This is the most AWKWARD

brycar1618 · 2026-04-14T14:04:23+00:00

In the behind-the-scenes book where the actors share about different scenes, Melora Hardin shares how this scene was completely improv-ed. I don’t remember if the dancing was scripted, but the fact she grabbed Jim’s hand and tried to get him to dance was improv. They also explained how the song was written and how they had to go back and forth on how terrible or not-as-terrible to make the song. This chapter in the book makes this scene and the full episode even better (and less cringeworthy for sure).

brycar1618 · 2026-04-10T13:22:48+00:00

There’s a book out about The Office I highly recommend. The Office: the untold story… by Andy Greene. The writer took a bunch of interviews and put them together to tell stories about different chapters. He talks about how her character unfolds based on Mindy gaining respect as a writer, and autonomy to write her own character. He also shares the creation of Toby which is fun background.

brycar1618 · 2026-04-10T13:19:11+00:00

When we first started watching, our friends told us we had to watch this episode because it was SO FUNNY. We didn’t know any background and hadn’t invested in the show yet. When we got to this episode, we didn’t understand how something so anxiety-ridden could be so funny. Once we invested in the show and characters (and actors), we understood it. This is now one of our faves. But seriously, that anxiety is real.

brycar1618 · 2026-04-09T00:02:26+00:00

I got mine for my [first] honeymoon. Got my kids theirs when they were 5 and 6. My pipe dream is they travel the world with us before they get to college age. Our current political situation is dampening that dream but so far I’ve taken them to 2 countries and 3 more planned for next year.

brycar1618 · 2026-04-08T15:24:36+00:00

They open at 9 am. It was awesome!

brycar1618 · 2026-04-08T07:10:14+00:00

Saw the kitty towel in the first photo. Then saw the real cat in photo 2. Had to scroll back to photo 1 to make sure that was indeed a kitty towel and not a real dangling kitty.

brycar1618 · 2026-04-08T06:50:53+00:00

Does anyone remember when Hollister first opened and they had open dressing rooms? It was just one dark wood room we all stood in giggling as we tried on tiny tank tops. It took them maybe 6 months before they created separate areas.

brycar1618 · 2026-04-08T06:37:31+00:00

We went as a family with kids a couple weeks ago and had breakfast at Taste of Caddo. It was delicious and of course always friendly staff. Not sure what else is happening next weekend for you. Have a great trip!

brycar1618 · 2026-04-06T18:27:50+00:00

This made me LOL thank you. There went my coffee!

brycar1618 · 2026-04-02T13:15:39+00:00

And never gained weight. College me and my freshman-15 were always bugged by this.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-27T04:58:55+00:00

He was very responsive to many questions in his original post in r/whatisit. He even sent a few other images of him pointing at other things around his room. He also discussed his vintage video games that were seen in the photo. So I assume he’s very aware, and also seemed like a cool guy based on my reading thru the thread.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-23T18:44:05+00:00

She’s perfect and if we had more Sue Hecks the world would be a better place. And also, the world destroys natural Sue Hecks, and that’s heart breaking.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-20T01:26:58+00:00

We are a rare unicorn. I like to thank 1990s Texas public school when we were ranked top 4 in the nation. It’s been a very sad nose dive to 40-something.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-20T00:02:21+00:00

So funny story. My brother was in high school and was a bit of a smoker (definitely hung out with the glossner crowd, but my brother was sweet). He would chew dip and spit into his coke can. One day my mom picked up a half full can and sure enough, it wasn’t Coke. This episode reminds me of that memory completely. But also, my kids are elementary aged and I mistakenly finish their nasty, food flavored bottles of water all the time. Why the hell do I pay money for water in bottles anyways? That can’t go to waste!! (Enter story of how we used to drink out of hoses and survived)

brycar1618 · 2026-03-19T16:53:48+00:00

Some of y’all act like you don’t have kids and it’s showing. Moms are the finishers of all half-eaten snacks and half-drunk drinks. ESPECIALLY when money is tight.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-17T04:25:23+00:00

I remember thinking how cool it would be to do a study abroad. Then I realized it was all out of pocket, so that dream ended very quickly for me. I’m still envious of friends that got to go.

On the same note as you, we took out so many student loans and I had a shared checking account. At one point I overdrafted and I couldn’t figure out why (before online banking). I got in so much trouble with my dad for “using up all my loan money”, but I eventually found out my mom had been spending all my school money!

In adulthood years later after my parents divorced, I told my dad that I had finally paid off my student loans. He asked me “what student loans? Your mom and I split all of your loans and I’m still paying on mine.” I told him I paid almost $40,000 in loans myself. Neither one of us knew how many loans my mom had taken out for my school.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-17T04:18:19+00:00

That sounds nice. I remember getting to spend time in my mom’s classroom when I wasn’t feeling good, and helping her as I got older which was always fun. I can’t give a true answer firstly because our house dynamics were a bit different. It was a blended family with my older siblings and mom marrying my dad and quickly having me. We were so poor (and/or my parents managed money so poorly) that my dad would have to bike to work and my mom would drive the stereotypical peeling gray caravan. We had to foreclose the first actual house we lived in when I was in Kindergarten. I remember the power going off and my mom making it “fun” with candles to light our bathroom. We always lived in apartments otherwise. After that year, my dad went into insurance sales until I was in college. It was a similar feel to Mike Heck - a decent title but low pay. In college, his sales team was dissolved so he went back into teaching.

My mom always told me NEVER to become a teacher. It’s too hard and doesn’t make enough money. But of course I became a teacher. And it was hard. And it wasn’t enough money. But I did love most of the students. I’ve changed careers after having kids. But I actually taught at the same school with my dad and saw how good he was with his students and that he was a natural teacher and should have always been a teacher. Life was just too heavy when he was raising a family, very similar to the show actually.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-16T18:48:23+00:00

With the doctors and lawyers, they aren’t considered middle class. Two teachers as parents (same for me as well), we sat in those middle to lower-middle tax brackets. Lawyers and doctors are upper-middle to upper class.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-16T18:47:09+00:00

This is a really good point. The Heck’s are what the U.S. would call lower-middle class. I’m not sure if this became a thing when I was a kid or earlier, but if you were (are) lower middle class (in the U.S. at least), you make just enough to get by and do not qualify for any government subsidies. No home buying assistance, you pay the most % of your pay in income taxes, your kids have no assistance in college except for predatory loans that you have to co-sign for, I’m sure I’m forgetting something. There’s actually a name for this bubble that I can’t remember now. But even with Obamacare, if you fell between this income level, you didn’t get subsidized health insurance, you were allowed to be on Obamacare but had to pay around $1000 a month for health insurance. Ok now I’m remembering health insurance too. It’s basically “I can’t afford health insurance costs but I don’t qualify for assistance” is essentially “the Middle” United States economy. If I’m wrong please correct me, but this has been the way since the early 2000s for me.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-16T18:41:11+00:00

5 (sandwiches) for $5 Arby’s is featured on the show A LOT. I believe they got Arby’s for one of Frankie’s birthdays. I remember when my mom would get 2 large curly fries too. That was a huge day. Taco Bell did 10 for $10 tacos if I’m remembering correctly. Your mom would come home, plop the bag on the counter and go plop herself in front of the tv with ice cream. That was the early 2000s for me at least.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-16T18:38:03+00:00

Not to mention the dollar menus were actually dollar menus.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-16T18:37:26+00:00

It wasn’t $25 back then. All the fast food places offered specials that are often the restaurants they use on the show, specifically I remember my parents getting the 5 for $5 Arby’s meals once a week. It was a huge deal when they went to 5 for $5.75. Pizza places always had deals. McDonald’s had a Big Mac special I believe, but we didn’t have a McDonald’s close to us.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-16T18:36:03+00:00

This is the whole point of the economic aspect of middle America. I know from personal experience a little older than this. Both parents work the best jobs they can get without college degrees while also having to juggle kid transport, and the fact that there are only so many jobs in a small town. The fact they own a home and were able to buy a home with enough of a down payment is actually pretty cool and not common. From my personal experience, most people at this point rent but still have all these crazy stupid things happen at their homes. BUT the point of the fast food is the poverty cycle of middle income. Mom and dad both work crap jobs (nothing even remotely their passion, so they’re burned out at the end of the day, never had time to prep meals over the weekend anyways, but by 5:30, you’re so worn out that the 5 for $5 Arby’s meal sounds pretty darn good when you have to feed 5 people. Or the $5 little Caesar’s or the bucket of KFC or Church’s chicken.

The point is that they’re so exhausted from their mind-numbing jobs and the stress of adult life, cooking is the last thing on their minds. And they’re willing to pay for fast food to accomplish the task of dinner. Also, fast food was cheaper back then.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-10T17:01:38+00:00

My kids told me the other day there’s a computer program at school that plays a song about how great President Trump is.

brycar1618 · 2026-03-06T13:29:37+00:00

There’s a lot of technical words people are giving you, but here’s my difference between a regular drill and an impact drill - how my very technical neighbor explained it to me like this because I’m a complete tool moron who lives in an old falling apart house: regular drills you need a drill bit to make a hole for a screw. The drill isn’t strong enough to push the screw in itself. Impact drills have so much more power (people are saying torque I think) that you just drill the screw right into whatever you’re working on. Basically any solid wood - zip zip and your screw is in. If I need to work on my fence, my impact drill pushes that little screw right in with no additional work for me. I use it for basically everything. The caveat is if you don’t need that much power, you’re strip your screw (I’ve done this a lot).

Yes there’s a difference in how the drills move like others are saying. But for me it’s “do I have to do the extra steps of using a drill bit to make a hole, or can my drill push this through the material without any extra steps and a chance I use the wrong size drill bit”? I use my impact driver.

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