There really is a trope for everything, isn't there?

Didn't ABC just bring us Trophy Wife, which we resoundingly rejected? A story of a dippy super pretty woman married to an older dude who somehow doesn't have to work who is the envy of the other two women characters...all exwives. Ah the highjinks! Womenz on sitcoms can't have a plotline that is not all about being…

Pygmalion, the original Shaw play is actually more feminist than My Fair Lady, and Shaw fought pressures to have Eliza & Henry end up together. Eliza knows she won't get as far in life, in such a classist society, if her speech betrays her as a Cockney. So she offers to PAY for lessons to improve her chances of…

I like how in Bridesmaids, they took like one second to address Chris O'Dowd's accent and just got on with it.

It's obviously not her. It's a ganger. Fleshy goo pretending to be our Amy >:(

My guess as to why these two took it?

I could see it sustaining a (admittedly terrible) 95 minute movie, but yeah, 13 episodes seems a bit much.

It is however, her fault for picking such an awful script. No amount of wonderous Scottish speaking can erase that. :P

Clearly, The Doctor was upset with Ms. Pond and decided to leave her in a terrible alternate reality where she's a vapid twit.

I actually thought the original Eliza Doolittle was an interesting person before the transformation, it was a matter of class status. This...she's just awful, she doesn't need Henry Higgins, she needs a therapist. I mean, if you were the unpopular kid growing up (as I was), you probably don't grow up to be incredibly…

My Fair Lady is NOT an updated version of Pygmalion. It takes place in the exact same period as the play. It is Pygmalion, musicalized. #saysthisdramamajor

I'm whichever allows me to take what is mine through fire and blood.

This was actually a lie that I told. When I was four, my aunt got a divorce. My family and I visited Minnesota to visit her, and she took us for a ride in her new speed boat. It was the best thing that had ever happened to my landlocked, Iowan self.

This won't win because it's only really relevant to me, but I have a colleague who lies ALL THE TIME about absurdly, gloriously unnecessary stuff. And she thinks we all believe her.

It's from the work 'hassock', whick Wiki explains quite beautifully: A tuffet, pouffe or hassock is a piece of furniture used as a footstool or low seat. It is distinguished from a stool by being completely covered in cloth so that no legs are visible. It is essentially a large hard cushion that may have an internal…

Add me to a person who has completely missed this. I actually read an article about it months ago, and then went looking for an example. It just sounds like talking to me, I guess. (And I am an Old, though maybe because I have a teenage daughter?) But I can hear it here:

Britney Spears is a total fryer. It's particularly noticeable in the very first lines of 'Hit Me Baby One More Time'. It's like a croak, and happens at the beginning of the 'oh' and the last syllable of the second 'baby'. Can you hear it?

Just out of curiosity, how old are you? I'm 40 and it is a bit annoying to me. I wonder if it is perhaps a generational thing, as is suggested by the article.

I think Myra (the blonde woman) on Episodes is a pretty good/extreme example.

the "frying" sound is actually something that happens to just about everyone when they talk in calm inside voices—some people just pronounce it more than others. in vocal recordings for broadcast (TV/radio) and film, the voice tends to be sonically compressed; louder sonic components are reduced and quieter sonic…