#melissa raunch

[walkergirlsposts]

I wonder why Night Court may be canceled? I thought it was doing well??

[disneytva]

Disney Sets Series Premiere Alert For Firebuds For Wednesday, Sept. 21, on Disney Junior and Disney+.

Disney has responded the call of “Firebuds,” an animated comedy-adventure series from Disney Television Animation  featuring a team of young first responders and their talking vehicle sidekicks, premieres September 21st, with a simulcast on Disney Channel and Disney Junior (10:30 a.m. EDT). An initial batch of episodes will premiere the same day on on-demand platforms and Disney+.

Set in a fantastical world where talking vehicles live, work and play with the humans who drive them, “Firebuds” follows a boy named Bo and his fire engine best friend Flash as they team up with their first responder friends to help others in their community with problems big and small. Each episode is comprised of two 11-minute stories that showcase the importance of teamwork, helping fellow citizens and volunteerism. The creative team worked with consultants from RespectAbility to help populate the diverse communities of Gearbox Grove and Motopolis featured in the series.

Firebuds is Created By Craig Gerber the series’ creative team consists of Matt Hoverman as story editor, Francis Giglio as art director, and Robb Pratt and Craig Simpson as supervising director and producer, respectively. Krystal Banzon, Leanna Dindal, Norma Sepulveda, Jeremy Shipp and Alyssa Stratton comprise the writing team, and the episodic directors are Kris Wimberly and Julius Aguimatang.Emmy Award-nominated Beau Black is the series songwriter, and Emmy Award winner Frederik Wiedmann is composer. “Firebuds” is produced by Disney Television Animation and is Disney TVA’s 92 series overall.

Planned extensions for the series include “Disney Junior Music: Firebuds” digital soundtrack from Walt Disney Records, debuting Sept. 16, and storybooks from Disney Publishing releasing later next year. Spin Master is the North American toy licensee for the series and will debut an innovative toy line featuring vehicles, figures, playsets and more, launching in summer 2023. 

Additionally, Bo and Flash will be featured in the upcoming “Disney Junior Live On Tour: Costume Palooza,” launching Sept. 2, with stops at more than 80 North American cities throughout 2022.

The lead voice cast includes Declan Whaley as Bo, Terrence Little Gardenhigh as Flash, Vivian Vencer as Violet, Lily Sanfelippo as Axl, JeCobi Swain as Jayden, and Caleb Paddock as Piston. Lou Diamond Phillips and Yvette Nicole Brown also star as co-fire chiefs, Chief Bill Bayani and Chief Faye Fireson, respectively.

Joining the previously announced voice cast in recurring and guest star roles include the following:

Padma Lakshmi (“Top Chef”) as Chef Pavani

Melissa Rauch (“The Big Bang Theory”) as Beth Bayani

Oscar Nuñez (“The Office”) as Chef Fernando

José Andrés (“We Feed People”) as Chef Al

Pamela Adlon (“Better Things”) as Principal Kagan

“Weird Al” Yankovic (“Milo Murphy’s Law”) as Latch

Lisa Loeb (“Jake and the Never Land Pirates”) as Laura

Patton Oswalt (“Ratatouille”) as Duke the Duckbus

Nat Faxon (“Loot”) as Throttle

Ali Stroker (Broadway’s “Oklahoma!”) as Gliderbella

LaChanze (Broadway’s “The Color Purple”) as Jenna

Aimee Carrero (“Elena of Avalor”) as Marina Ramirez

Natalie Morales (“Dead to Me”) as Val Vega-Vaughn

Allison Case (Broadway’s “Matilda the Musical”) as Viv Vega-Vaughn

Rich Sommer (“Mad Men”) as Mr. Wexell

Atticus Shaffer (“The Middle”) as Wayne Riley

Tatiana Lee (“Speechless”) as Ayanna

Lauren “Lolo” Spencer (“Give Me Liberty”) as Jazzy

[witchofthemidlands]

The Big Bang Theory

Thank you, Leonard Hofstader

Johnny Galecki

Thank you, Sheldon Cooper

Jim Parsons

Thank you, Amy Farrah-Fowler-Cooper

Mayim Bialik

Thank you, Penny Hofstader

Kaley Cuoco

Thank you, Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz

Melissa Raunch

Thank you, Raj Koothrappali

Kunal Nayyar

Thank you, Howard Wolowitz

Simon Helberg

Thank you The Big Bang Theory for twelve wonderful years.

It’s the end of an era, a beautiful era.

[famouspeopleinlaudromats]

Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Melissa Raunch, and Miyam Bialik in a laundry room scene in the The Big Bang Theory (2007).

[greenhatsinthesky]

lockdown film no. 36 - The Laundromat (2019) dir. Steven Soderbergh

22/05/2020

- dire 

- I thought this film was going to be good and I don’t think it could have been any more of a let down. One of biggest problems is that this film just doesn’t know what it is — it lurches really awkwardly between different storylines and there’s absolutely no coherence between any of the storylines. Meryl streep does well with what she’s got and I think she’s actually pretty good as someone just trying to figure out why things are the way they are and why she’s been mugged off so much. But overall the whole thing is so disjointed and split  between trying to tell a serious story of what’s going on in this specific case with Meryl Streep, and then this more comedic, fourth-wall-breaking situation with Antonio Banderas and Gary Oldman and the other cases they were involved with. structure who

- I enjoyed the relationship established between Meryl Streep and her husband, they had really nice genuine believable dialogue so it was a shame he died immediately 

- the annoying thing is that this could have worked. I don’t mind fourth wall breaks — the big short was a really good example of how straight up telling the audience what something means, and happily completely abandoning nuance and subtlety can fit with a film thats actually super serious and has a lot of heavy issues going on. When we put this film on, I was hoping it would be something similar to the big short, because the topic is similar, but this was just an incredible mess

- also gary Oldman’s accent in this? Please die in a fire

- she starts in a middle seat and ends up by the window? Come on

- having David schwimmer sat in a bar talking to people who know a lot more than we do was just so boring. Half the storylines could have been scrapped, just give me something to care about please. I don’t care about any of them

- I realised with about half an hour to go that Meryl streep was the woman in the glasses so I guess it was more entertaining this time round to realise who she was straight away

- jesus Christ jUST MAKE ONE FILM. STOP TRYING TO MAKE FIVE FILMS IN ONE IT DOESNT FUCKING WORK

- the music in this was so annoying as well. We had that really smooth drinking-cocktails-in-a-bar-on-the-beach theme when the two guys were explaining stuff to camera an like yea I get they’re meant to be comedic and yet we’re meant to hate them but still

- another one of few saving graces is that Antonio Banderas looks great in a roll neck

- the storyline with Charles (I think his name was?) was a bit confusing because we spent a lot more time with him without any particular reason as to why we should care more about him than the other storylines? Also it was supremely uncomfortable because initially I thought he was being weird with his daughter so the only saving grace was that it wasn’t his daughter and was actually his daughters friend. Which is still awfUL but at least it wasn’t incest

- he needed to get in a bin for so many reasons. Just hated him. Like everyone in that storyline was terrible and I had no reason to empathise with any of them, and not even in a fun way like in the social network where there’s something a bit more interesting going on. Also the acting when Simone hit Astrid was pretty diabolical to be fair

- when Astrid was describing her relationship with Charles I actually felt so sick not even gonna front it

- “The world is just men hiding behind piles of paper” 

- I enjoyed the bit where they talked about the difference between privacy and secrecy

- GRAPHIC BLACK MARKET ORGANS NO THANKS M8

- I didn’t know what was going on with that weird bit with the organs people and the guy who they were asking to divorce his wife and honestly I was too far gone to care at this point but that scene where they put porn on the tv was supremely uncomfortable to watch with my father, thanks

- “everyone sleeps better at night when corruption has been vanquished” ok thats metal and I like it

- having a recorder in the filing cabinet felt very hustle, and just reminded me how good hustle was and that I should be watching it instead of this

- it was strange for Meryl Streep to break the fourth wall. I didn’t like that. it would have worked if she’d been having some kind of internal monologue before this point but ohhhhh the inconsistencies

- it was a welcome break to see Barack Obama 

- the ending was… y’know, the bit where it ended. It was really annoying because films like these normally make me feel stuff, but this didn’t make me feel anything. I can imagine the bit when they realised they could have Meryl Streep as the statue of liberty right at the end because in theory thats electric but it fucking wasn’t

- it feels like they came to making this film thinking “this is a really important thing that happened and we should make a film about it” but if you can't make a good film about it then thats just a terrible way to approach it. if, first and foremost, the piece of art that you're making doesn't fulfil its function as a piece of art then it doesn't matter if it “makes a statement” or “makes us consider ourselves and the world” like if I don't care about the film without the external factors then you done fucked up. 

- how long the takes are is one of the only bits that I find impressive because that looked stressful to do

- when it cut to credits I was like “… that it?” 

- don’t bother with this honestly its diabolical

[pumpumdemsugah]

I'm not really academically inclined but I've been trying to understand black feminism ideas as I enter my 20s. I find that watching videos even of poets or writers(nikki giovanni, morrison,baldwin) really helps. I've read Crenshaw and I have a few masterosits saved but si there anything you've found to be a good starter? I've been looking into lectures as well. ATP I think anyone who refuses to learn and regurtitates BS on social media is doing real harm. Mostly sad for BW who do this though.

Not all the books I'm mentioning are about Black women exclusively but they have perspectives and insights I think are good so you don't end up with dumb repackaged views. Also I didn't find them to be difficult reads. Most things by bell hooks is good tbh. I think she's a great starter.

Black looks is a good introduction and not a very long book either. Ain't I a woman is also good. I know I've read more of her stuff but I genuinely cant remember the titles 🤣 but there's a reason people say read bell hooks

I really enjoyed Colonise This! It has lots of different essays by women of colour.

On photography by Susan Sontag. It's about the gaze and photography and I really enjoyed the part about Diane Arbus

Heart Of The Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain. Not really about feminist concepts but it sheds a light on the lives of Black women in the UK between the 60s and 70s

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture: Woman and the Rise of Raunch Culture. It's more about Raunch Culture back in the mid 00s with a focus on Britain but I think some of the stuff mentioned fits well now

Sister Citizen by Melissa Harris Perry. I'm still getting through it. It's well written I just haven't finished it

Patricia Collins has alot of amazing books about Black Feminism I've been meaning to read like Black Feminist thought

None of these books are particularly hard to understand and assumes you're a beginner so you don't have to go in not knowing what terms mean for the most part.

It sounds like you're off to a good start. Personally I like audio books as long as the person doesn't have a disgusting voice lol. It's a nice way to learn something new if you're doing a mindless activity so you can focus. There aren't enough audiobooks of older Black Feminist stuff unfortunately

I use to read these black female focused blogs back in the late 00s early 2010s but the names have changed and I don't remember lol . I use to like crunk feminist collective blog back in the day but I haven't read anything on there in years so I can't really say if they're any good but the older stuff should still be there

I feel like as long as you're taking in new ideas be it video , audiobook or reading it helps you not have this very narrow social media focused view of the world. Idk about podcast tbh so I can't really say anything

I definitely agree anyone that refuses to learn is causing harm and lots young Black women on social media that claim to be feminist are doing that

[dan1428]

Mmmmm I love myself some Melissa Raunch!!!!!!

[kevrocksicehouse]

After a decade of affability Melissa McCarthy, who turns 50 today decided to become falling down funny. And then she got serious.

Megan Price in Bridesmaids. D: Paul Feig (2011). After decades of playing good-hearted best friends and wives, McCarthy found a film that used her talents for raunch (“I’m glad he’s single because I’m going to climb that like a tree”) slapstick (the food poisoning scene) and all-purpose loopy chaos (riffing on a “Fight Club” wedding, spinning a “telepathic” dolphin story) to turn a supporting role into a scene-stealing, star-making comic juggernaut.

Susan Cooper in Spy. D: Paul Feig (2015). The best of McCarthy’s blockbuster comedies has a great premise: What if the ordinary-looking tech-assistance operative in an action movie got the opportunity to lead the mission? In this movie, she’d run into a CIA rife with egotism, condescension and misogyny depicted by a first-rate cast of comic actors some of them (like a surprisingly funny Jason Statham) eager to parody their action-movie personas. So McCarthy works as a hyper-competent, double-talking straight woman whose insults (“By the way, I can see your gun, unless you’re SO extreme that you have a second d--- coming out of your hip!”) expose her greatest asset – that she half-knows she’s in an action movie. She’s like a non-cowardly Bob Hope.

Lee Israel in Can You Ever Forgive Me? D: Marielle Heller (2018). McCarthy got an Oscar nod for this true story of an out-of-fashion writer who gets by for awhile by forging letters of famous literary figures and selling them to collectors. But the movie is really about being alcoholic and insolvent, a misanthrope  whose best friend is a cadging drunk (a great Richard E. Grant) in even worse shape than she is. McCarthy is defiantly unsentimental in the role putting us in her desperate situation without ever asking for sympathy. She evokes pathos without being pathetic. Still shouldn’t own a cat though.

[pisces-mars]

a study in cancer

being the fourth sign in the zodiac cancer is a water sign, making them very emotional, intuitive and compassionate. cancer is represented by a crab and is ruled by the moon. cancers are very good at ‘getting people’.

cancers are often depicted as overly emotional and getting upset at the drop of a hat. i’ve found this to be true, however there is more to cancer than meets the eye. as they are ruled by the moon, cancerians are very loyal, really great at keeping secrets, kind and caring. though they can be a lot for some whos less in touch with their emotions. cancerians are represented by the crab, this means that they can bite of provoked, but will usually just do what they gotta do, maybe provide for their crab fam, and hid in their sand (comfort zone).

common cancer traits:

intuitive

loyal

enigmatic (!!!)

nostalgic

charming

emotional

ambititous

nourishing

resilient

emotionally intelligent

famous cancerians

princess diana, ariana grande, selena gomez, lindsay lohan, will ferrell, vin diesel, kristen bell, lana del rey, kevin hart, khloé kardashian, benedict cumberbatch, chris pratt melissa raunch, malia obama, tom hanks, ernest hemmingway and elon musk (technically captain america is also a cancer,,,)

quick facts

dates: june 21st - july 21st

element: water

ruling planet: the moon

zodiac symbol: the crab (snip snip)

spirit colour: violet

flowers: orchid and the white rose

polarity: negative

quality: cardinal

birthstones: emerald, moonstone, pearl, ruby, sapphire

hogwarts house?

a hufflepuff, no doubt in my mind.

most compatible signs?

again the water fam; pisces and scorpio, also very compatable with tauruians and virgos though (note: they can be very incompatible with libras)

[jaika2099]

I liked Tara Strong who voiced as Harley Quinn but Arleen Sorkin is still better for her. In my opinion, Tara Strong is better than Melissa Raunch or that VA from Harley Animated Series.

[ectobuddha]

🖤💙 Melissa Raunch

[ryanmeft]

The Happytime Murders Movie Review

Early in my screening of The Happyplace Hooligans, an older couple in front of me walked out, muttering disgustedly. Now, on any other day, I’d applaud a movie that makes people walk out, muttering disgustedly. This time, though, I just longed for the freedom they had gained. The Gladtime Shenanigans is not a movie so much as the equivalent of a third-grader dropping the f-bomb a lot because they have just learned it and think it makes them more adult.

The worst thing about the movie is that it could have worked. The premise is that, in a world where puppets and humans co-exist, members of the first ever show to feature both humans and puppets have been getting killed off. Odd couple partners, puppet P.I. Phil Philips (Bill Barretta) and cop Melissa McCarthy Playing Melissa McCarthy have to overcome their years-old feud over the former’s dismissal from the force to solve the crimes. Hilarious things we get along the way:

1.“Fuck you” used over and over by most every character as though it is a hilarious punchline in and of itself.

2.Every single pot-boiler cliche ever made (“Why don’t you make this easy on yourself”, “I’d never find the killer if I was locked up in jail”, and a dozen others)

3.A scene in which Phil, having had sex with his client, who is also a puppet, proceeds to, ahem, completely cover his office in what seems to be silly string. You…you get the drift.

That last bit typifies the ways in which the film is flawed at a very basic level: the venerable Jim Henson studios, having opened a new adult branding to release this film, seems to believe that “Puppets plus raunch” is enough to produce hilarity. Occasionally there is a flash of satire that would work in more capable hands. Sandra White (Dorien Davies) is another puppet who brings a case to Phil, claiming she can’t stop having sex and is being blackmailed, and instantly trying to jump Phil’s puppet bones. Anyone familiar with noir will recognize the movie is trying to spoof the cliche of the female client who immediately tries to seduce the hero, but director Brian Henson and writer Todd Berger can’t, well, keep it in their pants. Instead of her character remaining a subtle burn on the old stereotype, they eventually have to go over the top with it, finally resulting in that horrible, elongated (pun intended) scene with the, ugh, the string. I reflexively rubbed my temples just thinking about it.

Truth is, I’m trying to dissect what’s so bad about the film, but I can feel the ennui setting in just from thinking about it. I took a break and watched some old Looney Tunes cartoons (more entertainment in 5% of the runtime) The subversive premise of The Joytime Riots could work. The beloved Muppets are already family-friendly satire, and theoretically Henson, son of Jim, should have been able to tap into the natural wit seen in the old films and just shift it a liiiitle bit, into dirty territory, while maintaining the clever writing and excellent character repartee. He is not able to do that. Worse still is that McCarthy sleepwalks through the material, offering not a single bit of either the verbal wit or high-energy physical comedy we get from her in her best roles. Angry rants, profanity, and insinuations from other characters that she is a man (a sort of humor I thought we had evolved beyond) make up the entirety of her role. It may be time for her to branch out, to move beyond “Melissa McCarthy gets in a fight” or “Melissa McCarthy swears”. It may also be that she simply teams well with Paul Feig, who has directed her best roles, and that others are at a loss as to what to do with her. Bridesmaids made me want to see much more of her; this movie made me want to see much less.

The other human actors have roles so wasted on nothing that I truly feel for them. Maya Rudolph as a bubbly secretary who wants to date her boss is the closest to being successful, and yet I am still trying to figure out what was supposed to be funny about her craving a banana; given the sophistication of the rest of the film, your guess is probably the same as mine. Elizabeth Banks is wasted as an ex-TV star turned stripper, as is Leslie David Baker as McCarthy’s superior. Then there’s Joel McHale, stuffed into a humor-free, lowest-effort-possible send-up of the Federal Agent who Doesn’t Trust Anyone role. I loved McHale in Community. I can’t tell you how much I dreaded him showing up on screen here. Every time he’s trotted out, he absorbs whatever tiny hope for entertainment that scene might have had.

A little trivia for you: Disney is, according to Robert Zemeckis, stubbornly sitting on a ready-to-go sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and we very much need someone to step in and fill that half-human half-something-else genre-satire-with-a-soul niche. Whereas Roger and the original Muppets took on Hollywood with the three necessary qualities of wit, respect and subversiveness, the only arrow The Happyplace Killings has in the quiver is pure nastiness, the sort of thing that might have made me laugh when I was 14 but left me ashamed to have done so as an adult. It’s the kind of movie that’s so blah, even a seasoned reviewer could forget what it was called multiple times. I’m going to stop writing about it now, and I apologize for having done so in the first place.

Verdict: Avoid Like the Plague

Note: I don’t use stars, but here are my possible verdicts. I suppose you could consider each one as adding a star.

Must-See

Highly Recommended

Recommended

Average

Not Recommended

Avoid like the Plague

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[dan1428]

Mmmmmm I love myself some Melissa Raunch!!!!!!

[stachestachestache]

LOOK AT HOW LOW HE HAS TO LEAN TO REACH MELISSA RAUNCH!!!

that’s so fucking cute...

Sebastian Stan + recent duck faces

[shoottomiss]

Saw Batman and Harley Quinn

I didn’t find the controversial point all that bad, since Nightwing and Harley were consenting adults, but the movie did definitely have just a bit too much sexualization going on, even if it is the DCAU. Horribly padded and paced, too. And when the jokes fall, they fall hard.

But the Harley and Ivy scene was nice, it could be funny at times, the nostalgia brings you back, and Melissa Raunch’s performance as Harley was pretty good. 

Overall though, it was just... meh. Mediocre. Nothing awfully bad, but nothing impressive either.

Although if I have learned something from this, Paul Dini or someone else on the BTAS writing crew must have been the anchor that kept Bruce Timm from going off the rails. Seems it’s better to keep him on a leash.