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rob morrisonon the side: LonelyJew15 turns 50
| written by jenni and daroff on 07/23/08 | leave a comment |
for the past year, we have been hard at work producing this hilarious parody of lonelygirl15. you may have wondered to yourself, “what if anne frank had a web cam?” now you can find out.
right now, this instant, you should check out LonelyJew15 at LonelyJew15.com. in case you don’t have time to watch all 50 episodes, we cut this recap of the entire series as our 50th episode! we post new episodes on youtube every wednesday. go to the lonelyjewfifteen youtube channel and subscribe.
then, go to LonelyJew15.com and explore the world of our fictional anne frank. you can watch every episode, follow our ARG OpAdolf, check out crazy bonus videos, tune in to our spin-off series Keller Modern and read anne frank’s blog.
after the break, we’ve selected our favorite LonelyJew15 episodes for you, just to give you that first tantalizing taste
filed under features, on the side
he said, she said: john hughes
| written by jenni and daroff on 10/17/07 | leave a comment |
daroff:
maybe it’s a function of age, but i never really liked the big three john hughes movies. i adore ferris bueller like everyone else, but breakfast club, pretty in pink, and sixteen candles never really did anything for me. people talk about breakfast club like it’s this holy grail of high school existence. i thought it was pretty eh. he’s undoubtedly a very talented writer. i mean, he’d have to be to pen home alone 1 & 2, but i just don’t get what all the fuss is about.
jenni:
pretty in pink and sixteen candles never really did it for me either. but breakfast club, oh man, i could watch that film as many times as anthony michael hall had wet dreams about molly ringwald. i was a quiet kid and never really had a “group” that i felt a part of…i just kind of drifted between different ones. so a situation that would have brought them all together would have been very appealing to me…and the breakfast club pretty much embodied that.
filed under movies: 80s
he said, she said: nintendo
| written by jenni and daroff on 10/10/07 | leave a comment |
here’s a taste of the best nintendo game you’ve never heard of
jenni:
i’m going to start by saying flat-out: i’m going into this topic at a severe disadvantage. as a child, my parents would not allow us to own any video game systems. my dad did talk my mom into getting a commodore 64 but that was because he was able to convince her that because you had to program the games for it, it was educational. he then proceeded to program all the games we had for it himself, thus teaching me and my sister nothing but how to deal with the boredom of watching your dad typing code for hours on end. but i do remember my (rich) uncle getting a nintendo the christmas right when they first came out and i played duck hunt on it until my parents had to pry the controller out of my hands because we had to go home.
daroff:
my nintendo experience wasn’t a hell of a lot better. upon opening the nintendo one hanukkah eve, we got a glimpse of what was to be nintendo policy in my house. we were told to always wash our hands before playing. this meant nintendo had to be a pre-planned thing, preparation and all. i got a nintendo so late, it had the lame orange gun, but it did have the power pad. within a month, the power pad was banned because it shook the house. the kicker was the game my parents decided to package in with our nintendo, wheel of fortune. this led to the endless line of jeopardys and win lose or draws. that’s why everyone got nintendo, right, to play game shows? the rest of our games managed to always end up on lists of worst nintendo games ever. it wasn’t all bad, though. we did have the glimmering hopes that were double dragon 2, mario 3, and star tropics. oh man did star tropics rule.
filed under video games: nintendo
he said, she said: saved by the bell
| written by jenni and daroff on 10/03/07 | leave a comment |
“he said, she said” is where two overtimers from opposite sides of the gender war, daroff (dude) and jenni (lady), duke it out over a few of their favorite things.
he said: no joke, this episode rocked
daroff:
i’m getting a little tired of people who make themselves feel superior by ripping on those of us who actually, honestly, not ironically, liked saved by the bell. it may not have been the best written or best acted show, but damn it, i watched every single episode. i even watched the re-runs, sometimes five, six, seven times. there was even a period of time i would make sure i was home at 3:00 and 3:30 to make sure i watched it. so to all those people out there who think we’re waxing nosalgic about saved by the bell just to be funny, i say, watch yourself, cuz a.c. slater’s coming to pin your ass.
jenni:
look, lord knows i’ve had my fair share of television obsessions. take for instance my obsession with nickelodeon’s the tomorrow people. i have every single episode on vhs…as well as on dvd. i could probably quote the entire series word-for-word. but i could trace back my obsession to a single source: the actor christian tessier, who starred as megabyte in the series. i’m not bringing this up to once again touch on the fact that a large part of my enjoyment of anything stems back to a cute boy…okay, maybe i am a little. but my point is, what’s your “christian tessier” when it comes to saved by the bell? if it’s not to wax nostalgic, what is it? and don’t give me this, “it’s just good” bullshit. let’s deconstruct! would a.c. slater even know what that means?
filed under tv comedy: 90s
he said, she said: ma-ti, the heart planeteer
| written by jenni and daroff on 09/19/07 | 1 comment |
“he said, she said” is where two overtimers from opposite sides of the gender war, daroff (dude) and jenni (lady), duke it out over a few of their favorite things. this week’s debate may seem lengthy, but it’s well worth the read.
he said: these guys hate the heart kid as much as i do
daroff:
as everyone who has ever read a book knows, there are four elements: earth, fire, wind, and water. however, every team that has ever combined into stuff has had five members. so in what i can only imagine was a desperate spit-balling session, they figured captain planet needed empathy. then came heart. ancient mythology, not to mention final fantasy games, are littered with creatures using the four elements. fighting an earth demon meant it was indestructable, and would probably throw rocks at you. fire demons throw fire. wind demons would blow you over. water demons would drown you. what would a heart demon do? not much. then they created a lame character to go with that lame power. ma-ti sucks.
jenni:
i have read a lot of books (thanks for insinuating that I don’t…) and i am aware that there are four elements (…and by that I mean, thanks for insinuating i am retarded) . but i am also aware that we, as feeling, thinking humans, are different from fire demons that throw rocks (really, that’s the best you could come up with?). and that is what makes ma-ti so special…that we would value our humanity so much as to put it on a level as high as nature itself. and just look at him, he’s adorable!
filed under tv kids shows: 90s
he said, she said: stargate
| written by jenni and daroff on 09/05/07 | leave a comment |
“he said, she said” is where two overtimers from opposite sides of the gender war, daroff (dude) and jenni (lady), duke it out over a few of their favorite things.
she said: you like this show? really?
daroff:
i don’t know about you, but the last thing i thought when i saw stargate the movie was, “i can’t wait for a stargate sequel.” it’s such an endless idea. they have this giant ring that can send them anywhere as long as they have seven points of reference. we didn’t get a sequel, but we did get an amazing sci-fi show that managed to satirize the whole genre. they replaced bad ass kurt russell with richard dean anderson, whose deadpan reaction to everything made us all realize how frustrating it would actually be to deal with science-fiction plots. i loved virtually every episode.
jenni:
though i’ll agree that i also was praying for a stargate sequel at the end of the movie, i can’t say i’d envisioned a tv show. though when it happened, i gave it a shot. i was thrilled that they had kept my favorite character from the movie (skaara, played by the delightful alexis cruz) but was dismayed when he and his sister were all but forgotten about at the end of season 1. i mean, it was almost totally glossed over that daniel HAD A WIFE. i’m okay with the fact that they wanted to explore the multi-facets of using the stargate, i’m not okay that they sacrificed the integrity of some of the characters because of it.
daroff:
i thought they handled the characters really well. even after daniel’s wife died, he had dreams about her and lots of really sad scenes. as far as skaara, they dealt with him too. he was really important to the story for a while. eventually they broke free of the movie and expanded the story beyond. maybe if you watched the show before you decided it sucked, you’d like it.
filed under movies: 90's, sci-fi, tv dramas: 90's