |
| 1-25 | Gamer | Grab your joystick! Or whatever they use to play the home game of The Running Man in ¡El Futuuuuuro! | TWOP link. | July 21, 2009 |
| 1-26 | Jennifer’s Body | The one with the photo of Omar trying to hand Megan Fox a flower. | TWOP link. | Aug. 3, 2009 |
| 1-27 | Surrogates | Virtual facsimiles of Omar G. and Pablo G. discuss the living-by-proxy sci-fi film. It’s a foxy proxy. | TWOP link. | Aug. 18, 2009 |
| 1-28 | Avatar | Who knew it would be the biggest movie of all time? James Cameron, probably. Yeah, that sonofabitch probably knew. | TWOP link. | Sept. 2, 2009 |
| 1-29 | Zombieland | Are zombies totally over? Damn, man, like not even close! Our oven-roasted brains needed more. | TWOP link. | Sept. 16, 2009 |
| 1-30 | 2012 | Uncle Pepe makes a cameo as we discuss the Mayan-calendar influenced apocalyptic thriller. | TWOP link. | Sept. 30, 2009 |
| 1-31 | A Christmas Carol | CGI Jim Carrey rides… a crotch rocket of some sort? Because of Christmas? OK, then. | TWOP link. | Oct. 13, 2009 |
| 1-32 | Ninja Assassin | Holy crap, did you see that knife? And that sword? And the throwing stars? Neither did those dead guys. | TWOP link. | Oct. 28, 2009 |
| 1-33 | Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes kickboxes? God’s own jumper cables, Robert Downey Jr., can breathe life into anything. You’ll see! | TWOP link. | Nov. 11, 2009 |
| 1-34 | The Wolfman | Hirsute Benicio Del Toro, we salute you. With our hairy arms. | TWOP link. | Nov. 29, 2009 |
| 1-35 | Alice in Wonderland | Why don’t you two just get a room already, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp? I mean, damn. | TWOP link. | Dec. 7, 2009 |
Season Two
| Episode | Movie | Description | TWOP link | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-1 | Clash of the Titans | Kraken? Don’t you mean delicious, mouth-watering crackers? No? OK, our bad. | TWOP link. | Feb. 9, 2010 |
| 2-2 | Iron Man 2 | Robert Downey Jr. is better than Steve Jobs, but his nemesis Mickey Rourke looks like an Erector Set. | TWOP link. | Feb. 24, 2010 |
| 2-3 | Kick-Ass | The Google Generation gets its violent fantasia/comic book superhero movie. We feel old! | TWOP link. | March 12, 2010 |
| 2-4 | Sex and the City 2 | I’m a Samantha! I’m a Charlotte! Guess what? Nobody cares! | TWOP link. | March 22, 2010 |
| 2-5 | Toy Story 3 | Little Andy! All grow’d up! Excuse us while we cry for two hours. | TWOP link. | April 5, 2010 |
| 2-6 | Knight and Day | What the Hell IS this Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz movie!? Social scientists are still trying to sort out the wreckage. | TWOP link. | April 20, 2010 |
| 2-7 | The A-Team | Parachuting tank firing action!? Mohawks?! Liam Neeson?! It all seemed so awesome, once upon a time. | TWOP link. | May 7, 2010 |
| 2-8 | Dinner For Schmucks | Yes it’s true, we could not resist the siren song of a movie with a synonym for “Penis” in the title. | TWOP link. | May 25, 2010 |
| 2-9 | Inception | Christopher Nolan is all, “Remember how I blew your mind? Get ready for the Re-Blow-Ening.” | TWOP link. | June 4, 2010 |
| 2-10 | Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | Grab your hoodie, it’s about to get twee like Mario Bros. 3 in here. Beware the Michael Cera backlash! | TWOP link. | June 23, 2010 |
| 2-11 | Piranha 3-D | “You’re missing it! Tuna got mad!” In 3-D! | TWOP link. | June 29, 2010 |
| 2-12 | The Expendables | Every action actor ever tries to match up to the awesome that is Terry Crews. Most will fail. | TWOP link. | July 14, 2010 |
| 2-13 | Machete | Grab your Hispanic Puro Raza Oye Como Va ID card! It’s about to get all Spanglishy up en la casa! | TWOP link. | Aug. 2, 2010 |
| 2-14 | The Social Network | “Like” it? I “Superpoked” it! Uh… friend. | TWOP link. | Aug 10, 2020 |
| 2-15 | Red | Come for the retired A-list hitmen, but stay for our super-creepy animated Morgan Freeman! | TWOP link. | Aug. 25, 2010 |
| 2-16 | Due Date | Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis try to give birth to 8 lbs. of healthy American comedy. | TWOP link. | Sept. 9, 2010 |
| 2-17 | Morning Glory | It turns out America didn’t want to see a comedy about a national morning TV show. But you could watch a video about that comedy! | TWOP link. | Sept. 22, 2010 |
| 2-18 | Burlesque | Living monument and fishnet pioneer Cher smacks down Christina Aguilera and her off-putting dance moves. | TWOP link. | Oct. 12, 2010 |
| 2-19 | Tron Legacy | Where were you damn hipster neo-geeks when Omar was sad and lonely, watching Tron by himself, wearing thick glasses? | TWOP link. | Oct. 19, 2010 |
| 2-20 | Black Swan | Darren Aronosfky makes Natalie Portman cry and gets called a genius. Lars Von Trier must be jealous. | TWOP link. | Nov. 2, 2010 |
Season Three
| Episode | Movie | Description | TWOP link | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3-1 | Battle: Los Angeles | What if Independence Day and District 9 had a three-way with Black Hawk Down that resulted in a baby? Man, that’s one ugly baby. | TWOP link. | Jan. 31, 2011 |
| 3-2 | Sucker Punch | Hey, isn’t this by that guy that ruined Watchmen? | TWOP link. | Feb. 15, 2011 |
| 3-3 | Scream 4 | Aren’t you a little old to be running from serial killers in a movie? | TWOP link. | March 1, 2011 |
| 3-4 | Water for Elephants | Who doesn’t love a circus? Well, the elephants, probably. | TWOP link. | March 28, 2011 |
| 3-5 | Thor | A hero and a hammer and some Norse Code. | TWOP link. | April 4, 2011 |
| 3-6 | Cars 2 | It’s not just us, right? These vehicles are completely soulless, correct? | TWOP link. | April 19, 2011 |
| 3-7 | X-Men: First Class | It’s a prequel because, frankly, the non-quel movies weren’t really working anymore. | TWOP link. | May 3, 2011 |
| 3-8 | Super 8 | J.J. Abrams tries to capture that old Spielberg magic; we’ll cry even if he doesn’t. | TWOP link. | May 17, 2011 |
| 3-9 | Green Lantern | In brightest day, in darkest night, please don’t let this movie be as goofy as it might. | TWOP link. | June 3, 2011 |
| 3-10 | Cowboys & Aliens | Harrison Ford acts grumpy while Daniel Craig shoots aliens while riding a horse. | TWOP link. | June 15, 2011 |
| 3-11 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Monkeys take over the world. And we’re not totally against that! | TWOP link. | June 28, 2011 |
| 3-12 | Conan the Barbarian | He’s not just strong, he’s Pec-Tacular! | TWOP link. | July 14, 2011 |
| 3-13 | Moneyball | Sabermetrics! It’s what’s for statistical analysis to win at baseball (and for dinner)! | TWOP link. | July 26, 2011 |
Season Four
| Episode | Movie | Description | TWOP link | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-1 | The Muppets | Jim Henson’s felt family returns to theaters. That could be great, right? | TWOP link. | Nov. 3, 2011 |
| 4-2 | New Year’s Eve | Garry Marshall has his way with another holiday, this time with an ominous countdown. | TWOP link. | Nov. 15, 2011 |
| 4-3 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | David Fincher + extremely popular gritty material with another Trent Reznor soundtrack? Just start engraving the Oscars already. | TWOP link. | Dec. 1, 2011 |
| 4-4 | War Horse | How will Steven Spielberg direct a touching tale of a boy and his horse for Christmas? By subbing in “Ho ho ho” with “Hay hay hay.” | TWOP link. | Dec. 14, 2011 |
| 4-5 | The Grey | Liam Neeson battles ridiculous wolf puppets in a snowy wilderness. Awooo! | TWOP link. | Jan. 9, 2012 |
| 4-6 | Star Wars Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace in 3D | We’re not keen on seeing this one again in ANY dimension. | TWOP link. | Jan. 19, 2012 |
| 4-7 | The Hunger Games | The tale of Katniss, as played by Jennifer Lawrence, and her contest to the death is like catnip for us! | TWOP link. | Feb. 2, 2012 |
| 4-8 | American Reunion | When a pie-humping boy becomes a pie-humping man with a wife, a kid and a mortgage. | TWOP link. | Feb. 17, 2012 |
| 4-9 | The Avengers | This has, like, a LOT of superheroes. If you’re into that sort of thing. | TWOP link. | March 2, 2012 |
| 4-10 | Prometheus | The prequel to Alien that has geeks aflutter and atwitter and a facehuggin’. | TWOP link. | March. 15, 2012 |
| 4-11 | The Dictator | Can Sacha Baron Cohen retame the wild comedy genre he helped create? | TWOP link. | March 29, 2012 |
| 4-12 | The Amazing Spider-Man | The superhero movie with the best hair you’ve ever seen. | TWOP link. | April 11, 2012 |
| 4-13 | The Dark Knight Rises | Christopher Nolan is like, “And THAT’S how you end a Batman trilogy. I’m OUT!” | TWOP link. | April 26, 2012 |