The greatest and densest set of fake trailers (teasers, I guess) is the dozen or so at the end of 22 Jump Street, which is itself a fine self-aware comedy (“So we’re just going to do the same shit again?” “YES!!”) but the teasers had me unable to breathe from laughing.

I’m hung up on “don’t tell your kids the name of the food” thing. Now the kids are frustrated and think it’s their own communication skills at fault. Fuck that.

There have been enough answers that I’m trying to avoid a pile-on. BUT: “Heads I win, tails you lose” is a really common thing to say in reference to a fixed game, like “catch-22". I’m now envisioning that there are a fair number of intelligent people who must have read something described as “heads I win tails you…

Your Platonic (ha!) ideal of homoerotic gym musical numbers:

More like “You want me to wear a mask? HERE’S your fucking mask!”

Or like when they did the Crown Heights case, where there was a riot and a random Jew was killed because the crowd blamed another Jew for something. But in the L&O version, the guy’s not even Jewish! Psych!

See, I bailed after Ep. 3, not because of the “plague” thing -- and “all men drop dead” is different enough from COVID to not bother me -- but when it was clearly about to be about “will the Trumpies take over the US government”.

The linked-to-story doesn’t contain the $275k figure, so [internet shruggie].

She’s Gunn’s partner, so I was never worried he’d write her out.  (Also, every time I hear “Harcourt” my brain goes “Harcourt Fenton Mudd, you....” -- ST:TOS, for those who don’t twig to that.)

Scene 1 of revivial:

I think the ur-example of “That’s not how IP works” was/is the way fanfic (etc) authors would proudly state: “I DO NOT CLAIM TO OWN THIS IP, which statement somehow protects me against being sued rather than being a pure admission of copyright infringement.”

I just remembered he turned up for one scene in The Book of Boba Fett, and everyone said “You don’t hire Steven Root for just one scene like that! He must be important!” Ha. Ha. Ha.

It does have the virtue of efficiency; instead of burying exposition in dialogue, which is a bit of a grind for both the writers (I hear) and the audience, you just have the characters tell us background. I can see how, especially in TV sitcoms that are now down to barely 20 minutes, it’s worth it. (I know, “show,…

I love how it’s spread to broadcast.  “A CBS original series” -- you mean, a TV show?  Apparently NBC is doing this now too.

In fact, I worked in at least one office where the bathroom didn’t actually have a fan, it just had a switch that people thought turned on a fan but served solely to make fan noise, for just this reason.

That sort of feels like rebooting a series without having actually made that series.  Which is not to say it couldn’t work.

I was gonna say “that’s actually pretty good” but I’m happy to believe it’s not hers.

“Unless you’re obsessed with watching the same one thing over and over again, it’s a win for the consumer.”

By the way, reported elsewhere including Gizmodo: the Marvel/Netflix shows are leaving Netflix at the end of this month, presumably (eventually) for some combo of D+ and Hulu.

This quote is pretty well-known but in case anyone here doesn’t know it: