Disney XD is coming out with a Ducktales reboot soon.
The trailer doesn’t show much but I’m excited. I know it is a cartoon but I loved this cartoon as a kid.
We see Uncle Scrooge’s money and we hear Donald’s familiar, “Yeah!” and the iconic theme song.
I worry they may have modernized it. I hope Huey, Dewey and Louie don’t need a trigger warning before each adventure or something.
I’ve always laughed at this sketch. Even if you’re too naughty for Santa, Sump’n will get you a little sump’n:
Who knew Portland was so funny?
BQB here with a review of IFC’s Portlandia.
Hipsterism. Pop culture. Trends and the never-ending attempt to keep up with them. These are just some of the issues that are lampooned in this IFC sketch comedy show.
SNL alum Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, both musicians, become all sorts of crazy characters as they poke fun at Portland’s excessively laid back lifestyle.
There’s the Women First Bookstore where the ultra-feminist owners put on a car wash to pay their rent and lecture a male customer that he better not be checking them out, even though their ankle length bed sheet like dresses clearly prevent that from happening.
Meanwhile, a ridiculously long line for a popular new brunch restaurant descends into Mad Maxian chaos as people waiting in line start their own villages and societies, wondering if their name will ever be called.
Generation X is the butt of many jokes as Portland seems stuck in the 1990s. At one point, Fred and Carrie locate former MTV VJs Kurt Loder, Tabitha Soren and Matt Pinfield in order to launch a takeover of MTV and return it to a past where music videos were actually played and discussed instead of the tween based reality TV show nightmare the channel has become.
A veteran journalist’s newspaper is taken over by bloggers who want him to stop writing hard hitting exposes in favor of celebrity NSFW photos. Carrie declares social bankruptcy when the social media requests for her to like and comment on posts outweighs the time and bandwidth she has to respond to them.
It’s all very funny and yet it is one of those shows you just have to watch in order to really get. Plus, guest stars make cameos aplenty.
STATUS: Shelf-worthy and each show is about twenty minutes long so I’ve found they’re perfect when I need to chill out and relax for a bit. Available on Netflix.
Don’t tell the Yeti that I’m still posting with Alien Jones’ space phone.
Oh my God, 3.5 readers.
It is a very sad day here for the pop culture fest that is Bookshelf Battle due to the news that Florence Henderson has passed away at the age of 82.
I mean, she lived a full life and got to do great things and lived to an old age but still, she was truly America’s mom.
She played Carol Brady, the mom on the Brady Bunch, then in her post-Brady years, made a career off of cameos where she’d either do something hilariously un-Mrs. Brady-like or would appear as a funny motherly figure or something.
I never heard of some of her other pre-Brady gigs before but the news outlets are reporting she did have a pretty noteworthy Broadway career and spent some time on The Today Show before becoming Alice’s boss.
Oh God, I’m so shaken by this tragic news that I’m going to refrain from asking why did Mrs. Brady need a house keeper if she didn’t have a job. We all know why. Six kids are a handful and the woman needed assistance. Stop judging, haters.
2016, you dick! How dare you take America’s mom?
Anyway, I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of Brady Bunch clips on the news today, so I’m going to share the Weird Al Yankovic clip where she starred opposite Weird Al in his Amish Paradise video.
What are your favorite Florence Henderson memories, 3.5 readers?
PS thank you the Yeti for letting me out of the cage to write this Florence Henderson report. It is nice to know that we can put our rivalry aside in dark times like these.
Hey 3.5 readers.
I’m late to the party but I’m finally two episodes in on Westworld. I’m enjoying it. My initial reaction was the cat is let out of the bag before the show even starts as you know right away its a show about an android cowboy theme part…but there seem to be plenty of twists and turns ahead.
After two episodes, I’m hooked so I will come back for more.
OBLIGATORY SPOILER ALERT
I gotta be honest 3.5 readers. I don’t always know exactly what’s going on with the Walking Dead, so if it ever sounds like I got it wrong then feel free to correct me.
There are so many characters and locations and story lines to keep up with and I am a busy man with a blog frequented by 3.5 readers to attend to.
Maggie’s alive though I don’t think anyone was really fooled into thinking she was dead.
The Saviors retaliate against the Hilltop by bringing the zombies though I didn’t really get why…for disobeying orders, for harboring Sasha and Maggie except the Saviors seem to be unaware they are there so I don’t get it.
Steven Ogg is going to make a career out of playing the angry Grand Theft Auto douche. One of few people to get famous off of a video game character.
Carl and Enid: A Love Story Amidst a Zombie Apocalypse. Aww.
What say you, 3.5 readers?
Hey 3.5 readers.
BQB here.
SPOILERS!
So tonight was all about auditing and accounting, normally very boring subjects, but when there are two missing guns, Neegan sends Rick and the gang on a wild goose chase looking for them.
A big reveal about Judith and Maggie looks like she’s up to something.
What say you, 3.5 readers?
Hey 3.5 readers/Walking Dead fans.
BQB here.
Dave Chapelle parodied the Neegan baseball bat scene from The Walking Dead using Chapelle’s show characters.
Chapelle’s Show was so funny…like one of those rare sketch comedy shows where every sketch was hilarious. I wish he’d made more.
Anyway, here it is:
Came across this video from CH2.
Made me feel old as I watched several of these shows regularly, Suddenly Susan, Drew Carey and the Fresh Prince in particular.
I swear to God millenials, there was a time when everyone was happy to see him on TV.
Between that and there was a time when Adam Sandler movies were actually funny, I don’t think people believe me.
Oh, I’m on Easy Street, la dee de Easy Street…
Daryl is in Neegan jail, punished with dog food sandwiches, solitary confinement, beatings and “Easy Street” playing on a continuous loop non-stop.
Neegan monologues way too much but Daryl is showing the mental toughness he needs to get out of this situation.
Will Dwight remain loyal to Neegan or will he team up with Daryl?
What say you, 3.5 readers?
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