i’m a big louise fan so i love when she causes chaos. also when bob gets involved with the kids’ schemes. i really liked the episode where the kids tell 3 mother’s day stories to linda & the one where gene puts on a musical version of “die hard.” episodes with great songs are also the best. the science fair one with…
Bill Oakley recently said in a Talking Simpsons podcast that the songs that are expensive to use doesn’t really correlate with popularity, either. He said a George Michael song would be like $10,000 a second, but an ABBA song could be $500 a second.
Bull. Even if Kricfalusi isn’t actively involved, he is doubtless receiving money from licensing his IP, and royalties as well. This show cannot be made without being complicit with the man.
The 80s. It was a different time.
The Disney+ version of ‘Splash’ also cut the bit where Daryl Hannah goes on a rampage and kills like twenty dudes with her claws. Weak.
Tropic Thunder has not aged badly at all. There is a difference between blackface for cruelty and blackface for satire. Tropic Thunders blackface was a part of the story, not just a throwaway joke, and fit in with the overall theme of mocking hollywood and self important actors. And it was repeatedly addressed during…
I’m glad this isn’t a new format listicle that forces you to click through 30 pages/
I love that anytime he’s on an animated show, you can immediately tell which character is voiced by Jason Mantzoukas just by looking at it. Doesn’t matter if it’s a man, a kid, a bear, whatever. They’ve always got the look.
Said by.....wait for it.....DAVID Cross.
He's cool, but like really into supplements.
The funniest part of all if this is that “Rockin’ in the Free World” is distinctly anti-Republican. It was written as a rebuttal to Bush’s “Thousand Points of Light” speech:
You don’t seem to want your MTV.
I don’t understand Twitch. It’s like someone opened a garbage store, then one day decided, “I can’t have all this trash lying around here!”
Karaoke you say?
The problem with the ironic racism of that era - and I am 100% not accusing 30 Rock of this - was it became a “clever” way for racists to just be racist.
Remember when The AV Club would report the news, rather than tell you the specific, exact response you should have to it?