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  1. Posted

    21 hours ago, DrGuts1003 said:

    I just saw on Facebook who will be the guest for this episode.  Without spoiling anything and because I don’t know how to use spoiler tags on these forums, I’ll just say that everyone’s Christmas wish will come true.

    But I was curious when this episode will drop.  The next scheduled episode is the 20th, the night this show will be recorded.  Will we get a regular episode on the 20th and then this one on January 3rd?  Will they delay the release and drop this the week of Christmas?  Will this be a bonus episode?  Or a Stitcher Premium exclusive?

    I was also curious about when this episode would drop so I asked Paul on Twitter and he said that instead of releasing an episode on Friday the 20th, they'd be releasing this Christmas one on Monday the 23rd.

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  2. Posted

    Two thoughts I had about the scene at the bar. The dancers say they are all going to eat a bunch of fried food. I don't want to perpetuate stereotypes, but do ballerinas eat fried food? I figured fried food would be off limits for them. Secondly, the jerky violin guy brought his violin to the bar with him. Does he always bring his expensive violin to bars or do impromptu violin concerts break out so often that he wants to come prepared?

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  5. Posted

    On 4/16/2019 at 9:59 AM, taylorannephoto said:

    My dad died while in high school and about 3-4 months later (I went through a big haze the semester following and can't keep track of what happened when) I was really depressed and a friend asked what was wrong and I obviously replied, "I'm just really sad about my dad," and she said, "Hasn't it been long enough?" (I now can't even remember the exact quote but I definitely remember thinking "she's right I should shut up about it." IT WAS ONLY 3-4 MONTHS LATER.)

    Your son has way better friends lol.

    That's terrible! I am so sorry that they did that to you. I imagine they had never gone through anything similar and didn't have any frame of reference but still.

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  6. Posted

    37 minutes ago, Cameron H. said:

    A bizarre moment for me was at the end when Hannah-as-Sam is signing her friend’s yearbook and when the subject of her handwriting comes up her friend says something like, “I really miss your mother,” and I was just thinking, “You DO???”

    This is one of the “friends” who was complicit in the whole, “Let’s get high at your mother’s wake” plan. At no point did I ever feel like any of her friend’s gave a single shit about her mother - at all. When they show up on their doorstep at the beginning, Hannah doesn’t even seem to know who they are. But apparently, unbeknownst to us, this one teenage girl had a real surrogate mother/daughter thing going on with Hannah. Something never brought up until the very last scene just so Hannah-Sam can tell us with a wink that she’s permanently hijacked her daughter’s body.

    #Momoftheyear

    Her friends were terrible people. Just terrible. They were so damn insensitive to her mother's death. I have a 16 year old son, they don't act that way.

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  7. Posted

    Here are my random thoughts from my notes:

    • As a librarian, I can confidently tell you that there are people out there that do Google searches that are as bad as the "scientific research" search that Duchovney did. I am constantly amazed at what kind of bad search terms people use.
    • IMDB says that this movie takes place in Williamstown, MA, although I think they use a fictitious town name in the movie. Williamstown is a really small town in western MA. Their high school only has about 550 students total but the school depicted in the movie looked much, much bigger than that.  And how much time is supposed to have passed in this movie? It's never winter and yet, winter in Western MA goes on for a good chunk of the school year.
    • Finally, the horny guidance counselor shows up for her eye appointment and Duchovney seems surprised to see her, like she didn't have a scheduled appointment. I know my eye doctor doesn't take drop in appointments but maybe Duchovney does. That seems typical of him.
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  8. Posted

    One thing that didn't get brought up and I hoped would was that weird scene where Rebecca Ferguson meets up with Harry Hole at that restaurant, which even though it is closed (as some guy yells to her when she comes in the open door of the closed restaurants), Harry Hole is eating a meal there. Harry Hole asks her if she's hungry and she says she is and he pushes his plate towards her and his sausage is cut up into small pieces. She just looks at it and the camera pans in on the meat and the scene ends. What the hell?

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  9. Posted

    On 3/8/2019 at 2:59 AM, What Were They Thinking said:

    It's just weird now that their last episode and the upcoming one were very recent live shows and they haven't released the ones from last year yet. 

    I'm starting to think we're never going to hear Van Helsing and Swordfish. There must be some reason they aren't releasing them.

  11. Posted

    On 1/11/2019 at 12:50 AM, Royboy said:

    Who were the guests for the Swordfish and Van Helsing tapings? Any upcoming projects by said guests to tie the release of the episodes to?

    Don Cheadle, who is in Black Monday with Paul, was in Swordfish but no one in Van Helsing jumps out at me.

  12. Posted

    In the beginning of this movie when they are kids, the girl is wearing a red shirt that says Mario on it and the boy is wearing a green shirt. I was sure the green shirt was going to say Luigi on it and it was a nod to Super Mario Bros and I was really disappointed that it wasn't.

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  13. Posted

    I watched this movie with my 16 year old son and a few times while we were watching I referred to Chris Evans' phone as a "cellular" phone until my son finally asked why I kept calling it that. "It's the title of the movie," I said. He said he didn't realize it had anything to do with the phone and thought the cellular part was going to have something to do with her being a biology teacher.

    On a related note, KB says that people at work are going to notice that she isn't there so apparently she was dressed for work that morning. However, she's wearing fishnet stockings. What kind of science/biology teacher wears fishnet stockings to work? What kind of school does she work at?

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  14. Posted

    51 minutes ago, FrancisRizzo3 said:

    I'd like to know how Slick got her name. That's not a name that usually gets attached to a girl. Hell, I want to know more about Slick in general. The victim of a movie with way too much going on and zero focus.

    Let's break down what we know of Slick:

    • She's Tony's best friend's girlfriend
    • She does commercials for a car dealer
    • She has enough money to buy a decent car
    • She's friendly with Rick's mom
    • She has a sexy shower with Rick
    • She frequents Heaven

    And I think that's it. What a waste.

    Instead, maybe Slick is the person who runs Heaven, and she's cultivating a stable of young studs, and is frustrated that Rick is losing his focus on dancing, which is affecting her cash flow. So she sets up the shower to get LAW out of the picture, and get Rick back on track, but her [plan gets short-circuited by NASA Bike?

    But what would be nice to know is what happens to Rick, THE GUY WHO IS ON THE POSTER? He's left naked in a boat, with no resolution to his plotline.

    This movie would have been 100% better if it had been more about Slick and Rick and less about Lesley Ann and her sad sack husband.

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  15. Posted

    14 hours ago, The_Triple_Lindy said:

     

     

    Jesus Christ, there will never a better reason to love you guys than the fact that this stupid movie sent you to goddamn JSTOR to get academic articles about male strip clubs ... Grad School Trip salutes you all. I think I might be in

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    😀 I'm an academic librarian. This is my bread and butter.

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  16. Posted

    On 10/13/2018 at 1:51 AM, RyanSz said:

    I'm sure there is something on archive.org or JSTOR, but I don't want to consider the search phrasing I'd have to put together to find what might have been talked about in the show.

    I didn't find anything written specifically in Psychology Today but male strip clubs do seem to be a focus of research in the 80s.

    Here are 3 articles I found

    Male Strippers: Ladies' Night at the Meat Market

    Invasion of the Male Strippers: Role Alignment in a Small‐Town Strip Club

    Gender Roles, Sexuality, and the Male Strip Show: The Structuring of Sexual Opportunity

     

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  18. Posted

    I am super confused about why Slick was in the shower in Lesley Ann's hotel room at the end. Did Rick invite her there so that Lesley Ann would find them together and it would be an easy way to break it off? Has he even gotten his A in that speech class yet? Or is he just really stupid and decided to invite his fuck buddy over for a romp in a hotel room instead of at his trailer park?

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  19. Posted

    I have things to say about that scene at the art show. First off, what kind of art show is this? A student art show at the college? If not that, why is Rick even there? If it is a student art show, why would Lesley Ann's sister want to come to it? And what about the guys at the beginning of that scene who say "It's important to go to these events"? Why is it important? What is this event?

    But what really struck me about the art show scene was how touchy feeling Lesley Ann's husband is with her sister and her with him. Patsy plays with his tie, he puts his arm around her, they lean into each other. They totally look like people who are having an affair. And that wouldn't have been out of place in this movie!

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  21. Posted

    13 hours ago, Elektra Boogaloo said:

    Jason requests stats on the effectiveness of diaphragms. Planned Parenthood says they are about 88% effective. 

    But what I am curious about now is why the diaphragm has Kirstie Alley's voice. It is not a part of her or from her. The egg should have her voice. The diaphragm should be, like, Dr. Ruth or someone.

    Is that with spermicide? The spermicide is supposed to kill any of those little fuckers that make it past the diaphragm.

  22. Posted

    On 9/29/2018 at 1:03 PM, Mistweave said:

    Did anyone notice in one scene there’s a maid folding laundry? (How do they afford a maid on an accountant and taxi driver/pilot salary?) Or maybe she’s the babysitter because the parents are leaving for work. And when they leave and Julie starts crying no one is there to comfort her! Seriously these are neglectful parents that never seem to be around their kids. Almost missing Julie’s first step, not noticing the sibling rivalry at all, etc. Mikey destroys his youngest sisters favorite toy and the head is still there weeks? Months? later...if that is the maid she’s doing a bad job! 

    I assumed that was the nanny since they were leaving for work. But if John Travolta has such a low paying job, I think they'd be better off having him be a stay at home dad and not bother with a nanny.

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  23. Posted

    I watched this movie way back at the beginning of July before I went to the show. By the time I went to the show, I'd already forgotten most of the movie because it was so terrible and forgettable. When the episode dropped on Friday I went back to look at my notes to see if I had any insights to share with you guys, only to find I had taken no notes on this movie. I feel a bit like June having totally forgotten this movie immediately after watching it.

    That being said, this show and this episode were golden. The diarrhea face had me rolling.

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  25. Posted

    On 8/17/2018 at 12:37 PM, taylorannephoto said:

    I have to disagree with June on the amount of time it would have taken Gene to do that eye makeup in the helicopter! I do agree that it wasn't the best job done and it does look rushed, but that was for sure at least a 15 minute apply job. It takes me around 15-20 minutes to do my eyes and I'm not doing anything nearly extravagant as that and if you ask any drag queen how long it usually take them to do their makeup they all say usually on average 2 hours. Of course that is meticulously applying everything on the face perfectly, so if you just focus on the eyes and rush it that sounds like it could have taken him 15 minutes at least.

    I've got to disagree, my love. That looked like a rush job at best. His makeup looked so much better at the Incinerator.

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