Best Actor in a Comedy Series Anthony Anderson (Black-ish)Don Cheadle (Black Monday)Ted Danson (The Good Place)Michael Douglas (The Kominsky Method)Eugene Levy (Schitt’s Creek)Ramy Youssef (Ramy) Best Actress in a Comedy Series Christina Applegate (Dead to Me)Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. … Continue reading Discussion: 2020 Emmy Nominations
Thank you all for participating! This one has been a lot of fun. In fourth place: The Saga Begins, from 1999’s Running With Scissors. In third place: Smells Like Nirvana, from 1992’s Off the Deep End. The runner-up, losing by … Continue reading The Weird Al Weird-Off: Results
Two songs enter. One song leaves. Welcome to the last round. Check out the bracket at https://challonge.com/WeirdAlWeirdOff Continue reading The Weird Al Weird-Off: Championship
Another four songs down, another three to face the chop before we determine the best of all Weird Al parodies and the songs they aped. Check out the bracket at https://challonge.com/WeirdAlWeirdOff Continue reading The Weird Al Weird-Off: Final Four – VOTING IS CLOSED
Another 8 songs down, another 7 to face the chop before we determine the best of all Weird Al parodies and the songs they aped. Please be patient while I populate the 4 matchups. Check out the bracket at https://challonge.com/WeirdAlWeirdOff Continue reading The Weird Al Weird-Off: Elite Eight – VOTING IS CLOSED
Another 16 songs down, another 15 to face the chop before we determine the best of all Weird Al parodies and the songs they aped. Please be patient while I populate the 8 matchups. Continue reading The Weird Al Weird-Off: Round of 16 – VOTING IS CLOSED
Another 32 songs down, another 31 to face the chop before we determine the best of all Weird Al parodies and the songs they aped. Please be patient while I populate the 16 matchups. Continue reading The Weird Al Weird-Off: Round of 32 – voting is closed
We made it through the play-in round, eliminating four Weird Al songs: Another Tattoo The Plumbing Song Trash Day Whatever You Like I’ll miss Whatever You Like. In this next round, we have 13 Weird-on-Weird matchups, 15 Weird-vs-someone else rounds, … Continue reading The Weird-Al Weird-Off: Round of 64 (voting is closed)
Here’s my methodology: I took the winners from the first round and ranked them by number of upvotes. That gave me a list of 68 original and parodic songs, from #1 (White and Nerdy) to #68 (Soul Asylum’s “Misery” – … Continue reading The Weird Al Weird-Off: Play-In Round
It’s a tournament, but it’s going to be as weird as its name sake. The first round will feature every* Weird Al parody song against the song it spoofs. After that point, we should have some combination of originals and … Continue reading The Weird Al Weird-Off
4th: Epidemiology3rd: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons2nd: Remedial Chaos Theory And your winner is … Modern Warfare! Thank you all for participating. It’s been fun. Continue reading WINNER – Best Episode of Community
We’re down to 32! This round of voting will stay open until sometime Tuesday. Please be patient while I populate the rounds. Continue reading Best Episode of Community, round of 32 VOTING IS CLOSED
We’re down to 64. This round of voting will stay open throughout the holiday weekend; voting will close sometime Tuesday. Please be patient while I populate the rounds. Continue reading Best Episode of Community, round of 64 – VOTING IS CLOSED
Sorry about the false start yesterday. We’re working with a pool of 110 episodes; this round will feature 92(!) of them to get the pool down to 64. Please be patient while I populate the rounds. Continue reading Best Episode of Community, Round 1 (attempt #2)
A simple game: the top level comment is somebody providing three to five movie titles with one actor in common. Then other people guess the actor. An easy example: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Blade Runner (Harrison Ford). … Continue reading Name the Actor From (Some of) Their Movies
We’re going to try something new. Instead of me suggesting a theme, we’re all going to contribute topics, one quote at a time. The top level comments should be a recognizable quotation from some non-Simpsons piece of media. All the … Continue reading The Impromptu Frinkiac Challenge – Now Quote-Driven
The rules are simple: the top-level comments should all be in the form “The World’s Worst _____.” Then you respond to those with funny answers. This is not a survey or a tournament – I don’t want your actual answers! … Continue reading World’s Worst (a Whose Line-style joke-telling thread)
