#starkid show bracket

[awigglycultist]

[its-to-the-death]

Battle of the Gingers Bracket D Round 2

Sara Bellum (Powerpuff Girls) vs Becky Barnes (Black Friday - Starkid)

Mod comment: The Powerpuff Girls episode with Miss Bellum fighting Medusa is one of my clearest memories of that show

[starkidsongtournament]

Welcome to the Starkid Song Tournament!

The tournament will consist of 228 Starkid songs from: A Very Potter Musical, Me and My Dick, Little White Lie, A Very Potter Sequel, Starship, Holy Musical B@man!, A Very Potter Senior Year, Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier, Ani: A Parody, The Trail to Oregon!, Firebringer, Movies, Musicals and Me, The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals, Black Friday, Nightmare Time, Nightmare Time 2 and VHS Christmas Carol.

I took the songs from each show’s Wiki page, so there’s no Duck is Lord. Scarab from Twisted was included so I could have an even number because it’s not really a song and it's not on the soundtrack, but it was on the Wiki page’s list of songs.

Nerdy Prudes Must Die is not included because I haven't seen it yet

Polls will start Saturday, April 22nd! This is my first tournament hosting so I’m looking forward to it!

All match-ups are chosen by a random number generator and there will be two brackets of 57 pairs.

Mod is @sailors-fightinginthedancehall so if you have any questions feel free to ask me there or here

Hope this is fun!

[huntress-the-wolf]

I'm going to the starkid show in London today :D

Currently hanging out with some cool people at a starkid meetup

Tron and sark are out for inrchment

I also got a super cool bracket

[notanothersongaboutlovebracket]

Revenge/Confrontation Song Sub-Bracket

Ryan Scott Oliver - Leave, Luanne vs Queen - Death on Two Legs

steampianist - black hole

Miles Luna and Benjamin Zecker - Better Than You vs Gaelic Storm - The Night that I Punched Russell Crowe

Da games - Moving up in the world vs Alice Francis - Shoot Him Down!

Olivia Olsen and Ashley Tisdale - Busted vs the living tombstone, eliemonty - die in a fire

grandson - Bury Me Face Down vs Schell Games - I Expect You To Die

Scene queen - The rapture (but it's pink)

Dalton Deschain & the Traveling Show - Devil's Night vs 100 Gecs - Sympathy 4 The Grinch

Vane Lilly - Perfectly Sweet vs Aviators - Red Water Dreams

Poor Man's Poison - Hell's Coming with Me vs The Crane Wives - Take Me to War

Lord Huron - The World Ender vs Death Note the Musical - Playing His Game

The Decemberists - Mariner's Revenge Song

ponyphonic - the moon rises vs Naethan Apollo - You’re Not Welcome

Nightmare Time 2 (StarKid) - Yellow Jacket vs Fish in a Birdcage - Four Aces

Twisted Musical (StarKid) - No One Remembers Achmed vs Martina McBride - Independence Day

Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner vs Lestat The Musical - After All This Time

Set It Off - Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

dead end paranormal park - My Frankenstein vs I don’t know how but they found me - Choke

Jeremy Irons - Be Prepared vs Jhariah - Whose Eye Is It Anyway???

Bruce Springsteen - Death to My Hometown vs Bring Me The Horizon - medicine

[theredlanternavenger]

Spirates Are Forever

Fellas, I did it. I did the impossible, and combined two of the most obscure fandoms in history. Tokusatsu, and Team StarKid. (I know, SAF is a Tin Can Brothers production, but still.) Both fandoms wouldn't even be aware that the other exists, but I DID IT!!!

In celebration of Curtwen winning the Best Fictional Divorce bracket, I present to you...

The Yo-Ho-Hoi-est Goodbye

I spent many nights awake thinking about this. Now, shall we begin?

First, the two Owens...

1. Owen

Similarities with Basco:

Dumped & Betrayed Lover

No Redeemable Qualities

Willing To Kill His Own Henchmen

Incredibly Dangerous

Killed Off For Real By Lover

Differences with Basco:

Unclear What Triggered His Face-Heel Turn

Died Once

Spy

Earth Human

Red-Blooded

2. Basco

Similarities with Owen:

Dumped & Betrayed Lover

No Redeemable Qualities

Willing To Kill His Own Henchmen

Incredibly Dangerous

Killed Off For Real By Lover

Differences with Owen:

Chronic Backstabbing Disorder

Never Died

Pirate

Alien

Green-Blooded

Then, the two Curts...

1. Curt

Similarities with Marvelous:

Got Betrayed By Lover

Red-Blooded

Had To Kill Lover With Own Hands

Actually Named Curt

Differences with Marvelous:

Thought Lover Dead For 4 Years

Spy

Earth Human

Quick To Move On After Killing Lover

Afraid Of His Own Blood

2. Marvelous

Similarities with Curt:

Got Betrayed By Lover

Red-Blooded

Had To Kill Lover With Own Hands

Real Name May Or May Not Be Curt

Differences with Curt:

Knew Lover Was Alive This Whole Time

Pirate

Alien

[DATA EXPUNGED]

Doesn't Even Flinch At The Sight Of His Own Blood

So, to sum it up in one sentence, BasuMabe is Curtwen but what if Owen was working with Chimera long before the Russian affair and just shot Curt at that facility before running away.

"Does this mean Cynthia is AkaRed?"

Well, from a certain point of view, yes. Also, the other Gokaigers could be comparable to Curt's team.

Read my fic Yen for more of this, but if you're a SAF fan rushing into the link without watching Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, GO WATCH IT NOW. It has Curtwen, but as ✨pirates✨. And in that one, pirate-Owen is actually better than pirate-Curt, in terms of being a pirate. (also you'll have to sit through 14 episodes before reaching the one where pirate-Owen shows up but who cares?)

@askrikkaiandhyotei @mythuzalasheir3

[neverheardnothing]

regarding that snubbed musicals bracket. how are starkid shows in this. has there been a serious critic at one of their shows in the last decade?

[popculturebuffet]

Tom and Jerry 2021 Review: It’s Almost Adequate!

Hello you happy people, and welcome to a surprise review! While this was on my schedule, I moved it out to make room for my new Patreon Sponsored review. Yes at the 5 dollar tier you too can get a review a month.. but enough shilling. Point is I had some thoughts on the film, and felt I could squeeze a review of it into the schedule since my review for yesterday, the 90′s Tom and Jerry movie, got canceled as I both had to finish up my tex avery birthday review and hadn’t noticed it wasn’t on HBO Max like I thought. I could’ve sworn it was once but not anymore. Gee it’s almost like they removed their overtly awful Tom and Jerry movie from the service so people woudln’t be reminded of it when they watched the mediocre  new one. Or it was never on there because HBO wants to bury that mistake in a hole. You make the call. 

Point is I had some room in my schedule, so if I can’t cover the 1990 movie this weekend, though I FULLY intend to still do that at some point as it still fascinates me, might as well cover the one everyone’s actually watching. So join me under the cut with spoilers to go into why this film is .. ehhhh. under the cut

Tom and Jerry follows, as you’d expect, our working boys up to their ass in shit, what is this buisness. In this case Tom literally rides in on a rail with his keyboard wanting to be a big musician one day, while Jerry is shopping around for a home but can’t find any in his bracket. The two end up fighting, as you’d expect, when Tom performs as a blind cat in a park, a great gag, and Jerry first steals his customers by dancing to his music, but then when Tom tries to stop him, not only exposes his scam, but gets Tom’s beloved Keyboard broken. 

In the process of Tom trying to get Jerry back for runing his day, Tom ruins the day of Kayla, a cynical young lady played by Chole Grace Moretz who like Robin in the last theatrical film, is a blonde girl who takes up way more screen time than our heroes for some reason. Tom accidently destroys the clothes she was sent to deliver, and she gets fired from her Task Rabbit esque job... despite the fact that TaskRabbit is app based, entirely built around how you do jobs for hire as needed, and that at most she’d get a bad review and that the app dosen’t actually hire people. I know this both because i’ve seen the apps and parodies of it show up on tv shows I watch, most recently Close Enough, and because I took the 2 minutes it took to google it , read some of the Wikipedia article and do the bare minimum that me, a paid only by commissions and patreons reviewer, did to prove a point, and that the writers of this film, who likely got paid at least 10000 for a rewrite, and more for whoever wrote the treatment, which is about 30,000 at lowest as told to me by this article on what screenwriters get paid I looked up solely to prove a point. So they got paid tens of thousands of dollars, probably more than standard... to not spend 5 minutes looking up what task rabbit is, becuase they wanted to give her a “hip” job instead of just having her work for a dry cleaner. Then again they got thousands upon thousands to half ass it and i’m getting paid nothing to go on a rant about how they half assed it, so maybe i’m the dumbass, I dunno, but at least I take pride in my work. And i’ve had trouble spellchecking at times so take that as you will. 

But so far the film is not bad: the slapstick is blended really well, the action is pitch perfect and our heroes are given good motivations: Kayla’s to find a job, Tom to play piano professionally and Jerry to find a proper home. You ready for some letdown?!

 All three of our heroes converge at the Royal Gate Hotel, a prestigious hotel that’s been host to popes, dignitaries and Drake. Jerry sneaks inside, and soon finds himself at home and making himself home, Tom TRIES to and ends up getting on the wrong side of Butch, the black cat from the shorts played in this film by reggaton performer Nicky Jam. Why they choose him over a comedian or anyone who could actually act, especially since Butch dosen’t have a musical number or anything, is a riddle for the ages. My best guest, as it always is, is that Tim Story owes him a Wookie-Style life debt. Not only that but even more bafflingly Butch’s gang, who to the films credit like him are all his gang of cats from the classic shorts, are played by Kevin Hart’s Improve Troop, The Plastic Cup Boyz. I got a preview for what passing a kidney stone’s going to feel like just typing that name. I thought I had no explanation for this, not even a wookie life debt can explain how Kevin Hart’s posse, because he has one for some reason but at least unlike Adam Sandler he’s helping his smaller named friends get big instead of just promoting guys who really shouldn’t have a career or dragging poor guys like Shaq or Terry Crews into your bullcrap because they like you., can explain how this happened. But I forgot I looked up Tim Story’s filmography when I first found out he was director here, more on him later, and found out he directed both Ride Along films, both think like a man films, and one of Kevin Hart’s specials, so the two presumably are friends or at least have a solid working relationship, and given how successful the first Ride Along was for both men, I doubt Tim would turn down a favor from him and vice versa. 

And while I find the Plastic Cup Boyz inclusion in this film bizzare and wish it was fellow comedy troupe and starkid adjacent wonderkinds the Tin Can Bros so I could get Joey Richter voicing an animated cat, they at least try their best, their just not given much to do and I don’t get casting them in these side rolls or not giving the butch role to one of them as Nicky Jam just sucks in the role. And I get Butch isn’t the most solid or complex character, but it still isn’t THAT hard, with the 80 drumloads of great comedians out there, to find SOMEONE better, and it’s weird Kevin Hart himself isn’t in the roll. If it wasn’t a wookie life debt i’m betting Hart was going to play Butch, had to back out due to scheduling conflicts or whatever, and Tim found the first guy he could who’d take almost nothing instead of an actual actor. 

Kayla meanwhile somehow takes herself from sympathetic to wholly unlikeable in the span of the scene by maniuplating and terrifying a poor woman into not taking the job, outright STEALING HER RESUME, meaning if she screwed up this might go on the poor woman’s record, and lying her way into the job. And if the woman had been you know a classist dick or something, i’d understand but this is a perfectly nice lady who worked really hard, and who looses out on a job because some little bitch talked her out of it and then stole her identity. This one act really just makes me not care: It’s one thing to do what you gotta to get a job, I myself have never lied on an application but I get new york’s insanely expensive. Even if she presumibly lives in a hole that’s cramped, has roaches or rats, who given this unvierse probably have tiny tv’s that are still way too loud and binge watch way too much Jersey Shore at 2 in the morning, and is probably haunted, probably by Droopy wearing a bedsheet going boo but still, and yes he’s also alive here but he has identical cousins. Not the point. Point is even if she has sympathetic motives.. what she did is not okay and when she get flashes of guilt throughtout hte film it’s never long enough to feel like it’s not her simply feeling bad she didn’t get this herself and not that she STOLE IT FROM ANOTHER PERSON. Again if she’d FAKED her resume, this would’ve been fine, simply set up some websites, and it would’ve worked so why they went with this elaborate setup that takes her into outright crimes is beyond me. 

Point is she gets hired by the manager/owner, Mr. Dubrois, played by Rob Delany, but since his name isn’t used enough i’m just going to call him Mustache Manager. Her direct superior whose against her being hired is Terrance, the Gate’s Event Manager played by a way too good for this film Micheal Pena, who sadly is given nothing to work with. Terrance.. is supposed to be the bad guy because he distrusts kayla. And while one of those reasons is stupid, she makes a joke about the goldfish being an aquatics manger and he takes it dead seriously, he’s rightfully supscious she’s not who she says she is, since one of the places on her resume is a place he knows people from. The only way the film manages to make him the bad guy is he is COMICALLY out of touch: he dosen’t get sarcasm, as seen before, dosen’t want people posting jerry to “snapgram or instaface”, and seems to have trouble relating to his guests. What makes this not work is that he’s manger at a ludicrously expensive hotel. As such a good chunk of his events would be for Celebrties, since New York’s a big hub for them, having tons living there and visiting for films, apperances on late night talk shows, SNL and what have you and being a prime spot for events and it’s clear part of his job is talking to the guests as the two the film focuses on, more on that in a minute, know him and have met him before. He also mentions Drake having stayed there... he would NOT have kept this job. 

You’d need to do through research on these kinds of celebrates and social media is the easiest way to do that, to get what they like, what they don’t, what they don’t want to talk about, what scandals or gos might be going on to keep paparazzi out. I don’t even know how this business works nor did I google it.. and I didn’t to prove a point.. that even with no real idea how this works.. I still get what you’d probably need to know to make events for rich famous people. I’m not convinced Terrance knows how an internet works.  And given writer Kevin Costello wrote the well received and weird film I still want to see Brigbsby Bear, I get the sense a lot of this nonsense was added in rewrites demanded by executives and credit him more for what works in the film. More on that in a moment. 

Kayla is hired on because the Royal Gate has it’s biggest event ever, the wedding of Ben, played by Colin Jost, and Preeta, played by Pallavi Sharda. Why is it big? What do they do exactly? Are they trust fund babies? Did Ben invent an app? Did Preeta cure global warming? Did they both help defeat Galactus DEVOURER OF WORLDS?!... I dont’ know. If the film told me at all why their big names, even if it’s just because their famous for being famous which would be fine, why this is bigger than a fucking pope visiting, I missed it and I actually went back to their first scene and the scene where Mustache Manager brings up the wedding in the first place to Kayla, and found nothing. We just know their rich, their getting married, Ben doesn’t listen to Preeta and is insufferable, and that they own two classic Tom and Jerry characters: Ben owns spike whose played by Bobby Canavale who isn’t bad but dosen’t try to sound like spike at all and that annoys me given unlike Tom and Jerry, the former of whom’s signature noises from the cartoon were used archivally and otherwise dosen’t talk and only sings on occasion or does that wonderfully weird “don’t you belivie it” thing., has a distinct voice they could’ve got someone to imitate. The other is Preeya’s cat toodles, that white cat Tom is always trying to bang, who got a neat less anthro redesign. 

Toots, Toodles whatever you call her the redesign works, making her more of a cat, and only speaking in meows for some reason, and combinging the two female cats tom’s liked, but while still being just funny animal enough that him wanting some pussy, so to speak, isn’t too creepy. 

And this is where the film undergoes a bit of a shift. While the 20 or so minutes are rightfully focused on our boys with a bit of focus on Kayla, from here on out she’s our defacto lead. Given the last film did the same damn thing of making Tom and Jerry not the main leads in their own movie, you can see the problem.  I will say to the film’s credit it is still LEAGUES better in a lot of other ways than the 90′s film in that the plot is actually centered around them: Jerry, when stealing some cheese, and runs afoul of the tempermental Chef Jackie played by Kim Jeong. Though i’m 100% not convinced Ben Chang didn’t just lie on his resume at some place and has now somehow become a michline star canditate. He finds Jerry, and Kayla volunteers to catch him to help her own career and validly points out her doing this discreetly with only the staff knowing about the mouse will keep it from becoming a social media nightmare. 

The 90′s film could work without them, replacing them with any animal sidekick for Robin, since nit’s so far removed from Tom and Jerry their really an afterthought. Here the film DOES feel like a tom and jerry plot at it’s core, Jerry’s somewhere he shoudln’t be, Tom wants to chase him either due to personal greivance or his job depending on it, in this case both. The small side cast are all involved, and given decent if thin justifications for being there: Butch is an ally cat and Spike and Tootles are the pets of the happy couple. 

And honestly the slapstick portions, the portions that are tom and jerry focused or use the humans well, are BRILLIANT. No really, it’s good stuff once in a while using a bit from the classics but mostly coming up with new gags and the animation is gorgeous. I won’t lie and say it’s always perfect, sometimes the models are a bit off and look unfinished and that’s not forgivable when you delay your film two months, and thus have extra time to work on that. But that’s a few shots here and there versus the majority of hte film where the various animals all blend perfectly. Unlike most Live Action adaptations of an old cartoon, this one actually seemed to have good reason, as they’ve taken the basic roger rabbit tech of decades ago and expanded on it well. Just like that classic you often wonder how the hell they pulled this off, and outside of one egregrous sequence where tom sets up an elaborate trap we spend far too much time on, when they do use CG for any props, you can’t tell. This is best highlighted by what I consdier to be the film’s best sequence and what brings Tom into the plot proper after lurking on the fringes for a good 15 minutes: Tom, miserable in the rain, finds jerry living it up in an empty room, and after some fun shenanigans trying to get in, finally succeds leading to a good 2-3 minute sequence of the two chasing after each other in the room. There are no actors, no one else and the room is empty, but perfectly gimmicked to time with thier movments. Wether they used cg and I couldn’t tell or just simply timed things great, it’s utterly fantastic and shows why this film is live action: while i’td be fine animated they cleary ahd the tech and ideas to do it live and thus did it this way. Naturally Kayla meets Tom again, and after finding out the room was trashed by both him and Jerry gets Mustache Manager to hire him. 

But this is the problem: While there are great set pieces like this, or a REALLY damn impressive one later where Terrance gets dragged into a ball of violence while walking Spike for Ben and we see INSIDE IT, with Terrance not moving as fast but that being okay. And I love the movie’s commitment that ALL animals are animated. So it has it’s charms and gets a LOT right.

It’s clear to me from this strong core that the script was messed with, either by director Tim Story or the execs. Some misguided and stupid bits I get even if it was a bad idea: Tom does do the piano at one point, after he thinks he’s gotten rid of Jerry thanks to again an unwieldy overly long bit of CGI that’s a down spot on the usually good just tom and jerry stuff. And he STARTS singing a 40′s jazz song, and I thought “Okay they really got this and are doing something like is you is or is you ain’t my baby this will be fun”. Then T-Pain started using autotune, because of course, and Tom’s shoulder devil started scratching next to him...

By the way Tom’s Shoulder Devil and Angel are played very well by Lil Rel Howrey , aka Rod from Get Out. So good on you man, one bit of non miscasting.  There’s one or two cringe inducing moment of trying to be hip here or there though for a film like this it isn’t nearly as bad as you’d expect. Still bad but i’ve seen so much worse at this point i’m not going to bother getting mad or upset over it. I’m used to this kind of thing from kids movies. 

But while the film dosen’t really lack Tom and Jerry, it sidelines them way too often> There’s just too many scenes  just about Kayla, whose not only not a great character despite Chole trying her absolute hardest god bless her. Her hitting it off with the bartender, her arguing with Terrance whose even more insufferable and her bonding with Preeta and Ben being annoying, we’ll get to him.. WE’LL GET TO HIM. But they aren’t funny or interesting, there’s nothing THERE to really get me interested, nothing new or fresh that we haven’t seen done better before. There’s just nothing, it feels like large parts of blank space. And to illustrate this my Niece, who I watched the film with and really loves Tom and Jerry after I showed it to her... played with other stuff during most of those scenes. And she’s young, her attention span is not great.. but noticably during the actual scenes of slapstick she was glued to the tv, just like she was when I showed her the classic shorts. It’s not just old farts like me who remember tom and jerry from their youth.. it’s the kids your TRYING to appeal to that don’t want this. If you can’t get kids, who in general and speaking from my own personal experience will watch just about anything, to pay attention YOU. HAVE. FAILED. 

Okay took a second to compose myself, let’s move on to the rest of the movie. So after T-Pain stabbed music in the throat, we get to the worst section of the film as Kayla brokers peace between the two to get Preeta’s ring back after the three end up in the aformnetioned violence ball with Terrance, who she ducks his claims that she didn’t catch the mouse.. which she did not but for once she’s sympathetic as Terrance is much more likeable either, though gaslighting him and getting him put on leave is a bit extreme. Bafflingly, Kayla gets his job as event cordinator for now, and thus has to broker peace between the two warring factions.. and does so in the strangest way possible: by booking a day for them in new york to hang out and be BUDDIES!. This isn’t bad as the last film as it dosen’t last, but it is just.. surreal seeing the two having a hanging out montage around new york. Like the film just took a really weird turn with this, the montage itself isn’t weird, it’s standard shenanigans minus the fighting but still good stuff. Unlike the 90′s movie instead of singing about being palls or helping a small child, they just get into cartoony shenanigans together. More proof the film could’ve been so much better just with them. 

Speaking of proof the film would’ve been better without them , Ben fucks around with a drone for the wedding, after Preeta confided in Kayla the wedding’s getting to be a bit much. So let’s talk about Ben shall we? While Preeta is just nice, friendly and down to earth, Ben... is a dumbass, a jackass and just an ass. His whole schtick is that he keeps escalting the wedding despite her wishing he’d stop, and i’ts just.. not funny. A guy ignoring his partner’s wishes, constnatly doing big gestures in large part to try and win over her dad who RIGHTFULLY hates, and in general just sucks. I do not blame this on Colin Jost: He’s perfectly charming on SNL, and Weekend Update is usually damn fun under him and Micheal Che. But like with Pena and Mortez, he’s given NOTHING to work with, and furthe rmore can’t improvise.. aka the skill most SNL cast and almnus walk away with. So it’s no suprise he instead comes off like an anoying plank of wood you want to see fall down a manhole and never return so Preeta can marry someone else. I dunno the Doorman’s a pretty cool guy, and if he’s taken or something there’s always Droopy. Droopy’s the smoothest motherfucker and we all know. And if HE’S taken there’s mustache man. The point is we have a Dating Game’s worth of elligble bachelors and the film tries to sell a plank of wood who clearly wants to bang Preeta’s dad more than he wants a genuine equal relationship with Preeta. 

So that dosen’t help the final act.. which is started with something REALLY weird to round off tom and jerry’s day as Tom catches a ball, interupts a play and get.s. thrown in the pound for it?

I don’t know how tha’ts a crime, I don’t get it either, point is the animal control guy is a creep who shows them off as they pass some angry dogs.. and.. 

MY BOY. There was an earlier joke with him taking the place of The Joker, and I thought that was it sadly but nope there he is! While, given they don’t really have much to do with each other, it is a tad weird he’s been grafted onto the tom and jerry legacy.. I really don’t care because it means Droopy gets to show up every so often in other stuff like this.. And hopefully the spinoff series coming in the summer. I”ve talked before about how much I love this dog so having him show up here was a HUGE delight and easily the higlihgt of the film and the gag is perfect. WHy is he in prison? I don’t know. But given who we’re dealing with I also assume he just disappeared later and showed up at the Wolf’s place again to get the evidence to clear his name and to help a young brodway hopeful played by Peyton R LIst get to her audition in time. And yes I just imagined another live action film with a classic character.. but admit it you’d rather be watching that one. They also run into butch who tries to force him to eat Jerry or they’ll kill him. 

Terence saw the arrest on the tv though, so he bails the two out, pits them against each other, and sets them loose at the wedding. This goes how you’d expect. the two cause chaos and thanks to Weekend UpDumbass there’s pecocks, tigers and elephants, and Jerry naturally spooks the elephants, Spike, who has it in for tom as usual, goes after tom the tiger goes after him and the wedding is destroyed. Preeta breaks up with Ben and leaves, and Kayla is fired.

Less good is that Tom gets thrown out because Terrance backed out on his deal because he’s a fucking asshole. So while Kayla gripes to her sorta loveintrest bartender man, and wishes she could fix things, T and J show up, both realizing it’s their fault and both with a plan to fix things leading to our climax. Kayla goes back to the hotel, and while Terrance tries to boject she rightfully blackmails him. Sadly neither get their commupance and while Mustache Manager puts two and two together, he’s all for ending this PR Nightmare and helping with Kayla’s plan to get ben to stage a wedding in central park that Preeta actually wants while our two actual heroes go to stop her and do some light kidnapping of toodles to get Preeta to stop. 

So it ends how you’d expect: Preeta makes a huge mistake, seriously Droopy go to their honemoon I guarantee Ben will wonder off into the ocean because he thought it looked sick bro, Kayla gets her job back and in a move that makes her almost tolerable hires the woman she stole from who Terrance clearly wants to bang, and Tom actually catches Toot’s eye, but then Jerry mucks it up because cockblocking tom has been his job since the 40′s, they fight, Kayla tells them to cut it out, they put an the end thing over it. Roll credits. 

As you could tell I had issues with this film and had more the more I thought about it. So it’s not very good.. but I still recommend watching it if you have Max right now. Yes really. While the human parts are pretty awful as you could tell, you can have some fun mocking them, and it’s worth suffering through them for the bits with our boys, as those bits are geneuinely energetic, fun and what you came for. If you like tom and Jerry, you probably won’t like this movie.. but you’ll enjoy those bits. Hopefully if there’s a sequel, and this film was a suprise hit so their probably will be, they’ll learn their lesson from this one and focus less on the humans and more on the hyjinks but overall this is just a medicore waste of some really great technology and slapstick. This is just one huge ball of dispaointment instead of cartoon violence and i’m sorry it ended this way.  If you liked this review, you can follow me on my patreon at patreon.com/popculturebuffet. Even 1 dollar a month helps and my next stretch goal nets a Darkwing Duck episode a month, so if that excites you, please sign up. And if you can’t afford to that’s fine and feel free to stick around anyway. Times are hard and I get that. And I will see you at the next rainbow. 

[transheadcrab]

“theatre was meant to be seen on the STAGE !!!” ACTUALLY theatre was meant to b SEEN. PERIODT. not 2 b cringe on main but i guarantee upcoming theatre kids cant name a single thing fuckin uhh. steven dietz, the most prolific playwright of this century, has done besides lonely planet but can tell u about like 5 different starkid musicals bc theyre made for the internet so like. this isnt a knock on the new generation of theatre kids this is specifically a callout post for dietz and all the other old white male playwrights bc they r specifically the ones who withhold rights to their shows and make it inaccessible to those outside a certain economic bracket

[youregoingtobe-thedeathofme]

Taglist

(Because I figure I’m gonna need it to keep track)

GENERAL TAGS

Muse musings - Asks

CHARACTERS

Character tags are typically a quote from that character followed by a hyphen and then the characters name

I could have been an actor - Owen

get out of my office - Cynthia

Jinkies! - Esther

Jeepers! - Gwen

Zoinks! - Scrags

Fuck! - Keith

Get me a chai iced tea Alright?! - Ted

Designated driver - Bill

I don’t like musicals - Paul

Uhh fuck you? - Emma

Cuddle night - Charlotte

show me your hands - Sam

The final solution - McNamara

Hello naughty list - cross

I hope you fucking die - linda

Yeah I’m smokin POT - junior

Locked and loaded - joey

Oh so devoted - sally

PAIRINGS

Also include a hyphen, unless I don’t know the official ship name (for example Ted x Charlotte is just ‘screwing around with another mans wife’) this also includes a quote but sometimes I’m just on my bullshit

Lavender in my ledger - curtwen

Screwing around with another mans wife //// tedlotte? Chared? I got nothin

I don’t give a fuck about them - paulkins

This is the best movie EVER! - barneston

I’m in love with my best friend - joelly

UNIVERSES

If it’s a show or a specific place and plot something is set in, it’ll have a quote and then brackets. typically they’ll be shortened.

Witches & wizards & magical beasts (a very potter trilogy)

My hormones are freaking out (MAMD)

Status quo (Starship)

No two shows will ever be the same (TTO)

Should we kill him (TGWDLM)

Made in America (Black Friday)

Eyes on the prize (SAF)

I would have gotten away with it too... (solve it squad)

Destined to go viral (hp au)

also just for general sk/tcb/actor appreciation stuff

It’s all that I love and it’s all that I need (starkid)

Yes this will be edited frequently to keep up with my blog and future endeavours anyway thank u

-Jay

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At least these two couples aren’t bucking their social media strategists. We are getting a lot of splits (or end of contracts, in some cases) in Famous People Universe right now, so TPTB need to line up new couples for us lower level peons to salivate over and copy their lifestyles to distract us from dying in Pandemia. That’s the new name for America, which sounds a lot like Panem, by the way, and so we folks who still have a buck after necessities of life purchases will be enticed to buy more stuff, and nothing sells more stuff than weddings, and babies right after. Good times, we need good times, dammit, give us good times from people we recognize, who are like us, but richer and more talented and better looking and have nicer things that have a cheaper knockoff for us. Everybody loves love, right? And wants to completely trust love, because, it’s love, and we all want that, even second hand as fans. And it distracts from all the death and fear, right?

Expect couples announcing with upcoming projects in the making. Demi had been discussing a rehabbed relaunch, after her iconic National Anthem got her kudos and showed a path forward with her career, and having in Max a handsome and career hungry “partner” who needs a kick up the ladder, is great arm candy, is professional and can handle the media, can roll with a strong independent bisexual woman while still being a mostly drug-free handler, is a good match, on paper and visually. If he bought that huge rock, which I doubt, I hope she’s paying for everything else, he’s what I would call a “working” actor but not even close to her income bracket. And Max has mostly kept his mouth shut, and did what he was told in his arranged “relationships,” with no friction, for the last 10 years, except for that long, long ago bitter response to “what happened” from a questioning fan of “ask Da/rren Cri/ss.” Ah, yes, the internet is forever. But so is true love. And if any bitter truth leaks out, for any reason, from any past relationships, at this point in time, that causes these two trouble with either their history or their new narrative, Max and Demi can and will be two healthy bisexuals who finally found love but mutually respect one another’s romantic history and can readily support LGBT causes. They will “get” each other, he will keep her company and keep her sober, look great with her on the red carpet, and in turn get his step up the ladder with more publicity and more opportunities. She will encourage him to be stronger and unashamed about who he really is, and praise him for being her “rock”. They will build up each other, ain’t love grand? like Demi, a strong woman, Max is a cute and sexy cuddly sidepiece and good to look at, less talented but more disciplined than her. And if he can steer her safely around the drugs, keep her secrets, and help her handle everything that these careers make one want to take drugs for in the first place, I think this could work, at least for now.

The other Starkid mess is interesting to me because they must be expecting a boost from Dar/ren and the Langs, who own Starkid, technically and for real, like with money invested and bills paid, from since the company was formed, through the Quibi show, if that thing hangs on by a thread he and the Lang Brothers have to be one of the few real successes. Royalties should win some Emmys in that new short-form category, that will help. Maybe that would be enough to get them an airing on another network in case Quibi dies, the concept works and D did a good job bringing in interesting “talent.” Plus, the music videos work well, he has put his own updated spin on the RM formula for success, going backto his Starkid roots. I guess those two figure what the hell, everyone else is doing it, I don’t want to get left out or left behind or look like a weirdo no one wants, and it seems like bringing in outsiders can be a challenge, although at least Joe Walker and Dylan Saunders have done it with two terminally pretty girls who threaten to outshine the female Starkid Troopers and yet are part of that “First Wives Club.”

And they are marrying the dog, too, so a polyamorous relationship, hence the gay triangle stone. That is the most “different “ ring I have seen lately, does the triangle and three small stones on each side include the dog? Apparently so. And I’ve been around chihuahuas, you don’t parent those dogs, they are the doms in any relationship. The whole Starkid narrative, and I include everyone that wears that Starkid tag with pride, is comfort and security and quirky cool weird messy nerd family that you make, on a very deep trust me, I’ve got your back and will help you bury the dead bodies” level. Your posse if the Apocalypse comes, and you’ve already casually given out assignments to everyone as to who is in charge of what survival skill. It’s supposed to be a real-life version of “Friends.” Darren and Joe Walker share a birthday with Christopher Guest, another one that famously and successfully relates to the idea of a troupe of actors as family they draw from and work with and depend on. It cuts through layers and layers of production prep. Yeah, a lot like “Friends for a New Generation.” Not scary talented and gorgeous and hugely intimidating, period, like the Glee cast who worked 18 hour days and made magic on-screen with regularity and whose group brand was the Billion Dollar Babies. Role models for future Influencers everywhere. Except everyone is somewhat privileged and has a college education from a well-connected in the industry performing arts school, like a real-life NYADA, can sing and dance, act and write songs, even build stages and make puppets. Families who can afford to let their kids roll the dice on an expensive education have theater kids. They are just like you and your gang of old high school/college/work/neighborhood chums, except they aren’t, because they are famous and talented and kind of cute and constantly show up for each other like a cult and you, and your pals, if you have a group of pals that you can turn to and depend on right now, can easily relate. They are better than you, but not impossibly better. If you don’t have that group of pals, well, here, borrow theirs. Starkid does not really have an independent P.R. Narrative for each actor or even for the couples, they only have a collective one, that is what people care about and what they are selling, so their brand is damaged if they lose people permanently or people have conflicts with others in Starkid. They must ever remain one big happy family.

So it is love train season. We have at least two cars ready to rollout young couple Life After Quarantine. I don’t count Affleck in this, he is Old Boozy midlife chaising young girls after Quarantine, and the Shabello thing seems a little tenuous to me, though it could still have legs. Kitty Purry will focus on baby, and Lea will play that for all its worth, she has to have a huge win. Curious to see what we get next, as I think Panem wants to focus on youth, to give them hope for normalcy while their parents and grandparents die, and the hell with the rest of us, except for J-Lo, I guess, who will be the Latina Elizabeth Taylor that Kimmy K always dreamed of being.

It was rumored in the past about C and ME that is now engaged with DL. He's lucky even only because of DM. BUT if he had a story with C for real, let me say he totally won the lottery of relationships during these years. 😊😁

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Starkid Show Bracket

Round 2

AVPM V AVPS

MAMD V Starship

Twisted V TTO

Firebringer V VHSCC

TGWDLM V Watcher World

Time Bastard V Killer Track

Black Friday V Yellow Jacket

WITW V Abstinence Camp

Here's where you can find round 1 if you want to see the exact results

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