Hi, all! Miss Rim here. I got sick and Spiny got busy at work, so sorry about the delay. No matter what your particular favorite episode / season of Mad Men may be, I think most of us will agree … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: “At the Codfish Ball” / “Lady Lazarus” (S5E7, S5E8)
How big was The Mermaid? According to Box Office Mojo, the movie was China’s box office champion of 2016. Earning $527 Million, the movie grossed more than the #2 and #3 movies combined: Zootopia and (the surprise hit for China … Continue reading Made Overseas: The Mermaid (2016)
Hello and welcome to Parental Guidance, The Avocado’s Weekly thread for parents, prospective parents, caregivers and other lunatics who think they have what it takes to raise some humans. Each week I, Corn, and/or Miss Rim will put up a … Continue reading Parental Guidance January 13, 2018: Sleep
Better late than never! Pet pics go here. Continue reading Pet Thread: Feels Good About Its Life Choices (1/13)
American Dad! S14, Episode 13 Camp Campawanda Grade: B+ Some fantastic bits and visuals (the townie bar was a dead ringer for Moe’s bar from the Simpsons) in this episode were marred a bit by a plot that ended with … Continue reading “Camp Campawanda” American Dad! S14 E13
It’s The Room we’re talking about, so naturally it’s a strange story. Continue reading The Room’s Facebook Page Distanced Itself From James Franco Until it Didn’t
You did something bad. You did something bad, and somebody found out. Or rather, some Boddy found out. For months now, you’ve been paying everything you can afford to avoid having your secret exposed, and tonight, you’ve actually been invited … Continue reading Werewolf 50: Clue, Day One – Dinner Will Be Ready at 7:30
Part Five in a series; see Parts One, Two, Three and Four. The Nativist movement’s violence exploded exponentially at the same time it became most respectable. In the mid-1850s, decades of anti-Catholic nationalism, confined to the baying of mobs, the … Continue reading How We Got Here: The Brief, Unhappy Reign of Citizen Know-Nothing
In which Manny and Bernard’s relationship turns Freudian and Fran tries the clean life. Original Air Date: 3/29/2002 Let’s talk about Manny and Bernard. I mean, yeah, we’d be doing that anyway but my goodness there’s a lot to unpack … Continue reading Black Books: Series 2, Episode 5 “Hello Sun”
♫ He said, “Fuck this!” and “Fuck that!” And this guy’s the diplomat ♫ — The Tragically Hip, “It Can’t Be Nashville Every Night,” In Between Evolution Famous Prussian Otto von Bismarck formulated the foreign policy principle of Realpolitik, a … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Plays the Game of Global Diminution
A venue of discussion for fans of metal, punk, hardcore and all the countless related sub-genres. Continue reading Heavy Side Up Weekly Discussion
The University of South Carolina have always had a huge, glaring problem with their mascot: how do you control a living chicken? There’s the pecking, the crowing, and the chicken poop everywhere. Fortunately, the whole costumed mascot thing started getting … Continue reading The Big Spur Night Thread 1/12
Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Jan. 12 – Let’s meet today’s contestants: – Alisha, a medical student from Alhambra, CA who met a grumpy crocodile; – Alex, a consultant from St. Paul, MN who met his wife playing ultimate frisbee; and … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Jan. 12
Good evening and Happy Friday, everyone, I’m your host LibraryLass and this is the Great Frinkiac Challenge! The rules are simple, just go to Frinkiac.com, Morbotron.com, or Masterofallscience.com, find a Simpsons, Futurama, or Rick and Morty screencap, and add a quote from our weekly … Continue reading The Great Frinkiac Challenge Is An Experience
Apologies for the delay (not posting this on the usual Tuesday or Wednesday), there was chewing gum on my pubis. Hi! It’s “Signal 30”! Our first-place winner in the Season 5 poll, though since we’re doing the season chronologically this … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: “Signal 30” (S5E5)
It’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend time! I wonder what news Rebecca is possibly giving Nathaniel?! Continue reading Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season 3 Episode 9
The internet tells me today is Work Hard Day! Let’s dig deep folks, lets word hard to find those noteable comments from the past week! Continue reading Comment of the Week Work Hard Edition
Welcome back to the Weekly Pun Thread, where we’re all about looking good and feeling good. Today’s story comes from down under, where the kangaroos are apparently feeling sexy these days: No word on if Burt Reynolds is suing the … Continue reading The Weekly Pun Thread Strikes a Pose
How you used to find stuff to watch on TV in a pre-cable world: you channel surfed through all eight channels on your TV (maybe you had a few more with a separate “rabbit ears” antenna on top of the … Continue reading Let’s Read TV Guide, March 1976!
Hello, and welcome to a late edition of the Weekly Shuffle Thread! For some reason, my duty as the man in charge of posting the Weekly Shuffle Thread slipped my mind today. But a few hours later than normal, here … Continue reading The Weekly Shuffle Thread is LATE!
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