This reminds me of one of the coolest things I read about about in US history. After the great San Francisco Earthquake in 1906 recovery funds were raised by then Senator William Howard Taft who barnstormed around the country winning local hot dog eating contests and donating the prize money to San Francisco. …

Everything is about Doop. The Bible, The Godfather, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, everything. It may not be perceptible on the surface level, but Doop is present in all things and all things are guided by Doop.

“I passed by there en route to my wine cellars for a ‘79 Margaux and couldn’t help but notice your room smelled distinctly of fart.”

Damn it, that got me good. They didn’t knight that guy for nothin’.

Disney having their own streaming service makes way more sense than CBS/NBC/whatever. They have a near monopoly on two of the most lucrative markets - kids and dorks - which will inevitably make it successful.

The dynamics of the industry are pretty fascinating, and there are definitely going to be some entrants that fall flat on their face.

I think there’s a lot of people who are totally comfortable with the idea of having multiple streaming subscriptions. If you think of them like add-on cable packages, they’re actually…

If there were, they definitely don’t work at Netflix. They managed to get some skin in the game with their Marvel shows and the last episodes of the Clone Wars show after they bought themselves some very expensive time with their exclusivity agreement, and they launched enough shows to keep themselves afloat when they…

Was there anyone who seriously didn’t think this would happen?

This. If it’s got a full library, sure I’ll pay $10 or whatever a month. I’m a 90s kid with a toddler, we’ll get a lot of use out of it. But if it, like Netflix, has a lot of Mulan 2, Tarzan 2, etc and no Lion King, no way.

The only way this Disney streaming service matters is if it’s fully comprehensive. If it has things coming on and offline due to the vault or some marketing team, fuck it. If I can’t log in any time of any year and watch Black Cauldron, Darby O’Gill and the Little People, and the 1975 Escape to Witch Mountain, then…