I work in game shows. It is standard operating procedure to not pay out any winnings until after the show airs, typically 90-120 days after the contestant’s final episode (with some rare exceptions like Ken Jennings, whose “Jeopardy!” streak carried over from one season into another; he got a partial payout during the…

I hear there be internet seas where only pirates are crazy enough to sail them.  And on the Islands of that sea one can find many a streaming content.  

I was thinking that the best possible outcome is that some other studio releases it and it makes something like $150M domestic, and then HBO’s board of directors get stern looks on their faces and call an emergency meeting.

Isn’t this like, textbook emotional abuse? The instant your partner seems to have a credible complaint about your behavior that someone might sympathise with, pivot immediately to suddenly crashing self-esteem and threats to kill yourself?

Tim Allen was always an hypocritical asshole who should have been in jail for trafficking.

I watched two minutes of Barbie, followed by three minutes of Oppenheimer, followed by two minutes of Barbie, and so forth, as the filmmakers clearly intended.

I think Murphy’s right that Barbenheimer will never happen again, but you can bet your sweet tush that Hollywood is gonna try their darndest to make it happen every time a pair of stylistically differing movies come out near one another.

It’s a weird thing about Hollywood. They aren’t mutually exclusive, and don’t have to compete. They aren’t concerts. Just because I watch one movie doesn’t mean I can’t watch the other.

He’ll always be Pig Vomit to me, first and foremost. And after that, he’ll be “the son of the guy who banned Pete Rose from baseball.” And after that, he’ll be “the brother of one of the players from the Scott Bakula/Sinbad/Jason Bateman/Robert Loggia/Hector Elizondo college football classic Necessary Roughness.”

That accent in Con Air was soaked in molasses and char-grilled over a mesquite fire.  

This is one of the many reasons I’ve started collecting blu-rays and 4k discs in 2023. 

Tesla fans aren’t going to be frustrated, they are going to lap this up. “OMG, look how great and generous Elmo is!” While ignoring the ulterior motive of keeping peoples interest free loans for as long as possible AND selling them another car at the same time.

Honestly it’s Marvel phase whatever fatigue. Since Endgame there has been more hours of Marvel content then the first three phases combined    I’m a die hard Marvel nerd who was excited about fucking Moon Knight and even I’m done.  They need to take a fucking break for a while.  

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Anthony Bourdain’s take should be a preamble:

I’ve always low-key loved this joke. Fry just completely missing the button with a target around it. It sums him up really well.

Strategic decision-making at work:

And not be responsible for setting the building on fire.  

If you describe your own actions as taking “courage,” you better have, like, saved children from a burning building.  

Zaslav went on to say, “I have never sexually satisfied another person, and I never will, because the thought of giving someone else pleasure physically repulses me.”