FutureCop posted:

And here are Marvel villains Magneto, Doc Ock, and even Dr.Doom crying over the disaster:



A cursory glance seems to show that the reception felt it was incredibly ham-handed.

Lord Hydronium posted:

24's series premiere, which aired in November 2001, featured a 747 being blown up by a terrorist. The only change actually made as a result of 9/11 was cutting out the onscreen explosion and having it happen just off-camera.

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I came up with the idea with the photographer. We took the pictures on May 15, and we were done with it by the beginning of June. Any similarities are totally coincidental, and it was originally supposed to be more of a metaphor for destroying capitalism — where the music is making capitalist towers blow up. The politics of the Coup have more to do with the people organizing each other.

Mu Zeta posted:

Doug sucked because Nick just played the same 3-4 episodes and nothing else. I've seen the one about the Super Pretendo, the Nematodes, and the one where he starts a band so many times but can't recall anything else.

Krispy Kareem posted:

The problem with Jack Black is for every one Tropic Thunder there's 3 Gulliver's Travels.

I have to be reminded he's really good because he's so often just bleh.

BiggerBoat posted:

HIndsight reveals a lot about where a culture was within a given timeframe. 10 years ago, it was acceptable to call other goons "faggots" and even now people repeatedly refer to this place as a "Dead GAY Comedy Forum"

BrainDance posted:

All That is mostly a pretty cringy comedy now.

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Daniel Waters wanted his screenplay to go to director Stanley Kubrick,[8] not only out of profound admiration for Kubrick but also from a perception that "Kubrick was the only person that could get away with a three-hour film".

Trauma Dog 3000 posted:

loving american audiobooks calling solder "sodder" makes me want to die

Choco1980 posted:

http://nedroid.com/2011/08/pronunciation-station/

Choco1980 posted:

Which brings up an interesting discussion...if regular space travel becomes privatized, as it definitely is very near, does that mean space will count as international "waters" and yes, you can just claim any old rock floating around as "yours" to have whatever laws you choose?

zoux posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVpwJbLLivU

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In the end, it's discovered that the top levels of Japanese government have sold out to the Jews that took over America, and having successfully plundered Vietnam and Iraq for the sake of money, these Jews are going to turn Japan into Asia's nuclear waste dump.

Yes. That makes no sense, is patently anti-American, anti-Semitic, ethnocentric, Japanese imperialist, vile, and above all, dumb. But that's okay. The subtitle track on Manga Video's DVD tones this down a bit and the dub does away with it entirely. Us evil Jews Americans would never know the difference!

Aesop Poprock posted:

That was a thing? wth

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Goddamit! Well, how about this one:

Wheat Loaf posted:

Another fun fact: Steinman was at one point asked by Andrew Lloyd Webber to write the libretto and help with the score of The Phantom of the Opera because his original vision was that it would be this really over-the-top rock opera. Unfortunately, Steinman was busy producing Def Leppard albums at the time and by the time he was available, Lloyd Webber had decided Phantom would be less rock-focused and more classical.

Tiggum posted:

It's one of those books that people say are brilliant and hilarious and I just don't get it at all. Along with A Confederacy of Dunces and The Man Who Was Thursday.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

It's tiggum, though. If there were dosimeters for obliviousness we all would have hit the lifetime limit after being exposed to a year or two of his posts.

Inescapable Duck posted:

Pokemon not obeying you is something that barely ever shows up in the games unless you abuse Rare Candies or something given the level ranges of those badges... though traded Pokemon are more prone to it. Which is probably the intended purpose of the mechanic, to discourage players from trading an overlevelled Pokemon to steamroll the game with. (doesn't stop you from generally being able to steamroll the game by overlevelling your starter)

umalt posted:

Untrue, my first Pokemon game was Silver. And since I was an idiot kid who didn't know about HMs, I grinded the first pokemon I caught (a Pidgy) to get it to learn fly as quickly as possible. It literally was the only Pokemon that I used in battle, and after a while it became disobedient until I beat more gym leaders.

grittyreboot posted:

So I got Venture Bros. Seasons 5 and 6 for Christmas. I haven't watched the show in a while but my memory of Shore Leave being camp gay was relegated to being just part of his character and maybe an occasional joke.

No. Literally everything out of his mouth is him hitting on his straight coworkers and being Faaabulooouuus. It gets old quick.

Wheat Loaf posted:

For that matter, who even remembers Dan Quayle?

Straight White Shark posted:

look at the fuckin nerd goin to the R movie with his mom

trickybiscuits posted:

This was Troy, New York, before the city started getting all gentrified and I find it pretty believable. (My dad did his post-doc at RPI and when my mom first saw the city she cried. Then she found out that all the other wives of graduate students also cried when they first saw the city.)

BioEnchanted posted:

for example the Watch (this paragraph describes part of the plot of Night Watch) understand that impossible things are easy to make happen if you remember that 1 in a million chances happen in the Disc 9 times out of 10 - those are the figures. So in one book when a member of them needs to make a difficult shot that has a 1-in-a-hundred chance of hitting the required target they tie a hand behind his back, make him face the other way, blindfold him and generally engineer the situation to be precisely a 1-in-a-Million shot to make sure the Disc lets it happen.

CommonShore posted:

Some of it has aged extremely well. 50% of their interactions with women result in them having the poo poo kicked out of them for sexual harassment, often by the women themselves: the most biting part of the whole thing is that they never learn their lesson.

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Flinger posted:

Looked this up and it's called "Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". What started this trend of "Rise of [thing]"? Rise of Cobra?

Choco1980 posted:

The only plot i remember from War of the Worlds was an episode where they used music with subliminal messages to brainwash humans to their side. It was a weird show.

Garrand posted:

In universe the 47 stands for the fact the he's the 47th clone. Also I guess not technically a clone since he's made up of the DNA of 5 different people and isn't actually genetically identical to any of them but I don't know how you'd define that.

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

Well he was certainly one of the terrible children.

Straight White Shark posted:

I dunno, I think the first decade of Dilbert holds up pretty well (the first few years are kind of bad, but a different kind of bad than what Scott Adams is known for these days.) Early on Dilbert is meant as more of a lovable loser and is usually the butt of the joke; his supposed intelligence is used to contrast how clueless he actually is and he frequently gets outmaneuvered by people less "smart" than he is. It's only later that Dilbert started being a smug rear end in a top hat.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Even the Flintstones got into that eventually with the Great Gazoo. (and not even getting into some of the loving bizarre spinoffs that show got. And the show's finale movie was Moonraker with caveman technology)

Alhazred posted:

Did the show explain why the devil would care about solving crimes?

FactsAreUseless posted:

All of the 90s-2000s Warner Bros. DC shows are good. Batman, Superman, Justice League, JLU, Young Justice, I forget the others. JLU and Batman are especially great.

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It’s been estimated that about half the books published between 1923 and 1963 are actually in the public domain—it’s just that no one knows which half.

Peeny Cheez posted:

And the whole "go and win that incredibly gay contest!" sort of stuff also doesn't come off all that great either

MrUnderbridge posted:

Wait, there was a sequel to My Side of the Mountain? I loved that book. Sounds like it's better I never read the second one

Professor Wayne posted:

Ha, was this common knowledge? I asked about this exact thing at their panel at San Diego Comic Con last year.

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

Abra-kebab-ra is already taken.

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

Did Mission Hill age ok? Everything about it seemed very mid-90s, which is weird because I think it started in 2000.

MariusLecter posted:

Andy: Aren't you selling out by plugging Raid Shadow Legends?