Welcome, sir. While you wait for your flight, allow me to show you to the airport gaming lounge.

A box with the Dragon Tales logo and two characters from the show, smiling next to a floating cloud of fruit snacks and sparkles

Dragon Tales Fruit Snacks (2000-2005): A line of assorted fruit-flavored snacks, shaped like the characters from the PBS animated series

Something I've observed is that some people on Reddit will use ChatGPT to pump out essay-length posts that they definitely didn't even read themselves, but they fully expect other people to engage in good faith instead of just writing it off as slop.

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Channel Awesome-style crossover plot where Toonrific Tariq is kidnapped and forced to review Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.

We got a Princess Tiana TV show that was in development hell for five years before being canceled.

RFK definitely falls into that category. But I think for most people it's secondary to a feeling a surprising number of people have that illness and medicine in general are just kinda fake.

This guy in particular says he doesn't wash his hands because he can't see germs.

Haven't looked too deep to confirm this but I think Blumhouse might have been the only company to be like "A black movie made money? Shit, let's start putting black people in our movies."

Also notice how this standard doesn't work the other way around. Nothing really changed after Black Panther made a billion. I doubt that studios are trying to greenlight a bunch of black movies just because Sinners did well. Didn't happen for Asian people with Crazy Rich Asians or EEAAO either.

This would be an unfair standard regardless of the movie. But it's especially unfair that the deciding movie is what is basically a Hallmark TV movie with a bigger budget.

It reminds me of how people love to twist that stat about missing children into "360,000 American children are kidnapped and sold into sex slavery annually."

Chiaotzu made this wish.

You've heard of crowd-killing, but how about crowd-grilling?

I bring a charcoal grill into the mosh pit and serve delicious vegan burgers and hot dogs to the audience.

I never spent any money on Overwatch besides the base price to buy the game. But at one point I realized that even without payingf or microtransactions the game was still designed in a way that it felt like it was training my brain to log in and play every day and that made me really uncomfortable.

Yesterday I overheard two people talking about the movie and how they're gonna be crying or dancing in the movie.

It's kind of like Ren and Stimpy to me where I'm not gonna judge anyone for liking the old work but come on we can just stop making new stuff out of it.

Photo of someone pressing a fr9nt desk bell

When CinemaSins fans go to the theater

Even Arthur on PBS got to have spin the bottle.

What's missing from this discussion is that basically everyone treats Visibly Mentally Ill Homelessness as a public safety issue and not a public health issue, which results in solutions that are cruel and ineffective but sound like Serious Adult Politics

That reminds me, I never did finish those last couple chapters of Suicide Island...

Cover of Suicide Island Volume 1 by Kouji Mori (NOT FINAL)

Reminder: Suicide Island begins its paperback release in December! Pre-order: https://bit.ly/4vblixq

Sei is transported to the mysterious, remote Suicide Island after a failed suicide attempt—where he must live out the rest of his days or figure out how to die!

By Kouji Mori

#DHManga

Disney canceled Cory in the House because Obama won the election and they didn't want to deal with the complications of having a white generic TV president while in real life the president was black.

Ok so imagine this comic is a 2000s animated sitcom writers' room but instead of geochemistry they're talking about celebrities.

deep celebrity knowledge they had and therefore would laugh at jokes that had no substance or context inherent to the show other than just saying the name of a celebrity.

TV shows, magazines and blogs reached a new level of saturation. Writers in the entertainment industry were probably way more likely to consume that stuff than the general populace. They didn't realize they were outliers so they wrote a ton of jokes assuming the audience had the same

(Theory I'm throwing out without research)

I think the reason why there was such a plague of comedy shows in the 90s/2000s leaning super hard on pop culture references (especially when jokes are entirely them namedropping a celebrity) is because that's when celebrity/entertainment culture

There must have been something in the air in the 90s/2000s because it was *really* bad back then. I thought I'd understand the pop culture references more rewatching them as an adult but so many of them truly are just namedropping a celebrity with nothing else to the joke.

King of the Hill doing jokes about Uber ratings etiquette and craft beer in 2025. Futurama doing a Pizzagate episode in 2025. I don't understand how the writers think any of this is new material.

Even beyond the production making things out of date, it seems like a lot of revival projects wanna be like "we're tackling modern topics" but everything they're talking about is 10+ years old.

Rocko's Modern Life making Starbucks and The Dark Knight jokes in 2017.

The qualification of spread out across your entire adult life is the most smarmy rat boy economist thing I've ever seen.

It turns out that there's nothing we can't afford as long as we mentally amortize it across 60 years! Vibecession, baby!

John Apple.