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bagshotrow posted:The episode of the Simpsons where Homer thinks Bart is gay aged pretty badly; Homer's bigotry didn't seem that extreme at the time, but in 2017 he just comes off as a complete bastard. My girlfriend hadn't seen any Simpsons at all until last year. The first one she saw (happened to be on TV at the time) was that episode. I had to tell her after that Homer wasn't usually a bigoted character, in fact that was pretty out of character for him, usually he's just innocently overwhelmingly dumb instead of offensively.
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A line I always remember is in I Love Lucy, where Lucy and Ethel are discussing going somewhere. Lucy is in a rush and suggests they take the train, or maybe subway, and Ethel says aghast, "In my blue jeans?" Even at the time (25 years ago on Nick-at-Nite?) I thought it was crazy to imagine a time when there was a dress code for public transportation.
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Dragonstoned posted:I just rewatched the first episode of Archer and when Archer first arrived at HQ there is a secretary that just disappeared never to be seen or heard from again. I was rewatching season one Simpsons episodes and there are a bunch of characters like this. Mostly friends of Homer and Bart that disappeared from Springfield altogether. I'm fairly sure none show up as background characters or have a meta-joke reference in later seasons, either.
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Oct 30, 2017 19:08
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A guy I know opened up a comic/games store in upstate NY. It quickly turned into a Pop Vinyl store, unofficially. It's wall to wall Pops, and every week he posts new releases on Facebook. It's crazy. He'll buy them out at places and resell them for a huge markup. I used to like the things when they first appeared, even (now regretfully) bought some for people. Now the only one I like is my Bob Ross one, but who can get upset about a Bob Ross anything?
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May 20, 2018 01:26
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WebDog posted:Didn't Omar Epps' character have brain surgery and despite major cognitive issues kept on trucking like it wasn't a big deal a couple of episodes later? I think I remember the surgery switching his left and right sides of what his brain processed on his own body, but a few episodes later they just handwaved it away with "Oh, it was just temporary, it wore off" but it's been a while.
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Jun 22, 2018 16:04
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Drunk Nerds posted:I wrote an article for Cracked, back 10 years ago when it wasn't horrible poo poo, that looked at exactly this: I was absolutely in the wrong demographic to watch Felicity as a 15 year old straight male when it came out, but I've always had confusing memories of it, like "Was it like Sabrina the Teenage Witch? Nah, it was just a teen drama, right?" I guess this is why. Also your article makes Felicity's premise sound a whole hell of a lot like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and that show didn't even exist when you wrote that article.
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