Todd Hanson's voice resonates from under the conference table as he and his editor, in the weekly budget meeting, debate the wording of a headline. At the moment it's "31 Record Store Clerks Feared Dead In Mogwai Concert Disaster." But [The Onion] Editor in Chief Rob Siegel thinks Mogwai might be too obscure. He suggests Yo La Tengo, a New Jersey-based band that's been around for years, long enough to be familiar to readers but with enough cult appeal to nail the joke about hipper-than-thou music store geeks.
— American Journalism Review, "Peeling the Onion"
This is EarthBound, probably a game all of you have heard of but none of you have actually played, so I'm kinda hoping to get the word out about it a little bit more.
— Chuggaaconroy, starting his first Let's Play ever
I just saw the Wonder Woman movie-–it was good, I liked it. And I heard people say, ‘Well. it’s not the original Wonder Woman.’ Here’s the deal. If you go out and ask 1,000 people to tell you everything they know about Superman, you’ll hear the same things — Daily Planet, Lois Lane, Clark Kent, blah blah. You’ll never hear about Mister Mxyzptlk or even the Fortress of Solitude. Anything the 1,000 people say—keep that, don’t mess with that. Anything that 1,000 don’t say, you get a little flexibility. Wonder Woman was created during the war, so she has the red, white and blue with stars, you know? No one cares about that. When you ask people about Wonder Woman, you’re lucky if they come up with Amazons. So they made some graceful changes and it was fine. It doesn’t have to be a red white and blue suit. So to me, people are just [cavalier] about ignoring the intentions of the original creators-–ignoring the equity that was built up over the years. It’s, ‘I’m in charge now so I’ll do anything I damn well please,’ and that’s almost always a mistake. When Walt [Simonson] did Thor, he didn’t reboot it or throw away the past. He just made it good.
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless. A philosophical doctrine is in the beginning a seemingly true description of the universe; as the years pass it becomes a mere chapter - if not a paragraph or a noun - in the history of philosophy. In literature, this ultimate decay is even more notorious. "Don Quixote," Menard once told me, "was above all an agreeable book; now it is an occasion for patriotic toasts, grammatical arrogance and obscene deluxe editions. '''Glory is an incomprehension, and perhaps the worst."'
— Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote, Jorge Luis Borges
Jurassic World did the Avatar thing where it made a gajillion dollars and left no cultural footprint whatsoever. Name your favorite Jurassic World character. What was your favorite line. It evaporated despite everyone seeing it.
—This Tumblr post
Tumblr postNostalgia Critic: So as the credits roll, we see that the film is too cheap to get opening animation, so they just throw their storyboards at us. We see the narrator starts to talk about the story we're about to see, and, yeah, tell me if the voice sounds familiar.
Narrator (voiced by Mickey Rooney): A long time ago, people thought the world was flat, and if you sailed uncharted waters, you just might fall over the edge into space.
Nostalgia Critic: That's right. It's our very own Mickey Rooney.
(Audience sounds confused)
Nostalgia Critic: Former biggest star in the world?
(Audience still sounds confused)
Nostalgia Critic: Starred with Elizabeth Taylor, the other former biggest star in the world?
(More confused sounds from the audience)
Nostalgia Critic: Narrator of Care Bears?
(Audience recognizes him)
Nostalgia Critic: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Watch a black and white movie sometime!
One of the most iconic bass players in history who can't play bass.
