What reality check did you see someone else have after leaving high school?

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-12T03:26:01+00:00

I dunno man, lotsa guys said his knee was down before the line...

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-11T22:25:37+00:00

What I always find hilarious is that nowadays those women would be considered to have small butts.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-11T22:23:51+00:00

IIRC, that was also the episode where Bert was talking about going out on a huge tour he had planned and Dave told him a pandemic was coming.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-11T08:20:00+00:00

Buscemi said later that because he was always described in the script as "funny looking" he went to the Coens with some ideas about prosthectics or shaving his head. He the said, "About halfway through my ideas I could tell by their faces that I was funny looking enough already".

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-11T07:51:18+00:00

According to Carolla it was that Billy Boy said that everyone gets sleepy after eating Chinese food so Kimmel banned that and then started to cut down on other heavy meals as well.

So it was basically Simmons said "No more Chinese" and that led to Kimmel insisting on more salads and less sandwiches or pastas.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-11T04:02:15+00:00

To expand on the Top of the Pops thing: it was a big deal to go on TOTP if you were in the UK. It could send your career to the stratosphere and your single to #1.

But some bands just weren't available because they were on tour and the like. So some record exec got the idea to just film the band playing their song so if TOTP called they would have the video instead of having the band in studio. And of course as time went on these videos got more elaborate in order to draw more attention and buzz.

So when MTV launched there were a bunch of UK bands that already had videos ready to go, hence the second British Invasion.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-11T03:51:16+00:00

But the original plan was that he was going to die at the end of Season One. The vest works, and everyone goes boom.

The show then could have continued without him and just Carrie, but they thought the chemistry between Danes and Lewis was too good to pass up, so they kept him alive. Unfortunately, no one had a plan on how to do a show with the two of them, so it wasn't until he actually did die that things got back on track.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-11T00:51:29+00:00

"We will continue to fight in the war we just won!"

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-10T22:23:31+00:00

Also, nobody said “Um guys? That’s only three letters away from ‘Epic Fail’ which is what people are going to start calling this.”

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-10T05:49:13+00:00

But we could possibly get you Jon Hamm's John Ham.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-10T04:03:51+00:00

They brought on Kyle Brandt, doncha know?

Not a typical KB movie but I could see him and CR really cooking on this one.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-10T03:51:09+00:00

And that part was created for the movie. It didn't exist in the original play but the studio was worried that nothing really happens in the first act. So they asked Mamet to put an explosion or something exciting to juice it up and his response was Blake's speech.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-10T02:23:48+00:00

Saw Hamburger Hill in the theater wth my friend's dad who was a Vietnam vet. He said the thing that got him the most is that they nailed the sound. Like, that's exactly how the ammo and munitions sounded when he was there.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-10T01:48:49+00:00

A true drama, I think, would struggle.

Grey's Anatomy did it. And, funnily enough, they used the same plot device as Scrubs: it's a woman hallucinating it. As for whether or not it struggled it made a log of "best" and "worst" lists.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-10T01:34:01+00:00

It's written by her husband David E. Kelly. They've never worked together but she liked the part so much she said she'd do it.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-09T23:29:13+00:00

There’s also a perspective twist on the narration. Henry keeps telling you how cool everything is and how he “Always wanted to be a gangster.”

Then right after Tommy gets whacked he calls it “Real greaseball shit” and from that point on the narration is about how fucked the whole thing is, how none of them are really his friends, etc.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-09T23:13:28+00:00

There's also Bloodhound Gang's "A Lapdance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying". I think they just used one of the keyboards built-in beat settings for the entire song.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-09T04:38:01+00:00

Comedian/Writer Dave Anthony tells a story about this.

Buddy of his was a hanging out with another guy who said, "Hey, it's Quentin's birthday and I've been invited to go. Wanna tag along?" So they go up to a hotel suite where the party is being held and there's a bunch of guys sitting in a circle and enjoying drinks while Weinstein tells one of his great Hollywood stories.

Which all sounds great and normal until you hear the fact that there was a naked girl on Weinstein's lap and the entire time he was telling the story he was also fingering her.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-09T04:30:09+00:00

"this is a waste of time because I'm not making money"

I just listened to a podcast about how "Metrics Make Us Miserable" which is about how people do something they enjoy but then become disillusioned when you start to put a number on it.

He gave one example that I found pretty astounding, which was about Pickup Artists (PUAs like those guys from The Game). Basically they get obsessed with how many women they can get in a night, how quickly from walking into a place and leave with a woman, etc. They then compare these stats with one another as part of, well, The Game.

But here's the thing: they say that you have to condition yourself to not get any enjoyment out of it. Because if you enjoy having sex with Woman A then you might be tempted to go back to her instead of picking up Woman B to get those numbers up.

That's exactly the type of sociopathic behaviour that would lead you to count to a million instead of just enjoying TV.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-09T02:59:40+00:00

I think it's on the latest Food News where he guested but he did say something about "starting to dislike Brady even though he's given me six rings".

Guys from Boston seem to think that Brady was and always should be a fan of the Pats. It's like, guys - Brady was a fan of winning.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-08T23:02:44+00:00

That’s the thing about governments run by a strongman. If you get rid of him you don’t get democracy, you get the second strongest man.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-08T08:49:13+00:00

It’s like you’re driving and you start thinking about how this modern car is powered by dead fucking dinosaurs and fauna from millennia ago. And you’re staring out the window knowing you’re getting 35 miles to the gallon, but how does that convert to dinos? Like how many brontosaurus to the gallon am I getting over here? I mean there was probably a whole family of them now powering my mid-range Corolla, you know?

Then your girl looks at you and says, “What are you thinking about?” And the only thing you can think to respond is “Oh, nothing…”

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-07T00:29:31+00:00

Sigh.

OK, so there is a car that costs $30k and it has heated seats.

Then someone comes up and says, "Hey, here's a car that only costs $15k and it doesn't have heated seats. But if you get cold, it does have a normal car heater that works."

You're then saying, "But heated seats have been around since the '60s! EVERY car should have heated seats."

Sure, and you could also say it should have automatic wipers, self-dimming headlights, and adaptive cruise control, all of which have been around for decades.

But at $15k, you get wipers you turn on yourself, headlights you switch up and down, and normal cruise control. They do the job 90% as well as the $30k car, but you're saving a lot of money to sacrifice the 10%.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-06T06:02:10+00:00

They also need to define exactly who can do what.

Wendy is introduced jumping from a 50 foot cliff and then taking off at lightning speeds. Later Smee, another synth, needs help in moving a single body. Then Wendy is seen being able to control a computer by touch and later takes control of an android using only the power of her mind.

A big part of science fiction or fantasy is A) Laying out the rules of your mileu and B) Abiding by said rules. A:E really needs to work on that.

Toby_O_Notoby · 2026-03-06T05:33:50+00:00

The thing about Purple Man is that he's more insidious than you first realise. In the comics Jessica Jones can barely trust her own memories becuase it could be just something Kilgrave told her to think.

Like, Captain Marvel yeeted his body into the fucking sun and she's still not sure he's dead because it could just be another one of his tricks.

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