I miss the days when exactly such a thing would be available in 90-second mini-sodes exclusively to Verizon phones

Leo is the new Fauci

And they had a hit in Boston Legal, too! Grey’s was a mid-season replacement in a year they didn’t need the back-up! Hard to believe they almost burned it off in the summer!

It’s almost as if one company created what they think is a god that must not be restrained, and the other thinks they created a new young life that must be given a curfew… maybe? I dunno. This is all dumb.

The new version is about a Fox News viewer who somehow winds up in the city and has to leave before congestion pricing kicks in

Pixar Did You Know? | Scrapped Film Ideas YouTube video by Pixar

The inclusion of the discarded TOY STORY titles at the end feels like a stretch (a couple of those CLEARLY feel like jokes that would never seriously be considered), but the rest of this video is truly great. Love seeing how animated stories evolve.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nvK...

Purity tests are bad enough when applied to real-life political candidates… we’re now doing them with fictional characters?!

I’ll gladly trade 1000 influencers for a single Ernest

You know how in DAVE, the evil plotters in the White House sent the VP to another continent so he doesn't mess up their evil plot? I guess this is kinda like that? Except in DAVE, the VP's decency was the threat and here... it's the fact that nobody likes this guy?

It'd be like spotting the Batmobile!

My evidence? Ask your local teenage narcissist what they want to do when they grow up. Go on. I'll wait. When I was a teen, half the most attention-seeking goobers at my high school set their sights on some sort of local celebrityhood. Now? It's all international fame and celebrity or bust.

Regional news anchors, car dealers who do their own commercials, 2nd string athletes on the hometown team -- they used to be your city's own little secret celebrities who you'd get giddy when you saw them at the Sizzler! The destruction of local media has killed off an entire swath of celebritydom

I miss local celebrities. Like, the whole concept of them. The idea that within a certain region, you could be considered "famous" to 90% of the population, but people outside that region there's zero awareness you even exist... because those places have their own local celebrities!

wow this meeting of the no chairs society is standing room only

The lack of self-awareness of the self-described “pro-life” crowd right now is as appalling as it is (sadly) unsurprising

The Starbucks union also makes it easy to find a unionized Starbucks near you if you’d like stop by and give the unionized workers a tip…

sbworkersunited.org/map/

yet another reason to leave substack (before they make it even harder to leave):

Depluralize a movie:

American Graffito

Lot of confusion right now so let’s clear this up: Oscars are moving to the Peacock Theater in LA but not the Peacock service, you’ll still need to watch them on YouTube, the service, not at the YouTube Theater (also in LA) They’re not in the Dolby Theater, but possibly still in Dolby surround sound

Have y’all looked at Sackboy?

sure, crap on sora now, but don’t forget when it first came out Siskel & Ebert gave it three thumbs up

1/2 the members of that club couldn’t pass a background check to work at Nickelodeon

Really need some stat heads to do some sabremetrics on CEOs cause I really need to know the VOR on this guy

The kids are all right Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways

Listening to the Jonathan Haidts of the world, it's easy to get sucked into the idea that kids today are not ok. But the (admittedly sparse) evidence doesn't back that up: by many measures, kids are actually doing better now. Read why in @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Variety headline: “Ricky Gervais Rejects Fan Request to Host Oscars: ‘F— That!’”

“Fan,” singular

Moving from Substack needs to be HIGHLY encouraged. Feel free to stop subscribing to a newsletter still hosted on Substack in order to free up $$ to subscribe to ones like Drew’s, which moved off that morally reprehensible “platform.” I give you permission!!

My favorite moment in the entirety of The Sopranos is during a poker game to close out an episode, when Tony makes a half-hearted joke at the table, all his lackeys laugh uproariously, and then the camera lingers on Tony's face as he realizes his joke wasn't that funny... and then cut to credits.

And after the play, they should remind you to turn your ringer back on.

Good question: How well do fake president movies do at the Oscars?
Better question: How well does @therealbenoren.bsky.social do in the little game I cooked up based on the Oscar-history of all the movies we've covered?
Best question: Why have you not already downloaded this ep?!

From the Rambo (2008) Wikipedia page: Post-production John Rambo was the original working title for the film but was changed in the US because Stallone thought that audiences might think that this is the final film in the Rambo series, due to the then recently released Rocky Balboa (2006), which was not his original intent. In many other countries, the title John Rambo is used because the first Rambo film First Blood was known as Rambo in those countries. The film premiered on US television as Rambo, but the title sequence referred to it as John Rambo.

I could’ve sworn “John Rambo” was the title of the 2008 movie… and I was right, it was! And it was wasn’t! It’s Schrodinger’s Stallone Title!