To be fair, Rodgers got through his first five minutes of his Jeopardy hosting gig without tearing his Achilles tendon, so he did have more success there than he’s had at football recently.

On the one hand, yes, we need more episodic television. I’m just now watching Atlanta which by-and-large doesn’t give any heed at all to what happened previously, and every episode is a treasure.

“When that plate gets shared, the labor costs (serving and cleanup) go up without revenue going up. Should be obvious why that’s a problem for the restaurant”

One minute it’s better to eat at home and another it’s cheaper to dine out

I think the McCallisters were always intended to be upper-upper-middle-class, but we as a society were much less class conscious in 1990, so this element of the story received almost no attention at the time.

I think it’s just that the brother-sister dynamic comes across as so unrealistic. I never got the sense that these two grew up annoying the shit out of each other the way siblings inevitably do.

“He’s fucking his sister!”

They still play both regularly till this day. I just saw the m&m ad (from 1996) like a minute ago.

That’s the real kicker for me. Like, Ethiopia is the literal birthplace of coffee. And in West Africa, the espresso made from beans grown on the Ivory Coast is insane. 

Oof. I barely watch tv and tune out when any ad comes on but I remember that one. Creepy af, sure, but I remember thinking “He’s just come from Africa, why isn’t he making the coffee?” And there’s Artisian African coffee in his gift then how would Folger’s feel about that?

Saw those ads on TV this year.

You know there’s an extended cut, right?

The incest really distracts from the “finally, real coffee!” said by a guy who just returned from West Africa. One of the best coffee-producing regions in the world.

I think my favorite part of that was learning that Jonah from Veep was the cameraman during auditions.

Thanks, I can’t believe I never heard of this!

Yep that’s definitely been around since the ‘80s.

Particularly good is when the sister points at her self and yells, “Sister!” That’s good incest writing.

I mean Aliens Vs Predator became a thing , and eventually we had movies (the first bad, the second an atrocity that shouldn’t be seen by anyone ever), so theres that .

Remember how mad fanboy nerds were when Evan Peters’ appearance in Wandavision turned out to be just a winking joke and not the massive intro of the X-Men to the MCU that they were breathlessly expecting?