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- Comment on Drake Hogestyn's 'Days of Our Lives' Character Dies 8 Months After Actor's Death: 'Hardest Day Ever,' Says Deidre Hall 1 week ago:
It got demoted from OTA television to Peacock a few years ago so grannies would make their families sign up, but it’s “one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965.”
American daytime soaps are a trip, like a fever dream of live-ish theater and clickbait before there was clicking. They even have/had “understudies” who would play a part for a few days if the real actor was sick or between contracts. One summer as a kid in the 80s, I watched The Young and the Restless with my mom, but by the end of it I could sort of tell that there was no end, just churn, and since the flimsy accouterments of rich grown-up drama didn’t inherently appeal to me, I moved on. Now I pretend that Star Wars and team sports aren’t basically the same thing, LOL. The soaps are absolutely impressive in their way, though.
- Comment on Winging it 1 week ago:
The part where the baby shoves their hand in your face when you can’t do anything about it is actually pretty accurate. The face you then make as the grown-up is also spot on.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen and posted here for y'all 1 week ago:
Don Perlin on pencils. I originally thought John Romita Sr, but yeah, that jawline is a bit too dashing.
- Comment on Why is lemmy so political?! 1 week ago:
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- Comment on You know a guy that works there purposely positioned that price sticker so the letters "f" turned into "T" 2 weeks ago:
Also, ngl, that’s pretty solid freehand sign routing.
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- Comment on Please do not the horse 2 weeks ago:
It’s implied in the music.
- Comment on Shookith 2 weeks ago:
My kiddo had a brief phase of watching these. They’re quite bad, but when cheap CGI cartoons result in plasticky textures and unnatural movement, I have to admit that using it on Barbie of all things is low-key clever.
- Comment on Delicious 2 weeks ago:
The old ZAZ movies were great because they knew to hang the constant gags on a plot that, threadbare as it was, made it a silly movie and not a tedious collection of parody sketches where the actors just don’t bother changing costumes.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 2 weeks ago:
The easy example is to think in terms of chatting with a Christian: Jesus died, but Jesus is not dead.
- Comment on Thoughts? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on No looky for you! 2 weeks ago:
Jack Donaghy approves.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 3 weeks ago:
Yup. American Christmas lights basically ARE very thin extension cords with the bulbs (hopefully) wired in parallel. Back in the day they were pretty much all incandescent and in series, and a single burned out bulb meant everything went out and Junior got a joyous new holiday chore!
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 3 weeks ago:
I have heard there are ways to use these to back feed power from a generator into a house’s system, at least on one breaker, but by definition that bypasses the breaker panel, and the only safe way to use your generator for your house is with a proper cutover installed by an electrician. I can think of literally no other use for one of these cords, except maybe fixing your fuck up if you install Christmas lights backwards.
So yeah, dumb, dumb idea.
- Comment on Not a restaurant 3 weeks ago:
Pretty decent, if overpriced. I like the Chicken Tikka tacos.
- Comment on 'Andor' Season 2 Debuts to Nielsen Viewership High With 721 Million Minutes 3 weeks ago:
I’ve read that the first cameo was just to get people to spend THAT week talking about the Benjamin Bratt re-cast so they’d be calmed down by the time he had something important to do.
- Comment on Hell Yeah! 3 weeks ago:
Go Gators.
- Comment on the young always think they have all the right answers but THIS eventually happens 4 weeks ago:
My father was a deeply flawed parent to minor children, and a disastrously bad one to adult children. My adult life was punctuated with discoveries and realizations and interactions that revealed him to be a fuckin’ mess. He was better and kinder than his own parents, but that’s damning with faint praise.
- Comment on Damn 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on YOLO 4 weeks ago:
Every once in a while there is am old painting or photo where the style of the artist and subject combine to present a visual that I find eerily modern. Something about this guy just screams “project manager who’s been working from home for three years.”
- Comment on Sensible 4 weeks ago:
And that lamp is definitely a bong.
- Comment on Bet they have no idea what it means 4 weeks ago:
I mean, as long as Bob is into it…
- Comment on 'The Simpsons' announces new Milhouse voice actor following Pamela Hayden's exit 4 weeks ago:
I think part of it is that most peoiple aren’t watching, but the threshold for being a viable network show is so much lower than it used to be. At its peak around season 12, it was averaging 14 million viewers. Season 35 was coming in around 2 million, and it’s been going down every year for a while. I guess the trend is predictable though, and the advertising and streaming revenue still works out for their cost structure.
- Comment on First Image Of Nicolas Cage As Football Icon John Madden & Christian Bale As Raiders Owner Al Davis In Amazon MGM’s ‘Madden’ 4 weeks ago:
Here’s the two real guys in 1977. mercurynews.com/…/john-madden-al-davis-was-a-frie…
- Comment on What are some of the worst acted main or supporting characters in a TV series you've watched? 4 weeks ago:
Scott Grimes, J. Lee, Halston Sage, and Anne Winters on The Orville. Every single one of them does amateurish line readings that make it hard to suspend disbelief. I still like the show overall, though.
- Comment on The after party 5 weeks ago:
Are we not all middle aged nerds who partied like eight times in our 20s and these days now have a couple of IPAs at our combined LUG/D&D meetings? 🤣
- Comment on The after party 5 weeks ago:
Live your truth, OP, but statistically and demographically speaking, this may be the least relatable shitpost on lemmy, like, ever.
- Comment on Tracy Morgan, Daniel Radcliffe Comedy From ’30 Rock’ Team Ordered to Series at NBC 5 weeks ago:
Well that’s not very wool of you…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I find that I want some politics, and the politics that leaks into News and elsewhere is just about right. I un-subbed from anything specifically with the word politics in it and I mostly avoid .ml, and generally I find it very pleasant around here.
