The bad blood (which, one has to assume, is also informed by these guy’s statuses as two of the most famous, bravado-heavy men in current music) ..

Whoa.

He’s just always seems to play Tom Hanks, and I think that’s why the wider internet loves him. He’s incredibly safe, familiar, and repetitive.

I love Tom Hanks, but at the end of the day, he’s the one who named his son Chet.  

I’ve never watched any of his episodes, but if the guy best suited to succeed Trebek is named “Buzzy” and people are okay with that, than he must be pretty good.

That’s a better way of putting it, and you’re right about the ‘ironic racism’ humour of that era. There’s probably a lot of etymology to consider in a world where language evolves roughly at the pace of a grand mal seizure. I’m not sure enough people appreciate that, and it drives me nuts. Focus on the intention, and…

Sincerely, I’m sorry to hear of your disability, and am no way trying to ‘_____-splain’ the humour of anything to you, or anyone for that matter. Of course you have a right to be offended by it, and more of a right than I do. Also, for the record, I wasn’t saying it was a good joke. The opposite, in fact. I was merely…

The joke is that most people in wheelchairs are handicapped from the waist down. “Nothing sadder than seeing a hot person in a wheelchair” means either/both ‘they’re hot and can’t have (conventional) sex, what an ironic observation’ / and/or ‘I can’t have sex with them’. It’s not ‘Disabled people can’t be attractive’;…

Very well-written post, and that is the closest to my feeling about the ‘90s that I’ve read. I too always had the sense that history was ‘over’; the good guys more or less won, and even the thought of things reversing course seemed dystopian and if anything, more entertaining fiction. Hell, Radiohead of all folks had…

Another commenter beat me to the much more succinct Eternal Sunshine ending, so I’ll see if I still remember this from No Country For Old Men:

“Alright, then. Two of’ em. Both of them had my father in ‘em. It’s peculiar: I’m older than he ever was by 20 years, so in a sense he’s the younger man. First one: I think we…

Dammit, you beat me to it! It’s perfect.

Fair point, and I get how my comment might have been flippant. I’m from Ontario as well, and it’s nice to know that those concerns are at least being acknowledged by those with any control over it.

This is entirely separate, but another fun fact about Ontario: You know those cardboard beer boxes with punched-out handle…

The decline of Kevin is probably the decline of The Office, in my opinion. Here was a generally simple but friendly guy who was engaged to be married - not inexplicably, but enough so to give reasonable and comedic incredulity to his female coworker who sits across from him - who never takes anything too seriously,…

This sounds so sinister. Selling people necessities at prices that fit into their budget sounds fine to me.

Novak has sort of acknowledged that S4 Ryan Howard was an exaggerated version of himself as written by his peers, but it was much less a mea culpa, and more an “Okay, you got me guys, sometimes I sound like that”, at least as I heard it. His personality has always felt a bit off to me, but I’m happy to concede that…

Let me be the first to star that.

I hadn’t considered that Snopes had joined the rank of “fake news” with the Trumpers, but my first thought as well was that it’s unfortunate this happened, given what I thought to be a pretty good reputation of theirs. Obviously it’s not the be-all/end-all of information, but it’s reliably sourced, and the tone and…

Ah, I figured as much. I thought I was seeing double for a second. Ten Ninja Turtles!

Wait, why are there five of them? Am I that old?

He definitely had a lot to do with producing them. I seem to remember a story where Staind handed an old album of theirs to Fred Durst with the cover art being so sacreligious to him that he threw it across the room in disgust. I have no idea if it’s true, but it always stuck with me in the ‘interesting convictions’…