|
Mister Kingdom posted:Roger and his mother won the lottery. Connie lost a lot of weight, too Yeah, well, Disney wasn’t about to have poor or overweight people on their show. Frankly I’m amazed they didn’t give Patti’s Dad bionic legs.
|
#
¿
Aug 6, 2017 18:56
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 14, 2024 21:37 |
|
|
Volcott posted:Why didn't they just shoot Carmen Sandiego? Because they’re ACME Detective Agency. Extrajudicial killing is SEA PATROL’s jurisdiction, and while Carmen Sandiego may be many things, a goddamn scoobydoo isn’t one of them.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 27, 2017 21:19
|
|
|
Zamboni_Rodeo posted:
There was a crossover episode where Urkel showed up to harass the Tanner family. He was a cousin of one of the very few recurring black characters on the show, of course.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 13, 2017 00:35
|
|
|
Samuringa posted:Interesting how that was a pretty isolated event As I remember it (I last watched the series in 2010, so I have no idea how much of it might be cringeworthy now), it actually presented a fairly positive view of Christianity, all things considered. Maybe “lower-case christianity,” almost.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 6, 2018 19:41
|
|
|
Rirse posted:I never seen them, but on itunes they have the complete series for Chuck for $20 and Dead Like Me for $9. Were those two shows still fun to watch for someone who never seen them before, or they have some creepy thing that ruins them? Ignoring that Adam Baldwin is...problematic...Chuck’s titular character is basically a Nice Guy / White Knight, and the show eventually rewards that with romantic attention, which is probably the wrong message to send for that show’s core audience. I enjoyed it, but it’s not something I’d ever rewatch because I know I’d just be disappointed.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 7, 2019 02:49
|
|
|
Danaru posted:There was an episode of Voyager where Seven thinks a guy medically experimented on her while she was under anesthesia, and when accused, the guy flips poo poo and flies away as fast as possible, then dies because he pushed his warp engine too hard and it exploded. There is a lot of Voyager and Enterprise that has aged poorly. Enterprise has a Vulcan basically force a mind meld on another Vulcan (a woman), then lets the guy go, and it turns out later that this gave her space HIV thanks to a cross-promotional HIV awareness package the network forced on their shows.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 15, 2019 07:54
|
|
|
Kaiser Mazoku posted:Rocko hasn't aged well in the sense that it's 90's as gently caress and it shows. It’s true - only 90s cartoons would do something like Wacky Delly.
|
|
#
¿
May 30, 2019 06:12
|
|
|
Tiggum posted:I'd watch a Dr Pulaski show. I'm thinking something like House MD but in space. We’ve had sci-fi legal drama in the short-lived Century City.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 11, 2019 07:20
|
|
|
Samuringa posted:TV Episodes that did not age well even though they were never made I like how this is written like the car went all Christine and murdered her, instead of what it probably was - some millennial on his cell phone (a Samsung Galaxy, I’m sure) running her down.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 4, 2019 00:31
|
|
|
El Aurians also seem to be perceptive to how reality works in general - Guinan notes the changes to the timeline in Yesterday’s Enterprise, and could communicate through the Nexus to Picard in Generations. They may also possess some level of empathic or telepathic skill - Soran’s barb to Picard in Generations of “Time is the fire in which we burn” seems especially sharp since Picard’s brother and his family had just died in a house fire. An El Aurian also showed up as a con man on DS9, aides by a device that he had acquired that could manipulate probability. Both skills would probably make the Q a little wary, since the El Aurians would be particularly good at seeing through their bullshit.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 6, 2019 19:56
|
|
|
Volcott posted:They were luddites and probably thought smoke detectors were space traveller bullshit. Basically this. Picard’s older brother had a huge chip on his shoulder about Picard gallivanting around in space instead of staying at the vineyard. The episode even featured them reminiscing about it being a big todo when a replicator was installed, IIRC.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 7, 2019 06:22
|
|
|
hard counter posted:what are droids in this analogy “Goodness, Captain Solo! It is I, Sea Threpio. You probably don’t recognize me because of the red peg leg.”
|
|
#
¿
Sep 9, 2019 23:19
|
|
|
Gaunab posted:A commercial for Friends reminded me of a time when big name actors would guest star on sitcoms and it wouldn't be considered slumming it. Might be apocryphal, but I recall hearing that the reason Bruce Willis appeared on Friends was because he lost a bet to Matthew Perry wherein Bruce bet against his own movie doing well.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 14, 2019 07:51
|
|
|
Krispy Wafer posted:To be fair it was a Matthew Perry movie that just happened to have Bruce Willis in it. If I was Bruce, I’d have bet against it too.  I don’t know, this terribly photoshopped poster makes it look like a Bruce Willis movie to me. (Yes, I recall that Perry plays the main character in the film, but somehow I’m guessing Willis’ presence was the key to the movie’s success) Blue Moonlight has a new favorite as of 18:12 on Sep 14, 2019 |
|
#
¿
Sep 14, 2019 18:08
|
|
|
Krispy Wafer posted:Craig's Bond movies have spoiled everyone again into thinking a franchise with a nuclear scientist named Christmas is supposed to make sense. Don’t forget that she’s named Christmas solely so Bond can make a joke about Christmas only coming once a year.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 18, 2019 21:19
|
|
|
mllaneza posted:So if The Orville comes of as very Trek-ish, it's intentional and also an inevitable byproduct of the people making it...Alara's visit home is one of the very best of the series...
|
|
#
¿
Nov 11, 2019 06:18
|
|
|
The Fuzzy Hulk posted:I’m quarantining myself and have been catching up on shows. There is one called Supermat Stake-out where, as people are leaving the grocery store, people from the show run up and with ungloved hands rummage through their shopping bags to find ingredients to cook with. The US has a similar show (probably adapted or ripped off from this one). I think they ask for specific items or offer to buy the whole cart in ours.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 25, 2020 06:06
|
|
|
When Fellowship hit theaters, I had a friend who was pissed they didn’t include Tom Bombadil.
|
|
#
¿
May 16, 2020 05:27
|
|
|
Ugly In The Morning posted:There was a guy at my last job who heard about dollfuckers and it was blowing his mind. I thought it was kind of nice to run into that again. I’m so desensitized now that it takes some truly horrific poo poo to get a response out of me besides amusement. I recall the disbelief my parents had after seeing an episode of CSI about furries, their incredulity when I told them that was indeed “a thing,” and their disappointment when I had to explain that I knew this because of “the Internet” because that was easier than explaining Something Awful at age 17.
|
|
#
¿
May 18, 2020 01:07
|
|
|
It seems like if Magneto gave a poo poo at all he would have shown up and held the steel in the towers together. Unless jet fuel didn’t melt the steel beams 
|
|
#
¿
May 20, 2020 01:59
|
|
|
TV episodes that did not age well: Magic The Gathering Online Exchange
|
|
#
¿
Jun 5, 2020 20:38
|
|
|
Mister No posted:who else but Spacey? it isn't Ansel is it? 
|
|
#
¿
Jun 20, 2020 07:58
|
|
|
Slowpoke Rodriguez posted:I object that Kevin Spacey isn't also labeled rapist pedo. Oversights like this are why Wikipedia is unsuitable for citation in academia.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 20, 2020 19:31
|
|
|
Push El Burrito posted:His brother got all the fashion sense in the family though. PHUO: The failure to implement this costume is the reason why the Inhumans TV series failed, not because it was an obvious attempt by Marvel to work around not having the TV/film rights to X-Men.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 3, 2020 18:28
|
|
|
I’d like to take a moment to point out the insane dissonance of this magazine cover. We have articles about :
|
|
#
¿
Aug 22, 2020 20:18
|
|
|
Torquemada posted:Hmm, 9/11 happened around the middle of the show, did they ever even say anything about it, even tangentially? oldpainless posted:Why would friends care about 9/11 when the real important stuff like phoebes wedding was happening The creators apparently considered making more explicit reference to it, but decided that “Friends” wasn’t the appropriate vehicle to discuss such a serious topic, which was probably the right call. Otherwise, the thread title would be Media that did not age well: Friends 8x03: The One On 9/11.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 24, 2020 15:59
|
|
|
Janice falls from the WTC, yelling “Oh! My! Gawdd!” all the way down. I am going to hell.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 24, 2020 18:36
|
|
|
muscles like this! posted:To be fair, the revival was one of those bullshit provider specific channels so it isn't too weird that people don't even know it happened. I had heard it was going to happen, I had no idea that it did already.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 25, 2020 17:01
|
|
|
Edgar Allen Ho posted:I remember watching Rugrats with a bunch of my adult family in the room and the whole adult group cracking up at something I didn't understand. I wish I could remember what the joke was. One of my favorite Rugrats references I appreciate as an adult and parent far more than as a kid is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvdBrF5qaww
|
|
#
¿
Sep 3, 2020 01:00
|
|
|
RC and Moon Pie posted:Our playground was all kinds of unsafe, from the flip bar that I busted my mouth on, to the tractor tires that attracted mosquitoes after a rain. Two tetherball poles went up on the third grade recess area and the teachers had to institute regulations because it was so popular.  Our elementary school had a set of parallel bars (though they were pipes suspended between wood posts, so not exactly like these) The only problem was that there were a ton of girls (I don’t ever remember boys doing it) that loved to do what the first kid does in this GIF on them:  And that worked OK when you were in third grade or whatever. But girls would come back to fifth grade after a growth spurt during summer, try this, and clock themselves. Finally, one year, a girl did it and didn’t just catch the top of her head - she smashed her mouth right in to the opposing bar, busted up a ton of teeth, and broke her jaw. One of the bars was promptly removed, and the other didn’t survive the year, because kids were still duplicating the second kid from that GIF all the time. We also had the tractor tires - it was great fun to pop an umbrella over the top and hang out in them in a rainy recess, or to use them as the base for crappy kid igloos when it snowed.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 4, 2020 05:26
|
|
|
Isaacs Alter Ego posted:I'm currently going through all the Star Trek shows I haven't seen before and just moved on to Voyager. I sat through the first episode and was pretty surprised at Tom Paris, ostensibly one of the main protagonists and heroes of the show, telling the series' first Native American character (AFAIK) "If I save your butt, your life belongs to me. Isn't that some kind of Indian custom?" and "Isn't there some Indian trick where you can turn yourself into a bird and fly us out of here?" This stuff is especially weird since its...Star Trek, which is normally pretty progressive for its time. Over in the PYF Unnerving Story thread, a goon has been posting their YouTube docuseries, and covered Jamake Highwater in a fairly comprehensive manner rather than the bits and pieces scattered around elsewhere: The Golden Gael posted:If folks are interested, I wrapped up my research into one Jamake Highwater - better known as the Star Trek Voyager consultant on Native American affairs - and it was pretty illuminating how this guy got away with playing his part for so long. Details and sources contradicted each other but thanks to a bit of detective work and a few phone calls I mustered up as many facts as I could to put this together: TL;DW: it’s one of Rick Berman’s many, many fuckups. Edit: to answer your question about whether or not it continues to be this offensive, the show’s treatment falls back from “this was blatantly racist even for 1995” to kind of the handwavey-mysticism generic “Native American” interpretation that, true to form for the thread, did not age well. Blue Moonlight has a new favorite as of 05:14 on Sep 7, 2020 |
|
#
¿
Sep 7, 2020 05:05
|
|
|
pentyne posted:In Rick Berman,s defense, he's directly responsible for Obama getting elected I think. Somehow I knew that Brannon Braga had inexplicably convinced Jeri Ryan to date him following her divorce, but had missed this. I’m not sure I can sanely reconcile Rick Berman and Brannon Braga’s role in Obama’s eventual presidency.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 7, 2020 05:26
|
|
|
Kaiser Mazoku posted:Trump appears on Tiny Toons See, this is a valuable life lesson Tiny Toons was teaching us all. You can be known well enough for panhandling and tax avoidance to be a punchline in a 1992 children’s cartoon, but still go on to be the President of the United States of America. The American Dream, ladies and gentlemen.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 3, 2020 00:24
|
|
|
Sarcopenia posted:So eh, I just saw the first episode of the two parter season premiere in what I think will be the last season of SVU... Yeah, you’d think that, but they already have orders for another two seasons.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 16, 2020 20:03
|
|
|
Well, I think I’ve finally found the best argument against Showtime’s continued existence.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 26, 2020 09:05
|
|
|
catlord posted:Weren't there a lot of weird shenanigans around getting the E/I label onto shows that probably shouldn't have had them? In 1995 (first thing I could find on the topic), the FCC defined E/I programming as “programming that furthers the positive development of children 16 years of age and under in any respect, including the child's intellectual/cognitive or social/emotional needs.” So if your Sherlock Holmes in space show regularly had a message like “being a friend is good” or “stealing is bad”, you could probably get away with claiming it’s E/I programming. It didn’t have to be Mr. Wizard or something. Frankly, I’m amazed they didn’t syndicate GI Joe with the PSAs edited in and claim them to fulfill E/I requirements.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 12, 2020 03:07
|
|
|
londonarbuckle posted:I think it was only a decade ago or less I saw a local station slapping the E/I symbol on loving Saved By The Bell reruns.  Tell me you didn’t learn about the dangers of caffeine!
|
|
#
¿
Dec 12, 2020 04:39
|
|
|
Nottherealaborn posted:Wholesome? Those shows are peak celebrity tv cringe For the American version at least, if not wholesome, then perhaps inoffensive? It’s like the lettuce of television. If you compare it to a lot of other “celebrity judging” shows, the judges are always positive and encouraging, contestants aren’t on the show because they’re objectively awful, the “drama” is all playfully manufactured ribbing. The edgiest person to ever even judge there is Joel McHale, the guy E! used to pay to make fun of E!. The most unforgivable thing about the show is that it gives a mouthpiece to Jenny McCarthy, but I think she and the producers know the gravy train will be over the moment she starts spouting off about vaccines.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 18, 2021 21:43
|
|
|
WaywardWoodwose posted:That was the dress uniform. Picard sometimes had to wear them to "fancy" space parties. No, that’s the “skant” uniform. The TNG era dress uniform was similarly...dresslike? But not a skirt: 
|
|
#
¿
Jan 26, 2021 01:59
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 14, 2024 21:37 |
|
|
oldpainless posted:Can you imagine if the enterprise had these air vents in the floor and Picard walks over one and his skirt blows up and his old man dick and balls get shown to the ambassadors of some species lmao Showing your junk to some rando aliens is called the Riker Maneuver.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 26, 2021 02:54
|
|