Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.

Buffy ,'Showtime'


Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Cashmere - Oct 24, 2006 1:39:24 pm PDT #5390 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I was madly enthralled with some bits of this episode. I think I need a rewatch to figure out why.

Oh, me, too! I had to start a rewatch immediately. But then the kids got up from their nap. Dammit. I got as far as "I'm The Doctor and I just snogged Madame De Pompadour! Bwhaha!" It killed me dead.


Amy - Oct 24, 2006 1:40:23 pm PDT #5391 of 10001
Because books.

I just saw my very first bit of (any) Dr. Who the other night (aside from a vague memory of the 70s Doctor with freaky big hair) -- the one at Versailles, with Madame du Pompadour. I was fascinated -- and then I got interrupted. But I'm feeling like I may need to get on the Dr. Who train.

Like I need another show.


Scrappy - Oct 24, 2006 1:41:55 pm PDT #5392 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

The actress who played Mme du Pompadour is Sophia Myles, who is David Tennant's girlfriend. She is also a very good actress--she ALMOST made her role in Tristan und Isolde beleivable, no small feat. I loved this week's episode muchly.


Cashmere - Oct 24, 2006 1:44:03 pm PDT #5393 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

She played a small role in Underworld, didn't she? One of the vampires? No wonder their chemistry lit up the screen!


Trudy Booth - Oct 24, 2006 1:49:21 pm PDT #5394 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

On Studio 60 I was pretty darn eye-rolly. a lot. but what clinched it for me was the kid whipping out a copy of "Who's on First". a SEVENTY EIGHT of "Who's on First" that he apparently keeps in his desk. Or possibly Sorkin's butt.


Topic!Cindy - Oct 24, 2006 1:56:26 pm PDT #5395 of 10001
What is even happening?

I just saw my very first bit of (any) Dr. Who the other night (aside from a vague memory of the 70s Doctor with freaky big hair)
Probably Pertwee.

Trudy (Studio 60)

Yeah, that was bizarre. I just chalked it up to him being the type who might have bought it for himself--a collectible of sorts.


Cashmere - Oct 24, 2006 1:58:34 pm PDT #5396 of 10001
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Probably Pertwee.

ACK! The Elder! The younger Pertwee is sexy, hottt! And sans fright wig hair.


Connie Neil - Oct 24, 2006 1:58:59 pm PDT #5397 of 10001
brillig

70s Doctor with freaky big hair

More likely Tom Baker, who, while I adorerd him, did have a lot of hair. I like my Doctors with a touch of multiple personality disorder, flashing from manic cheerful to dangerous.


Cashmere - Oct 24, 2006 2:04:18 pm PDT #5398 of 10001
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Baker had the 'fro. Pertwee's looked like a bad rug. Sad all those Doctors had such awful hair.

I thought I adored CE. Then I saw David Tennant. Damn.


Steph L. - Oct 24, 2006 2:07:14 pm PDT #5399 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Robin Williams doing his impression of oral sex in his HBO comedy special a few years ago

Sweet fancy Moses -- the first time I saw that, my friends actually paused the DVD because I couldn't stop laughing and they (1) couldn't hear Robin Williams over me, and (2) they thought I might hyperventilate. (I think #2 is an exaggeration.)

Steve Martin as Ruprect in Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels

Oh HELL yes. My bro and I can send each other into gales of laughter with: "Mother? .... Not mother?"