Wiendish Fitch

It is dangerous to idealize the past. For every good or, dare I say it, better thing that existed, there were loads of things that weren't. I'm disgusted by people who wish we still lived in the 1950s. You know, the decade that had segregation, blacklisting, restrictions on women's' rights, and electroshock and fucking lobotomies were still being performed! The late Roger Ebert elaborates on this point much better than I can in his review of Pleasantville.

It's funny you should say that, because Jerry Seinfeld recently had this to bitch about: “It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, ‘Oh, Cheers is on. Oh, M*A*S*H is on. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All in the Family is on,’” he told The New Yorker. “You just expected, there’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well, guess what—where is it? This is the result of the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people. You'll notice he's talking about shows that are 40, 50 years old. It's rather telling that Seinfeld doesn't even mention sitcoms from the 90s (a great decade for them, IMO)... you know, the decade his own fucking sitcom was on?! This makes it looks like he's been stewing about this very trivial issue for nearly half a century. And we've had comedies from the 2000s onward! I realize that people still seem to prefer "dark n' gritty" (and true crime is huge), but sitcoms and comedies are still around. The reason they may not be as in high demand has nothing to do with "political correctness". It has everything to do with changing tastes, and good ol' supply and demand. Audiences's tastes change all the time. For all we know, we could have a sitcom renaissance ten years from now. Finally, Jerry... you dated a 17-year-old when you were 40. You have no right to cast stones at anybody or anything, so kindly take a damn seat. Oh, and your new movie sounds awful. I have no idea what to with people who complain about stuff like that, except maybe suggest they live in an underground bunker and never come out again.

It's never a good sign when your "ordinary" outfit is the best of the lot (see also: Ella Enchanted).

Why not have Josie's dress be endearingly frumpy, like her later outfits? Or the kind of dress that her parents definitely picked out for her because they're overprotective? Did it have to be such an eyesore?? I realize that Never Been Kissed is supposed to be one of those "ugly duckling" stories, but there's a right way and wrong way to tell those stories! Besides, in the words of Sarah Millican, the ugly duckling was, in fact, "a perfectly lovely cygnet"!

What annoys me about Josie's prom dress is that, doing the math, she most likely would have graduated from high school in 1991 or 1992, but she's wearing a dress that all but screams "deep 1980s". I realize Josie's a nerd and hardly a fashion plate, but surely they could have done their homework and given her a more early '90s dress? It still could have been kind of tacky and dorky (early '90s fashions were barely an improvement over the 1980s). It just feels like they were mining a cheap, easy laugh... and I don't want to laugh at an innocent person being humiliated! By the by, SpartanGirl, I also would have been okay if Josie decided to name drop Billy in her article. It's the least that little shit deserves.

Re: the aforementioned pet commercials Lord knows I sometimes prefer animals to people... but the problem with that attitude is that, like it or not, we do share the world with other people. If we don't attempt to connect and be civil with one another, humanity will only get worse, not better. I get those commercials are going for a snidely comedic tone, but they just feel needlessly mean-spirited.

I've never watched M.A.S.H., have zero interest in starting. As much as I love Kathryn Hahn, I have ceased to care about that damn Agatha Harkness series (assuming if it ever actually sees the light of day). It's been too long, and some us are over the MCU.

Love Me Tonight is absolutely delightful, and so innovative. I truly believe it, along with 42nd Street the following year, revolutionized film musicals.

Re: Mandisa How sad. Her time on American Idol feels like it was only yesterday.

You know what? I'll take being a sheep to being a cruel, heartless psychopath any day of the week. Baaaaaaa, bitches!

Re: All in the Family and Roseanne I don't expect all TV shows to be all sunshine and pleasantness (I'm currently enjoying the heck out of Fallout), but I find TV shows and movies that just consist of people screaming at each other and seemingly nothing else to be utterly exhausting.

Rest in peace... Ron and Nicole. It took a while, but now you finally can.

Exactly. I have no idea what the children of Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, or Adele look like... and that's just fine and dandy with me.

Gilmore Girls Hell, I'll just post the clip. This judge is a goddess.

I love Simone Simon's shimmering dress in All That Money Can Buy (a.k.a The Devil and Daniel Webster).

I hope, if nothing else, at least a few people took away these lessons: Having an opinion does not make you special or heroic. You have the right to your opinion, but your opinion assuredly does not give you the right to bully others with impunity. Being interested in true crime does not make you a detective or a forensics expert. Take a damn seat and shut your noisemaker. Dare to question the people you watch or listen to. Admitting you're wrong is not a weakness... it is, in fact, an admirable strength and the ultimate show of character.

He was so good in An Officer and a Gentleman.

In 1995, the reliably awesome Dan Hedaya played not one, but two great movie dads: Mel Horowitz in Clueless, and Joe Maretto in To Die For. Mel may love and indulge his daughter, but he's no fool or pushover, and doesn't hesitate to lay down the law with Cher when needed. I honestly think that without the presence of Mel, Cher would be a thoroughly loathsome character. Then there's Joe, who gives his blessing to his son Larry's marriage to Suzanne (despite everyone's very justified misgivings), and

No, Gina, Ingrid Bergman getting shunned by Hollywood after her affair with Roberto Rossellini was an "unnecessary cancellation"*. People getting blacklisted by McCarthyism counts as an "unnecessary cancellation". You were a crappy employee who screwed up, so you got fired. And surely you of all people would agree that "no one is owed a job"? *Yeah, they took her back 7 years later, but I think my point stands.

I'm peeved that we don't live in a world where you can just be happy with your weight. We are bombarded by fat shamers, the diet industry, every facet of society telling us that we must, must, must be thinner. Too many people think hating yourself is some kind of virtue.

Mr. Fitch and I loved watching The Tudors back in the day, but in retrospect... it was really a stupid show. The ludicrous miscasting left and right (Joss Stone as Anne of Cleves? Are you kidding me??), the nonsensical timeline (that one lady in waiting who didn't age a day in the course of literal decades), the obvious stupidity of not showing Henry VIII's physical deterioration until the very last episode (why?!?!), I now wonder why we bothered. I'm glad we now have shows like The Great, which loudly and proudly revel in how historically inaccurate they are, and don't take themselves so seriously.

I marvel at people who do that. I seriously want to scream when I hear people (even those who aren't even old) say they "come from a small town where there's no crime, everyone knows everyone, and you never lock your doors!" The willful naïveté of these people. Crime has literally always existed, and it exists everywhere. As @TattleTeeny said, just lock your damn door, even if you are positive that nothing will happen. I promise you will never regret it.

That would drive me bats, too. I have no pets, but I'm mostly concerned with letting in insects. I live in the South, spring is upon us, and we get the indestructible bugs from Hell as soon as the weather stays warm.

Yeah, garbage is stuff that once served a purpose. What meaningful purpose has Alex Jones ever served? I know I shouldn't watch this documentary, "outrage porn" isn't good for me, and yet, I just don't know how to quit...