Happy 50th birthday, Taylor Hicks!

I know. It doesn't feel like that's how old Taylor Hicks is. He was just on our TVs twenty years ago, and he was at least 60 then.

Aww. I kid because I love. Taylor Hicks, if you're reading this, I want you to know that every time anyone talks about how Taylor is the greatest pop star of all time, I nod and smile and sing "Do I Make You Proud?" to myself, and then it turns out they're talking about some lady, and then I seethe for three hours because damn it, America voted, and they did not vote for some lady, they voted for the guy who was takin' it to the streets, whoo.

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u/BuffaloAmbitious3531 — 7 days ago

"Carter, don't say 'Karen'. You can't say that."

Just watching the movie again, and I'm not sure what's up with this line. By this point (the night after Bear's wish), WishNikki is already at the point where she's totally confused about basic human social norms. Maybe an hour before this, she gets the cat out of the garbage and makes the "memorial", and Bear says, "That's fucked," and she hopefully responds, "Is that good?" She's already at the point where all she can do is stare at Bear. I don't think we hear her say another word in the movie that isn't about Bear after this point. And yet all of a sudden for one brief moment, she's able to have a normal conversation with Andy Richter about the acceptability of the term "Karen"? It's weird.

Anyone have any thoughts about this moment? I know there's a school of thought that, oh, WishNikki doesn't get really weird until after Bear calls her on her dad-has-cancer lie...but, nope, she's pretty damn weird from the moment he makes the wish. Except for this one moment where she's suddenly acting like normal Nikki and cares about Carter saying "Karen".

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u/BuffaloAmbitious3531 — 2 months ago

David Archuleta's book

I'm just reading David Archuleta's book.

I have reached the point where he's in kindergarten and he gets upset because there's another, louder kid in his class named David who hogs all the attention.

Thank God he never had to go through anything like that again.

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u/BuffaloAmbitious3531 — 2 months ago

"Hoynes gave a grand to my campaign. Russell, $1,500. Clarkson, two."

Outside of this throwaway line in "Opposition Research", this fourth candidate in the Democratic primary is never even mentioned. I, for one, find it hard to believe that Matt Santos could ever beat Kelly Clarkson, but if she's going around insulting state senators by giving them donations of $2, she probably alienated a lot of people.

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u/BuffaloAmbitious3531 — 4 months ago

Bear gets Sarah killed

I am not an observant person. I am not good at predicting what will happen in movies. But from the very second we see Bear in the car with Sarah, and Bear drops some awkward exposition to the tune of, "So, it's nice to be here with you in the place you always come and hang out!", I knew what was going to happen in the rest of the scene pretty much note-for-note.

Is this guy really so passive, selfish, and stupid that he can't even say, "Listen, Nikki is acting kind of batshit insane these past few weeks and might be just a little bit jealous of you right now, so perhaps if we're going to have a nice chat about your dream of going to tattoo school, we should have it somewhere where she won't think to look for us and murder you, such as 'a coffee shop on the other side of town where she would not think to look for us', or 'Canada'?"

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u/BuffaloAmbitious3531 — 4 months ago

Denise Richards in "The Shoes"

Just watching "The Shoes". So Russell Dalrymple is mad at George for looking at his daughter's cleavage, and Denise Richards is visibly into her twenties, and the guys' defense is, well, if thirty-something Elaine showed Russell Dalrymple her cleavage, he would look, as if that's the same.

Does this plot benefit in any way from Richards's character being fifteen? Like, I understand that mores have changed, but her being fifteen adds nothing. Russell could've just been pissed because it was his daughter.

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u/BuffaloAmbitious3531 — 4 months ago