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thesoftboiledegg · 3 years

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OK, now that I've gotten my least favorite episodes out of the way, here's my ranking of my favorite Rick and Morty episodes (up to season four):

Season one: "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" I don't think this is necessarily the best episode, but it's still my favorite episode of all time. The Citadel of Ricks sounds ridiculous (or rick-diculous) in theory, but somehow that episode makes it work. This show introduces so many great concepts: the Citadel, Doofus Rick, evil Morty, the evil Rick robot. It was fascinating to see a sweet, gentle Rick that got along well with Jerry as well as an evil Morty whose true motivations are still unknown. Plus, this episode was fun and hilarious to boot. It's basically the ideal Rick and Morty episode--a fun, exciting adventure that introduces an intriguing sci-fi concept and sets up a bigger story that carries through the rest of the show. I'm still wondering what Rick's comment about a "cocky Morty" was about (and I'm pretty sure the rest of the fandom is, too.)

Season three: "The Rickshank Redemption" OK, this is it. This is the best Rick and Morty episode of the entire series. The episode cleverly starts with a fake-out, then turns into an exciting, fast-paced adventure that actually shows Rick's brilliance instead of just telling us that he's smart. We get our biggest glimpse of Rick's backstory to date (who knows how much of it is true, but still), character development for Morty and Summer, worldbuilding for the Citadel of Ricks and a brilliant callback to "Rick Potion #9." At the end, Beth and Jerry finally separate, a decision that has major impacts for the rest of the season instead of resetting itself in the next episode. The insanity all culminates in Rick going on another unhinged, manic tirade in the garage that ushers in the "darkest year of our adventures." This episode also had a huge cultural impact with the now-infamous Szechuan sauce reference. I don't think Rick and Morty is ever going to top this one, which is so well-paced that it feels like it's longer than twenty minutes.

Season three: "The Ricklantis Mixup" The Citadel worldbuilding is excellent (and again, it's a concept that shouldn't work, but somehow does), but what really makes this episode stand out is how it weaves together multiple stories that seem like they're unrelated at first but come together in the final conclusion. This episode is a brilliant commentary on the issues that plague modern society (which is rare for Rick and Morty) and explores how Ricks and Mortys from alternate realities can be wildly different, which doesn't really come up in other multiverse episodes. The artwork in this episode is top notch, too. Just a phenomenal episode all around.

Season two: "Interdimensional Cable 2" This is probably the episode I've watched the most. I wasn't a fan of the first Interdimensional Cable episode, but this episode pretty much fixed all the issues that I had with it. Most of the clips were so bizarre and unfamiliar that you actually felt like you were watching episodes from another reality. "Lil Bits" and "The Adventures of Stealy" are my favorite clips. The framing device with Jerry was also hilarious and gave us a fascinating glimpse at an alien hospital (OK, it was mostly jokey, but still.) Rick and Morty has some issues with the animation, but the alien designs are always excellent.

Season two: "Mortynight Run" This episode was just an awesome Rick and Morty adventure. I loved the brightly colored alien worlds that they explored and the way Rick's plans spun wildly out of control. Blips and Chitz and the Jerry daycare sound kind of silly in theory, but they ended up being perfect additions to this episode. Plus, this episode had a lot of memorable interactions between Rick and Morty. "That's the difference between you and I--I never go back to the carpet store."

Season two: "Total Rickall." This episode is so much fun. The concept is brilliant, and the solution to the problem is actually really clever, not a dumb cop-out. The crazy characters that keep showing up are hilarious--and best of all, this show introduced Mr. Poopybutthole. I love how the animators added him into the opening sequence. Plus, the twist at the end of the episode is genuinely shocking. The audience thinks that they have it figured out and the Smith family is naively letting him stay in their lives. But nope--Mr. Poopybutthole is actually real, and Beth might have just killed him. To top it all off, the after-credits scene is brutal. "He says he's sorry that you didn't have any bad memories of him."

Season three: "Rest and Ricklaxation" I probably don't have to tell you how much this episode is a brilliant exploration of Rick and Morty's characters. What I love about it is how it doesn't go the way you'd expect. Rick and Morty become "nice" and happy, but it's actually detrimental to their personalities--Rick is a hollow shell who doesn't care about his grandson, and Morty is basically a high-functioning sociopath. The part where detoxified Rick burps and says "Excuse me" is pure genius.

Season three: "Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender" I feel like a lot of people don't like this one, but it was a fun send-up of superhero movies (I'm saying this as an MCU fan) as well as a great exploration of Rick's toxic, codependent relationship with Morty. I mean, the entire plot basically happens because Morty said (or implied) that he likes the Vindicators more than Rick. This was also one of the rare times when we see Rick when he's hardcore blackout drunk (as opposed to his regular level of drunkenness.) "Who the fuck is Noob-Noob?" is my favorite ending line of the entire series.

Season four: "The Vat of Acid Episode" I didn't rank this one higher because I have to be in a certain mood to watch it, but it stands out because it's utterly different from any other Rick and Morty episode. This episode wasn't afraid to take risks, like setting up a basic plot (Rick and Morty being stuck in the vat the whole time) and veering away from that altogether. The long sequence with Morty's girlfriend was also pretty risky. I thought it was out of place when I first watched this episode, but now I think it adds a lot to the show. Then there's the fact that Rick's plot is so utterly cruel and brutal, even for him. The only slightly "redeeming" thing about it is that he created a way to undo the whole thing--but still, he put his grandson through an insane amount of emotional trauma just because he was starting to stand up to Rick. This episode also had some of the best Rick and Morty interactions of the entire series. "The Vat of Acid Episode" was complex, challenging and another one of those rare times where we see that Rick is truly brilliant.

Season three: "The Wedding Squanchers" I don't rewatch this episode all the time, but I liked this one because it had some good character moments like Beth finally admitting that she tolerates Rick's bullshit because she doesn't want him to leave again. This is also one of the rare episodes where Rick does something truly selfless that doesn't benefit him. We also see that Rick claiming that he doesn't care about anything is a bunch of bullshit--the way he screams when Tammy shoots Birdperson is tragic and horrifying. Plus, who saw that twist with Tammy coming? And of course--this episode sets up the best episode of the entire series.

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #morty smith

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quicktelling-blog · 5 years

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Amira’s Vanished Hustle, Perceptions of Missed Opportunities, and What Everyone Should Consider About the Story So Far

[deep dive under the cut]

Some messages I got over the weekend were along the lines of: “No Damira again on Friday whew you must be heartbroken huh?” But, y’all, I wasn’t surprised. And to be completely honest, my reaction on Friday was very different from the ones I saw in the tag. Yeah, I was super happy for the adorable Amira and I was also side-eying the glaring absence of Carlos’s besties at his own housewarming -- but my main thought after the clip was: “LOL OH SHIT HERE WE GO.” Because in my mind Friday was an ENORMOUS RED FLAG that the only substantial thing left to do in Amira’s story arc is the cute Bon Voyage party to send her off on her dream trip. Even before this big POV shift happened, Druck hadn’t given us any reason to expect much more than that in her remaining plot, and I’ll elaborate on that here.

I don’t wanna jump to the conclusion that Druck can’t possibly stick the landing, because hey, they might! We have no clear idea what will happen between now and the final goodbye party, so maybe good things are coming that will subvert all of our worst imaginings! But I feel like this is a hinge point in the season to do a little reassessing of expectations... and to come clean about one big reason why I’ve mostly spoken superficially about this season up until now.

The very first red flag, for me, was when I realized Druck was planning to basically pretend Amira never had a job. That oversight might not seem like a big deal to most, and it’s not like her job was the first thing Druck ever made disappear unceremoniously (remember when Leonie and Sara had other close girl friends? lol) but to me it was a signal that my expectations for Amira’s story (based on her previous strong characterization) had maybe been too high. And I immediately felt a bit cheated.

Amira was already so fleshed out coming into her season. She was demanding, quick-witted, and nurturing. She was fiercely protective of her friends, and even more fiercely ambitious, with a willingness to work harder than anyone to get ahead in life. She was sunny but tough-shelled, with a well-established resistance to trusting any men. And, loving her as much as I do, I felt strongly that she deserved to have plenty of brand new story elements that reflected all those things. To have her own story shaped around her, rather than she herself being reshaped to fit Sana’s story.

But then it was finally her turn to shine, in a Summer season, when it would make perfect sense for her to be on a job grind to earn cash for her trip, and... she’s not working? Huh? She managed to work all through a tough school year, but not her free summer vacation? Why? Because of Druck’s low budget? Because they lacked cohesion in the writing process? Some combination of the two? Yikes. Who knows. But suddenly, nonsensically, they had flushed away the perfect framing to showcase her work ethic, her daily perseverance, and her varied interactions (good and bad) with lots of strange customers around Berlin.

It felt like a bad omen to me somehow. Which wasn’t a great mindset to start the season with. And that was the beginning of me trying very, very hard not to be confused and salty about every little thing I began to perceive as missed opportunities to give Amira a new kind of substance in her story.

For example: While David, Matteo, and Sam began having fun off-screen, working on an bold alien movie, Amira inexplicably had no involvement. She kinda scoffed at the idea when it came up on-screen, then immediately lost interest in the conversation because her man was texting. Fair enough, right? That scene was moving her story forward while generously giving a little shoutout to the meta insta storyline, right? The problem is: the off-screen story ended up seeming much more interesting than watching Amira chilling on her own texting a bunch, and we weren’t even given a reason for her to not be part of it after the whole crew was invited to join in. Imagine if we had followed her onto a shitty little makeshift movie set and seen her reacting to the chaos and strangeness of it. Imagine her finding a resourceful solution to a production hiccup or mediating a creative disagreement while trying to hide her own inner turmoil from her friends. And imagine her having an extremely important conversation with David (and/or Matteo and/or Sam) about the film’s deeper themes of alienation and otherness that they can both sadly relate to.

That’s just one weirdly specific scenario, but there are sooo many other ways I fantasized about Amira bonding with her friends (particularly the ones who aren’t cishet white kids or brand new characters). Talking with one or more of them about what it means to be dangerously marginalized, or to be afraid of letting someone get close to you, or to feel torn in two different directions in life. Maybe something like that could still happen before the season ends, but I’m not counting on it. And I think the time has passed for it to have the biggest impact. It could’ve been amazing (and really narratively useful!) if it happened before the resolution of Amira’s brief conflicts with Kiki, Erva, and Mohammed. We saw a lot of scenes with her looking angry and sad, but we weren’t really privy to much of her thought process during all that reflection, so it felt uncomfortably unearned when problems she once saw as insurmountable were shortly waved aside. I would’ve really appreciated even a short conversation with some good change-of-heart exposition.

And while other people were cheering about all the controversial Sana season conflicts being blessedly truncated or completely stripped away, the whole time I couldn’t stop thinking: “Okay, awesome, but what are they gonna replace that storyline with? Nothing?” And, for the most part, that seemed to be true.

But the problem clearly wasn’t limited to a shortage of well-integrated story threads with Amira at their center. It was arguably also a failure to capitalize on the stories they did use. Instead of getting to watch the emotional fight with her mother about punching someone, and witnessing Amira faced with the threat of losing Australia, we only heard about the drama afterward. Just like we only heard about her family’s religious holiday together. Just like we only got a few texts between Amira and Jonas about the refugee event. And just like how, as I sat typing this, Amira’s mother re-blessed the trip off-screen. On and on goes the list of examples of this unfortunate tell-don’t-show approach, and I’m sure a lot of it can be attributed to low budget and tricky cast scheduling, but the time limit excuse probably doesn’t apply if Amira’s main plot really has been efficiently pared down to 7 episodes.

Don’t get me wrong, I want to reserve final judgment on the season until the credits roll, and there are plenty of good things to say about it in the meantime. Yes, it’s been lovely to see so many gorgeous shots of Tua praying, and boxing, and expressing everything from attraction to anguish to helpless rage. Yes, she and Hassan both did some really strong work selling the magnetic pull between their characters, even in the face of (what I consider to be) an underdeveloped narrative that didn’t totally sell me on the relationship overall. Yes, it was wonderful to have some aesthetically pleasing scenes of the girl squad loving and supporting each other, even if they mostly talked about boys the way Amira hoped they wouldn’t. And obviously just having a story about a strong, kind, devoted hijabi girl is vitally important visibility. So I really haven’t wanted to say anything negative in the face of all that...

... but now I have to say: if you’re feeling cheated and mad about the POV shift, then take some time to consider what else specifically you think should’ve happened to Amira before we entered this resolution phase of her story. It seemed like most people were perfectly happy for her to not face any complex conflict, and not have any lingering hardship to dramatically and triumphantly overcome. Every obstacle getting a relatively swift and easy solution felt underbaked to me, but it was a big relief and source of praise for most people in the tags right up until Amira disappeared from clips. So: in hindsight, how would you have added not just length, but also more compelling drama and greater social impact to her story, so that the extra length felt well-used? It’s really worth thinking and talking about that, even if you’re hesitant to voice any criticism of Amira’s part of the story (even after the season ends, and even if it’s totally constructive) -- because thinking and talking about it is how we’ll get that kind of richer, fuller story in the future.

#druck #amira thalia mahmood #representation #storytelling #amira baby i love you and you deserve the world okay #that's been at the core of my issues all season

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awinger24 · 5 years

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My Issue With Disney Channel’s “Animation Cram Session”, Even the Promo

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Disney Channel’s schedule is very inconsistent with little to no variety except for their live action sitcoms spamming the schedule. This post will be explaining how the channel treats their animated content, even summarized by just one promo.

Just look at one of the schedules courtesy of @disneyschedules

I think this schedule is boring as what Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon are doing with their TV schedules.

Cartoon Network = Spamming Teen Titans Go! and Gumball while shows like Steven Universe, We Bare Bears, and OK KO! don’t get a lot of air time.

Nickelodeon = Spamming SpongeBob and Loud House, even Paw Patrol on it’s preschool block while it’s other shows get aired less and bumped to bad time slots (even some are on NickToons).

Disney Channel = Spamming Raven’s Home and Coop and Cami, also Sydney to the Max (even Bunk’d and Stuck in the Middle before they were removed). The issue is that they are focusing heavily on their sitcoms in terms of scheduling and advertising.

DuckTales and Big City Greens are being promoted regularly but they air at time slots where much of the channel’s demographic is at school. Right now, Big City Greens is seen at 2:30, 3, and 4:30, so it seems to be the only cartoon they care about (a lot like how they treat Phineas and Ferb).

All this but shows like Milo Murphy’s Law, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Tangled: The Series, and Big Hero 6: The Series, are promoted less, even using a same generic promo without any special new ones to hype up audiences, and placed at an inconvenient time slots between 7-9 AM. Even worse is that viewers have to wake up very early even in the Central and Mountain Time Zones.

For example, trying to get up at 5 AM in Colorado to watch Milo Murphy’s Law and Tangled might be difficult unless you set an alarm or go to sleep early. For Arizona, the issue is worse since there is no daylight savings time so, waking up at 4 AM just to watch it is a challenge.

With the four shows I mention, they only air a new episode once and they never rerun while they spam their schedule with the same sitcom repeats.

I have heard the senior vice president in charge of programming at Disney Channel, Paul DeBenedittis, was recently hired by Nickelodeon. Paul seems to be in charge of what we see on the channel. If he is gone, it’s unclear how things will change because Disney ABC Television has a team of executives still in control of the schedule, and we wonder who the new one is. But if Paul left before the spamming of Raven and Coop and Cami reruns, we have no idea if the new Senior VP is behind this.

TLDR: Disney Channel doesn’t schedule their animated content well and overshadows it while they only put so much focus on their Disney Channel sitcoms and stars (I mean Ruby Rose Turner, immediately had a song just after Coop and Cami aired).

Now, on to my next topic. I have some problems with this “Cram Session” promo.

Disney Channel has released a promo in September 2018 promoting audiences about it’s “Animation Cram Session” line up (which even includes Phineas and Ferb, before it was removed in January 2019 because they air it at 6 AM, not at 7.)

The promo still uses the same graphics that Disney Channel uses for it’s bumpers and commercials from 2017 up until February 2019.

https://miguelmonteagudo.com/disney-channel-2017-graphic-package

This was before the channel got a massive overhaul probably to reflect their new sitcom, Sydney to the Max. Appealing to the channel’s demographic of teenagers (mostly girls). Which if you were Walt Disney, this seems out of place from a company that had major successes in its movie divisions, theme parks, and merchandising.

The “Cram Session” promo was voiced over by none other than a man named Jim Pratt.

He has been doing Disney Channel promos/advertising since the 2010s alongside doing voice over for dozens a promos for other networks like TLC and Fox. In 2016, he has replaced the main Disney Channel voice over, Cam “Buzz” Brainard, and he ended up doing nearly every promo for the channel.

The way I describe his voice is “high energy” and “in your face” as a way to hype up people about a certain show or lineup.

http://www.jimprattvo.com/highenergy

Sure when I was very young, I have grown up with the voice overs of Mark Elliot, Brain Cummings, and even Beau Weaver but if I imagined them voicing over for the Disney Channel, they would’ve brought a new meaning of excitement while still keeping that trademark Disney magic.

It’s been updated a few times removing and adding clips from various shows.

- Version 1 (September 2018-October 2018), DuckTales, Big City Greens, Milo Murphy’s Law, Big Hero 6: The Series, Gravity Falls, Phineas and Ferb.

- Version 2 (October 2018-December 2018), DuckTales, Big City Greens, Milo Murphy’s Law, Gravity Falls, Phineas and Ferb.

- Version 3 (January 2019-February 24, 2019), DuckTales, Big City Greens, Milo Murphy’s Law, Star vs. the Forces of Evil

- Version 4 (February 25, 2019 - present), DuckTales, Big City Greens, Milo Murphy’s Law, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure

Because I have seen this a bunch of times, I can even almost identify some of the clips they use from some respective episodes.

DuckTales: The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck!, The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!

Big City Greens: Parade Day, Welcome Home!, Gridlocked (even audio from it), Blue Tater, Family Legacy

Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Season 3 intro, Marco and the King, Puddle Defender, King Ludo, and Toffee

Gravity Falls: Roadside Attraction

Now onto the promo along with the voice overs used.

(We show a sad face of Cricket from Parade Day, then we cut to Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Webby from Last Crash of Sunchaser as they all groan (clip is out of context).

VO #1: Sad not having school on weekends.

Cricket: Aw, man. (Clip is from Blue Tater).

First off, this wouldn’t make sense if you were the channel’s main demographic of 6-14 (or even teenagers if you like some of these shows), because usually cartoons were a bit of a after-school (3-5 PM)/early morning before school (5-7 AM) thing because it was a way of entertaining children, sometimes even teens where their high schools start as early as 7 AM. Usually, children are happy there’s no school on weekends.

VO #2: You can still learn a thing or two with the Animation... Cram Session!

I sorta think think this is tedious and gives a mixed message. Usually real life cramming is a negative effect.

https://www.gavilan.edu/tutor/documents/DONTCRAM.pdf

This PDF page from Galivan College says,

“Cramming deposits information in your short term memory. Material reviewed in cramming sessions is not learned. Some students think they have learned the material and will be able to recall it for the midterm or final. Wrong! It’s gone! The information is generally unavailable to recall after one or two days. So, when students rely on cramming they cheat themselves out of a true education.

Cramming is also more work. It takes longer to learn material when it is done under pressure. Cramming does not save time. Cramming also has its limits. If you haven’t cracked a book in any of your courses, have daydreamed through the classes, or haven’t attended, cramming will not help. Cramming for several courses also doesn’t work.”

To apply this with how Disney Channel schedules their cartoons, they of course only air their animated shows once within the early morning hours of 6-9 AM on Saturday and Sunday. With the fact they only air one new episode of a show once (Milo Murphy’s Law, Tangled, Big Hero 6, Star vs, the Forces of Evil), this makes it even worse for people who don’t have access to DVR, Direct TV/Dish/Premium Cable (Spectrum) with Disney XD, On Demand, and even DisneyNOW, but only get Disney Channel through basic cable.

Once they see the episode once, they might try and remember it, but with different mindsets, it’s highly possible they will forget it and move on with their repetitive sitcom reruns or the next cartoon to cram in. They wouldn’t be able to recall anything from the show, unless it’s amazingly entertaining and appealing thanks to either bright and fast-paced animation, emotional moments, or even the funniest moments.

Also, it seems odd they attached two random clips from two shows and edited them together.

Webby (in The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck): Diamond dagger cuts through anything.

Cricket (in Blue Tater): Wait. Come again?

Well, it does segue into the next voice over but it gets kinda boring once you’ve seen it again and again.

VO #3: Every Saturday and Sunday morning, Cram in... all the adventure!

VO #4: Cram in... all the action!

These two does seems like a generic way to promote a lineup but it is all “in your face”

Now it features clips from the DuckTales episode, Last Crash of Sunchaser.

Dewey: Nothing can’t stop us.

(The plane jerks as Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Webby jerk in a halt too.)

Cut to a later scene

Louie: WE GOTTA GO NOW!!

Launchpad: Now?

Dewey/Scrooge: No!

(Launchpad starts the Jeep)

The scene then cuts to a clip from Big City Greens’ “Blue Tater as the show’s main characters fly out of a shopping cart.

Note: These clips being edited together like that and seeing it over and over again when it comes on during commercials is just flat in some way.

(Shows clips of characters laughing/having fun. One of them is from Gridlocked.)

VO #5: And cram in all the laughs in the Animation Cram Session!

VO #6: Weekend mornings starting at 7 on Disney Channel

Again, the issue with airing these shows once at 7-9 AM seems to be inaccessible for people who want to sleep in. Or don’t know it’s on because they live in the Central and Mountain Zone and it airs 1 and 2 hours early respectively.

Gramma Alice talks to Tilly

Gramma Alice: You kids are smarter than you look.

All set to generic high-energy music (pop/rock/electronic), this “Cram Session” promo just doesn’t make sense and with some of the shows just getting generic promos alongside it, and seeing it a bunch of times with the same clips reused, especially focusing more on DuckTales and Big City Greens, not giving as much spotlight on the other cartoons, makes this a questionable promo.

It all comes together the main issue with how Disney Channel is treating their cartoons.

Bad time slots, little to no promotion, not even individual promotion with the exception of DuckTales and Big City Greens (which the channel favors more than their other cartoons).

Plus this promo is basically saying to the channel’s demographic of 6-14 year olds that you should “Cram In All”.

Sure this seems to be a Saturday Morning cartoon lineup thing but the fact that this is Disney Channel, they choose to put all their animated shows at an inconvenient air time while they spam their sitcoms. It’s more of a lose-lose situation. Milo Murphy’s Law, for example, suffers in low ratings.

Sadly but true, cable is decreasing (even prices are increasing) as Disney is launching its new streaming service, Disney+ very soon. Even DisneyNOW seems to be the current way of watching/streaming shows (with TV provider or Apple TV).

Still, I just don’t see why Disney Channel would spam their sitcoms (alongside Big City Greens which is a good exception), while their animated shows don’t meet up to the potential if the channel airs them at prime time.

To conclude, Disney Channel’s schedule isn’t full of variety, the “Cram Session” promo has some issues, and the future of our favorite shows and how we watch Disney’s TV animated cartoons is uncertain. Also, Disney Channel after Paul DeBenedittis’ departure leaves us in a mystery who is his replacement and how the schedule will change in the future. Plus, I provided you some brief Disney Channel history.

P.S. I hope Amphibia, 101 Dalmatian Street and The Owl House have potential for great ratings if Disney Channel cares for their cartoons more.

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theragamuffininitiative · 6 years

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“Starring Opposite You” recap, aka a monster-length post

This is really long, and it’s me just rambling a bunch of dumb stuff about the night with video links to the songs, so I’m being courteous and inserting a readmore link, because I have no idea how the formatting is gonna come out by the time I’m done. XD

But guys. I got to see Ashley and Jeremy in concert together and it was incredible, and I got to see them afterward too. ^_^

Enjoy!

Ok, far as venues go, Sony Hall is gorgeous. It was cramped seating, but the venue itself was amazing. I got exactly two pictures of it and then my battery died. XD

Before the concert started, @hisloveconsumesme (my amazing traveling buddy who somehow managed to keep this ragamuffin in line) and I were sitting at these long tables that stretched out from the stage toward the back of the venue, so we had to turn sideways for the show.

So. Directly across the room from us was a little round table near the wall, and lo and behold seated there was none other than Melissa Benoist, Jeremy’s costar and the lead from Supergirl, who is on Broadway herself for a limited engagement in Beautiful and came to support her friend for a night of fun. She wasn’t exactly hiding and people kept coming up to get pictures with her and she was very sweet to all of them.

We kept watching that side of the room and by the end of the night almost the whole Squad had shown up so that it was Melissa, Kara Lindsay (JJ’s costar from Newsies) and her husband Kevin Massey, and Corey Cott (Bandstand, and JJ’s replacement in Newsies) and his wife Meg, and the queen herself: Laura Osnes (Bandstand, Cinderella, JJ’s costar in Bonnie and Clyde, and Ashley’s competition/friend from Grease Live). It was so fun not only seeing two of my faves on stage as a fan, but seeing my other faves there enjoying and reacting to everything as friends.

Ok but the songs:

Ashley and Jeremy came out and with zero introduction, they just stood on opposite sides of the stage facing one another, never giving the audience a bit of notice, unlit at the corners of the stage, and sang Castro’s “Automatic”

They stepped closer to each other through the whole song until they were right in front of each other, and then they danced together, and then they spun around and faced the audience for the first time. It may have been my favorite song of the night and this is the only clip I think any one snagged of it, but it was so cute the way they staged it, I love them.

Melissa waved at Ashley from the audience and Ashley smiled so big and waved excitedly back, like how cute.

Then they introduced themselves (”in case you all came to the wrong place” Jeremy joked to the packed room) and gave a little background of what they’ve been in and how the night was their own little celebration of all they’ve done on stage and together and got to talking about how they will get the other person’s showtunes stuck in their head for days. Ashley burned JJ on having to listen to Newsies and Smash back-to-back and honestly they just roasted each other for a bit.

They talked so long about wanting to be in something together, they got tired of waiting so that’s why they did the concert: “Starring Opposite You.”

They had a script. They woefully went off script. They would do 'impromptu' jokes and then be like “this is in the script” and “now it’s your line” and honestly I can’t with these dorks.

Ben Rauhala was shaking his head at them from his keyboard 90% of the entire night, especially when Jeremy said “We didn’t rehearse!” and Ben was 100% done with Mom and Dad.

And then they started singing a medley of all their standards, except that Ashley was singing JJ’s songs and Jeremy was singing her’s ohmygosh

AND IT WAS HYSTERICAL BUT ALSO HOLY HECK GUYS ASHLEY IS SO GOOD.

ASHLEY SLAYED “Moving Too Fast” and “Raise A Little Hell” and “Broadway Here I Come” and “Santa Fe.” Like, don’t think this is anything less than a compliment, but I’ve pretty much come to expect phenomenal performances by Jeremy at this point, but there is not nearly enough content for Ashley AND SHE’S SO GOOD, I CAN’T STOP GEEKING OUT ABOUT IT. I need a cast album with her yesterday.

Jeremy was ‘offended’ that Ashley was doing choreography while he was singing so during “When You Got, Flaunt It” he shouted “Now for the dance!” and started to go for it and Ashley immediately went “No!” and stopped him. XD XD Heaven bless her.

Everybody screamed so loud for Bonnie and Clyde, these are my people.

Please please please, the part at the end where she’s singing “Santa Fe” in Jack Kelly’s accent. I don’t know if that was planned or not because Jeremy was dying on stage and had to fight so hard to get control back for his next bit, send help. XD XD XD

And yeah Jeremy sang “Harden My Heart” and “Hopelessly Devoted” so. um. heck.

He was such a huge dork the whole time, I don’t even know what to say, except to point out that at one point early on - I don’t remember exactly which of his antics got this reaction but does it honestly matter - I looked over and Corey’s wife Meg was doubled over with laughter while simultaneously covering her face with her hands in shame like “please. I don’t know this man. I swear.”

They did a scene from Rock of Ages and sang “High Enough” because they were both in it but not at the same time, so they played their characters opposite each other and it was great. XD

Featuring! Jeremy explaining to the audience he was holding a cassette tape, and Ashley then throwing it on the ground. XD

How did she fall in love with him when he was doing this role, I don’t know, but maybe it’s a good thing because at least she knew what she was in for.

Those harmonies though.

Then JJ grabbed a guitar and talked about old songs he wrote growing up and the whole bit cracked the entire room up

and this video has slightly better audio but without the intro.

Let me just tell you, as someone who taught guitar to middleschoolers for four years: that Green Day song is somehow always the one boys teach themselves on their own and I don’t get it.

AND THEN!!!!

ok ok ok ok ok Jeremy Jordan asdfghjkl singing the love song he wrote to Ashley and their future family, aka “Memories of Loving You”, aka “Ashley’s Song” - THE ACTUAL TITLE, aka my most favorite thing he maybe has ever done alkjfshldfijksdfjhleiudzfknv,fhslidvdxkvnd *broke*

They talked about Riley a lot. Like a lot a lot.

They joked that every time Riley was mentioned, everyone had to take a shot, but Ashley added that you needed to get someone to carry/drive you home. XD

There was a slideshow presentation of all of Riley’s nicknames and I honestly don’t remember most of them (kicking myself over that, because they were wild) but it was everything from like “Ri-ri” and “Riley Bear” to completely different names to long complicated made-up words that didn’t even make any sense - and there were like 30 of these. Most of them were dubbed by Ashley.

I could see Jeremy’s eyebrows doing The Thing while he sang from where I sat. XD

Jeremy was such a Dad because he kept getting distracted by the fact that the slideshow wasn’t keeping up.

I don’t remember which song it was around but Ashley had videos of her as like a three year old toddling around and singing, and this girl already had it from that age, and it was adorable.

The whole night felt like a chance for them to not only star opposite each other, but to swap places. Ashley was showcasing in every performance and song, being silly, but also very much bringing her a-game. Incredible. Jeremy on the other hand, was so incredibly laidback and goofy the whole night, this was the performance from a guy who knows he has nothing to prove and was just enjoying the moment and probably enjoying showing off Ashley for a bit because he never shuts up about how gorgeous and talented she is anyway, and he’s RIGHT.

Ashley talked about how much she was grateful for all the roles she’s gotten to do, but they’ve mostly been pop rock musicals and not anything classical, and so she sang “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” from Showboat

Someone cast her in something quick

And give us a cast recording

I’m begging you.

The Waitress medley. (!!!!!!!!!!)

I can’t.

@hisloveconsumesme kept grabbing me excitedly and if I had been behind her I would have been doing the same thing but basically I couldn’t take my attention off the stage long enough. We were living. Cast them in Waitress too. ;) ;) ;)

Ashley’s so perfect.

I have no words.

Except! Watch Jeremy stand back and be completely enthralled while Ashley is singing “What Baking Can Do.” You could feel the waves of admiration coming off that stage mixing with that coming from the audience.

Now go back and watch it again just to listen to her.

The part during “Bad Idea” where they go “you have a wife / you have a husband” and just shrug and laugh at each other like “yeah: you.” XD XD XD

He did “Run Away With Me”

probably the best he’s ever done it

especially after making a whole point about never doing it because of always messing it up lol.

Also the bit about the pie at the beginning might be what was embarrassing poor Meg Cott.

He did not share the pie.

Ashley singing “Embraceable You” was so precious??

ohmyword listen to her

I’m so uPSET I didn’t get to see her play Polly. *flops*

Literally everything they did was love songs, even when the other person wasn’t on stage for it. Jeremy kept popping back onstage saying things like “aw, you mean me?!” and Ashley just rolled her eyes at him.

These dorks. The 90′s Medley story is great, but what are they doing though, what...what are they.

90s kid me was having flashbacks

EVERYONE CLAPPED AT THE PART and it made Ashley so happy. XD

While Ramin will forever and always be my favorite Jean Valjean, Jeremy came out of freaking left field and sang “Bring Him Home” ????! for us as his final song, complete with a little story intro for his experience with the song.

I was seriously concerned by the fact that he wasn’t taking nearly enough breaths for this piece and I don’t know how he did it skjdflhajdfa

also he can go play that role any time he wants even though I never would have said I wanted it before the concert.

Oh, and when he finished, I glanced over at where Kara Lindsay was sitting and she was crryyyyyyyyyinngg AND I HAD BEEN FINE UP TO THAT POINT BUT HECK. SAME GIRL. SAME.

Seriously.

This is from the second night

Enjoy it all over again.

Ashley’s final song was “Stranger to the Rain” from Children of Eden, and gosh I need to stop forgetting how much I adore Schwartz’ music, so yeah, basically just listen to this and weep.

#PancakeHands

She is so pretty and talented, I’m sorry I’ll stop saying that.

They forgot to introduce the band until the last song lol. Jeremy kept making jokes about how we should all come back the second night because they would get it right then. XD

The final medley of the night was from a bunch of classic musicals, favorites of the Jordans, and wOW.

Medley featuring: “Our Children” from Ragtime, “Follow Your Heart" from Urinetown, “As Long As You’re Mine” from Wicked, “Come What May” from Moulin Rouge, and “Suddenly Seymour” from Little Shop of Horrors.

I think Corey (and Melissa) laughed at every single dumb thing Jeremy did - the “Agony” video sums up their entire relationship I’m pretty sure -except when they went into “As Long As You’re Mine” and Corey’s little Wicked fanboy heart could hardly contain himself.

The whole night I couldn’t decide who I should be watching or when, because when Jeremy was singing, Ashley was still in full performance mode and being brilliant and hysterical and occasionally reverting to expressions of “you utter nerd what are you doing.” On the other hand, whenever Ashley was singing, Jeremy literally stepped back and just watched her like there was no one else in the room and not only like he was watching his favorite singer, but like she was the entirety of his universe and askjflhdjfdf - I can’t with them. Seriously, when you watch the youtube clips, watch the other person during the duets and you’ll see what I mean.

He kept reaching for Ashley’s hand the whole night.

Like, seriously, they held hands so much and it was so cute.

Ashley is such a good dancer. Jeremy used all five of his moves. XD She kept throwing him off by dancing and also giving him A Look if he tried to follow suit.

They came back for an encore and sang “You’re All I Need to Get By”

If I remember correctly they said this was the song they danced to at their wedding, and there was a full slide show of pictures of them (I feel like the slideshow was earlier in the night but if it was, I don’t remember which song, so unless I can see the screens from someone else’s youtube videos lol)

AND JEREMY FORGOT THE LYRICS. “ready for you” he says - NO YOU WEREN’T, JJ. Ashley and Ben kept trying to get him on track and he was so lost. XD

He was embarrassed and did the little double-over-giggling-to-hide-his-face thing I did a gifset of months ago.

Ashley held up her hand with her wedding band while singing “dedicate my life to you.”

I love them.

Standing Ovation.

But

At the end of the night:

After we applauded as loud as we could and laughed and cried.

We went and stood in line, because we had VIP tickets, and we waited for forever and chatted about the show and how incredible it was.

And then we get into this little green room in the back of the venue, and Ashley and Jeremy were taking pictures and saying hi to everyone one at a time. So I go in first, and someone before me had accidentally left their bag on the floor just inside, so JJ and Ashley were very concerned about getting it returned. Person, if you’re reading this, I hope you got your stuff back, but like, I also have a small bone to pick with you, and not actually because I totally tripped upon walking in. Jeremy and Ashley were both all “oh! careful!” (a direct quote from both of them), and very sweet about it lol. Thankfully it was only a little trip and I just laughed it off. XD So we got in and we took each other’s pictures getting a Jordan sandwich hug, and yes Jeremy really is that short, and I’m ashamed to say my brain was thinking “ohmygosh he’s so short” at the very minute I tripped over the bag.

Ashley kind of took over the little meet and greet, because naturally JJ had reverted to his shy off-stage self, and I was actually really okay with that because a) I was slightly concerned people would be all over Jeremy and ignore her and that wasn’t the case at all and b) it was much easier to focus on her and not be an awkward fangirl lol.

We told them “thank you, for everything” (at least, I think so, I was totally not focused at all at that point), and both of them were just so kind and actually thanked us for coming, and hisloveconsumesme got to chat with Ashley for a minute too as the next people where coming in and talking to JJ.

And then that was that. We left. We almost stopped to talk to Ben, but he was talking with a bunch of other people, and we were tiiiiiired. XD

So yeah. I’m sure I’ve forgotten half the night.

But this post is huge anyway. XD

It was a very good night.

@youtube user ren598, idk if you have a tumblr but I owe you for getting all these videos. There are some videos from other people there and from the second night, but these are my favorites, bless you.

Bless Ben Rauhala as well. Idk what the Broadway community would be without him, the King Medley Maker. I love him.

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#ragamusings #starring opposite you #jeremy jordan #ashley spencer #high flying friend #i can't #long post #this took me forever lolol

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Anaconda, Andrew Bogut, and Bones: Adorable little princess with a sensitive soul. Playful, gentle and a little shy. Likes a gentle touch, soft voices and is happy to sit right by her caretaker and to give Risses. 2 s old, 304 lhs smagie TD# 8191 ttan ACC ~ I have been returned ~ Bring the magic home this holiday season by adopting Magic the dog @MACC <3 A volunteer writes: How cute is this? A "big" dog all curled up in a "little" dog bed! True, Magic is a pocket Thoroughbred but still, it is just too adorable! Magic is a bit shy although so glad to spring out of her kennel and be pampered by a court of volunteers. She likes a gentle touch, soft voices, smooth moves and she will then be all yours. She seems happy to sit on a bench right by her caretaker and offers furtive kisses while accepting caresses. Magic is a pleasant walker, a good sitter and according to her former owner, would enjoy to play with balls and toys. Magic would love to be home again, a home that would understand her sensitive soul and make accommodations for it. Come and meet our little princess at the Manhattan Care Center and make her yours, all yours and for ever! MY VIDEO Sweet Magic <3 https://youtu.be/JvvEHV_XhXc Scully and Magic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ1U5kuUHdA MAGIC ID# 8191 Manhattan Animal Care Center (fka Effie ID# A1123832) Manhattan Animal Care Center 2 yrs old, 30.4 lbs Brown / White Spayed Female Returned Reason: Owner surrendering Magic after 9 mos because of behaviour concerns. (was adopted in february 2018) Intake Date: 12-02-2018 SHELTER ASSESSMENT ~ ADULT ONLY HOME No children (under 13) OWNER NOTES / Dec 2018 Basic Information: Magic is a 2 year old brown and white female spayed medium mixed breed dog. Previous owner adopted Magic from ACC last year. She has had her ever since and is surrendering Magic because of her behaviour concerns. Previously lived with: 2 adults How is this dog around strangers? Around strangers, Magic is friendly and outgoing. She will jump on someone to greet them and lick. She is not fond of men and will hard bark or lunge at them. How is this dog around children? Magic has been around children of the ages of newborn to 4 years old. She will bark at toddlers and go after them. How is this dog around other dogs? Magic is friendly with smaller dogs but will lunge and bark at larger dogs. She will pull very hard if she sees a dog on a leash. How is this dog around cats? Magic has been around a cat. she would chase the cat at first but has gotten better and used to the cat so she is now tolerant. Resource guarding: Magic isnt bothered if her food bowl, toys or treats are touched while she is using them. She will bark if someone rings the door bell. Bite history: Magic has never bitten another animal or person before. Housetrained: Yes Energy level/descriptors: Very high energy, friendly, affectionate, playful, confident, independent. Other Notes: Magic enjoys being bathed although she may try to jump out of the tub. She enjoys being held and cuddled. She isnt bothered if she is told to get off of furniture. She never received a nail trimming from her previous owner because Magic goes on frequent walks Has this dog ever had any medical issues? Yes Medical Notes In 2017 Magic was surrendered to ACC with a fractured hip. She received a hip reconstruction surgery and also received therapy to help her walk again. She has no other known medical concerns or issues. For a New Family to Know Magic is a Very high energy, friendly, affectionate, playful and confident dog. Previous owner loves that Magic is a friendly, calm and super active dog. Magic loves to play with kong toys, bones, raw hides and loves treats. She is very active and needs a bunch of play time. She knows commands like sit stay and come. She is not to fond of larger dogs or men. She may attempt to lunge or bark at them. She has been kept indoors only but goes outdoor for walks. BEHAVIOR NOTES / Dec 2018 Upon Intake: Upon intake, Magic had a wiggly body and a wagging tail. She jumped on me as soon as i approached her. She was also panting and lip licking occasionally. She allowed me to collar her pick her up and place her inside of a kennel. Allowed all handling. Means of surrender (length of time in previous home): Owner Surrender (In home for 2 years) Previously lived with: Adults Behavior toward strangers: Friendly and outgoing with some, some men she will lunge or hard bark at Behavior toward children: Barks and runs at them Behavior toward dogs: Lunges and barks at larger dogs, friendly with smaller dogs Behavior toward cats: Chased the cat at first but is now tolerant Resource guarding: None reported Bite history: None reported Housetrained: Yes Energy level/descriptors: Magic is described as friendly, affectionate, playful, and confident with a very high level of activity. Other Notes: Magic will lunge and bark at men, people using wheelchairs or walkers, and large dogs. Magic is reported to snap if her back hip is touched which she previously had surgery on. SAFER SCORES: Date of assessment: 3-Dec-2018 Look: 1. Dog's eyes are averted, with tail wagging and ears back. Allows head to be held loosely in Assessor's cupped hands. Sensitivity: 1. Dog leans into the Assessor, eyes soft or squinty, soft and loose body, open mouth. Tag: 1. Dog assumes play position and joins the game. Or dog indicates play with huffing, soft 'popping' of the body, etc. Dog might jump on Assessor once play begins. Paw squeeze 1: 1. Dog gently pulls back his/her paw. Paw squeeze 2: 1. Dog gently pulls back his/her paw. Flank squeeze 1: Item not conducted Flank squeeze 2: Item not conducted Toy: 1. Minimal interest in toy, dog may smell or lick, then turns away. Summary: Magic approached the assessor with a soft body. She was social throughout the assessment, allowed all handling, and displayed no concerning behaviors. Date of intake: 2-Dec-2018 Summary: Loose body, allowed handling Date of initial: 2-Dec-2018 Summary: Tense, tucked tail, allowed handling ENERGY LEVEL: Magic is described as having a very high level of activity. We recommend long-lasting chews, food puzzles, and hide-and-seek games, in additional to physical exercise, to positively direct her energy and enthusiasm. BEHAVIOR DETERMINATION: ADULT ONLY HOME Recommendations: No children (under 13) Recommendations comments: No children: Due to Magic being reported to run at and bark at children, we recommend an adult only home. Potential challenges: Handling/touch sensitivity Fearful/potential for defensive aggression On-leash reactivity/barrier frustration Potential challenges comments: Handling/touch sensitivity: Magic is reported to snap if the hip she previously had surgery on is touched. It is important to avoid touching Magic's hip at this time. Positive reinforcement, reward based training should be used to pair touch with good things such as food rewards in order to teach Magic to be more comfortable with this. Fearful/potential for defensive aggression: Magic is reported to lunge ad bark at children, men, and people using assistance devices, showing some fear with these things. Guidance from a professional trainer/behaviorist is recommended to assess behavior after decompression in a new home environment. Force-free, reward based training is advised when introducing or exposing Magic to new and unfamiliar situations. On-leash reactivity/barrier frustration: Magic is reported to be reactive to other dogs on leash, lunging towards larger dogs and barking. She is also reported to be reactive to men, children, wheelchairs, and walkers. Magic may need positive reinforcement, reward based training to teach her to look at you rather than other dogs and novel stimuli that may startle her. We recommend a front clip harness or head halter to help manage this behavior MEDICAL EXAM NOTES / Dec 2018 2-Dec-2018 DVM Intake Exam Estimated age: 2 years per our previous records - exam is consistent with this Microchip noted on Intake? Scanned POSITIVE Microchip Number (If Applicable): History : Surrendered. Seen at ACC about 1 year ago with a right femoral fracture; pt had an FHO performed at VERG at that time. She has no other medical concerns. Subjective: Alert, walks well on leash Observed Behavior - Tense, tail tucked between legs, allows all handling Evidence of Cruelty seen - None Evidence of Trauma seen - None Objective BAR-H, MMs pink and moist, BCS 5/9 EENT: Eyes clear, ears clean, no nasal or ocular discharge noted Oral Exam: Clean adult teeth PLN: No enlargements noted H/L: NSR, NMA, CRT < 2, Lungs clear, eupnic, no coughing or sneezing ABD: Non painful, no masses palpated, not distended U/G: Female, small nipples and vulva. Linear ventral abdominal scar that is consistent with a spay scar. MSI: Ambulatory x 4, skin free of parasites, no masses noted, healthy hair coat. Thin scar along the right proximal femur. Good muscling over both hips, but pt is resistant to extension of her right hip. CNS: Mentation appropriate - no signs of neurologic abnormalities Rectal: Normal externally Assessment: Hx R FHO - no medical concerns otherwise Prognosis: Excellent Plan: Placement ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTES FORMER STAY / Intake: 08/30/2017 Magic was EFFIE back in 2017 SWEET 10 MONTH OLD PUPPY GIRL EFFIE WAS BROUGHT INTO THE SHELTER WITH A FRACTURED LEG and YET SHE IS THE SWEETEST GIRL IMAGINABLE. She is so loving, adoring and sweet with humans, seeks comfort, snuggles herself close into the volunteers laps and enjoys belly rubs. Effie also meets other dogs on the leash in the friendliness and most humble manner. Little Effie just loves. Please share this adorable puppy far and wide. She SO deserves to find love with goodhearted people who will give her a wonderful future and will appreciate her warm, sweet heart always. A volunteer writes: Effie has the purest soul and the biggest heart and she welcomes absolutely everyone she meets with nothing but love love LOVE! If you’re in the mood for kisses, snuggles and unconditional adoration then you’ve come to the right dog because that’s all this tiny bundle of cuteness knows how to do or be. She’s still a bit shy of the outside world but getting braver every day and when it comes to being a social butterfly she’s right in her element, snuggling into a lap, stretching up for a smooch or rolling over for some belly rubs. Although too timid to venture far from ‘home’, she walks nicely when crossing the street and doesn’t seem too bothered by her leg injury, trotting along with ease. Given her current medical issues, Effie wasn’t able to go into a rough’n’tumble playgroup but she meets other dogs on leash with polite good manners and the same sweet submissive stance she offers us humans. Sugar and spice and all things nice, that’s what Effies are made of! She was just an itty bitty pittie lost in the big city but now she’s the belle of the Care Center and so ready to find the nurturing home she deserves. Effie can’t wait to snuggle up and enjoy all the TLC and pampering that comes with a loving forever family, will you be the one to make her dreams come true? EFFIE (now Magic) A1123832 MANHATTAN ACC Estimated to be 10 mos old, 32.4 lbs PIT BULL MIX, BROWN, FEMALE STRAY, From NY 10016 INTAKE 08/30/2017 Medical Behavior Evaluation BLUE *** SHELTER ASSESSMENT August 2017: EXPERIENCED HOME *** BEHAVIOR NOTES August 2017: Known History: None SAFER SCORES: Look: 1. Dog’s eyes are averted. Her ears are back, her tail is down, and she has a relaxed body posture. Dog allows head to be held loosely in Assessor’s cupped hands. Sensitivity: 1. Dog sits still and accepts the touch, her eyes are averted, and her tail is in neutral position with relaxed body posture. Dog’s mouth is closed. Tag: 2. Dog is fearful but unresponsive when touched. Approaches the Assessor when the game ends. Dog is crouching. Squeeze 1: 2. Dog quickly pulls back. Squeeze 2: 3. Dog head flips while pulling back paw. Toy: 1. Minimal interest, dog sniffs toy. Summary: Effie appeared fearful at times during her assessment, especially during tag. She sought comfort from the assessor and remained close to her. PLAYGROUP: Effie is not a candidate for off leash interaction due to apparent medical status (lameness in hind leg). When introduced on leash, Effie allows the helper dog to sniff, though does not display any interest in reciprocating greeting, and remains seated in one place. Future introductions should be conducted at a slow pace to respectful dogs. MEDICAL BEHAVIOR: During her initial medical exam, Effie was tense but allowed handling. ENERGY LEVEL: We have no history on Effie so we cannot be certain of his behavior in a home environment. In the care center, she displays a medium level of activity. RECOMMENDATIONS: Experience (suitable for an adopter with some previous dog experience, especially with behaviors outlined below) Potential challenges: _X_Fearful: Effie is a bit fearful at the care center. It is important to always go slow and give Effie the option to walk away from any social interaction. Effie should never be forced to approach anything that she is uncomfortable with or to submit to petting or handling. It should always be Effie’s choice to approach a new person or thing. Effie would do best in an initially calm and quiet home environment and should be given time to acclimate to her new surroundings. MEDICAL EXAM NOTES August 2017 Microchip: negative, did not place Sex: intact female Age: appx 10m-1y Mentation: BARH Eyes: clear Ears: clean Nose: no d/c Teeth: no staining If abnormal BCS: WNL 5/9 Skin: WNL Hair Coat: WNL Declawed: N/A Any injuries: RHL lame, can place on ground when resting but non weight bearing when walking, too painful to palpate (seems like cruciate tear) Behavior: allows handling but tense and nervous, painful but seeks comfort in handler Medication: oncall DVM rec 75mg rimadyl PO for night, preventatives given RE-EXAM 09/01 : Hx: Found outside, brought to police who brought to ACC. Lame on RHL – rads show likely fracture of right femoral neck. Bone-opacity foreign objects in stomach – likely from a recent meal, no concerns for obstruction at this time. Mild papular pyoderma on ventral abdomen. On Rimadyl, Tramadol. S: Alert, energetic outside kennel, walks around willingly and allows most exam O: BAR-H, MMs pink and moist, BCS 4.5/9 EENT: No discharge OU, AU, nose. Clean adult teeth, canines almost fully erupted but not quite. H/L: NSR, NMA. Eupnic, quiet BV sounds Abd: Soft, nonpainful M/S/I: Toe-touching lameness on RHL, mild crepitus palpable in right stifle and hip. Good muscling in RHL when compared to LHL. Pt painful and muzzle-punches when I press on right hip. A: Fracture RHL, Mild pyoderma on ventrum, Bones in stomach Prognosis: Good P: Changing age to 10 months to reflect dentition. Start Clavamox 250 mg PO BID x10 days – continue until pyoderma is resolved. Increase Tramadol dose to 100 mg PO BID x10 days. Recommend orthopedic consult soon after placement. Temporary waiver from surgery for fracture and pyoderma ---------------------------------------------------------------- *** TO FOSTER OR ADOPT *** If you would like to adopt a NYC ACC dog, and can get to the shelter in person to complete the adoption process, you can contact the shelter directly. We have provided the Brooklyn, Staten Island and Manhattan information below. Adoption hours at these facilities is Noon – 8:00 p.m. (6:30 on weekends) If you CANNOT get to the shelter in person and you want to FOSTER OR ADOPT a NYC ACC Dog, you can PRIVATE MESSAGE our Must Love Dogs page for assistance. PLEASE NOTE: You MUST live in NY, NJ, PA, CT, RI, DE, MD, MA, NH, VT, ME or Northern VA. You will need to fill out applications with a New Hope Rescue Partner to foster or adopt a NYC ACC dog. Transport is available if you live within the prescribed range of states. Shelter contact information: Phone number (212) 788-4000 Email [email protected] Shelter Addresses: Brooklyn Shelter: 2336 Linden Boulevard Brooklyn, NY 11208 Manhattan Shelter: 326 East 110 St. New York, NY 10029 Staten Island Shelter: 3139 Veterans Road West Staten Island, NY 10309

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tomoyanosekai · 6 years

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鎖を破れ！燃やせる情熱の心～Creation from Destruction～ (Kusari wo Yabure! Moyaseru Jounetsu no Kokoro: Break the Chain! A Burning Heart of Passion)

As I sit by my desk at home, the window’s open and I feel a gentle breeze passing through. “It’s peaceful.” That’s the only thing I can think of at this moment, while I sit there taking in the spring wind, and trying to allow myself to relax. Everything’s over, but even if everything is over, why can’t I just sit here and try to enjoy the breeze and this current state of peace? As the wind continues to blow on through, I find myself reminiscing on words from two years ago.

“Chad, we see you as a moodmaker. Every time we saw you walk in, you would lift the mood up in the room. You’re a passionate guy who wouldn’t hold back in showing his passions.”

It was about two years ago when I remember hearing those words, as I accepted my role as a Hope Rising officer and accepted the qualities that the past officers saw in me, even though I wasn’t sure why they saw that in me. As April came and went, a lot has happened already within this semester as it comes to an end. Although this semester wasn’t too bad, I can easily say that this whole semester destroyed me. Have I made mistakes? I made a whole bunch. Did I stretch myself too far? Probably. However, even if I was destroyed, I can still come back from it. As Beerus from Dragon Ball Super has said,

“Before creation, there must be destruction.”

And just like that, throughout the past semester, I witnessed my own destruction.

To begin somewhere, this semester has been slightly decent in terms of classes. However, outside of class, and into my personal life… Well, I’ve been destroying myself. How exactly have I destroyed myself? Simply put, I’ve kept fighting, and through every struggle and trial, although I’ve somehow overcome everything, all of this came at a price. I lost sight of myself, and as a result, I lost sight of the world around me and exhausted myself. I’ve been putting a lot of strain and stress on myself, to the point of where the pressure basically crushed me, and my passions have burned too brightly, to the point of where it burned itself out. A lot of this could be my neglect for my own mental health, since I’ve gotten to a point of where almost literally everything and everyone around me has irritated me. However, it’s ultimately been my fault for neglecting my own self care, since my life has either consisted of either Hope Rising (expect a lot of mention of them in this post) or a focus on grades. Considering Hope Rising, this makes more sense since the club has been doing meetings on a weekly basis, and the officers and I hang out a lot outside of club. Due to the club meeting schedule or classes, I personally feel that there has been no time for easy breathing in my life, or connecting with others outside of that for any other communities. Added on with more drama that came through various parts of life from every month, such as me getting angry with friends in January, coping with my actions in February, welcoming a new addition to the family and hearing about how he got hospitalized (but is now fully recovered, thank God) in March, and last but not least, being put in the middle of a bunch of circumstances that I never asked for, but in the end couldn’t leave alone in April. Added on with the pressure of class and helping with club activities and just life, everything here alone is enough to crush a person. And very honestly? It broke me very thoroughly.

As of recently, one of the biggest hype trains in pop culture right now was the recent release of the movie, The Avengers: Infinity War. In preparation for that, I decided to watch through clips of all the Marvel movies I hadn’t seen yet. One of those movies was Thor Ragnarok. Throughout that movie, the main character Thor loses his trademark hammer, the Mjolnir, as it was broken when fighting against the antagonist of the movie, Hela, the God of Death. Although it was a fun movie, one of the subplots was the fact that Thor had to come to terms about losing the Mjolnir, and find his true strength and identity beyond what he found was his own self defining trait. There was one scene that I really liked, which was a scene where Thor was having a mental conversation when being cornered by Hela. The person he was speaking to in this conversation was his father, Odin.

Thor: “She’s (Hela) too strong. Without my hammer, I can’t-”

Odin: “Are you Thor, the God of Hammers? That hammer was to help you control your power, to focus it. It was never your source of strength.”

...

Thor: “I’m not as strong as you.”

Odin: “No... You’re stronger.”

Yes, this semester may have destroyed me. However, in destroying myself, through both the pressures holding me down and my passions, I can only get rebuilt even stronger than before, just like how I was rebuilt in January. However, the difference between then and now is that I feel that I’m breaking free from the labeled chains that were weighing me down. Many of my friends have said that I need to “get rid of that heroic main character mindset altogether,” when reading through last month’s entry. Ultimately, they’re right. That may have been a thing in the past, but in the end, that was never the source of my true identity, and I need to break free from that chain, whether or not I had self confidence come from there. I needed to be more honest with myself. I’m not “Chad, the main character of this story.” Within these past few weeks, I’ve been feeling the chains of that Main Character mindset break behind me, along with many other chains while I’ve been destroying myself. The remains of what used to be me is going to be molded into something even stronger, into a “more genuine me.” The one question I proposed to myself was this: “Was the heroic mindset the only thing that allowed me to keep doing good for others?” No, that heroic character was not the thing that allowed you to be a good person. At some point in time, it’s time to drop the hero pretenses, and just be me.

On one end, although that heroic persona was a heavy chain that weighed me down, it also tried to become a cover for my true self, but ultimately became a cover that tried to dim a light, illuminated by a flame within my heart. That flame is a passion and love for other people that burns intensely within me, and is burning through and beyond my past self. On the flip side, just as fire can mean destruction, it also can mean creation and life. Even though that passion within me is burning away that previous, “heroic” construct of me, it is allowing me to recreate myself into becoming a vessel that can contain my passion and heart for others even more, and show my true self. People around me have said that I have an extremely big heart that I wear on my sleeve, and honestly, they’re not wrong. The words of various friends around me have, and are continuing to help me find my true self.

“You’re a good man. Never forget that. You’ve got a big heart for others who will run to their aid at the drop of a pin, and you shouldn’t be ashamed of that.”

“You rolled with the punches when things got hard. You would always continue to smile, and dive in without any hesitations.”

“...You would always check in on us and see if we needed prayer, and always worry about us.”

“You usually were the one to pick us up, and reminded us to take life easy.”

“You would always help and listen to me whenever I had any problems.”

“You kept on thinking of the attendees and everyone else and kept the original vision of Hope Rising in mind when we didn’t.”

In all honesty, I usually find it hard to shed tears out of sheer sadness, anger, or frustration. However, it’s through these collective and precious words given to me by the friends around me, whom I felt annoyed with at some point, did I truly begin to tear up after trying so hard to continually fight against these thoughts until the end and deny my self value to others. These words will continue to ring loudly and resound within my heart. I will never stop helping others if I see them need help. The genuine self I’m looking for is a person whose kindness is rooted from a passion and love for others. It’s easy to know when God is trying to tell you something, whether it be through your friends, or through an encounter.

When you pray for anything, whether it be clarity or a sign, God will answer. There was one week where I had been doubting my own passions for Japan, as well as my overall role in Hope Rising. However, God works in wondrous ways, which is something I can’t even comprehend, since I felt he spoke to me directly through a small encounter. There was one day where I didn’t have class on a Wednesday afternoon, and I decided to go get lunch that day, which was something I usually never did. When I went out and got lunch, I found that there were young Japanese Students touring Biola, and I went out and approached them. The first person I approached was the Japanese Teacher/Chaperone, where I simply asked where they came from in English, since they had such a large group, and I didn’t want to make any assumptions in the event I was wrong. Because I approached their group, an American tour guide came up to me and told me that they were from Japan, and from there, I began to speak Japanese. Everyone from that group seemed surprised, and the American Tour Guide asked me if I knew about the Japanese Club on Biola’s campus, where I was happy to say that “I’m one of their leaders.” From there, that opened the doors to an opportunity that allowed me to have small conversations with the students, as well as the teachers. Although this was a seemingly small encounter, it was through this small encounter where I found my reason for why I have a passion for Japan, and why I’m a leader in Hope Rising. My heart bleeds for the youth of Japan, who don’t know their future, despite the pressures that come with it. Through telling them that I was a leader in Hope Rising, given my background, I could show them that there are Japanese people who are Christian. Simply “I am blessed to be a blessing,” and I want to be a blessing for the youth of Japan who are worried about their future, and show them that the future isn’t dependent on pressure from society.

Ever since the Hope Rising Retreat happened, I saw many of my friends come into their full potential. Although I was able to see them come to what I can currently see as their “fullest potential,” I know that as I am now, I’m close to reaching it as well. Something one of my friends told me during the Hope Rising Retreat that I should’ve been proud of was the fact that I turned the a campground full of people who had different cultural backgrounds, into a place that brought everyone together and had an enjoyable time. Although this semester marks the end of my Junior Year, it also marks the beginning of my journey towards truly re-finding and re-defining who I am. I am no main character or hero; that chain is broken. I am not defined by Hope Rising; that club is not who I am. I am defined by the heart God has given me, and will strive to continue to walk towards the person God intends me to become with a heart burning full of passion. I’m simply at the cusp of coming into my fullest, deepest, untapped potential. Although a lot of my friends from Hope Rising will be in Japan this summer, I won’t be there. Although it frustrates me and makes me jealous on many degrees, it’s simply not my time yet, and I need time to grow as a man. As it’s written in Ecclesiastes 3:1,

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”

This is not my time to be out in Japan, even though my friends will be there. However, since they’re there, this is my time to focus and try to come into that full potential I’m at the cusp of reaching.

Four months, here we go. Time to become stronger than before. To those friends who gave me those words of affirmations, thank you. I’ll see you all soon.

“From here on out, it’s my stage!!”

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TMR TALKS TO... SPEELBURG | The Most Radicalist

In this interview feature, we get to know the most radicalist up and coming stars on the planet. This time we spoke with Los Angeles-based Belgian-American polymath musician Speelburg. Every so often, an artist makes their way into the hearts and minds of the TMR team and then we simply can’t bear to part ways. Noah Sacré, aka Speelburg, is one such talent. Going through our archives, you’ll find ‘Kline’, ‘Lay It Right’, ‘Gleason’, ‘Sauvage’ and ‘Pulse Of A Million’. Recently, we heard the intoxicating sounds of ‘Oxy Cotton Candy’; a vibrant alt-pop tune with surfy undertones, psychedelic sweeps, theatrical melodies and Speelburg’s unique perspective permeating the lyrics. Safe to say, ‘Oxy Cotton Candy’ is another winner in our books. What’s more, this track adds to the imminent excitement for Sacré's upcoming album release, Character Actor. The record feature tracks you can go wrap your ears around right now - ‘Screener Season’, ‘Headlights’ and ‘Lizarz’. Introductions aside, have a notepad and pen at the ready because, as you’ll discover, Sacré is bursting with recommendations from tracks to films to movie soundtracks to other miscellaneous goodies for your attention.

TMR: Hey Noah, so we hear you’ve spent the last two years making “pop music for important people.” Who are these people and how have they inspired you? Hey there! At the risk of sounding too mysterious, I’m not gonna tell you who they are as a lot of it is about to come out. BUT I will say that these important people are, for the most part, excellent human beings with way too much talent. It’s been incredible learning how to write quickly. When I started writing for other people, I kinda sucked. I was way too tunnel-vision-y about songs, too much of a solo act. The artist and I would talk at great lengths and get nothing done and I was maybe too obsessed on making a good impression as someone who knows what they’re doing. About two and a half years ago, that changed and it’s been a joy ever since. I think if, like me, you’re a producer, performer and songwriter, people expect different things from you and you can get confused about what it is you actually want to contribute to the song, but now, I’m actually happy to wear all three hats and jump in. Most sessions I do now last about 4 or 5 hours - we get in, talk a little, then start writing. Normally, the singer or artist is working on vocal melodies and some lyrics. In the meantime, I basically split my brain in two whereby I’ll start producing the track, often starting with drums and, at the same time, adding vocal and lyric ideas. Ddmittedly, you’re pretty tired at the end, but you come out with a near finished track, and that’s the coolest feeling. I really can’t wait to tell you all about them. TMR: You’ve just released a new woozy number by the name of ‘Oxy Cotton Candy’. It’s full of vibrant synths and off-kilter imagery, like the movies playing backwards, for example. What’s this song about? Well, it’s about a few things. A lot of my songs tend to have two parallel themes swimming in tandem, and occasionally, I get to cross the streams. I also think it’s super important to let people interpret the track for themselves before you get too deep. Like, I can give you my version of the directions, but it’s probably more fun if you make the trip yourself. I will say this: I am proud of that title, and I find it funny that I managed to mention one of my other songs ‘Kline’. That was weird and fun. This whole song is very weird and very fun… to me anyway! TMR: It sounds like it was a fun song to make, do you enjoy the song-making process or do you hit that writer’s block from time to time? Yeah, this was such a blast to write! I often write and produce songs at the same time, but on this album, I did most of the writing on my little nylon acoustic in my living room, often in my underwear. A lot of these songs were just written kind of carelessly, just to make myself laugh. That’s not to say they’re joke songs or anything, it’s just that, because I wrote it while finishing my big shiny debut - which is actually coming out after this one - I was less precious. After I wrote it, I hit up Laurie and recorded drums in his studio, which probably took 25 minutes. We must have done like 3 or 4 takes, which I comped together later at my studio, where I then did all the guitars, bass, synths and vocals. I really like that synth sound during the solo. Kind of spacey, like same vibe as the solo in ‘Rosanna’ by Toto. That song rules. I love the chord progression in ‘Oxy Cotton Candy’. On this album, there’s a lot of weirder, jazzier delicious chord progressions, that will even change key from verse to chorus. Man, I really hope it doesn’t suck! It’s very possible I’ve made a weird pop record just for me. In terms of writer’s block, I think I may have had a stretch while writing the debut where I was having trouble writing vocals and just producing a lot of music, so even though you’re still being productive, it feels like no songs are getting done and feels like you’re going nowhere. But i’m over that now. I think writing completely different styles helps put you in that less precious frame of mind. Be it for “important people” or commercials. I’ve written for a lot of commercials now, and though it can be a competitive business, it’s also super fun to explore new sounds and production styles that you might not have thought to explore yet. You pick up a ton of new tricks. Also, and it sounds super obvious, but listening to music - really works. It’s real easy to forget there’s a whole treasure trove of recorded music at your fingertips when you’re so focused on yourself, but honestly, listening to other people really, really helps with getting motivated to make something of your own. I used to watch skate videos, get so hyped up, I’d head right out and spend all day trying to nail a new trick. I still get that feeling when I watch skate clips online, except I don’t really skate anymore. I would really hate to bust my wrists. TMR: ‘Oxy Cotton Candy’ is more psychedelic than what we’ve heard from you before, have you been listening to more music of that genre lately? Yes and no. Probably. I’m constantly shazaming stuff, old or new stuff just ends up in this season’s playlist. But the record wasn’t born from trying to sound like anyone else but me. That probably sounds like a really pretentious interview answer and I don’t mean it that way. I just mean, there are songs I’ve written where I go “oh that’s this person or that person”, some songs I can trace a direct family tree of my influences, but on this one, even though that may still be possible at times, I feel like it’s exactly my voice. TMR: When you’re stuck for what to listen to, who are the bands and artists that you return to? I was just a wedding where they played four hours of Belgian happy hardstyle and one Good Charlotte song. That was wild. Also, I’ve been learning the soundtrack to West Side Story on the guitar to try and figure out cool new things to do with strings. Also, anything Blake Mills has ever touched is divine, especially his two first solo records. And Rostam too. Also, LCD Sound System and Foxygen and Andy Shauf and Unknown Mortal Orchestra and The Avalanches and BADBADNOTGOOD and Toro Y Moi and Randy Newman and Paul Simon all the time. Also, those new Julia Jacklin, Steve Lacy, bLAck pARty and Vulf albums are amazing. Also, Demis Roussos’ ‘Someday Somewhere’ is waiting to be covered. By me. Along with ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ by Glen Campbell. I also wanna give a very special mention to the new Muunjuun album that deserves the entire world’s attention. He just set a new benchmark. TMR: ‘Oxy Cotton Candy’, along with tracks ‘Headlights’ and ‘Lizarz’, are set to feature on your new album, Character Actor. Are there any themes which run through the record? Yeah I’d say that the general theme for this record and a lot of my work is based around movies and television. Especially Character Actor. Whether it’s on ‘Rabbit’, a song about two kids watching Are You Afraid Of The Dark and Clueless while someone is watching them from the attic or ‘Toucan’ in which two actors are in a love scene and one is hoping it can keep going, so the bubble never has to burst. And of course, there’s the album opener ‘Screener Season’. I was flirting with the idea of a movie-based concept album a couple years ago, and I think I accidentally made a version of that. TMR: The album also explores your love for cinema, what attracts you to this artform? I think it’s just another way of telling a story. Plus, i really love IMDB trivia. There’s something about people’s attention span that means they’ll sometimes focus on a video more than they would if you just played them the audio. And yeah, I think getting into directing myself has obviously informed a lot of my interests. I love storyboarding, I love editing, and I love acting and just being on set, and seeing it all come together in the end is as satisfying as finishing and releasing a song. There’s a real feeling of the town coming together to build the barn, and then you get to celebrate. Having directed the last bunch of videos, the release of music and visuals is a symbiotic one. I feel like I’m always learning more. I graded the video for ‘Oxy Cotton Candy’ which comes out this week and I took what I learned from sitting in with my buddy Jeb on ‘Screener Season’ and rolled with it. I love just having a problem and figuring it out, even if there’s a few little kinks sometimes, who cares? You’ll just get better next time. TMR: Evidently the relationship between cinema and music is a long committed one, do you take inspiration from film soundtracks as well? Yeah, I’ve loved film soundtracks for as long as I can remember. One of my dreams is to be a music supervisor on a movie or tv show. I always really loved what David Holmes did with the Ocean movies. That kind of 60’s italian thing. So freaking coooool. I really wanna make a record with him one day. That new project he’s in ‘Unloved’, especially that track that was in the Apple commercial. Hot dang that sounded fun. Oh and recently, I thought the soundtrack to Booksmart was amazing. There’s some soundtracks where I like to be surprised by some beautiful little nuggets like The Darjeeling Limited, and there’s some where I’m like every track is a hit. Every track I was like shit! i love that song!” going from Anderson .Paak to Perfume Genius to LCD Soundsystem made an already amazing movie into an instant classic. Oh and Master Of None and Easy. I love both of those soundtracks. In terms of composition for movies, I’ve got a couple projects in the works but I’m going to be doing a lot more of that this year. Writing to picture is such a fun process. I’ve been on a sci-fi composition thing recently, some bigger budget stuff. It’s so fun. Obviously all synths are going to sound like Close Encounters now. TMR: We’re especially drawn to the pensive ‘Screener Season’, which holds the lyric “all the recognition doesn’t mean that you’ll feel better, / A good idea will keep you up.” Is this a mindset you’ve experienced or are you taking note from another? Aw thanks! I’m super proud of that song. Similarly to ‘Oxy Cotton Candy’, I wrote it in my living room, recorded drums at Laurie’s, did everything else at my studio. It was one that, when I played it to friends, I really got that reaction you look for. Like, sometimes you’ll play a song to someone and you’re trying your best to not show that you’re obviously gauging their reaction, but here it was great feelings from start to finish. It for sure informed a bunch of the production choices I made on the rest of the record. A lot of that tape vibe, a lot of the background noises, the strings and the mellotron stuff too. I can fall asleep so easily. I’m very lucky in that respect. That said, I’ve had some nights where my brain is whizzing around at 100 miles per hour thinking about video stuff, album stuff, lyric ideas - which you should ALWAYS write down when you think of them or else they will be gone by morning. Sometimes it’s good not to fight it or beat yourself up about your brain being on. Overflowing with ideas is a great feeling. TMR: While we’re waiting for the album, do you have any live dates or anything else fans should keep an eye out for? Yeah! I got this nice show I’m going to be announcing in the next week or so, so keep your eyes peeled over at @speelburg, also a few commercials and TV soundtracks in the works. Just waiting for the green light. Oh and i’ve got TWO albums coming out. Yey! The second one is Character Actor and she comes out later this summer. The first one will be out shortly after that. Also the video for ‘Oxy Cotton Candy’ that I directed comes out this week. The next single will be out in early August. Oh and I’m finishing this cartoon I’ve been voicing and animating and I’ve got a monthly spotify playlist launching in a couple weeks. Oh and i’m heading out on tour in the fall! And i’m working on the next two EPs. This was fun. You guys rule!

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boydchloe · 4 years

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nickgerlich · 4 years

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What We Have Learned So Far

I remember back to the 1970s, when I was a mere teenager. My Dad the Accountant was also the purchasing agent for our family. It was a task in which he prided himself and his squeezing-blood-out-of-turnips ways. He shopped with ruthless cunning and laser precision. This explained why our basement had metal shelves lined with enough canned goods to get us through a nuclear fallout, because Dad was the kind of guy who would find corn on sale, and then buy the whole case.

My friends used to make fun of me. “Are you guys planning on World War III?” they would ask. Nope. Dad was just being a good shopper, so we shut up and ate corn.

But suddenly I realize that Dad was ahead of his time, while at the same time, a product of his times. He grew up during the Great Depression, so he knew the value of a nickel saved, a paper clip, piece of string, even an empty beer can with its top removed to use as a pencil holder. This is not just quaint nostalgic yearnings, it’s the new survival strategy. I suspect if you went into many American pantries these days, you would think my Dad had paid them a visit.

While the first documented US case of coronavirus happened on 20 January 2020, it wasn’t until the last two weeks that we really stood up and paid much attention here. In that short time, we have learned many things, about ourselves, about our society. Here are a few:

No one is happy right now. We are filled with anxiety. We’re stress-filled, and easily provoked by the littlest thing someone might do to us in public. I get it. When your world is turned upside down, it’s easy to take it out on others. Even though only a tiny tiny fraction of our 330 million people will contract COVID-19, there is still the chance it could happen. Given the fact that we are all told to stay home, one has to wonder what the social outcomes will be down the road. Will there be a baby boom next winter, as some chirpy people suggest? Or will the added stress lead to divorces? Worse yet, not if, but when, will there be shopping cart rage and shootings in shops as people fight over scarce commodities?

What we once took for granted, we may never do so again. Remember when we could go to a supermarket and they would have everything we needed? Yeah, me too…about two weeks ago. I remember my first semester at WT, when I had a young Polish emigre in my Principles of Marketing class. She told of life in the mother country, still reeling under years of an oppressive regime. She spoke of being overwhelmed by all the choices we had in America, because in Poland, it wasn’t about which bread, it was about whether there was any bread at all. If you saw a queue forming outside a store, you got in line without even knowing why you were there, under the assumption that someone knew something you did not, and you better not miss whatever was available.

How sad that we now think the same thing. We blindly get in line before opening hours in hopes that shelves have been restocked during the night. And for that matter, every other aspect of our lives, from dining out to movie theatres, concerts, sporting events, and more, are all out the window right now. We have our Netflix, as long as they don’t cut the bandwidth to save the internet for everyone now engaged in online learning. 

Cheap gas is nice, but if you can’t go anywhere, it is worthless. With a barrel of oil around $24, dealers are practically giving gas away. Today, you can get gas for $1.69 a gallon in Amarillo. The only problem is that, with so many people sent home to work, shops closed, and everyone hunkering down, there’s really nowhere to go other than the grocery. Oh, for fuel this cheap when we are able to take road trips. This is nothing but a false positive externality of the coronavirus crisis.

Agile companies and organizations will survive, while the others will be weeded out quickly. We will definitely lose a lot of businesses during this pandemic, especially mom-and-pop businesses. There are more businesses than we realize that are only one or two months away from bankruptcy, mirroring the condition of many citizens who are similarly skating by, month-to-month. Are you in the restaurant business? Why haven’t you considered takeaway before? Have a retail shop? Why haven’t you gone online yet with a commerce-driven website and/or mobile app? Teach at a university? Why haven’t you pushed yourself a little the last two decades by developing at least one online course?

Furthermore, this will cause many businesses, organizations, and even governments to reconsider how business is done, but only among those that survive. Does it necessarily have to be face-to-face? Why can’t it be done electronically? Does it have to be done the old way forever?

I do not need to eat out anywhere near as much as I once did. I have been moving in this direction for the last few months anyway in an effort to eat more healthily, as well as because I am enjoying teaching myself to cook. But with restaurants off-limits in most areas, and everyone my age being urged to have a month’s worth of provisions on hand, my pantry runneth over. And you know what? I am enjoying it. Even with my beginner’s skills and tools, I can put together a mighty tasty dinner. My oldest daughter often joins me in this endeavor, and she, better than I, produce some amazing meals. Guess what? We are saving money. We are eating very healthily. And I am losing weight. Lots of it. Yay, us! Of course, that’s bad news for the restaurants if they are able to survive this tragedy, because I may not return there as frequently as I once did.

Many more people are now getting exposure to e-commerce, curbside pick-up, and home delivery. This could forever change the way we buy things, making it difficult for those unable or unwilling to evolve. This goes far beyond the native convenience of it all, and even the social distancing aspect. I, for one, do not want to purchase items that have been handled, tried on, manipulated, etc., by others.

What people purchase during times of panic reflects their worst fears. Panic is irrationality at its worst. It causes us to do things completely out of character, and when it comes to purchasing, it causes us to buy things that make no sense whatsoever. The elephant in the living room right now is toilet paper. The coronavirus does not even cause diarrhea, so there’s no worry in that department, yet Americans and others worldwide have gobbled up virtually every available roll. One report I read said that we bought 60 days’ worth of toilet paper in three days. A standard 18-roll pack should last a minimum of one month, and quite possibly two months, in a two-person household.

So why did everyone hoard this most basic commodity? Simple. Because everyone fears having to take a dump and not having paper with which to wipe. Never mind starvation or more important matters; we just want to be clean down there. I want to be clean, too, but I’m not going to go crazy on inventorying it. A second fear is bottled water. Really? Unless our public utilities also break down, we’re going to have tap water. So picture this: We are a bunch of defecation dehydrophobes. I don’t like that mental picture.

The food people are buying reflects our rather pedestrian American cuisine, which also turns out to be our comfort foods. The American diet is a mash-up of various international influences and regionalized adaptations, along with some items of our own making. To be honest, I don’t think it is all that good. It is rather bland, favors sauces that happens to red, and probably puts more emphasis on the centerpiece—meat—than is healthy. But that’s a discussion for another time.

Folks are buying the things they know how to prepare, because going out to eat is out of the question unless you can live with takeaway, and people are buying the things that will provide comfort and hope during a time of discomfort and seeming hopelessness. If pounded steak and potatoes make you feel good, then by all means, eat it. It also means that my rather esoteric tastes and dietary preferences are pretty safe. This is one time that being in the minority has its benefits. All of my stuff is still abundant.

People will rearrange their schedules to go shopping if there is hope that a scarce item has been replenished overnight. When was the last time you went grocery shopping at 7:00am? I did it this week, and was not the least bit surprised to see about two dozen others out there, milling about in the pre-dawn moonlight. Many stores have now trimmed their operating hours to allow more time for thorough overnight cleanings and restocking, as well as to accommodate seniors-only shopping hours, but the long and the short of it is simple: We’ll do whatever it takes if we think we might find a roll of toilet paper or canister of Lysol. Think about this. Aside from Black Friday, when was the last time you engaged in cart-to-cart contact for a limited supply of products?

We are social animals, and we are already starting to miss each other. I can see it on social media already. We want…no, we need…human interactions, whether it is at church, the pub, the workplace, the classroom. All of those have been taken from us in short order, and it did not take long for us to feel that immense loss. Thankfully, we have social media to stay in touch, and inexpensive calling plans to just say hello. Reach out and touch your loved ones, maybe not physically, but at least electronically. It may be a while before we can hug, kiss, even shake hands. But we can still communicate.

There will always be defiant, belligerent people among us. This is the scariest part. There are many folks taking to social media trying to downplay the importance of this matter, dissing the statistics that shows this to be a highly communicable disease with a much higher mortality rate than the common flu. Worst yet, I have seen some of my former students echoing these refrains online. Now more than ever we must use reasoning and logic to filter through the news, all of it, from real to fake. This is a very real contagion that can grow exponentially if left unabated. Interventions of the highest order are necessary to throw speed bumps in its growth. This is not a conspiracy from any political party; it is a global pandemic that knows no borders nor ideologies. Don’t blow off the truth; don’t dig your heels in the dirt and embrace nonsense claptrap that ignores the magnitude of this situation.

We use social media to vent our frustrations and anxieties. And argue. It is sadly ironic that the very tool intended to bring people together has also made it possible for oceans of discontent to rage between us. Give someone a microphone, and suddenly they feel like they are back in high school debate. But more than that, I see raw emotions in people’s posts…the empty shelves, the shuttered stores, the empty parking lots. The mere act of photographing, composing a caption, and posting them is cathartic in that it lets us release those pent up emotions. My advice going forward: skip the arguing, but keep posting your photos and words. If anything, we are all now citizen journalists documenting history in the making. Can you imagine nearly everyone in 1918 had a decent camera in their pocket or purse, and snapped hundreds of photos of the pandemic that year? We would have a much better record had this all been available. We do, so keep shooting and posting.

Finally, we need to love our educators. They have all been forced to do things they may or may not know anything about as they transition to online. For some, it has been easy. For others, it is like being thrust from knowing miles, pounds, and quarts, and suddenly having to use kilometers, kilograms, and liters. We are doing our best to make sure the learning continues, with or without the comforts of the classroom. We all have to make the best of the situation. And I offer encouragement to students for whom online learning is unfamiliar. It’s not perfect, but neither is the classroom. Keep an open mind, and trust your educator. We’re not doing this for ourselves.

I know that I could go on, and there is certainly much more we will learn in the days and weeks ahead. And that’s right—weeks. I am not hopeful that we will return to what we consider to be normal for quite some time. This is the new normal. All I know is that my dad was right. Life could get tough again, maybe not quite like it was in the 1930s, but certainly a far cry from what we all know as the American way. In the end, though, it will make us tougher. Our steely resolve will help us get through this, and prepare us for whatever the future may hold.   

Now who wants some corn?

Dr “Going The Distance“ Gerlich

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what is the one thing you remember most about january of last year? I was taking a Public Relations elective then and we got free tickets to a PPV for ONE Championship because they’re a client of my prof’s PR firm. I initially got just one ticket, but I had a couple of friends who weren’t into MMA so I asked if I could get their tickets so I could ask Gab and her dad for a night out. The night ended up being really fun and I remember how much her dad’s face lit up when he saw that I paid for his dinner hahaha, it was even more worth it than the time we spent together in the show itself :(((( you look at the clock and it's 11:11, do you wish? My usual pretend-wish is to end up happy one day, but I don’t take 11:11 seriously. how do you think you will look 3 years from now? I bet I’d still look 16, but with a different hairdo and maybe a little more professional by then. once you graduate (if you haven't already) are you leaving your hometown? Definitely not *once* I graduate. I want to make sure I’m financially independent first before I take my first real step outdoors. what is your dream job? To work PR for my dream company, WWE.

what would be number one on your bucket list? Settle, and settle happily. how old do you think you'll be when you make your will? Tbh I’ve already made several rough drafts. I was like 18 or 19 when I made them, probably. you get a text message. who do you hope it is? Just my girlfriend. I don’t really get as excited if it were anyone else. are there any songs that you hear that just make you wanna dance? A lot. Both of my favorite artists – Beyoncé and at least Hayley from Paramore – are into dancing and make songs that make people want to dance, so it’s a natural thing for me. do you get any of your songs from limewire? I never used Limewire, actually. I was always too young for it. I do remember my older cousins introducing me to the program, though. what's the oddest thing you are wearing right now? I’m wearing pretty normalish stuff tonight. you and your best friend get in a fight. why do you think that is? Existential stuff that we disagree on. do you use the word "basically" a lot? I use it pretty often but tbh it’s such a common word used by basic people so I always make it a point to use it much, much less. I use other words or phrases that might be able to take its place like essentially, virtually, simply put, etc. do you use proper grammar or use IM talk? I can use both in one sentence, lol. what is your biggest annoyance at the time? I announced a call for respondents for mine and Andrew’s thesis survey and SO many people are helping out by reposting, sharing, retweeting, tagging people they know – it’s not so much an annoyance but like I’m internally beating myself up just because I feel like I’ve never deserved such a show of kindness. It’s amazing how many people would help out for a thesis; all I could do is thank them one by one, so that’s exactly what I’ve been doing all evening. you see the person you fell hardest for. what do you do? Be surprised as I was literally just with her a little over an hour back. have/are you depressed? Am pretty sure I am, mildly at the very least. did you grow up in the united states? I’ve never even been there. are you dreading tomorrow? Not really. Sundays mean family lunch out, which is always fun (and very filling) when my dad is home. i'm going to see the person i like tomorrow; any confidence boosters? It’s been over 10 years, judging from the year this survey was posted; I hope the meeting went well! do you call anybody 'baby'? Just Gab.

if your school had a winter formal on new years, would you go? I would be very surprised as to why we would need it, but it’s worth checking out I guess. where is the fanciest place you have ever visited? Manila Hotel, without a doubt. Also my friend’s house in Forbes haha. who is the one person you can completely be yourself around? They’re two, and they’re my best friends. are your pop-ups blocked on your computer? Yep, which can sometimes be a real bitch when going to websites that can tell if you have ad blockers on. do you know a guy that has voice cracks, but it's cute? I think most guys have their fair share of voice cracks haha. I don’t find it ‘cute,’ but like I don’t mind it either. It’s just something that slips out. do you wear earrings on a normal basis? Nah. I can’t wear the traditional earrings because of my fucked up piercing, and as for clip-on ones, I keep losing the one I have :/ what stereotype would people associate you with? Prrrrretty sure I’d be bunched with the conyos, but I don’t mind. Idk where else I’d fit, actually. how old were you when you realized that life goes on? 17, when my grandfather died. do you consider yourself mature? It’s not the first word I’d use to describe myself. are your parent's night owls or morning birds? Definitely morning birds. I’m the complete opposite. do you like to sing? By myself. are there some songs that you will never understand the lyrics to? Fucking alt-J songs, dude lmao. I’ve grown to be content with just humming along to their songs because I’ve found it impossible to understand all of them. do you own a lot of picture frames? Nope. who is your favorite author? I don’t have one. how many pillows are on your bed? Two. how is your hair right now? It’s doing just fine lol, nothing too remarkable to say about it at the moment. is your phone fully charged? Far from it; it’s at 22%. what's your favorite thing about the holidays? No classes. are you still in school? Yes. how many days/months until your next birthday? Like a month and two weeks. HOLY SHIT I’M TURNING 22. what is your favorite type of cake? Cheesecake! how many rings do you wear on a day-to-day basis? Zero. Rings have never been my accessory of choice. when will you next laugh until you cry? Honestly no clue. Maybe the next time we drink out, which will be I have no idea when.

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WCG Roundtable: What Are Your Thoughts on Cody Parkey’s TV Appearance?

I hate throwing salt on old wounds. After some time to reflect on the season as a whole, and of course Cody Parkey’s notorious “double doink” kick, I feel that the incident as a whole has been overblown. This is, in the end, a game. Life will happen and it sucks.

With that said, the embattled Chicago Bears’ kicker did what I previously thought was unthinkable. He elected to appear on national television with the “Today Show.” If you wish to watch his full interview, you may click on this link, and see the appearance for yourself.

How did Matt Nagy, Ryan Pace, and others take to this event? Not too kindly.

In case you have been living under a rock, much has been said about the overall unhappiness in the tone from Halas Hall. Matt Nagy in particular was visibly annoyed with the entire stunt pulled by Parkey. When both Pace and Nagy were asked for their opinions on the “Today Show” interview, Nagy chimed in with this statement.

“We always talk about a ‘we’ and not a ‘me’ thing, we win as a team and we lose as a team. I didn’t necessarily think it was a ‘we’ thing.” (Matt Nagy; Head Coach, Chicago Bears)

Ryan Pace added that the Bears will be looking to improve their Kicker position during the offseason. He wasn’t kidding, as they’ve already signed a new Kicker in Redford Jones. This comes after they held tryouts/workouts at their team facilities. And, I won’t be surprised if they add at least one more kicker to the mix, before cutting Cody Parkey.

I certainly have my own views on this matter. Additionally, some of our fellow writers here on WCG submitted their own thoughts for this topic. I asked everyone the following questions.

What are your overall and personal thoughts about Cody Parkey’s appearance on the Today Show, in terms of the message(s) he delivered and the manner of which he conducted himself?

Do you, personally, believe Parkey’s media tour was selfish? If so, or if not, why?

Based on question 2, do you share the same thoughts that Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy presented during their press conference?

First, we’ll start with question #1.

“What are your overall and personal thoughts about Cody Parkey’s appearance on the Today Show, in terms of the message(s) he delivered and the manner of which he conducted himself?”

ECD (myself):

I totally understand why Cody decided to take to national television. I really do, considering his entire family was threatened and attacked by swarms of fans on social media. I have nothing wrong with a person standing up for themselves and their family.

What I do have a problem with, is how Parkey presented the message, in addition to how he proceeded to carry out this interview.

This just wasn’t a smart move on Parkey’s part. Not only did he piss off his coach and the front office, he inadvertently tossed a torch on the lone wooden bridge connecting the player with the team. His already slim chances of staying with the Bears went up with flames after this decision.

Will Robinson (WhiskeyRanger):

First, let me preface this by saying that I didn’t watch it. The wounds were still too fresh, so I just shook my head and watched Twitter react instead. Besides, I don’t even know when the Today Show is on, or even what channel lol. Not something I’ve ever watched.

But, my personal thoughts are that he probably should have just kept his head down for a while (read: this entire off-season). Turning off all emotion, I’ll say this. It probably wasn’t the smartest business move on his part, from a PR standpoint.

The smart business move would have been to stay quiet, kick a few hundred balls a day every day, and let THAT news be what people hear about you this off-season. End of the day, it’s his life, and I don’t begrudge him doing interviews if that’s what he wants to do, but doing it SO soon was probably never going to do anything but rub people the wrong way. Unless he was announcing his retirement lol.

Ken Mitchell (a man of few words):

A totally selfish, self-serving act by a me-first player who should be fired, today. Don’t wait, fire him today.

Sam Householder:

I didn’t watch either. I started the clip but then I almost like blacked out, sort of like a weird mental block as soon as they started talking about the missed kick. It was still too fresh and now I just don’t care enough to watch.

That said, I mean, fine, if the message was supposed to be ‘hey online harassment and threats hurt people because we’re real people’ fine, maybe someone watched it and thought ‘wow, I won’t be tweeting at the guy that messes up that I hope his children die anymore, I’ll just drink to sleep.’

But it seemed like the message was more about how he carried himself following the loss. Which, all right, I guess, but to me the whole thing seemed pointless, like all right, you’re holding your head high but you still kind of suck at your job. So why not just lay low and silently practice away and then show you’ve moved on next year by kicking better?

Lester A. Wiltfong Jr.:

Honestly, I never watched the whole thing. I caught a few snippets on social media, but I thought it was poor timing as the “wound” was still fresh. He made a choice to do something he had to know would be ridiculed, and now he’ll have to deal with the consequences.

Robert Schmitz:

I thought it was an obviously selfish act to appear on the Today Show, but I never “blamed” him for doing it. The NFL is a business, so I struggle to be upset at a player marketing himself after the biggest miss of his life. He came across quite cordial throughout the segment while doing his best to suggest that the double-doink was more a “gosh-darned bad break” than a poor kick. Obviously I disagree with him, but he’s allowed to do it.

“Do you, personally, believe Parkey’s media tour was selfish? If so, or if not, why?”

Myself:

Yes. No matter how hard I tried to listen and watch this entire interview objectively, all I kept hearing in my own head was, “me. me. I. me.” He owned up to his performance in the locker room minutes after the playoff game had ended. That was perfect and well done by itself.

Why on Earth did he think it was necessary to go beyond the post game interview? I can’t help but feel he did this as a move to boost his own self confidence, and not to remedy the situation in-house. His teammates supported him, and have his back. Just leave it there!

He felt bad about the kick, even though technically it is now a “blocked” kick, I understand that. The timing of the interview in combination with Nagy and Pace’s reaction to the matter suggests the notion Parkey went about this situation on his own. Big mistake.

Will:

Again, I didn’t watch it, but yeah. I’d probably say it was selfish. I’d also say it was probably misguided, since I don’t believe it was ultimately self serving in the end.

I’m sure he wanted to get out in front of the bad press, and do some damage control by humanizing himself. He likely wanted everyone to see that he’s a person, not just a number. Make it more difficult for people to hate him.

Unfortunately, it instead came off to most as a selfish move for a player who both had an inconsistent year, and came up short (or rather, low) on the most important play of the season. The whole thing, was just ill-advised.

Ken:

Absolutely it was selfish. 100 percent me-first.

Sam:

I do because it’s making it about himself, putting himself out in front to say ‘hey I screwed up but I’m not letting myself get down over it.’ Which is fine, but why even make yourself the face of it? The whole thing just confuses me as far as what he set out to accomplish. It came off selfish even if he didn’t mean it to be.

Lester:

I don’t think he meant anything in a selfish manner, but that’s the perception. Someone should have advised him not to do it, or at the very least, to wait a while. Bears brass wasn’t happy with it, and I can’t imagine his teammates were very pleased either.

Robert S.:

Yes I do. I think so primarily because he came across like a kid who’d broken a window and had since made it especially clear “how badly he felt about it”. I don’t really think any of his teammates or fans cared about how badly he felt, they just wanted him to make the kick. After the miss, I think they just wanted to move on. Publicly dwelling on it like he did makes me feel like he was directly talking to everyone but Bears fans. About himself. So, selfish.

Based on question 2, do you share the same thoughts that Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy presented during their press conference?

Myself:

Again, yes.

First and foremost, it’s never a wise decision to pull such a publicity stunt without running the plans up to your management for guidance. Matt Nagy’s comments suggests Parkey took matters into his own hands, brashly if I may add, and didn’t take steps to see if the interview was permissible with the powers at be. You’re just begging for problems when you skip steps to address what you feel is a crisis.

It’s no longer a secret, if it ever was one to begin with. The Chicago Bears weren’t happy with Cody Parkey’s production from the start. And now, they’re incensed with his approach to the matter. Cody is a good man, I will give him that credit. You also can’t keep a player after this misstep. It’s simply too egregious to ignore.

Will:

Sure. Basically what was said in their presser was that it was more of a “Me” moment, and the team prefers “We” moments. I can get behind that. There’s nothing wrong with doing things that serve one’s self, so long as they don’t take away from the team.

I don’t see anyway Parkey’s interview helped this team. Then again, I don’t see how it helped him either, even though that was likely the motivation.

Again, the proper move both for Parkey and for the team would have been to keep his head down, put in a bunch of hard work to get better, and let news of that be what people heard about him this off-season. That would have been a positive story both for Parkey, and the Bears. Had that been the case, he probably would have stood a decent chance of being with the team in 2019. Now, it’s a long-shot.

Ken:

No, I don’t. I believe they should have come right out and said “we have notified Cody that his employment with the Chicago Bears is being terminated.” Period.

Sam:

Definitely.

It didn’t seem like a ‘we’ thing, which, as cheesy and cliche as they may sound, summed it up perfectly. Instead of standing by his teammates, who went out of their way to stand behind him all year long, he went rogue to talk to a morning show to be the ‘Most Honorable Player’ or whatever crap they said. That’s some B.S.

Lester:

Nagy and Pace sure seemed annoyed to me in their presser. I think they said the right things, and I think they’ll follow through on the competition angle. I wouldn’t be surprised if they kept him until someone (UDFAs, scrap heap FAs) beat him out in camp. But if they sign another veteran free agent (like Robbie Gould), I think he’ll be immediately cut.

Robert S.:

Given that they came across pretty angry, I don’t quite share their viewpoint. I don’t think I can.

Pace and Nagy stuck their necks out for this guy, one signing him to a multi-year contract and the other sticking with him after an especially bad run of kicking, and Parkey rewarded that faith by going behind their backs.

Put it this way, Parkey’s actions didn’t reflect an immense amount of respect for his relationships with the two men. Ultimately, I think the entire ordeal simply makes him easier to cut.

What are y’all’s thoughts on Cody’s appearance on the “Today Show?”

Source: https://www.windycitygridiron.com/2019/1/27/18198562/chicago-bears-wcg-roundtable-what-are-your-thoughts-on-cody-parkey-tv-appearance-nfl-offseason-2019

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7 Dumb Back To The Future Products You Won’t Believe Existed

A good 80 percent of Cracked’s content is devoted to peeling back the kaleidoscopic layers of WTF-ness contained within Back To The Future, but this article isn’t about that. Nope, this is about an even more ridiculous topic: the many confounding ways people tried to squeeze big bucks out of the Back To The Future flicks.

This ordinary tale of a time-travelling eccentric and his pet teenager has spawned such baffling shit as …

#7. The Back To The Future Cartoon Was A Fucking Crazy Parade

As we’ve mentioned before on the site, Doc Brown’s character-concluding decision to father children with a historically dead woman and blast through time in a screeching lightning train was reckless at best. And so it’s only natural that the 1991 Back To The Future TV show would follow the horrific mishaps of this family, sandwiched with live-action science demonstrations by Christopher Lloyd and an oddly mute Bill Nye.

They’re like the Penn and Teller of mad science.

But despite its audience of the young and curious, an average episode of Back To The Future: The Animated Series played out like Rick And Morty episodes Adult Swim rejected for being too bleak. Don’t believe us? The pilot for the series starts with Doc’s younger son Verne stealing the time machine and traveling to the Civil War … followed by Doc finding a photo revealing that little Verne died for the Confederate Army.

“But hey, it says here that the Alabama chapter of the KKK is named in his honor.”

Doc eventually prevents this by creating a truce between Verne’s Confederate pals and the Union, and the gang happily flies home like they didn’t just irrevocably alter the outcome of a Civil War battle. That’s basically the story of the series, as Doc, Marty, and Doc’s kids manhandle historical moments while Doc’s wife Clara waits back home with sandwiches.

In the third goddamn episode, Doc brings his kids to the very moment the dinosaurs are wiped out by a meteor, saving the group by hastily stopping the comet and changing the future into a lizard-ruled wasteland. (One of said lizards looks like Biff, implying that a Tannen once fucked a dinosaur.)

This means that Doc is forced to go back and kill the dinosaurs himself, re-altering his actions so that the meteor gets back on a collision course with Earth … but not before one of his kids befriends a scared pterodactyl. So how does Doc handle this unfortunate attachment? Obviously, the rest of the series would involve the group goofing around with their adopted dino friend. I mean, otherwise, he’d have to …

… tear his son from the sobbing grasp of a doomed animal …

… stuff him into the time machine and fly away …

This also serves as the official series finale for The Flintstones.

… and watch as the comet tears through the atmosphere and vaporizes the boy’s dinosaur pal. That’s seriously what happens in the special “watch all the dinosaurs die” episode of this nightmare series. Happy Saturday morning, assholes!

#6. A Japanese Video Game Made BTTF 2 Into Crazy-Ass Anime

Anyone who played the early Back To The Future Nintendo games knows that whoever made them clearly didn’t bother to see the movies. Either that, or Back To The Future Part III cut a scene in which Marty ingests a crazy amount of peyote and starts seeing mutant cow men everywhere.

Presumably named “Beef Tannen.”

The Japan-only Back To The Future Part II Super Famicom game, on the other hand, tried to follow the plot of movie … and somehow ended up being even weirder. You control Marty, who spends the entire time on his hoverboard — because, realistically speaking, if you owned a hoverboard, why the fuck would you ever not be flying around on it?

The game starts on a grimly prescient note, with trigger-happy 2015 cops shooting at Marty for no apparent reason.

When we reach the alternate 1985, Marty goes around fighting disoriented crackheads, mistaking their agonized gasps for taunting chicken noises. Marty then discovers his murdered father’s tombstone, and he … seems pretty copacetic with this development, all things considered.

Doc, on the other hand, turns into an angry pink Gollum.

If you’ve ever wanted to see these iconic moments reimagined as demented Sailor Moon episodes, you’re in luck. When Marty discovers the 1950s girlie mag instead of the sports almanac, the mere sight of boobs gives him a stroke.

Which is weird, because this is after meeting his mother’s gargantuan dystopian breasts. Marty’s perma-smirk in that scene is somehow even creepier than when he was standing at his dead dad’s grave.

Also, why are they in the Technodrome?

By the time Biff seemingly vampire-bites the almanac away from Marty and gets covered in a sea of 16-bit horseshit, you’ll probably never see Back To The Future the same way ever again.

“I won’t close my mouth. I deserve this.”

And speaking of which …

#5. A Hot Wheels Biff Car … Complete With Manure

There aren’t a ton of Back To The Future toys, but the ones that do exist are mostly DeLorean-based. There’s a DeLorean Lego set, a remote-control DeLorean, and even a Power-Wheels-esque DeLorean for ’80s kids whose parents wanted them to explore their confused Oedipal feelings outside the house.

Sadly, this kid was easily taken out by Libyan terrorists.

So it’s only natural that the DeLorean be adopted by stalwart toy car company Hot Wheels. Recently, the company decided to expand their Back To The Future line to include not only Doc’s DeLorean …

Oh, sorry. Doc’s “Time Machine of Indeterminate Brand.”

And Marty’s sweet 4×4 …

“Complete with two coats of wax and Fat Biff’s tears!”

And even Biff Tannen’s Ford Super Deluxe Converti– oh, shit.

You can get a non-poopy version for an extra $300.

Yes, they produced a beautiful classic automobile overflowing with rancid manure, as seen in that scene and that other scene and that variation of the scene. It looks like an amusing Internet Photoshop job, but it’s a real toy which you could go buy right now … or, you know, make at home yourself with a toy car and some laxatives.

Couldn’t Hot Wheels have mass-produced Doc’s hover-train? Or one of those kickass police cars from 2015? Nope. Instead, we get the shit-encrusted rapemobile. Think of all the ways kids could play with this. “Oh no, Biff’s car got covered in manure … again …” Assuming your kid even knows what Back To The Future is, how are they supposed to integrate Biff’s car with their other Hot Wheels products?

“Yes! The race is delayed due to track turds!”

#4. ZZ Top Turns All The Characters Into Ogling Creeps

Along with “The Power of Love,” Huey Lewis and the News wrote “Back In Time,” the surprisingly engaged recounting of the events of Back To The Future from Marty’s perspective. Sadly, we were less lucky with ZZ Top’s “Doubleback,” a jabbering spray of temporally-themed rhymes in no way related to the third film.

The one band you’d think you could trust to hitch their beer-drinking, hell-raising wagon to Wake-Up Juice, but noooooo.

Now, “Doubleback” is a fucking abomination, an artistic charley horse clearly farted out 12 minutes from the studio call time. But then there’s the music video, which superimposes the band into random clips from the movie in such a disjointed, cookie cutter way that it comes alive like a serial killer’s scrapbook.

GOOF: ZZ Top were only teenagers in 1885, so they shouldn’t have beards yet.

It’s everyone’s third-favorite time travel movie, perpetually interrupted with the looming presence of three guys who look like the personification of bathroom assault. By the end, they’re literally sticking their faces over the action so that we don’t forget to be bummed out by their existence.

We’re all for them supplanting Marty’s mom in this scene to make it less creepy, though.

But the weird stuff begins when this monochromatic onslaught changes the movie’s finale to include a pimped-out ride randomly rolling into Marty’s standoff with Mad Dog Tannen …

… and releasing three jean-short bombshells of various ’90s fabric patterns and foxy accessories, to which the movie’s characters react with stock disbelief appropriated from the original scene.

OK, we have to admit that these guys clean up nicely when they shave.

That’s right — Doc reacting to Marty’s fakeout death is the same expression as his boner face. Or maybe he’s wondering how a Cadillac Sedanette went back in time without a bunch of nonsense sticking out of its hood. Either way: boner.

#3. Pizza Hut’s Back To The Future Ads Are Rather Sad In Retrospect

Having the ability to engorge on a puck of meat and cheese has been every child’s dream since Marty’s mom hydrated a Pizza Hut pizza in Back To The Future II.

The most fantastic concept here is a 2015 pizza without a gimmicky crust.

So delicious. At least, if you ignore the fact that eating a waterlogged dough slice sounds like a fucking nightmare, and that the Pizza Hut of this future solely makes the equivalent of microwave meals. In fairness, the brand’s own advertising campaign had a slightly different take on their role in the future:

Their kinder, gentler take on Robocop was probably their lamest (and most inaccurate) prediction of all.

According to one 1989 commercial, the Pizza Huts of 2015 are built like techno mosques. It makes sense in the context of the ad, which begins with two unknown ruffians taking the DeLorean out for a spin, presumably after swiping the keys from Doc Brown’s ransacked corpse.

To save you 15 minutes on IMDb: It’s Mikey from Parker Lewis Can’t Lose.

The ne’er-do-wells zoom to 2015, where, to the sad grumbles of their stomachs, they find the streets barren of any pizza eateries, as Domino’s has long been converted into a hardware chain. Luckily, there’s still one place in business, and it’s the all-hail Pizza Hut temple.

The Noid was executed after a show trial in ’94.

It’s unclear why a restaurant that makes cookie-sized products needs multiple neon spires, but it probably has to do with the announcer’s assertion that, even in the future, Pizza Hut is the “only one place to get a great pizza.” The fact that Pizza Hut was envisioning an all-exclusive Demolition Man scenario with their brand is made that much more heartbreaking by the company’s actual 2015 situation:

Also depressing: the current state of journalism, since no one realized this graphic should be a pie chart.

Turns out that all the movie projector pizza boxes and eye-tracking tablet menus in the world can’t get us to that Utopian Italian palace where dressing like it’s the ’80s is still hip and (according to another tie-in ad) absolutely everyone wears futuristic solar shades.

The nuclear fallout has melted all of our eyes by now.

#2. Doc Brown Teamed Up With Doogie Howser For Earth Day

Back in 1990, people were really committed to saving the environment … as long as the extent of that commitment was appearing in some kind of extravagant TV special instead of cutting back on fossil fuels. Regardless, this newly-discovered sense of eco-awareness led to one of the craziest moments in pop culture: The Earth Day Special.

The special starred a slew of wacky creatures, like the Muppets and Danny DeVito and E.T., who looks to have been living in a filthy alley since the events of his film.

He’ll touch you with his “magic finger” for $5 and some Reese’s Pieces.

Since this was the year that Back To The Future Part III came out, Doc Brown naturally joined the cross-promotional fray. Who better to promote environmental activism than a guy who hoards large quantities of plutonium in a garage in a residential neighborhood?

The loose plot of the special is about the personification of Mother Earth dying. Doc Brown shows up in his DeLorean and offers his assistance to the doctor in charge of healing Mrs. Earth — who, because this was 1990, is Doogie Fucking Howser.

“Not even Edward James Olmos’ mustache could revive her.” “We’re doomed.”

Doc whips out his suitcase TV and shows them footage of how screwed over the Earth is, which is kind of a dick move, considering how she’s right over there. It doesn’t help that the clips are seemingly stock footage pretentiously edited together by first-year film students.

“What are those ladies doing with that cup …?” “Whoops, wrong year.”

As always, Doc ends up finding the solution: science! Not any specific science but, like, the act of reading and shit. Look, it was 6 a.m. and someone wanted to finish that goddamn children’s TV show script already.

#1. The Back To The Future Novelization Gets Dark

Movie novelizations are generally terrible, but the one for Back To The Future takes it to a whole new level. It’s the Back To The Future of bad literary cash-ins.

“What do you mean it’s not about a kid with a camera who farts fireworks?” — the author, probably

The book opens with a vivid description of a dead family getting bent out of shape by the detonation of a nuclear bomb, which turns out to be a scene from a film Marty is watching. This never comes up again in the book — because the author is too busy thinking up even crazier, tangentially BTTF-related shit. For instance, we get a scene featuring the Libyan terrorists casually hanging out in a shitty motel, which answers the question you always had: Yes, one of them is a psychotic former fashion model.

You can only be told to look “sexy like tiger” so many times before something inside snaps.

And she doesn’t mind offing Doc Brown because he … “looks Jewish.”

Doc goes commando in his jumpsuits in this version.

Even when it’s a scene we recognize from the movie, the author’s prose manages to make everything seem a tiny bit seedier:

Not that “Let’s hire your attempted rapist as our live-in manservant” is any less creepy.

The novel also features the most disturbing context for the phrase “giggled naughtily” in all of fiction:

A parent’s naughty giggling is typically reason #1 Protective Services gives when taking away their child.

The whole book is so bizarre and creepy that it wouldn’t be surprising to learn that it was imported from the shitty alternate 1985. And we’re only scratching the surface here. A whole other book could be written just pointing out all the fucked up moments, page by page. Did we say “could”? We meant “someone on the Internet did exactly that.”

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