I’m not familiar with the Increasingly Disappointing Three, were they a 1990s thing?

Free Love.

Frenchie’s background is a bizarre “is this meant to be a parody within a parody?!” fairy tale about him going back home to France where everyone calls him “Frenchie” and having a baguette-joust on bicycles against a man who dishonoured Frenchie’s father or something. It’s all presented as obviously fake and made-up…

Starlight stupidly losing it on Firecracker without destroying the cameras first

Yeah I’m also picking Ryan to take down Homelander at the end of Season 5. It’s a less nutty version of what happens in the comics.

I always thought the Apprentice was what rehabilitated him and did most of the mythmaking outside of New York. And the irony is that the only reason The Apprentice leaned so heavily into Trump is that no other “billionaire” was prepared to go on it - the original idea was to have a different billionaire each season. 

Literally the opposite of Bill Chimpfucker.

Is it true that Valorie Curry got the Firecracker role because it’s cheaper to use her real face rather than digitally de-age Lucy Lawless?

On the other hand if in The Boys universe, America did build all its overhead HVAC ducting out of lead... that would explain a lot of the choices these characters keep making.

Have you read the original comic? Everyone gets a backstory of varying interest but grounded in the real world (of the comic) while all Frenchie gets is this bizarre and obviously made up story involving a bicycle joust with baguettes and Frenchie renouncing his pacifism because of a stale croissant or something.

Prett…

I’m watching it as “some talky bits that stitch together the zany fights”. Though I think Generation V gave me my fill of “my superpower lets me indulge / be exploited by a normally physically impossible sexual fetish” (see: Splinter).

On the other hand the Splinter pinkeye gag is VERY faithful to the level of Garth…

Also The Boys comic finished in 2012.

Dare I say it but... Con Air. And I thought he was pretty credible (but still a screw up of course) in the Sopranos.

I used to work at a magazine company in the 90s that had a TV Guide mag as part of its stable. People would ring the publishing company reception and ask to speak to a character from their favourite soap. Not the actor, the character.

COVEFE is an old man using a phone. He was trying to write “despite recent press coverage” and typed COVE hit F just below R, mis-hit backspace, then hit E again next to R, then said screw it and deleted the whole tweet to start over, by pressing the tweet button. No drugs required.

She got it from her “proxy”, Sarah Jessica Parker (???)

It’s probably a fair critique if the show is very explicitly trying to be a gritty, highly realistic, grounded depiction of the economics of urban living,

“The portrayal of money has always been an issue with this show.”

In Australia we call them “housemates”  or “flatmates” - they have their own bedrooms in the apartment or house, see.

What is the deal with that pigeon?