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Probably Not The Messiah
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I wouldn’t fuck her with Dan Hedaya’s dick.

It looks like the opening credits for a TV show set in Los Angeles in 1983.

Just so I’m clear, these are the same chucklemonkeys who, a couple of years ago, were going on about pedophile rings in pizzerias, right? They were a national punchline. When did anyone start taking them seriously?

Oddly enough, I’ve long said the same exact thing about Betty White. Sue Ann (from the MTM Show) and Rose (from Golden Girls) couldn’t be more different, yet Betty White pulled them both off as seamlessly as if each was an extension of her own personality.

I think you underestimate how much time and effort goes into one of those Triple D segments. Making it shorter wouldn’t make an appreciable difference.

The new iMacs look so great...from behind. And then you turn them around and the fronts are all washed out Easter-egg pastel versions of the colors...with a white bezel. Bleh.

Public policy is built on expertise, which is why he was chosen for the position.

I don’t know about every song, but most of the live versions of “Prove it All Night” and “Rosalita” leave the originals in the dust—and the originals are pretty fucking amazing to begin with. 

Back in the early ‘80s, we had a local video store in our town that sorted their films not by genre or year or even actors—but by studio.

It seemed crazy then. I guess they were just trailblazers.

Agreed re: live theatre. Not so much for movies, though.

Yeah, sorry. It’s not even in the Top 100. In addition to the ones already listed, add:

WKRP in Cincinnati
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Bob Newhart Show
Newhart
The Golden Girls
Parks and Recreation
The Addams Family
The Odd Couple
M*A*S*H
Square Pegs

And that’s off the top of my head. I guarantee there are others.

Question about a random background person: At about the halfway point in the episode, when Arpi finds Mayor Bremer on his living room floor, there’s a shot where you can clearly see an African-American gentleman in a suit in the far background. The next time they cut to the shot, he’s gone.

Was that an accidental set

I disagree. I’m only marginally literate in the world of the MCU, and I’m enjoying the hell out of this show. As a ‘casual viewer,’ the slow burn is what makes it work for me. I love its use of classic TV sitcom tropes, and how it subtly undermines them in service of a gradually-revealed story.

I don’t have these

I tried the Storm Trooper sauce, but it never quite hit the spot.

And then pronouncing it wrong.

But Insta’s pictures are square! It’s totally different!

Parlor was originally pronounced “Parlay” (meaning to speak in French), but its CEO John Matze changed it to the more straightforward pronunciation “Parlour” (as in the type of room) after realizing his users were saying it that way anyways.

Sort of. Zevon heard the title, changed it slightly, and wrote a whole different song around it (with Bruce’s blessing).

No, YOU must be Don Francisco’s sister.

And a slightly faster processor. But pretty much, yeah.