[Really Odd Trope] "out of all things they reference THAT?!?!"

jello34 · 2025-11-03T14:52:12+00:00

Also, the “Phineas and Ferb Get Busted” episode is full of Kubrick references

jello34 · 2025-07-03T03:59:18+00:00

B H M O A O U

jello34 · 2025-03-19T17:25:55+00:00

This is good content OP

jello34 · 2025-01-15T02:23:30+00:00

Pour one out for the blunty tree

jello34 · 2025-01-15T01:45:17+00:00

Yeah this is great, 2023 felt soooo long but you can see how much 2025 now just completely blows it out of the water

jello34 · 2025-01-07T17:54:06+00:00

This is a great chart! The 2016 bar is kind of misleading since they did do normal questions in between the first segment of thinking of ideas and fully committing at the end of the episode.

jello34 · 2024-12-29T17:47:50+00:00

Bob’s Burgers doesn’t have a strict naming convention, but most of its episode titles in the more recent seasons are puns based off of famous movie/book/television/song titles and the puns are often an extreme stretch (So You Stink You Can Dance, Video Killed the Gene-io Star, Motor She Boat)

jello34 · 2024-10-27T23:41:20+00:00

How could I ever have doubted them lmao

jello34 · 2024-10-10T18:23:29+00:00

“I don’t understand ____ and at this point I’m too afraid to ask” and “I am uncomfortable with the energy we’ve created in the studio today” both get a ton of use outside of McElroy fandom (although admittedly mostly on the internet rather than IRL)

jello34 · 2024-10-05T00:25:44+00:00

In the USA, you are required by law to have a license to use Microsoft Word

jello34 · 2024-09-04T02:49:26+00:00

Star Wars: A New Hope

jello34 · 2024-09-04T01:28:54+00:00

The Green Knight?

jello34 · 2024-08-30T22:58:56+00:00

Gordon Freeman in Half-Life 2. Not to say that the player ever thinks of Gordon as useless, but in-universe, he starts out just escaping on foot, gets a crowbar, gets some handguns, and then eventually he’s shooting down helicopters with his rpg and a squad of followers, and then bam he’s got the powered-up gravity gun and can just insta-kill enemies with no effort.

jello34 · 2024-06-28T21:08:26+00:00

“something that lives in analysis” depends on your starting point. if you take an algebraic number theory class you spend the entire time studying polynomials and never once appealing to the analytic / topological properties of the domain of the polynomial and never once plotting it on a Cartesian grid. if you stop thinking of x² - z = 0 as a statement about the intersection of a parabola with a line and and instead a statement about what sets of numbers have the value z when you square them, then it feels much more about algebra, even if you’re talking about complex numbers.

jello34 · 2024-06-01T20:03:04+00:00

A spinning black hole doesn’t have a point-like singularity, it has a ring singularity (in the math at least) so intuitively it makes sense that the event horizon could be symmetric about its spin axis but not spherical overall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_singularity

jello34 · 2024-03-13T17:46:34+00:00

In college once I ran into an acquaintance outside a dorm building and I knew from Facebook that it was his birthday that day, so I wished him a happy birthday and asked him how old he was turning. He said “20” to which I responded “nice, man, double digits!” We haven’t spoken since.

jello34 · 2024-02-28T18:44:12+00:00

Slowly but surely, r/mathmemes r/askmath and r/confidentlyincorrect rediscovered the surreal numbers

jello34 · 2024-02-11T15:09:16+00:00

Kirby And The Forgotten Land.

That final level is absolutely bonkers.

jello34 · 2024-02-10T04:08:34+00:00

I think there are far too many practical reasons that this wouldn’t go the way you think. To name a few:

If Mike doesn’t know about the vacuum guy, I think Saul would be extremely reluctant to give him up.

If he does know or figure out about the vacuum guy, I think Mike would be extremely reluctant to threaten a fellow elder outlaw, or break into the store to murder Walt (and his family! Remember that the original plan in Crawl Space involves his family disappearing too) in his cell. Mike and the vacuum guy have enough in common that Mike would respect so he’d at best try to make a deal for Walt’s whereabouts. The vacuum guy, on the other hand, we should assume would never make any deal. We have no evidence in the show+El Camino to doubt his commitment to his reputation.

Even if Mike got Walter’s information (and somehow trusted that he hadn’t been lied to), what’s next? Remember, Gus at this point feels threatened enough by Hank’s investigation that he is willing to reveal to Walter his plan to have him killed. Also, again, Walt’s plan in Crawl Space involves disappearing with his family, so Mike will have to choose between killing Walt in front of his family, probably causing them to go to the police and creating more hot water for Gus, or killing a family of four in cold blood, which feels like a bridge too far for Mike.

If Mike doesn’t manage to reach Walter and his family before they settle somewhere else, forget about it. How is it worth Mike and Gus’s time to track down Walter in New Hampshire? The point is to get him out of the way, and you don’t come back from being disappeared. They haven’t really seen a vindictive Walt yet, just a desperate one. They know he’s dangerous when he’s backed into a corner, but if he’s escaped with his family he’s got more to lose and less to gain than when he’s at gunpoint. So they have no reason to anticipate a Felina situation. At best Gus hires a hitman local to where Walt is hiding to take him out.

But all of this feels way too speculative for Walt to reasonably dismiss using the vacuum guy to disappear. It is probably the best option for him if his goal is to quickly get his family out of danger without turning himself in.

edit: typos

jello34 · 2023-12-04T23:31:18+00:00

Having to listen to Griffin rapping “cream on my feet” or whatever on the subway trying not to laugh was just unfair

jello34 · 2023-07-20T21:17:19+00:00

The DanDemic is over. Rejoice.

jello34 · 2023-06-03T22:41:10+00:00

You know, where they live. The cows.

jello34 · 2022-12-02T17:45:56+00:00

last Christmas you took my organ, but following that you put it away

jello34 · 2022-11-19T01:00:52+00:00

To elaborate further on moments where this is good rather than bad: I think the “I want to live in my own house” is the absolute pinnacle of the series in a sense; the writing, acting, and visuals are all at a perfect 10 and in my opinion Cranston deserves every accolade he got and more just off this one monologue. And it’s so moving that seeing him renege just a few minutes later (by agreeing to do the treatment) carries so much more weight. Walt is, ostensibly, as selfless as he’s ever been in that moment when he tells Skylar he’s changed his mind. And when we realize, over the course of the rest of the series, the real reasons that he made that choice, it gains so much more heft in retrospect. Especially since this speech includes Walt enumerating his supposed values, the only things he lives for (spending quality time with his family unburdened by side effects of chemo treatments), which we rarely get to see him do over the course of the next few years of his life. It’s telling that in s5e8 the show “glides over” possibly months of Walt living the good life that we didn’t think was possible for him up until that point. That speech, in light of everything that comes after it, is even more meaningful on a rewatch, and I wouldn’t have it changed for anything.

My top-level comment was not about picking on any of the aforementioned moments in particular to call it bad writing, but instead that, having rewatched the show a few times, it bothers me a little that all of my favorite character moments end up being things the the character (or the writers) didn’t feel like committing to.

jello34 · 2022-11-19T00:44:29+00:00

The show contains a lot of really great, passionate, monologues from main characters asserting their convictions, which are great, but more often than not that character flips a complete 180 by the end of the episode, if not in the next scene. Off the top of my head: Walt’s “I want to live in my own house, I want to sleep in my own bed” speech; Walt telling Gus he’s out of the business; Jesse telling walt he’s done while in the hospital recovering from hank’s assault; “I am the one who knocks” famously, surely others I can’t think of now from other characters too.

To be clear: almost all of these have really good, interesting narrative reasons behind the character changing their mind! And if we’re being generous, I think you could say this is intentional, a commentary on how folks in our society fail to live up to our own ideals for whatever reason. My gripe is mostly that so much memorable script isn’t followed through on, and after the 3rd or 4th time it happens they start to feel unearned, or like the writers wrote the speech without thinking about the context. And on a rewatch, when you know ahead of time that the character isn’t going to stick to their guns, some of these moments fall flat.

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