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TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

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We Are the Champions. Miniseries about weird competitions. I've seen the ones on the Gloucester Cheese Roll and the Bonner Brothers Hair Show. It's a fantastic series and a really good thing to watch after you've been worn down by the Nazis and/or COVID. It actually makes you proud and hopeful to be a human being.
 
Kepler said:
Real NYC : TV NYC :: Real Minneapolis : MTM

The only show set in NYC I have ever seen that was anything like the actual city was Flight of the Conchords.
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To be honest, I knew I never wanted to live in NYC loooooong before I saw that show. Mostly on principle (too many people, it stinks, expensive, the usual dumb reasons). But also because I’ve spent enough time in NYC over the years.

Amazing place to visit, kinda crummy place to live.


(Also, two things. One, it took me far too long to realize what MTM meant. So read into that everything you possibly can.

And two, I agree. Probably. Because I’ve never seen MTM, keep reading into that, but TV and movie depictions are never right. Except Grumpy Old Men, Coach, and Mighty Ducks, they all but nailed it.)
 
dxmnkd316 said:
To be honest, I knew I never wanted to live in NYC loooooong before I saw that show. Mostly on principle (too many people, it stinks, expensive, the usual dumb reasons). But also because I’ve spent enough time in NYC over the years.

Amazing place to visit, kinda crummy place to live.


(Also, two things. One, it took me far too long to realize what MTM meant. So read into that everything you possibly can.

And two, I agree. Probably. Because I’ve never seen MTM, keep reading into that, but TV and movie depictions are never right. Except Grumpy Old Men, Coach, and Mighty Ducks, they all but nailed it.)
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The geography of the Mighty Ducks is dead on! :-D Especially #2, where they rollerblade from Mpls to St. Paul on their way to the MoA.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
To be honest, I knew I never wanted to live in NYC loooooong before I saw that show. Mostly on principle (too many people, it stinks, expensive, the usual dumb reasons). But also because I’ve spent enough time in NYC over the years.

Amazing place to visit, kinda crummy place to live.


(Also, two things. One, it took me far too long to realize what MTM meant. So read into that everything you possibly can.

And two, I agree. Probably. Because I’ve never seen MTM, keep reading into that, but TV and movie depictions are never right. Except Grumpy Old Men, Coach, and Mighty Ducks, they all but nailed it.)
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NYC is the greatest city in the world to live in... if you have 10 million dollars.

For anybody else I don't recommend it. It's very cool, but it's just incredibly irritating to do anything. The population density turns average people into caged rats, it's the worst place for unrelenting, banging commercialism, and there is no peace.

But credit where it's due, it also has the largest number of incredibly smart and interesting people and mind-blowingly beautiful women on the planet. You just need millions and millions of dollars to insulate yourself from contact with the commoners, who are horrible.
 
Scarlet said:
Not Original Recipe Law & Order?
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MTM was the only popular culture connection I could think of for Minneapolis.

I think of the Mighty Ducks as Edina and some non-specified, probably non-existent, diverse (?), poor 8 Mile suburb.
 
Wait. Gatsby is from some jerkwater Minnesota town, right? Or maybe Fitzgerald himself was?

Anyway, this is my full list of cultural connotations of Minnesota:

1. Guy Noir
2. Sue Ann Nivens
3. Dino Ciccarelli
4. Prince
5. Dylan
6. That band that played drunk
7. Is St. Olaf or McMaster (?) in Minnesota? If so, then them.
 
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Kepler said:
Wait. Gatsby is from some jerkwater Minnesota town, right? Or maybe Fitzgerald himself was?

Anyway, this is my full list of cultural connotations of Minnesota:

1. Guy Noir
2. Sue Ann Nivens
3. Dino Ciccarelli
4. Prince
5. Dylan
6. That band that played drunk
7. Is St. Olaf or McMaster (?) in Minnesota? If so, then them.
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Fitzgerald lived in MN.

st Olaf and macalester are both here too. St Olaf as in, golden girls Rose and Macalester as in the kofi annon alma matter
 
Jeopardy will resume taping on 11/30 (coincidentally the 4th anniversary of my taping day) with a series of guest hosts from the Jeopardy family, starting with Ken Jennings.
 
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