It's like we're in the school's lymphatic system, and WE'RE the lymph!

[vovat]

Today, I semi-randomly thought of the game 7-Up. Did anyone else play this in school? A group of seven kids was selected, and then everyone else had to put their heads down and thumbs up. If one of the selected kids pressed your thumb down, you had to guess who it was. I used to HATE this game. I even thought of cheating by putting my thumb down before anyone could actually get to it, although I never did. I think I took it way too seriously, or something. It was probably connected to the weird social anxiety that made me unable to choose my own groups for group work.

And if you're not interested in my childhood anxieties, this post also contains cartoon reviews! Tonight's Simpsons didn't really go much anywhere, but there was some good character-driven humor. Milhouse had some great lines while in the steam tunnel. I also liked the video conversation between Superintendent Chalmers and Comptroller Atkins, and Homer and Bart mocking the other father and son at the restaurant. Also, after hearing all the mentions in the DVD commentaries about how the show used to do flashbacks all the time but doesn't so much anymore, I found it amusing that there was one in this episode, explaining how Bart got on the No Fly list. I found the scene where Bart was deciding whether or not to save Homer to be pretty tedious, though. And while I'm not so fond of endings that leave a lot of loose ends, the bit with Lisa hearing both Marge and Homer's messages on the answering machine was amusing.

Family Guy wasn't a future classic by any means, but it wasn't bad either. There were some funny moments involving Peter's stint as a professional athlete, and the family's brief move to England. bethje and I both wondered about the running gag with Jay Leno harrassing Tom Brady, though. Is there some basis for that, or was it just a random thing?

I would have to say that tonight's American Dad was one of the stronger ones I've seen. Klaus finally had a significant role, rather than just the occasional line. There were clever subplots for all of the other characters, and more funny moments than in most the other episodes I've seen: everything with the offensive Indian statue, the ridiculous products Stan bought, the parking lot sequence, etc.

Apparently the trend of really bad parody movies is continuing with Date Movie. I haven't seen any of the Scary Movie films, and I don't intend to see this. What I've heard and what the commercials suggest, though, is that they're basically a bunch of crude gross-out gags and blatant, simplistic spoofs of other movies (many of which no one saw in the first place). I like parodies as much as the next guy (and quite possibly MORE than the next guy, depending on who the next guy is), but the philosophy with that kind of movie seems to be, "If it's a reference to something, it's automatically funny! Even if there's absolutely no context or subtlety, or even a real joke!" Hey, this is like The Ring, except Anna Morgan gets caught on a tree branch when she tries to jump into the ocean! Isn't that SO funny? And apparently, if you can work in a joke about semen or ear-rape, it's even better.

Maybe you could... You scored 3% Cold and 48% Level-Headed!

In a pinch, you could do it, but you'd need a damn good reason to. And you're not going to be too happy afterward.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 0% on Cold You scored higher than 16% on Level-Headed

Link: The Can You Kill a Man? Test written by notmarkflynn on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

By the way, you know how people do those mash-ups of songs? You know what one of them should do? The Blur song "Top Man," over the Top Man music from Mega Man 3. I can't actually remember how that music goes, but I'm sure it was intense. All the music from those games was.

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[vovat.livejournal.com]

It was fun because that meant no work was to be done, but it felt, at least for me, like yet another popularity contest I was doomed to fail. So when I wasn't selected I felt like I was hated.

That was essentially the opposite of how I felt, yet I still understand it pretty well.