If I had a nickel every time the cultural reconsolidation after the backlash against ‘70s social liberalism played out but before the seeds of '10s style showed fruit took the form of socially cynical TV animation by creators in love with the historic American cultural form of the musical I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t much, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
“The AV geek” and “the elderly neighborhood child molestor” are honestly pretty 80s roles for Family Guy’s sexual imaginary
Friendly reminder I once dreamed an entire Family Guy episode, the A plot was Brian in a Close Encounters of the Third Kind parody and the B plot was about Meg getting a job jerking off goats
Salon 2012::Newsweek 1997
(Salon 1998::Newsweek 1962?)
I dreamed a whole Family Guy episode once, a plot and b plot and visual gags. The A plot was a Close Encounters of the Third Kind/Day The Earth Stood Still alien contact parody, there was a spinning magazine gag where there were three headlines about contact then a Newsweek cover with “Did Jesus…” [white Jesus holding his hands demurely over some great knockers] “…have tits?”
The B Plot was about Meg jerking off goats.
Man I had a dream last night that I was watching a movie directed by Natalie Portman starring Anne Hathaway that began with a meet-cute with everyone in a movie theater eating bad chicken, having stomach problems, fleeing the theater and being confused for a zombie mob (because they were walking awkwardly bcuz they shat themselves) and turned into a sexysleek heroin addict jewel heist movie with modern video game-inspired self-referential thirdwallbreaking.
I remember thinking “yes, this feels like Natalie Portman - clever, but icy.”
A few weeks ago I dreamt a complete Family Guy episode, complete with A-plot, B-plot, visual jokes and cutaway gags. Maybe it’s because I haven’t been smoking weed. If I ever did one of those Ad Council “hey doodz don’t smoke weed” ads (I won’t) it would riff off the theme of “getting your dreams back”.
I don’t have a fuckcrush on Anne Hathaway (I only have celebrity fuckcrushes on redheads), but I totally have a celebrity makingouttoplessfeelinghertitspressedagainstmychest crush on her.