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The LOLing spambots lurk in the night...

Wow! Brendan Fraser has 2 bad movies in the top 5. They won't win him an Oscar, but he's laughing all the way to the bank.

How the hell is Mama Mia still on that list? Does Walmart operate movie theaters now?

i will defend mamma mia (while it is certainly not my favorite movie, even on that list): not everyone wants dark, brooding awesome. it just doesn't appeal. instead hey want fluffy escapism. what else is out right now to capture that? WALL*E is it, and if you don't want to see a "kid's" movie, mamma mia is the film you choose.

Maggie, If I want fluffy escapism, I'll beat off with a rabbits foot.

I love a well-thought out column.

Short and sweet, Rowles, short and sweet.

Boogs, I'll back you up--I saw Mamma Mia and thought it was actually kind of cute. It's not for everyone, and certainly not for all Pajibans, but I found it to be fluffy-fun. (This from a gal who hates ABBA!)

I have to say, it was fun to see Peirce Brosnan bravely singing on as though he didn't sound like the drunkest dude in the Karaoke bar. Good on him! Between that and The Matador, you know that man can laugh at himself. Mmmm, sexy.

Okay, now is anyone else out there retching at these House Bunny previews already? ARGH! It's...just....so....ARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!! "Here's a movie idea: Poor geeky and unhappy smart girls learn to be cookie-cutter pretty girly-girls so that the boys will like them and they can be happy! ...Oh, and I guess the sexy bunny should learn that smart can be cool, so that the feminists won't jump down our throats. Heh heh, although I wouldn't mind jumping down their throats, know what I'm saying? Heh heh."

I'm going to go sob quietly in the corner now....

fluffy escapism

I don't understand what you mean. I enjoy my escapism either slapstick or dark and evil, like my soul.

Besides, that sounds like a description for something illicit on Craigslist.

I feel the need to inform you people that Amazon.com has the entire series of Firefly on sale all day today for $17.99.

I know that Firefly is spectacularly well loved here.

I feel the need to inform you people that Amazon.com has the entire series of Firefly on sale all day today for $17.99.

....and, Melody gets an automatic Comment of the Week with that one!

MO (meaux):

Your post is a bright spot in an otherwise relentlessly gloomy morning. I haven't seen Mamma Mia YET, but I know Pierce Brosnan has a fantastic sense of humor (to go with his fantastic everything else) so I'm looking forward to him hamming it up. And God-damn YES on the Bunny movie thing. Does anyone else think it's about time we stopped giving false hope to geeky girls? Stop letting them think there's a warm-hearted blonde around the corner who will help them to snag the local jock with a little lip gloss and some pink clothing. For heaven's sake. They should be at home listening to Janis Ian and biding their time for their early thirties when the guy next door who became a neurosurgeon dumps his first blonde fluffy wife (a little too much flab after the second kid) and turns to someone he can actually have a concersation with and who has a career of her own so he won't go broke supporting her (when he inevitably dumps her for the cute nurse in Ward 12).

They should be at home listening to Janis Ian

Now now, you know Liz Lemon bummed everyone out doing Janis Ian karaoke. I can't have you encouraging that!

I certainly seem to have found myself in the considerably younger/divorced zone of women who are (still) single. The younger thing caught me off guard, but I knew I was destined for the "yes....I'm still here" later years, though sadly I am not the nerd who became a tycoon! Rats!

Well, Fox was smart in making "X-Files" cheaply, and I'll commend that. Obviously it was just me being too busy to go until this Friday keeping its numbers down. I'm gonna fix everything!

Liz Lemon did Janis Ian karaoke? How could I have missed that? And where can I find the clip?

How could I have missed that? And where can I find the clip?

First season episode "The Break Up". Being NBC/Universal it's seemingly clipless. This Hulu dealie jobbie you all talk about appears to only have second season episodes.

Wah! Wah! Wah! The last thing I need to hear is the drip-drop of some ugly bitch tears before lunch. I'm just counting the days until my leggy blonde sensei arrives to offer me the salvation of some man trapping skills. Too long have I been burdened by my dignity and intelligence. Soon I will be transformed in to into a white(orange), borderline anorexic, vacant, Grade C piece o' arm candy. I will become an expert in speaking only when spoken to, sleeping with my eyes open during sex, and poking holes in condoms. I'll be able to bag and divorce a podiatrist in no time. Do you know who goes to podiatrists? Everyone. Then I'll be crushing eagle skulls in my Hummer with my monthly checks(kids) while you bagfaces are tooling around in your in Smart(dumb) Cars with your degrees and your careers and your accomplishments and shit. Peace, bitches!

jM, Bah-ha-ha! Too funny.

I prefer my smart geeky girls to look like Playboy bunnies...I won't even glance at them otherwise.

Whoa, when did all of Pajiba get italicized. I feel so... left out.

...I was accosted by that hooterific girl with the pale pink lipstick who bitch slapped me and shoved me into a tube top and tight black pants while humming Matchbox 20.

Good God Julie, if that happened to me, I would have blown a rape whistle and yelled fire.

Grover, are you a podiatrist by any chance?

"I will become an expert in speaking only when spoken to, sleeping with my eyes open during sex, and poking holes in condoms."

jM, I love you in a soul-to-soul kind of way.

Grover, are you a podiatrist by any chance?

Or a panda?

Well, Julie, I did consult on Ling Ling's unfortunate bunion problem before she died. Consider me a pandering panda podiatrist.

Whew, Grover, I'm swooning over here! Rowr!

...I was accosted by that hooterific girl with the pale pink lipstick who bitch slapped me and shoved me into a tube top and tight black pants while humming Matchbox 20.

See, I read this pull quote and was about to ask "when, 1998?" then looked above.

I did like those poly-looking pants though, whether they were really tight or not, and women got to enjoy that wrinkle-free lifestyle us Dickies wearers cling to for a little while. I think Britt Daniel's the only person wearing that sponge-clean twill now (though I'd hate to be under stage lights in them). They went well, for me, with the clunkier shoe styles that were going around. I also miss those shoes that were like stacked heel penny loafers (circa 95). I seem to be the only person to remember them fondly, but, oh well.

(Now...the tight pants, which are sometimes black, which are really just sweatpants with a thick dipping waistband and flared at the bottom? This shows the 21st century is not an improvement in every way, and this terry Juicy culture has got to stop!)

(because....ick!)

This shows the 21st century is not an improvement in every way, and this terry Juicy culture has got to stop!

Oh my Christ do I hate those sweatpants. I'm sorry, I do not want my ass to be labled as juicy. That brings back memories of sitting in a car with two friends for 48 hours straight while driving cross-country to San Francisco. We were ripe.

I can not wear sweat pants in public, I feel undressed.

I actually like the existence of the terry Juicy culture. Like their familiar companions, the Ugg boots paired with a mini skirt in July, they instantly signal to me that I need make no effort getting to know the person wearing them and can glide on to attempt mingling with higher life forms

(pauses for the typical element to accuse me of elitism)

Thank you all for listening.

Let he/she who has never worn HyperColor, Bedazzled, pencil ties, etc. throw the first stone at the hoochy Juicy culture.

For those with selective memories, let me direct you to Get Mortified

Hee, branded, what's wrong with my Bedazzler?!

Tell that to my Bedazzled underwear :( You haven't known pain until you've sat down hard on a handfull of rhinestones.

HyperColor and BeDazzled denim anything made life worth living back then.

Also, what the fuck is a "Hypercoloted Bedazzled Pencil Tie"?

They were meant as separate items, but you may have stumbled upon on the perfect combo of 80's nostalgia. The Voltron of clothing line, if you will.

I've flown my nerd flag far too much today.

Now...the tight pants, which are sometimes black, which are really just sweatpants with a thick dipping waistband and flared at the bottom?

Okay now, this sounds like the description of my housepants (Minus the words on the butt because I don't truck with that kind of ignorance.) which are quite comfy. I love my housepants dearly but rarely, if ever, are they worn outside the confines of my own home. Because they're housepants, you know; pants for the house. And because nobody besides Mr. Pink, who married me for some bizarre reason and signed up for all my bits and parts, should be subjected to my fat, fucking thighs encased in grey stretchy fabric.

Well, I did enjoy Amanda Seyfried in a swimsuit and/or see through clothing for most of the film...

...what? Why am I just hearing about this part? I'm seeing this thing.

Dammit, Dustin...you couldn't resist throwing out that last remark with that point that works like "I'm a ZIT! Get it?!"

Then when things don't seem to be too bad, you gotta yell out "FOOD FIGHT!!!"

(yes, Animal House...watched it again last night.)

(Sigh) I liked The Dark Knight better.

Hmm...oddly enough (and it might be because I'm skipping over many of the previous posts...so if I'm wrong, please don't kill me), there doesn't seem to be a lot of feuding over that Iron Man / TDK statement...everybody probably got all that outta their system already. Oh, well...

Finally saw the Dark Knight this weekend. So you can count our 20 bucks in that 400 million dollar pot. You're welcome. Pennywise the Clown from It now runs a close second to Heath Ledger's Joker as the scariest, most effed up clown I have ever seen on film. And I am totally buying one of those bat motorcycles. It is an essential driving machine.

Big ups to the Pierce Brosnan love. I will watch Mamma Mia when it shows up on cable. I love ABBA, love Pierce Brosnan and love Meryl Streep. But this is not a movie I could convince anyone else to see with me, so it might make a fine Hangover Theater selection for me.

Catch full episodes of Remington Steele (yeah bitches, I said Remington Steele - don't act like you don't know !)on hulu.com. The 80's were hilarious and I think Brosnan's hair may have been glued to his head. Go on, watch it. It will make you happy. And you will think fondly of me for pointing it out.

There is no excuse for a bad musical. but a bad musical based on ABBA songs? That is criminal.