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I'm glad they put kept the same costume designer on board for the sequel. Thank you for the starred areola, Costume Designer, thank you very much.

RyanSz says that she shows her breasts in this movie, so I'd imagine they paid her a lot of money. She was Sport Illustrated swimsuit covergirl back those days.

That would be funny if that's John Paxon behind him. Playing beer pong at John Paxon's house. Also, notice the shoes he's wearing. Those were the NICEST iteration of Air Jordans that Nike ever made. I had the ones that were white and had Carolina blue for the patent leather tips.

Yeah, these last few eps (with Kevin Pereira and Danny "lil Pete" Tamberrelli have been more about pop culture type of stuff. But the two eps before then were Tom Bissell and Dave Furchaci (sp?) who talked about writing for video games and the stupid shit that the fans of video games do, like threaten to rape Anita Sarkesian(sp?) when she says there is sexism in video games. There are a few eps where they will get someone who has made a video game and they talk to them about the process or someone who has lots of knowledge about the history of certain video game companies.

Bumping this so that Paul knows that we make memes about him as well.

Emily Gordon is the best, and if you don't listen to the Indoor Kids, you're doing yourself a disservice. Her tumblr page is pretty good as well with funny stuff, political stuff, self-help type of stuff...there's something for everyone.

Modern Republicans aren't tolerant of black people in official positions at all. Look at how they treat the president.

At the time this show was on, someone could turn to many places to find way better stuff -- Martin (pre-mental breakdown), In Living Color (Damon Wayans, Jamie Foxx, et. al.), SNL (Dana Carvey, Mike Myers), Mr. Show(PFT, Scottobot), MTV's Liquid TV...there was a lot of good stuff that it had to compete with and it lost. I don't think its fair to take out some of its contemporaries just because they were "too good"; at the time, this show had to compete with them for eyeballs/attention and it didn't bring the goods.

Hold the horses!!! She's topless in this! If that's the case, then all of the budget was spent on getting her to take her top off. Billy Baldwin got paid in lottery tickets.

My favorite line from this ep: "What's Steam? Is that like The Silk Road?"

OH SHIT!!!!!!!!! That was a good ass freestyle!

This clip sold me on this movie. I need to see this now.

The trailer for this movie is action cliche heaven. "I don't know how to use a gun" "It's the same as a camera; point and shoot." ----- "What the hell is going on?!! Someone knows every move we make!" ----- "Why should I trust you?" "I didn't shoot you yet." "Yet???" "The night's young." CLASSIC!!!!

Tux the Penguin is very trustworthy. I trust him with all of my sensitive information.

The casting of that show makes me laugh so hard. Greg from Dhrama and Greg is on there and he's all super serious all the time, which cracks me up because he was on one of the silliest TV shows of all time. The rest of the team are supermodels, except for the really tall gangly guy (he's been in something else, but I can't name it) and the heavy-set woman who's their version of NCIS's Abby. Plus, it is so damned serious that it's not fun to watch. Like at all. I tried a couple of times and just turned off the TV. There's no reason to sit through 30 minutes of heavy, serious shit when I could easily not do that.

Man, it wasn't as funny as the contemporary Simpsons eps it was going up against. And its heavy handed like South Park is heavy handed (more and more this is looking like a early 90s version of South Park) in that the eps have this social commentary plot and the writers/creators practically beat you over the head with what they think is correct. I mean, it is what it is. If it was any better it would have still been on today. Its not like the network gives a damn either way as long as money is coming in.

Man, SVU doesn't know if this stuff is supposed to be ugly and gruesome or sexy. The tone shifts wildly depending on the story. And there was one ep where Benson is tied and gonna be orally raped and they cut back between the dude mimicking that he is unzipping his pants to Benson breathing real hard and her mouth open wide. I don't know what they were looking to do there, but even in my original viewing I had one eyebrow cocked, like "huh?"

This Event in TV History threw me for a loop because when I saw the painting, I though they were going to do Family Ties with Adam Scott as Alex P. Keaton, and Martin Starr (aka That Weird Guy from all the movies and tv shows) as the Dad, and Chelsea Peretti as the tough sister he had. The blonde and the mother looked sort of familiar in the painting but I couldn't place them at all.

Both the Simpsons and Dinosaurs got off on making real big social commentary through mediums that were usually reserved for children's entertainment. Before the Simpsons, you didn't have adult cartoons and before Dinosaurs, you didn't have adult puppetry. And I looked at an ep on Youtube, and it the social commentary is so heavy-handed. It was South Park before South Park. The problem with Dinosaurs is that it wasn't nearly as funny as the Simpsons or South Park for that matter.

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."

At the Wayans family barbeques, this and "Little Man" get clowned on extensively, I bet.

Umm reading this made me think of the old Bloom County cartoons where Oliver learns about apartheid and makes a raygun that would turn the president of South Africa to a black man. They tie balloons to Cutter John's wheelchair and its like the Space Shuttle taking off.

I think the Dinosaurs TV show as trying to be like The Simpsons. There was definitely a heavy-handed social commentary said through this crazy apparatus ( a cartoon in the Simpsons , a puppet in Dinosaurs). I used to watch that show, and the one that stands out the most to me was the sexual harassment episode, because at the time the whole Anita Hill case was still in the news. So maybe it was more of a South Park-type of show.

No, blackface is never ok. Not for your stupid movie. Not for your stupid Halloween costume. Speaking of Paul Scheer: I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, where I wouldn't others, because on his WTF episode, he mentioned Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy as being his comedic inspirations FIRST. The only other comedian to do that on the ep was Aziz Ansari and Kevin Hart. All of the white comics start their list with George Carlin or Monty Python or some other old-school white comic that I've never heard of. At the end -- as a throwaway -- they add in Richard Pryor (and I'm betting that many of them have never even seen Pryor's standup). Scheer made it point to put them high and, I think, state that Chris Rock is the one who really inspired him and made him go to UCB classes, etc. So, I'm willing to give him the benefit that maybe he is one of the few white folks who really appreciates black comedians (I think its just him and Gary Owens as of now) and maybe this is his way of paying homage and poking a little fun at early 90s and Arsenio. I noticed that he doesn't really change his voice or put on an AAVE accent. I think the most startling thing are the clothes and the high-top fade wig that he's wearing. The guests do more character work than he does in the show(his wife does a good impression of Andrew Dice Clay) which is a good choice. I would definitely have more problems with it if he was the center of attention and doing as strong of an impression as the guests are. But I haven't seen all of them, so take me opinion with a grain of salt. Also, other POC's mileage may vary.

Law and Order:SVU is why I stopped watching all of the Law and Order series. Out of all of the L&O incarnations, this is the one I find most odious and full of racist bullshit. I can even remember the ep that made me lose it: Mischa Barton plays a prostitute that witnesses a murder. To find her, Stabler and Benson talk to a black child prostitute, comment on how bad it is that she is a kid and is selling herself. Then after she gives them the information they need to find Barton, they leave the child prostitute to her life. It is never called back. Not even as a throwaway line, like "hey, is that child prostitute doing well in the foster family we put her in?". Absolutely nothing. So, that's a racist thing to do plot-wise ("Hey Larry, let's make the prostitute a black kid!") and casting-wise("Well, we have a part for a prostitute. Should it go to a full grown woman or a black kid? Well, it wouldn't be as believable if it wasn't a black kid, so let's go with the black kid."). And people who pull that "free speech" argument out of their ass, don't want free speech. They want to be the only voice in the room. If you object to what they are saying, you're "infringing on their free speech" or "not being tolerant of their beliefs" (which 100% of the time are racist as shit and based on denying other folks' humanity). So, not only do they want to be the only voice in the room, they also want you to agree 100% with whatever they said. Now, they on the other hand, can disagree all they want with whatever they want. It's free speech, after all.