sydneybrown
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They did some thing once where it was a "behind the scenes look" at the current roster where Wade hijacked a camera and asked the questions himself. My favorite one was: "If I were to punch you in the face, what would you pass out from first: The searing pain or from the honor of having a man of my stature in life actually touch you?"
Nothing touches "Hey...one of the Usos...."
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There you go, there is hope yet for all you Brodus Clay and Tensai fans...
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I'm a bit disappointed to read that they didn't have a real plan for the M60 when they introduced it.
I wonder if they knew what the beginning teaser for season 2 was going to be (the hazmat guys fishing the stuffed animal out of the pool). I guess that episode was called Seven Thirty-Seven, so there's a good chance they at least planned for there to be a plane involved.
I believe the plane crash was planned throughout. Various episode titles that season make up the sentence - Seven Thirty Seven Down Over ABQ
The plane crash WAS planned throughout. And Gilligan himself admitted that it was a mistake: to plan a season out to an endgame rather than let things happen organically. And he said flat out at the time that future seasons would never be planned out that way. And I do think that might be why while I enjoyed the finale, I wasn't blown away by it. Walt has never had a plan this intricate that worked out so flawlessly (aside from the keys, and even that wasn't a big deal.)
I would just rationalize the plot holes to poor writing over Walt selling his soul to the devil. I'm pretty sure if Walt had sold his soul and was untouchable, he would flaunt that shit for all that it was worth. Especially to Grey Matter. Those red dots would have come straight from hell. (Okay, yeah maybe Badger and Skinny Pete...but even they had a conscience.)
The show was ending and Gilligan needed to make the fans happy and not give them a bullshit "think about it long enough and give it a better ending than I did" solution. I'm happy with it. The bad guys die, the family lives, Jesse lives, and if Gilligan gets the right dollar amount, Walt lives too.
Seriously, that ending completely leaves the doors open for the next chapter of Breaking Bad.
(Walt dies. $10M check later.....Walt is rushed to the ER on life support...pumped full of blood...and "I was carjacked by a group of Nazis and forced to drive here and...")
Breaking Bad is HUGE. You really think the show just dies now?
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I think you guys are missing an obvious one: The Honky Tonk Man
People forget that when Honky came to the WWF, he was supposed to be a face. He had two months of vignettes to build him up, and when he debuted, crickets chirped. And the more desperately he pandered to the fans, the more they turned on him. Really wish Youtube had it, because it's WWF at its worst: a crowd refusing to go along with it while Vince cackles manically over how great he is.
I'd also throw Outback Jack out there but since his debut was the only TV match he ever won, I can't really say it is.
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Yeah I think it was a ricochet because it had to be adjusted to a certain height. Walt had to get Jesse down to the ground fast enough not to get both of them sprayed. So technically, that was a hitch in the plan because I doubt you can plan to get to hit by one or two bullets in that condition and survive.
Actually, I don't think Walt planned on surviving the shooting. It was only because Jesse was there that he ended up on the floor. I'm inclined to believe that he intended to take himself out along with the Aryans.
I counter that by saying that as long as Walt was pushing the button, the gun kept shooting. If Walt was hit immediately, then the plan was all for naught. I'm pretty sure Walt was going to duck anyway and let the bullets fly and hope for the best.
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The Phil Hartman tribute episode should have been the last episode of NewsRadio. That last season was painful.
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I laughed out loud when I read that HHH buying Show's house thing. This angle rules.
Me too. Looks like somebody's been getting their booking ideas from those Global reruns on ESPN Classic.
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I absolutely hated the Seinfeld finale at the time, but I've seen it a few times since then and it doesn't offend me anymore.
If you watch it under the theory that the plane actually crashes, the four all die, and the courtroom is them being judged on where they spend eternity, it's more tolerable. (And them all being held in a single cell as punishment is purgatory.)
Maybe not one of the greatest shows of all time but Benson deserved to end with Benson winning the governorship to show how far he had come in eight years, and not on a freeze frame.
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Being that it's October it feels appropriate how cool would a WCW Halloween Havoc anathology featuring every Halloween Javic in there entirety?
For whatever reason, I'm now envisioning PN News doing a rap using the word "Javic," because nothing rhymes with havoc.
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I love how, in the Breaking Bad universe, Charlie Rose is indirectly to blame for Lydia's death.
I have had a theory the past few weeks that it wasn't meth that did the most damage to the characters, it was marijuana.
If Jesse didn't light up in Saul's office and refuse to put it out, Huell would have never have had to lift it, Jesse would have never figured out the Walt-Brock connection, and he would have gotten in the van and disappeared to a new life never to be seen again. With Jesse gone and no evidence, Hank would have lived, the Aryans would have never taken the money (and they would have all lived), and Walt would have died with the whole 80 million dollars and his family still together.
But no, Jesse just HAD to smoke...
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HEY!!!!! Wait.......
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SWEET LORD. The finale pulled in 10 million viewers.That's an amazing number for cable, period, but even moreso when you consider the show rarely pulled in more than 2 million viewers for most of its existence. Behold the power of Netflix, I guess.
The only negative side to that is the show at its absolute most was watched by 6 million people, so roughly about 3-4 million people just ruined the entire experience of Breaking Bad for themselves because they just had to see how a show they had never watched before ended.
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I'm not sure Skyler will realize that the Grey Matter money is actually Walt's since Walt made it a point to tell Skyler he was out of money. Maybe she puts two and two together and figures out that he's out of money because he gave it to Grey Matter... but I don't know. Also, did she know that he was only left with $11 million because the Aryans took the rest?
Walt told her he had eleven million dollars in his truck when frantically trying to get them to pack and leave in Ozymandias. Between that and Skylar defiantly saying "I don't want your money" in Felina, I just don't quite buy that they would be as willing to accept a large sum of money from Gray Matter without asking questions (especially when being offered 9.7 million, I think they could connect the dots.) But I don't know. it's an optimist/pessimist situation and I think either way of looking at it could be correct.
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Yeah, he didn't say a word to Skyler about the money. She would have no reason to assume Gretchen & Elliot were doing it on Walt's behalf.Wasn't the primary reason that Walt did a B&E was that Junior wouldn't know that it was from him? And I don't think Walt told Skyler. So as far as they know, it's from Gretchen and Elliot being super charitable after all that has went down. The only problem I see is that Walter Jr doesn't want to be a part of their pity party.
Walt had eleven million dollars. Now magically a similar amount falls into their lap and she wouldn't make assumptions? I would assume they would accept it but never use it.
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I think Jesse's future depends how you look at it:
More optimistic one: His experinces have made him stronger, he'll now leave ABQ, start some place anew, get a job, maybe meet a nice girl and have some kids and have decent, if mundane, life.
I'm leaning towards the latter, but then, I do like happy endings, so...
Coming this fall to NBC: A wacky twenty-something slacker trying to start fresh in a new town finds he has to grow up after the eight year-old child of his deceased ex-girlfriend comes knocking! How can this daddy raise a kid while also raising himself? It's Pinkman! Thursdays after Parks & Recreation!
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Find Brock and raise him?
With what? He's got nothing.
I think it's a pretty safe bet Skylar doesn't let Walt Jr. have any of the money, and it just sits there unused or gets donated to charity (ironically probably to treat the very people the meth destroyed in the first place.) And the other 80 million either stays lost or the feds take it. So in the whole scheme of things the only characters in Breaking Bad who gained anything from Walt's money at the end and lived was Robert Forster, Badger, and Skinny Pete.
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I don't know if it was the best scene, but the moment of catharsis that tied it all together was Walt's long overdue heel realization as he finally admitted to Skylar that the entire past two years were mainly just an ego stroke on his part. Walt got his redemption and Heisenberg got his vengeance.
No, that WAS the best scene. "I did it for me" gave me more goosebumps than maybe any other Heisenberg/Walter White line.
That and Jack's brains splattering all over the camera lens.
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I really enjoyed it. I can't prove that the last shot was an homage to Taxi Driver, but it's exactly what I thought the way the cops came in with their guns drawn overhead.
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There's Something About Mary.
Jizz.
Hair.
Probably the most sustained crowd laughter I've ever heard in a movie theater.
That's mine. I saw it opening night and I'm not kidding when I say I went to see it twice partly because I literally missed the ENTIRE date between Diaz and Stiller because the audience laughed hard for the first punchline and then just completely lost their shit for the second punchline. It was at least one-two minutes before I could even hear what anybody was saying in the movie.
The Borat wrestling scene is a definite runner-up. And the surprise inside the trunk in The Hangover is up there too.
The greatest theater experience I ever had was a midnight sneak preview of Ed Wood. It was a packed house full of total movie nerds who lost their shit at all the right times. You would have thought it was bound to be the smash hit of 1994.
As far as most memorable moments by a single person, I went to the opening night of Trainspotting, and I live in OKC which is a somewhat conservative town, and when they get to the scene where a girl is trying to have sex with her passed-out boyfriend, and she picks up his semi-erect penis, a guy in the audience just shrieked "OH MY GOD!!!" To this day I can't watch that movie without remembering that. And it's so weird considering how there were WAY more disturbing moments in that movie than that, but a flacid dick sent one guy over the edge.
Let me also add that the second greatest theater experience I ever had was attending a double feature of Bullets Over Broadway and Clerks. The audience was completely old couples, a young couple, and myself. Everybody watched the Woody Allen film. And I KNEW things were about to get ugly. By the time they got to Randall listing off the porn titles in Clerks, there were only three people left in the theater.
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Well, at least now we know who the Decepticon belt was made for...
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I was never a Mo fan. The few times he ever chimed in with a question on the podcast, you could almost hear Austin's eyes roll.
And I love Colt. As a comedian, he's unfunny. As a guy just bullshitting with other people, he's awesome. And he really needs to get Cliff Compton and Punk back together for more pre-podcast stuff. The two-three times they've been together has been some absolute gold.
But Colt has a way of bringing on guys I've never heard of, and by the time he's done, I'm searching for their stuff. He's had 150+ interviews and only a few have been legit bad (Sunny being one of those, and that wasn't Colt's fault.)
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There is something bizarrely cool about seeing Vladmir the superfan get his moment in the sun on the 86 MSG show only to discover on the 91 MSG show that he's still there sitting in what might be the exact same seat.
BTW, you can see why Monsoon's "Will you stop?!?!" became such an iconic trait, since during one Heenan tirade on PTW, Monsoon quickly mutters "shut up," and all I could think was "wow, Monsoon is a dick."
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Roddy Piper was awesome on Sunny tonight. So glad they came up with a reason to bring him back.
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Does Dave like Xanadu because of the roller skates?
Dave should like Xanadu because it's one of the most gloriously shitty movies ever made.
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I love that even with his giant top hat, Kevin Sullivan is still shorter than Honky and Chick.
And for the record, Chick Donovan is literally the most disturbing looking wrestler ever. 1980 Chick pretty much looks like the 2020 version of Ric Flair.