Yeah. It didn’t even wring humor out of Cher being completely oblivious AND it didn’t make him into a total gay stereotype OR a super butch guy so the reveal is a surprise. Honestly, that portrayal of a gay guy would still be pretty revolutionary now. 

In my experience the actual nicest people tend to be the ones who don’t draw attention to themselves. They are humble enough to let actions speak for themselves, they also don’t tend to be super cheery everyday of the year because that’s not healthy. 

The part where she hired a scab crew for lockdown broadcasts instead of her normal crew speaks to how awful of a boss and producer she is

Ellen has always struck me as the kind of person who does things exactly the way she wants to, and not coping all that well when she’s contradicted. That doesn’t necessarily translate into a toxic work environment, but at the same time it doesn’t shock me either.

Love that photo.

Aw. I remember Friendly’s! We’d stop there when driving to New England on vacation when I was a kid. I remember it as the pancake place though.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an actual sundae. Is this just me?

The point is a straight actor being playing gay is an award-bait stunt, like an actor gaining or losing a bunch of weight. I agree with you in general, but the idea that playing gay is how you prove what a talented actor you are AND actual gay actors gt shut out of everything but sassy best friend, is a problem. Why…

Smitten Kitchen has something like this but you bake the oreo wafers yourself.

You think Jon Hamm’s blackface satire in 30 Rock didn’t have a point? Even with Tracy Morgan literally ending the sketch by attacking him?

I understand why whitewashing roles is bad, and I also understand the issue with playing trans people given their underrepresentation. But how is a straight person playing a gay person inappropriate? I seriously doubt gay people are underrepresented in movies and theatre - if anything I would put money down that it’s…

Zoolander was one of a handful of movies that was shot on location in NYC before 9/11, but released afterwards. Ben Stiller chose to remove the Twin Towers with CGI. So it’s kind of funny that he’s already altered this movie to eliminate a painful reminder of one local trauma, but is now leaving in a cameo from the…

Tropic Thunder has not aged badly at all. There is a difference between blackface for cruelty and blackface for satire. Tropic Thunders blackface was a part of the story, not just a throwaway joke, and fit in with the overall theme of mocking hollywood and self important actors. And it was repeatedly addressed during…

I thought Tropic Thunder was hilarious at the time, I even bought the Blu-ray. Now I can’t even bring myself to watch it again. I think it would make me more sad than happy. Times change. I’m not ashamed to admit that I used to find it funny, and I see no problem in not finding it funny anymore.

Seems like the opposite of an Instagram invention? It’s deeply unphotogenic. 

Isn’t it easier to just broil a pan of marshmallows and make s’mores in the normal way?

If I’m eating s’mores, I’m eating them before the chocolate has a chance to harden. And a pan that size looks like a group food, so I don’t think hardening would be an issue. 

Hot take: mug cakes are better than normal cakes. Cakes are dry and room temperature. And you know how cake batter >>>> cake? And you know how sometimes you make banana bread and it doesn’t rise properly and there’s a sunken semi-cooked batter blob in the middle and it’s >>>>>>>>>> actual banana bread?

Broiler on the oven. If you can justify turning it on in the heat. Or, and I’ve never actually used one, but blowtorch?

No top cracker. It smushes the chocolate and marshmallow down and makes everything harder to eat. No one likes the graham cracker anyway; it’s just there for structural integrity.