Yeah, it was very much a table-setting episode, but those are necessary every so often. It sounds like shit's about to get real next week between Walt calling Todd and Jesse's "plan," whatever it is. I assume that the last four are now going to be pretty much a headlong sprint to the finish line.
Hopefully not the frozen stuff. It's usually...pretty bad. I mean, the pictures are always so awesome...you know? It's like, 'HELL YEAH, I'M STOKED FOR THIS LASAGNA!' and then ya nuke it and...the cheese gets all scabby on top and it's like...it's like you're eating a scab...
I saw the .GIFs of it just like everyone else (nobody actually watches the VMAs except comedians live-tweeting it) and it's got a very "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD! YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" vibe to it. That said, a bunch of people _really_ wanted to chat idly about this on the bus on Monday and I was having none of it.
On the podcast for the show that the creators themselves put out, they talk a lot about how they actually work with the DEA to make sure they're not giving out meth recipes, or teaching people how to dispose of bodies or whatever.
Usually they do it by coming up with the real way to accomplish something, but then in the final show they omit steps or doing things slightly out of order. So, the MythBusters episode was kind of silly to begin with (as most MythBusters episodes based on movies or TV shows are).
I thought the ending came out of nowhere at first (particularly the flash-forward postscript part), but then I thought about it some more and realized that the movie is called [spoiler alert] "The World's End", so I don't know what I was expecting honestly. Also loved how the conversation about they winkingly explain what would happen if there had been five musketeers instead of three and then proceed to do exactly that.
I think it's more about protecting her kids from the knowledge that their father is a multiple murderer, fear of implicating herself, and that if his cancer is indeed back -- some part of her would rather let him die with a semblance of dignity knowing that he provided for his family (or at least believing that, since it'll probably all be seized shortly after his death if not before).
I really doubt Hank's just going to go to his boss and lay all his cards on the table, I'm guessing he'll try to finagle a way to keep working on the Heisenberg case without actually revealing that it's his brother-in-law.
He wasn't necessarily "under arrest," just brought in for questioning. If "The Wire" is any indication, they can basically just seize all the money if he can't provide a legitimate source where he got it.
Agreed. Despite this episode basically being table setting, it was very tense and intriguing in the classic Breaking Bad style.
Nothing as flashy as, say, a train robbery or what have you -- but the pieces are moving into place for the final confrontation in a way that is not just a bunch of characters giving blatant exposition to each other like most other shows would do.
We did a similar thing but tastefully did it on Mother's day and still gave an actual gift along with a "Grandma" card, so it was a surprise but without a protracted embarrassing scavenger hunt first.
I'm kind of sad that they're writing Ann off because I feel like Rashida Jones is great and they just haven't really figured out what to do with her character, but I am not very sad about Chris leaving because I feel like, while it is a very funny joke, his character never really moved beyond having one single joke.
Season 4 is good! It's not perfect, and the insane structure of it that was dictated by the production schedule takes a while to get into, but there's still a lot of very, very funny stuff there. It's not as perfect as the previous 3 seasons, but still better than 90% of other sitcoms.
Hopefully the non-perfectness of Season 4 has tempered people's expectations a bit so Season 5 won't seem like a letdown (not having a seven year build up will hopefully help in that regard as well).
For example: I went to junior-high with Misty Mims (nee Bass) who is Chubby Checker's daughter and now a WNBA player. I had classes with her, and probably said a few things in passing, but she's much less likely to remember me than I am to remember her -- I've seen her picture and read about her basketball career and such since then since they love reporting on her in the local paper.
She has probably met 100x as many people as I have after playing for Duke, the Phoenix Mercury, the Houston Comets, etc. etc. She has not read anything about me in the intervening time. Now, if I saw her in the grocery store, I would definitely recognize her, but should I expect her to know who I am? Does it mean she has face blindness if she can't place me?
Also the fact that they meet roughly 10,000x as many new people every year as us normals. As a non-famous person, it's very memorable when you meet a famous person (or you had a vague inkling and did some research and found out that you went to school with them at some point after seeing them on the TV or whatever), but I imagine as a famous person you're much less likely to remember every non-famous person you've ever met.
I binged on it at the behest of my co-workers. My wife implored me "I can;t watch this, its too crazy!" after every episode but now she's more excited for the finale than I cam. Pick your poison, my friend.
Look, I'm sure Republicans think they're Teaching A Man To Fish™ or whatever, and that all Democrats are sniveling weaklings, but it's always going to be easier to make a Movie Villain out of someone who is preaching austerity measures as the answer to all of life's problems. Mister Potter and Ebeneezer Scrooge are not the heroes of their stories.
I think it has more to do with it being hard to make a villain out of someone whose policies are generally about protecting social welfare and the environment without seeming like a douchebag.
I don't mind it if you just kind of strum ambiently and hang out, but if you bring a guitar to a party and expect everyone to sit and listen to you play and/or sing, you are a douche.
Yeah, plus listening to someone practice scales is pretty much the most irritating thing ever. This is true of pretty much any instrument I guess. Bringing your guitar everywhere makes you a douche no matter how good you are though, IMHO.
Can we all stop videotaping our friends as they get increasingly frustrated?
I feel like this guy (and also that guy who destroyed his Xbox) would not have broken his stuff in a fit of impotent rage if he wasn't "performing" for the camera a bit.
I went to She & Him in Chicago on Saturday night, and we happened to be staying right near where the pride parade was today so we watched it. It was awesome! It was over three hours long! Also there were approximately a zillion people there! We got super sunburnedf!
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There are a couple mnemonic devices taught in a lot of schools that I think could result in your getting bullshit called on you at a (really fun, I'm sure) party:
My personal favorite, shouted like a chant at a sporting event: "SINE COSINE, COSINE SINE, THREE POINT ONE FOR ONE FIVE NINE"
And another one I've heard, though it's not as catchy: "People think I'm crazy / But I think pi is great / Three point one four one five nine two six five three five eight"
Just saying you might want to step y'alls game up a bit.
My parents have super rusty well water and I can vouch for CLR, the stuff actually works as advertised. The coolest thing is using it to clean your shower head when it gets all stopped up.
It is kind of funny how marketing people are just now rediscovering product placement and brand integration and whatever. This stuff isn't new, guys!
I don't really get why it's a problem either. The shows wouldn't exist without ads. That said, I'd rather have Mary Tyler Moore explain to me why Joy dishwashing liquid is easier on your hands in a tag at the end of the episode that is clearly an advertising spot than have forced insert shots of Nick Miller using the convenient foot-controlled Ford Escape tailgate hatch in the actual body of the episode.
Just speaking from my own experience, it's been usually straight dudes who I've witnessed do the "leave a buffer seat so we don't accidentally touch" thing, which is also what tends to happen at the urinals in the restroom. I have no idea what women do, as I am not one.
That said, I did ill-advisedly make out with a platonic female friend a whole bunch one time when we sat next to each other at The Libertine. That may have been more to do with the movie choice than the seating proximity, however.
Yeah I've had friends do that and it's dumb. Just sit next to the person! You're not going to suddenly be gay if you sit next to a male friend at a movie!
I guess I would just feel bad doing that because most of the employees at my town's theater are like fifteen year olds who hardly seem capable of the requisite authority to not just elicit an "I paid to be here, I'm not leaving!" response..
I do think one of the problems is that the vast majority of theaters simply do not employ ushers. You'd think movie theaters could post a minimum wage teenager at the theater to go get the manager in case someone's talking or being rude but of course they don't because that costs more than doing nothing.
I shouldn't have to get up and confront the person, or leave the theater to go try and find the manager (who is probably off in some back room that customers aren't allowed in anyway).
The movie industry likes to blame big screen TVs and home theaters for people not going out to the theater anymore, and I'm sure that's part of it, but another part is that the theaters are not doing anything to ensure a good experience watching the movie.
After spending ten bucks and not being able to enjoy a movie a few times, you're gonna stop going to the theater.
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