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Stéphane Lachance

@lachstep.com
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Helping make TV happen. Everything I say is my fault and my fault alone.

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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 18/09/2026
Mark Carney, the Bank of England governor?
The “Jeff Epstein, the New York financier?” meme.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 07/08/2026
Does this count as elder abuse? What are we doing here?
A sponsored Reddit Ad from Canadian book chain Indigo for a contest to win a $1000 prize pack if you preorder a new book written by both Mr Beast and James Patterson. The book is called “The Most Dangerous Games” and the ad’s image shows not only the book cover but very serious black-and-white photography of both Misters Patterson and Beast.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 04/07/2026
Happy Birthday, USA. I hope you take the chance to think long and hard about what you’ve become.
A still from Local58’s “Contingency”. It shows the seal of the U.S. Department For The Preservation Of American Dignity above the statement “The 51st State is not a place”
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 15/06/2026
Let's check in on the latest Peace Agreement...
A CBC News push notification asking "Can Washington force Israel to comply with a U.S.-Iranian peace deal it rejects?"
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 15/06/2026
Look at this. Is it possible to sell a negative amount in merch?
An image depicting a commemorative coin, on one side showing the MLB logo and "Celebrating America's 250th" and the other, the Toronto Blue Jays logo.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 15/06/2026
I needed to find a photo. Oh yeah that's the good kind of cognitive dissonance.
A Blue Jays baseball cap. The logo and rim are red. There is a red, white, and blue trim above the rim. There's a large USA 250 logo on the side.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 29/05/2026
I don’t know what everyone is clamouring about. Jeff Bezos was just celebrating another successful launch.
A still of the explosion of a Blue Origin rocket during a test. Over it is the text “Amazon MGM Studios And IO Interactive Presents,” mimicking the opening credits of 007 First Light.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 15/05/2026
I don't know. I feel like Walmart's got the vibes right with its America Memorial Plates.
A paper plate. The rim has an American flag pattern. The inside has the text "United States of America 1776-2026."
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 14/05/2026
You can’t just publish random words like this. This isn’t how language works.
Madonna, Shakira and BTS are set to co-headline the first ever FIFA World Cup halftime show, the International Federation of Association Football revealed on Wednesday night.

Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Elmo announced the news in a teaser trailer for the World Cup halftime show posted at 9 p.m. Together with Ms. Piggy, Kermit and several other familiar faces from the Muppet crew, Martin and Elmo hand-selected BTS, Madonna and Shakira as the co-headliners.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 12/05/2026
I'm going back and looking at the explanation and, ok, she might have volunteered the anxiety explanation but, like, that just got taken at face value? Not gonna make sure that cough or its "disappearance" is nothing? Also... anxious? on the plague ship? I bet!
Despite the deaths of three people who had been onboard the ship, and eight other confirmed cases, doctors from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the Spanish foreign health service assessed the French woman and dismissed her symptoms as anxiety or stress, Padilla said.

“They were not thinking that these symptoms were compatible with hantavirus. Why? Because what she was telling [them] was [that she had] an episode of coughing some days ago that had disappeared, and what she was having at that moment was kind of like stress or anxiety or nervousness. So it was not catalogued [as hantavirus],” Padilla said.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 17/04/2026
I’m happy for this. That doesn’t stop this from being a wild still to see in a Folding Ideas video.
A still from a video, captioned “I visited The MrBeast Studio” by How to Beat. It shows a van of YouTubers. Notably in the back, third row is a smiling and waving Doug Walker. In the front row is a seemingly apprehensive Dan Olson.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 19/03/2026
Went back in my photos and found this photo from March 2020. Just for the memories.
The sign outside of an Esso gas station. The indicated price is 84.9 cents per liter.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 12/03/2026
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 25/02/2026
Live look at Hockey Canada HQ
A shot of the locker room from Ted Lasso. Where the "Believe" sign would be is a shot of Connor Hellebuyck at the State Of The Union.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 25/02/2026
Is this your team? IS THIS YOUR GOLD, AMERICA?
Kilmonger from Black Panther when he asks "Is this your king?"
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 20/01/2026
I assume that's the rhetorical tool he's using. He's not "there" enough anymore to even understand a speech that has the subtlety of this.
Garfield looking at a "No Garfield" sign
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 19/01/2026
The Plan? Every sports organization will send Donald Trump a new Peace Prize every month until he's out of office.
Nathan Fielder from the Nathan For You era.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 17/01/2026
We're weeks, or even days, away from Steve just blurting this out.
Jesse Plemons' character from Civil War saying "What kind of American are you?"
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 15/11/2025
I’m not saying that snooping through Epstein’s Amazon receipts is or isn’t a worthwhile story. What I will say is why is this tweet so softball when THIS IS THE HEADLINE.
Jeffery’s Epstein’s reading list: Emails reveal pedophile’s Amazon picks from ‘Lolita’ to Woody Allen
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 17/09/2025
Having lived through GamerGate...
The meme of a man about to be hung to death saying "First time?"
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 30/07/2025
I truly can’t believe we’re doing ‘The COVID numbers are inflated because those who died with COVID had pre-existing conditions’ but for war crimes.
A post on Bluesky by The Times of Israel reads the following : NY Times admits emaciated Gazan boy on front page had ‘pre-existing health problems’. This is followed by a link to a news story.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 03/07/2025
The first thing I thought of... (thanks @seantcollins.com )
From the TV show Andor. The evil Imperial, and I use this term loosely, journalist filming from Ghorman with a floating camera.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 20/06/2025
Just finished Echoes of Wisdom. A wonderfully inventive game that looks stunning in 4K and in handheld on Switch 2. Absolutely makes me want to go and play Link’s Awakening now. But I’ll probably start with A Link to The Past (which I’ve never played through in its entirety).
In a white void, Princess Zelda gives a hand to Tri, a floating yellow spirit.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 29/05/2025
Bandai Namco's new Head of Marketing
Nathan Fielder as Captain Sully
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 07/05/2025
Computer, Enhance.
A close-up of a screenshot of a clip of Bridgerton, formatted for a TikTok-like vertical interface. The text ‘Nobody Wants This’ is visible at the bottom of the Netflix provided image, in a rather conspicuously fancy font.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 28/04/2025
I was curious. This is how this spot (I think. Found it via context clues.) looks like on Google Maps.
A portion of a port in Seattle, as seen via 3D satellite imagery on Google Maps. A number of rows are filled with shipping contains, usually stacked multiple containers tall and deep. To the right are three red-ish cranes on the edge of the water. The equivalent photo in the quoted post shows a barren lot with more or less no containers, next to the same coloured cranes.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 27/04/2025
Monsters on space stations/bases is one of my favourite Doctor Who subgenres. But The Well being a sequel to [REDACTED] was a hell of a reveal. It's a great study of paranoia. This is shot's gonna haunt me...
A mining base airlock info panel indicating 4 personnel of a maximum capacity of 6.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 24/04/2025
This is all I could see watching that video.
A screengrab of the kid filming in a Salvadorian factory prison, except the prison factory from the show Andor was poorly photoshopped behind him.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 09/04/2025
The US economy for the next 4 years, every couple of months.
A countdown labeled “Killing Myself” has hit zero but over it is superimposed the text “POSTPONED”.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 22/03/2025
It's actually kind of nice getting back to playing some Assassin's Creed. Got to a castle and felt that fun feeling that I missed, of doing what I lovingly call "Murder Puzzles." Also, my god, this game is stunning, with its lush and dense nature.
Naoe is perched on a tree branch overlooking peaks and valleys, dense with trees, with buildings occasionally poking through. Above, an overcast sky is broken up by the glow of the Sun.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 07/03/2025
Danny Butterman from Hot Fuzz reloading a shotgun and saying Shame.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 07/02/2025
If something like this can happen to you with your slogan, you should rethink it.
Nicola Murray from "The Think of It" standing in front of an unfortunately cropped sign saying "I am bent".
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 28/01/2025
I assume this is the sole reason Wray is gonna be there.
The old "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen from arcades, modified to say "Winners Don't Use DeepSeek. Christopher Wray, Director, FBI"
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 13/01/2025
I wrote this last month and it stays true today. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
The 2018 Toronto Mayoral Election comes to mind, when John Tory was up against Jennifer Keesmaat, the former city planner who, in her job, had to justify Tory’s own plans, including spending billions for a single subway stop in Scarborough.

Being the Diet version of someone won’t win you much.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 25/12/2024
Monument Valley 3 is another lovely ode to Escher paintings. It was nice and short but the promise of extra levels has me excited. Go play it if you have Netflix.
A small character navigates through illogical isometric architecture in a screenshot of Monument Valley 3.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 13/12/2024
The only explanation for this headline is that someone at Variety has had a stroke and is just typing nonsense on a keyboard. It doesn’t make sense otherwise.
A Variety article : Justin Timberlake’s ‘In Time’ and Other New Regency Films to Be Adapted Into Fortnite Games by Snoop Dogg’s Death Row
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 07/10/2024
Prime example of this
Blank version of the Drunk Don Draper Pitching Life Cereal meme format.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 02/10/2024
I appreciate the argument being made here but I can’t help that my knee-jerk reaction to praise towards Live Nation/TicketMaster is this…
A Dril tweet : “Issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. You do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them”
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 27/09/2024
How should I interpret the fact that, for the first time in forever (or even ever), Crave is advertising itself with generic genres rather than the shows, and more importantly HBO shows, it has license to?
A transit shelter ad for Crave. Tagline: Out-of-this-world fantasy shows. Crave: Endlessly Entertaining. An outline of a knight blocks with a shield the fiery breath of a dragon. Said breath looks like the Crave "C" logo . The ad seems to generically advertise HBO's House of The Dragon without saying so.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 04/07/2024
Invited Liz Truss for dinner on this special night.
Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss or a head of lettuce on a cutting board. Who can tell?
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 27/06/2024
I think Pizza Pizza might be confused as to what people are advocating for during Pride.
A poster on a window stating "Everyone deserves pizza" with a graphic of a pizza slice with the pride colours spilling from it. The Pride Toronto logo is beneath the slice.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 25/05/2024
Nothing has achieved weapons-grade nostalgia for me quite like hearing that Paper Mario theme once again.
The title screen for the Switch remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 26/12/2023
The Boy and The Heron (2023)
Michael from Arrested Development looks into a bag labeled "A Miyazaki movie" and says "Well, I don't know what I expected."
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 13/12/2023
I assume someone at the CBC must have been in agony for days until their manager looked at them, sighed, and said "Ok, yes, you can use your stupid Canadian movie pun."
A CBC News headline reads "Bon COP, bad COP: Breaking down the UN climate deal"
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 06/12/2023
Do you want to see something worse? From Google :
A screenshot from Google, crediting "Wonderful Christmastime" to Jimmy Fallon, Paul McCartney, and The Roots.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 04/12/2023
My counter-argument to this is that, no, there's kind of isn't. If the CBC got out of scripted fiction, you might as well take the English scripted TV production sector behind a shed and blow its brains' out. The private nets make maybe 1-2 shows each a year. Maybe.
"I would argue that they should get out of everything except news and current affairs.  Get out of entertainment programming, get out children's programming, get out of sports programming as well. There are other people who do that," he said.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 27/11/2023
I don't know where I'd rank the full new Doctor Who title sequence yet but I'd easily call the scale and energy of the cast sequence the best of Nu Who.
The 3D text "David Tennant" floats in front of the gaseous purple and glowing blue time vortex.The TARDIS nearly hits the 3D text "Catherine Tate" as it zips forward into the time vortex.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 23/11/2023
I got to assume all other crime in Toronto is over because Crime Stoppers wants us to be Loblaw's and Wal-Mart's loss prevention team. They care so much that they made this clearly (mostly) AI generated ad.
A Crime Stoppers ad depicting store shelves locked behind glass doors.A row of mangled looking devices or products above garbled, illegible price tags, tell-tale signs of an AI generated image.
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 19/11/2023
Watching the final episode of The Crown, S6 Pt1. Every time Diana comes on screen...
A meme from The Office of Dwight experiencing a jump scare and saying "Fuck".
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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 18/11/2023
Ok, which of the producer's on Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is a LOST nerd?
In the list of Production Companies for the series "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off" on Wikipedia, one of the named companies is "Not Penny's Boat".
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