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gently caress yeah I remember these Wendy's tables so vividly with the old timey newspapers imprinted on the top
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Yeah these guys have a great set design team, Observe and Report was spot on for a 2010s suburban mall
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moist turtleneck posted:nice little detail in the flashback is that Judy got rollerblades for christmas I like how Jesse is supposed to be 14/15 and got a bulky toy robot that would be more suitable for 4-year-old Kelvin
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Feb 1, 2022 21:08
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OldSenileGuy posted:would sheltered suburban white kid Jesse know it? These are probably the least sheltered white kids ever. Judy was singing Easy E and Jesse got away with saying pussy about 5 times. I didn't catch the detail of the newsprint tables. Love this show so much.
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moist turtleneck posted:gently caress yeah I remember these Wendy's tables so vividly with the old timey newspapers imprinted on the top I've been thinking about this restaurant and there's two possibilities: some really amazing set designers or they found a Wendy's that hasn't had the interior re-done in 30 years. That's a very real possibility.
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ChesterJT posted:These are probably the least sheltered white kids ever. Judy was singing Easy E and Jesse got away with saying pussy about 5 times. Yeah they are the other end of the extreme, no boundaries whatsoever and unlimited resources to spoil them with whatever they want whenever they want
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lol I didn't know this little tidbit https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/c3qmbe/i_own_one_of_the_original_wendys_tables_that_were/ supposedly ordered to be destroyed because of some of the colorful articles written on them
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the gemstone kids upbringing is definitely dissonant from my experience with what its like to grow up in a super christian family - my own was pretty secular but all the kids on my street had churchy southern baptist parents and they ranged from "mildly uptight" to "literally washes your mouth with soap for cussin". none of these kids would have been allowed anywhere near rap music, which is why rap got so popular in the 90s among rural and suburban white kids with no connection to black america, but who wanted to rebel against their parents. rock wasn't rebellious enough anymore if eli and aimee-leigh are sincere in their faith, and they appear to be, then they must just be massively neglectful and distracted from the pressure of running the gemstone ministry as a business
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Feb 1, 2022 22:33
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All the super churchy kids I knew growing up were either evil or Harmon
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OldSenileGuy posted:For as accurate as the aesthetics were, there were a couple lines that were jarring to me as being anachronistic for the early to mid 90s. "fat stacks" was a term used back then. So was "FYI," which I can remember being used quite a lot.
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Feb 1, 2022 22:38
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It's not even about the kids being from a religious family, they're just spoiled brats and all spoiled brats are assholes, especially once they're a teenager and can't really be taught how to act anymore
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Feb 1, 2022 22:40
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Also it's funny to see little kids cuss like Edi Patterson and Danny McBride
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:the gemstone kids upbringing is definitely dissonant from my experience with what its like to grow up in a super christian family - my own was pretty secular but all the kids on my street had churchy southern baptist parents and they ranged from "mildly uptight" to "literally washes your mouth with soap for cussin". none of these kids would have been allowed anywhere near rap music, which is why rap got so popular in the 90s among rural and suburban white kids with no connection to black america, but who wanted to rebel against their parents. rock wasn't rebellious enough anymore In religious communities you'll get kids like your described as well as kids like the Gemstones. I've seen it with my own eyes. Interestingly, it was also the rich kids I knew (or at least the families that had the most money) who were able to do whatever they want compared to the others.
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zoux posted:Also it's funny to see little kids cuss like Edi Patterson and Danny McBride That piss your pants line knocked me out of my chair Really enjoying this and Peacemaker being on at the same time
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zoux posted:Also it's funny to see little kids cuss like Edi Patterson and Danny McBride I constantly think about Kid Judy saying "Jesse caught AIDS?" in S1 when Amy-Leigh is announcing her surprise pregnancy.  She just sounds so hopeful!
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Yeah Peacemaker really surprised me, but also I'm a sucker for James Gunn lol at that nordic band getting the biggest signal boost 10 years after their song came out
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:
Probably has to do with starting your own theme park
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also "finna" is just normal southern poo poo. it's either that or fitna
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:the gemstone kids upbringing is definitely dissonant from my experience with what its like to grow up in a super christian family - my own was pretty secular but all the kids on my street had churchy southern baptist parents and they ranged from "mildly uptight" to "literally washes your mouth with soap for cussin". none of these kids would have been allowed anywhere near rap music, which is why rap got so popular in the 90s among rural and suburban white kids with no connection to black america, but who wanted to rebel against their parents. rock wasn't rebellious enough anymore That's a big factor into why rap overtook rock in general as pop music.
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Jose Oquendo posted:In religious communities you'll get kids like your described as well as kids like the Gemstones. I've seen it with my own eyes. Interestingly, it was also the rich kids I knew (or at least the families that had the most money) who were able to do whatever they want compared to the others. one of my friends in high school was loaded. her dad was like the wizard of renting scissor lifts. like some kind of good old boy high school dropout genius at renting industrial safety equipment to people. he started his own company, made a shitload of money, retired early and sold his company with a non-compete clause, got bored, the non-compete expired, then he started another scissor lift company and made another huge pile of money before retiring for good he built a giant house in the woods. his backyard has a seven acre lake, a rain-filled old rock quarry that was his secret swimming hole as a kid. all he does all day long is sit in his huge garage listening to classic rock with his buddies, drinking cheap beer and smoking weed. imagine the stereotype of an appalachian redneck but change nothing about him except bumping his net worth up by several million dollars and you've got this guy he's got five kids. i went to school with the middle of the five. they didn't really get wealthy as a family until the middle kid was about 10 or so. the oldest kids are very nice, well adjusted, people with professional jobs and stable family lives. the youngest kid is a train wreck who has several children out of wedlock, drug problems, petty criminal record, and so on. it could just be that he was the baby of the family but it also seems like the longer these kids spent their childhood in wealth and luxury, the more jacked up they were as adults anyway, gemstones is a story about how wealth and comfort are highly corrosive to the soul Mob posted:It's not even about the kids being from a religious family, they're just spoiled brats and all spoiled brats are assholes, especially once they're a teenager and can't really be taught how to act anymore yeah, i would expect more limits around their brattishness simply because religious families tend to be stricter, in my experience. i think the message here is that the gemstone kids were raised in an environment where faith was important, but wealth was more important. i mean this isn't very subtle, it was the whole point of the orgiastic christmas present montage, but judy shouting eazy-e into a toy microphone is a funny way to reinforce that point Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:
You can also see it last season with Judy’s birthday party and her judging their gifts
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DOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:they didnt have digital cameras in 93 -_- Yes they did. Not 93, but my dad bought a digital camera a couple years after this.
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I need a .gif of Baby Bill swaying back and forth while listening to Lil Kelvin play the harpsichord.
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https://i.imgur.com/YTcYLFf.gifv
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Seeing how good Baby Billy was with the gemstone kids, it makes me wonder why he always abandons his families.
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Jose Oquendo posted:I've been thinking about this restaurant and there's two possibilities: some really amazing set designers or they found a Wendy's that hasn't had the interior re-done in 30 years. That's a very real possibility. In Kelvin's room there's a taped up picture of a muscle man. Which makes sense and explains a lot about him. It's a quick shot behind Judy if someone can get a pic of that. I basically binged all of season one last weekend and this show is so good. I just want to say that Judy is loving crazy.
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Cojawfee posted:Seeing how good Baby Billy was with the gemstone kids, it makes me wonder why he always abandons his families. He seemed pretty good with Harmon too (certainly at least compared to how he treats most people.) I get the impression Harmon's special needs got to him and he just couldn't handle it anymore. No such excuse for Aunt Tiffany, but maybe Harmon affected him so deeply that he can't bring himself to even risk going through that again.
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It's also very easy to be the fun uncle to your rich nieces and nephews. You're not financially responsible for them.
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OldSenileGuy posted:For as accurate as the aesthetics were, there were a couple lines that were jarring to me as being anachronistic for the early to mid 90s. for me it was the henson-esque accountant saying “not a good look” at the beginning of the episode
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A lot of people don’t remember FYE apparently.
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ChesterJT posted:It's also very easy to be the fun uncle to your rich nieces and nephews. You're not financially responsible for them. Yeah this is why grandparents love grandkids, you get to spoil them then send them back to your children to punish them(your children) for the crime of having to raise them
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Cojawfee posted:Seeing how good Baby Billy was with the gemstone kids, it makes me wonder why he always abandons his families. he's not good with kids at all, he is constantly involving them in his hosed up manipulation games in season 1 he gets kid jesse drunk to sabotage eli and as soon as he shows up on christmas to drop the news about his divorce he takes the opportunity to insult kelvin, a small child. later in the sleepover he brings up harmon again and tries to poison the kids against their cousin he's superficially nice but he's got no substance, he abandons his family because he can't give them the wealth which would signify that he is a success (because he is a broke rear end loser) and this makes him feel so rotten he finds it easier to run away from the responsibility rather than sit there visibly being a broke rear end loser. in the first flashback episode billy says he's had three divorces, i would guess that he is the instigator in each of those the holy poopacy posted:He seemed pretty good with Harmon too (certainly at least compared to how he treats most people.) I get the impression Harmon's special needs got to him and he just couldn't handle it anymore. harmon seemed a little suspicious of daddy baby billy to me, but its hard to say. gloria was giving him an eat poo poo stare the entire time, she knows who he is. it takes a while but someone who lets you down with a smile and promises to never do it again, only to do it again, and again, and again... uncle baby billy is just a small time con artist, the kind who has to skip out of town in the dead of night when consequences get too close, and that also means skipping out on his own family e: actually, the way harmon follows billy and watches him leave the mall - it feels like billy is constantly dipping in and out of harmon's life, and he's used to it, and not very sad to see billy go Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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Pleaseeee be Steven Little
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dammit the 1911 that Eli has in his car when he gets surprised by Junior is the same gun Glendon had in this episode Extremely dumb for him not to throw that into the concrete tomb too
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Oh God, Harmon's the hidden antagonist isn't he. Does the timeline work for Harmon to become one of Kelvin's musclemen? Maybe the especially huge one?
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I remember when people thought Harmon was either gonna turn out to be Scotty (the antagonist from S1) or Keefe.
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