the GOTG universe is walking a VERY fine line having a protagonist obsessed with 80s pop culture and then filling the cast out with notable 80s actors
does kurt russell not exist? he turns into david hasselhoff, who does exist, but why doesn't star lord ask his dad why he looks like kurt russell? and i don't think he ever came into contact with stallone's character but they're making a PRETTY huge leap here. are you really suggesting sylvester stallone doesn't exist in the GOTG universe? does this not drastically change the foundation of who star lord is, as a child of the reagan/stallone 80s?
― qualx, Monday, 12 June 2017 01:27 (six years ago) link
also why wasn't debbie harry in it, debbie harry should totally be in the next one
― qualx, Monday, 12 June 2017 01:28 (six years ago) link
don't give them idears!
― Nhex, Monday, 12 June 2017 08:18 (six years ago) link
I'm sure in the Marvel universe Stallone's roles were played by Schwarzenegger, in a reversal of that Last Action Hero gag. http://www.filmsinfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Last-Action-Hero-3.jpg
― Tuomas, Monday, 12 June 2017 08:58 (six years ago) link
And Russell's roles were probably played by Patrick Swayze.
― Tuomas, Monday, 12 June 2017 09:00 (six years ago) link
So, the Doctor Who serial 'Remembrance of the Daleks' is set in November 1963, in the days immediately preceding the very first Doctor Who serial 'An Unearthly Child'. A tv is on in one scene, which trails "This is BBC Television, the time is quarter past five and Saturday viewing continues with an adventure in the new science fiction series Doc-" before being abruptly cut off.
There's also a bus in the background of the New Series 8 episode "Forest of the Night" with a poster advertising Series 8, but this is probably just a continuity error.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Monday, 12 June 2017 10:03 (six years ago) link
http://io9.gizmodo.com/chris-pratt-had-a-very-bad-idea-for-guardians-of-the-ga-1794818393
chris pratt had the same objection
― na (NA), Monday, 12 June 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
germaine lusssier sounds like an idiot
― qualx, Monday, 12 June 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
lol someone made that point about a completely different article over the weekend
― mh, Monday, 12 June 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
https://www.theawl.com/2017/08/forensics-franchises-and-fans
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
the grinder was great
― na (NA), Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
I'd forgotten this thread. Obv Harry Morgan on MASH pre-Novaked Novak, by guest-starring as a jerk and coming on full-time as a lovable grandpa figure.
As my thoughts go deeper into this topic I remember an episode of Benson (bear with me here), in which René Auberjonois suffers an amnesic mental break in which he believes himself to be a black man. Robert Guillaume, as Benson, is trying to see if he can get Auberjonois's character back to earth. He asks R.A.'s character if he recognizes him (that is, R.G. as Benson). (Seriously, stay with me here.)
Auberjonois answers "yeah, Ben!" R.G. as Benson breathes a sigh of relief. Then R.A. adds, "Ben Vereen!"
This was only comprehensible - let alone funny - if you knew that Ben Vereen and Robert Guillaume looked somewhat like each other IRL. But the fourth-wall breakage was somewhat unusual in those days.
― Tone-Locrian (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
But then likewise, wouldn't Ben Vereen and "Benson" look alike as well? Where was the fourth wall broken?
I remember that episode too. Clayton even started wearing glasses on a chain and cardigans.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 August 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
does the grinder ever confront the main characters' uncanny resemblances to actors fred savage or rob lowe OR acknowledge the divergence of a universe where these icons of the small screen do not exist
― qualx, Friday, 25 August 2017 06:01 (six years ago) link
also does the awl always publish thesis papers for college pop culture classes, i have some shit i could sell
I came here specifically to see if anyone had noted the conversation from “Love” (which I just saw) and it feels appropriate that it was Jaymc who dropped it here nearly a year ago
Anyway who do we sue
(Also can someone get Leslie Grossman her own who show) (in which no one ever watched the various things she was a less-notable character in)
― non-nabisco, Saturday, 10 February 2018 06:00 (six years ago) link
It occurs to me that there was a whole conversation on “Love” but like, I mean, “Love” presumably takes place in a universe where Chris Rock exists and yet everyone is just too chill to tell the character played by his brother “damn, dude, you bear a STRIKING resemblance to Chris Rock, you even talk and move your hands the same way”
So like it might not 100% want to pull threads
― non-nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2018 03:06 (six years ago) link
Oh, ha, I had no idea that that guy is Chris Rock's brother.
― jaymc, Monday, 19 March 2018 03:10 (six years ago) link
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo)
true who nerds will tell you that this clearly takes place in an alternate universe because in our universe, while the first episode of "doctor who" was printed as airing at 5:15 in the radio times, its broadcast was delayed by about ten minutes due to coverage of the kennedy assassination.
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Monday, 19 March 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link
Oh man, if that guy WASN'T Chris Rock's brother ... he'd be facing a long line of casting directors saying "listen, your Chris Rock impression is really good, but this audition is for just a regular guy. STOP ACTING LIKE CHRIS ROCK"
(There is another Rock brother who acts but he seems less similar)
― non-nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
https://io9.gizmodo.com/infinity-war-puts-adam-wests-batman-in-the-marvel-cinem-1825657160
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Monday, 7 May 2018 12:48 (six years ago) link
How the hell did he manage to completely misspell “Frasier” three times in one run-on sentence
― El Tomboto, Monday, 7 May 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
on the bright side, not misspelled three different ways
― mh, Monday, 7 May 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
Least it was just misspelled and not bad Grammar.
― pplains, Monday, 7 May 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
Ayyy
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Monday, 7 May 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
good work pp
― kinder, Monday, 7 May 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
Abbi and Ilana referencing The Good Wife to a character played by the guy who played Howard Lyman on TGW in a Broad City subplot in which Alan Cumming is guest starring as himself— Oriana Schwindt (@Schwindter) March 1, 2019
― jaymc, Friday, 1 March 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
This blew my mind https://t.co/QPjX2J1HKV pic.twitter.com/i7wfyL2qfL— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) July 20, 2019
― jaymc, Sunday, 21 July 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
Stan Lee exists in the Marvel comic book too. There, he runs a company called Marvel that publishes fictional comic books based on the lives of real superheroes. (For example, at some point Steve Rogers, who in the comics is a talented artist, was drawing a Captain America comic for Marvel.) So presumably the MCU Stan Lee does the same, and is famous for that.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 21 July 2019 07:50 (four years ago) link
"Stan Lee exists in the Marvel comic book universe too."
― Tuomas, Sunday, 21 July 2019 07:51 (four years ago) link
The article covers that in detail, though comes to a different conclusion to you.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 21 July 2019 07:58 (four years ago) link
The Last O.G. features Method Man who, in a conversation about Ole Dirty Bastard, names all of ODB's nicknames, but is playing some separate gangster character named Green Eyes
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 September 2019 02:44 (four years ago) link
In Six Feet Under S03e13, "I'm Sorry, I'm Lost," Nate is grieving, drinking and blankly watching TV while the old dude who has been banging Nate's mum for six weeks and is marrying her tomorrow makes himself at home in Nate's living room.
"What are you doing?" asks the interloper."Watching Babe." mutters Nate, to this new character played by James Cromwell, the farmer and main human character in Babe.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 18 October 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
In a recent episode of The Bold Type, Jacqueline Carlyle (played by Melora Hardin) is seen holding a mug with the logo of Dunder Mifflin, the company in The Office that employs, among other people, Jan Levinson-Gould (also played by Melora Hardin).
― jaymc, Saturday, 19 June 2021 00:04 (two years ago) link
Rewatching Larry Sanders and noticed for the first time that the episode where Paul Mooney plays Beverly's cousin is followed shortly thereafter by an episode where someone makes an offhand remark about booking Paul Mooney on the show.
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Saturday, 19 June 2021 00:39 (two years ago) link
Oh hihttps://www.avclub.com/browse-threat-level-midnight-and-sick-sad-world-in-this-1847469398
― kinder, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
very apropos!
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 August 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
https://nestflix.fun/
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 August 2021 03:00 (two years ago) link
ha, thanks forks.
― pplains, Thursday, 12 August 2021 13:31 (two years ago) link
oi!
― kinder, Thursday, 12 August 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
Really impressed with the amount of work put into that, getting an image, blurb and quote for every show etc.
Was just going to suggest Mr Banana Grabber from Arrested Development but the creator has already had to suspend submissions due to overload
― nashwan, Thursday, 12 August 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
My all time favorite is still Monsignor Martinez
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 12 August 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
This is great but no Rochelle, Rochelle or Prognosis Negative :(
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 12 August 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
I was confused by that, but apparently the site requires that we see "actual footage" of the fake movie/show ("not just mentioned in dialogue or seen in a poster"), which I think rules out all of the movies in Seinfeld.
The pilot of Jerry should be in there, though.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 August 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
Pretty sure we got like 2 seconds of "Cry, Cry Again"
― Nhex, Friday, 13 August 2021 01:45 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/3gHTNPi.jpg
Or maybe...
― pplains, Sunday, 16 July 2023 17:40 (ten months ago) link
Red Dwarf is on the iplayer and I’ve been watching it for the first time. It’s great, but I found it odd that Series 9 is missing. That is until I looked it up and it’s partially set on itv’s biggest show:
Back to Earth Pt 2
Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and Cat appear on contemporary Earth and discover that they are fictional characters from a television show called Red Dwarf. They find a DVD box for "Back to Earth" and discover that they are to die at the end. They decide to track down their creators to plead for an extension, in a parody of Blade Runner. The DVD box also refers to a series X that does not actually exist yet. Katerina arrives via a second portal, but is quickly killed by Rimmer after she makes the mistake of telling him that taking the life of a hologram is not murder as they are already dead. A discussion between Lister and two children on a bus reveals that Kochanski may not be dead.
Back to Earth Pt 3
Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and Cat use the car they take from the President of the Red Dwarf fan club, made out to resemble Starbug. They go to the set of Coronation Street, where they question Craig Charles about how much time they have left. Charles tells them they are down to their last episode, as well as giving them the address of "the creator", before joking that he needs to go back to the Priory (a reference to the actor's real life drug problems).
They find the creator, in a scene heavily referencing Blade Runner. He tells them that their deaths cannot be undone, but they will at least die gloriously. In a struggle Lister manages to kill him, before finding that this was scripted by the creator. Lister then burns the creator's script and rewrites their own ending. They then discover that the typewriter is not determining their actions.
The small origami sculptures left by the Cat turn out to be squids, leading the crew to realise that they have been drawn into an alternative reality by another squid capable of inducing hallucinations with its venomous ink - however, in contrast to the previous specimen the crew encountered in "Back to Reality" that brought on despair, the hallucinations of this squid induce joy, almost euphoria, in an attempt to prevent its prey from fighting back.
Rimmer, Kryten and Cat have formed resistance through their previous meeting with the squid during the SSS Esperanto incident, but Lister chooses to stay in the false reality where he gets together with Kochanski, despite the knowledge that she isn't real. After a period of time with Kochanski, Lister decides to head back to his own reality, with a renewed sense of his own self-worth, determined to find the real Kochanski and win her back. The episode ends with the four laughing at the fact that the fans of Red Dwarf created by the Despair Squid's hallucination (i.e. the viewers) will think that their reality is the real one, and the Red Dwarf reality dependent on it, as opposed to the other way round.
― Godzilla: (laughs) You are a fool, Mozart. You will never defeat me. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 17 July 2023 20:07 (ten months ago) link