Saturday 31 March 2018
31 Extremely Funny Tweets About Your Favorite Fast Food Restaurants That'll Make You Hungry And Amused
“If you could have dinner with any person living or dead, what Arby’s would you go to?”
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John Krasinski Wants A Christmas Special For "The Office," So Start Writing Your Letters To Santa Now
Look, I know it’s Easter, but…
Are you obsessed with The Office? Great, me too! Are you sick and tired of watching the same measly nine seasons over and over again? OF COURSE NOT, THEY'RE AMAZING!
But, wouldn't it be even better to have something new??
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Well, in a recent interview with IndieWire, John Krasinski opened up about his ideal reboot situation and, honestly, where's the kickstarter already? Let's Veronica Mars the heck out of this because it sounds fantastic.
He told the magazine, "I think the UK thing that I always have pitched and wanted to do is that Christmas special thing, where we do a Christmas special this year and then two years from now, or three years from now, we do another one."
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“I love that idea coming back finding out where everybody is. I would totally be down for that.”
“I don’t think anybody in our show sees that we didn’t end it the way we wanted to end it. We’re one of the very lucky shows that got to end when we wanted to, how we wanted to."
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“So I don’t know how exciting it would be to do a run of the show, ’cause you don’t want to retread old things and have people not be as excited about it as they are now.”
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“It’s one of those things where I’m sure people don’t believe me when I say I would totally do it, because the truth is I would totally do it.”
John's been open about his willingness to reprise his role as America's husband Jim Halpert, but this whole Christmas special thing actually seems very doable!! Aka, MAKE THIS HAPPEN, NBC!
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Here's What's Behind The Nazi Storyline On "Santa Clarita Diet" In Season 2
Sheila Hammond (Drew Barrymore) eating a nazi as her husband, Joel (Timothy Olyphant) watches in Season 2 of Netflix's Santa Clarita Diet.
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When white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017 to protest the removal of the Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee, real life was colliding with filming on the set of Santa Clarita Diet.
The cast and crew of the Netflix show were filming Episode 5 of their second season. And the irony was not lost on the actors that in the episode, “Going Pre-med," Drew Barrymore's undead zombie character, Sheila Hammond, and her husband Joel Hammond (Timothy Olyphant) kill two Nazis so that she can eat them and sustain herself.
“It would be happening in real time on television in our trailers as we were walking to set to shoot,” Barrymore told BuzzFeed News about watching the events surrounding the Unite the Right rally unfold while filming the Nazi scenes. “We would get the scripts and I’d be like, ‘There’s no way we’re going to get away with this.’”
The United the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017.
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But Victor Fresco, the show's creator, told BuzzFeed News that the Nazi storyline in Season 2, which premiered last week, was not a response to what was happening at the time, although it was shocking to shoot Episode 5 during the events of Charlottesville.
“In a bad way, I think Nazis have become more mainstream now in a way we never anticipated,” Fresco said. “I hadn’t ever been in this situation and I wasn’t sure what it meant for us, but I didn’t think it was a good development for the country that Nazis were referred to as, ‘Some of them are very fine people.’”
In the aftermath of the Unite the Rally violence that left one counter protester dead, President Trump defended the white nationalists and instead blamed the far left for the clashes.
In the past couple of years, these kinds of moral quandaries have transcended scripted television series and become a highly debated topic. In January 2017, a video of alt-right white nationalist leader Richard Spencer getting punched in the face at a protest against Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration went viral. The video sparked a conversation about the ethics of punching Nazis, leading to dozens of headlines that included, “The Nazi-Puncher's Dilemma,” “We Asked an Ethicist if It's OK to Punch Nazis in the Face,” and “Attack on Alt-Right Leader Has Internet Asking: Is It OK to Punch a Nazi?”
Fresco said Sheila killing a Nazi on Santa Clarita Diet is actually a callback to the first season of the show when the couple agrees that if they’re going to kill people, they want their victims to be “inherently bad.”
“They joke about this idea about killing a young, single Hitler and how he would be the perfect person,” Fresco said. “They think, ‘No one would miss him because he’s single. If we could stop Hitler from being Hitler, wouldn’t that be a great thing to do to the world?’”
The showrunner said it was initially just an “interesting philosophical argument” until the characters actually come across a Nazi in Season 2.
“They think, ‘We have to kill somebody here, and look what fate has delivered to us: Our young, single Hitler,’” he said.
According to Fresco, part of the fun of the show is going to a place where this theoretical predicament meets reality. There’s a sense of urgency beyond these situational questions because the characters are in positions where they have to make decisions — Sheila’s survival is contingent upon them.
A man wearing swastikas on his shirt is punched outside of an event featuring white nationalist leader Richard Spencer at University of Florida gathering in October 2017.
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“It’s not just a philosophy class,” Fresco said. “They’re going to have to make decisions.”
Barrymore said Sheila and Joel definitely question their moral compasses in Season 2, but she thinks the characters are also careful about who they decide to kill and try to only select “people who the world would be better without.”
"They’re not out to kill random innocent people,” Barrymore said. “They’re thinking, ‘If we have to do this now, and this is the new normal, how can we take people off the planet that are making the planet a worse place?'"
Besides, when it comes to Nazis, Olyphant joked, "It’s hard to root for ‘em, let’s be honest."
While the ethics of punching Nazis in real life was an argued topic, Santa Clarita Diet creator doesn’t think there’s any question about whether it’s OK for Sheila’s character to eat one.
“I feel like we’re still on the right side of history, whether that was going to happen in Charlottesville or not,” Fresco said. “On the show, we have to kill somebody. So if we can find the young, single Hitlers of the world, maybe they’re not the wrong people to have to get rid of.”
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James Van Der Beek Just Spoke About His Viral Crying Face Meme And It's Honestly Great
“It’s my favorite thing about the whole show.”
Howdy, internet folks! Today, I'd like to talk to you about memes. More specifically, the Dawson Crying meme.
In case you weren't alive at the time (I was five), the meme comes from 1998's hit series Dawson's Creek. (A lot of them are '90s themed, fwiw.)
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Well, the Creek cast recently reunited for the show's 20th anniversary and, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, discussed the viral meme.
Actor James Van Der Beek, aka Dawson IRL, said, “I love it. It’s my favorite thing about the whole show. It’s hilarious to me that you can work for six years on a show…and it gets boiled down to three seconds. It’s a perfect way-of-the-internet.”
He continued, “I feel like everybody on this show cried more than I did and I was the one who got caught in the loop!”
Although his co-star Joshua Jackson added, “It’s not how many times you cried. It’s how you cried." True that, Joshua. True that.
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It wasn’t scripted, I don’t think. I mean, it was appropriate for the scene. You know, it was just high drama; you’ve been living with this character for a while and a scene like that just kind of drops in your lap and you just lose it. They yell cut and say, "Oh my god. That was amazing!" So I remember being completely surprised by it because it was completely sincere. The fact that it’s being used to mock me now, I think it’s so funny.
Anyway, if you're curious about the who, what, when, where, and why of what brought on Teary Leery™, you can read our rundown here.
Otherwise, that's all folks!
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The Best Ways To Eat A Potato, Ranked
THIS IS NOT A DISCUSSION.
Raw potatoes
WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE, A GROUND MAMMAL?
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Boiled potatoes
THAT PARSLEY ISN'T FOOLING ANYONE. THOSE ARE WET TESTICLES.
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Potato salad
OH YOU MEAN POTATO HUNKS SUSPENDED IN A MAYONNAISE SOUP?
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Scalloped potatoes
IF I WANTED SOMETHING THAT LOOKED LIKE A MOLLUSK I'D LIVE IN THE OCEAN.
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Potatoes au gratin
NO COMPRENDE.
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Sweet potato pie
I THOUGHT YOU WERE PUMPKIN AND NOW I AM SAD.
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Hasselback potatoes
LISTEN, THEY LOOK AWESOME BUT I MADE THEM ON TUESDAY AND THEY TOOK OVER AN HOUR TO COOK AND TASTED LIKE — YOU'RE NEVER GONNA GUESS BUT — A FRICKIN' POTATO.
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Potato chips
NOTHING ENRAGES ME MORE THAN ORDERING A BURGER AND BEING HANDED THESE THIN SCABS OF STARCH.
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Baked potato
ANYTHING THAT ENCOURAGES ME TO EAT A SPOONFUL OF SOUR CREAM IS COOL WITH ME.
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Potato soup
YEAH BABY INJECT THAT THICK POTATO CREAM STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS.
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Home fries
THEY ARE THE BRICKS THAT PAVE THE ROAD TO FLAVORTOWN.
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Latkes
SLATHER SOME APPLE SAUCE ON THERE AND CALL ME DADDY.
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Tater tots
THEY LOOK LIKE TURDS AND YET I CRAVE THEM WITH THE PASSION OF A THOUSAND FIERY SUNS.
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Potato skins
BASICALLY A CANOE FOR CHEESE TO SAIL DIRECTLY INTO MY MOUTH.
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Roasted potatoes
I'M A SUCKER FOR CLASSIC HOME COOKING AND A ROSEMARY GARNISH.
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Waffle fries
ARGUABLY EVEN BETTER THAN REGULAR WAFFLES.
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IF YOU TRIED TO SLAP ME ACROSS THE FACE WITH THIS YOU COULDN'T BECAUSE I'D EAT IT IN ONE BITE.
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Curly fries
IF I HAD THREE WISHES I'D WISH TO BE SMALL ENOUGH TO SLIDE DOWN A CURLY FRY LIKE A PLAYGROUND SLIDE AND THEN I'D WISH TO BE BIG AGAIN AND THEN I'D WISH TO EAT MORE CURLY FRIES.
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Mashed potatoes
A FLUFFY POTATO CLOUD I GET TO PUT INSIDE MY BODY. ISN'T BEING ALIVE THE BEST?
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French fries
PORTABLE, CRISPY, POTATO-Y PERFECTION. THE GREATEST FOOD THERE EVER WAS AND EVER WILL BE. WE ARE SO LUCKY.
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