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Carl Smith
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Sorry. Not buyin'. Maybe if I'd been 10 or 11 when I saw it, but I wasn't.
And I know it's picking a nit, but the final straw was the lemon scene. "We need lemon juice. Luckily pops has five items in his fridge, and one of them is a big bowl filled with over half a dozen lemons!"

Just your average American family with a daughter and two sons, one of whom is….. GAY!?! WHAT?!?! (zoing!)
Who ordered the HIJINKS?

Remember when we were all Team Coco? We screamed at NBC for what they did and we promised to follow our flame-haired leader to the ends of the Earth, (or TBS, when they weren't busy showing re-runs of "The Big Bang Fucking Theory").
And then he started his new show and….. eh.

The things I believe in and the party I vote for are totally right on everything all of the time and anyone who thinks differently is evil or stupid.

I've always been a big fan of the computers-are-the-future! elements of "Telecommunication".

Yes. For example, the hardship endured when your mom throws away your best porno mag.

Yes! You culture thief!

"But Carl, that's SO 1996!"

"Jumping the shark", "co-opting this or that person's culture", "reflecting the times", "meta-nostalgia"…. who gives a fuck? If it's good, it's good. The lindy-hop scene in "Malcolm X" and the finale of "Swingers" was, is, and always will be good, no matter how many ways you socio-analyze it. Sheeeze. (reaches for

"Most adult movie ever"? (80% of readership skips to next article… "oh, looks who's going to play the villain in the next Marvel movie!!!")

Most adult film? "Network". All adults…talking like adults…doing adult, (albeit very ridiculous) things. I love that there was a time in mainstream Hollywood where certain films didn't even seem to give a shit if anyone under the age of 21 would be uninterested.

A movie about that certain form of incurable mental illness… FAMILY!
(zoing!)

I just had to Wiki it. And here I thought I was "down" with the "haps".

Except for some great music and even greater film, the 70's were just fucking awful…no matter how much kids born after-the-fact try to fetishize it.

I remember Rolling Stone (and others) greeting Radiohead's "The Bends" with a big "meh"… ("new album from the guys who did that Creep song"). Then of course "OK Computer" couldn't be ignored and it seemed to dawn on everyone that they were a great band.

Hmmm.