OH MY BAD posted:

the book is called "the psychic soviet" and it's full of insane semi-marxist frankfurt school style ramblings about seinfeld being a cultural trojan horse to make white people gentrify cities and how coffee is the blood of south america consumed by the american vampire etc

the chapter in question is called the seduction of paolo hewitt but the text is too tiny to photograph (it's pocket bible sized) but he repeatedly mentions blur/oasis as a means to pump up national sentiment in the UK

multistability posted:

*ahem*

mycomancy posted:

If Blur was an op, is Gorillaz an op too?

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

the real problem with Seinfeld is that although they supposedly live in NYC they almost never take the subway (it's because it's cheaper to fake a cab/car ride on a set than an entire subway car + less extras)

scary ghost dog posted:

gorillaz was originally damon albarn teaming up with jamie hewlett to make a band that couldnt be directly connected to a nation, culture or even group of musicians, so it tracks that it would be a personal response to being exploited for nationalist purposes

fanfic insert posted:

friends/seinfeld/sex and the city/himym will forever be northern and increasingly eastern europe's ideal to strive for and it will prostrate itself to america to any depths to be a part of it

fanfic insert posted:

friends/seinfeld/sex and the city/himym will forever be northern and increasingly eastern europe's ideal to strive for and it will prostrate itself to america to any depths to be a part of it

Jose posted:

i'd like to marry robin from himym

mawarannahr posted:

hope you didn't buy that

Jose posted:

I've watched the whole show except for the final episode

Tsitsikovas posted:

Ted Mosby was on epstein's plane

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Kids, I'll never forget the time your Uncle Barney introduced me to Ghislaine Maxwell

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Kids, I'll never forget the time your Uncle Barney introduced me to Ghislaine Maxwell

mycomancy posted:

How I Met Your Mother's Owner

OH MY BAD posted:

i have a chapbook by ian svenious of nation of ulysses/the make-up from 2006 that devotes a chapter arguing a similar line about oasis and blur specifically being intelligence operations. strange parallel there

“Beatles… or Deceitles?” by James Frasché posted:

On December the 8th, 1980, Mark David Chapman exploded the Beatles myth forever. Outside the Dakota in New York City, Chapman fired four shots into one of the most recognizable actors of our time: CIA agent Ben Hoyle, the man who portrayed John Lennon on television, on the silver screen, on the radio, and in a billion hearts. According to paramedic Dan Trouel, Hoyle’s last words were ‘Tell [CIA director Stansfield] Turner… I’m blown.’ Trouel, starstruck and heartbroken, initially thought ‘Lennon’ was talking nonsense.

‘Initially,’ says Trouel, ‘I thought he was talking nonsense.’ Little did he know that Hoyle had provided the first clue to unraveling one of the greatest deceptions ever perpetrated on the American public. ‘American public,’ you ask? ‘Weren’t the Beatles a worldwide phenomenon?’ WRONG. Ask any British adult who the Beatles are, and you’ll be greeted with a blank stare.

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Tsitsikovas posted:

holy poo poo Im not alone in thinking this! I literally just dropped this in the succ thread yesterday. I think friends is the prime candidate but nevertheless YES IAN YES

e: friends is the standout example but if you look at NBC's entire slate during that period there was a lot about being a young horny yuppie trying your damnedest in the big city, most times NYC. The playbook repeats itself with every gentrification spike, see Broad City.

Jose posted:

I've watched the whole show except for the final episode

pangstrom posted:

Had a few experiences recently where people were talking semi-positively about watching HIMYM (one was on a podcast... chapo maybe?) and it was totally shocking to me. I always assumed it was unwatchable garbage like two and a half men or something.

pangstrom posted:

Had a few experiences recently where people were talking semi-positively about watching HIMYM (one was on a podcast... chapo maybe?) and it was totally shocking to me. I always assumed it was unwatchable garbage like two and a half men or something.

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

I started rewatching Frasier and tbh it's made me revise my former hardline stance against "laughtracks". some forms of comedy, like Farce, just play better in front of an actual audience.

Tsitsikovas posted:

They basically took arrested development, made it less edgy, screened it in front of a live audience, and there you go.

Tsitsikovas posted:

If the scripts are good and the laughs arent entirely canned it can be a great viewing experience. People got (rightfully) annoyed because of how forced they eventually became. Unfunny jokes getting perfectly cadenced laughs relentlessly.

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

I started rewatching Frasier and tbh it's made me revise my former hardline stance against "laughtracks". some forms of comedy, like Farce, just play better in front of an actual audience.