They don’t do dress 24 hours before. They do it 2 hours before.

What an incredibly sad story. I think the dad’s right: who looks at the last 20 years of viral social media kids and thinks that Tay’s story is going to end well?

The change in release date killed this movie. I took kids to McDonald’s back in early August and there were Marvels posters everywhere, Marvels Happy Meal toys, etc. Of course, all of that was gone by Labor Day, and the movie didn’t open for 10 weeks after that.

The first two episodes of Colin from Accounts are on Paramount+ this weekend (with another ep each week after that, I think), and it’s hilarious. It’s been out in Australia since last year and got fantastic reviews.

$5 million to voice a Pixar character is ludicrous. 

Yeah, that’s a genuinely confusing part of the trailer, and I’ve seen zero mention of it in any reviews. Is there some sort of crazy reset at the end of this film that sets up future films, or is it like GOTG3?

Yeah, but it’s not obvious from the ad campaigns, posters, etc. that this character is the grown-up version of the one from the first Captain Marvel movie. So someone who saw that movie and didn’t watch WandaVision wouldn’t naturally assume the two are linked.

Yeah, the appeal of the multiverse in DC Comics from the 60s through Crisis was that 95% of the stories took place on Earth-1. Every once in awhile (once a year in Justice League, plus other occasional issues) you’d get a glimpse of what was going on on the other Earths, but that was it.

Wasn’t she a child in Captain Marvel?

Yup. This was all leaked to the New Yorker by someone for the express purpose of making sure he didn’t host the Daily Show. And now he’s not gonna. Which sucks for him, but this video won’t get him that job.

Yeah, there were plot holes so large you could drive a truck through them. Also, Josh Hutcherson is 31, and he has an 8- or 9-year-old sister? Why not just make it his daughter?

I didn’t know a thing about Freelance until I saw the poster at my theater this weekend. How bad does a John Cena movie have to be to get NO promotion?

Josh Hutcherson hosted SNL 10 years ago next month. And now he’s definitely reached “oh yeah, that guy!” status, where you watch the trailer and think “oh yeah, that guy!”

Thought at first you were talking about Josh Hutcherson (or maybe Matthew Lillard).

But why were B-52s performing in the first place? Are they exceptionally popular in Australia? Are they Albanese’s favorite American band? Were AC/DC, Silverchair, Powderfinger, and Midnight Oil all booked?

Had to look it up. Casey was listening to the same podcast about staying awake in episode 1.

The only people with the kind of clout to tell Hutsell she’d be fired in Season 19 were Lorne, Jim Downey (who was head writer), and Al Franken. And Hutsell was fired at the end of the season anyway, so maybe she was on very thin ice at that point.

That makes it both sad and strange, since Hutsell didn’t land an on-camera role at all between 1999 and 2009. I assumed she left the business for awhile, but a decade after the sketch would have been 2004, and if she was still auditioning...

Plus, I’m not sure it’s even about the product placement. It’s about the nostalgia-dopamine-hit when you see the old uniforms and the giant fake trees with the kids’ seating underneath (I paused it and went on a 10-minute diatribe about how great those were and my kids nearly refused to watch the rest of the ep).

Just out of curiosity, anyone get the free DVDs Netflix was promising a month ago yet?