Oh lord, just watched that entirely context free - never previously heard of the podcast(?) - and it nearly killed me laughing. Why does he think Amelie is tiny? SO MANY QUESTIONS.

*eh hand motion* The reasons why it was trashed were sound (it entirely missed what audiences had loved about the film and whacked the kind of shitty cliché backstory onto Furiosa that sometimes makes a person want to give up comics, films, tv, novels, waking up in the morning etc) BUT alongside that rubbish it did…

Is there anybody who started out loathing Family Tree but came around to it?
I watched a couple of episodes and bounced off it hard, but that feels absurd to me? Like the ingredients are so *objectively* brilliant that I can't possibly be disliking it that much.
Full disclosure, Nina Conti gives me an extreme, almost…

Aw man no, there are a *ton* of wild deer in the more rural parts of the UK! They tend to be smaller species, and either nocturnal or crepuscular though, so they're less noticeable overall and we get a lot less in the way of deer roadkill.
A couple of years back there was a period where I frequently had to drive…

Interestingly, given the conversations upthread, 101 Dalmations is one of the few kids films of the era where the racism in the source material was removed. Re-reading the book as an adult, I was surprised to realise Cruella DeVille is pretty explicitly written as mixed race. Something that shifts in attitudes meant…

Wait, what's the debate about "Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking!"?

He's actually fantastic in it. Some amazing comic timing.

It's comparing apple and oranges really (though like you, I much prefer the novel).

Word. 'Iran: now celebrating our 20th anniversary of being five years from nuclear weapons' is a pretty standard joke among the Iranians I know.

I was honestly surprised it wasn't.

There's a specific German regional accent - I couldn't tell you which region but it's that kind of slightly high toned petulant one that pops up in US comedies as the default 'Eurotrash' accent - anyway, an angry man shrieking 'Mein handy!' in that accent is very much in the top twelve or so funniest things I have…

Jane Leeves natural accent is very cut glass, R.P English. Posh as balls.

No dog in the fight either way about the film, but the soundtrack to VAHWOW is exceptional. Really, insanely, good.

That episode *was* shitty, but the description is misleading as to why. It's one of the increasingly rare episodes where Bart is treated like a plausibly realistic ten year old; the pregnancy scare is a troubled older teen telling him that he's a father because he's her 'boyfriend', she's pregnant and as far as he…

Wait, that's its actual name? I honestly thought the earlier posts were joking when they called it that.

If you ever see footage of Asimov saying robot he says it exactly the same way.

Hey! Cadbury's might be more of a delicious cooking fat than a chocolate *per se*, but it's nothing like the weird vomit/parmesan tasting nightmare that is Hershey.

The lack of upvotes for this is fucking criminal so I'm going to manually type out some validation for you: That post you posted was a very good joke that I enjoyed. I hope that many other similarly good jokes lie in your future.

I never read If There Be Thorns either. Given how Petals doubles down on the melodrama and bonkersness I imagine ITBT probably reads like the Revelation Of St John The Divine, but with more ballet and incest.

The sequel (Petals in the wind) is so much better. Not better, you understand, in the traditional sense of being 'good' or 'coherent' or 'not reading like a game of consequences discovered scrawled in shit on the wall of a long abandoned asylum and then published somehow'. It's like a strain of flu leaving you…