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What about the opposite, was bonanza huge in Japan?
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I remember liking the Eddie Murphy stuff in SNL but that might be nostalgia talking.
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Nov 7, 2017 20:30
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Krispy Wafer posted:Johnny Cash's Cocaine Blues is good because of all the convicts cheering about murdering a woman on the live album. I'm not sure which album you're referring to but if it was Folsom Prison they actually had to dub in crowd noises because the inmates we're very polite in fear of being punished or ejected.
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Nov 13, 2017 00:56
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Ariong posted:There’s a website called Dead Homer Society run by a group of people that think The Simpsons should now be cancelled, and it has a series of articles detailing how the classic Simpsons became the “zombie” Simpsons we know today. While I think that the people behind this website are unfairly harsh to modern Simpsons and it really isn’t that bad, I do like the parts of this series which explain the pre-Simpsons TV environment and why the Simpsons was so revolutionary. It touches on a lot of stuff Iron Crowned mentioned in their post, and it’s a good read! That was... actually not nearly as crazy and strident as I was expecting (old SNPP hand here). There's some interesting stuff here for anyone who wants a relatively well-argued opinion on the decline of the Simpsons. I don't actually agree with a some of it (I see "The Principal and the Pauper" as more of chaotic burn down the world moment rather than "The writers were out of ideas, and the fans were attached to what they already knew") but unlike a lot of material like this I can't imagine the author wiping flecks of foam out of his beard while he writes it.
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Feb 23, 2018 04:52
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Gilligan's island got weird at the end, though the actors were their normal wooden selves.
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Jun 27, 2018 07:40
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Wild Cards is pretty weird and big it's true. In retrospect though it wasn't actually very good (I preferred the thieves world shared universe). I wonder if a stumbling block might be the rights issues since each character/story belongs to a different author.
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Jul 27, 2018 20:57
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Best intros along with everything else is police squad
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Aug 23, 2018 03:40
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londonarbuckle posted:I remember being in high school and briefly thinking "John K's great, I am a fan, those jerk TV people should let him do his thing" and then every single thing I watched/read of him would just be a slow trickle of "Oh wait, he's kind of an rear end in a top hat, oh wait, he's deluded, oh wait, his ideas about cartoons are actually stupid, oh wait, he's a weird conservative babyman with daddy issues, oh wait, he actually completely sucks at cartoons" Yeah iirc back in the day there was a pretty referenced interview in film threat magazine where K drew on a picture of Bob Camp crying fake tears and clutching dollars which was the received wisdom for most people at the time. The other stuff came to light later
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Aug 29, 2018 19:56
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BiggerBoat posted:touche Mr T and Tina kinda
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Nov 3, 2018 00:13
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's odd in retrospect but there was a time in the 70s and 80s when Mercury, while a respected vocalist and performer, was perceived as "just" a flamboyant showman, all flash and little substance; in interviews, he would often actively discourage analysis of his lyrics and insisted none of his songs actually "meant" anything. Conversely, May was seen as the "genius" of the band who could do all these tricks with feedback and poo poo. I think if you ask any gear head guitarist about "who had the best sound" Brian May is going to come up in the conversation.
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Nov 5, 2018 22:04
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Cosby's early comedy albums were really good. Can't think of much that mentioned women other than a mother always threatening to beat her children, as was the style at the time.
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Feb 19, 2019 01:32
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The first cartoon I can remember thinking "hey that's pretty cheap and lazy" is the original spider Man cartoon when they used the exact same backgrounds and certain animations for dementia 5 lifted frame for frame from rocket Robin hood (or the reverse, my memory is hazy).
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Mar 8, 2019 07:44
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Lazlo Nibble posted:To be fair, the whole “very special episode” vibe is pretty on-brand for the character. And to teach him a lesson Ollie made Roy do all of the heroin all at once
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Mar 17, 2019 08:49
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Part of the problem with the USA is it's relatively young, so there's not really a lot to mythologize. Like you've got the revolution, civil war (which can be touchy), the "wild" west, and then the great homogenization kind of begins, with little dips out for WWII and Vietnam. Like euros have Kings and saints and popes and all kinds of stuff to draw upon to make toothless inaccurate portrayals of but not the US.
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Apr 2, 2019 21:18
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Wasn't Shazam in Chuck too?
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Apr 7, 2019 04:36
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My takeaway is that Paul Shaffer is and has always been a real stand up guy
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Apr 9, 2019 18:34
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knife_of_justice posted:It's funny. I'm gay and I never found the Mr. B riff a problem, even though I was watching circa 2012 on YouTube with little idea of how old it was (I'm British). Maybe I was conceding to a straight person's sense of bewilderment/ horror at this strange seemingly genderless character without realising. Oh jeez I'm terrible. I read that and remembered hearing it said and it just got a real belly laugh out of it.
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May 6, 2019 23:09
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mllaneza posted:Paul Ruben has done nothing better in his career. Yes, even that. Yes that was great, his bit in Buffy was better. No, a lot better. I'm not loving with you, it was that great. You should go watch the Buffy movie. I don't care if it isn't on any basic streaming site, pay the four bucks for on-demand and make some loving popcorn. Hah, I saw the buffy movie in the theatre when I was doing movie reviews for a small alt weekly rag and all I remember is his post (mid) credits sequence where he's still moaning after being staked.
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May 26, 2019 01:30
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Highlander had a bizarrely good soundtrack
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May 31, 2019 18:50
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mind the walrus posted:I agree that writing her out if her character was stationary is some bullshit, but I can understand why a rip-snorting genre adventure show didn't want to involve a pregnancy. I think part of it is that the _deep lore_ of Highlander is that they're sterile and can't have children so of she was pregnant in the show, it would not have been her love interests kid
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Jun 1, 2019 06:48
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Sir Lemming posted:It's okay. But it's really hard not to compare it (unfavorably) to TNBC which just feels like so much more of a labor of love. Corpse Bride is more like just a random movie from the '80s or something, that you'd watch and think "that was fun", and yet there's so much drat technical effort put into it, and that almost makes it worse somehow? At this point it's probably safe to say it's the best Johnnie Depp movie too.
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Aug 27, 2019 00:32
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I thought the implication was Guinan was another different higher dimensional being
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Sep 6, 2019 19:29
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Pastamania!!
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Nov 1, 2019 00:25
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I was under the impression its almost impossible to lose money on Christian movies. Keep the budget low, mention God a lot, distribute to small-town theaters and do group sales to churches. Youbdon't even have to make it good because they're so desperate for conservative movies. Its like the most profitable movie sector. You're missing the most important part: - Cast Dean Cain for like five bux
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Nov 1, 2019 20:57
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DontMockMySmock posted:Baby Driver is maybe the best action movie to come out in the last twenty years but BOY is it hard to watch Kevin Spacey "act" as a megalomaniac in a position of power over a teenage boy. You night want to watch a movie called Fury Road...
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Jun 20, 2020 08:28
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Baba Yaga Fanboy posted:God that British counterpart was truly, truly awful. Part of what makes Red's frequent threats slightly more palatable is that he's this not particularly threatening looking old dude. You cast a more hulking bloke in the same role and suddenly those threats come off way, way darker Red not threatening? Clarence boedicker emanates pure menace.
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Aug 22, 2020 01:35
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christmas boots posted:So like, if I were to go back and bang Confucius and give him some Doritos. That kind of disrespect? Man sounds like China was really freaked out by the original Bill and Ted movies.
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Sep 24, 2020 05:48
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Tiaer posted:Well, what city HASN'T Vancouver played? I think every metro area in the country has been Vancouvered in a show. Anywhere they need real snow
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Dec 29, 2020 22:07
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Volcott posted:No one can force you to watch Cleopatra 2525, but there are probably some Bruce Campbell-centric social groups where you may be obligated to watch Jack o' All Trades. Bubba Hotep
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Sep 13, 2021 06:30
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I remember reading somewhere he barely remembers directing Maximum Overdrive
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Dec 8, 2021 23:06
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AceOfFlames posted:I loving can't stand that finale. As bas, as they were, sending them all to be raped in jail, was too far. And they definitely were, Jerry even mentions it in the ending standup segment. Yes they should have been killed instead.
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May 2, 2022 23:16
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Don't forget Bill
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Jun 25, 2022 01:18
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I come here to laud Harrison and not bury him but didn't the X of Eden books have like weird human lizard sex in them? I remember being vaguely disturbed as a youth and stopping reading them because of that.
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Jun 25, 2022 22:54
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Didn't they basically sexually harassment the heck out of that blonde lady? Or was that a sequel
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Aug 8, 2022 23:18
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You'd think if a band was going to franchise like that it'd have been KISS
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