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L&O: SVU and Ice-T are wonderful because they gave us this brilliant bit from John Mulaney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4pQBYg1vfA
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Aug 2, 2017 13:03
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oldpainless posted:I'll never understand anyone liking rugrats more like old... You know what? No. I totally agree and I'd emptyquote this all day if I could.
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Aug 5, 2017 16:43
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mind the walrus posted:I loved it growing up--had all the die-cast models n' poo poo--but when I revisted an episode or two as an adult the whole thing has some horrifying authoritarian "keep your head down, do your loving job, and don't question the way things are" themes to it. Quelle apropos that this post showed up on Imgur today: https://imgur.com/gallery/kylNN
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Aug 6, 2017 22:00
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Arivia posted:It's true for Sesame Street by way of John Munch, so why can't it be true for other shows? Oh, sur-- wait, what?!
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Aug 8, 2017 18:48
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Mister Kingdom posted:Yep, the spitting image of the real Charles: Giving Michael Landon that beard would've made the show a millions times better.
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Aug 9, 2017 01:44
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Sunswipe posted:Matlock's a real show? I always thought it was just a Simpsons gag. Nope. Beloved show of grandmas everywhere from 1986-1992, and then in syndication later on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matlock_(TV_series) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090481/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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Aug 11, 2017 01:36
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Aesop Poprock posted:Speaking of: more about a movie/stage show that didn't age well (if it was even decent to begin with) but here's a really good look back at Rent's two incarnations David Rakoff did a brilliant monologue about why Rent is terrible: David Rakoff posted:There are 525,600 minutes in a year. I learned that from watching Rent. From watching Rent, I also learned that the best way to mark the passing of these 525,600 minutes would be to measure them out into something Jonathan Larson, the writer of the musical, called seasons of love. What does that even mean, seasons of love? TL;DR: You can listen to it here.
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Aug 15, 2017 14:35
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Aesop Poprock posted:The video I posted is essentially that kind of stuff but more in depth and with really good film criticism/humor. If you haven't watched it I would really recommend it, along with al of chez Lindsay's other videos Apologies -- I don't usually check Youtube videos at work. Your post just reminded me of Rakoff's monologue. Will give it a look.
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Aug 15, 2017 15:45
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Doesn't rent-control usually only apply to people who live in a place at the time the rent-control is enacted, and then the landlord can jack up the rent when the old tenant leaves and a new one moves in? So any of these people in these shows buying or wanting to move into so-called "rent-controlled" buildings wouldn't be getting that sweet low rent anyway, right?
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Aug 15, 2017 21:15
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:loving hell, did I just defend Mama's Family? I think I need to start drinking. While your dissertation on Mama's Family was quite good, I suspect stone cold was commenting on the Carol Burnett GWTW sketch.
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Aug 16, 2017 12:02
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The Bloop posted:That's the first episode that had the THIS poo poo IS DISTURBING YOU MAY NOT WANT TO SEE IT warning before it. They weren't kidding, either.
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Aug 18, 2017 18:42
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Comstar posted:A hit Australian TV series that went for 7 years is never going to be shown again after the lead actor was convicted of two counts of sexual intercourse with a child, seven counts of indecent assault upon a person under the age of 16 and one count of committing an indecent act. The final episode everyone dies from a bank robbers bomb which is kinda dark for a sitcom (which the characters mentioned). There's an American show called "Seventh Heaven" that will never be aired again for similar reasons. The show was long over by the time this came out, but it was a favorite of family/religious networks in reruns. Oops.
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Aug 20, 2017 02:17
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Krispy Kareem posted:Are you being ironic or did you not know 7th Heaven was back on the air within a year of being shelved? Actually, I was seriously unaware of that. What an extraordinarily depressing turn of events. I did know that Cosby is still on, though -- I'll occasionally see it on the channel guide in the super-high cable numbers.
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Aug 20, 2017 03:02
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Aesop Poprock posted:What's weird is that my brain somehow combined this episode with some live action show I can't remember the name of where a kid with AIDs is on the swimteam of a highschool (i think) and he cracked his head open in the pool and everyone panics and flees and all the parents are angry and reacting like the kid's a monster etc. Does anyone know what the hell show I'm talking about? Cause for a while I thought captain planet had an aids kid bleeding in a pool and I was trying to remember how they got around the censors for that. I also remember thinking "I'd probably get the gently caress out of a pool a kid was bleeding heavily in regardless cause gross" This feels painfully familiar, but I'm thinking it was more likely an After-School Special (who else remembers those?) or a Lifetime movie.
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Aug 22, 2017 17:22
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YeahTubaMike posted:The episode where he dies really hosed me up. I really liked that episode all the way around (and not because of the helicopter-death scene, although it was a fantastic "HOLKY poo poo!" moment). A TV station here has started rerunning ER again and I'll find myself binge-watching when it's on, and I still enjoy it. I think whoever it was upthread who said TV shows with interchangeable cast members tend to age better was right, if for no other reason than it's a pattern that mimics life. People quit or find better jobs or get squashed by helicopters, and the world just keeps right on turning.
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Aug 30, 2017 01:02
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Dexie posted:What we basically need is someone to redo the Walk of Life Project but with All Star instead. I love everything about this.
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Aug 31, 2017 16:06
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Gaunab posted:Any show or movie from the 90s that had a badass character with a mullet. MacGyver, noooooo
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Sep 5, 2017 17:37
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Ah, Dan Quayle... We were so goddamn innocent back then.
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Sep 15, 2017 18:48
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DACK FAYDEN posted:wait what the gently caress how do you Brits(?) pronounce solder "sword"
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Oct 6, 2017 18:49
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Milo and POTUS posted:that song sounds like poo poo goddamn Also, they released it before 9/11 if that timeline is correct.
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Oct 9, 2017 21:23
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purple death ray posted:They're ripping off biggie anyway but just in case you actually don't know this, the wtc was bombed in 1993  Goddammit. I don't know if says more about me or this horrible excuse for a country that I completely blocked that out in the wake of all the other terrible things that have happened in the 24 years since then.
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Oct 10, 2017 12:43
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Trauma Dog 3000 posted:*empty silence* *empty silence* 
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Oct 13, 2017 12:36
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Alaois posted:ein cooler typ's gimmick is being a unfunny oldpainless More like oldhumourless.
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Oct 24, 2017 01:03
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John Big Booty posted:Sandy Frank is almost 90. No need to put him on the Anime Death List that does not exist. Oh, come now. Sandy Frank has been a walking cadaver for at least the last 20 years (woman on the right is his ex-wife, and a former model if you can believe it): 
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Oct 26, 2017 10:30
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:Jesus. I'd say it's more likely he's a victim of bad plastic surgery. Kind of a shame, really: 
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Oct 27, 2017 00:59
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purple death ray posted:If SNL was The Simpsons, Mad TV was like, Fish Police. Sarcopenia posted:I had never heard of this show and had to look it up. My god is it painfully unfunny and John Ritter's voice acting in it is awful.   Suddenly I understand a riff in the MST3k episode "Blood Waters of Dr. Z."
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Nov 8, 2017 01:09
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Inescapable Duck posted:Meet Dave in particular seemed to hugely overexpose Eddie Murphy to the point where it was a joke in itself, if I remember right. You aren't kidding: 
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Nov 8, 2017 16:31
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While we're on the subject of completely inappropriate songs, who else remembers this one-hit wonder? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9TXjIadhq0 Lyrics: Benny Mardones posted:She's just sixteen years old
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Nov 13, 2017 16:19
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Wheat Loaf posted:Ted Nugent had a song called "Jailbait". Considering how detestable his politics are, it should come as no surprise that his music is too.
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Nov 14, 2017 13:02
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Mister Kingdom posted:John Amos and Esther Rolle truly wanted to put a positive light on black families living in the ghetto and then DYNO-MITE exploded. In interviews, Jimmie Walker did not give gently caress one about being a clown. His view being that the show was a comedy and he wanted to make people laugh. Which, from what I understand, was the reason John Amos left the show -- he didn't like DY-NO-MITE and Walker's comic portrayal.
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Nov 16, 2017 16:36
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Achernar posted:This is actually an old Hollywood gimmick to give more money to show creators. The theme to Bonanza or I Dream of Jeanie also had lyrics written for them but not used in the intros. And it is GLORIOUS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bczfyoafHBk
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Dec 4, 2017 17:58
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married but discreet posted:Did anyone ever actually watch Charmed  grittyreboot posted:There's a Twitter account that documents the questionable 2000's fashion choices of Charmed: https://twitter.com/charmedoutfits?s=09 This, on the other hand, is amazing. Zamboni Rodeo has a new favorite as of 18:57 on Dec 4, 2017 |
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Dec 4, 2017 18:54
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Catch 22 is one of the funniest and most infuriating books I've ever read. My dad felt the same way the first time he read it. Then he got sent to Vietnam. It wasn't nearly as funny to him when he reread it after he got home.
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Dec 5, 2017 17:45
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Krispy Wafer posted:My dad said all his army buddies made fun of the scene where the guy gets chopped in half. Apparently it looks fake, but it always looked real to me. Yeah, my dad was a medical corpsman in the Navy. He got to see the worst of what war does to people. He really doesn't talk about it much.
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Dec 5, 2017 22:11
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Rough Lobster posted:Big Bang Theory becomes an unwatchable Lovecraftian mess to human viewers if you take away the laugh track. Not that Big Bang Theory isn't already an unwatchable mess on its own, but the constant weird pauses for laughter that never comes will drive you inexorably insane. Exhibit A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs
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Dec 8, 2017 12:53
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Atmus posted:I started looking into it and found out that Family Matters is a spin off of Perfect Strangers. What the gently caress, man I thought it was a spin off of Full House.
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Dec 12, 2017 17:29
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Der Kyhe posted:Even from her Comedy Central Roast it is pretty obvious that she is not mentally very well balanced person. So she and Trump are a perfect match, really.
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Dec 12, 2017 20:59
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Mu Zeta posted:And yet 20 years later Pikachu still hasn't evolved. And neither have his fans, apparently.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I had a cell phone in 1994 and I was a poor college student. Granted I got to choose between a mobile phone and a bag phone and I reeeeally considered that bag phone. My parents' first "cell" phone was a bag phone. Mu Zeta posted:Also there are still assholes everywhere since I see Uber drivers staring at their phone while driving all the time. Yup. I watched a guy yapping on his cell phone blow through an intersection today while everyone else was stopped to let a firetruck with full lights and sirens go by. I hope that idiot crapped his pants, but more likely he had no clue.
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