I think you’re overstating just how “bold” and innovative “The Mandalorian” really was. I mean, I guess the sheer act of having an SW product without any Skywalker connection (at least at first) is kinda/sort bold-ish, but only a little. It shouldn’t be that hard to imagine such a thing in a vast galaxy, but I guess…

This needs to be discussed more. National Lampoon is generally talked about in reverent tones, and is certain looked back on with misty-eyed nostalgia by Boomers, but in looking at it now, in 2022, in the context of everything that’s come to pass, what was it really?

That’s about the best summation of National Lampoon’s ethos that I think you could write, and I do think it’s part of why his appeal is/was so limited after the 80s. That brand of comedy is still around, for sure, but it’s not the dominant strain and hasn’t been for a while. I think once that faded, Chase sort of…

A lawyer named Petrocelli ? That rings a bell. Does he still live in a trailer out in Arizona? Probably not.

Chevy Chase basically does some version of this interview (link below) every few years, in part as a way to wonder aloud why he isn’t getting work. He also trots out that line, “I know who I am, I like who I am” and then wonders why that doesn’t fix everything. Why isn’t Chevy Chase getting work? Because there are…

I have to say that I’ve known some truly terrible people who have all said things along the lines of “I am who I am” and “it’s part of me that I don’t care” as a response to criticism of their behavior.

Timothy Olyphant and Sam Rockwell both auditioned for Stark as well. 

Turns out sex with people you don’t appear to particularly like isn’t cathartic. If he was using you as some sort of stand-in for all Asian women to fulfill his fantasies, you similarly seem to have used him as a stand-in for all western white men rather than a flesh and blood individual. It seems like you ultimately…

I love the idea of a Ben Affleck Tony Stark

It’s Professor Charles Bohner.

I hear Pete Davidson is willing to step in if Kanye can’t perform.

the faith movie mill doesn’t make movies, they make content directly marketed towards people to for the purpose of affirmation

Kim and Saul are still living together happily and she’s JUST out of frame throughout the timeline of BB.

In the time of Mr. Show, David definitely had the more striking, memorable characters. But David aged into a crotchety asshole, while Bob became a paternal, if surreal, prestige actor. 

Sometimes you need those distractions...

You see, caring about other people is virtue signaling, whereas the truest virtue is absolute self-interest.

“The struggling blues artist should have had better lawyers if she didn’t want some white millionaires stealing her brand” is a helluva thing to read at 6:30 on a Wednesday morning.

And then we looked at each other and said, well, we might as well join up.

I call that the “Hey that porn star kinda looks like my sister” effect.
Which is a boner killer for 75% of the population. The other 25% are why the “step” siblings tab exists on pornhub

I mean, it’d be bad, but nothing can be worse than the treatment he got in ‘Fant4stic’. You should never be looking at Doctor Doom and thinking, “Why did they film a badly fire-damaged latex sex doll?”