I thought the tweets were funny, but I would have liked to see one tweet per joke. Two jokes here are doubled-up and the second time is a lot less funny than the first.

They didn’t stop football when they figured out it was scrambling the player’s brains. A respiratory disease isn’t going to stop them either.

To get pedantic: the key to that SE recipe is not just the parboiling, but to parboil with baking soda, and to shake the potatoes vigorously with a flavorful fat (ideally duck or chicken fat), such that the potatoes get coated in a mashed potato-like layer. THAT’S the key to the crunch.

Rebrands are easy. Burger King needs their food to change, not their packaging.

In LA, there’s a big Nashville hot chicken fad, and the few places I’ve been to there have been making the sandwiches out of white meat.

I’ve loved the towel joke forever, and I’ve never thought of the towel on head angle. I think it’s funny that Homer is announcing how unprofessional he is for absolutely no reason. To me, it’s less funny for him to reference an obscure image of a woman with a towel on her head. That’s somehow _more_ random than him…

Now I’m really confused. I’ve always heard the line as “Yeah, it’s fun”, not “Yeah, once.”

Are you aware of the irony of appearing in comments in order to decry them?

I feel like Half Life: Alyx got short shrift this year, both because not many people have played it and because it came out near the beginning of the longest year on record. HLA is so well-designed, so well-written, and so completely immersive. It manages to meet the sky-high expectations of the HL franchise, and in…

I agree. I think it takes as much, if not more, to make a light-hearted, breezy comedy as it does a moody, relevant-of-the-times drama. But I also thnk that film criticism as a discipline overvalues resonance and undervalues funniness.

Maybe this will cause a prexy to ankle WB for the Mouse.

I had read that. It still doesn’t mean I get how people reacted to it.

The pronunciation seems, to me, to be a joke, like how people pronounce Target jokingly. The reactions furthermore make it seem like the people reacting are taking it seriously. I don’t get that.

Wow. I really don’t know what to say, except that I am incredibly ashamed at what I said. I have no idea what I was referencing there, or what I was thinking by being so vulgar.

I’m not sure how things are, but as of 5-10 years ago MTV was absolutely KILLING IT in 18-34 (and probably younger) ratings. It was basically the only channel that teenagers watched.

I didn’t like two things about the series that ultimately turned me off from watching more than two episodes:

Surely Rounders wasn’t sillier than any other movie with poker in it (thinking specifically about Casino Royale here). I’m assuming he’s talking about the poker content and not the rest of the movie.

I started reading the second book in The Book of Dust series (The Secret Commonwealth), and boy howdy is it odd to see the HDM world reflect our the current US sociopolitical climate. It’s very good.

That’s not how producers think. They don’t want someone who’s famous with an existing audience, they want someone who will the existing audience tolerates and a new audience will follow into the show. They want to grow the audience, not keep it the same.

Jennings makes a lot of sense (and I think I’ve thrown his name up in the past), but I think he’s not famous enough. Hosting Jeopardy is a pretty plum gig (I think you shoot for about a week each month?) so I’m guessing it’d be in-demand for a lot of people.