Yeah... Chet is what happens when a superstar has a child who’s just some dude. From what I’ve seen the stuff he does and says is pretty much par for the course for your average nobody 2021 dude. But I think his biggest problem might be thinking the rest of the world is going to think he’s as talented, smart and funny…

I kind of get what he’s trying to say—basically reclaiming the phrase from the right-wing racist assholes who’ve given it even more negative connotations than usual in the last few tears.

Lay off the guy!

Hanks but no Hanks.

But Isaac Hayes wore a coat made of hanging lamp chains!

Ah, the humanity.

Pfft. I know plenty of guys who would love it if a bear hijacked their hot tub, if you catch my drift.

Conan Doyle did (infamously) embrace Spiritualism; what had been an interest since the 1880s became a passion after his oldest son Kingsley died in the Spanish Flu pandemic after WW I. However, it was really just an interest until then, and even after he fully embraced it he resisted any urge he might have had to make…

I hope nothing happened to the bear. I like it more than the man narrating this video :-)

loved the old 1970's-80's Baker Street Irregulars books by Terrance Dicks as well as the Victorian series by Robert Newman from roughly the same publishing period [early 1980's?] - they were my gateway drug to the Conan Doyle classics.

DO NOT dis the memory of Isaac Hayes!

It’s nice that we can have Bear Friday even though you don’t have a sports blog.

Spiritualism was just a novel branch of science in the eyes of Conan Doyle, it was more sci-fi (in the anticipation, hard science sense) than magics. A bit like the Holmes story where a guy turned into a gorilla hybrid because he injected monkey blood. And that was the point of that Challenger novel. Post-mortem…

Hot Tub Time Machine was the last movie produced by MGM before filing for bankruptcy.

The whole edgy drug thing is also kind of ridiculous considering that Holmes lived in an era where he could just toddle down to his local druggist and buy the cocaine legally. 

I mean, Knives Out was basically a Poirot movie, and it didn’t have a fistfight or anything. It did pretty well.  I’ll bet a well-made Holmes film that was a reasonable adaptation would do just fine.

Sherlock was shit.

I haven’t seen the second movie yet (I need to remedy that sometime, as the first was enjoyable, if flawed), but there’s a line from Watson in the first movie where he snaps at Holmes for dipping into his (Watson’s) supply of a drug that’s supposed to be used in eye surgery.

And don’t even get me started on the “let’s make this a supernatural procedural in which the answer is ‘monsters and supernatural shit’ did it”, since that’s pretty much the complete antithesis of what Sherlock Holmes is supposed to be.