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    The craziest thing about this movie for me is the fact that it wasn't made for TV on either Lifetime or The Hallmark Channel given who the actors are in it. I feel like this movie was originally written with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn in mind who both wouldn't return anyone's phone calls so the producers just started cold calling anyone and everyone and Broderick and Devito were the only two to answer the phone.

     

    Thanks for playing "Want/Settle/Get"!

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    The AV Club's best albums list was pretty awful, for the exact reasons that Matt stated. A whole lot of people who aren't typically music critics voting for whatever they heard on the radio just results in a lot of mediocrity flooding the list.

     

    I'm not trying to advocate for mainstream music, but quite frankly the AV Club is the sort of publication where the music critics have an ear for mainstream music. So I agree with Besser's lamenting for Jason Isbell or Parks and Rec not getting big-time accolades, but it's inaccurate to say that just because a group of people agreed that the new Kanye record is good means that they aren't "real" critics and just heard him on the radio.

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    I listen to almost every Totally Married episode and most Totally Laime eps, but I have always gone to her website and downloaded them instead of here on Earwolf -- I guess because they're both in one spot and I just have my morning routine of going to five or six different websites and grabbing the usual assortment. I didn't even notice Totally Laime was here until a couple of months ago. For whatever reason, I was totally unaware of the Earwolf Challenge. Wow, that's a crazy forum to dive into. I really can't believe all the negative comments in there.

     

    Great episode, love Jimmy Pardo, gracias.

     

    If I recall, the Earwolf Challenge comments were pretty nasty, and most people were there just to talk shit about whomever seemed to be winning (often TL). I also think a lot of those people were friends/fans of some contestants, and since there aren't a ton of people on these boards, the signal to noise ratio was pretty poor.

     

    Going back and listening (and yes, Pardo was very positive about TL's intro), I can see why Earwolf didn't do another season. It must have been so time-consuming to come up with challenges, make all the calls, etc. They could have tightened up the episodes in editing, but that would have been even more time. Anyway, I'm glad they did it the one time and got TL onto my radar.

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    That guy has definite issues -- self-loathing, intimacy issues, self-esteem issues. The list is exhaustive. What I'm more interested in is whether or not the girl followed through the request. I'm guessing that she did because like attracts like, so she probably has just as many or more issues than the guy.

     

    This is one where I wish we had follow-up.

     

    This woman tells her friend (the caller) what her boyfriend wants during sex. Either ( a ) she's so uncomfortable with it that she's asking for advice from a friend, in which case hopefully she can either get to a better place with this guy or move on, ( b ) she's into telling her friends about the weird shit her boyfriend likes, in which case her friend (the caller) probably should just stop being her friend.

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    Yeah, and how many of those child prostitutes are throwaway characters that just move the plot along? Usually, if there is a child prostitute the story is about them and getting them out of the situation. Well, if they are white. If they are black, it's a pat on the back and "thanks for telling us where the main character is. Now you go back to a life of hardship and degradation. We have to save Mischa Barton."

     

    I don't doubt it. I have so little stomach for TV shows about sex crimes and kidnapping and how slowly they pan over a women's bloody nude body that I probably didn't even notice the racial aspects.

     

    To the point about Brooklyn Nine-Nine making the cops look like a fun bunch, I'd only argue that any comedy set in a "serious" workplace will generally have to sidestep those issues if they want to simply be a comedy.

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