I’m sure the soundtrack will be good—The Pillows are coming back—but I’m prepared to be mildly disappointed by the new seasons. The trailer that dropped a few days ago seemed more like it was trying to recapture the 1st season, instead of being it’s own thing.

Biting people’s face is more bath salt than cocaine.

My mom has a bunch of recordings of his plays—as bad the plot structure of the movies are, the plays are far, far worse. One of them stops the plot in the middle of the third act for a 20 minute plot detour where Madea and some other characters sit on the porch and listen to R&B oldies.

If you cosplay as Charles Kane, only dance the Charleston, and quiz people on obscure “Thin Man” trivia...yeah.

The way it’s phrased, I think they’re arguing that the crew went beyond not telling the tenants about the fire, and instead actively tried to cover it up by saying it had been put out. I’m not sure how that would work—are they saying that, instead of evacuating, the crew stayed in the building, and told the tenants…

What’s disturbing about it is that he conflates porn with meaningful relationship. He wants to date a Star Wars nerd that can beat him at chess, and thinks jerking off to her is the same thing.

The descriptions I’ve read of that sequence—the characters essentially going through Overlook Hotel while the plot of the Shining is playing out around them—actually does sound interesting. It reminds me of the Lilo and Stitch commercials, where Stitch was going into other Disney movies and wrecking havoc (like…

The nostalgia loop is usually 20-30 years—people in the 80's were into the 40's and 50's, the 90's had 60's and 70's nostalgia, the 80's were everywhere in the 00's, and now the 90's are back in style. However, 80's nostalgia in 2045 is being nostalgic for an era 65 years in the past.

Goddamn, that is creepy. The guy probably thinks he’s so advanced or whatever because he jerks off to petite girls in glasses.

I’ve thought about writing a parody of the book, where all the pop culture references are replaced with references to fictional stuff from the 2020's or 2030's. So instead of a DeLorean, it’d be a limited edition high-end Tesla or whatever.

Because of kinja, it’ll look like I just posted like, 10 times in a row, but anyway, I have some more thoughts on this (that I would’ve preferred to edit into my original post, but: Kinja). Somebody on twitter pointed out that, when Indiana Jones 5 (which has been confirmed) comes out, there will be as many years…

To expand and combine this with other thoughts I have in this comment section: 18-year old college freshman have no context for when the Simpsons was one of the best shows on television. It was something that was just there, like background noise. And if they hear “It used to be good! When it first come on, it really…

Exactly. He has been consistently pro-gun, including lyrics that are against gun control (not just boastful “I have a gun and I’m a badass” type of stuff most rappers do, but “gun control is a bad idea, I need a gun for socioecomonic reasons” stuff). This is who he is. He would’ve been better off just ignoring the…

Every once in a while, I’ll see a lame as hell late-era episode about ‘Bart becomes a rapper!’ or some such, and I’ll check the original air date and it’s 15 years old.

I think the Simpsons still being a ‘current’ thing discourages people from digging into the early episodes. You can turn on the television now and see Simpsons episodes, and they’re inoffensive, middle of the road sitcom for the whole family. It’d take a deliberate effort for them to contextualize any Simpsons era as…

A few years ago, there was a flashback episode set in the early 90's. A lot of people got really upset over the continuity implications—which doesn’t make sense, since the show is always set “now” but nerds gonna nerd—but there was something a little...off about trying to situate young Homer in the early 90's with…

One of my mom’s favorite albums is an early NWA mixtape. I guess jokes about old folks ‘not getting’ Lil Yachty don’t play the same as “rap is dangerous” pearl-clutching.

The Simpsons attracts an intelligent, obsessive fanbase that places a huge premium on mythology and continuity, but it’s never really been a big part of the show. It’s a family sitcom that uses ‘comic-book time.’ Continuity just isn’t going to be a part of it.

Lisa being 8 in current continuity means she was born in 2010. Bart was born in 2008.

That’s something that’s occurred to me with the last few episodes. In the first season, Earn was presented as the protagonist (or, at least Donald Glover was marketed as the lead) so audiences are inclined to give him more of the benefit of the doubt. Now the show is settling in more as an ensemble, and Earns…