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conan o’brien & robert smigel’s Lookwell

Still gonna be a Letterboxd guy first and foremost – sorry! – so I have to be true to myself and share my most recent five star discovery, this failed NBC pilot from 1991. Lookwell is pure comedy heaven, not a wasted joke in its short runtime, with Adam West’s self aware turn on Family Guy done here first but better. Special bonus: a major role from TÁR director Todd Field?? Perhaps we wouldn’t have either that film or Conan’s classic Late Night run if this had actually been picked up to series, though this is so perfect it’s hard not to wonder what a few seasons would have been like…but at least we’ll always have this.

@feversleeves

Jan 26, 2025

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AUTHENTICALLY FUNNY TV THAT GETS SUBJECTED TO THE ILL-FATED AMERICAN REMAKE.

dunno why they tried to export the inbetweeners by giving it an american reboot when the show is so intrinsically british in its humor but the end result was a complete dumpster fire (unsurprisingly). some shows that weren’t remade (amen 🙏🏾🙏🏾) but still deserve to be spotlighted in this post are: people just do nothing (cannot recommended more), chewing gum, this country, and misfits. all hilarious imo, comedy television is like one of the only things we’re doing right.

@nowhere

Nov 6, 2024

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Episodes (TV series)

Randomly one of the all-time greatest TV shows. British humor (but fish out of water, set in LA) + Matt LeBlanc playing himself. Lucky you if you have Showtime or Paramount+ for whatever reason...

@ashleyanndarcy

Jan 21, 2024

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learn to scrape the internet

you people seem cool so i try to avoid too much nerd/code/tech talk but here we go anyway. 🤓 one of the most useful skills i have acquired as a coder is the ability to steal things from the internet. there is so much stuff on the web that you ostensibly are supposed to pay for, but with a little coding know-how you can scrape the relevant data, download it to your computer, keep it forever and never pay a dime for it. Or maybe pay for it once but be able to cancel your ongoing subscription to it. I have used this skill to steal / borrow / archive: - workout videos from a paid yoga app - cocktail recipes - food recipes - music - library books - instructional materials - graphical source material for making art Depending on what you’re doing, this can require more or less technical skill, but likely less than you expect. this is also a thing that chatgpt is very good at walking you through, if you ask it for help. it feels especially rewarding to learn a new skill in service of saving yourself money, too. Even if the content in question is free, it’s nice to know you’ll have it for eternity even if a provider goes out of business, and it enables you to search/organize/manage the content however you like (with no ads, paywalls, etc). it’s a useful exercise in digital literacy that demystifies a little bit of the technical world that surrounds us, and it always gives me a thrilling little frisson of “civil disobedience” or at least naughtiness.

@heumann

Apr 28, 2024

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Stubbornly continuing to pronounce a word wrong in your head

i still read hyperbole as “hyper-bowl”

@heumann

Mar 18, 2024

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ios animated stickers

so first of all, if you didnt know, you can press and hold on stuff in a photo on your phone and create "stickers" you can send in imessage. but i just discovered you can press and hold on a "live photo" and get an animated sticker i am going to be so annoying in chats with this feature (I don't think pi.fyi supports gifs/animations so visit link to see example)

@heumann

May 5, 2024