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09/20/2019 · 9:20 pm

When The Shill Hits The Fan

Before I begin, I want you to understand that I have no reason to lie to you. I don’t care about alienating the companies I’ll be attacking in the following article because they have nothing to offer me.

The comic book industry I dreamed about being part of since I was a boy is dead. It’s never coming back. It will never recover.

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Filed under Animation Analysis, Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Don't Know Don't Care, Idiot's Delight, Magazine Rack, Nostalgic Obsessions, Robot Toy Fetish, Worst Of All

Tagged as 1980s, 1990s, 2015, 2019, 9-11-01, America, Coca-Cola, Disney, G.I. Joe, Hasbro, Internet, J.J. Abrams, Jim Shooter, M.A.S.K., Mark Hamill, Marvel comics, Netflix, Saturday Night Live, sexuality, Social Justice Warriors, social media, Star Wars, The Simpsons, The Tracey Ullman Show, toys, Transformers, Twitter

06/25/2016 · 12:56 am

Helping Millennials Understand The Simpsons

The world is tough on young people, especially when there are forces trying to control them, often by coddling them. Every awkward feeling teenagers have is commoditized and acknowledged, no matter how insignificant. Their bad moods are notated with special emoticons. Their hormonal bullshit is all validated as worthy expression.

This gag’s humor outlived the technology that inspired it.

Coincidentally, almost everything sucks.

I make an effort to be unprejudiced about millennials, I really do. I refuse to become the stereotype of the old man screaming at the kids to get off his proverbial lawn. But you have to understand the frustration. 20 years ago, I had to argue with people my age who claimed Quentin Tarantino was God. Now I’m dealing with the children of those people. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 1980s, 1989, 1990s, Bill Cosby, comedy, corporate crap, Dan Castellaneta, Family Guy, Futurama, Harry Shearer, Julie Kavner, Klasky-Csupo, laughter, Looney Tunes, Mike the Pod, millennials, Nancy Cartwright, political correctness, prank calls, Quentin Tarantino, sellouts, Star Wars, The Simpsons, The Tracey Ullman Show, Tom & Jerry, whores, Yeardley Smith

12/27/2015 · 2:09 am

Tracey Ullman

Fame is a funny thing. When it gets too big, it works against you, and you become overexposed. You’ve seen it time and time again; a company pushes a performer or a movie so hard, you can’t recall a time when you weren’t sick of them. Even their positive qualities become tiresome.

Then eventually, we acknowledge their talents, allowing that they were revealed during a time of intense corporate saturation.

Before 1986, there were three television networks; CBS, NBC, and ABC. Then in October of that year, Fox became the fourth, co-founded by the tyrant Rupert Murdoch. Fox would introduce a slate of unusual programming over the following two years, which included Married… With Children, The Arsenio Hall Show, 21 Jump Street, and a variety program (with animated bumpers) called The Tracey Ullman Show.

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