“He was eating some food I made when by a crazy coincidence his stomach exploded. Now I’m here to avenge him!”

1. Boogie Nights

Sea bugs: Now with hair!

I found it to be extremely hit or miss, but the hits are fantastic. Like it’s incredibly dumb but when the jokes land, they land.

Cold French onion soup isn’t much better, and it’s not like Larry could do anything other than stand there and gawk.

“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”

Seems like he is channeling his inner Hayden Christensen by way of Star Wars prequels.

Strange, my TJ’s has always been well-stocked in the French vanilla ice cream, and it’s still good.

I don’t travel home for Thanksgiving, so I usually end up making something labor-intensive but nontraditional - have done barbacoa, beef stew, chili, and lasagna. Thinking about porchetta this year, or maybe duck.

I can never find frozen pearl onions near me, and peeling fresh ones is such an ordeal (I know the tricks, it still sucks) but this looks fantastic enough to be worth the effort.

Everything that isn’t stuffing can go, honestly. Give me that and baked mac and cheese and I’m set.

Martin Starr is so good in that role.

Surprised to not see Everything Must Go mentioned for Ferrell. It’s based on a great Raymond Carver short story (not that there’s any other kind), and it works better stretched to feature length than I expected it to, owing at least in part to Ferrell’s performance.

Do you know what the date is on this meme? 2006. It’s been traveling 15 years to get here. And now it’s here. And it’s either Rick Astley or not Rick Astley and you have to say.

Had to scroll too far for this.

That is too many variations on “Sophie”

Magnolia is good, but not nearly as good as it thinks it is. This makes sense because PTA himself said that he recognized after Boogie Nights that he was in a position he’d never be in again and could do whatever the fuck he wanted, which was to “make the epic, all-time great San Fernando Valley movie.” Throw in…

More people should have watched Lodge 49!

I cannot stand Tim Burton’s aesthetic so its charms are totally lost on me.