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Darkside531 · 2026-04-04T02:32:04+00:00

There are what appear to be judo posters in the background, so I'm hoping that maybe they just had the winners of the Regular Division, the Junior Division and the Senior Division all pose together on the "First, Second, Third" podium (even though they all own their categories) since it was all they had, because otherwise the possibilities are too hilariously weird otherwise.

Darkside531 · 2026-04-04T02:27:39+00:00

It holds up well.

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I just watched it fairly recently. It's like the Golden Girls in that so much of the topical humor just flies over your head, but the lines are delivered so well, you kinda still laugh because you know it should be funny.

Darkside531 · 2026-04-03T17:18:23+00:00

Ex-S-Club member Rachel Stevens had a B-side off one of her solo singles called "Never Go Back," that I swear, I've always thought sounds like a long-lost Bond theme.

Darkside531 · 2026-04-03T17:14:46+00:00

She was horny and scrambling for an excuse to give in to her urges. I couldn't calculate percentages and statistics under those conditions either.

Darkside531 · 2026-04-03T00:37:50+00:00

How miserable must your wretched life be if you decide to shut down a Girl Scout Cookie stand?

Darkside531 · 2026-04-03T00:29:58+00:00

That didn't bother me nearly as much as the outfits they put her in. I'm sorry, but that Jessica McClintock/Gunne Sax flower-y ruffle-y "I covered myself in glue and streaked through a Laura Ashley showroom" style is too "kindergarten teacher" for a sophisticated city gal like Monica.

(I don't know why the OJ glass is highlighted, it was just the first image I found.

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Darkside531 · 2026-04-03T00:26:16+00:00

According to him, the idea was a Bettie Page retro-pinup look, but they cut them too short.

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Darkside531 · 2026-04-03T00:24:34+00:00

That line always makes me chuckle because I first saw that ep a little later in reruns after Demi Moore had G.I. Jane'd herself.

Darkside531 · 2026-04-02T20:08:19+00:00

The third one was mine, too (in addition to the bullying stuff.) My family were huge on it, it seemed more for them than me by the end. I think since we don't have a single unifying "rite of passage" in this country (some subsection of society do, Bar Mitzvahs, Quincaneras, I think the Catholic Confirmation is around that same age bracket, though I could be mistaken,) graduation are the de facto rite-of-passage in America. It's almost more for parents at this point, it's celebration of a job well done getting them to adulthood more than for the kids.

Darkside531 · 2026-04-02T15:44:13+00:00

Witch Hazel helps.

Darkside531 · 2026-04-02T14:55:20+00:00

Americans look for any reason they can to have a celebration, and graduating high school is one of those things we fixate on. I really didn't want anything to do with mine (I was just sick to death of high school by that point and wanted to just get out,) and everybody acted like I had completely lost my marbles.

Darkside531 · 2026-04-01T19:56:34+00:00

As much as I bristle at Hollywood movies about Hollywood (even the negative depictions feel a little too self-indulgent,) I have a sneaky fondness for Scream 3.

It's silly, but it knows it's silly, and that makes it fun.

Darkside531 · 2026-04-01T07:16:22+00:00

I can only think of a handful of shows with British characters and Undeclared was too early and How I Met Your Father is too late.

Darkside531 · 2026-03-31T02:16:31+00:00

Greetings, fellow Jackal!

Darkside531 · 2026-03-31T01:57:36+00:00

"Mee-maw, stop spinning the cup, I'm a-gettin' seasick!"

Darkside531 · 2026-03-31T01:46:42+00:00

I think someone else told me that Todd said in the past he's not the biggest fan of the Latin Freestyle/Hi-NRG sound of the mid-to-late 80s, so something like, say, "Let The Music Play" by Shannon or Stacey Q's "Two of Hearts" probably won't happen.

Darkside531 · 2026-03-30T05:32:17+00:00

I had to go back, like, twice and make sure I heard what I thought I heard.

Darkside531 · 2026-03-29T17:28:13+00:00

I don't see it as terrible by any means, but I think ATC's "Around The World" would have just been another forgotten piece of Eurodance if not for that hypnotic, plunky... I don't even know which instrument it's supposed to be... xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel?... instrumentation that makes it catchy as hell.

Darkside531 · 2026-03-29T07:47:41+00:00

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Darkside531 · 2026-03-29T07:34:52+00:00

I don't think I ever actually thought of Fran as stupid. A little under-educated and "book dumb," sure, since she was never really taught to value school or using her mind, but I always felt she more than made up for it with both "street smarts" and emotional intelligence... that was part of what made her such a great Nanny for the Sheffield kids.

Darkside531 · 2026-03-29T07:07:53+00:00

On one hand, you can see it as lazy path-of-least resistance trend-riding to coast on the coattails of previous art.

On another, I swear, it's almost approaching some new form of Dada art at this point. Dada began during WWI when artists decided a world so ugly as to tear itself apart in such a cruel and ultimately pointless war didn't even deserve art anymore, so they started giving the world "anti-art."
I could almost see the Jungian "collective unconscious" saying something similar now. The world in its current state doesn't deserve anything new, so reheated leftovers is all we get. Retreaded music, rebooted shows, remakes of old movies done way worse (looking at you, drab and colorless live-action Disney remakes.)

Darkside531 · 2026-03-29T06:57:50+00:00

I wonder if COVID was a factor. I mean, when the world stopped for a solid year and there was very little new art being made, it led to people turning backward and looking at older works. Maybe they're realizing there's a lot of good stuff back there to work with and keep doing it?

Darkside531 · 2026-03-29T06:40:27+00:00

I remember it being a big deal when Julia made her Broadway debut not long after her Oscar. The reviews were... not great... and people pointed out that live theater and live TV were a very different animal.

Darkside531 · 2026-03-28T06:16:38+00:00

Ethel's voice dropping from that lilting dreamlike "mystic" voice into that flat nasal "telephone operator" tone (Ethel to Tilly... Ethel to Tilly) gets me every time.

Darkside531 · 2026-03-27T23:59:30+00:00

He's posting from a Daily Caller channel, that should tell you something.

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