Spartan Girl

The Flamin’ Hot Preparation H was the funniest thing they’ve done in a while. My God, I forgot there was an episode of Russell Brand and Chris Brown together. Yikes. So how many rapist hosts does that make for SNL?

Like the video said, if you’re a true feminist, you don’t have to broadcast it to the world just so that everyone can see what a supposedly good person you are. Just support and respect women. The bit bringing up the episode where Buffy is weakened by Giles like “a normal girl”…wow, yeah, the premise of that one is sexist as hell. We don’t all have superpowers but that doesn’t make us weak! Cordy’s exaggerated toddler slaps were supposed to represent how girls “normally” fight? Are you kidding me? She was more than capable of bitchslapping a guy more effectively than that! And Buffy should have still been able to open a peanut butter jar! And I’m certain that Whedon did something to Michelle. She probably took it to the grave with her. But I cannot overlook having Dawn make eyes at his self-insert Xander, who later gave himself airs that a supernaturally created fourteen-year-old was into him.** If Whedon’s treatment of Cordy was a way of getting back at all the mean girls that picked on him, and Riley’s cheating was a way to excuse his many affairs (since the bull he gave his ex-wife sounded almost exactly like Riley’s excuses), then it’s hard not to assume there wasn’t something sleazy at the center of how he wrote Dawn. **Then they actually ended up together in the comics, though Whedon supposedly wasn’t as involved with that. Still 🤮🤮🤮

Well, he has some separation issues…but other than that he’s pretty chill.

Actually he was pretty mellow in the movie, since he was grieving his old master.

Uh no, Ruthie wasn’t adopted.

The Friend (2025): So happy this was playing at my theater! It was a thoughtful look at how painful and complicated grief can be. Naomi Watts and Bill Murray delivered with strong performances, but the real star was Bing the dog. And for those that read the book, the film I highly recommend seeing it!

Apollo (played by Bing) in The Friend. Such a sweet big dog.

Ruthie on 7th Heaven was a miserable spoiled brat who got away with everything because the show tried to portray her as precocious, and consequently she never had any growth whatsoever. Between bratty Ruthie and psycho Lucy, why was Mary considered the “problem daughter” again? Oh yeah, she was slow getting a job after she graduated, took a sip of beer, took money from her siblings, and left her baby cousin alone while babysitting**. Clutch my pearls 🙄🙄🙄 Mary was the smart one for getting the hell away from that family as soon as she could. **Okay those last two weren’t great, but they still don’t merit her sanctimonious family sending her away like she’s a drug addict instead of (God forbid) making an effort to parent her themselves.

He pulled the same crap with that one episode with the bigot dad killing the doctor that was helping his trans daughter, and as a result the guy only got ten years for a murder. I know it was putting the child through hell to be forced to testify against her dad, but I said at the time that it wouldn't help her psyche to know that she didn’t stand up for the doctor who was trying to help her. Tha5 was shit writing too. Exactly.

Another long but very good video from Little Shop of Ali about so-called “male feminists” and a big chunk of it reads Joss Whedon (and Xander Harris) for absolute filth. If you want to skip to that part, it’s 54:51.

Oh great, now we’re about to find out how toxic Narnia fans are…

Oh that’s right, Combs was in that too. Ugh.

Erik per Sullivan in Unfaithful is another good performance. I always liked him in Malcolm in the Middle as poor put-upon Dewey, and he did a great job as the little boy who’s innocently unaware of the upheaval caused by his mother’s affair. It was him I felt sorriest for in the end, knowing that his life is about to blown apart by the actions of his parents.

I'm a little concerned about that too, but I trust James Gunn. I'm sure it will be Superman-centered.

She was a riot. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I don't think Jerry should have taken the high road as far as his ex was concerned. Not only did this bitch out him and get him kicked out of the church, she went at great lengths to manipulate their daughter into thinking that Jerry didn't even try to keep in touch when he did. That's cruelty on top of cruelty. I mean, it's good that Jerry and Becca were able to reconcile at all, but Becca deserved the truth.

It didn't seem like he was too torn up about that. At least when Criminal Intent did an episode like this, they implied that the surviving son would wind up in the custody of the grandma (because Goren and Eames got her in touch with a good lawyer). A better episode might have made it more ambiguous to whether or not she was lying or not for those reasons.

I love A Goofy Movie so you better believe I’ll be watching this.

Leslie Nielsen…Liam Neeeson…oh, I see what they did there. All kidding aside, Liam is pretty funny.

I had no idea this was even in production. It’s probably not necessary, but the OJ joke at the end was totally worth it.

She's a spy now? At this point, just give us the Chucky vs M3Gan crossover already.

I'm of two minds about it. Sure, Gollum was corrupted by the Ring and went insane from it. Sure, he had a moment where he could have changed had it not been for Faramir forcing Frodo to betray him. But in Return of the King, he had pulled so much crap that by that point, he was beyond redemption. So while I didn't cheer when he fell, I did laugh. I mean he just looked so stupid laughing and holding HIS PRECIOUUUSSSSS when he fell into Mount Doom -- as karma goes, it was pretty fitting.

Chappell Roan is both overrated and a poseur.

A Tale of Two Cities is a story that feels more relevant than ever right now, because it’s a warning bell of what happens when a mob takes control of “justice.” Madame Defarge and the revolutionaries are villains that think they’re the heroes of their story. Because yeah, they have every right to pissed at the aristocrats and want a better life. Defarge has every right to want to take revenge on the Evrémonde guy that killed her brother and raped her sister. But she doesn’t sop there—none of them do. Because their quest for justice becomes a bloodbath, killing everyone that happens to be wealthy or people they think are traitors. Defarge wanted to wipe out the whole family, not just poor Charles, who went out of his way to help people and disown his terrible family, but Lucy and their daughter too. Let me repeat that: Defarge wanted a little girl executed for treason. And what’s really fucked up is that if it hadn’t been for Miss Pross, it might have worked. The revolutionaries would have executed A CHILD just for speaking out against the people that killed her father! The fact that the person that’s excited with Sydney at the end is just a seamstress who has no idea what her crime is, other than just working for a rich woman, shows how far these people had fallen from the values they preached. And that itself is chilling.

One could argue that Defarge meeting her end at the hands of Miss Pross is spiritual karma for the poor seamstress that is unjustly sent to the guillotine with Sydney: the very kind of person that the revolutionaries claimed to want to help. Which makes it more awesome. I think I’ll be making a little stop to the movie villains thread to post more thoughts about this…