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Ugh. I missed out on the tickets too Stace.

I saw an add for the "new" Cartoon Network in a showing of The Half Blood Prince. The singer/guitarist in it was so bad, he made the Freecreditreport.com guy look like Jimi Hendrix. Fuck Cartoon Network.

Is it just me or are all cartoons nowadays drawn by the same talentless moron? The same guy who does the Fairy Godparents has like...15 other shows and they're all just hideously drawn and just as stupid. It's painful to watch. They might be well written or whatever, but I don't give a damn with how ugly they are. It's so hard to find a decent looking cartoon nowadays. Just terrible. Fucking lazy cartoonists.

Oh god. OH GOD. What the fuck with the little girls and the stripper pole?! WHAT THE FUCK?! Not only did we somehow come to glamorize strippers, but now...FUCK. AAAH. Gonna go watch the Where the Wild Things Are trailer again to wash my brain of this. AURGH.Is it just me or are all cartoons nowadays drawn by the same talentless moron? The same guy who does the Fairy Godparents has like...15 other shows and they're all just hideously drawn and just as stupid. It's painful to watch. They might be well written or whatever, but I don't give a damn with how ugly they are. It's so hard to find a decent looking cartoon nowadays. Just terrible. Fucking lazy cartoonists.

Oh god. OH GOD. What the fuck with the little girls and the stripper pole?! WHAT THE FUCK?! Not only did we somehow come to glamorize strippers, but now...FUCK. AAAH. Gonna go watch the Where the Wild Things Are trailer again to wash my brain of this. AURGH.

Oh, good heavens. I read that blog at work. The first link, there. I totally bawled at work. Seriously. Trust me when I tell you, wait 'til you get home. Unless you enjoy having to explain such things to your boss. (And my boss likes John Hughes.)

I don't care what Cartoon Network does as long as [adult swim] (which I think might technically be another network, but whatever) still airs The Venture Brothers. The day they yank that show is the day I fly to New Jersey, go over to William's Street productions and punch someone in the face. Preferably Tim or Eric.

I know people will hate me for posting this, but that woman's blog on Hughes scared me. He had the grace to respond to her demands for attention in a tactful way, but my God, she came across as one very short step away from a stalker. She doesn't hear from him for a while so she calls his boss to complain? What would she have done if he hadn't responded at that point? And what made her think he had an obligation to respond? I'll sit back now and take my tarring and feathering from the Pajibaverse.

The Cartoon Network post - Well, duh. They have been creeping the live-action stuff in for a long time. Quick vote, which network derailment is worse: Cartoon Network's non-cartoon programming or fucking SyFy's ... well, fucking SyFy?

And Screen Junkies isn't working for me much anymore. First the lame Margot Kidder joke, now that GI Joe mess. I am just going to stick with Cracked for my 80s cartoon humor for now, fellas.

(Pssst, Paddy! At least you read it. I was never super attached to any of the Hughes movies, so I've been feeling MORE like an outsider for the last 18 hours or so. I'm going back to my corner now so as not to get in the way of the memorializing.)

WTF ADS?!

WTF with the little day-glo wannabe 80's ho's?
Really?

That Ducktales thing made me laugh out loud.

I don't know why anyone is surprised by the little Cyrus girl. Her big sister was very lucratively whored out by her washed up father, why not keep the cash flowing? Pedophiles have money to spend!

I'm all for Lohan getting machetoed to death.

Wait what, oh she's gonna be in a movie?

Does this make me some kind of weirdo outcast or something?

A damn blind fool is what it makes you...fool.

The singer/guitarist in it was so bad, he made the Freecreditreport.com guy look like Jimi Hendrix.

Oh no you di'int. That's Andrew WK, dude. He is AWESOME PERSONIFIED.

Unless you saw a different commercial than I did. It kinda made me cry that he's shilling for that fucking network now.

Found a John Hughes playlist, been listening to it. Saved me the trouble of making it myself!!

http://www.playlist.com/playlist/17474398987

That list of Hughes stuff...I repeat what I wrote there. Begin evisceration...3..2..1..

I agree with the things you brought up, although I just wanted to say that when I was a teen watching his films I am certain that I was his target audience, and in that context - a teen watching a film targeted directly to me and who I thought I was - everything felt extremely naturalistic and perfect in it's broad comedy intentions.

I thought mildly about such things - why no black people? I know black people! But I didn't really see how adding a black character to Breakfast Club would have improved the story in which the characters are distilled into archetypes and merged into each other. In this sense, the simplicity of the 'princess, sporto, etc' list was the key to them all feeling like they had lost their borders a bit. Maybe that would have been harder to do - to merge such a tough concept as race barriers dissolving in such a short time a movie offers? Just a notion.

And the 'racism' about Long Duk Dong...I never felt that. I identified more with the idea of exposure to a completely foreign culture and how wild those clashes might be. I found myself giving huge props to the Donger, I was never laughing at him in a derogatory way.

And lastly, I do wish heartily that Andie ended up with the Ducker...but as a teenager...and thinking like a teenager...wouldn't that just seem like she had to give up HER hopes and settle? It was fairly clear in his movies that love was uncontrollable, and that you had to stand true to yourself - Andie was doing that. It would have been nice if she'd seen the light that was the Duck for what he was, but again - teenagers are idiots. Hughes knew it, and loved us anyways.

Bless him.

Oh - and as far as the 'nerd rape' scene...I just don't see it that way...sure the presentation and set up of it certainly was questionable...if it wasn't a comedy more focused on the idea of transformation, I'd be upset. It's a story arc in which the 'nerd' is exposed to his heart's desire through his unwavering honesty and hope and fragility. And found acceptance. I love it.

I can't decide whether I'm bothered more by the full page ads, or the fact that Break Media apparently "knows guys" even though they're advertising stuff that I, as a woman, am also interested in. It's like Spike TV all over again. Girls like blood and boomsticks, too!

Jesus that video is funny. I would like to be a fly on the wall of Goopies room. You know she is just livid over the Vanity Fair piece.

OH! MY! GOD!!! That video is fucking HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!

The GOOP piece was glorious. I've never read the original but I can only imagine.

Me, Jay?

Naw, the fool.

Coo Jay... I don't get what he's going on about with the hair either. I thought I'd catch some arrows over my apologist attitude though. I'd deserve it, sure, but I'm down for conversation about taking things too far into the realm of seriousness when clearly (I feel) there's something to be said about intention and target and the spirit of a thing.

Jay,

You're right, there isn't any cure for stupid and you have a terminal case of it. I also hope you get ebola and die an agonizingly painful and slow death.

And before you start getting all up in my grill, you are the one who stated the insults, not me, so step off bitch.

Say, I know this is off-topic (so someone will enjoy it) but I kinda want a Pajiba t-shirt. With Godtopus and the whole shootin' match. I did find some t-shirts with the name and the tagline via a google search of the site's name (that Urban Dictionary thing still pisses me off, especially because it's actually funny), but it's not the same. It's just not the same.