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The Muppet Show: Melissa Manchester (1980)
Kind of a nothing episode, but still good
Melissa Manchester...I guess she was famous enough to appear on the Muppet Show in the 80s. Well, I shouldn't say that; Season 5 had some incredibly weird guest stars to begin with; Melissa Manchester kind of fits in with the bunch. She definitely seems like she really wanted to do the Muppet Show, but she's not enough of a singular talent to carry the Muppet-less moments of the episode. Compare her to a guest like Elton John, Loretta Lynn, etc. Who demand just as much attention as the Muppets themselves: she just brings nothing but a good singing voice and some mediocre acting chops. Of course, the muppet performers kill it. There's some great segments in here, but overall, it's one of the more average episodes, which still amounts to an 8/10. Go figure. Greatest television show of all time.
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Vertical Drop, Horizontal Tug (2024)
Best of the season so far?! Really?!?
Baffled by the widely positive reception this episode is receiving...to me, this is one of the weakest of the entire series, right up there with "The Bisexual" and "Kamikaze Bingo". That's not to say it wasn't funny, but it certainly wasn't a wonderful watch. Leon's balls...funny enough, did not need to be the crux of the episode. Larry and the Deaf interpreter...has that not been done before? I mean, the blind guy from the early years is what comes to mind immediately, but there must have been an episode with a deaf person over 12 seasons that is just buried in my mind. I really dug episodes 1 and 2, and the momentum they built up. This, I'll pass on. Totally fine but not a lot of rewatch value.
Great Guns! (1927)
Great animation
This Oswald short has some incredibly lively animation, especially in the dogfight sequence. It's hard to believe that this is only the fifth Oswald short by production order, the perspectives are the most experimental since "Trolley Troubles", and the inking on Oswald is a huge step up from its predecessor, "The Mechanical Cow."
Unfortunately, I don't really have any idea what's going on for most of this short. A mouse in a bi-plane drops a bomb on a picture of Oswald's love back home, which, naturally, causes Oswald to retaliate. Eventually he gets into a hand-to-hand brawl with the mouse, but has to pretend that they weren't fighting at all when the general comes around? Why would the general be mad that Oswald is fighting the enemy? Is he the general for the enemy side and the mouse is one of his soldiers? Are all three of them on the same side?
Other than the odd character roles, this is a very entertaining early Oswald cartoon. I disagree with what the guy on here who complained about war not being funny, this is far from the most literal portrayal of WWI, and man, a lot of the best cartoons from the golden age had to do with war. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
South Park: Douche and Turd (2004)
some of the best satire the show ever did
I'm a pretty big South Park fan, I've seen every episode so far and I consider seasons 5-8 to be the absolute peak of the show and some of the best television ever made. This episode leans a little more heavily in the "satire" area of South Park. With this show, you can have some pretty heavy episodes that tackle social issues or emotional problems that the characters go through, and then sometimes you just get an episode like the Woodland Critter Christmas that's just total nonsense. I think this is a good episode to show someone who thinks South Park is immature or incapable of handling serious concepts.
The best part of this episode, aside from the Puffy rap which always gets me, is just the fact that it'll only get better over time. Election after election we are faced with the classic "douche vs turd" debate. It never ends.
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
Shockingly touching and prevalent, with one minor flaw.
When I got up from my seat after witnessing the emotional tsunami that is "Won't You Be My Neighbor", I was left with crying eyes, a shaking body, and my jaw wide open. Never before has a movie touched me so much that I am still unable to go five minutes without thinking about it days after seeing it. The movie goes inside the life of a man who was very often deified as the second coming of Christ, and changed children's programming forever. I found myself feeling like a kid all over again, my eyes glued to the screen, and I was shocked just how many of these lessons and characters touched my life for the better. The only thing about this movie that I did not enjoy was when it would cut to short excerpts of other shows from the time, I.e. Sesame Street, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and Ren & Stimpy, and the documentary would go out of its way to bash these shows simply because they often went at a faster pace than the neighborhood. However, other than this small nitpick, the movie was amazing and I wish everyone on earth could see this and follow this man's radical teaching style.