I am pretty sure she is a barista.

I know one of those tweeters personally! This is thrilling!

I mean, Seinfeld is clearly set in a New York City that wasn’t even current in the mid-90's. It is an infinitely better show than Friends, but other than the lack of iPhones Friends could be on the air right now but Seinfeld couldn’t.

The standard end year for the baby boom is 1964. And, if we’re being honest here, my cousin who was born in 1966 and my uncle who was born in 1963 have a lot more in common than said uncle has with his sister who was 17 years older than him... they went to high school together.

Even when the show was expressly sticking to the 70's timeframe for Homer and Marge ca. season 15, flashbacks to Bart as a small child would feature Doctor Hibbert with period accurate hair for “10 years ago”.

This, but also there’s a big experience gap in every generation. The oldest Baby Boomers were the parents of the youngest ones, and what you think of as a Boomer is probably the former. Same, but reversed in terms of popular perception, for the Millennials. And then there are tweener cases. Somebody born in 1986, for…

Honestly, Friends doesn’t feel very dated. That is one of it’s charms... compare it to Seinfeld, which even in the mid-90s felt clearly out of time. People are revisiting Friends because it’s easy to access and because once they tap into it, it feels timeless.

And even then, as with most generations, there’s some stark differences. A millennial born in 1981, who is also nearly 40, won’t fit most of the cliches in the same way that a later Baby Boomer graduating from high school in the early 80's was a poor fit for the common stereotype of their generation as 60's-70's…

I worry that due to being on at the moment and sucking so thoroughly that The Simpsons will never be rediscovered by later generations and appreciated as the greatest satire of the 20th Century America.  

Both, though it is possible to be promoted within the Order of the British Empire. Ie. if you were given an MBE, you could be promoted to a CBE or a KBE, which is a knighthood.

That song came out 45 years ago

Yeah, my office has a machine which produces it. We also got a SodaStream to curb our two 12 pack a week LaCroix habit. So it’s basically all I drink.

I don’t know that I would agree that the songs on Illinois are inherently impersonal. In fact I would go so far as to say that they are more personal because Sufjan never lived in the state. So where as a song like “Say Yes! to M!ch!gan” is clearly about the state of Michigan, a song like “Chicago”is essentially the…

The earliest use of “embiggen” was in, like, 1896 too.

“Folks. Cinematography. It turns out... nobody knew this! In the history of... it turns out that cinematography is very complicated, folks. Really difficult! How stupid were we? Emmanuel Lubezki is a loser, folks.”

You could also go with the Golden Globes model and dilute each major category by dividing it by genre. 

Agree on this, if you don’t get to give a speech after the biggest moment of your professional life then what is the point? The way the show ended last night, with a producer being cut off literally giving a speech for Best Picture was asinine.

Agree. It’s too long and if you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all. There are approximately ~10 categories anyone cares about (and that is being very generous to Best Original Song, Best Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Documentary) and you can see the acceptance speeches online the next day.

Is Atlanta available next day on Hulu?

Yeah, you’re right, servers are a protected class of people who deserve to make way more money than other low skilled customer service workers regardless of their actual job performance because reasons!