Tag: Pop Culture
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Grimace Does Japan
So I did some mashups of Grimace x Japanese pop culture… (I’ve been tweeting these at McDonalds’ Japanese branch but they haven’t replied yet.) “Mobile Suit Grimace” “Grimace vs. MechaGrimace” “Neon Grimace Evangelion” “Berserk: The Golden Arches Arc” “Pokemon: Grimace” Hit me with suggestions if you’ve got ’em.
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Review Showdown: House of the Dragon (Eps. 1-4) vs. The Rings of Power (Eps. 1-3)
This contest is going to be organized a bit differently than the last[1] because I’ve made the executive decision to break the discussion into arbitrary categories – you may not know this, but Socrates used the same technique to pad out classroom time. I’ll assign a winner to each category and tally them up at…
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Review: The Boys, Season 3, Episode 7
After last week’s “Herogasm” blowout (blow-up?), The Boys took things down a notch this week to spend an episode focusing on how the various characters deal with the fallout from. Homelander, ego (and face) bruised, pays a visit to the (unsurprisingly) still-alive Maeve, who’s been imprisoned in a room similar to the one Homelander was…
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Review(s): The Boys, Season 3, Eps. 4 & 5
Episode Four: “Glorious Five Year Plan” The Boys stayed on-trend in Episode 4, with a collection of good performances, well-defined characters, and gruesomely funny action that was somewhat marred by the show’s odd pacing and occasional tendency to overemphasize tangential side plots. Butcher’s over-the-top management methods bore predictably poisoned fruit this episode, although the team…
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Throwback Review: The Boys (Season 2)
With the third season of The Boys coming out soon, I thought it might be an appropriate time to dust off this old gem… In these uncertain times, it’s extremely important to maintain our mental health by distracting ourselves from the cascading mudslide of existential horrors that’s going on literally right now. Don’t think about…