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Tag: tv series

  • Fuck you Ted Lasso season 4 finale, I hadn't planned on crying today. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

    • Note
    • 1 comment
    • posted 7 October, 2026
  • ๐ŸŽถ It starts with sausage,
    A hot dog in a bun.
    One simple sausage,
    Put some mustard on one...

    Is it just me, or are (sinner) Sir Pentious's colours reminiscent of a hot dog?

    Full image of Sir Pentious, an anthropomorphic snake from Hazbin Hotel, in black and yellow longitudinal stripes with red 'eyes'.
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    Sir Pentious, an anthropomorphic snake from Hazbin Hotel, in black and yellow longitudinal stripes with red 'eyes'.

    • Note
    • posted 17 June, 2026
  • Some pissed old fart reading a newspaper called "The Hammersmith Bugle" with the headline "No news shocker..."

    Finding the right Bottom Hole paper

    Terence Eden takes us on a rabbithole of trying to work out what actual newspaper formed the basis of the newspaper prop in an episode of Bottom, and it makes an amusing ride-along.

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    • of this original
    • posted 19 April, 2026
  • Grid of four by four words, each with an associated pair of letters.

    Did I Cheat?

    I solved a puzzle geocache in an unconventional way: by writing a program to permute all the possible solutions and check them for me. Was that cheating? I can see arguments either way...

    Read more - about 4 minutes (820 words)

    • Article
    • 8 comments
    • posted 21 March, 2026
  • Dan and a child stand at a bus stop, with Diddly Squat Farm Shop in the background.

    Found GCBAJC3 Cache me if you can, Jeremy

    Despite being relatively 'local' - only half a mile away, and fans of the show - it took until this morning before the family and I actually came to up visit Clarkson's Farm.

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    • Checkin
    • to GCBAJC3
    • 2 comments
    • posted 1 March, 2026
  • Cover of Taskmaster: 220 Extraordinary Tasks for Ordinary People, showing author Alex Horne, sitting on a small throne, being pushed in the face by Greg Davies, in a larger throne.

    Taskmaster: 220 Extraordinary Tasks for Ordinary People, by Alex Horne

    I recently read Taskmaster: 220 Extraordinary Tasks for Ordinary People by Alex Horne, and was... underwhelmed.

    Read more (268 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 February, 2026
  • As previously indicated, I'm not anticipating cosplaying anybody. But I think I could do Greg Universe.

    Not young Greg Universe, the Star Child of 'Story for Steven'... which seems to be the only variety anybody's ever cosplayed as before if an image search is to be believed. No, I mean: overweight old balding Greg Universe. I could totally pull that look off.

    Full image of Composite image showing Greg Universe from Steven Universe, in both his 'young, rock star' version and the more-familiar 'old balding car wash owner who lives in his van' version.
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    Composite image showing Greg Universe from Steven Universe, in both his 'young, rock star' version and the more-familiar 'old balding car wash owner who lives in his van' version.

    Fake tan lines, white t-shirt (I'd probably make a 'guitar dad' one!), sweatpants, carrying a guitar. Easy.

    Again, not that I'm planning to. Just saying that I could...

    • Note
    • posted 27 January, 2026
  • I really liked Only Murders in the Building. It started with a fun premise. It grew into something hilariously self-aware. I'd recommend it.

    But man, the fifth season had the most-disappointing reveal/conclusion imaginable.

    Hoping the promised sixth season does better.

    • Note
    • posted 13 November, 2025
  • In a kitchen, a hand holds a purple foil packet of Samyang Buldak noodles, "Habenero Lime" flavour.

    Buldak

    Based almost-entirely on seeing some folks on Nebula do a blindfold taste test challenge of some Korean ramen, JTA ended up importing some of the same brand and I ate some for my lunch. Here's what I made of them.

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    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 19 July, 2025
  • Human-sized scarecrows of classic childrens' TV characters Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men and their friend Little Weed, constructed mostly out of plant pots, standing at the corner of a road by a wood-panelled outbuilding.

    Scarecrows

    As part of the Village Festival, there's a scarecrow competition around my way with a televisual theme. I love that my local community works so hard to carve out an individual identity and personality for itself!

    Read more - about 4 minutes (829 words)

    • Article
    • posted 17 June, 2025
  • Screengrab of a remotely-delivered conference talk: Juan talks about a complex-looking mathematical formula; a section labelled 'chaotic energy factor' is highlighted.

    Calculating the Ideal "Sex and the City" Polycule

    When Juan Pablo Sarmiento thought to himself "couldn't Sex and the City's love triangles be squared-away by polyamory?" he didn't just sit down and write slashfic. No; he came up with a formula for idealised polycules, and open-sourced the algorithm. That's my kind of nerdity!

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 20 September, 2024
  • Poster for BEEF

    BEEF

    Just when I thought I'd already seen the best imaginable television series to star Ali Wong and Steven Yeun in the form of Tuca & Bertie... suddenly BEEF comes out of nowhere and it's flipping amazing.

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    • Note
    • posted 18 January, 2024
  • The word "SILO" in a stab-serif font, black on a yellow background.

    How cool are Silo's credits?

    New TV series Silo's pretty good, but its credits sequence is just... excellent. Let me take it apart bit-by-bit for you.

    Read more - about 9 minutes (2106 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 14 June, 2023
  • Still from Hot Shots!. Owatonna, an older Native American man, sits surrounded by animal skins. An English subtitle reads "So, who won?" A Japanese subtitle reads "่ชฐใŒๆˆฆไบ‰ใซๅ‹ใฃใŸใฎใงใ™ใ‹?", which translates as "Who won the war?"

    Hot Shots, Part Dream

    Dan shares a dream in which he starts a meme about a non-existent 80s kids TV show inspired by a loose translation of a scene from Hot Shots! Wait, what?

    Read more - about 5 minutes (970 words)

    • Article
    • posted 12 November, 2021
  • Image representing post: Note #18755

    Just learned Tuca & Bertie is getting a 2nd season (thanks Adult Swim, no thanks Netflix). Super excited. In anticipation I'm rewatching season 1 of this sort-of "upbeat feminist Bojack Horseman" and (re)loving it.

    Read more (34 words)

    • Note
    • posted 7 June, 2021

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