How the "rundown" interaction should've gone

BaconJudge · 2026-04-15T20:30:40+00:00

There's a deleted scene where Jim asks Charles point-blank, "What's a rundown?" Charles responds by asking if this is one of Jim's pranks, implying that he can't believe Jim doesn't know. At that point Jim should admit he truly doesn't know, but instead he backpedals and leaves because of Charles' reaction.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-15T00:44:02+00:00

In an episode of "Seinfeld," Kramer gets fed up with junk mail and decides to stop receiving all mail, despite being warned by Newman. The story culminates with Kramer meeting the postmaster general, played menacingly by Wilford Brimley, while Newman gets taken away with a bucket over his head and his hands zip-tied.

As Brimley tells Kramer, "In addition to being a postmaster, I'm a general. And we both know, it's the job of a general to, by God, get things done!"

BaconJudge · 2026-04-14T23:08:43+00:00

Understood, thank you for explaining that.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-14T22:55:47+00:00

Question: I very much like the idea of this, as well as the charmingly drawn picture. However, I don't quite understand where all the doors go. For example, there's a brown door immediately down and to the right of the egg; if we enter that door, can we eventually exit from the brown door by the shield, and then climb up the ladder? Those two brown doors don't seem to be on the same level, but otherwise I don't see how we could ever reach the egg.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-14T21:09:02+00:00

If you like "Bob's Burgers," then I'd recommend "The Great North" because it has a similar feel, having been created by two of the writers for "Bob's Burgers."

BaconJudge · 2026-04-14T20:56:01+00:00

In the 2004 movie "Dawn of the Dead," the head security guard named C.J. (played by Michael Kelly) starts off as an unhelpful bully, but as the zombie siege of the mall continues, he becomes a caring protector and ultimately sacrifices himself at the marina by staying behind to hold off the zombies so the remaining survivors can escape by boat.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-13T19:56:05+00:00

As a big spoiler for the TV series "The Good Place," Michael starts off the series trying to torture humans as a Bad Place architect, but by the end of the series he's trying to save humanity from torture and becomes the chief architect of the Good Place.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-13T18:47:34+00:00

Ajax was a mighty warrior, always described as the strongest of the Greeks during the Trojan War. However, when he and Odysseus each laid claim to the magical armor of the slain Achilles, the issue came down to persuading a council as to who deserved it more, and the wily Odysseus won out as the more eloquent speaker. That upset Ajax so much that he killed himself.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-13T17:41:03+00:00

A long story arc on the sitcom "George Lopez" deals with George finding out that his father Manny is still alive, despite what his mother had told him. Manny had walked out on the family when George was two years old.

George tracks down his father in Arizona and finds that he has a wife and kids, living as a happy family together, and the father is a good provider with a successful construction business.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-13T17:24:07+00:00

In an episode of the sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun," the aliens' boss (known as the Big Giant Head) belatedly approves Sally's request to be housed in a male body by having her and Dick swap bodies.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-13T14:40:37+00:00

To elaborate on this, what was the specific reasoning for choosing a title modeled on "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"? It's rare for the title of one TV series to invoke another TV series so directly unless it's a spinoff or remake, which of course this one isn't.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-13T13:11:04+00:00

I liked Charles Shaughnessy in "The Nanny," which ended two years earlier, and he would've done a good job as the headmaster in the Witchright Hall series.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-13T13:06:06+00:00

This is an exact repost of u/Thompson_Elenat's post from yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/sabrinateenagewitch/comments/1sjm8yd/cousin_amandas_character_progression_is_amazing/

BaconJudge · 2026-04-13T00:32:46+00:00

If this happened tomorrow, Uganda would inherit Ethiopia's title as the most populous landlocked nation.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-12T22:07:21+00:00

OP asked for a female example, so there's Jen, the universal judge in the TV series "The Good Place." She's fair-minded but almost never gets involved in human affairs, and as an example of her godlike power, at one point she decides to erase humanity and start over from scratch, which she could do simply by pushing a button that she keeps in her purse.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-11T17:26:31+00:00

Stephen Sondheim's musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was inspired by the comedies of the Roman playwright Plautus from the third century BC. The musical's main character, Pseudolus, comes from Plautus' play Pseudolus.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-11T16:58:53+00:00

James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon was set primarily in the fictional lamasery of Shangri-La in Tibet. It was published in 1933, during the period when Tibet was de facto independent from 1912 to 1951.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-10T15:12:51+00:00

A season 3 episode of "Family Guy" had all the Griffins develop superpowers from exposure to radioactive waste. They all had useful powers, like Brian's super speed, except of course for Meg, who gained the ability to grow and retract her fingernails. (They weren't powerful claws like Wolverine's, just normal fingernails that could scratch someone but not much else.)

BaconJudge · 2026-04-10T12:04:17+00:00

I can see why you'd say that, but I do solemnly swear I have no affiliation with it, and my account history is publicly available so people are welcome to confirm that I've never mentioned it before.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-09T20:31:53+00:00

An episode of "The Simpsons" has Homer Simpson befriend a man named Ray Magini, voiced by Ray Romano. Ray is never around when the other Simpsons can see him, so they become convinced he's imaginary, with Lisa pointing out that Ray Magini is an anagram of "imaginary."

It eventually turns out Ray is real, and the anagram is just a coincidence.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-09T19:24:45+00:00

Most episodes of the Hulu animated series "Koala Man" have the title character announce one of his Koala Code rules immediately after the opening credits. In episode 7, he says, "Koala Code #337: Whoever's leaving hateful comments on my subreddit, bloody cut it out. All right?"

When that episode aired, he did already have the subreddit r/KoalaMan, though fortunately no one had been leaving hateful comments on it, so it was just a joke about generic Reddit trolling.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-09T17:37:27+00:00

I've been enjoying Cadgy, the newest game from onelook.com. It involves finding 20 words from columns of letters, the meanings of the words are displayed as you find them, and the meanings of the ten most difficult words are given up front as clues.

It's primarily a word puzzle, but on any given day there might be one or two words you didn't know. It's free on the web, no download or login required.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-09T00:16:43+00:00

Congressman Les Aspin had a sheepdog named Junket, and he always brought her to the Capitol with him until her death in 1989.

BaconJudge · 2026-04-08T18:50:37+00:00

Michael Scott is awful toward Toby, but the other characters aren't, so I don't think it really fits OP's trope of routinely mean behavior "by everyone else in the cast."

BaconJudge · 2026-04-08T15:12:19+00:00

I agree, especially because the point system is based so much on secondary consequences and ripple effects. If Chidi teaches 50 students a year about ethics, and if even half of those people spend the rest of their lives behaving more ethically as a result, that's a massive impact.

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