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It sounds like this worked though? That's good news. The only other way I think it might work would be a discord server but I think streams can only do voice chat?

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time to plant a tree was 19 years and 364 days ago. Today is a shitty day to plant a tree compared to every day since then. You had twenty years, what the fuck were you doing?

If you’re here looking for aggressive advice on getting skates you can use on concrete, you're going to have to fucking get in line.

As mentioned above, Jason nailed the Clone Wars and Rebels and the Clone troopers perfectly. While I'd agree with Paul's initial assessment, that the animated versions in Rebels of the older clones didn't as closely resemble Temuera Morrison as many of the other character models, they're all meant to be Jango clones/older versions of him. As Jason mentioned with paying close attention to the timelines, Rebels takes place 15-18 years after the Clone Wars and the Clone Troopers were engineered to age at an accelerated rate, so they've aged a lot more than Temuera Morrison has in the 18 years since Episode II.

Oh ya I'm planning to, my nieces filled me in on it all! I'm still in the season 1, just 20 eps in, so I have a ways to go. The set-up reminds me of Buffy in a way, which helped me connect to it pretty quick.

There's no Corrections & Ommissions, but I still want to clarify the Bugs Bunny thing. Yes, Bugs Bunny's carrots was definitely inspired by Gable, but the name of Bugs is taken from the animator Ben "Bugs" Hardaway, whose design pages were labeled "Bugs' Bunny" (note the apostrophe) and the name stuck. Having names like "Bugsy" and "Doc" in the movie is coincidence and shows the names' commonality rather than a correlation. And as much as the discussion is getting caught up in the genre trappings of the film, which many say makes it worthy of the list, I think there's a lot going on with a psychological context that's more deep when you place it in history. Is Colbert's character representing the upper class and Gable's the lower? If so, is Peter then admired for "punching up", or is Ellie admired for "leaving" her station? Is there a celebration of community (like the bus scenes, getting a hitchhike, "we're all in this together" kind of thing) or a celebration of using community to your advantage (your individual needs manipulate the situation)? And although the age differences of the characters aren't so pronounced, it's still a bit weird. Tho that line of thinking makes me wonder how much is it a coming of age kind of story for Ellie.

The song is actually taken from Benjamin Britten's opera of Dream. I will keep that in mind for a future pick.

It turns out the Shakespeare's Globe theater also released a version a week or so ago. I THINK they leave plays up for two weeks but am not sure.

Off-topic. The (UK) National Theatre is putting up a filmed performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, from today at 2 p.m. Eastern to next Thursday just before 2 p.m. The performance itself looks amazing but I love this clip for putting modern touches into a classic play. Even if you're not interested in the play at all please view this clip. "Unlock your calendar I beseech you."

Dunno if this was mentioned in the boards yet, but if Gertz and Gus both work at a magazine, why didn’t they just work at the SAME magazine? That way, you could show that Gus already has a crush on Gertz beforehand and sees that Gertz is only going for guys like Trout. You could show that Gertz already knows Gus as a kind and good person; this would show why she’s so into him at the end when she finds out Lobo is Gus. It also could set up a rivalry, or even a connection, between Trout and Gus. (It was wild the protagonist and antagonist of the movie never met.). Having them all work together is a tried-and-true romantic comedy device, and I’m surprised they didn’t use it for this one.