It truly does my heart good to know there are plenty of other people who know that this movie is good and funny.

Right, it’s pretty much the “your antenna doesn’t work” package.

Yes! The pacing was great. I think I was 20 or 21 when it came out, and already had a love of mistaken identity / missing information absurdist comedy, so I thought it was a delight. Even if you didn’t like Stallone, Marissa Tomei is note-perfect as the bratty daughter and Tim Curry as the dialect coach is also…

It’s HD, requires a box, and only has like 12 channels (and I think no on-demand or DVR included), but it does exist.

Right now, I pay for Hulu, Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount+, and Peacock, which all adds up to about $50 per month (some ad-free and some not). Basic cable here is $25 per month, then the next step up is $60. So I’m kinda right in the middle cost-wise but closer to the latter.

So to keep the same Prime benefits I have now (including ad-free Prime Video), my Prime membership goes from $139 per year to $175 per year basically.

I immediately clicked on the slide list to see which side of the Oscar debate you fell on. Sadly for you, it’s the WRONG side.

Nevermind sorta left my regular rotation a while back but Bleach, In Utero & Incesticide have been mainstays over the decades (!!). I often wonder how much of that is nostalgia and how much is because I really do still think they’re that good.

Respect!

That was a great cover. I’d like to think they appreciated that one more than the Tori Amos “Smells Like Teen Spirit”.

Yeah, appreciation of unappreciated gear is something I very much relate to, even though most people would rather set themselves on fire than hear me attempt to do anything musical.

I always think of the beginning & end of In Utero as kind of announcing that Nevermind 2.0 was not happening (“Serve the Servants”) and then apologizing for that (“All Apologies”). I also love “All Apologies” - I kinda think it’s low-key one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

That is a great story and totally not surprising. Similar story, a lot of guys I knew who played guitar were super into King’s X and figuring out what Ty Tabor’s rig consisted of was basically the holy grail. None of them ever got it (they were also all about 5% as good as Ty as players in general).

I remember when In Utero came out and so many of my friends hated it. They wanted Nevermind 2.0 and “Heart Shaped Box” tricked them into thinking that might be what they were getting instead of a more refined Bleach. But Bleach-esque screeching, snarling noise was exactly what I wanted again, so I ended up liking In…

Sad that she was amazing as Chanel Oberlin because she IS Chanel Oberlin.

Another commenter over the weekend was the one who clued me in to Mad Mel being in this, so I was ready to skip it anyway, but now learning that basically no one from the movies is involved in making this really cements it.

Seems like it broke even worldwide, which is honestly better than I expected. For comparison, The Flash was something like $50-$60 million in the black last I heard but also had twice the budget, character recognition and way more marketing.

Every week I’m just going to wonder what we did to deserve this lovely show.

It sure seems like it’s Donna. Killing Ben would get her kid out of financing a flop of a show and being devastated . . . until Oliver turned it into a musical and Loretta/Kimber convinced the kid he could pull it off with their duet. Donna also had what looked like the same lipstick in the bathroom, but I’m no…

I feel like if we’re ranking on WB-ness, the order is going to depend on whether you think WB-ness means fantastical dramatic teen or grounded/family dramatic teen. If the latter, Dawson’s is definitely number one, but then I’d go One Tree Hill, 7th Heaven, Everwood. If the former, I’d go Supernatural, Buffy, Angel,…