I was confused if they got it wrong or if there was some joke being made that was totally going over my head, especially since Cartman is the character who inspires joyful schadenfreude.

That joke stuck with me and as he started to make some of his gay and trans jokes, Key & Peel’s gay sketches were always great while Dave usually left me hoping he wouln’t return to the topic.

I laughed enough but it’s certainly not breaking any new ground. And, like has been said, some of the jokes already feel dated (one bit about a gay superhero not getting recognition because he’s....always changing his outfit....yeah, that wasn’t funny in 1997.)

I loved Chappelle’s Show in its day but even then I remembering being disappointed when he stepped away from race. Gay world found just the right spot where the stereotypes didn’t feel dehumanizing, but I was glad he didn’t go there often.

In previous discussions of Seinfeld complaining about colleges getting too PC, a few people said he was trying out an edgier set that was, apparently, full of dated bro jokes.

To get Obamacare benefits, you had to use an app that was only available for the Obamaphone OS.

Yeah, I still remembered the time I saw Terminator 2 in the threatre and the audience was laughing to the violence like they were watching a Three Stooges short. As long as you code the one getting hit as a bad guy a lot of people will find it hilarious to see his face slammed onto a hot griddle.

Well, I was wondering if the Governor of Arkansas will be in attendance... if he believes this is the way to go he should show his commitment and take a spot in all of them.

There’s some great examples in this thread but there’s one (possibly obscure) I haven’t seen. I remember Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys talking about how get rich quick seminars would ask for the rights to play “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)“ at their events. IIRC, he said at first he rejected those…

Sadly no one archived it on YouTube but there was one Sergio Cilli segment on the late, lamented InfoMania where he made fun of Kidz Bop for the sometimes-questionable song choices and the way they cleaned it up. The one I remember was how their music video recontextualized Katy Perry’s “Hot & Cold” with graphics of…

I didn’t know that! TBH, I hated “You’re Beautiful” the first time I heard it and hated it more and more when it became inescapable but the more I encounter James Blunt in the media the more I like him. That song may hit an exposed nerve but he seems really neat.

It’s seriously disturbing the way good dystopian fiction grabs the worst of society and projects from it.

There’s a ghost mall in my town that’s trying to come back (it’s not the area that’s the problem, there’s a newer outdoor mall across the street that’s successful and another successful mall across of it) and that’s how it’s coming back. They managed to get a new movie theatre and a Dave & Busters while also luring a…

I was surprised a few weeks ago when I went to the local mall on a Sunday afternoon of a 3-day weekend and found it totally packed. It’s never really empty and TBH I mostly go there to play Pokemon in a climate controlled setting (they have eight Poke Stops indoors, one more in the parking lot and a gym, no great…

Yeah, the thing about mall anchor stores is that they leave a big gap when they close. I remember one mall I grew up with saw their Penny’s close a while ago and they ended up splitting up the space so they could find tennants... and sadly the biggest lot from the former Penny’s space was rented out to Border’s.

That was a boatload of memories. The candy counter was magical to me since the only other place I saw candy sold that way was at See’s.

Speaking of the stranger danger scare of the 80s, do any other 80s kids remember that kids’ newsmagazine Scholastic published and how they did a cover story on child abductions filled with horror stories?

It probably depends on your age. “Adam” was a HUGE TV movie in 1983 (with repeats in 1984 and 1985 being turned into events on their own), back when TV movies could be a big event. It was the kind of thing that if you didn’t watch it, someone probably described the whole thing to you as a way to deal with all the…

For some reason, Kinja won’t let me edit my comment so I’ll just ETA here and add that I love Rachel Maddow’s long preambles because that’s where she finds excuses to brng up people like Woodhull.

So I loved the recent ABC mini-series When We Rise for telling stories I worried was about to be forgotten and I hope this project happens for the same reason. There are so many historical figures we ignore because they’re not straight white men, I’m happy whenever these stories get a chance to reach more people.