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I wonder if Lily will make hot rotten ham water?

Hermano?

Hermano?

All of these fishy puns are giving me a haddock!

All of these fishy puns are giving me a haddock!

I think I remember that one. I think it used to show up in rotation with Woody Woodpecker when I was a kid. Was it UPA?

I think I remember that one. I think it used to show up in rotation with Woody Woodpecker when I was a kid. Was it UPA?

Pretty much. Roy Huggins and James Garner were involved with both shows, and I think some Rockford scripts were actually repurposed Mavericks. I haven't seen much Maverick, though.

Pretty much. Roy Huggins and James Garner were involved with both shows, and I think some Rockford scripts were actually repurposed Mavericks. I haven't seen much Maverick, though.

I'm waiting for the Jackie Jormp Jormp "hologram".*

I'm waiting for the Jackie Jormp Jormp "hologram".*

For some reasons, the press releases from PR flacks "quoting" British entertainment figures always sound about 20 times more fake than similar press releases in America, in the sense that the British ones just don't sound like anything anyone would actually say. Maybe I'm just used to the way the American ones are

For some reasons, the press releases from PR flacks "quoting" British entertainment figures always sound about 20 times more fake than similar press releases in America, in the sense that the British ones just don't sound like anything anyone would actually say. Maybe I'm just used to the way the American ones are

I think the only counterargument to the subtlety of British humo(u)r one needs is Benny Hill.

I think the only counterargument to the subtlety of British humo(u)r one needs is Benny Hill.

Well, when you say "the Chinese are a subspecies" or are "subhuman", that is not really talking about culture or a country is it? It's implying that there is something inherent in their ancestry, something that makes them fundamentally different from, and implicitly inferior to, other people. I don't see how you can

Well, when you say "the Chinese are a subspecies" or are "subhuman", that is not really talking about culture or a country is it? It's implying that there is something inherent in their ancestry, something that makes them fundamentally different from, and implicitly inferior to, other people. I don't see how you can

Chik-Fil-A is owned by evangelical Protestants from Georgia, not those weirdo Mormons from Utah. The Marriott family is Mormon, though…

Chik-Fil-A is owned by evangelical Protestants from Georgia, not those weirdo Mormons from Utah. The Marriott family is Mormon, though…

I think much of the humor in SWC largely stems from the characters blase attitudes towards some things and disproportionately shocked reactions to things that, by normal standards, are much less shocking. I believe that it all stems from being a parody of after-school specials, in which the situations seemed