The commercial success of actors like Helen Hunt only serves to prove the Mr. Show "Imminent Death Syndrome" theory. Why did people give her work? And why did they later stop?

Really? I love Odenkirk.

Agreed, Isis. It's odd how the Hollywood press vilifies stars for getting plastic surgery, but ridicules them for turning ugly if they age naturally. I know that's not an original observation by any means, but it's always bothered me.

That's OK, because Triumph outlived that puppet, even when he came back, zombie-like, for those car financing ads.

DISCO-TEX AND THE SEX-O-LETTES???????

The longer I think about it, the more I like it.

hmm.
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Didn't see you til now, Quiet Boy.

I will give you that. Our zoo is the tits.

Prison Wine, you obviously haven't been through Fort Worth lately (not that I'd hold it against you, considering we are Dallas' armpit). Jubilee Theatre and some other little theatres around here do those kind of shows. You also see terrible, low-budget ads for them on the local networks during daytime talk shows and…

Even worse - turning an unfunny stand-up bit into a self-help book into a movie.

The idea of "hamburger melange" pleases me to no end. My mom used to make this chicken-cream of mushroom soup-egg noodle slop that we kids loved. She called it "gravy train." We didn't realize until years later that she named it after dog food. She was trying to have a larf at our expense, but she realized her dumbass…

Ricky, for the record, we weren't rich - just recipients of hand-me-downs from our rich cousins when they got tired of their toys. Had a secondhand My Buddy doll and a used Barbie Dream House for the same reason.

Let's make cookies for the boys!

Seriously. I mean, I had a Pow-Pow-Power Wheels Jeep, and here I am 20 years later driving what amounts to a dented clown car. No 4x4s for me.

Yeah, that's the actual answer, El Zilcho, but I felt like being obtuse and faux-polite. 99% of my posts here and elsewhere occur between the hours of 8am and 6pm for good reason.

I actually do spend a lot of time outside. There are some great parks and botanical gardens near my house. But since a relative died of skin cancer, I protect myself with sunscreen.

I guess I should find the Care Bear anecdote kind of freaky, but it made me laugh. I can see how it would defuse some righteous anger to have to speak through a toy bear.

I will admit, I still have 2 stuffed toys from my childhood, because my beloved late grandparents gave them to me and I can't bear to part with them.

I dunno, retro. It was so adorably fumbling and apologetic it was almost like Liz Lemon herself wrote those comments. Good on ya, Crimosla, and no harm done.