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It’s difficult to fully articulate the hold that Patrick Stewart had on audiences when TNG was airing. Between the hundreds of magazine covers, the talk show circuits, and the paparazzi nonsense, the amount of baldness puns editors were compelled to create was astounding.

It was like the media fixated on this man because he had catastrophic levels of charisma and audiences were losing their minds over him (TNG was regularly beating network shows in ratings), yet he was so far removed from the narrow Hollywood standards of beauty that it vexed and haunted these people for years.

Baldness was a joke in Hollywood. 75% of George Costanza's identity revolved around bald jokes. If you were a bald actor, you were cast as a villain or a buffoon, never the hero. And if you were losing your hair, you had to slap a wig on or risk losing your career. Yul Brynner was somewhat of an exception but he was from a much different generation of Hollywood and even Bruce Willis didn't fully shave his head until 1994 (post TNG success incidentally).

In Patrick Stewart's case, there was often an undercurrent of snide putdowns with many interviewers, drawing focus to his baldness over and over and over again with low hanging jokes. It was like you could see their vanity-based paradigms cracking in real time and it was strange to witness. Imagine how bizarre it would be if talk show hosts today could only ask The Rock, Vin Diesel, or Jason Statham about their bald heads.

But karma swooped in to the rescue. In 1992 Stewart was voted TV Guide's "Sexiest Man on Television" with a whopping 54% of votes. He beat out the likes of Luke Perry, John Corbett, A. Martinez, and even Burt Reynolds (with a total of 20 contenders).

The middle-aged bald guy in the syndicated sci-fi show beat out the hottest of the Hot Guys™️ and it wasn't even remotely close.

^ Bald joke

So yeah, today he's an old, revered thespian who is occasionally Charles Xavier, but not only did Patrick Stewart pave the way for other bald actors to be considered leading men, he discombobulated Hollywood with his unconventional attractiveness and it was amazing.

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DOCTOR WHO | 9.10

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As cool as being corrupted would be, my spirit is lowkey indomitable and I have an automatic aversion to doing what people tell me to do

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DOCTOR WHO | The Husbands of River Song

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MST3K’s advice for people who overthink aspects of media that aren’t meant to be picked apart

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I'm at the doctor's office and a teenager who's like 7 fuckin feet tall just walked in and told the receptionist their name is Sequoia lmao. like is that a chosen name or did your parents somehow know you were gonna be the size of a redwood tree

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I first saw The Transformers: The Movie (1986) 20 years ago, and in the two decades of being a Transformers fan since I've always assumed that Wreck-Gar and the other Junkions spoke in random TV quotes because, like... their robot brains were intercepting stray TV signals from Earth. Something like that. Right?

So anyway now I'm watching the entire G1 cartoon with Anthony, because he wanted more context for who the hell the characters in the IDW comics are. Which means sitting down and watching all of season 3 for the first time in my life, because I could never track down the DVDs as a kid and as an adult I just never bothered watching more than a few noteworthy episodes. So imagine my surprise when we get to "The Killing Jar" and Wreck-Gar is depicted as literally just sitting there on Junkion watching a Bozo the Clown knockoff on an old rabbit ear TV set he somehow inexplicably owns light-years away from Earth and parroting phrases like an iPad baby

They could do anything in '80s cartoons. No idea was too stupid

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a ridiculous concept i cant get out of my head is the ferengi having an attitude toward vulcans thats basically "these guys would be SO COOL if they didnt SUCK" bc they could be making absolute bank with their ruthless logic and intellect and they have the second sexiest ears in the galaxy, but noooo, they're too busy deepthroating the federation's boot. BUT if you took a vulcan baby and raised it right, with good ferengi values...

cut to quark showing up one day wearing a baby bjorn and sisko or whoever asking him "why do you have a vulcan baby 🤨?" "i acquired it." "you mean adopted?" "yeah yeah whatever. lets go, t'axevasion, time to launder money with daddy"

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Crazy how many people want characters in fiction to speak and act like they’ve had 20 hours of intensive therapy. Could NOT be me I want these bitches fucked up insane

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Today on Daily Planet Media; reporter Clark Kent continues his beloved "ranking my lookalikes" series with input from Lois Lane. Does he really look that much like Superman?

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I made a thing….

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Evacuation

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#Love him

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ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.

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The thing you gotta understand about Mr. Terrific in the new Superman movie is that he is always the smartest man in the room.

And he HATES it.

It's not that he hates being smart, he just hates how he can never quite predict how dumb everyone else is.

Just when he thinks he knows how low Guy's IQ is: "we are both of the cloth"

No, Lois, we can't repel down there, WHERE WOULD WE GET THE EQUIPMENT?

DO YOU REALLY NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CIRCLES AND SPHERES?!??!?

WHY WOULD YOU BRING YOUR DOG TO THIS TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF REALITY?

And then, when there's someone who actually is intelligent, it's like the intelligence only increases their capacity for dumbassery

Lex, you're supposed to be a super genius so whY WOULD YOU BUILD A GOD DAMN POCKET DIMENSION?!?!!?!

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spider-man and nightwing…….. this is my final message. goodbye

It’s over once the witty quips start