Spoon - Rent I Pay

Really? With lyrics like "Party girls don't get hurt/Can't feel anything, when will I learn", "And I'm holding on for dear life, won't look down won't open my eyes/Keep my glass full until morning light, 'cause I'm just holding on for tonight", not to mention the downbeat melody? It couldn't be more obvious.

There were low-concept shows before Seinfeld of course, but it's true that it pioneered the "adult singles hangout show" subset, i.e. it wasn't a workcom, but neither about a family.

I always thought it would have been more fitting to call Seinfeld a show about everything - it's about how we make complex issues even out of the smallest things in life. I'd rather call something like The Cosby Show, which had so many loosely structured, basically plotless episodes which just consisted of characters…

And if they didn't they'd just disappear. Poor Brendan.

Funny, I was just watching a Step by Step episode on Youtube on a whim after not even thinking about the show's existence for years (I was looking up the new Girl Meets World show on Wikipedia, then Boy Meets World, then TGIF, and then landed there). My memory of that show was also that it had a real unpleasant streak…

You might remember me thinking it.

Them?

That reminds me of a pretty funny skit I saw on some TV show many years back called "Groundhog Minute", about a guy's various unsuccessful attempts to have sex with a girl within the sixty seconds the loop consisted of. After several tries he manages to break the loop, but then painfully stubs his toe against the…

He stopped a ball from going over the line with his hand in the dying minutes of the quarter-final match against Ghana. Asamoah Gyan went on to miss the resulting penalty, and Uruguay won the subsequent shoot-out.

I thought it was pretty well-known Oldman is a huge dick? I'm surprised at some of the surprise here.

Urgh.

Cool. Bullshit that you had to fight fo gay background extras though. But what else to expect from the channel that hasn't managed to feature a gay storyline on their longest running show in the fifteen (?) years it's been on (as far as I'm aware).

Well now I'm intrigued. Can you tell, or hint at, what show it is? (a German show I presume)

Yeah, it makes it seem like a coronation rather than a competition. Yes, most winners are really obvious going into the ceremony, but you can at least pretend there's suspense, right? Not to mention it comes off as disrespectful to the other nominees.

Harrison Ford being the one to announce this as Best Picture is still hilarious. One of the most annoying habits of Oscar producers is to bring in a presenter with an obvious connection to the favorite in the category (most gratitious is still Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola all presenting to Scorsese). Really blew up in…

It's good background entertainment. When you feel like watching something without having to pay too much attention to it. Often applicable during hangovers.

I've probably watched more Youtube videos of other people playing Mario knockoffs than of Mario, too.

This wouldn't happen if everyone had a hippo.

Yeah, it had really nothing to do with the movie, which is all epic* and serious, instead it was basically was "take these two wacky characters and throw them in whatever random wacky scenario you can think of". It also took place in the present day and they constantly interacted with humans. Fun show.