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Weekend Discussion Thread: When Hell Started Bubbling Up for YouI want to start this one by saying: NO POLITICS!!! GOT IT??
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I know what some of you want to say. NO POLITICS!! That said, for me, it’s two words: Cousin Oliver. (Look that one up, too!) What’s yours? And remember, NO POLITICS!! 145 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: When Hell Started Bubbling Up for You”Commenting at Satellite News
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The ever decreasing number of common gum ball vending machines.
Not sure when the fading started, but once upon a time, you could count on a gang of them being around almost anywhere, ready to dispense a colorful orb or trinket.
It really sucks now.
I think it started with MTV’s “Real World.”
With that great Darwinian experience (thanks, Bruce): American Idol.
It was when you could become a star on Youtube and it didn’t matter if you could sing or if the song was any good…The way young girls speak,which I think they call it “vocal fry”..Real annoying…When studios made movies of old tv shows,like Bewitched,The Flintstones or remade The Stepford Wives…Jar Jar Binks comes to mind..Wil Ferrell…Larry the Cable Guy movies…Pop up ads..Steven Tyler doing a “country” album…prequels,sequels and reboots…People holding up their i-phones/cellphones when going to a concert..lip syncing…
For me, it’s the video rental stores closing down.
The saddest part is how many stores responded to their existential crisis by by doing total VHS purges, thus guaranteeing they no longer had any content that you couldn’t just get from netflix, shooting themselves in the foot to seal their doom.
Someone mentioned our favorite shows and movies being easier to access now, but it still seems like we lost a lot of our overall selection and freedom of choice, since anything that has to be downloaded or streamed can so easily be cut off at the source, and there’s no way to just browse through a store full of movies and discover something you’ve never heard of before.
Call the losses negligible if you like, but I still call it Hell for being one of those liberty-dying-to-thunderous-applause type deals, since no one too far outside our circles cares. The greatest trick the devil might pull in our lifetimes will be convincing millennials that Greedo always shot first, and Return of the Living Dead Part 2 was always supposed to have the soundtrack on the DVD. Cuz PROVING otherwise would involve a functioning VCR.
A Positive Counterbalance –
Things that have changed in my lifetime that I am happy about:
The polio vaccine, the fall of the Berlin Wall, flat screen TVs, more efficient car engines, better cancer treatments, the microprocessor chip, the Hubble Space Telescope, microwave ovens, and of course, Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Please feel free to add your own positive element of change. (no smiley face emoticons, please)
When traditional pinball machines (Bally’s Royal Flush, for example) went out of fashion.
When I was a lad, like most young people I thought I was smarter than everyone else.
Hell bubbled over many years later when I realized I WAS RIGHT.
aaaaaaaand it just now boiled over again when I turned on the radio and was greeted with “nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah…nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah”.
…the refrain from the song “I Know What Boys Like” by The Waitresses.
this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls1YVhcLD2c
The Saturday morning I turned on the TV and there were no more cartoons.
Vocal Fry, lol, are you a fellow Stern Show fan?
and I’m right there with you on Will Ferrell. We should have rejected him as quickly as Yahoo Serious.
2016, the year everyone I loved/admired/liked/knew/etc, dies.
kinda sorta..can take him in small doses I suppose..
When I first heard about ‘Kardashians’…
A majority of those VHS cassettes cost $120 and were never available directly to the public. All DVDs and Blu-rays (even limited editions) are priced for retail, and can not be cut off once purchased. There is a far greater selection on physical media just at Amazon than the greatest independent video store ever had. Downloadable content is merely the icing on the cake.
When I discovered this thread… AFTER the weekend ended (how did I forget it? I NEVER forget it these days)
When the best things get cancelled: MST3K, twice (of course), USA’s Night Flight, Police Squad, Arrested Development, Joan of Arcadia, Veronica Mars, Community, Phineas & Ferb….
Jean Douminian produces SNL, Lorne’s initial return, the 3rd of the worst seasons when Chris Elliott was in the cast (instead of recurring host like Buck Henry or Christopher Walken.
When gushing blood became a comedy staple (somewhere between Monty Python’s “Salad Days” and SNL’s French Chef sketch). Ditto vomit.
When oldies stopped being 1955-1972, esp. the inclusion of ’80s into the format. OK as “Classic Hits”, though, more or less. When Classic Rock went more ’80s and less ’60s. Plus excessively tight playlists in both formats.
Deaths, like John Lennon, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, Robin Williams, and too many more.
When David Letterman left NBC, more or less (upside: Late Night w/ Conan O’Brien). Johnny Carson leaves. Craig Ferguson decides to leave Late Late Show. I *thought* Jimmy Fallon getting Late Night and maybe Tonight, but I’ve ended up LOVING those versions, especially Tonight.
Getting into indy comic books again as an adult, only to discover the comic book medium is seen (falsely) as only superheroes for kids and nerds. Similarly, classic animation seen as only kids’ stuff, even though they were made for a general audience.
When John Kricfalusi left Ren & Stimpy (not his idea!), and ironically, when he returned to Ren & Stimpy.
Hell DEFINATELY went back down into the ground when the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004…. 2007…. 2013….
….Also “reality” TV, BIG time! Gee, thanks for Paris Hilton and the Kardashians, MORONS!
I know I’m late but here are a few of mine:
– The death of arcades
– The lack of actual ushers in most movie theaters these days
– Adam Sandler
– Megan Fox saying that she wants to play a female Indiana Jones
– Kanye West
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go take a shower and wash away these horrible thoughts.
The Colonel is breakdancing! Also everything else mentioned in that Shatner/Rollins/Folds tour de force, but especially the Colonel breakdancing.
In terms of more recent years:
-The Purge movies
-Donald Trump as a presidential candidate
A few more in terms of TV:
-The Disney Channel dropping its classic content in favor of be more teen-oriented programming
-The decrease of older (1960’s-1980’s) shows airing on Game Show Network
The first Michael Bay Transformers movie.
When Hell Started Bubbling Up for me is when I realized I was not the wisest and the best and therefore could not fix on the good and the beautiful. I fell to my knees and prayed “Our Father who art in heaven…”.
For me, hell has always been bubbling up, like a brown betty….and perhaps brown betty plays a bigger role in this than we realize…the fruit all bubbling…a little cinnamon and nutmeg on…quiet boy I’m defending you!
Sorry, digression is one of my super powers.
Seriously though; Rifftrax, Cinematic Titanic, and MST3K keep my feet from being scorched by the aforementioned bubbling over. I fall asleep to an episode/feature every night, and the laughter I’m given keeps the demons from bubbling up into my head with all the legions of hell in tow.
I think I just depressed myself…Hikeeba!
Only very dark forces could envision a Superbowl with Coldplay, Beyonce and Bruno Mars.
Perhaps we could use a thread about how we deal with all these intrusions from hell. Personal dignity, responsibility, a sense of humor, and weed work pretty well for me.
When people stopped respecting the sensibilities of others
When people stopped following directions
When this thread got political
Thanks, #72 & #122 for helping hell bubble a little more.
On the bright side, hell subsides a little bit each time we can mutter “dickweed” under our breath at the transgressors.
#122 above:
Nailed it!
#125:
You’re quite a guy, Fart Bargo.
Officially, hell started bubbling over in Lisbon this Saturday when Axl Rose took the stage with AC/DC as lead singer.
Politics. Sorry I am feeling iconaclastycle today
I couldn’t agree more…though I do forego a some of my dignity in a sacrifice to humor.
PS- I named my puppy Akio after that little boy that used to pester you
Yes!! They were EVERYWHERE! Plus machines that dispensed a small handful of peanuts. Now all you see are machines that sell stickers, “tattoos” and other trinkets.
I can’t even remember when I last saw a gum ball machine. And what’s sadder still is the fact that if they did have them now, a single gum ball would probably cost a quarter instead of a penny.
When horror movies became straight-up torture porn.
#135
Gum balls “probably” cost a quarter? That’s what they cost in the Willow Grove Mall in the Philadelphia suburbs.
One word: Travolta
(Somehow my original post disappeared)
when they stop doing TV-sign on and sign offs.
When cartoons went from being witty, well-animated shorts written for general audiences, and became cheesy, badly animated, witless, half-hour toy commercials.
no more classic’s like these 2:
high fight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPKguGder0o
us national anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5bdonWlbL8
MTV had already been laid low from years of crappy music before The Real World and Puck came along to ruin all our lives. But it was Britney Spears that finally drove me to stop even channel surfing past MTV. At this point T&A was pretty much all that MTV had going for it, but when the T&A started being delivered by a 16 year old underage nymphomaniac that was behaving like she just drank a gallon of Spanish Fly, I’d had enough.
Britney Spears and those like her are also prime examples of what happens when people are chosen to sing because they are pretty or can dance. That makes as much sense as choosing lingerie models based on their ability to sing. You end up with lip synced concerts of music that is the audio equivalent of a Playboy centerfold spread of Susan Boyle.
“up with people.” ’nuff said!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMBFpDm1YDE
p.s. remember when britney did a pepsi commercial featuring bob dole apparently having a viagra attack over her? yeah. i hoped not.
Yes. I saw it. Visual Ipecac.
This Optimum Triple Play commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCPubs88owA&list=PLFaMCZbQvkSx7oNk2mh42YXDxgJcPJf3R&index=4
Why is he angry? Who told him he could dance? Is this all supposed to be happening in his head? So many questions. So much hell.