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Spritenaut 32
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All I want now is for Torito to be a tiny little bull lawyer that competes with David Otunga to make partner at a hot shot law firm.
Hopefully, this firm is hiring;
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The best part about the Bob's Burgers thing is Tina is far more fucked up and insane than any Brony or Shimmer creepy ever would be.
My wife is a child psychologist. Lol, the serious conversations we've had about the kids on Bob's Burgers. Wife wants to believe that Tina will normalize after she matures and her hormone levels normalize, but her professional self doesn't buy that. Oddly enough, she thinks Louise could grow up as the normal one. We once had a conversation where she argued that Tina's issues didn't meet the criteria for institutionalization and I quipped "But you'd be ok with it if we threw her in a cave with food and wireless internet and blocked off the only opening with a giant boulder, right? For the protection of the rest of us?"
She didn't disagree
Kyle Killen, whose excellent creations “Lone Star” (on Fox) and “Awake” (on NBC) died quick deaths in 2010 and 2012, respectively, now has a 2014 failure in “Mind Games.”
ABC pulled the plug Thursday after just five airings. The Christian Slater vehicle aired in the same Tuesday 10 p.m. that killed “Killer Women” and the unlucky “Lucky 7.” “Mind Games” will be replaced with new episodes of “Wife Swap” and repeats of “Resurrection.”
The cancellation also continues a streak of failed Slater vehicles that began with 2008’s “My Own Worst Enemy” on NBC and continued with 2009’s “The Forgotten” (which aired in ABC’s same 10 p.m. Tuesday timeslot) and 2011’s “Breaking In” on Fox.
“Games” was the lowest-rated non-repeat on broadcast TV last Tuesday:
Christian Slater needs to get onto a CSI/NCIS type franchise or something. He's not that great an actor, but he can play the charismatic smart-ass quite well. A show where he can fully utilize his eyebrows.
Can he do a really terrible New Orlean accent. I kinda liked the setup and characters they introduced in this week's NCIS (backdoor pilot for the New Orleans spinoff), but the accents really got to me. Scott Bakula's was comically bad.
Haven't watched Mind Games yet (still going to watch the episodes already aired via Comcast on Demand), but it at least looked better than Slater's other two series. And Believe and Lone Star both looked really promising. Unfortunately, the promos for Mind Games also made it look like the sort of show that would get canceled after... oh.... five episodes.
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"Nobody asked you Patrice" is perhaps the best line of the whole show.
Seriously though, this was a very lackluster episode for me. They've gone to the Ted-Robin well WAYYYY too much over the past three seasons to where it's just plain ridiculous at this point. Some good points here and there, but overall, this episode didn't do it for me.
Really anticipating Monday's hour long finale though. I think this season's been a mixed bag overall, but have confidence that the creators and writers will pull of the show's ending perfectly.
Yeah, I watched the last two eps back to back and didn't like much aside from older Ted's wistful end-of-episode voiceovers and the "where are they now" montage of supporting characters.
Wife and I still think Ted-Robin together makes perfect sense. One of the things that frustrates me about them going to that particular well so many times is that they've never come up with a compelling reason why Ted and Robin can't work as a couple. It's feels like you're watching the characters make the same bad choices over and over. My wife jokes that Robin-Barney work as a couple until Robin goes into therapy and gets her issues under control. Then she has her "OMG! What have I done?" moment.
I hope the writers pull it together for the finale. There's a lot of this season that I've hated, from shrill Lily to Marshall's neverending road trip to generally unfunny episodes. I kinda wish they had introduced the mother earlier so they could develop her as a character.
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Hannibal prosecuted for tax fraud after an audit discovers he wrote non-existent groceries off as business expenses would be bleakly funny.
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Anybody know the story behind Rude quitting Jim Crockett in 1987 despite holding the tag titles, and then quitting WWF in 1990 in the middle of a feud with the Big Boss Man (I'm assuming the latter was being pissed at going from feuding for the World Title and headlining SummerSlam to feuding with a prison guard over "your momma" jokes)?
Also, has Meltzer or anyone ever discussed the odds of Rude getting into the WWE HOF or getting a DVD release? I assume Vince is still mad due to quitting WWE/ECW and jumping to Nitro.
In general, you need to listen to the Raging Bull shoot since he covers this in detail. i'm trying to remember the deal. I think it was that Rude found out he was pulling in less than Manny or something.
Crockett was probably just a case of the WWF making Rude a much better offer and promising him a singles push. Manny did say in a shoot that Rude found out he (Manny) was making more than Rude, so maybe that made it easier to listen to the WWF.
There's was also a rumor that Rude showed up drunk to a few tapings and thought Crockett was going to fire him.
The WWF departure was rumored to be over Rude wanting to have kids with his wife. Supposedly, he didn't wanted to get off the drugs (steroids) in order to get her pregnant and was basically told that the decision wasn't up to him. He was also feuding with the company over money, asking to be paid for some shows he didn't work since the WWF had continued to promote him for said shows (thus, using him as a draw to increase the gate).
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Ambrose interview here:
I probably don’t have any more of a bigger following on the Internet than anybody else does, I just probably have a stranger one. I don’t know where that comes from.Being a little too convincing while playing a creepy sociopath on the indys, maybe?
I still can't wrap my head around the idea that Jon Moxley will probably eventually get a strong babyface push. It just seems wrong.
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The Lilian Garcia call was always puzzling. When Raw is on the verge of wreckage, who thought it was important to get Lilian Garcia?
Not gonna lie, I have no idea what I'm supposed to be getting out of the gif (as relates to the quote about Lillian), but it made me laugh anyway.
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The other member of the Lords of Kaos (the one with the WV tattoo) is Lance Erickson. The smaller guy is indeed Damian Wayne.
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What if the WWE was on a tour of the pacific rim right now and their chartered flight happened to be the one that is currently missing? Do they bother going through with WrestleMania as some sort of bizarre tribute, or is it cancelled all together? Assuming the tour has most of the key members of the roster, how well does the company do after having been forced to basically start from scratch?
Clones and zombies. Vince was planning to eventually replace all the alphas with clones or zombies anyway after Punk walked out.
Show goes on more or less as planned. Triple H's clone melts after it gets too close to the pyro during an entrance, so Zombie Bryan Danielson (D-Zom) carries a broom to a 4 star match.
D-Zom wins the title in an overbooked mess that sees run-ins from CM Clone, the original Ultimate Warrior (the one that died), and Dolph Ziggler (Dolph wasn't on the plane. Only his career is actually dead).
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What if Ricky Steamboat turned heel and renamed himself Ricky Speedboat?
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I've always envisioned a Dave Meltzer for Days of Our Lives who gives the backstage dirt and gave the demonic possession of Marlena five stars.
So what's Soap Opera Dave's MMA? Spanish telanovelas? Musical theater? Reality tv?
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RE: Gellar. She's a pretty decent actress, but she seems to have awful taste in scripts.
I'm friends with a tv critic (major paper in a top 20 market) who swears she should have had a huge career post-Buffy based on the fact that she's smart, media savvy, and understands the business. He thought she'd have an instinct for picking projects. Instead.....
It's an off business, though. Based on Buffy, I would never have picked David Boreanaz to be cast as the lead in two shows and basically work for 17 years straight (and counting, I haven't seen an official announcement, but supposedly Bones will be renewed for next season). I've heard people make fun of his career, but he's made a huge pile of money, worked steadily for close to two decades, and gotten into producing and directing via Bones. And he's probably more recognized as :"Booth" than "Angel". Personally, I'd take his career over Gellar's.
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CBS renewed a whole bunch of shows today. Notable for their absences are The Crazy Ones, Intelligence and The Mentalist, so they're probably cancelled.Two and a Half Men will go on forever.
For all the trashing CBS gets, at least they do have a very stable schedule. Something gets to a second season, and you can pretty much guarantee the show is going on for a while and the writers will get a chance to tell the story.
I'm really surprised the Crazy Ones seems to be on the chopping block. Are the ratings not good? I don't follow ratings at all, so all I remember is that the first week or two pulled good(-ish) ratings.
SMG seems destined to have no career post-Buffy. Kinda surprised she doesn't pop up in Whedon projects.
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Yeah, Rock reportedly vetoed every idea for a program with HBK. The story is that Rock hates Michaels for interfering with his push when the Kliq had power. Also, there was some sort of incident with Michaels and Rock's grandmother back when Rock was a teenager (Michaels appeared on a show promoted by Rock's family).
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Judy Bagwell was calling the front office on Buff's behalf at least as far back as his stint in Global (as the Handsome Stranger). Some people never learn.
Are we supposed to be pretending that Buff working as a gigolo is really that shocking of a development?
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Arrow was kinda meh last week, but I dug the last five minutes. Nice soliloquy from Laurel and
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Natayla: "I hear YOU have a Need for Speed, Bella #1."
Bella #1: "Oh my God, Natayla! I do not!"
WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!?!?!?
It means that, much like Ron Burgundy, WWE Divas will read anything you write on a cue card.
Hope the studio didn't pay much for that bit of promotion. The bit was wretched.
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If anyone needs me, I'll be busy creating alt accounts for the next hour or two so I can "like" that photo about 100 more times. That's astounding.
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Re: the American Wolves and the tag title switch
I'm kinda assuming they switched the tag titles for the Japan show, then belatedly realized they had episodes of Impact pre-taped with the Bro Mans still tag team champions.
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Surprise was Taiyo Kea (better than Bob Sapp).
Dammit, wacky random matches no one ever thought they'd see (or wanted to see) are the only way this promotion is going to survive. Kea makes way too much sense. Mutoh is going to have to try harder if he wants to reach WAR levels. Or even IGF levels. If Inoki were booking, the surprise guest would have been.... um, Stephanie McMahon? Targar, Lord of the Volcano? Lash Leroux?
Is Kea in business school and still making a few appearances on the side, or did nothing come of that?
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That's actually a great spot and I wish more teams would use it.
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IMO, I can't see Paul's movie career working out. He strikes me as a lot like Sarah Michelle Gellar: just way more of a presence and big deal on the small screen.
I'll be surprised if we're still comparing Aaron Paul to Sarah Gellar ten years from now. Not that SMG's career has been particularly noteworthy since Buffy ended (Unless the Crazy Ones somehow goes on to be a massive hit, it looks like Boreanaz and Hannigan will enjoy much better post-Buffy careers). Paul has never struck me as a star in the making. I kinda think he'll end up a decent actor who had one breakout role, and never quite escapes the shadow of that role. There are a lot of stars like that. Sometimes it's a result of being typecast by the breakout role. Sometimes, it's a "water finds its level" sort of thing.
(Also, Need for Speed looks like a really bad choice for a followup project.)
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Wasn't Santino a fake Russian in developmental?
Yeah, around the time Heyman took over as OVW booker, Santino started doing a Russian shootfigter gimmick.
That was his second gimmick, I think. He had a different gimmick when Cornette was there (and slapped him; the infamous Boogeyman incident that got Corny canned).
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Gotta hate those invading forces that pay you for advertising time. How fiendish.
Well, it was all part of Hogan's master plan to.... be on WCW's tv shows all the time, thereby driving up ratings and... making more money for WCW.
presumably they'd buy the air time from the network, but yeah.
So the nWo drove up ratings for WCW, then tried to take over the company by buying airtime on the company's shows. And, since ratings were up due to the nWo, they'd have to pay more for airtime on those shows.
In retrospect, the nWo's takeover plan could have been thought out better.
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WWE 2K14.
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Has there been a Japanese wrestling game since Wrestle Kingdom 2 (2007)?
I'm not aware of it if there has been one.