yep, my mind immediately went to the 138th episode spectacular commercial break “trivia question”

I will concede that it’s a notch above deaths in superhero content (looking at you invincible), where the writers want to keep using the character so they come back or didn’t really die after all...

the only decent article i’ve read is about how the writers plow over one of the darker moments in the show’s history (homer learning the guy wanted to be part of the gang at moe’s and they were too oblivious/self centered to realize it) with the rest of the episode being a goofy adventure to find his treasure or…

confusing fashion designer rachel roy with rachel ray and sending the cooking show host threats was a high water mark for them

The only time i’ve seen paul tracy be not obnoxious was coming out of the medical center at vegas 2011. He was visibly shaken and it was a big indicator that things with wheldon were extremely serious

Swift cultivated plenty of this herself by playing up the underdog angle for the first decade of her career despite being a 2-time genetic lottery winner by being skinny-blonde “traditionally beautiful” and being born into wealth. Got to near aaron rodgers levels of “everyone’s doubting me”, despite what ticket, album…

my favorite was right-wingers playing both sides on sound of freedom. It had high ticket sales because activist groups were buying large quantities of tickets to give away=we’re #1, but it was also left wing suppression that actual theaters were mostly empty when people went to see the movie

I get the praise for wiig but i felt like she had two modes on snl: loud-mouth midwestener and damaged, detatched old hollywood-style actress

was going to say knives out 2 meets A24-ified And Then There Were None

Made me think of daniel shaver’s killing, where cops were screaming rapid, contradicting demands at a guy who was drunk and surprised then shot him when he hiked his pants up while crawling

A lot of the time activists will tout that their actions are the reason for a stock decline when there are much more obvious/predicted reasons. Right wingers celebrated target’s stock decline during the brouhaha over bathrooms but there was a quarterly earnings call the same week where target had negative results due…

It depends on how contracts and compensation agreements were written/worded. College interns famously came up with the dorito shell taco but the agreement they signed with taco bell stated that anything they came up with was the property of taco bell, etc.

ah yes, the avgn ghostbusters 2016 review approach

I’m not sure if they mean balance as saying nice things about the CT or not writing articles like scoffing at a CT on all seasons struggling to get up an incline driveway in a foot of snow (though pretty much any other vehicle in similar circumstances would perform the same). There are plenty of issues that are unique…

https://www.vulture.com/2015/06/the-rise-of-consumer-comedy.html

I don’t wash in sunlight for the same reason (that and cool water on hot metal isn’t great for paint either), but have never heard “don’t do that or the car won’t work”, yeesh

Not that i agree with all of the guy’s sentiments but california is a lot more susceptible than other places to wildfires that can result from cooking with an open fire

I think some of the fear comes from unpredictability/erratic behavior associated with untreated mental illness and substance abuse, which is often a factor contributing to why someone becomes/stays unhoused

i feel similarly about the genre, though it was maddening trying to work through it in its original language with grades on the line

Mystical realism made me drop spanish as a college minor. Reading stuff in aura and struggling with “is this real? imagined? a language colloquialism?”, felt like giving a non-english speaker a novelization of twin peaks and hoping they figure it all out