That’s the girl in Neo’s doorway at the beginning of The Matrix, right?

This. Aside from Simpsons, if the band didn’t have his name in the title, I’d never know who he is.

I sometimes get similar frustrations about the Canadian ‘accent’. It’s like, is that what Ryan Reynolds sounds like to you?

Thanks, and that’s good to know. On Steve Carell, Space Force is a great example of that. It’s actually pretty good, but the first two episodes are a slog to get through. Quarantine binge-watching in general seems to help get over those humps. 

Somebody else posted about this a few days ago, but the Quarantine Frasier account on Twitter is putting on a clinic with this.

Does it improve after the pilot? Most shows do. I thought it was alright, but .. it’s supposed to be charming that this complete jerkoff basically destroys the entire store on his training shift, and gets America Ferrara’s character to fall for him and take his advice to .. be less uptight or something? All in the…

Touche. I caught one, once, though.

Not American either, and I also didn’t know he spoke that favourably of it. I knew that he had said at some point that he wished to preserve the Union with or without slavery, but I guess the ‘narrative’ I had accepted was that his better angels won out in the end, at least to the effect of slavery being abolished.

I thought Honey Nut Cheerios did a great job with this kind of theme. It’s a great commercial on its own, but the aesthetic on the box at the end hits it home.

It might have even been last night that I Googled Block and Tackle to see if it had been moved somewhere else. I do know that it’s just a fishing term, but it had been long enough that it was a pretty lame reminder.

2012 was a big one, too, what with all the ‘end of the Mayan calendar’ talk. The disaster movie likely added to it.

Now that I think of it, 2020 was maybe never referenced in such a way, though I had heard it was the first year that A.I. was supposed to be functioning autonomously, and for whatever reason (likely just …

Being from Canada, I wasn’t able to see the Super Bowl ads during the game. (They changed this just over a year ago, I think.) So this is not a Super Bowl ad, but maybe one of the better ads I’ve seen, period.

Years late to this comment, but it begs the question: Do all of these take place the following summer?

Fair enough. (Mine definitely did not.) It’s otherwise a dead ringer, though. That’s only notable to me because of how uncommon they seemed to be. Even the sunroof I was convinced was installed separately by a previous owner. 

Was just going to say, although to my knowledge that’s a ‘92. I only know that because I was struck to see my exact car in the image, right down to the colour and the sunroof. Not shown is the sleek early-90s neon green lighting in the interior. God, I miss that car. 

It’s exactly this kind of base accusatory crap that fuels the term “outrage culture” outside of FOX News. Please stop pretending that everyone who disagrees with your point is some knuckle-dragging hatemonger. I think you know that’s not the case. It just looks dumb.

It’s the not so turn-of-the-century stuff that surprises me. The main gay characters on Modern Family are well-rounded, but I don’t think they’ve had a gay friend who wasn’t an over-the-top cartoon character of a gay person. Even as a joke - and I get that Nathan Lane, who plays one of them, is a gay man - I don’t get…

Enjoy your deathtrap, ladies!

I can’t think of Trent Reznor without thinking of his totally gracious and starstruck response to Johnny Cash’s cover of his “Hurt”. I obviously don’t know the guy, but I have to imagine that helped him along in a serious way.

“And you tell ‘em it was J.P. and the Suggins Gang!”