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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
Dom Cruise said:
What was with the 90s and freakshows? You had this movie, that Residents album and that X-Files episode.
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It was definitely a side effect of the grunge wave. It was rarely a traditional freak show with a bearded lady and a pinhead, it was edgy freaks. Jim Rose Circus was huge back then. Lots of tattoo and body piercing features which also came into mainstream during that time but was still considered edgy in the early 90s.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
Oh wow, I saw this once a long time ago around 2006 I think.

What was with the 90s and freakshows? You had this movie, that Residents album and that X-Files episode.
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The essence of 1990's subculture was a yearning for all the repressed pain and ugliness of the world to bubble up and blast away the happy corporate media cliches of yesteryear, and evil circuses hit both those points at once.
 
Maggots on a Train v2 said:
The essence of 1990's subculture was a yearning for all the repressed pain and ugliness of the world to bubble up and blast away the happy corporate media cliches of yesteryear, and evil circuses hit both those points at once.
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It makes sense when you contrast it with just how saccharine and schmaltzy 90s culture could be like Full House or Chicken Soup For The Soul etc.
 
Maggots on a Train v2 said:
The essence of 1990's subculture was a yearning for all the repressed pain and ugliness of the world to bubble up and blast away the happy corporate media cliches of yesteryear, and evil circuses hit both those points at once.
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Relevant media:


(Overplayed or not: best music video of the 90s fite me.)
 
Just call the video Science Fiction Mass Grave and have Plinkett review Rise of Skywalker and Picard at the same time. You can re-purpose Holocaust Jokes as corona virus jokes now.
 
I saw the retweet of The Daily Wire and lost it. That's hilarious.

ditto said:
Wouldn't mind if they skip the Revenge of Skywalker Plinkett TBH. There is nothing more to say about Star Wars.
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Same. I mean, I would be happy if there was a Plinkett review of it of course ... But I wouldn't be missing it if it wasn't made either.

Star Wars is not just a dead horse ... It's a fossil at this point.
 
I remember watching Freaked a time when you had to rent VHS copies of movies and take them home, I had no idea what I was in for.

Later I learned Winter had compiled and directed something called the Impact Video Magazine, a VHS release composed of segments about Jane's Addiction, Public Enemy, etc. and featured this short film, a take off on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre starring the Butthole Surfers as a clan holding a family barbecue:


"He's just...greasing the pan, dear. It's, uh, special grease."
 
StarkRavingMad said:
I saw the retweet of The Daily Wire and lost it. That's hilarious.



Same. I mean, I would be happy if there was a Plinkett review of it of course ... But I wouldn't be missing it if it wasn't made either.

Star Wars is not just a dead horse ... It's a fossil at this point.
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Disney ORA-ORA-ORA'd it and then left it in the sun to dissolve.
 
Commander X said:
I remember watching Freaked a time when you had to rent VHS copies of movies and take them home, I had no idea what I was in for.
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I just happened to catch the movie on cable once circa early 2006 I think it was.

Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Disney ORA-ORA-ORA'd it and then left it in the sun to dissolve.
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It's sad that a cultural juggernaut as big as Star Wars has been so ruined.

Even as recently as a decade ago there was still a mystique to the franchise that not even the Prequels were able to ruin, but not anymore.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Is there one that hasn't been Ruined in the name of "Pop Nerd Lyfestyle!"?
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That's a really good question actually.

First thing that springs to my mind is Back To The Future, there's also Goonies although that's not really a "franchise" just a singular movie, but both BTTF and Goonies are still two elements of pop culture that are unmolested.

I guess the Jurassic World movies aren't too bad, at least compared to other things, so Jurassic Park is another franchise that hasn't been totally ruined.
 
Dom Cruise said:
That's a really good question actually.

First thing that springs to my mind is Back To The Future, there's also Goonies although that's not really a "franchise" just a singular movie, but both BTTF and Goonies are still two elements of pop culture that are unmolested.

I guess the Jurassic World movies aren't too bad, at least compared to other things, so Jurassic Park is another franchise that hasn't been totally ruined.
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I am not sure you could Reboot BTTF or Goonies, both were..very much products of their time.

Also..Jurassic park was ruined by Jurassic Park 2 and 3.
 
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