Bostonian here (WASP not Catholic)- I hear "I don't know from…" and "I know from" all the time.

I thought it was a little off how harsh Boo was, and how fine with it Pennsatucky was. I know harsh is Boo's thing, but saying "The world's a better place without those kids that you didn't want and wouldn't have raised right" is harsh enough without phrasing it as "You would have had little crackhead criminal…

You should check out his twitter feed- that guy's still hilarious. It's just that every TV/movie project he's chosen in the last 10 years is The Worst.

Flavor of Love and its various spinoffs did give us I Love Money, which is reality TV distilled to its purest, truest essence. My favorite part of that show was that it was essentially Survivor For Complete Morons. There was always some crazy weird drama, like "I know I'm supposed to boot off someone from the…

No, it was their own daughter.

It's actually one of the more interesting things from the movie, for me- I'm not sure how much Siegel thought of his own behavior as shady or unsavory. I agree that getting financially strapped people to borrow money they don't have to finance (!) timeshares they don't need is shady as hell, but he fell into the same…

It has one of my all time favorite terrible rich people metaphors: they own a bunch of tiny dogs that shit everywhere because no one bothered to train them, and it wasn't a problem until they went from a household staff of 20 to 2.

It's scary to wonder how much of that is just the money. Was he always that terrible, or would any of us become that terrible if you gave us $20 million/year for a decade?

It is. It's the best representation I've seen of the 2008 crash (possibly tied with Wolf of Wall Street).

Yes, that was her. It was depressing because she understood how terribly her father treated everyone, and even more depressing because she didn't understand how unequal her parents' relationship was, that her mom basically couldn't say ENOUGH or she'd get dumped for the next trophy wife. Sad all around.

I'd go further and say the show didn't completely know what it was about. It hinted at a lot of depths that I don't think it delivered on.

They're synergizing the future! Do you want your dirty socks to be stuck in the twentieth century? Or do you want a washer that can tweet at your refrigerator, instagram your toaster, and send your apple watch links to youtube cat videos?!

Upvoted for Leisure Suit Larry, which is, so help me God, a thing I remember. Did you have the version with the scratch and sniff card?

"Engagement rings should cost 3 months salary!" -ad campaign for diamonds from 1995

Has to be, right? What other famous NYC comedians are there? Louis CK (unmarried)?

Yes, I agree! It was my favorite movie the year it came out, but 90% of the discussion around it was "UGH, rich people!" QoV was upfront with how grotesque and exploitative his business was, but I really liked how the movie took 5-10 minutes to document that and then moved even deeper.

Chase Rainbows is such a great drag queen name. And I want to see this movie now, please and thank you.

I loved that movie, both in the way it charted the insane excesses of this family, and also in the way it punctured the myth of the genius business titan. He built a billion dollar timeshare company, but got lulled into the same flawed bottomless-well idea of credit as everyone else. I thought it also drew the…

The most pleasure you can get out of either of these is schaudenfreude. Based on the NYT article, these women sound miserable, despite having the kind of wealth most of the 1% can only dream of. The NYT piece mentioned that most of them attended the same top B schools as their husbands, and they essentially decided…

IIRC, he based Betty on his own mom, so there's also a certain amount of unconscious personal issues there.