Damn, blasting the military on Memorial Day? I didn’t realize the comic strip Dustin went so hard.
Apparently the writer also does political cartoons:
Damn, blasting the military on Memorial Day? I didn’t realize the comic strip Dustin went so hard.
Apparently the writer also does political cartoons:
As a big fan of The Colbert Report and his ice cream flavor, I was happy for Colbert when he was picked to succeed David Letterman as host of The Late Show. I watched his show here and there for the first few months and thought it was alright – “Hungry for Power Games” was a solid recurring segment – but eventually stopped tuning in. Whenever I’d hear about him after that it seemed like he was always crying about the latest national tragedy or doing “Trump and Putin are freaking gay” type jokes.
My enduring memory of the show (though I think technically it was a behind-the-scenes video) is when he came out looking very distraught, sharing the news that FBI director James Comey had just been fired by Trump, and was clearly surprised when the audience cheered. Did he forget that he and other liberals had spent the previous seven months blaming Comey for Hillary’s defeat?
It’s not great CBS cancelled his show for political reasons, but I won’t miss it. I’m sure he’ll land on his feet. Apparently he is co-writing a Lord of the Rings movie that will feature stuff left out of the previous 10,000 hours of film adaptations. Good god.
Damn, I wish I could’ve visited the Viacom Entertainment Store which had sections for MTV (where you could pose with Beavis and Butt-Head), Star Trek, and Nickelodeon (where you could buy the Snick couch or a shirt with a culturally insensitive All That character on it) during the 18 months it existed…
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I love using Computer, where a simple task like “looking at a picture” becomes a whole damn ordeal
From Robert J. Mrazek:
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Liked the opening and closing bits, happy that a lot of my choices won, always nice to see Conan. However, the presenters sucked, Conan’s jokes had more misses than hits, the production was amiss (bad sound, Conan not knowing he’s live), and did every comedy piece have to be some form of “boy our industry sure is in trouble!”?
I also watched the On Cinema Oscar Special at the same time. Thought it was one of the weaker ones. I guess they can’t all be ambitious like last year’s Movie House or the one with two competing streams.
Why don’t they have cartoon characters or Muppets presenting awards anymore? That was always a highlight when I was a kid, and I recently came across this delightful one with Kermit and Scooter. My idea is to pair up cartoon characters from different studios, like Bugs Bunny presenting with Mickey Mouse.
Speaking of Muppets, every year the fansite ToughPigs does an article selecting Oscar winners based on the strength of their connections to the Muppets, and I’m kicking myself for not doing the same with The Simpsons. Well, here’s what I could’ve included:
Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson. His script is inspired by Vineland, written by two-time Simpsons guest Thomas Pynchon.
Animated Feature: Zootopia 2. Former Simpsons director Raymond S. Persi voices Flash the sloth.
Directing: Paul Thomas Anderson. He’s married to Maya Rudolph, who voiced a character in “The Homer of Seville.”
Best Picture: Frankenstein. Director Guillermo del Toro directed the opening segment of “Treehouse of Horror XXIV” and voiced himself in “101 Mitigations.”
Best Picture: One Battle After Another
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Actor in a Leading Role: Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme). Chalamet is not playing Marty Mauser. He’s playing Adam Friedland playing Marty Mauser. That’s the Chalamet difference.
Actress in a Leading Role: Jessie Buckley (Hamnet). Why not.
Actor in a Supporting Role: Sean Penn (One Battle After Another). I don’t even remember Delroy Lindo’s character in Sinners….
Actress in a Supporting Role: I don’t know
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): One Battle After Another. I should probably read Vineland though…
Writing (Original Screenplay): Marty Supreme
Cinematography: Sinners. It looks gorgeous and I saw a video where Ryan Coogler is explaining aspect ratios.
Documentary Feature Film: Did not watch any of the nominees
Casting: Marty Supreme. Every character seems perfectly cast. I’ve never watched Shark Tank, I have no preconcieved notions about Kevin O’Leary. I never would have thought he’s not a professional actor if I hadn’t read about it.
Music (Original Song): “Golden” (KPop Demon Hunters)
Music Original Score): No opinion
Sound: No opinion
Costume Design: I don’t know
Makeup and Hairstyling: I don’t know
Production Design: Frankenstein. I guess I like the design of the machinery.
Animated Feature Film: I didn’t watch enough of the nominees
Visual Effects: I don’t know
Film Editing: I don’t know
International Feature Film: Sentimental Value. The Secret Agent was entertaining but the resolution kinda pissed me off. I did not watch the other nominees.
Live Action Short Film: Did not watch any of the nominees
Documentary Short Film: Did not watch any of the nominees
Animated Short Film: Retirement Plan. I would feel weird about giving an animation award to a work that intentionally tries to have as little movement as possible, but the other ones felt a little too try-hard.
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Wait a second… computer, enchance…
WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY?!? I’ve been subjected to so many Progressive commercials over the years that I know he’s not part of Flo’s crew. I even checked the website to make sure. It’s insulting that they think they can just chuck a new (?) guy into “the squad” alongside Flo, Mara, uh… *checks website again* Jamie, and Alan like it’s nothing.
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For months, a spiteful acronym has passed for analysis in Washington and on Wall Street: TACO, or “Trump always chickens out.” Tariffs would be announced with theatrical menace, critics said, only to be paused, trimmed or forgotten at the first sign of consequences.
But all along, from Inauguration Day to Liberation Day to Davos, the president has been eating his favorite dish: TACO salad. And the unsung ingredient is GUAC. Donald Trump has been “gaining unmatched American clout” through his strategic use of economic pressure.
Not very interesting, I watched the previous three Missions: Impossible so I could see the last one in the theater.
Best movie I saw in 2025: Mind Game is one of the best animated films I’ve ever seen
Best film I saw in 2025 that was released in 2025: Eephus is funny and melancholy, wistful for a bygone era without being cloying. I was happy that I got to see it in a theater.
Worst film I saw in 2025: Hmm well there is Horse Sense, which is some Disney Channel schlock I watched on a Twitch stream, and Captain America: Brave New World which feels like it rolled out on an assembly line fully-formed without any creative input from a human being, but I think I’m going to go with Emilia Pérez which is such a baffling movie, like an evil version of Mrs. Doubtful.
Best documentary not involving Gaza: I feel like Claydream is sort of the ideal documentary about someone in the creative field: an eccentric weirdo with big dreams I was only vaguely familiar with (Will Vinton, the claymation guy), a large body of work that serves as visual metaphors, a life that sorta mirrors the culture (60s idealism morphing into 80s commercialism), some truly insane moments (there’s one where I had to pause the movie and think about it for a while, like Conan in this clip), and a truly great framing device (video of a legal deposition against Phil Knight where Vinton is forced to answer hard questions about his life). Also it has the green M&M.
Best movie about a cat: Ghost Cat Anzu
Films I saw in 2025 for the first time:
1. Repeat Performance
2. ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!
3. Oz the Great and Powerful
4. Nightbitch
5. Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street
6. Don’t Bother to Knock
7. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
8. Return to Oz
9. Six Men Getting Sick (short)
10. The Grandmother (short)
11. The Amputee (short)
12. Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (short)
13. Lynch/Oz
14. Goldie (short)
15. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
16. Conclave
17. Nickel Boys
18. Design for Living
19. The Substance
20. Yuki’s Sun (short)
21. Following
22. The Truth vs. Alex Jones
23. Boyhood
24. Emilia Pérez
25. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
26. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
27. Anora
28. When Harry Met Sally…
29. The Brutalist
30. To Die For
31. Conej Steps Out (short)
32. Wicked
33. Here
34. I’m Still Here
35. A Complete Unknown
36. Kermit’s Swamp Years
37. The Boys from Brazil
38. Mickey 17
39. Flow
40. Heat
41. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
42. Nosferatu (2024)
43. The Trial
44. The Train
45. Eephus
46. Music by John Williams
47. Scavenger Hunt
48. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
49. 48 Hrs.
50. No Other Land
51. Not Just A Goof
52. Prince of Broadway
53. Tombstone
54. The Prince of Egypt
55. The Big Sleep
56. A Real Pain
57. The Hand (short)
58. Student Accomplice (short)
59. The Red Shoes
60. Son of the White Mare
61. The Secret of NIMH
62. Golgo 13: The Professional
63. Art College 1994
64. The Bad Guys
65. Kensuke’s Kingdom
66. American Pop
67. Ne Zha
68. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
69. Weathering With You
70. An Extremely Goofy Movie
71. Mary and Max
72. The Secret of Kells
73. Mind Game
74. Friendship
75. Carnival of Souls
76. Homemade Gatorade (short)
77. Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning
78. The Gay Sisters
79. How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
80. Mountainhead
81. The Annihilation of Fish
82. Scarecrow
83. Dog Man
84. Captain America: Brave New World
85. The Soldier’s Tale
86. Strange Days
87. Murder on the Orient Express
88. Predator: Killer of Killers
89. Memories of Murder
90. The Fool Killer
91. Heartbreakers
92. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
93. The Talented Mr. Ripley
94. Sherlock Jr.
95. Superman (2025)
96. A Soldier’s Story
97. The Night is Short, Walk On Girl
98. Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution
99. Breakfast of Champions
100. The Phoenician Scheme
101. Horse Sense
102. The Pelican Brief
103. Tommy Boy
104. Raising Arizona
105. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
106. Smarty
107. Taken
108. The Naked Gun
109. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
110. Claydream
111. Family Plot
112. Thunderbolts*
113. Bringing Up Baby
114. Nashville
115. Ghost Cat Anzu
116. Sacramento
117. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
118. Swing Kids
119. Psycho Beach Party
120. Sweet Smell of Success
121. Magnolia
122. One Battle After Another
123. Sleepaway Camp
124. Bright Future
125. My Dinner with Skinner (short)
126. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile (short)
127. Ghostbusters (2016)
128. Cloud
129. Electra Glide in Blue
130. Honey Don’t!
131. Skyfall
132. Eddington
133. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
134. Point Break
135. Hannah and Her Sisters
136. A Night in Casablanca
137. Carol & Joy (short)
138. Wake Up Dead Man
139. Sinners
140. Ella McCay
141. KPop Demon Hunters
142. The Insider
143. Klaus
144. Megadoc
From Fanta:
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An associated television ad referenced the history of the drink and said the Coca-Cola company wanted to bring back “the feeling of the Good Old Times” which was interpreted by many to mean Nazi rule. The ad was subsequently replaced.
This is the earliest result for the word “cheeseburger” in the newspaper archive:
It appears to be a misspelling of Jesburger:
(source)
I guess there was a period of time where they weren’t allowed to use the name “Nancy” for a doll based on the title character of the comic strip Nancy?
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Rarely-seen angle of Mallard Fillmore’s nether regions 
Avoid references to specific people, places and things outside of the world of Doug (e.g. celebrities, songs, TV shows, movies, historical figures and specific events). There are two ways to accommodate worldly references in the Doug universe. The first is to invent an appropriate Bluffington analogue to the real-world referent: the 4th of July can be replaced by Bluffington Founders’ Day, “I Love Lucy” by “The Uncle Grunty Show,” etc. The second is to generalize to a non-specific noun: a homework assignment on Brazil can be replaced by one on tropical rain forests. Remember: Bluffington is not necessarily in America. We only know that Bluffington is in the Tri-County Area.
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I apologize to the 2020 movie Scoob! for saying* the character designs looked like Fortnite skins. They are much better than the actual Scooby-Doo Fortnite skins.
*In a review I never posted
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This feels like a very 2006 thing to post about but I make no apologies.