Who poured that spaceship o-oil over my E-easter bo-onnet?
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While it wasn't the sanest or most straightforward sketch, or even really anything close to "I understand why and how they came up with this one," Easter Album was kind of adorable (if uneven) and made me smile a lot. It's a good example of how SNL has been erring recently on the side of unhinged and goofy/nonsensical humor (like Bill Hader as Italian host Vinny Vedecci), which I think is way better than relying on the tired/obvious (like the Comic Strip convention).
And while I like a lot of Lonely Island's stuff, 'Like a Boss' felt kind of phoned in.
I have this on VHS at my mom's house!!! I put it face-down in my bedroom in, like, 1996, in case a friend came over and saw it. But apparently it was so valuable I never threw it out? Oh man. About Face!
OK let's do some maff. Ramona assumes Luann's husband is 65. Luann is STUNNED and HORRIFIED. She says that to even suggest the possibility that he is 65 is to be offensive to the child who is sitting at her side (who is, note it, 13).
Since Luann is probably 43 at the youngest, this would make her husband 58, although in all reality he is probably 60.
Anyway, the point is that Luann's a total class act and I can't wait to buy her book. "Tip no. 42: Insult a friend's eyeballs in front of your daughter to teach her what's pretty"
You're reaching new heights, Gabe.
Simon and Alex make me feel this disgusted, furious, sad ache inside. I want to shake them, cry for them, and then crumple them up and squish them under my foot.
She turned out to be the hot British girl on a cheese diet from The Devil Wears Prada, and at the end of the movie she and Dane Cook rode off sexily in her red convertible.
"That sounds really pretty, I love your blue dress! Why don't you leave the baby at home, though, it might cause you aches and pains. You know, because of the extra weight."
"Oh, good idea!"
"Yeah, just leave it in the closet."
"OK, but are you sure that's safe?"
"Sure I'm sure. Here, take a Motrin. Did I tell you it's going to be a Motrin party?"
"Well, if you didn't already, you did just now!"
Yeah, I don't agree, either. I can see some parallels between vampirism and homosexuality on this show, kind of, but they're weak and only go so far as the "outsider trying to be accepted in the mainstream" thing. Being a vampire means murdering humans, which is harmful, whereas being homosexual means wanting to have sex with people of your same sex, which isn't harmful. Denying one's vampire urges--not murdering people--to assimilate with society is the only way to get all that Vampire Rights stuff. Society wouldn't be like, "Vampires are great, leave them alone, let them do whatever they want!" if they were still going around murdering people.
I don't think there's enough of a parallel between vampires and gay people to support an argument that the show is homophobic. I think the wordplay-ish stuff is convenient (coming out of the coffin/coming out of the closet; god hates fags/god hates fangs), but doesn't go so far as to actually make a statement about homosexuality.
I would say the similarities are more of a flimsy set-up for the viewer to swallow the idea that vampires might exist and would try to become part of society. But at the end of the day gay people are humans; vampires are undead monsters. I don't think anyone's going to be like, 'These nice vampires aren't murdering anyone anymore, so those gays should stop being so gay!'
The accents were terrible, people spoke too close to each other's faces, too many men (two of them) looked like Ken dolls, and the exposition-giving ("Sookie, you've been my best friend since second grade, even through the times when your parents died, and even though I always insult people and I lose my jobs because of it, you know what? I don't have a crush on your brother") was ridiculous.
AND YET I spent almost all of last night half awake staring at the door of the bedroom afraid that a vampire was going to come through it to kill me, and I am an adult.
These are my sparklies, and these are my friendships! These are my sparklies, and these are my friendships! These are my sparklies, and these are my friendships!
I just called the library and they're missing all the books that have to do with "create jokes based almost entirely on too-long-lingering shots, too-long-held subtly uncomfortable facial expressions and absurdism."
One of the 50 biggest fights I ever had with my mom was when she learned I had lost the blue ribbon headband for the Alice in Wonderland Madame Alexander doll that she had handed down to me. She was so mad!
I think if I called her up right now and reminded her of it she'd still be really mad. I think she actually took it back. The doll. I think she took the doll back.
Can the next one be the 10 best "Lose your debt" "get better insurance" "get a fancier degree" banner ads with the GIFs of the sim-like people dancing?
I can't find a real example, but kind of like this: http://media.bigoo.ws/content/halloween/gif_skulls/halloween_skulls_36.gif
You could occasionally laugh at it, but for every time that you'd laugh at it, there would be a horrifyingly realistic close-up of a rotted black finger being chopped off, peeled away from, or sewn back onto a rotted black hand. Also, 85% of the movie was Lindsay Lohan writhing and moaning as pieces of her body were slivered off in nasty crunching black chunks. It was gross.
But I guess there was some funny stuff too, like how Lindsay was the slowest moving stripper of all time.
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