It was never going to win any awards, and if it had gotten renewed I would have been fairly surprised, but I legit enjoyed Better With You and always looked forward to seeing him in it.
It was never going to win any awards, and if it had gotten renewed I would have been fairly surprised, but I legit enjoyed Better With You and always looked forward to seeing him in it.
I literally was creating characters for TSR's old Marvel FASERIP system this past weekend.
So, somehow I record a hit song, and then nineteen years later I record an album with the idea that maybe a billionaire with nothing better to spend his money on will buy it for $10M for no reason other than shits and giggles. This is foolproof. Why would I need an IRA?
"They find another dead sailor somewhere. Gibbs is mean to DiNozzo. Cute Abby is cute. We see that they're doing some serious hacking by having two people type on the same keyboard. They find the guy. Gibbs is mean again."
No kidding. You're on set for every waking hour of every day? You're eating a lot of shit out of the vending machine.
This was truly a ton of fun. It's awesome to see a reality show where everyone wants to be there and seems to genuinely like each other. The show didn't truly treat making it to the end as an all-consuming firestorm of importance; this was a game, and they weren't really pretending otherwise.
Ah, Kate. JASBSB is terrible, and forcing your parents to endure it constitutes a war crime in some countries.
Billy Corgan's lyrics are never poetry, but I can usually power through them when the song is muscular enough. However, Zero, a song that I could listen to virtually on an endless loop at times, stops dead in its tracks when he whines "GOD IS EMPTY JUST! LIKE! ME!" Fuck you, Billy.
I adored Coupling when it was on, but it really is four series of "Men like football! Women love shopping!"
I know my OK Cupid profile went crazy as soon as I pointed out that I was an adult with a job.
I'd love to go back and see Clerks for the first time in theaters again, but only if I could be twenty again. If I did it now, I'd probably walk out half an hour in, and not sit there quietly having my mind blown by the whole "wow, a guy like me did this".
I was reading a copy of The Cat #3 from 1972 the other night, and in it was a letter from a young Miller praising Marvel for their use of a strong female character because (quoting from memory here) "you need SOME weak women who need to be saved, but they shouldn't ALL be like that." Never change, Frank.
It's amazing to me that, upon rewatching the early seasons, Ross is actually the most normal, relatable, audience-identifiable character. He turned into Urkel later on, especially after they had to do something with Emily and decided to do so by turning her, out of nowhere, into a shrill harpy while simultaneously…
Friends was an inescapable fact of life for its first few seasons, especially right out of the gate when it was essentially the only thing anyone ever talked about, ever. That gets real old, real fast, and there was a definite backlash, especially when it inevitably started to get past its sell-by date.
The early episodes were hilarious at the time, but the later, post-hookup period has aged a hell of a lot better.
Lois & Clark's pilot was pretty good. It was a romantic comedy with a very self-aware sense of humor ("Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!" "Nah, it's some guy flyin'. In a red cape and tights." "Meh.") that went missing in the show proper when it was changed to another "Superman fights the bad guy of the…
He tucked it into his socks!
That was great. "I have total recall, and can remember everything that has ever happened to me in minute detail, regardless of how insignificant it was!" And then calling Fred Savage on making weird faces for thirty seconds anytime someone asked him a question so that Daniel Stern could monologue over it.
"Why are they all touching each others' butts?"
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