Well, right, I get that, I was trying to be funny and it didn’t quite land. My point was that disguising a movie as a completely different fake movie is a stupid way to keep it a secret, especially if there’s any chance a fan backlash against the fake movie would somehow affect whether the real movie gets made. They…

I’ll be honest, I didn’t know either, I was assuming from context clues. I always knew the word ‘beefed’ as ‘farted, but when described by a frat boy.’

I always buy actual Claritin-D over the pharmacy brand alternative, because my own experiences have revealed there’s a difference. Maybe it’s a side-effect of the different ‘inactive’ ingredients (which are different, even if the active ingredients are the same), or maybe it’s placebo effect at work. Either way,…

According to a press release sent to The Takeout, the toothpaste won’t actually be for sale on November 1, but OJ enthusiasts can enter to win one...

Did the fans beef it? Or does the fault lie with someone who thought “Hey, I’ve got a secret project. Rather than just letting it sit under a tarp with a vague code name stenciled in, perhaps some sort of anagram or something, I’m going to pretend it’s something weird and off the wall and expect people to get excited…

Probably too late to influence the fan voting, at least, but are we counting Leprechaun in the Hood as part of the Leprechaun series, or is it its own thing as kind of a spinoff?

Sorry for anyone still following these, I just haven’t been up to it the last couple of days, and that shocker of an ending to the episode didn’t help, but either way I’m back with...

I suspect they do, given that Laszlo saw a single line on a single page of a book and freaked out, and I imagine he’s been too busy helping Colin Robinson with his bucket list to go back and actually read the rest of the book (or even the rest of that page, unless there were tits in the margins we didn’t see).

If it helps you feel any better, I met a guy who knew H. Jon Benjamin, and apparently he’s just a delight in real life. Also, really invested in animation as a medium both metaphorically and literally. He does a lot of work to help get these shows on the air and keep them there without publicly taking credit for it.

Every couple of years I hear whispers on the internet of a Bass Reeves show or movie or something, usually with a big name attached to at least produce, and then nothing ever seems to come from it. The closest we’ve gotten, as far as I know, is an episode of Legends of Tomorrow and a story arc in the Atomic Robo comic.

I don’t know if it still does, but I know one at least one occasion the app has given me a heads-up if I tried to order at a Starbucks past a certain distance, as kind of a “your drink probably won’t be fresh when you arrive” thing. But that might not have applied if the location was close and just in the wrong…

Unfortunately, there are a lot of assholes out there. These people aren’t asking if they have to tip, they’re asking permission to stiff the server on the tip. It’s a subtle distinction, one that comes up in a lot of advice columns. A lot of people writing in to these columns know what they should do or what they want…

I like the idea that the royals are like police dogs, that if they were ever retired they’re too feral and dangerous to be exposed to society without their handlers.

I groaned wearily (like actually made a noise out loud to an empty room) when I read “I’m a content creator,” and I suddenly felt so very tired of everything and finishing the article seemed like tangible effort. Like, if I’d met someone like this in person and he explained what he did and got into that justification,…

Not that there’s any reason to think this could have ever happened, but in trying to guess who he would have played, my brain said “He would have played Tom Bombadil, but since he passed on it, Peter Jackson couldn’t consider anyone else in the role so cut it instead.”

I’d count it as a “scam,” given what she’s selling people and how, but you make a good point.

I can’t really think of anything to add to the episode that hasn’t already been said, so I’ll just jump straight to...

They retconned out the ‘mutant’ thing some years back. He was a SHIELD agent who infiltrated either Hydra or AIM, I can’t remember which and don’t feel like looking it up, and got caught and experimented on. The experiment gave him his powers and screwed up his memories. He doesn’t remember his real history any more,…

It was retconned some years back. He was a SHIELD agent who infiltrated either Hydra or AIM, I can’t remember which and don’t feel like looking it up, and got caught and experimented on. The experiment gave him his powers and screwed up his memories.

He was originally presented as a mutant, but they retconned it into the ‘super soldier serum experiment’ thing later.