Random TV Show Thoughts

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

ding ding ding. Collect your prize.

What do I get?

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

 

[Totenkindly]

 

[The Cat]

What do I get?

What have you learned?

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

What have you learned?

How to win at
frolf.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

S1E4

This episode was really fun.

I enjoyed seeing Carmy and Ricky fight about putting a T-Shirt on a stupid inflatable hot-dog, as well as learning about Marcus's dreams of making donuts. It seems like Sydney wants to encourage him to follow his dreams and elevate the place. Maybe there is chemistry between the two as well? I think she's my favorite.

Most of this episode takes place at a birthday party for "Cicero", a well-monied but somewhat shady character. Carmy makes a recreation of Ecto Cooler (a juice box drink by Hi-C originally made to promote Ghostbusters 2 that was truly awesome; if you went to elementary school in the 90s, you probably know it). There is another fight about getting ketchup for hot dogs between Carmy, who is pro-ketchup, and Richie, who as a traditionalist, thinks ketchup should not be permitted. I'm with Richie on this; this is a venerable Chicago tradition and ketchup is too sugary anyway, tasting vile on most things.

Richie accidentally spills his Xanax into Ecto-cooler, and all the kids are passed out on the lawn. "What are they, fucking dead?", says Cicero casually. "No," Carmy says, "just passed out." "You know, I enjoy it," Cicero says, enjoying release from the earlier noise and chaos of the birthday party. That scene killed me.

Sidney's methods are even starting to work on Tina, who is tied with Richie as the most difficult employee.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

What have you learned?

Oh. I wouldn't say I learned it, but I think I should clarify:

Don't mistake my disdain as suggesting that I don't see myself as part of this trend of endless nostalgia. I absolutely am. I eat up Hollywood nostalgia, but there is so much more to it than that. On a personal level, I romanticize what was once for me "the bad times" that I yearned to escape from. It's hard for me to stop yearning for what seemed to me as days of possibilities. I'm frequently nostalgic for times when I believed in the future. Paradoxically, it still counts as nostalgia.

 

[The Cat]

I think Weekend at Bobby's is one of my favorite episodes of the series.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I think Weekend at Bobby's is one of my favorite episodes of the series.

I haven't seen the show, but that particular episode appears to revolve around peach cobbler. That's certainly a feather in its cap.

 

[Totenkindly]

I think I knew almost all of these already.

https://movieweb.com/x-files-actors-before-they-were-famous/

As most of us probably know, it's Bryan Cranston's performance in the episode "Drive" that convinced Gilligan he actually had the chops to excel as Walter White.

I think there were others who were already known at the time (like Bruce Campbell) so they aren't listed here.

 

[SensEye]

Hmm. I thought of Bryan Cranston as 'Malcom's dad' when I first saw him in Breaking Bad. I find it hard to believe that wasn't the highlight of his resume vs a guest a appearance in the X-files. But maybe he impressed Gilligan up close in that episode.

 

[Totenkindly]

Hmm. I thought of Bryan Cranston as 'Malcom's dad' when I first saw him in Breaking Bad. I find it hard to believe that wasn't the highlight of his resume vs a guest a appearance in the X-files. But maybe he impressed Gilligan up close in that episode.

What do your beliefs have to do with anything at all? This is so well known its essentially common knowledge. Two quick links, but there's a ton more out there. Gilligan wrote probably 30 X-files episodes including "Drive" and started directing episodes near the end of the series run.

How Bryan Cranston Makes Desperation Riveting on 'Breaking Bad' -- New York Magazine - Nymag

'Breaking Bad'’s Bryan Cranston makes desperation riveting, and now the show’s viewers can really relate.

nymag.com

...in typically nearsighted network fashion, AMC initially hesitated when his name came up. As the show’s creator, Vince Gilligan, tells it, “There was concern originally: ‘This is the father from Malcolm in the Middle, which is night and day from Breaking Bad. Why do you think this is the guy?’ ” A longtime X-Files producer and writer, Gilligan had cast Cranston as a menacing racist in a 1998 X-Files episode. “We needed a guy who could be scary and kind of loathsome but at the same time had a deep, resounding humanity. When Malcolm went on the air, I was like, ‘Oh my God, I didn’t realize he could be so funny!’ ” To convince AMC, Gilligan distributed copies of Cranston’s X-Files appearance: “That was all it took.”

How One X-Files Episode Helped Make Breaking Bad

An X-Files episode ensured Breaking Bad’s success.

screenrant.com

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

John Redcorn is a horrible person. People blame Nancy, but he’s just as bad for knowingly banging married women.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

Apparently Tom Anderson was originally intended to cameo as Hank Hill’s father, but Mike Judge couldn’t get the rights from MTV to use the character. I don’t know if that is true but I read it on the internet so it must be true

 

[The Cat]

Fate sure took a chance that Castiel wouldn't take out three vindictive sisters over 50,000 souls. Conviction is such an interesting thing. Especially when its scripted.

 

[Totenkindly]

Hasbro strikes again.

A 52-episode animated series based on classic toys was finished over 4 years ago, but even the creator doesn't know where it is

The creator of the unreleased Micronauts series has spoken out

www.gamesradar.com

 

[Totenkindly]

Continued on to finish S3E2 of Killing Eve.

Fiona Shaw is so great.

Also, watching Villanelle trying to be a Keeper or Handler is a totally hilarious shitshow. The clown costumes are the piece de resistance -- I'm faintly recalling she did a clown kill early on.

 

[The Cat]

It's kinda lame, but god save me I love it when the phrase "See you next season." makes its way into a script between rival characters.

 

[The Cat]

I think Dean really benefited from his friendship with Bennie.

 

[Lexicon]

Random TV show thought:

If Red Dwarf and Doctor Who had a crossover episode (like the TARDIS ending up in Red Dwarf's universe, specifically), I think I could die happy.