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tv14pluscartoons · 3 years

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BIRDGIRL EPISODE 1: "PILOT" (April 4th, 2021)

Review edited for me by Glenn Rolón

This show contains discussion of parental neglect, non-graphic death and a hidden severed foot in a bag.

So, funny story, 21 years ago I was 5 years old watching the beginnings of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Was I too young for it? Absolutely. But also it was like, the least inappropriate thing on Adult Swim I actively watched all through its run until I was 12 years old, so it's held a special place in my heart ever since.

All of that is to say, having seen that show is kind of unnecessary to understanding this episode. Which I would hope, given this is a spinoff of a show that began 21 years ago, ended officially 14 years ago, and had its last one-off special 3 years ago.

Birdgirl starts us off with Judy Ken Sebben/Birdgirl finishing up her day job, ordering ramen takeout while venting through the call about how her passions are more with her other life as Birdgirl than with her normal life as Judy, which is the perfect set up for the ultimate point of the episode. It then rushes forward into Birdgirl's fast paced action and awkwardness-heavy night, showing how much more excited Judy feels to do that than her lawyer day job. Though it also shows how RECKLESS she is as Birdgirl.

Judy completely ignores the giant signs of her father's death, seemingly out of cluelessness to the audience as its presented.

But longtime watchers of Harvey Birdman will already know he's faked his death multiple times, a point that's brought up when Judy goes to work the next day and is called into the meeting for the CEO Replacement. In which its revealed that her father (who believes Birdgirl and Judy are different people) chose Birdgirl to be the CEO while giving Judy the majority stocks in the company, setting off the real point of the episode, and possibly series: Judy's entire mental disconnect with herself. She feels distraught that her father saw Birdgirl as CEO material and not her more personal, calmer self.

Because she can't bring herself to grieve over her father yet again after the previous times, she goes fully into denial spending more of her time as Birdgirl and neglecting her personal life.

Which brings the concern of the friend she makes with Meredith the Mindtaker, a green telepath played by Negin Farsad.

Meredith is very empathetic despite calling herself "bad at emotions", which might be a side effect of her powers. Speaking of, to make a mental note, I find it refreshing that her powers are treated very intentionally not-invasively as possible, only using them to give therapeutic advice to Judy or physically stopping her to get her to listen. The biggest "misuse" is just her joking to finish Judy's sentences, which while annoying, isn't the same as forcing her way deep into Judy's insecurities she won't admit to herself.

Birdgirl's humor is dry and not scored by music or heavy sounds, aside from the absurdity of Birdgirl's incompetence at fighting crime in denial of her father's death; which is still underplayed compared to other examples I've seen.

The character design feels fitting as a continuation to Harvey Birdman while just being pleasant to look at, while also animating probably better overall than the original or a show with a similar vibe and style like Archer.

I really like how Birdgirl's eyes go from superhero cartoon/comic book white to showing her eyes like a live action adaptation whenever she'll be speaking honestly from the heart while in the mask instead of in denial.

One thing that might become obvious the longer you watch the episode is that, unlike Harvey Birdman, Birdgirl seems like it's not allowed to use Hanna Barbera/MGM/Cartoon Network characters freely, which may explain the abscence of a few old key characters, not showing or mentioning Harvey Birdman, and the fact one of the board members is a cartoon dog that might've been Droopy had they been able to. I don't think this hinders the show at all, but it is noticeable considering the show it spun off from. Might be Warner wanting to keep some characters clean while they try to use them in kid appropriate material like Space Jam: A New Legacy.

Birdgirl is a very calm show, definitely meant for teenagers and older — With the exploration of Judy's personal, mental and emotional struggles brought on by her father's neglect of her when she wasn't being reckless as Birdgirl. However, everything else is very tame; there's fewer than 5 bleeped swears, fewer than 3 mentions of sex and despite there being a people eating machine in this episode, it shows no real gore unlike another show with the same TV-14 Rating.

Birdgirl is for adults not in the sense that it has content inappropriate for children, but in the sense that its story, which seems to be ongoing, deals with issues that are only really relatable to people who are old enough. Despite human waste (heh) being a part of the episode, it doesn't ever feel "immature" in the way that poster child shows like Family Guy or Rick and Morty can feel, or even Tuca and Bertie, which is very mature with an important story, but goes for more crass jokes.

If you're a fan of stories with a woman-centric cast and dry humor, I'd recommend it to you. If you're more into the superhero stuff, I can't say I'd recommend it to you until more episodes have come out for a better gauge of where the show's boundaries will be.

Overall, Birdgirl is an enjoyable superhero empathy ride I hope to see more of and I'm glad I checked out.

#birdgirl #TV14Plus Review #judy ken sebben #meredith the mindtaker #harvey birdman attorney at law #14 and up #Adult Swim #tv series review

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fezgician · 3 years

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BIRDGIRL EPISODE 1: "PILOT" (April 4th, 2021)

Judy completely ignores the giant signs of her father's death, seemingly out of cluelessness to the audience as its presented.

Because she can't bring herself to grieve over her father yet again after the previous times, she goes fully into denial spending more of her time as Birdgirl and neglecting her personal life.

Which brings the concern of the friend she makes with Merideth the Mindtaker, a green telepath played by Negin Farsad.

Merideth is very empathetic despite calling herself "bad at emotions", which might be a side effect of her powers. Speaking of, to make a mental note, I find it refreshing that her powers are treated very intentionally not-invasively as possible, only using them to give therapeutic advice to Judy or physically stopping her to get her to listen. The biggest "misuse" is just her joking to finish Judy's sentences, which while annoying, isn't the same as forcing her way deep into Judy's insecurities she won't admit to herself.

Overall, Birdgirl is an enjoyable superhero empathy ride I hope to see more of and I'm glad I checked out.

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totallyexhausted · 4 years

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Snippet from Rick and Morty Fic

Morty tried every damn day to prove he was good enough for Rick. But the truth was… Rick wasn’t good enough for him, for anyone. He wasn’t even the best version of himself… and he wasn’t good enough to be idolized by some kid; he wasn’t even good enough to be a decent father… that’s why he’d left when Beth was 12. Well, that, and the () Wars. There wasn’t time for family during the revolution… no room for emotional crap, for things that didn’t matter. He’d lost what mattered years ago… he’d destroyed it. Thinking he could drown the memories in endless alcohol, drugs, sex, and a fake facade of his family drawn from the similarities he’d come to know. Fighting so damn hard to explore the horrors of the universes in order to prevent what he’d already seen, what he’d already lived- trying so hard to cleanse the realities of anything that could destroy his again. He sacrificed everything in order to protect what little he had left, and in the end, just as Morty believed about himself, he’d finally see; his family, the universe, everything and everyone would finally learn that Rick Sanchez wasn’t worth it. He never ever was.

And despite the “adventures” Rick had brought Morty on; despite the resilience the teenager showed, the harsh criticism and slap-in-the-fucking-face from the world, his parents, his teachers, the kid still fought so hard to prove to everyone that he was better than their versions of him. He tried so hard to show them he was worth something. That he was enough. He tried so hard to prove that. To society. To Jessica. To his parents. His teachers. To Rick…

Red. Red was what Morty woke to. The harsh color filling his vision as his body ached so fiercely, the mere idea of moving hurt. He exhaled loudly as he moved his left hand in front of him. The movement fuzzy and detached as he watched blood slide down the broken blue and black flesh, trying to recall what had happened, and where he was.

He swallowed as his stomach revolted and stared upward, blinking several times before squinting at the red pouring over the broken glass window above him. Red. Red… rain? It was raining. Raining… blood?

Morty watched dazed as red rain splashed against the window, melting between the small cracks in the windshield, plastering against his dirty yellow shirt. He shivered as he forced his neck to turn, his stomach revolting again, and he coughed slightly as the empty cabin of his grandfather’s shitty spaceship met his eyes.

The cabin was barren, littered with small pieces of wires, broken parts, and slightly intact makings of experimental components of a car engine. The 17-year-old moved slightly, wincing as pain shot through his side, and he glanced down to find red stained against his stupid yellow shirt, a small piece of glass impaling his abdomen. Morty grit his teeth as he tried moving again before grasping the small glass, taking a deep breath before pulling it from his side, biting the inside of his cheek to keep from crying out.

Something smacked against the side of the car, and Morty flinched, dropping the glass, his hand pressed firmly against his side as he untangled his legs from the mess of wires. His vision wavered harshly as he shoved the door open with his shoulder, gripping his side as blood oozed from the reopened wound, and Morty stumbled slightly. He fell to his knees, crashing against the red atmosphere surrounding him and breathing deeply as red dust swallowed his lungs; his stomach threatening rebellion again.

The teenager groaned as he wiped his mouth, glancing up and squinting through the thick dust as he tried to make out anything besides the red rain that pounded against the dirt infested world. He choked, expelling what he could only assume was blood from his mouth by the coppery taste and stood on shaky legs that barely held him upright. Wind brushing past him, blowing dust and rain towards him as he stumbled back against the vehicle, his back slamming against the metal, and Morty closed his eyes briefly.

His memories were fuzzy and chaotic. His parents arguing, his sister making out with a guy in her room, and Morty… he’d been with his grandfather. He’d been with Rick. Then an explosion. Pain. Death…

Morty opened his eyes as he glanced around, tears threatening to swell in his eyes as he realized everything around him was dead. The people he’d known, gone. The world, no more. And his family, dead- collecting in the red dust around him. There wasn’t any sign of life on this stupid red planet… and Rick was gone. The car was fucked. That meant that the rest of the world was too… and now, like he always knew, Morty Smith was alone.

He’d seen too many deaths. Witnessed his sister and parents die in one universe and had killed them in another. Death followed him, haloed at his feet as he kicked through a happy life he no longer felt part of. He was alienated by the things he’d seen and the things he’d done… alone. Not even Rick understood. To Rick, it didn’t matter Morty had killed his family in a universe; destroyed himself, destroyed other lifeforms or worlds in other universes, because everything was bullshit and nothing mattered. And that made Morty alone. But now…

The teenager swallowed thickly as he glanced around again. Rain beat against him as he shivered, and smoke rose from the cabin behind him as Morty stepped away from the vehicle. He had buried himself in one universe and disappeared in another; the empty feeling of abandonment and unfamiliarity shrouded by a happiness he tried to force every time he saw his sister smile, or his parents laugh. Letting his soul be anchored by the lives of others as he tried to convince himself that he was normal, that he was good.

Dirt smacked against his sweaty face as Morty stepped further. His foot colliding with some burned wreckage from the vehicle still smoking behind him, and the teenager winced slightly. Red poured around him, drowning him in the sea of blood he had shed. Those who died because of him… those he’d killed. His mother. His father. His sister… himself.

There wasn’t a way back from this. The wrecked car was proof of that. The absence of Rick was proof of that. Rick didn’t care. He never had… and now, everything Morty had come to relive again, to know again, was lost. Taken. Gone. Dead.

The 17-year-old stumbled, his knees falling against the dusty atmosphere as his hands grasped towards a scorched lab coat, blood dotting the cuffs. Morty choked loudly, the material falling through his fingers as his stomach threatened to rebel, and Morty’s hands fell against something hard in the left pocket of Rick’s lab coat. The purple blaster. Blood still smeared against the small device, and the teenager grasped it tightly between shaking fingers; forcing the broken bones in his left hand to shift against the trigger because the pain was better than the emptiness surrounding him. The red.

Something moved to his right, and Morty stood quickly, wiping at the tears falling down his face and holding the purple blaster towards the movement. The gun shook violently between busted fucked up fingers, and the world spun for a second. Red water splashing down his face, dust coating pale tired flesh, and Morty shivered again, glancing down at the torn lab coat before looking back up.

Dust swam through the air, heavy and thick through crimson water that pounded against dirt, creating a mushy trail of blood-like matter at the teenager’s feet. The movement shifted, cursing slightly before a small wrench was thrown, beating the ground twice and then landing at Morty’s feet. The 17-year-old swallowed, holding the gun higher, clenching his hand so tightly against it that the teenager could seen the broken bones shifting under busted flesh. Rain fell harder, and Morty stumbled back slightly as the movement morphed into a shadow, a figure; dark and tall, thin and spiny until the dust cleared enough for the teenager to make out the shape of his grandfather through red strings of water.

#rick and morty #kb #snippet #im back

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curious-minx · 4 years

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A ranking of four 200 Hundredth Episodes: Bob’s Burgers’ recent victory lap stands above the rest

The Bicentennial. How many among us get to be a part of something that get’s broadcasted for over 200 episodes? In the world of animated sitcoms it is a small, Fox dominated burrow. Bob’s Burgers is the latest series to become bestowed with this particular honor, and is possibly the best of the Fox line-up to do so. Family Guy’s 200th episode, Season 11 - Episode 12, is the only Fox series to be given a full blown on-air anniversary treatment. The episode is a Valentine themed Brian and Stewie lark and like all of the other entries on this list celebrates it’s 200th episode anniversary in a more casual, blithe fashion. Family Guy is the only show Fox has bothered to air an entire half hour special, but months before the actual airing of the 200th episode in Februrary. I am deliberately skipping over Family Guy and South Park’s 200th episodes. In the former’s stead I chose to watch American Dad’s 200th episode, because McFarlane is such a titan in adult animation that deserves recognition. The South Park episode is too exhausting for me to get into. South Park’s 200th episode, Season 14 - Episode 05, is the one that evoked the wraith of a New York based Radical Muslim organization that would soon be “shut down” (i.e. members arrested) a few months after the episode aired on April, 2010. The 200th episodes of South Park and the Simpsons are the only two series to have received Emmy nominations, and in Simpsons case a win, due to their 200th episodes. Here’s hoping for Bob’s Burgers to get a similar recognition, because I think its 200th episode is pretty special and straight to the point.

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1.) Bob’s Burgers - “Bob Belcher and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Kids”

Out of all the 200 episodes is episode the most consciously in conversation with itself. The 200th episode has been treated with a reasonable amount of respect with The A.V. Club bringing their Bob’s Burgers coverage out of retirement and Variety and Salon also got into the mix. Gotta be honest a part of me over at The Curious Minx would prefer if the Bob’s Burgers recap lane was kept on the narrower side, but on the other hand this is a fabulous series that should be written about by as many different publications.

In a recent tired and routine zoom Variety interview (https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/bobs-burgers-remote-recording-200th-episode-1234830796/) BB’s creator Loren Bouchard touches upon how this 200th episode is supposed to serve as something of a pilot. An episode so fully realized that even if you are someone with no active bank of knowledge about the Bob’s Burgers minutiae of the Belcher family dynamics and still enjoy this episode as much as a full blown series fan. The episode is written by Steven Davis, a producer and writer with an extensive amount of episode writing and producing credits on Bob’s Burgers. The quality of a Bob’s Burgers script in the pandemic era is becoming more relevant, because of the diminished role of improv, and this episode definitely feels crafted by a creative team fully in touch and aware of their characters and how to put them in satisfying situations.

Compared to any of the other animated sitcom families, the Belchers are noticeably the more lower middle class. There is a pervading sense of an overall struggle for survival and prosperity that is cooked right into the series pilot debut. Season 1 - Episode 01 “Human Flesh” sets the tone of the series, despite the overall writing and characters being sharper, the stakes have not changed much. Bob’s Burger’s like any American restaurant not under the protective aegis of a Big Franchise is in a state of perpetual turmoil. In the pilot episode the difficulties of running a standard American restaurant are made even more complicated by dysfunctional family hijinks.

The 200th episode differs from the pilot in one dramatic way and that is the presence of the extended Belcher family member Teddy. In the original pilot Teddy is completely absent, whereas in the 200th episode Teddy’s role as surrogate family member is made even most distinct by having Teddy being invested above and beyond in helping save his pal’s Bobby’s restaurant. The return of the ornery and quirky Health Inspectors Ron and Hugo are serving as the most obvious form of echoing of the pilot. I highly recommend rewatching the pilot after viewing this episode, because I had completely forgotten that the Belcher’s saving grace is that Hugo and Linda were once in a relationship together. The pilot is noticably very contained setting wise, focusing exclusively in and around the Belcher family restaurant. Whereas, the 200th episode explores more settings with the Belcher children going across town to find a replacement for Bob’s broken oven part, an oven that they feel they are entirely to blame for destroying. A couple of celebrity guests Stephanie Beatriz and SNL’s Kyle Mooney that true to Bob’s Burgers spirits are usually just playing characters of little to no consequence. Unlike the other Fox family in this list that really leans in on having celebrities playing themselves, the best celebrity guest appearances on Bob’s Burgers tend to be the most anonymous, and Kyle Mooney’s put upon hardware store clerk is a great example of this.

Finally, I’d be remiss if I didn’t dwell on the satisfying Linda contribution of the episode. Linda makes the critical set piece that ignites the restaurant fire. Linda’s gnarly mermaid sculpture is a great visual metaphor for the series. Especially when the Mermaid Statue is used to build up a very well constructed song-based gag. The whole episode made me feel really good about the state of the series and especially the Movie (And Loren Bouchard backs this up by giving interviewers the impression that the film’s delay has only improved its quality). As far as 200 episodes of long running animated sitcoms go, you certainly can’t go wrong with this one!

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2. King of the Hill - Hank’s Bully

By all accounts the most unremarkable episode on this list. An episode that also has a trollish spirit that gets a sadistic glee in tormenting the fuddy duddy Hill patriarch. This is the also the 200th episode with the lowest stakes, the least of a spectacle, and most unassuming 200th episode. While trying to research anything of note to include in my review of the episode all I could find was this reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/KingOfTheHill/comments/bpl235/hanks_bully_was_near_impossible_to_watch/) where a user is criticizing the way in which Hank it mistreated. When I was rewatching this episode my partner also found this episode hard to watch and sympathized with Hank’s plight against a Clifford-like malicious imp of a hateful child who’s sole purpose is to make the lives of everyone else around him more difficult.

To me what most stands out about this episode is the fantastic direction by longtime King of the Hill animator, former Bob’s Burgers animator, and current Rick and Morty director, Kyoung Hee Lim. A seemingly badass woman working in a field that is not particularly kind to women or to women of color. I am pretty shocked that no one in all of her years as a director on some pretty important shows has brought her up or did an interview piece on her. Maybe this is something the good folks at The Curious Minx can aspire to? I am definitely going to be taking a further dive into the 22 episodes of King of the Hill that she directed and revisit the 15 episodes of Bob’s Burgers to see if I can discern what makes a Kyoung Hee Lim episode.

One major ploy detail that I noticed in this episode, a detail that is also oddly prevalent on the other two 200th episodes, is the trash talk. And by that I do mean literal trash talk. The B-plot of this episode is what makes the episode pop for me in that the pairing of Dale and Peggy is a really successful one. The episode finds Dale frustrated with the Arlington Waste department and how they won’t take his refrigerator full of dead squirrels and his freeze full of dead crow. Dale then takes advantage of this dead blessing in disguise by getting into the world of competitive taxidermy with Peggy’s creative eye complimenting Dale’s gruesome technical prowess. Both of these characters operate on such an oddly similar wave lengths that watching the two of them embark on a taxidermy journey together was strangely touching and fun to watch. And I am a vegan that feels weird about killing animals in video games, but the ending visual gag of the episode is especially inspired. My one complaint is that the episode is severely lacking in Bobby Hill. Probably because I just recently finished watching Better Things and basically want every show to be the Pamela Adlon show all the time.

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3.) American Dad - “The Two Hundred”

Visually and conceptually this 200th episode really impressed me. As previously mentioned at the start of the post, I am not someone that is particularly warm to the McFarlane brand of comedy, but American Dad really is where he saves his best work for. This 200th episode got the complete opposite treatment of Family Guy. Airing on a Monday night on TBS this episode was pretty much given a shrug, but that does not tamper down any of its ambitions. The whole episode is basically a pastiche of Apocalyptic Dystopian alternative timeline tropes centering around an alone and traumatized by his past Stan. The episode has one of the most clever ongoing visual gags I have seen on a show where flash backs are teed up by Stan’s ridiculous new post apocalyptic tattoos. The core family and ancillary characters of American Dad are all given terrific moments to shine in this heightened post apocalyptic hellscape, and the key to any enduring series success if whether or not you can tell that the creatives involved respect and enjoy the characters that they are writing for. This being a McFarlane project there are a couple of embarrassing lines of dialogue from the show’s respective gay and Black characters and an over indulgence on Rodger based humor, but overall this 200th episode left me with more appreciation for this series as a whole. I will still always make sure to appreciate whenever a long running creative property takes stylistic swings and risks.While there is nothing particularly fresh or novel about a cannibal laden post apocalyptic wasteland this 200th episode managed to find some find fun character beats to subvert tropes or double down on them. The visual of a consistently on the move runaway train that is also mysteriously always on fire was also especially well executed. This episode could easily have been a series finale if the series hadn’t already played around with alternative timelines like in their Christmas specials.

This episode also features more trash talk! One of Stan’s tattooed regrets revolves around Francine failing to get the trash picked up on trash day because Stan had purposely neglected to take it out. This rather odd pattern is about to make a whole lot of sense with the fourth and my least favorite 200th episode by the Simpsons.

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4.) The Simpsons - Trash of the Titans

How many more times can I impress upon you that the 200th episode of your animated sitcom is an an occasion for trash talk? One more time. This 200th episode of The Simpsons is by far the most trash centric 200th episode of them all. The first animated adult sitcom to get over the 200th episode hump, the 200th episode “Trash of the Titans” has some fun real-world trivia attached to it, but other than that this is one of the lesser “Golden Era” Simpsons offerings by a long shot.

My primary source on contention with the episode lies in the direction Homer takes in most of the episode. A 2016 Uproxx (https://uproxx.com/media/simpsons-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/) article gained traction and a Wikipedia citation by comparing Homer’s antics to that of possible former rising Dictator Donald Trump. The episode involves Homer acting at his absolute most abhorrent in an election to boot, and his behavior in this episode is some of the most irredeemable Homer has ever been. The article oddly neglects to make note of the fact that Homer in this episode also makes similar slights against Mexico, referring it to an inherently “dirtier” country. The episode ends on a truly groan inducing aged as fine as old socks in the cheese drawer with a crying Native American gag. Ah 1998 when we could pretend that the Crying Native American commercial was just silly social commentary and not racial minstrelsy.

There is also one other instance that didn’t sit well with me and that’s when Homer is seen physically assaulting a woman working the booth at a U2 concert. I could handle the bullish descent into crooked politician, but watching Homer violently push a woman out of the way felt out of place. A retread of all the growth and development we’ve seen him go through over the course of 200 episodes. Of the other three patriarchs discussed on this list a Homer Simpson centric plot tend to not work as well for me especially if you compare him to the other animated TV fathers.

The episode also features two celebrity guest spots. One made by Steve Martin who does a good job becoming more or less unrecognizable as the original Springfield Sanitation Commissioner Ray Patterson. The other celebrity guest appearance is more of an ill-portent of signs to come with U2 playing themselves. Whenever a celebrity is playing themselves on The Simpsons it usually does not work out. Not everyone can be used to advance a plot as seamlessly as Barry White. Although it is funny, funny in a “oh, we were so much simpler” sort of way that this episode garnered controversy and a ban on UK television over U2 and Mister Burns’ use of the word, “wanker.” Flash forward to 2009 and Bono is once again throwing around his favorite cheeky pejorative this time in reference to fellow earnest bland frontman Chris Martin (https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/24741/Read).

Resting Wanker Face

The other fun factoid about this episode once again is not related to the show, but the show’s influence spilling out into the real world. In the late 80s and throughout the 90s, Adams Mine was an abandoned pit located somewhere in Ontario situated in a term I’m learning for the first time, the “Canadian Shield.” An exactly similar proposal is made by Homer Simpson during his reign of Sanitation Commissioner. This sweeping of trash under the rug does culminate into a satisfying visual gag as a climax that feels like a Garbage Pail Kid/Toxic Avenger version of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. More bizarrely and unfortunate, this episode also aired a week after the passing of Linda McCartney. How messed up is that? Couldn’t they just have waited at the end of the season or at least on an episode that doesn’t involve wallowing in filth?

The episode features another developing bad habit in terms of the inclusion of songs and song parodies. There is virtually no connection to Willy Wonka in this episode other than the fact that both “Candy Man” and “Trash Man” have share a similar pronoun. Unlike the use of songs in Bob’s Burgers where they tend to be unique to the character’s reaction to dramatic consequence, on the Simpsons it’s more often than not a a song for the sake of a song. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but why not go for a joke about parodying real musical trash titans, The Cramps, or even trash up a U2 song? On the episode’s Wikipedia entry in the Production section Matt Groening is quoted to saying that the visual gag of a department store sporting the slogan, “Over a Century Without a Slogan,” wasted a lot of man hours. So much effort and reach for a joke with a fraction of a minimal of pay off is essentially the Simpsons ethos in one visual gag.

Once again, it bears repeating that this episode is also rewarded for an Emmy. If you break down the episode as starting off as a satire of Holiday Commercialism with the creation of the cynical Love Day holiday and ending the episode as a foreboding parable about the very real ecological repercussions of improper waste management. This clearly sounds like classic Simpsons reverse engineering management. Instead this is a classic case of an episode of the Simpsons being more interesting to think about than it is to actually watch. This is also the 200th episode that least honors its central cast of characters. Marge and Lisa are both afforded meager moments of wisdom and decency, but Bart is more or less even more irrelevant to the plot than Bobby Hill was on his 200th episode.

As for today it seems like the only Simpsons anniversary that will likely rouse any more attention it’s way will be the 1,000th episode.. Think how much more trash we as a collective species will have made by the time that milestone roils around!

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In Conclusion:

When you start to make 200 episodes of anything the one feeling that seems to creep up is one of, “taking out the trash,” or you’re making art out of trash. Trash being a metaphor for the entire medium of Television. The TV market is an ever growing landfill, one of America’s Rapiest Dads made a whole cartoon about kids living and learning life lessons in a junk yard. So much of Television is only a means of mass marketing ground up pieces of detritus. Then you’re supposed to be grateful that your detritus gets to be a bumper for advertisements and the occasional merchandising. You’re an adult, you’re not supposed to take cartoons seriously. They are empty calories, brain noise, and at best background noise. Yet they are the only types of shows that can consistently manage to get over well over the 200 episode mark. At least back before the Netflix business model of show’s only deserving 1.5 seasons.

Bob’s Burgers is reaching its 200th episode in an unfathomable media landscape, one that is completely demolished and in the process of being rebuilt from the aftermath of the coronavirus. The 2020s could be a turning point for animation going forward, animation is a severely grueling and technically difficult sector. This newfound interest in the medium may finally be the financial boost and support that it dearly needs in order to properly pay artists for their work. The creators of these series may not think of what they do as art and to keep themselves afloat have to think of the act of bringing an animated sitcom into the world as necessary as taking out the trash. Our trash is a mirror. Inside the landfill we see our own morals and values reflected right back at us. Bringing forth life means a lot of shit. With every year you keep an infant human alive that means (x) amount of disposable diapers piled up. I suggest we make like the Belcher children and try to salvage our trash, put a wig on our trash, put a crop top on our trash, paint some lashes on your trash, because we’re all in the end up going to be put into the ground (beef).

#Bob's Burgers #The Simpsons #American Dad #King Of the Hill #TV #TV Review #TV Series #Animation #Cartoon #Anniversary #200

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crypticcatalys · 5 years

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Dreams Ive had involving Avatar in no particular order or context.

(This is super long btw)

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11/1/18

I was a na'vi and i was with neytiri and jake at some waterfall. We were Parachuting i guess because we parashuted to the end on the fall and into a lake. There was a barrier at 8 feet so we swam to a car in a parking lot and bille joe Armstrong was there and we drove to a gas station, i woke up.

11/9/18

I was a na'vi. I was jake and neytiri's kid apparently. And tsu'tey was alive and said he was my weird uncle super loud. We were at some seafood restaurant and it was beside the animal kingdom park. These people where being jerks to us and being racist because we were na'vi. There was a tornado for a second then someone yeled that grace was dying so we started running and hopping animal habitat fences and lines while someone was narrating then the girls from despicable me were there. The park was different the floating mountains were still there but it also looked like a mall. Rumpelstiltskin was there and being evil. And something was at stake? I woke up

11/14/18

I was in some warehouse at first then I was at home. Then me and my friends were walking to my grandmas house. I was a na'vi again i think, and they mentioned we were going to go see another na'vi that looked female with a Hispanic accent named Alex i think and that he sold Rick and Morty balloons. My friend said that he wasn't nice and that the last time they saw him he crapped himself? I woke up after that.

11/23/18

I was in some house and there was a guy there he was abusive so I threw a chair at him and my grandma was there. We ran and then we were at some bridge leading to Flight of passage. The bridge was like a rollercoaster because when i crossed it it kept moving. In the ride queue there were Toruk the First Flight performers and it was actually cool. But the actual ride/link area was like a movie theater and it wasn't even flight of passage. It was a 'modern disney character life' simulation movie thing. I woke up from anger.

11/27/18

I was na'vi and i was in this building (our home?) And it was collapsing. Fire was everywhere and when it was destroyed everyone was holding each other and crying.

12/2/18

I was at the store with my mom and my friend was there. I could fly so i picked my friend up and we were on top of the aisle. Some couple was fighting and me and my friend went back to the floor and we ate these heart shaped sugar cookies. Then i heard the song 'Direhorse' and there were Toruk performers there. They were on this stage type thing that sorta went into the ground. I got excited and one of the performers gave me a spear from the Tipani and it was cool. Then i was Booker Baxter and i was telling raven that i could not tell nia that i could fly because she would be sad? I woke up after that.

12/12/18

I was a avatar driver this time. I was with Grace in her avatar and we were in some auditorium type place. We had left on grace's ikran(i guess she had one) and we went to 7-eleven. Grace was looking or was doing something and she had mentioned her old middle school. Some kid was on the roof of the gas pump area and they hung up a couple of laminated song lyrics. Me and grace went back to the auditorium and it was nature-y all of the seats were gone and it was like a outdoor elivated buffet on a waterfall and the roots of this willow tree at the top of the waterfall sorta made seating areas. Me and grace were at a table across from some Korean group from YouTube rewind and jackie chan was there. They all had twins and they were eating cake. One of them gave me a na'vi doll like the ones at Disney. I started eating then i woke up.

12/18/18

I was in some medieval park? And on some sort of field trip. Some couple was mad and calling for someone to come and pick them up. Then something happened and everyone was yelling and causing chaos. The bus/picnic bar thing we drove there had tables full of cake but the benches were gone. Then grace and jake were there and grace told jake that he needed to eat and he said "ok mom" grace smiled and then i woke up.

12/22/18

I was at my school but it had voltrons colors everywhere and I was helping this one kid in a wheel chair get down the stairs but the first time I went down them it didn't work? We went outside and there were busses that were the color of the lions and we had to get on a certain bus. I put the kid on the yellow bus and I got on the black one but it was purple. We drove somewhere shady and then we were in this haunted house above the floor from another dream I had like 2 months before and it was exactly the same except there was this ghost lady robot thing and she was following us and she touched my friends shoulder, and then I was the only person on the ride. Then I was on the floor and there was this mickey mouse stuffed animal puppet thing and it was sorta bouncing in front of me. Then I sorta went Lucid and made the area change to the Tree of Souls from Avatar. I woke up for a second then I was on the side of some highway and I was on a farm in some tribe. Someone shot a arrow through my finger so this nice old lady and her granddaughter broke the arrow and healed me and it reminded me of the Tawkami. Then there was random klance in this old apartment then I woke up again.

12/28/18

I was in a goldfish commercial area under the bed, then i was in a mansion in pixie hollow and the main cast and queen clarion was there. There was a parade sorta and then a buffet with rainbow fruit on pancakes and sugar. I went through some doors and i was home? But it was different. My room was set up like my grandmas and there was some person in there and then i was in the hallway bathroom at my grandmas and some boy was in there. Then I was on a human vacation base on Pandora with some family. I was a avatar driver and there was a field trip group and a class. Music from Toruk was playing and it was the Tipani's theme. Then me and the family went to this cafe type thing and we were beside Na'vi river journey and i could hear the Shaman singing. I got a chocolate cheesecake with whipped cream and when i started eating i woke up.

1/1/19

Sam Worthington was giving me a tutorial on how to draw Jake but the nose was weird.

1/8/19

I was watching this park and jake was there. He was in his human body at first with max and grace in some lab and grace took his phone. Then jake was in his avatar body and he was playing a game with the omyticaya he said something about the color yellow and everyone jumped and laughed. Some amusement park was being shut down then I woke up.

1/17/19

Connie from SU was playing hidden valley but the characters were the diamonds. Then i was in my culinary class and i was talking about someones mom and saying that she was racist. My teacher got mad at me then i was behind a curtain on a stage and this woman was dressed in leather and talking to a crowd. She was with a guy with a cheap looking ikran mask. Then i was at church and it was my school again. Then my friend was there and I fought her and won. Then i was in the office and was getting writen up but mom wasn't. Then i woke up.

1/22/19

James Cameron and Sigorney Weaver were directing Toruk. I was looking for them in the crowd and fangirling. Toruk looked weird with arms instead of wings. Sigorney said hi to me from the technician booth that was beside my chair. Sam Worthington was there and he and sigorney had a scene in the play as their Avatar characters. Jake had accidentally stole a bow and arrow and grace went 'mom mode' and got mad. Then someone had shot a arrow and it hit him in the head but he had protective gear on so he didn't really die. Then i was back home but my living room window showed the stage of the show an sigorney said hi again and i got really happy. Then i opened my dryer and it was full of nickelodian stuff.

2/4/19

Neytiri and jake were role swapped so he was a born Na'vi and she was a dreamwalker. I was a dreamwalker and neytiri's adopted daughter for some reason. We were talking to Quaritch and he was threatening us because he was about to bomb hometree. We convinced him to let us talk to the na'vi and get them out in time. I woke up in my avatar's nivi and jumped to the branch neytiri was on and we went to go find the others.

2/6/19

Hometree was about to be attacked. The RDA was using these weird missiles underwater and flooded Hometree. Avatar Norm was hanging on somewhere near the top of the tree watching toruk fly through a waterfall that formed while saying "come on, where are you" then the water drained and jake and neytiri floated out of the tree base and jake was dressed in his tawtute clothes and Neytiri was a Tessa Thompson look alike in a purple glittery suit and black heels. They started breathing again and jake said something about being relieved.

2/10/19

I was in some field with my Chromebook and on the Avatar website. It was really colorful and pretty. The trailer for the second movie was up but before i could watch it i had to play this mini game. I was Tsu'tey and i was at this river and Mo'at and Eytukan were on a dock on the otherside. This boat had floated towards me and it was full of tools and weapons and Mo'at said I had to find 3 spear heads. I found them and then i was following the river until i was on a dock. I walked to the end of it and i thought i was at the Metkayina clan and i thought i was going to see Bailey Bass' character but i just saw irl her and a bunch of tawtute. Apparently it was a human village and i was the only Na'vi there. I got scared i think and ran. Then some characters from bunkd were there and Mateo was embarrassed about something so he left and was making his own camp when destiny took a tarp/map and gave it to him so he could make a tent. And the camp was by a cornfield.

3/24/19

I was watching Toruk live and i was onstage. Entu, Ralu, and Tsyal were there. The left part of the Hometree stage was deflated. It was really colorful. The tipani spears were on the center stage area. The omiticaya were harvesting something (maybe fruit)from the still standing part of the Hometree and music was playing but it wasn't from the show's soundtrack. Then there was water and something happened and i was in my room and mom told me to wake up. Then my alarm clock wole me up irl.

4/17/19

Jake and neytiri were hunting a angsìk. Tsu'tey and two other hunters were there. One was Na'vi and one was Polynesian. Jake had went to do his plan and Tsu'tey told neytiri it would not work. But they heard something and when they turned around jake was covered in mud and three angstìk were dead. Tsu'tey said that he was surprised and neytiri was dragging jake to a river to make him clean the mud off.

4/25/19

Backstage of Toruk. Friends with Tsyal and the Tsahìk. Cannibal Hotel.

4/27/19

Broke into some guys house with me grandma. Backstage performing TORUK at school on stage. Changed from Tipani to Omiticaya. Found a green chest cover.

5/22/19

I was in ponyville looking for fluttershy's house then i was on the street that connected mine and my Grandma. It was a part of a dream i had before. A pallulukan was there and my grandma kept talking and it almost heard us. Then Neytiri was there and looking for a kid version of Peyral who was hiding in the house we were beside. It was raining so we went in then suddenly Neytiri was dressed as Tsyal.

6/13/19

I was taking a bath and washing the dishes at the same time. Then I was a Na'vi again and we were preparing to fight the RDA. Except we were hiding in my grandads basement/garage and it was huge. There were 2 separate sleeping areas with over 100 bunk-beds in each area and a cafeteria. It was like the Avatar long house but bigger. Norm was there and he was my uncle and he was in his avatar body. The other clans started arriving and going to find beds and get food. I was embarrassed about something. Neytiri was a human/avatar and toruk makto and my mom again in this dream. She was coming back from somewhere but I woke up before seeing her.

7/8/19

I met James Cameron and talked to him about how much I love Avatar and how many times I watched it this year. And at some point Ralu and Entu were involved.

7/14/19

I was selling newspapers at a grocery store when someone made fanart, and a fanvideo of Asal (my avatar oc). But they shipped her with Entu. But I still left a like because it was nice.

8/2/19

I was in the AVATAR program but everything looked different. The technology looked more alien than human. The sleeping areas were just these bunks cut into walls with glass doors so there was no privacy or quiet because they were in a busy hallway. The base was confusing to walk through. Everything looked the same. The link room was smaller and had three link chambers. But they looked different and were glowing orange and black, or purple. Only jake could link completely. Mine and Norm's wouldn't work. Until mine did after a few tries. I could feel my tail move but then I was put back in my human body. We didn't go outside. Then I was in Neytiri's body and i was flying around the Pandora theme park. I was flying around the floating mountains before I was in the line for flight of passage with my friend. The line queue had a Quaritch robot talking about something and part of the millenial falcon in it. We got on the ride and the chairs were like a movie theater and the screen mention a patronus bracelet. Then I woke up and it felt like I was unlinking.

8/10/19

I was in the school and I had to use magic to change a sink full of water into Vodka but I turned it into champagne. I was being graded on it and I got a B. Then I was on a alien planet with two other people. We were found and brought to a base that was playing Christian Horror movies as a joke. We were taken to a back room were they gave us Toruk makeovers. I had started to put the suit on and and had just started to paint my face when I woke up.

#omatikaya #pandora: the world of avatar #na'vi nation #dream #dreams #dream diary #my mind did this #james camron avatar #toruk the first flight #na'vi #confusion #avatar 2009 #avatar #avatar dream

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massmurdera · 5 years

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2019 & 2010s Best/Worst

Because I like lists and cataloguing the dumb shit I cared about. As my brother once said after seeing and reviewing NOW YOU SEE ME on a lazy Sunday, ‘Some would say it was a waste of time, others might say it was a colossal waste of time.’

I’ll admit, it’s a bit over-the-top. Particularly including the Pats, but yeah, in the Tom Brady era that started when I was 14 as a Freshman in high school to 33 years old now and wrapping up soon-ish (?), there’s not a chance in hell I’ll care as intimately about this shit. I grew up with it at just the right time.

2019 MOVIES TOP TIER 1) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2) Uncut Gems 2nd TIER 3) Knives Out 4) Parasite 5) Little Women 6) Midsommer 3rd TIER 7) John Wick III 8) Ready or Not 9) Marriage Story 10) Joker 11) Irishman 12) Shazam! 13) Us UNDERRATED Ready or Not TOO LONG John Wick III; Irishman SOLID El Camino GOOD BAD 6 Underground OK 21 Bridges; Avengers: Endgame; Dolemite is my Name; Dragged Across Concrete; Fighting With My Family; Hustlers; Knock Down the House; Longshot; the Report; Two Popes MEH Always Be My Maybe; Death of Dick Long; High Flying Bird; Spiderman: Far From Home; Standoff at Sparrow Creek DISAPPOINTING Hobbs & Shaw; Toy Story 4; Triple Frontier SUCK Laundromat; Under the Silver Lake OVERRATED Ad Astra; Booksmart; the Farewell FUNNIEST SCENE Dicaprio flipping out in movie trailer BEST CLIMAX/ENDING Once Upon a Time; Uncut Gems HAVEN’T SEEN 1917; Apollo 11; Beach Bum; Dark Waters; Ford vs Ferrari; Honey Boy; Jojo Rabbit; the Lighthouse; Star Wars 2019 TV TOP TIER 1) Succession 2) Fleabag 3) Watchmen 2nd TIER 4) When They See Us 5) Barry 6) Unbelievable 7) Chernobyl 8) Sex Education DAMN GOOD Big Mouth; the Boys; Brockmire; Derry Girls; Euphoria; Loudest Voice; Mindhunter; Pen15; Righteous Gemstones; Veep WATCHABLE Atypical; Bosch; Dark; Goliath; Karate Kid; Kominsky Method; Mandalorian; Mr Robot; Mrs Fletcher; Russian Doll; Warrior HIGH/LOW I Think You Should Leave SHIT END FOR ALL-TIME GREAT Game of Thrones HALF-WATCH Living With Yourself; Raising Dion; the Society NOT UP TO STANDARD Stranger Things; GLOW; Killing Eve; True Detective BAD Luther; Shameless; Silicon Valley; SNL SUCK 13 Reasons Why; Big Little Lies; the Witcher FUNNIEST Desus & Mero DOCS 1) Fyre: both 2) Ted Bundy Tapes 3) American Factory 4) Leaving Neverland STAND-UP SPECIALS 1) Burr 2) Chappelle 3) Jeselnik 4) Birbiglia 5) Gulman BEHIND ON SHOWS I DIG Brooklyn 99; Catastrophe; Corporate; Expanse; Good Place; It’s Always Sunny; Letterkenny 2010s TV DRAMA 1) Breaking Bad 2) Game of Thrones 3) Justified 4) Mad Men 5) Hannibal 6) Banshee ANTHOLOGY/LIMITED SERIES 1) Fargo SII 2) True Detective SI 3) When They See Us 4) People Vs OJ Simpson 5) Chernobyl 6) Show Me a Hero 7) the Night Of 8) Honorable Woman COMEDY 1) Atlanta 2) Fleabag 3) Veep 4) Big Mouth 5) Parks & Rec 6) Rick & Morty 7) Nathan for You 8) Review 9) American Vandal HIT/MISS Black Mirror OVERRATED Boardwalk Empire; House of Cards; Peaky Blinders; Westworld UNDERRATED Banshee; Brockmire; Hannibal FUN HATE-WATCH Newsroom DOWNHILL Homeland; How I Met Your Mother; Legion; Sons of Anarchy HATED Girls; Leftovers; Rectify UNWATCHABLE Twin Peaks BEST ENDINGS Breaking Bad; Justified; Fleabag; Parks & Rec DUMBEST ENDING Dexter; Sons of Anarchy LATE NIGHT Desus & Mero POLITICAL John Oliver 2010s MOVIES 2010 Social Network Animal Kingdom; the Fighter; Four Lions; Inside Job; Jackass 3; MacGruber; Shutter Island; Toy Story 3; True Grit; Winter’s Bone 2011 the Raid Descendents; Drive; Fast Five; the Guard; Mission Impossible 4; Take This Waltz; Warrior 2012 Magic Mike 21 Jump Street; Argo; Cabin in the Woods; Chronicle; Django Unchained; Goon; Looper; Queen of Versailles; Silver Linings Playbook; Skyfall 2013 Wolf of Wall Street Before Midnight; the Conjuring; Gravity; Her; Inside Llewyn Davis; Prisoners; Short-Term 12 2014 John Wick the Drop; Edge of Tomorrow; Gone Girl; the Guest; Lego Movie; Nightcrawler; the Raid 2; Whiplash 2015 Mad Max 7 Days in Hell; Big Short; Brooklyn; Creed; Ex Machina; Fast 7; It Follows; Logan; Magic Mike XXL; the Martian; Me and Earl and the Dying Girl; Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation; Sicario 2016 the Nice Guys Deadpool; Edge of Seventeen; Everybody Wants Some!; Green Room; La La Land; Manchester By the Sea; Moonlight; OJ: Made in America; Popstar; Sing Street; Weiner 2017 Get Out Blade Runner 2049; Coco; Dunkirk; Lady Bird; Logan; Thor Ragnorak; Tour de Pharmacy 2018 Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse BlacKKKlansman; Den of Thieves; Hereditary; If Beale Street Could Talk; Minding the Gap; Sorry to Bother You

THE BEST Mad Max BEST DOC OJ: Made in America FUNNIEST DOC Tickled UNDERRATED DOC Weiner HORROR Hereditary FAVORITE/FUNNIEST PERFORMANCE Ryan Gosling (Nice Guys) DESERVED 5 SEQUELS the Nice Guys SUPERHERO Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse WAR Dunkirk BEST FIGHT SCENES the Raid UNDERRATED any Lonely Island project NICE TRY Dark Knight Rises; Inception; Interstellar; Widows STAND-UP 2010s FAVORITE Bill Burr NEXT BEST Ali Wong; Anthony Jeselnik; Kyle Kinane; Bert Kreischer; Marc Maron; John Mulaney; Patton Oswalt; Rory Scovel; Tom Segura COMEBACK Chappelle DOWNFALL Louis CK DIED BEFORE PRIME Patrice O’Neal, Greg Giraldo UNDERRATED Joe Derosa MUST-SEE LIVE Robert Kelly PODCASTS 2010s BEST/FUNNIEST/UNDERRATED Walking the Room RUNNER-UP 600 Dollar Podcast ONE-MAN RANT Bill Burr Monday Morning Podcast SPORTS Pardon My Take RIFFING Bodega Boys HISTORY/COMEDY Dollop HISTORY DEEP DIVE Hardcore History MOVIES Rewatchables HATE-WATCH CRITICISM West Wing Thing POP CULTURE/FILM Frotcast MIXED Revisionist History GOOD/BAD Joe Rogan: GOOD: propping up comic friends; BAD: useful idiot for propping up bad faith fascists who should be put out to pasture INTERNET CURIOSITY Reply All LEFTIST POLITICS Chapo Trap House TRUE CRIME In the Dark ADVICE Don’t Take Bullshit From Fuckers LAME Pod Save America OVERRATED Missing Richard Simmons DIDN’T LIKE S-Town SERIAL Season 3>Season 1 TRUMP Trump, Inc SPORTS SCHAUDENFREUDE Fuck the Chargers OKAY Bill Simmons WTF WITH MARON good when he talks to comics MURDER My Favorite Murder OTHER GOOD ONES Hound Tall; Press Box

2010s MUSIC FAVORITE anything Brian Fallon ROCK BAND Menzingers SONG Robyn-‘Dancing On My Own’ POP-PUNK BAND Wonder Years LIVE ALBUM Horrible Crowes-‘Elsie’ HEAVY BAND Every Time I Die ELECTRONIC Chvrches SOLO Rihanna COVER ALBUM Dustin Kensrue-‘Thoughts on a Different Blood’ GO-TO AT GYM Story So Far OFF THE INEVITABLE & IRRECOVERABLE DEEP END Kanye KIND OF LIKE THE MUSIC/HATE THE PERSON: LIKE KANYE Taylor Swift, Bieber THOUGHT I’D HATE BUT DOES NOT SUCK Lana Del Rey; Post Malone OTHER FAVES 1975; Arctic Monkeys; Beach Slang; Black Keys; Bon Iver; Carly Rae Jepsen; the National; Thrice MIXED Chance the Rapper; Kendrick Lamar I’ll be honest I spent far more time listening to podcasts nearly all the time and just listened to mostly the same couple of things I liked. 2010s PATRIOTS 2010s BEST GAMES 1) Seahawks Super Bowl 2) Falcons Super Bowl 3) Ravens 2015 Divisional 4) Chiefs 2019 AFCCG UNDERRATED CLASSIC Ravens 2015 Divisional BRADY/GRONK GO DOWN LIKE CHAMPS 1) 2018 Eagles Super Bowl 2) Broncos 2015 AFCCG: Brady’ offensive line was a sieve EITHER WAY Giants Super Bowl: game changed when Brady’s shoulder got fucked up by Tuck FAVORITE PLAYER TB12 MOST FUN/DOMINANT Gronk HEART OF TEAM Edelman BELOVED Wilfork ROCK SOLID 1) Hightower 2) McCourty 3) James White 1st BALLOT HALL OF FAMERS 1) Brady 2) Gronk 3) Revis LATER BALLOT 1) Edelman 2) Scarnecchia 3) Welker 4) Wilfork 5) Slater MAKING AN ARGUMENT Gilmore PATS HALL ONLY 1) McCourty 2) Hightower 3) Mankins 4) White 5) Gostkowski 6) Mayo 7) Chung UNDERRATED/GOOD VALUE 1) Amendola 2) Vollmer 3) Ninkovich 4) Chung 5) Woodhead DESERVED BETTER Welker UNSUNG Slater OVERRATED 1) Solder 2) Brandin Cooks NO-SHOWS Dolphins (Dec ’19); Jets Divisional (Jan ‘11) BEST REGULAR SEASON WINS 1) 2013 Broncos 2) 2017 Steelers 3) 2013 Saints BEST REGULAR SEASON LOSSES 1) 2012 49ers 2) 2016 Seahawks 3) 2014 Packers 4) 2015 Broncos LOL Miami Miracle: saved by winning Super Bowl LEAST TALENTED TEAM 1) 2013 by a mile 2) 2010 3) 2011 4) 2018 BEST TEAM 1) 2014 2) 2016 BEST PLAYS (NON-GRONK) 1) Butler INT Seahawks 2) Edelman TD pass vs Ravens 3) Buttfumble Jets 4) Edelman catch vs Falcons 5) Walk-off TD vs Falcons 6) Dan Connolly kick return 7) Brady TD pass to LaFell 2015 Divisional POUNDED TABLE TO DRAFT 1) Lamar Jackson 2) Kittle 3) AJ Brown 4) Honey Badger 5) Stefon Diggs WANTED BUT OUT OF REACH 1) Aaron Donald 2) Quenton Nelson 3) Derwin James 4) Hopkins 5) TJ Watt 6) Saquon 7) Keenan Allen 8) McCaffrey 9) Gurley WOULD’VE WON IT ALL IF NOT FOR INJURIES 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017. That’s football HEALTHIEST SEASON 2018 ROPE-A-DOPED/GOT BY ON VETERAN GUILE 2018: Belichick’s best coaching FAVORITE PICKS AT THE TIME OF GUYS I WANTED 1) Gronk 2) Hightower/Chandler Jones 3) Shaq Mason MOVES I HATED THAT I WAS WRONG ABOUT 1) Stephon Gilmore 2) trading Jamie Collins MOST IMPROVED Marcus Cannon BEST FIND Kyle Van Noy MOVE I LOVED getting Blount back the 2nd time IF BUTLER WASN’T BENCHED, DO THEY BEAT THE EAGLES? Yes 100%. If only because, if nothing else, he can tackle BUTLER’s INT KILLED THE ‘LEGION OF BOOM’ SEAHAWKS WOULD-BE DYNASTY Yes DRAFT REACH THAT MADE NO SENSE Jordan Richards: Tavon Wilson 2.0 BAD DRAFT MOVES 1) Dominique Easley 2) Cyrus Jones 3) Dobson 4) Mallett DIRTY SECRET Belichick sucks at drafting in 2nd round WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD IF HE STAYED HEALTHY Malcolm Mitchell HATE TO SEE WALK BUT COULDN’T AFFORD 1) Trey Flowers 2) Chandler Jones 3) Jimmy G 4) Talib 5) Akiem Hicks DEFLATEGATE fraud/power trip job by Goodell/owners BRADY OR BELICHICK MORE VALUABLE Brady 100% DISAPPOINTING/GAMBLES 1) Ochocinco 2) Michael Bennett: got him 2 years too late 3) Fanene signing 4) Haynesworth BEST SHORT-TERM 1) Martellus Bennett 2) Chris Long 3) Revis 4) Brian Waters SUSPECT CHARACTERS/EDGY PERSONALITY MACHINES Brandon Spikes; Brandon Browner…SERIAL KILLER Aaron Hernandez PERSONALITY DISORDER DISASTER Antonio Brown: bad signing/unexpected HOW THE FUCK DID WE LOSE TO THAT GUY? Eli Manning/Nick Foles LIFESAVER Scarnecchia MCDANIELS Frustrating—but continuity matters REFS FUCKED OVER Gronk MISCELANNEOUS 2010s GOOD/ENJOY Bernie Sanders/AOC: people who actually want to get good done that’s long overdue…Lebron James; Stephen Curry; Kawhi; Zion Williamson; Luka Doncic...Lamar Jackson; Pat Mahomes; JJ Watt; Marshawn Lynch…Coach Ed Orgeron...David Ortiz…2011 Bruins…memes…Don Winslow crime novels…David Roth writing on Trump…David Grann non-fiction…’Book of Mormon’ DID NOT ENJOY Kyrie Irving…Deflategate…LeBron on the Heat…Bobby Valentine DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LIKE ‘Between the World and Me’…Elon Musk…Lin Manuel-Miranda/’Hamilton’ INDEFENSIBLY AND INFURIATINGLY BAD THE MORE YOU LOOK AT IT Facebook…Obama Presidency/Democratic Party Leadership EVERYDAY DISASTER Media: CNN; Fox; MSNBC; NY Times Op-Ed…Trump/Republicans: Trump presidency was basically 2010s 9/11 for inevitable disastrous fallout & consequences my generation will never recover from…Grifters Trojan horsing way in shamelessly (Trump administration; Ben Shapiro; Alex Jones; Milo; Jordan Peterson, Tomi Lahren, etc.) and no repercussions...Republican Party basically one goal: to troll libs even with shitty ideas that suck FAVORITES WHO DIED Bourdain; Elmore Leonard; Garry Shandling; Muhammad Ali; Robin Williams; Tom Petty BEST TALENT CUT SHORT Philip Seymour Hoffman SHITTIEST PEOPLE WHO DIED Antonin Scalia; George HW Bush; John McCain; Osama; Steve Jobs; Whitey Bulger I FORGOT THAT SHIT HAPPENED Charlie Sheen loses it JEFFREY EPSTEIN did not kill himself WHAT DEFINES 2010s Amazon/Bezos…Climate Change/Gun Violence inaction…Journalism being taken over by Bane Capital-esque vultures/local places dying...one-sided Class War by the uber-rich…#MeToo…Netflix…Opioids…Outrage/Cancel culture…Police Injustice…Silicon Valley…Social Media…Superhero shit…Your mom

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pokemonjunge · 5 years

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I was tagged by @serenastella

Thank you ☺

1. Do you put ketchup on a coney?

I did not know what that is before 😅 I don't eat hotdogs very often, but if I do you can bet that there will be ketchup on it ;)

2. Choice of soda?

Usually Coke, when I was in the states however I really enjoyed Dr. Peppers

3. Do you own a gun?

No, and I have absolutely no ambition to change that.

4. Can you swim?

Yes, not very well though. Enough to not drown and to get where I need to get to, but I don't like swimming that much, if snorkeling is not an option (in a pool for example xD) I will rather splash around a little xD

5. Hot dogs or burger?

Burger. But not that disgusting squishy mess you get at MacDonalds and the like. I prefer the good stuff you get in real Burger restaurants

6. Favorite type of food?

Sheesh, idk 😅 I really like Sushi, I'd probably go for that

7. Do you believe in ghosts?

Difficult question. I am usually a very rational person, but as someone who grew up with a dog I've encountered some situations that I can't explain rationally. The dog barking at the house where a man shot his wife for example. That happened before we lived in that village, there wasn't anything strange around that house, but our dog hated it.

Let's say I do believe that there are a lot of things we do not yet understand. If you want to call some of them ghosts, sure, go ahead ;)

8. What do you drink in the morning?

Almost exclusively Earl Grey Tea. If that is not available I'll settle for green or black tea as well, but almost never coffee, my stomach doesn't like that

9. Can you do 100 pushups?

Hahaha xD No.

10. Summer, Winter, Spring, or Autumn?

I love all seasons, but I might have a tendencie towards Autumn. But at the moment I am really looking forward to Spring

11. Favorite hobby?

Nature photography!

12. Tattoos?

Yes, only one at the moment:

It is Yggdrasil from Norse mythology.

I do want more Tattoos though, I'd like to have Huginn and Muninn, but I hav't decided on anything specific yet

13. Do you wear glasses?

Yes

14. Do you have a phobia?

Spiders. God, I hate them so much 😅 Also idk if that counts, but I get very anxious any time I go out, even if it is with my best friend

15. Do you have nick name?

If anything just Fabi instead of my whole name Fabian

16. Three favorite drinks?

Tea, fresh apple cider, mead

17. Biggest downfall?

I'm not entirely sure what this means 😅

Maybe my imposter syndrome?

18. Rain or Snow?

Another tough one. I'd say it depends on the season. In winter I usually hate rain because it is just cold and wet and awfull and I'd like to see it fall as snow. But in summer Rain can be so calming and refreshing. I love it when rain pours over the leafs of the trees in a forest. When everything is dripping and you can smell the wet moss around you.

But I equally love when you go out in the morning and everything is covered in a thick white blanket that dampens all sounds and is glistening in the morning sun...

I really, really can't decide what I love more, sorry 😅

19. Can you change a tire?

Sure

20. Favorite flower?

I never thought about that... I do like Sunflowers, but the smaller kind ^^

21. Can you drive a stick?

I suppose this refers to a car where gear shifting is not automatic. Yes, here in germany anyone with a normal drivers license can drive a non automatic car. It is the standard here

22. Ever gone skydiving?

No, but I might want to do it at some point, I'm not sure 😅

23. Kids?

Not even a girlfriend for way to long by now xD

24. Favorite color?

I don't really have one favourite color. I am all about gradients. That gradient from orange over a greenish light blue to the deep dark blue of a sky after sunset before nightfall? That is what I love ❤

25. Employed?

No, but I'm about to finish my bachelor's degree so I hope this will change this year

26. Can you whistle?

Yes, in multiple ways.

27. Where were you born?

Marburg, Germany

28. Siblings?

A younger sister

29. Surgeries?

I had at least one when I was very little and a few all related to each other when I was a teenager

30. Shower or bath?

Shower. I rarely (at the point where it is almost never xD) bathe because it is boring to do it alone, I did bathe with my Ex girlfriend a few times when we were together though, which I quite enjoyed

31. Last song you listened to?

Futhorck by Heilung

32. Age?

33. Broken bones?

Never happened to me

34. How many tv’s in your house?

4 because I'm currently with my family. One in the living room, one at my sisters room, one in my room which I use for netflix and gaming and one in the room below our roof which is rarely used.

35. Worst pain?

My stomach cramps I get when I'm anxious.

36. Do you like to sing?

Yes, I do sing in a choir as a bass and I enjoy it very much!

37. Are your parents still alive?

Yes

38. Do you like camping?

With a caravan yes, but I am not a tent guy 😄

39. What do you enjoy binge watching?

I don't binge watch very often. Last thing probably was Rick and Morty or Gravity Falls. I do binge read though, last year I've read a Frankenstein themed trilogy by Kenneth Oppel in two days

40. Pumpkin or Sweet Potato pie?

We don't really have these kinds of pie in germany, but I don't like sweet potato so I'd go with pumpkin 😄

I tag @quantizedqubit and @warm-poetry ^^

#tagging game

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burritodetodo · 6 years

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An Underrated Medium

On the 91st Oscars ceremony when the Best Animated Feature was introduced, the announcers said animation represented a “simpler time” referring to childhood. That is a big error because cartoons aren’t only a kids game but an underrated medium to tell stories because of that conceptual mistake.

Animated films started alongside the first big Hollywood blockbusters. Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop or Popeye were on the same time as legends like Charles Chaplin, Rodolfo Valentino or Bela Lugosi. Animated features were on shorts or on ambitious creations such as the awarded Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or Fantasia. The following years, animated shorts were used for propaganda on WWII or to simply entertain people like Woody Woodpecker or Looney Toons. Even Tom and Jerry won several Oscars on the 40s!

This medium kept going on theatres while television was interrupting on entertainment. Many movies were done, from 101 Dalmatians to Ralph Bakshi or Don Bluth classics back in the 80s. Until 1991. The Beauty and The Beast was in the Best Picture lot. Even two years before Who Framed Roger Rabbit? innovated with a full length film mixing live action with animation into a comedy and winning an award. 10 years later, Animated Films got its deserved award and Shrek had been the first to won it. Disney/Pixar, with 12 statues, remains hegemonic, but there were acknowledges to Ghibli or Aardman.

TV animation was not only for kids. Between 1960-1966 The Flintstones aired on the US prime time and was one of the most viewed series. A record held for 31 years until The Simpsons surpassed them as the longest animation on prime time. Both series concieved with adult themes mixed with entertainment, down to earth and nothing related to 22-minutes-commercial-like cartoons in the Eighties.

Animation is not exclusively for children like old geezers in the Academy and executives want us to believe. At present there are lots of TV shows and films for both audiencies. Kids can be entertained with situations shown while adults too and also can get the pop references or things that happen in their lifes.

Only in ten years, there were Disney/Pixar movies like Inside Out, Wreck It Ralph, Wall-E or Zootopia that broke that wall imposed by executives with some adult situations or post-apocalyptic scenarios. Or The Lego Movie, which is a huge pop culture salad that is very entertaining. Kubo has a classic story that is enjoyable and beatiful to watch because of its style. And the Oscar winner of this year, Spiderverse, that combines a solid story, great voice acting, a tremendous mix of visual styles and animation techniques and excellent music.

TV is facing a golden age of animated series for kids but for adults too. Even the PG group has examples of cartoons meant for children but grown ups can enjoy either. In this decade we had Gravity Falls, a constant adventure full of mysteries and clues in its episodes; Regular Show was a sitcom about two young adults escaping job responsibilites and dealing with their lives as they grew up, among other moments; Adventure Time is an epic tale that could be a story told by Vikings or the Greek Homer which explores from the different corners of fantastic Land of Ooo to the dungeons of teenage years and labrynths of existencialism; or Steven Universe, a sci-fi story that broke down gender barriers and brings in LGBTI main characters.

Adult animated series divorced from the long running Simpsons, Family Guy or South Park to bring us shows like BoJack Horseman, Rick and Morty or Big Mouth. All these last shows express on their own style social problems, adult situations or even philosophical and existencial questions. Networks took note that they have an audience who grew up watching Nicktoons and What a Cartoon! on the 90s and are now young adults and now they are greenlighting tons of animated shows or rebooting classics, like Animaniacs on Hulu.

Cartoons are meant for everybody, not kids only. It is a medium that can have the seriousness that is believed live action series has. It has aesthetic resources that couldn’t be used in live action. Good big stories can be told too with even far more possibilites. Besides, people who work there can be persons like you and me, on their 20s, 30s or 60s. It is a job like any other with an extra because it is specialized.

If execs take animation more seriously, it would have the reputation it deserves and not be just a “throwback to past”. Give it a try to this medium that year by year broadens.

Was it clear or should I make a doodle?

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#burrito writes #animation #oscars #Academy Awards #Best Animated Feature #spiderverse #opinion

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kurootetsvrous · 6 years

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30 Questions Challenge

Rules:

• Answer the questions

• Tag 20 people

I got tagged by: @softiethan & @graysonsthumb ty guys! 💕

1. How tall are you? 5’0 (im vv short)

2. What color and style is your hair? Dyed jet black wavy long hair hahaha but my tips are so dry from bleaching

3. What color are your eyes? dark brown

4. Do you wear glasses? yeah sometimes at night when i cant really see

5. Do you wear braces? no, never have

6. What’s your fashion style? black classic vans, cropped black pants, cropped/off shoulder tops & my trusty energy gem necklace

7. Full name? Kharla Anne (pls dont call me this, only my mom does when she’s really mad at me)

8. When were you born? Feb 3, 1996

9. Where are you from and where do you live now? Philippines, i’ve moved from city to city but never out of the country

10. What school do you go? i’ve graduated college last year

11. What kind of student are you? i was....(this is so far from how people here see me) i was a student leader, school paper writer & was one of those who was always responsible and at the top of the class

12. Do you like school? i used to dread it, but now i kinda miss it

13. Favorite school projects? Events Management & Culinary classes

14. Favorite TV show? how i met your mother, brooklyn nine-nine, rick and morty & the end of the f***ing world

15. Favorite Movie? The Great Gatsby, Inception, Iron Man 3 & Les Misérables

16. Favorite books? anything by rick riordan & ‘hush hush’ by becca fitzpatrick

17. Favorite pastime? watching movies & doing edits i will never post

18. Do you have any regrets? yeah, there’s one thing i’ve always regret

19. Dream job? to own/run a hotel or a cruiseship

20. Would you ever like to be married? yes

21. Would you like to have kids? yes

22. How many? 3-5 is good enough, i come from a small family sooo

23. Do you like shopping? uhh it depends on my mood i guess?

24. What countries have you visited? Hong Kong

25. Scariest nightmare you’ve ever had? Me trying to save my family member with quests then failed and they all die

26. Any enemies? yeah, the one person i thought i could trust

27. Do you have a significant other? nah

28. Do you get along with your family? most of the time, yeah

29. Do you believe in miracles? hmmm not really

I’m tagging: @cutesydolan @grungegrant @dolanwritings @kissdolans @eteeweeteeee @bb-dolan @palmtreedolan @belleamebailey @lanadeldolans @dandydolans @mintdolans @tidsoptlmist @dicaprios @majesticdolans @ethandolansgf @lovely-dolan @godlydolans @anuraktadolan @hayley-noelle-salvatore19 @sj-dolan

#about me #30 questions challenge

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rulingqueenarts98-blog · 6 years

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30 questions tag

AHHHHH bumblebee bae @freddieseyeliner thank you for tagging me!!!

Rules: Tag the person who tagged you, answer the questions and tag 20 people (umm nope I’ll just tag my lovely mutuals)

1. How tall are you? 5’6″ and a half. Yep pretty average.

2. What color and style is your hair? Dark brown and a long wavy bob.

3. What color are your eyes? Hazel.

4. Do you wear glasses? Hell yeah, I do! Most of the time it’s just contact lenses est. middle school. lol

5. Do you wear braces? Unfortunately no. My teeth are in good shape with some that are pointy like fangs (good for getting plastic tags off clothes) and my wisdom teeth giving me no hell.

6. What is your fashion style? It’s mixed. I’ve been trying to slowly get onto the 70′s/80′s wardrobe revamp without making it look costumey but right now it just consists of band tees, ringer shirts, crop tops, crop sweaters, flannel, cozy scarves, high waisted skinny jeans and a few pieces of jewelry. It’s a hipster mess despite that I haven’t worn a skirt in years.

7. Full name? how about no??? You crazy dutch bastard? Unless you’re a close friend, my family, all you need to know that I’m Kelsey babes.

8. When were you born? I’m a Scorpio. That’s the tea and it’s all you need to know.

9. Where are you from and where do you live now? I’m a Western Canada babe!!!! I still live in Western Canada for school but I would like to leave the country and go live/work as an artist in England so badly.

10. What school do you go to? I would rather not say for the sake of my privacy.

11. What kind of student are you? Take art geek, theatre geek, music geek, film geek, perfectionist, test anxious, high achiever, honor roll, manga reader, anime geek, and can score B’s/C’s in math/science. Blend all of that into a smoothie and you’ve got me.

12. Do you like school? Yes, I do like school. Meeting new people, having amazing teachers that give a damn about you succeeding, doing extracurricular activities, and learn more about skills handy for my career, but it was horrendous having to go through science and math which got fairly better during high school.

13. What are your favorite school subjects? Fine art, theatre, music, history, English literature, gym, and homeroom.

14. Favorite TV shows? Avatar the Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Steven Universe, Voltron: Legendary Defender, Rick and Morty, Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Gurren Lagaan, BBC’s Sherlock, My Hero Academia, and Gilmore Girls(I really want to watch Mr. Robot, but I’m having such a hard time watching it without getting a membership for Hulu).

16. Favorite books? Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Fullmetal Alchemist (technically a manga), The Adventures of Tintin (a comic book), The Dark Between Stars (poetry), Debutantes, Coraline, Harry Potter book series, and The Vanishing Season.

17. Favourite past-time? Walking and exploring downtown, working out at the gym, going into my favorite shops to browse, riding my bike, drawing, crafting, writing, hanging out with friends whenever I can, and reading on a rainy day.

18. Do you have any regrets? Who doesn’t? I’m trying to be less regretful of what happened in the past and live for the present.

19. Dream job? Artist! Which means doing stuff like writing/illustrating my own graphic novel series, direct a feature-length traditional animated film, work on animation/character design/backgrounds for animation studios, and selling my own art pieces in an art gallery.

20. Would you like to get married? Of course, I would! That is when the right person walks into my life. Besides, I already have an idea in mind for what I would wear (if you guys want to know, I’m thinking of Freddie’s suit from Fashion Aid ‘85).

21. Would you like to have kids someday? I haven’t thought much about it. Maybe I’ll adopt a cat when I can live in a flat building that welcomes them.

22. How many? As I said, I haven’t thought much about it right now.

23. Do you like shopping? Yes always! Consignment shopping is fun, I like shopping for gifting family and friends, along with shopping for vinyl records and

24. What countries have you visited? A couple of US states (California, Montana, Tennesse, Iowa, and Maui, one of the Hawaiian islands) and England. I can’t afford to travel at the moment but would love to go back and experience England for a week.

25. What’s the scariest nightmare you’ve ever had? Nope, I’m not sharing my dreams are too surreal and abstract.

26. Do you have any enemies? I did have a couple back in my hometown, but I pay no mind since they’re not my problem.

27. Do you have a s/o? Someone to love? Nope, but it would be nice to have someone to love one day.

28. Do you believe in miracles? I don’t have much bias in miracles. I think you can actively put in an effort to make those miracles happen (through visiting someone who is sick, treating them with their favorite thing and raising funds to support them) rather than just letting fate handle it.

I’ll tag @mlle-fahrenheit @yogurtbattle @johnrichardeacon @only-one-hysterical-queen @dragonrider96 @littlesilhouettowalkson @darlingfreddie

#this is it #everything you need to know about me #travel #reading #manga #scorpio #thanks again so much bumbleebae #💛🐝💛🐝

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elizaviento · 6 years

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Assimilation (part 12/23)

Note: Some more smutty goodness for ya along with a healthy dose of angst. Enjoy!

NSFW -- 3150 words

(FYI: Additional chapters of Assimilation can be found in the Rick Fic Masterpost link in my blog description. Or, you can click the #assimilation tag in this post, within my blog, to access all additional chapters.)

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After I left the garage, I spent the remainder of the night lying on the trundle bed – staring at the ceiling while a steady stream of tears leaked from my eyes, down the sides of my face to soak into my hair. Every now and again, I would wipe them away but mostly I let them fall. I could hear the sounds of my family moving about in the house but I couldn’t bring myself to get up and join them. As much as I tried to comfort Morty earlier, I wasn’t very good at doing so with myself.

I felt guilty. How could I have tried to completely erase Chris from my life? It wasn’t possible; a fool’s errand. And, that’s exactly what I was – a fool. No one had ever loved me as much as he did and I doubted anyone ever would. And, what did I do? I betrayed his memory. I only hoped that my counterpart appreciated her husband more than I did mine. I’d find out sooner or later, though, once I got my hands on those goggles.

My life had become one giant cluster fuck made worse by the fact that I allowed myself to fall into an affair with someone I had no business even entertaining the possibility with. Was I strong enough to tell Rick that this couldn’t continue? Could I resist him if he came on to me again? No, probably not. Why did I ask him to recount our time on Unity’s planet? What exactly was my end game with that little request? I obviously hadn’t recovered all of the memories of my assimilation but what did I gain by learning the rest from Rick’s point of view? Most likely, he’d give me a watered down version; downplay any expectations he had or advances he’d made. I couldn’t even blame him because that’s exactly what I would do if the tables were turned. He had no clue I wasn’t myself so the humiliation he probably felt upon discovering otherwise must have been intense. Not to mention, the betrayal associated with such manipulation.

I was so deep inside my own head that I was startled by the knock on my ‘bed room’ door. It was Morty, wondering if I was okay. I lied to him, of course.

“I told Mom and – and Dad that you’re – that y-y-you aren’t feeling well,” he informed, his voice muffled as it carried through the pressed wood. I thanked him and told him to go enjoy his evening. I’d be fine, really.

At about 2:30 am, I got up to use the toilet and when I returned, I found the inter-dimensional goggles hanging from the door knob with a sticky note attached that simply read “D-79”. Feeling my heart rate increase, I snatched them up and locked the door behind me even though there was absolutely no movement in the house. I felt like a teenager about to sneak watch porn; like I was about to do something dirty. Perhaps it was dirty to spy on someone else’s life. However, as I had told Rick earlier – I didn’t give a shit.

Luckily, the controls on the goggles were pretty self-explanatory. There was a power button, a select button, a play button, a fast forward button, and a rewind button. A rewind button? The idea that I could rewind the life of my counterpart was almost unbelievable. Almost, because the idea of inter-dimensional goggles was unbelievable in the first place, yet here they were in my hands. After taking a deep breath, I pressed the power button and slipped them over my head.

I assumed that I would have to locate the dimension I needed since Rick made sure to indicate it on the sticky note, but it was already queued up – based on the tiny display at the bottom – and was playing live, right in front of my eyes. Well, it would have been if my counterpart wasn’t obviously asleep. All I could see in this moment was the back of her eyelids. Of course, she’d be sleeping at 2:30 in the morning. I felt like a moron – until I remembered the rewind button.

Without removing the goggles, I ran my hand along the outside until my fingers felt the indentation of the two backward facing arrows and pressed. Images began to flash in front of my eyes at lighting speed and I made myself wait for twenty seconds before locating and pressing the play button. It seemed like those twenty seconds sent me back to about mid-day in dimension D-79. As the images began to play back at normal speed, I was amazed at how it seemed like I had assumed my counterpart’s body instead of just watching through a pair of goggles. She was at work; the same place I had worked before moving away which surprised me, for some reason. Regardless, this wasn’t what I wanted to see, so I pressed the fast forward button for about five seconds and pressed play once more.

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I walk through the front door of my house and immediately kick my shoes off, sending them flying across the foyer. It was a long day at work and I just want to peel the rest of my work clothes off and drink wine until I fall asleep on the couch watching MSNBC. I hear my phone chirp and pull it from my bag to see a new voicemail from Chris. He never leaves me voicemail — preferring instead to text — so I know it has to be something important.

“Hey, babe. I’m leaving for my shift now. I don’t know if you still plan to go over to Beth and Jerry’s for dinner tonight but I’ll try to call you when I have a break. Something weird happened today that I need to tell you about.”

Shit, I forgot it was Wednesday. No wine and MSNBC for me after all. We always eat at Beth and Jerry’s on Wednesday but I’ll make sure to let them know I’m expecting a call from Chris so Jerry doesn’t get pissy if I step away from table to take it. Especially since Chris doesn’t usually work the night shifts but has been recently to fill in for a co-worker out on leave. Truth be told, I’m still paranoid of Chris working nights after that guy stabbed him. He nearly died and was in the hospital for a month. I really don’t think I could live through something like that again.

It’s 5:30 pm now so I should make my way over so I can help Beth. I wonder what weird thing happened that Chris felt the need to call me about. My gut twists at what I hope he doesn’t say when I hear from him later tonight. Trying to forget about it, I change into my favorite jeans and a t-shirt before making my way next door. I let myself in and say hi to Jerry and the kids as I head to the kitchen, where I know I’ll find Beth.

“Hello, Bethany, my love. What do you need help with?” I notice that the door leading to the garage is open so I peak my head inside and also say hi to Rick. He’s sitting at his work station with his back to me and doesn’t turn around but raises one hand in the air to greet me, which is typical.

“Can you set the table?” Beth asks before adding, “Chris still working nights?”

“Yes, for a little while longer.” I see Rick turn around on his stool from the corner of my eye.

“I – uh – I’ll come help ya, Chicken,” Rick says as he makes his way into the kitchen.

“Aw, thanks, Dad” Beth says, placing a hand on his shoulder as he passes by her and saddles up next to me as I’m pulling dishes from the cabinets. He doesn’t need to stand this close to get to the silverware drawer and I throw him a glance. He smirks and but doesn’t move away. When I have all the dishes I need, I make my way to the dining room with Rick on my heels.

The kids are already sitting at the table. Summer is tapping away on her phone, as usual, and Morty is reading a book that was assigned to him in his English class. There is a jacket cover on the book so I ask, “Lord of the Flies?”

“1984,” he replies, placing the book on the table with a sigh.

“Also good,” I confirm, placing glasses and plates at each sitting. Rick is close behind with the cutlery.

“I-I-I can’t pay attention – concentrate on it long enough to know w-w-what’s going on,” he says, sighing again. He look so dejected.

“I can explain it to you, kiddo.”

“No, he needs to read it and understand it on his own,” Jerry interjects as he enters the dining room and takes his place at the table.

“Don’t pretend she didn’t have to read – explain it to you, Jerry,” Rick spits. I throw him another glace as I’m really not in the mood to hear them bicker throughout dinner.

“Jer, I may need to step away and answer a call from Chris while we’re eating. He said he needs to tell me about something weird that happened today.”

“Oh, y-y-you mean when he was practically fuckin’ – dry humping an alternate version of you in the driveway?” Rick mentions, his tone casual.

“Excuse me?” I ask with a laugh before the expression on his face confirms that he’s not joking. “Wait… what?”

“That – t-t-that’s not what happened, Rick,” Morty says, rolling his eyes. “Some other Rick and Morty showed up here, probably to s-steal from us like we were doing.”

“And, they had an alternate version of me with them?”

“Yeah,” Morty says. “It was weird though ‘cause she was hugging Chris.”

I glace at Rick and he shrugs his shoulders. “I ran – chased them off. You’re welcome.”

I take Morty’s lead and roll my eyes. Rick can be such an ass.

Dinner is uneventful, thank god. I check my phone a few times but Chris doesn’t call. I do get a text from him right before I’m about to leave that says, “No time to talk. Not a big deal though. See you in the morning.”

It’s 8:00 pm now and I’m exhausted but I can still enjoy some wine and catch the remainder of my favorite political shows, which excites me. I then realize how boring I must be to become excited over cheap wine and politics. Suddenly, I hear the whirl of a portal opening behind me and I turn to catch Rick as he steps through before it pops out of existence. I don’t have time to open my mouth to speak before he closes the distance between us, places his large hand on my mouth and shoves me against the wall. He’s already hard and I wonder for how long as he places a gentle love bite to the junction between my neck and shoulder.

“Mmm, I-I-I know you want this cock, baby,” he says, grinding it against my thigh.

Then, he removes his hand so I can reply. “What took you so long?”

Now, positioning both hands on the small of my back, he glides them down to cup my ass before hoisting me up. I wrap my legs around his waist and my arms around his neck as he carries me down the hall to the master bedroom. When we reach the bed, he gently sits me down on the edge. As he straightens, I’m already unbuckling his belt, my mouth is watering. It takes mere seconds to get his pants and briefs around his ankles and my mouth around his cock.

“Ah, fuuuck. T-t-that’s nice, sweetheart.”

He rakes his fingers through my hair before gripping at the scalp. I flick my eyes up to meet his and hold contact as I blow him, taking him as far down my throat as possible – just how he likes.

“Christ, you know how to suck a dick,” he encourages as he uses the grip on my scalp to bob my head on his length. I let my mouth fill with saliva as he fucks my face and it begins to slip out and roll down my chin to the expensive Persian rug below. I paid way too much for that rug but can’t give a fuck about it now.

Far too soon for my liking, Rick pulls his dick from my mouth to command, “Strip. Bend over. Palms flat on the mattress.”

Of course, I comply – pulling my clothes off as fast as I can – and soon, he’s rubbing the head of his cock up and down my slick cunt. I moan and fist my hands into the comforter when I feel him slowly press his way inside. But, suddenly he stops and pulls back.

“What the fuck?” I whine, looking over my shoulder at him. I guess he’s decided to be a tease.

“I wanna put – stick it in your ass tonight, sweet girl. Pound t-t-that ass ‘til you cry. Would you like that?”

“Oh, yesss,” I hiss, turning to face forward again, lying my upper body on the mattress while he retrieves the lube from the night stand beside my bed. I watch as he strips the remainder of his clothing while he’s on his way back to his position behind me and a moment later, I feel the cool substance drip down the crack of my ass. It makes me shiver and giggle.

“Shit, you – y-you’re fucking sexy,” he growls, rubbing his callused palms down the curve of my ass before spreading my cheeks wide. When he gently presses a thumb over and inside my puckered entrance, I groan at the intrusion but I know it’s nothing compared to what he has in store for me. He then removes his thumb and replaces it with an index finger, then a middle finger. The stretch is amazing and now I’m panting, dying for his cock. Of course, he takes notice and chuckles.

“You’re ready now, huh?”

He doesn’t wait for my reply before positioning his cock and pressing forward. I cry out and press my face to the mattress when he breaches the ring of muscle and pops inside. Then, he stops to rubs his hands up my ass cheeks until he reaches my waist and continues forward slowly toward my tits, his cock sliding deeper inside. When he finally reaches my nipples – rolling them between his fingers – he’s fully seated inside my ass and my pussy is already aching.

With his chest resting against my back, he whisper in my ear, “Don’t y-y-you dare touch your clit until I say so.” Then, he straightens, grips my hips, slowly pulls nearly all the way out and then presses all the way back in even slower. He continues at this pace for what seems like an eternity – until I’m losing my mind and begging him to speed up.

“Oh god, Rick, please!”

“Please what, baby?” he asks while slowly pressing back in. Yes, tonight he’s going to tease.

“Go faster! Please! Just fuck me already!”

“Mmm, you – you sure?” Slowly dragging out.

Too overwhelmed to reply with words, I sob and press my face to the mattress once more. He has apparently decided he’s teased me enough, however, because the next thing I know, he’s quickening his pace. I cry out in gratitude; sparks of pain and pleasure radiate through my lower half and my pussy is clenching, dying to be filled.

“Rick,” I groan, “Please… fuck my pussy with your fingers.”

“Is she – is she feelin’ lonely, huh?” he asks, sliding them up my slit. “Fuck, you’re dripping.” Finally relenting, he pushes them inside, hooking to effortlessly locate my g-spot and press rhythmically, in time with his thrusts.

“Oh my god…” I continue to sob as tears prick my eyes. He’s going to make me cry, just like he promised.

“Who makes you feel this good, sweet girl?”

“Oh fuck! Just you!”

“Rub that clit for me. I w-wanna feel it – feel you squeeze my dick and my fingers. Do it, baby.”

I snake an arm down my body and the moment the pads of my fingers make contact with my swollen clit, I cum. It’s so sudden and intense and I can feel my entire body tremble with the force of it; my cunt and ass clinch in time as Rick sings my praise –

“Oh fuuuck – oh Christ, that’s it baby you – you’re g-g-gonna make me fuckin’ cum!”

He leans over again to grip my shoulders, ramming my entire body back, impaling me on his dick. Then he groans and collapses on top of me as he fills me up.

Soon, I feel him going flaccid inside me and my stomach rolls with guilt. The afterglow is always so short.

“You should leave now,” I say, feeling desperate to get him off and out of me.

He doesn’t reply. As he peels his body from mine, I feel him slip from my ass along with what feels like a gallon of his cum. My stomach rolls again. I rise from the bed and stand, pulling my robe from the back of the closet door and watch as he hastily gets dressed. A moment later, he’s shooting a portal at my bedroom wall.

“Yeah. See ya,” he says, stepping through.

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I removed the goggles with shaky hands. Holy shit. She was fucking Rick and obviously had been for a while. She was cheating on Chris and didn’t even have the decency to use one of the guest bedrooms. Was that the life I would be living right now if my Chris hadn’t been killed? Would I have Chris but not appreciate him to the point that I’d have an affair with Rick? My entire life, I thought I was a good person; that I tried my best to do the right things. It had all been bullshit.

The thought occurred to me that there are multiple versions of me who are currently banging a Rick. I could scan through dimensions and find out how many of my counterparts are so fucking ungrateful of their loving husbands that they willingly fall into the arms of Rick Sanchez. I could torture myself with it all night long. All week long. All year long. Until the day I fucking croak.

Rick had warned me that this was a bad idea. Did he know? What an idiotic question. Of course – of course – he knew.

To be continued…

P.S. A huge thank you to @porkchop-ao3 for letting me borrow her inter-dimensional goggle technology tweaks from her amazing story Someone Else’s Shoes, which you can find under her Ao3 account username PorkChop.

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The Waiting Game (4 of 12)

Book: The Royal Romance (After Book Three)

Pairing: Bastien Lykel x OFC Rinda Parks

Word Count: 1,919

Rating: M for Language

Author’s Note: Obligatory disclaimer that Pixelberry Studios owns the TRR characters and my pocketbook with those darn diamond scenes. OFC with all of her quirks is all mine. My apologies if Tumblr or I do something stupid when I try to post this.

Summary: It’s a long wait at the airport, and Bastien gets a sneak peek at life with Henry.

. . . . Pretend Tumblr put a “keep reading” link here! . . . . .

Bastien picked Rinda in early in the morning, so they were already on the road when Henry was boarding the plane. He knew it was going to be a long day, but today it didn’t matter if he worked on things at the airport or at the palace. He would also be receiving updates on the King and Queen’s return from France, and he needed to coordinate some things with Mara. It actually worked out perfectly.

Rinda had a brief chance to tell Henry that she loved him and to have a safe flight before they took off. Every hour Bastien received an update that he shared with Rinda. It was only to tell Bastien that everything was going well, and Henry wasn’t bored yet, but Rinda was so grateful. And sharing road trip stories with Bastien definitely helped keep her mind off things.

When they got to the airport Rinda was amazed at how smoothly Bastien was able to navigate through airport security. He was in his element, issuing directives, checking and double checking itineraries and taking control of the situation. Rinda admired Bastien. His presence commanded respect, and he had a firm but fair way of handling the people under his command. She was honored to work with him, but she also knew that it was important to find his replacement so he could get back to where he was really needed. Where he belonged.

Rinda got settled into a waiting area in the airport while Bastien excused himself to go into one of the airport’s security rooms, promising to return when he could to give updates. Rinda nodded. She knew that she would have to wait alone while Bastien worked, and she brought plenty of things to keep her busy.

. . . . .

Bastien came back in about an hour, carrying a cup of coffee. Rinda was working on her laptop, but she looked up when she saw Bastien. He handed her the coffee. “Ooh, you are my hero. Thank you!”

Bastien grinned. “How are you holding up? You aren’t too bored, are you? I’m sorry that I can’t stay out here and keep you company.”

Rinda laughed. “I’m holding up just fine. I’m not bored. And it’s okay that you can’t stay out here. I know you have a lot going on, but I appreciate that you stopped by to say ‘hi.’ With coffee. And . . . an update?” She gave a mischievous grin.

Bastien smiled. “Everything is still going well. Henry’s getting a little antsy, and I’m supposed to tell you that he’s glad he brought the next Harry Potter book to read.” Rinda laughed and gave Bastien a thumb’s up as he walked back to the security room.

Airport Update Two: “He’s playing UNO with everyone. And cheating . . .”

Update Three: “I’m supposed to inform you that playing I Spy in a plane over the ocean doesn’t work. Oh, and the guards only made it to 89 with ‘99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.’ Rinda, I know beer is big in Wisconsin, but . . . what?”

Update Four: “He’s, um, really chatty . . . He was trying to tell me something but he was laughing too hard and I couldn’t understand him. I think he was telling me to say ‘wilco’ and ‘roger’ when we talked. And ‘over’ whenever I was done talking. I think he was actually scolding me to repeat phrases over, then end with the word ‘over . . . Over.’ No clue where he gets that obnoxious attitude from.” Rinda rolled her eyes. “Yeah, that’s from a Family Guy episode where Stewie and Brian used walkie-talkies. Jameson and I ruined him a long time ago.”

(Link to that Scene)

Update Five: “Okay, he’s bonding with another guard about some cartoon named . . . Rick and Morty? Henry said he . . . I wrote this down. ‘SK-watches his family?’” Rinda laughed, knowing what he meant. “Oh, and the guard said that everyone is getting . . . swiftly?”

(R & M Squanchy Link)

(R&M Schwifty Music Video NSFW Link)

“Okay, I’m officially a shitty parent and my son is out of control. Bastien, you have to come over for a Rick and Morty marathon one of these days. Thanks for delivering the message. You did good!”

. . . . .

Bastien brought dinner for Rinda. “Do you want to eat outside and get some fresh air?”

Rinda was shocked. “This is a whole new world of airport security for me!”

Bastien grinned. “It helps to have friends in high places.”

. . . . .

Rinda was watching the workers on the tarmac bustling around to load and fuel the planes. It was noisy, and Bastien had to sit close to Rinda so they could talk. Her eyes were a brilliant green as she took everything in. “I love looking up in the sky at airplanes, wondering where people are going. Is it work? Vacation? Are they excited that they are flying, or is it a boring inconvenience? And take off. I love that feeling, the engines, the power as you really get moving, feeling the wheels leave the ground as you watch the houses getting smaller and smaller.” She gave a sheepish grin. “I’ve never had this perspective before, so close to the planes. This is really amazing.”

“Well, it helps that you’re so easily impressed.” Rinda rolled her eyes.

“Rinda, has Henry flown before?” Her face lit up. “Yes, and it’s a really cool story. Jameson was taking flight lessons. We couldn’t afford for him to solo long enough for him to actually get his pilot’s license. But once he did his first solo flight, his instructor said he could take Henry for his first plane ride. The instructor had to come along, but Jameson was the one to actually fly the Cessna. How many kids get to say their dad piloted their first flight, right?” Bastien raised his eyebrows. Impressive. “And now he’s flying commercial . . . poor kid . . . but he’s getting escorted by the Royal Guard, getting all of this rock star preferential treatment, thanks to you.” Bastien looked down when Rinda gave him a smile. Compliments and gratitude embarrassed him, especially when he was just doing his job. And Rinda had a way of being so specific when she was thanking a person, her appreciation so genuine. It was always more than just a “thank you.” But she was realizing that made Bastien uncomfortable, so she was getting better at conveying her gratitude to him in a lighthearted or offhand way. Trying not to embarrass him while still making it clear how much this meant to her.

“So Bastien, do you actually fly in the royal jet a lot? I mean, I know it’s work, but do you get to travel a lot?”

“I do, but it isn’t as glamorous as you’d think. Lots of long days and late nights. I explore places to establish perimeters and secure areas, but I never have time to actually be a tourist.” Rinda nodded, understanding what he meant. Bastien grinned at her. “I was actually expecting this to lead into a mile-high club joke from you.”

Rinda arched an eyebrow. “Is there a story you’re just dying to tell me, Bastien?” He blushed, shook his head, and quickly changed the subject. “I think it’s time for me to get back to work.”

. . . . .

The plane was approaching its final descent. Finally. Bastien was standing next to Rinda and he gave her hand a comforting squeeze. “He’s almost here. You’ll see him soon.” Rinda could only squeeze his hand back. She was too excited to speak. “Rinda, I have to leave now to help with security, and you have to wait here.”

Rinda turned to him. “I know, and thank you. For everything.” She smiled. “Now go get ‘em Tiger!”

. . . . .

It felt like a lifetime, but finally she saw Henry. Bastien had his arm around Henry’s shoulder and Henry was grinning as Bastien was talking to him. Then he saw Rinda and he came running over to her. “Mom!!!!!” Rinda wrapped him in the biggest hug, crying and giving him kisses. “I missed you so much, Bug!”

When she pulled away and tried to compose herself the guards started saying goodbye to Henry, giving him high fives and fist bumps. One guard came up to Henry to give him a big high five and they both yelled “Pickle Rick!!!!!” before the guard caught Bastien’s look and quickly excused himself. Bastien watched as Rinda hugged each guard, thanking them for taking such good care of Henry. Bastien discreetly turned the other way. Guards usually weren’t hugged.

(Link to R&M Pickle Rick Clip)

Henry turned to Bastien and extended his hand. “Mr. Lykel? Thank you for the amazing plane ride. And thank you for taking care of my mom until I got here.” Bastien solemnly gazed into Henry’s eyes and took his hand to shake it. “You’re very welcome, Henry.”

Then Henry grinned.

He has his mother’s smile

“So mom, did you stay out of trouble while I was gone? What happened to that Mr. Kakos you were supposed to work with, huh? Oh, and check out my passport stamp!” Rinda rolled her eyes. “You are SO your father’s son, Doodle Bug.”

“Mom! Don’t call me . . .” Rinda wrapped him in a head lock and gave him a noogie. “Moms get to do that, so deal.” Bastien shook his head and chuckled. Life was about to get even more interesting.

. . . . .

Eventually they collected the luggage, and eventually they were in the car, headed back to Rinda and Henry’s house. Rinda sat in the back seat with Henry so they could talk and get caught up with everything, but eventually it grew quiet.

Bastien glanced in the rearview mirror and they were both asleep, Rinda’s arm wrapped protectively around Henry. When they got to the house Bastien unloaded the luggage before gently waking up Rinda. Henry was still knocked out, so Bastien lifted Henry over his shoulder and carried him to the house, Henry’s arms sleepily going around Bastien’s neck. Rinda opened the door and showed Bastien where Henry’s room was, and Bastien placed him in bed and went outside to carry in the luggage while Rinda got Henry tucked in. When Bastien returned he saw Rinda sitting on Henry’s bed, gently stoking his hair. She got up when she saw Bastien, crossed the room, and got on her tiptoes to wrap her arms around his neck. He leaned down to put his arms around her, and after pausing a moment he gently lifted her off the ground to pull her closer into the hug and she instinctively leaned in to nestle her forehead against his neck. “Thank you, Bastien. Thank you so much,” she whispered.

“You’re welcome Rinda. Please let me know if you or Henry need anything. I will do whatever I can . . .”

. . . . .

Bastien was going to drive to the school to grab a quick nap in his office before driving back to the palace. He’s in charge of the King’s personal security. He swore an oath to protect King Liam with his life, and Bastien almost lost his life to defend him. But after gently tucking Rinda into bed with Henry, seeing her fall into a peaceful sleep with her arm wrapped around him, Bastien never felt more protective about the people he vowed to keep safe, no matter the cost.

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Disney+ UK Star Launch: Complete List of New TV Shows and Films

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We came for The Mandalorian, stuck around for WandaVision, and, as we wait for The Falcon and Winter Soldier and Loki to arrive, there’s now a huge pile of new catalogue additions to work through, courtesy of Disney Plus’ Star brand.

Star launched on the Disney Plus streaming service in territories outside of the US (where Disney already has a home for adult drama in Hulu) on the 23rd of February. It’s added over 75 TV shows and 280 feature films here in the UK, including the entirety of Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, Glee, Prison Break, Sons of Anarchy and Scrubs as well as cult favourites Firefly, Flashforward, Terriers and more. There are also some UK debuts in the form of the Star Originals listed below.

Film-wise, there’s ample reason to go back to the 90s in the form of Arachnophobia, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Con Air and a host of others, plus…well, it’s almost 300 films. Chances are you’ll find something to tickle your fancy. Households with kids should know there are new parental controls to set too, ensuring that nobody gets any unwelcome surprises.

Here’s the complete list of titles so far:

Star Originals

Big Sky

From Mr TV himself, David E. Kelley (Doogie Howser, Chicago Hope, Ally Mcbeal, Big Little Lies) comes a nine-part crime thriller starring Ryan Philippe and Vikings‘ Katheryn Winnick. Based on the 2013 novel The Highway by C.J. Box, Big Sky is the story of a series of missing girls and a private detective/cop trio with a messy personal history who team up to find them. It aired on ABC in the US last winter.

Helstrom

There’s very little fanfare for this comic book show‘s UK debut, which met with mostly negative reviews on release and was cancelled after 10 episodes, but Marvel completists will want to take a look. Tom Austen and Sidney Lemmon play the Helstrom siblings Daimon and Satana, the children of serial killers who hunt down the worst of humanity.

Love, Victor

Another Hulu original making its UK debut, this teen drama spins off from celebrated gay teen 2018 film Love, Simon. It’s narrated by Nick Robinson, who played Simon in the original film, and follows the story of a Puerto-Rican/Colombian-American teen living in Atalanta. Reviews for the 10-part first season were strong and it’s been renewed for a second.

Solar Opposites

Rick and Morty‘s Justin Roiland and Star Trek: Lower Decks‘s Mike McMahan are the creators of this adult animated comedy series about a family of aliens (pictured above) forced to seek refuge in middle America. Season one was enthusiastically received, and a second run is due to air in the US in March. Read plenty more about it here.

TV Series

According To Jim, Seasons 1 – 8 Alias, Seasons 1-5 American Dad, Seasons 1-16 Animal Fight Night, Seasons 1-6 Apocalypse World War I, Season 1 Apocalypse: The Second World War, Season 1 Atlanta, Seasons 1-2 Blackish, Seasons 1-5 Bloody Tales Of Europe, Season 1 Bloody Tales Of The Tower, Season 1 Bones, Seasons 1-12 Brothers & Sisters, Seasons 1-5 Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Seasons 1-7 Buried Secrets Of WWII, Season 1 Burn Notice, Seasons 1-7 Castle, Seasons 1-8 Code Black, Seasons 1-3 Cougar Town, Seasons 1-6 Desperate Housewives, Seasons 1-8 Devious Maids, Seasons 1-4 Drugs, Inc. Seasons 2-7 Family Guy, Seasons 1-18 Feud: Bette And Joan, Season 1 Firefly, Season 1 Flashforward, Season 1 The Fosters, Seasons 1- 5 The Gifted, Seasons 1-2 Glee, Seasons 1-6 Grey’s Anatomy, Seasons 1-15 The Hot Zone, Season 1 How I Met Your Mother, Seasons 1-9 Inside North Korea’s Dynasty, Season 1 The Killing, Seasons 1-4 LA 92 Lance, Season 1 Lie To Me, Seasons 1-3 Lost, Seasons 1-6 Mafia Confidential Maradona Confidential Mars, Seasons 1-2 Modern Family, Seasons 1-8 O.J.: Made In America Perception, Seasons 1-3 Prison Break, Seasons 1-5 Raising Hope, Seasons 1-4 Resurrection, Seasons 1-2 Revenge, Seasons 1-4 Rosewood, Seasons 1-2 Scandal, Seasons 1-7 Scream Queens, Seasons 1-2 Scrubs, Seasons 1-9 Sleepy Hollow, Seasons 1-4 Snowfall, Seasons 1-3 Sons Of Anarchy, Seasons 1-7 The Strain, Seasons 1-4 Terra Nova, Season 1 Terriers, Season 1 Trust, Season 1 Ugly Betty, Season 1-4 Ultimate Survival WWII, Season 1 Valley Of The Boom, Season 1 Witness To Disaster, Season 1 WWII Bomb Hunters The X-Files, Season 1-9 The 2000s: The Decade We Saw It All, Season 1 24, Season 1-9 24: Legacy, Season 1 The 80s: The Decade That Made Us, Season 1 9/11 Firehouse The 90s: The Last Great Decade? Season 1 9-1-1, Season 1-2

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The 13th Warrior 42 to 1 9 to 5 Adam (2009) The Air Up There The Alamo (2004) Anna And The King Annapolis Another Earth Another Stakeout Anywhere But Here Arachnophobia Australia Bachelor Party Bad Ass Bad Company (2002) Bad Company (Aka: Tool Shed) Bad Girls (1994) Bad Times At The El Royale Baggage Claim The Banger Sisters Be Water Beaches Before And After (1996) Belle Beloved (1998) The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Best Laid Plans Big Trouble Billy Bathgate Black Nativity Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation … Boys Don’t Cry Braveheart Breaking And Entering Bringing Out The Dead Broadcast News Brokedown Palace Broken Lizard’s Club Dread Brothers In Exile Brown Sugar Bubble Boy Bulworth Bushwhacked Can’t Buy Me Love Casanova (2005) Catch That Kid Cedar Rapids Chain Reaction Chasing Papi Chasing Tyson Choke The Clearing Cleopatra (1963) Cocktail Cocoon: The Return Cold Creek Manor The Color Of Money Come See The Paradise The Comebacks Commando (1985) Con Air Conan The Barbarian Confetti Consenting Adults A Cool Dry Place Cousin Bette Crazy/Beautiful Crimson Tide The Crucible Cyrus Damien – Omen Ii The Darjeeling Limited Dark Water Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008) The Day The Series Stopped Day Watch Deadpool 2 Dead Presidents Deceived (1991) The Deep End Deep Rising Deion’s Double Play The Devil Wears Prada Devil’s Due Die Hard 2 Die Hard With A Vengeance Double Take Down And Out In Beverly Hills Down Periscope Dragonball: Evolution Dreaming Of Joseph Lees Drive Me Crazy The Drop Duets The East Ed Wood The Edge Encino Man Enemy Of The State Enough Said Evita Exodus: Gods And Kings The Fab Five (2011) Far From The Madding Crowd (2015) The Fault In Our Stars The Favourite The Final Conflict Firestorm (1998) The Fly (1986) For The Boys Four Falls Of Buffalo French Connection II The French Connection From Hell Gentlemen Broncos A Good Day To Die Hard Good Morning, Vietnam The Good Son (1993) A Good Year The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great White Hype Grosse Pointe Blank Guilty As Sin Gun Shy The Happening Here On Earth High Fidelity High Heels And Low Lifes Hitchcock Hoffa Holy Man Hope Springs (2003) I Heart Huckabees I Love You, Beth Cooper I Origins I Think I Love My Wife Idiocracy In America In Her Shoes Independence Day Independence Day: Resurgence Inventing The Abbotts Jennifer’s Body The Jewel Of The Nile John Tucker Must Die Johnson Family Vacation Jordan Rides The Bus Joshua Just Married Just Wright Kingdom Come Kissing Jessica Stein Kung Pow: Enter The Fist Ladyhawke The Ladykillers (2004) Last Dance (1996) Le Divorce The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou Live Free Or Die Hard Looking For Richard Mad Love (1995) The Man From Snowy River Margaret The Marine Marked For Death The Marrying Man Martha Marcy May Marlene MASH Max Payne The Maze Runner Medicine Man Melinda And Melinda Metro Miami Rhapsody Miller’s Crossing Moulin Rouge (2001) My Father The Hero Mystery, Alaska The Namesake Nature Boy Never Die Alone The Newton Boys Night Watch (2006) No Mas Nothing To Lose Notorious Office Space One Hour Photo Oscar And Lucinda The Other Woman (2014) Our Family Wedding Out To Sea Pathfinder (2007) Phat Girlz Phone Booth Planet Of The Apes (1968) Planet Of The Apes (2001) Pony Excess The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Post Grad Powder The Preacher’s Wife Pretty Woman Primeval The Puppet Masters The Pyramid Quills Quiz Show Ravenous Rebound Renaissance Man Revenge Of The Nerds Ii: Nerds In Paradise The Ringer Robin Hood (1991) The Rocker Romancing The Stone Ruby Sparks Runaway Bride Rushmore Ruthless People The Savages Say It Isn’t So The Scarlet Letter Sea Of Shadows The Secret Life Of Bees Separate Lies The Sessions Shadow Conspiracy Shallow Hal Shining Through The Siege Signs Simon Birch A Simple Twist Of Fate The Sitter (2011) Six Days, Seven Nights Sleeping With The Enemy Solaris Someone Like You Soul Food Spy Hard Stakeout Starship Troopers Stoker Summer Of Sam Super Troopers (2002) Surrogates Swing Kids Taxi (2004) Terminal Velocity Thank You For Smoking There’s Something About Mary The Thin Red Line (1999) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Three Fugitives The Three Stooges (2012) Titan A.E. Tombstone Toys Trapped In Paradise Tristan & Isolde Up Close & Personal V.I. Warshawski Veronica Guerin The Village (2004) Von Ryan’s Express Waiting To Exhale Waitress Waking Life The War Of The Roses The Watch (2012) The Waterboy The Way Way Back What’s Love Got To Do With It When A Man Loves A Woman White Men Can’t Jump William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet Win Win Woman On Top Working Girl (1988) The X-Files

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Super fun list/idea I look forward to. I love end-of-year lists and even end of decade lists and checking to see what I missed or completely forgot about.

Some stuff I didn’t like, am lukewarm about. But most is right on and worth checking out.

Glad they added: the Bodega Boys soundboard (Desus and Mero). Some segments on Desus and Mero this year were the funniest things I watched...Ryen Russillo’s ‘Worst Year ever’ segment. Forgot about that one. Relatable.

Things I’d add to the list... Limited series that are really good (in order): When They See Us (particularly Jharrell Jerome’); Unbelievable; Chernobyl; the Loudest Voice; Mrs Fletcher

Late add: ‘Don’t Fuck with Cats: the Hunt for the Internet Cat Killer’ Still need to check out: ‘Fosse/Verdon’; ‘Looking for Alaska’; ‘Good Omens’

Late Night: ‘Desus and Mero’-kind of mentioned with the Bodega Boys soundboard. Some segments were the hardest I’ve laughed this year. Maybe the ad for the South Carolina sheriff was the best moment? And the hilarious game show moment with Jimmy Fallon/Charlize Theron and the Taylor Swift ‘long back’ moment that got them death threats from Swift fans.

Without fail, I introduce anybody to Desus and Mero or even just Mero’s laugh-and they will enjoy it. They are so naturally funny/likable and got great chemistry/riffing.

TV Series: ‘Sex Education’. Some ‘Derry Girls’. Moments: Sydney Sweeney’s boobies on ‘Euphoria’. That show is pretty ridiculous/dumb at times and basically feels like a hysterically paranoid made-up nightmare of what high school is like. But it has good female performances you can’t look away from. The dudes? not so much. Documentaries (no order): ‘the Ted Bundy Tapes’, ‘Finding Neverland’ (Michael Jackson sexual abuse of kids); ‘I Love You Now Die’ (local in Massachusetts with inducing someone to commit suicide case), ‘‘‘the Inventor’ (Theranos) ‘American Factory’; ‘Knocking Down the House’ (AOC)

Enjoyed a lot of these to varying degrees. Heard the Maradona doc was good.

Comedy Specials: -Bill Burr-’Paper Tiger’-favorite stand-up comic. Particularly his bit 54 minutes in. I still think he’s left out his best bits 3 specials in a row now (the anti respecting the troops makes sense as to why he left it out/didn’t land in London and why) -Gary Gulman-’the Great Depresh’-doc didn’t totally work for me, but there’s some great moments from a comic I’ve always liked/didn’t know what he was going through. -Dave Chappelle -got a lot of flack, but it was still funny. -Mike Birbiglia-’the New One’-comic from my town (Shrewsbury MA). He does ready-made Broadway/Off-Broadway one-man acts (not so much comedy specials). He’s not a favorite comic in that I don’t think he’s as naturally or consistently funny as a lot of the guys I like on podcasts; that’s not his forte. But if he has an act, he’ll deliver and usually get better with it. -Anthony Jeselnik-’Fire in the Maternity Ward’ Comedy album -Joe DeRosa-’I Go To Atlanta All the Time’ -may not pop into my head as a favorite comic, but he reliably releases some of my favorite comedy albums.

Podcasts -’the Dollop’: ‘Ronald Reagan part 1 & 2′ with Patton Oswalt. Lot of episodes are hit-or-miss, but when it’s on? It’s damn good/funny/unbelievable. I wish they had a comedy production studios for Dollop movies/TV/shorts.

I listen to an ungodly amount of podcasts, but I can’t think of standout moments/episodes beyond the above one. I think Frotcast will release a Best of the year oepisode soon and it might deliver.

Internet moments -the short/angry Bagel Boss guy losing his shit (and other videos of the guy being a douche) -Megan McCain being dunked on. Probably ‘You were at my wedding denise’ was the highlight but it was never-ending from an all-time dumb person/faildaughter of a shitty politician. You could probably also add other shitty Republicans/conservative thinkers. Getting shit on online and losing the culture wars forever and always is the least/best we can do in these shit times. They will never have that and it irks them no matter how much they say it doesn’t. That’s history and being on the wrong side. SNL -Adam Sandler’s SNL comeback/tribute to Chris Farley. He did it on his really good Netflix comedy special but was more touching here and a genuine moment.

SNL mostly sucks and I hate-watch it. Has a collection of funny people but they fail to do anything with it.

Need to check out: Uncut Gems; Little Women; Star Wars; end of ‘Legion’ (4 episodes behind/wasn't enjoying the last season and a half. The final ‘Mr Robot’. episode on Sunday. 1 episode into ‘the Witcher’ and so far it’s pretty stupid and Henry Cavill’s voice is unintentionally funny. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MY PERSONAL FAVES.... TV: Succession/Fleabag/Watchmen DISAPPOINTING ALL-TIME GREAT END: Game of Thrones GREAT: When They See Us; Unbelievable; Chernobyl VERY GOOD/HIGH HIGHS: Barry; Brockmire; Derry Girls; Euphoria; Pen15; Sex Education FAVORITE SHOWS I LOVE BUT NOT TOTALLY STANDOUT SEASONS: Big Mouth; Rick and Morty; Veep OKAY: Dark; Russian Doll HALF-WATCH/MEH: All-American; Emergence; Jack Ryan; Living With Yourself; the Mandalorian; Stumptown; True Detective; Warrior NOT GOOD BUT I WATCH: Shameless ONCE GREAT NOW MIGHT NEED TO END: GLOW; Killing Eve; Luther; Stranger Things NOT VERY GOOD/ENDED: Big Little Lies; Silicon Valley GAVE UP ON: Riverdale

STILL NEED TO CHECK OUT/CATCH UP BUT ARE GOOD/QUALITY: Bosch; Broad City; Brooklyn 99; Catastrophe; Expanse; Good Place; It’s Always Sunny; Letterkenny; Other Two; Ramy; Schitt’s Creek MOVIE: TOP TIER FAVORITES: 1) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2) Uncut Gems SECOND TIER FAVES: 3) Little Women 4) Knives Out 5) Midsommer 6) Parasite 7) Marriage Story THIRD TIER: 8) John Wick III 9) the Irishman 10) Us 11) Shazam! UNDERRATED: 12) Ready or Not

ABSOLUTE FAVORITE DOCS: the two Fyre Festival docs; American Factory SOLID: Breaking Bad: El Camino; Dolemite is My Name; Longshot; the Two Popes OKAY: the Amazing Jonathan; Avengers: Endgame; Spiderman: Far From Home; Fighting With My Family; Hustlers; Knocking Down the House LOW EXPECTATIONS HIGH REWARD BUT TOTALLY DUMB: 6 Underground; Between Two Ferns: the Movie NOT TOTALLY MY THING BUT IMPRESSIVE: Ad Astra; High Flying Bird HALF-WATCH RENTAL: Always Be My Maybe; Good Boys; Hobbes & Shaw; the Report DISAPPOINTING: Toy Story 4; Triple Frontier DIDN’T LIKE/OVERHYPED: Booksmart; the Farewell; Under the Silver Lake BAD: the Laundromat; Let It Snow; Noel

HAVE YET TO SEE: Apollo 11; Art of Self-Defense; Beach Bum; Ford v Ferrari; Honey Boy; It 2; the Lighthouse; Rocketman; the Souvenir; Star Wars; Transit

LIVE SHOW: Brian Fallon at City Winery solo acoustic. Was 75% banter from a dude filled with nerves. Felt like a funny ‘Unplugged’ with pretty sad songs inbetween.

Comics Come Home was good (Robert Kelly; Bill Burr, John Mulaney, Pete Holmes, etc) MUSIC-Menzingers Late Pass: Spanish Love Songs

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