That would be it. A bit off from my memory.

I saw this video once of Smash Mouth, where the crowd started throwing either pickles or hot dogs at the lead singer, or an object silly enough. He was yelling in a surprisingly strong southern accent to stop throwing [said objects] at him, or he was going to march down there and “kick your fucking asses”. He stormed…

Welp. My world’s on fire. How ‘bout yours?

A gritty revenge tale between two families, set in the South? 

Blue Ruin’s main twist for me (this is not an actual spoiler) is how The A.V. Club reviewed it as ‘regular Joe takes up vigilantism, gets in way over his head, chaos and violence ensues’ or thereabouts, and the movie turned out to be very different from that. It didn’t help that I attributed the opening narration of…

*pounds fists* “BLOOD ALONE MOVES THE WHEELS OF HISTORY!!”

Just re-watched this and noticed it for the first time. He’s not doing anything else!

I get that every creative well runs dry, but the writers just stopped giving a shit about the characters, and I agree it’s hard to watch. Ryan went from the smartest guy in the room to some sort of terrible hipster cartoon character. Jan went from a high-stress, high-functioning, but ultimately kind executive due for…

It also has that horrible scene with the pterodactyls and the British lady whose only sin was trying to look after two shitty kids who are actively trying to get away from her. 

As a fan of that basketball team Tom mentioned, I can relate. (The T.Rex is LeBron James.)

Never read the book myself, but someone here once quoted the painfully succinct Nedry scene, and it was stuck in my head for a couple of days.

It’s funny: there’s always the one scene in a great movie that makes no sense. Not only does Sam Jackson’s disembodied arm and hand randomly appear perfectly on Laura Dern’s shoulder, but she seems relieved by being grabbed from behind in a life-or-death situation. Sure, it’s a human hand, and he’s the only other one…

You’re an awesome parent.

*Edit: Sorry, I meant to say it sometimes feels based on an incomplete picture, not “always” which is certainly not the case. 

Some of them certainly were, and there were some times where he crossed even the lines he had drawn for himself (Though, that infamous “wouldn’t it be funny if..” line was actually never spoken, and that’s another story.) But I do think there’s - if not a difference, than a disctinction - between using dated racial…

I don’t remember that one, but somebody else posted about the interview he did with a girl who had lost her arms, and how it was actually very sweet. I 100% expected (and understand) the distaste people have for him, because I shared it until I started to notice things like that, and realized there was at least a bit…

The same amount of time I haven’t had cable, I guess. I just assumed I was missing out on it.

Oh. Well, never mind, then, I guess. What a waste of a funny and prudent-for-the-network idea. Keep the stakes ‘low’ (A grand prize in the lower thousands, say) and stick to the bit. Yes, he’ll give his own money away if you win it, but it pisses him off when you do. Simple.

My understanding has been that his Web Redemptions are something he really cares about, meaning the person as well. The segment itself is a twist on the rest of the show that’s notable in and of itself. Of course, the rest of the show is essentially the opposite of that.

Bill Hader would definitely be wasted on something like that, and Ben Stein would likely be much less appreciated than before (aforementioned political status). As for ‘game shows, I sincerely hope they’re still (pre-Covid) doing @midnight. I miss cable for the way Comedy Network (Cdn) paired it with Conan, in part.