Are you a millennial? Because if so, it’s our fault dude. We encouraged “The bees! The bees!” and there is a direct line from there to where we are now. If you’re a gen x complaining about us though, well, I dunno. Tough titties OLD MAN! (I am thirty seven years old.)

But they only know him from that. They should know him as Jesus, or Charlie Sheen’s platoon sergeant

Exactly. If any of these twats put on Leaving Las Vegas or Raising Arizona they’d be back looking at their phones within two minutes

I mean... if you’re gonna be mad about weird, dumb actor fetishes of The Youth, I say Danny DeVito is much more deserving. I love the guy but holy shit does he have a dumb fanbase. Way too many of whom ONLY know him from It’s Always Sunny.

I think the unnamed generation after Gen Z are currently between elementary school and being born, but fuck ‘em anyway. Ungrateful twats should just get a job.

The ridiculousness, though, most likely contributes to the effect that I’ve hypothesized. Makes them seem more clueless, more harmless even though there is a lot of cold ass calculation involved, all of it attached to $$$.

Different audiences I would guess. Those following the Kards are not the same hating the Bezos.

My hypothesis would be that it’s all part of what makes them so successful: They create feelings of attachment in the viewer. It’s a remarkably subtle trick, considering how loud and brazen the product appears.

...yes?

Probably bad headline writing, although it’s possible that there’s a policy not to use “rape” unless criminal charges or a law suit have been filed that call it rape, because the definition of rape can be very narrow in some jurisdictions (for example, forced oral is a separate crime from rape in many jurisdictions).…

I hate to split these particular hairs, but yeah.

I think it’s a song fans of the movie(s) know and very much love, so perhaps calling it “least beloved” is probably a stretch. But it’s a song that is important almost entirely within the framework of the story, so if the point is that it’s not a song people would otherwise seek out to listen to then I get where…

Well, “Cool” is certainly one of my least favorites, and I agree that Spielberg improved it greatly. Same with “Gee Officer Krupke” which is a total blast now

I didn’t read it as a shot but I’d agree with the poster that it’s much more popular than you make it sound. It’s definitely in the zeitgeist - you can tell by just how much it’s been parodied and referenced. Of the non-ballads, the average person is much more likely to know “Cool” than they are “Gee, Officer Krupke.”…

The suggestion that you’d go to the Lake of the Ozarks to avoid anyone seeing you while you ran your scams was always amusing to me.

People love it because it’s so patently ridiculous. The best moments are always the “oh fuck, did that just happen??!” scenes. I think they figured that out and laid off trying to make this actual prestige television. Uncle Boyd getting electrocuted was always a personal favorite, and of course Helen’s dramatic exit.

‘99 is pretty rad.

I’m always going to be sad that the MCU did the whole Thanos/Infinity Saga thing without Warlock.

having a well-compensated partner who lost a job, making it less attractive to stick around for the money

Valid questions