I plan on waiting for the new Naked Gun to hit a streaming platform I already pay for. I have a sneaking suspicion that the best joke is the OJ one since they repeated it in both trailers so far.
I’ll probably capitalize one of my “free” movies of the week with my AMC Rewards and see it in theaters 🤣 Not an ad but if anyone likes and regularly goes to the movies, the AMC Stubs A-List has been money well spent. I also liken going to the movies to pizza and chocolate chip cookies - even bad, they’re still good.
julian fellowes is obviously making the gilded age specificallyi for jessica. from the vulture article : “My fantasy is always that the audience runs and looks things up on Wikipedia and then reads books about it,” says Fellowes."
I was an English major, and one of my linguistics professors was absolutely OBSESSED with Hayakawa's book "Language in Thought and Action". We had a class that was basically entirely devoted to it.
Discovering Mr. Hayakawa's secret (?) passion for Smirnoff has just made me incredibly happy.
Does the Rum Tum Tiddy recipe involve canned tomato soup and shredded cheese? I grew up eating that every few months as a special treat on Sunday evenings with either Ritz crackers or popcorn and watching America's Funniest Home Videos with my family. Good memories!
As a Junior League member, I knew instantly that Soupçon was a Junior League cookbook. I just shed some of mine in a cookbook purge - when you are a Junior Leaguer you end up with a lot of chapters’ cookbooks.
My interest in The Naked Gun is largely as a step in the Pamela Anderson renaissance. It's a film with such specific cultural references and context that I'm still not sure who a 2025 version is for.
Having Pamela Anderson is a big draw! But I LOLed during the trailer when she carried the chair out of the room. I'm a sucker for that type of joke, so I might have wanted to see this anyway.
That Zoe Saldana ad is truly terrible and unhinged, but my top spot for worst commercial is a tie between the Burger King atonal jingle, and the Liberty Mutual emu and Doug. I cannot hit mute fast enough when either of these come on.
Lawd, I can't stand the emu ads. They're trying to sell insurance? Some of the insurance ads are so bad -- the Geico aunts ad has no point to it and it's misogynistic. I do love the Progressive ads with Dr. Rick.
I like the Geico aunts. But I have a mother with 4 now 3 sisters who are just as hypercritical as the ones in the commercial. I can honestly picture my one aunt saying "that's a lot of house, hope you can keep it up." I also have an Aunt Joanie. Though none of my aunts would dare to touch the thermostat.
I have to admit that I cackle every time I see that one because of the aunt going through the fridge and saying “expired!” Writing it out makes it seem not funny but it somehow makes me laugh every damn time.
My husband and I go "expired! expired!" while rooting through our fridge *all the time* lol (we have a lot of condiments of questionable status so it's funny AND accurate)
I am fond of the Geico Aunts commercial, obviously because my name is Roberta, but also because my refrigerator is full of expired condiments. My friends gave me a lot of grief for that particular commercial.
Mine is the Liberty insurance commercial with the talking baby. I HATE fake baby talking voices so much, in any context. I have to have the pause button in my hand when watching anything on streaming so I don't have to suffer through even 1 second of it.
The Burger King jingle gets stuck in my head a lot, and that is not a fun time. But for some reason I like the emu ad where he is leaving the farm. “You’re just a flightless bird!”
“No, he’s a dreamer.” Idk why but it makes me laugh!
The Good Housekeeping Cookbook photo is amazing. An overflowing goblet of meat and salad with a very phallic looking breadstick, placed in the Fish section? Wow! I look forward to seeing more of this book at some point.
How could we NOT think the breadstick was phallic??? It’s even shaded in in the right spot!! I voted for that cookbook for the Phallic Meat Salad alone!!!
I have a different cover of a similar Good Housekeeping Cookbook but I'm a little sad it's losing only because it's not usually that unhinged on the inside.
I actually own the Good Housekeeping Cookbook (don’t recall how, perhaps a yard sale?), and use its buttermilk biscuit and french toast recipes. And that’s about it, more because I’m a sloth than any other reason.
I think you can. The plots are fairly simple. It's not like "Ozark" or "Game of Thrones." Carrie Coon is amazing as Bertha Russell -- you can watch it just for her.
I def don’t thjnk you need to bother with 1. You might want to watch the season 2 finale, and let that be the episode where you have all the “who is this person” questions so you can tuck into season 3 -H
I'm catching up on it right now so I can enjoy the recaps! I'm halfway through season 2. I agree that season 2 is better than season 1, but I'm still glad I watched 1, because there are certain moments of DRAMA in season 2 that hit harder (ahem, Turner...).
And it SEEMS like a big part of the reason Gibson hasn't been fully canceled is he keeps all his hateful fuckery off-set, and behaves like a pro when he's working.
I found a lengthy discussion on a subreddit and Sean Connery seems to be the likeliest subject. It's definitely a man, because he's a Sir, and apparently he had died shortly before Jason Isaacs told this anecdote the first time.
I thought there was a clue about someone being knighted? Or was that another anecdote? And they're no longer alive? I thought someone like Alec Guiness or Laurence Olivier.
And is it just me, or is he suddenly all over everyone's algorithms?! Hardly a day goes by that I'm not offered up a new article or interview. I admit, I'm getting tired of him (sorry Jason)
My parents still have that exact Good Housekeeping cookbook, and our family meatloaf recipe comes from (I believe) the Best of Susan section. It got slightly adapted when I was preparing dinner as a latchkey kid in the late eighties/early nineties, discovered we were out of breadcrumbs, and used crushed up Goldfish instead. We’ve done it that way ever since.
I met Marian Burros years ago! She was delightful and quite the broad. Everyone in Fug Nation would love her.
My grandmother (who was an excellent cook) loved both her writing and her recipes.
Can attest that her plum torte is a top tier dessert and super easy to make.
It's been my go-to for years now. Works with other stone fruits too.
I plan on waiting for the new Naked Gun to hit a streaming platform I already pay for. I have a sneaking suspicion that the best joke is the OJ one since they repeated it in both trailers so far.
I’ll probably capitalize one of my “free” movies of the week with my AMC Rewards and see it in theaters 🤣 Not an ad but if anyone likes and regularly goes to the movies, the AMC Stubs A-List has been money well spent. I also liken going to the movies to pizza and chocolate chip cookies - even bad, they’re still good.
Speaking of The Gilded Age (which is SO ridiculous and silly and I want twelve more seasons), Vulture has a nice BTS/set visit story here: https://www.vulture.com/article/the-gilded-age-set-season-3-visit.html
Logistics!!! Yay! -J
julian fellowes is obviously making the gilded age specificallyi for jessica. from the vulture article : “My fantasy is always that the audience runs and looks things up on Wikipedia and then reads books about it,” says Fellowes."
YES IT ME - J
I was an English major, and one of my linguistics professors was absolutely OBSESSED with Hayakawa's book "Language in Thought and Action". We had a class that was basically entirely devoted to it.
Discovering Mr. Hayakawa's secret (?) passion for Smirnoff has just made me incredibly happy.
My English teacher in high school was also obsessed with this. I had no idea he was also a senator AND a smirnoff stan!
Does the Rum Tum Tiddy recipe involve canned tomato soup and shredded cheese? I grew up eating that every few months as a special treat on Sunday evenings with either Ritz crackers or popcorn and watching America's Funniest Home Videos with my family. Good memories!
As a Junior League member, I knew instantly that Soupçon was a Junior League cookbook. I just shed some of mine in a cookbook purge - when you are a Junior Leaguer you end up with a lot of chapters’ cookbooks.
My interest in The Naked Gun is largely as a step in the Pamela Anderson renaissance. It's a film with such specific cultural references and context that I'm still not sure who a 2025 version is for.
Having Pamela Anderson is a big draw! But I LOLed during the trailer when she carried the chair out of the room. I'm a sucker for that type of joke, so I might have wanted to see this anyway.
I also laughed at that one because it would not be out of place in the original Naked Gun or any other ZAZ movie.
I’ll admit that anytime I use a ladder, I say to myself “Nice beaver!”
That Zoe Saldana ad is truly terrible and unhinged, but my top spot for worst commercial is a tie between the Burger King atonal jingle, and the Liberty Mutual emu and Doug. I cannot hit mute fast enough when either of these come on.
Lawd, I can't stand the emu ads. They're trying to sell insurance? Some of the insurance ads are so bad -- the Geico aunts ad has no point to it and it's misogynistic. I do love the Progressive ads with Dr. Rick.
I like the Geico aunts. But I have a mother with 4 now 3 sisters who are just as hypercritical as the ones in the commercial. I can honestly picture my one aunt saying "that's a lot of house, hope you can keep it up." I also have an Aunt Joanie. Though none of my aunts would dare to touch the thermostat.
I have to admit that I cackle every time I see that one because of the aunt going through the fridge and saying “expired!” Writing it out makes it seem not funny but it somehow makes me laugh every damn time.
My husband and I go "expired! expired!" while rooting through our fridge *all the time* lol (we have a lot of condiments of questionable status so it's funny AND accurate)
I am fond of the Geico Aunts commercial, obviously because my name is Roberta, but also because my refrigerator is full of expired condiments. My friends gave me a lot of grief for that particular commercial.
I love that one; I just take it as a funny piece of wordplay and all those aunts are so good! -H
I'm glad y'all like it! But it's all nagging, overweight women that reminds me of old 1970s "take my wife"-style humor.
I have a couple of aunts who for the stereotypes in the commercial. I had a great aunt who'd alphabatize the crackers on a plate.
The aunts one is the only one I think is funny!
I also weirdly love the State Farm ones with The Bateman.
I kind of also love the aunts ad. But I’m an aunt and I fully see myself being them when I’m older!
Mine is the Liberty insurance commercial with the talking baby. I HATE fake baby talking voices so much, in any context. I have to have the pause button in my hand when watching anything on streaming so I don't have to suffer through even 1 second of it.
That one is terrible!
T-Mobile just does not have great ads.
I also HATE the Burger King "jingle". It sounds soooooo bad.
The Burger King jingle gets stuck in my head a lot, and that is not a fun time. But for some reason I like the emu ad where he is leaving the farm. “You’re just a flightless bird!”
“No, he’s a dreamer.” Idk why but it makes me laugh!
"Just assumed $90 was correct because of inflation" made me laugh so hard.
It's very "It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?"
Both are perfect and very funny!
The Good Housekeeping Cookbook photo is amazing. An overflowing goblet of meat and salad with a very phallic looking breadstick, placed in the Fish section? Wow! I look forward to seeing more of this book at some point.
Ha! I also thought the breadstick was incredibly phallic
How could we NOT think the breadstick was phallic??? It’s even shaded in in the right spot!! I voted for that cookbook for the Phallic Meat Salad alone!!!
That shading really…got the point across
Same!!
My eyebrows shot up so fast and so high that they may be permanently embedded on the top of my scalp.
I have a different cover of a similar Good Housekeeping Cookbook but I'm a little sad it's losing only because it's not usually that unhinged on the inside.
Definitely has the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval
I actually own the Good Housekeeping Cookbook (don’t recall how, perhaps a yard sale?), and use its buttermilk biscuit and french toast recipes. And that’s about it, more because I’m a sloth than any other reason.
Oh I use the Mac and Cheese recipe all the time but it's pretty much in my brain all the time now.
Question for the Broads: could we start watching The Gilded Age this season and figure out what's going on without watching seasons 1 and 2?
I think you can. The plots are fairly simple. It's not like "Ozark" or "Game of Thrones." Carrie Coon is amazing as Bertha Russell -- you can watch it just for her.
I def don’t thjnk you need to bother with 1. You might want to watch the season 2 finale, and let that be the episode where you have all the “who is this person” questions so you can tuck into season 3 -H
I'm almost positive that Julian will remind us all of the salient details...
Yes, but why would you? Both seasons are great fun.
I'm catching up on it right now so I can enjoy the recaps! I'm halfway through season 2. I agree that season 2 is better than season 1, but I'm still glad I watched 1, because there are certain moments of DRAMA in season 2 that hit harder (ahem, Turner...).
Can we make guesses as to whom Jason Isaacs is talking about?? I'm thinking Bruce Willis or Brad Pitt.
I want to know so badly! My guess is Mel Gibson.
I initially thought that but in the interview it seems like they were on good terms until Gibson made all the anti-semitic remarks.
And it SEEMS like a big part of the reason Gibson hasn't been fully canceled is he keeps all his hateful fuckery off-set, and behaves like a pro when he's working.
That was my immediate thought! I can totally see Gibson pushing a better actor out of the frame.
Someone on Reddit theorized that it is a woman because he was very careful not to use pronouns. -H
Maggie Smith?? There’s also Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter. If it’s a woman, I thought Maggie Smith immediately.
I can't imagine any of those women shoving a man. Maggie Smith might have done one of those "shoo shoo" gestures.
Oooohhh…
Ooooh, that's a good call.
Sean Connery?
I found a lengthy discussion on a subreddit and Sean Connery seems to be the likeliest subject. It's definitely a man, because he's a Sir, and apparently he had died shortly before Jason Isaacs told this anecdote the first time.
I thought there was a clue about someone being knighted? Or was that another anecdote? And they're no longer alive? I thought someone like Alec Guiness or Laurence Olivier.
Maybe Simon Russell Beale. They were in Death of Stalin
ooh - is the Great Dishes of the World in any way related to that "Great Chefs of..." series that PBS used to air all the time? I loved that show!
Jason Isaacs really is a messy bench!! Whew!
And is it just me, or is he suddenly all over everyone's algorithms?! Hardly a day goes by that I'm not offered up a new article or interview. I admit, I'm getting tired of him (sorry Jason)
My parents still have that exact Good Housekeeping cookbook, and our family meatloaf recipe comes from (I believe) the Best of Susan section. It got slightly adapted when I was preparing dinner as a latchkey kid in the late eighties/early nineties, discovered we were out of breadcrumbs, and used crushed up Goldfish instead. We’ve done it that way ever since.
That sounds awesome. My kids love meatloaf (and goldfish) i am going to try that tonight
ha, I made meatballs with crushed up graham crackers for that reason and they were surprisingly delicious!
I'm almost certain my mom has a copy of this one at her house too!