Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 6hSadly, the name "50 Cent Taco" has lost its meaning over time; before inflation, it meant the equivalent of "Ten Dollar Taco." It's like how, a millennium ago, a peasant could buy an acre of land for a sliver of a penny, but a "Millicent" is practically worthless now. 000
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I know a guy who argues that most reporting is biased because it doesn't provide context, which SOUNDS neutral enough! But the "context" is always, like, "Don't say 'gas prices are high' without saying 'but they would be even higher if Trump hadn't stopped Iran from blowing up major U.S. cities.'" 021
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026youtube.comBig Ben Chimes 11:45amYouTube video by J2000 020
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Work until you die”? That’s quitter talk. SOME of us are planning on working into our 90s and then for another 3-4 weeks AFTER we die. Now, I haven’t figured out the details yet, but once my expenses drop to zero? That’s pure PROFIT, baby! 010
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I promise this is a true thing: The villain in "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" wanted to use the Blue Diamond to devolve humans into monkeys. In the film's original ending, he's defeated when Tweety is devolved into a dinosaur and devours him. ...anyway, "Tweety kills the bad guy" was rejected 070
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Bruce Wayne? That man has a mind full of trivia. It's inconceivable that he could be Batman!" 021
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Watching "Pac-Man" reruns on MeTV Toons made me realize that Hanna-Barbera took a concept that was tailor-made for Super Meddlers (guy in a maze has to outwit monsters), and they turned it into a Twist Family (Pac-Man has a wife, a baby, two pets, a day job and middle-aged-man interests). 186
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Back when Nightline was still watchable, they had one of my favorite story teases (based on an NIH article). Paraphrasing: "I'm 1,600 feet below ground in Wyoming. Here, miners are cutting through rock, not searching for coal or gold, but for the ingredients for your Twinkies." 061
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I went looking through the newspaper archives, and I found this from October 1948. What even WAS Seattle 78 years ago? 2242
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Here's a check for $1 million in fun money! I'll bet THAT will make him REALLY happy!" 000
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Part of the reason I come to this site is for the dose of reality I get after talking to my dad, who lives in a world where: 1. Marco Rubio is a lock for our next president 2. If JD Vance agrees to stay on as VP, he's a lock in 2036 3. Zohran Mamdani's approval rating is in the single digits 111
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'll always mentally link Alfred Newman, who didn't know he was writing for "Star Wars" when he composed the 20th Century Fox fanfare and CinemaScope extension, to Morton Stevens, who didn't know he was writing for "Peanuts" specials on CBS when he composed "Call To Danger" for "Hawaii Five-O."youtube.comA CBS Special Presentation (1977)YouTube video by ClosingLogosHD 010
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I seem to recall a BUNCH of these Nixon/Kennedy tweets Back In The Day, but this is the one that somehow became load-bearing for my psyche. 012
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Come and take a walk with me...if you're feelin' dangerous" BWAMMMM 110
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Meanwhile, the Bundys couldn't even AFFORD cable. Will the kids watching "Married With Children" reruns* even GET the "Assume Fox viewing positions" running gag? * because the kids ARE watching "Married With Children" reruns ** ** please let me have this 110
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"I would like to officially announce that 'MacGruber' has been picked up for Season 2! "........ I would LIKE to announce that. But it hasn't been picked up yet, so I can't." -- Will Forte (I love every version of this joke, is what I'm saying here) 000
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026That happened to me, too, and I really shouldn't have sneaked a photo, but I needed people to understand my fear 170
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026He was always chasing “the next big thing,” and it sent him right over the edge metaphorically also literally 010
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I had a Sling TV subscription with I think a 250-hour online DVR, and I'd recorded every "Three Busy Debras". Then Sling changed it to "unlimited DVR, but everything expires in 9 months," and all the episodes were gone. It was the fastest I've ever canceled a subscription to anything. 010
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I trust Hee Haw anchorman Charlie Farquharson more than any of the 60 Minutes guys, in part because I love his joke (adapted for today's prices): A new report says eggs this year are $2 a dozen, compared to $3 a dozen for last year's eggs. I say that's way too much to pay for year-old eggs. 1150
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 12/09/20263. Stephen Dorff and Matthew Perry, then ages 15 and 19, played the same boy at different ages in "Empty Nest"'s first-season finale, "A Life In The Day." Nobody would confuse the two as adults, but looking at them side-by-side, you can see what the people who cast that episode were going for. 000
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Three quick "Empty Nest" things: 1. The early episode "Harry's Vacation" was even funnier when "Don't Worry, Be Happy" really DID seem to be inescapable. 2. Nurse Laverne Todd (Park Overall) going from "Arkansas hick" to "brash and bossy" is one of TV's all-time great course corrections. 110
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I've never gotten over 2008's "DC Universe: Decisions," which not only cast Lois Lane as a Republican, but also made her into someone aggravated by the idea that Clark Kent might be voting for Democrats. 001
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The guy who gave me my home foundation estimate did this, but I didn't know the game he was playing: Guy: "Option 1, we excavate under your house. You'd need to move out for three months, and it would cost about $65,000. How does THAT sound?" Me: "I guess I have to consider it?" Guy: "...what?" 000
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026And if Bo Derek married Craig T. Nelson and then Tony Darrow, she'd be Bo N. Darrow! (It took 45 years, but my subscription to Dynamite Magazine has FINALLY paid off) 020
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I think, entirely too often, about how 1998 gave us a “Lost in Space” movie with the tagline “Get Lost,” and a TNG movie with the tagline “Get Warped”. What a stupid time.youtu.beStar Trek: Insurrection - 1998 TV CommercialYouTube video by Golden VCR 020
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Every so often I remember Valhallen's Mighty Axe, and I'm genuinely awed by the genius of it. 031
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026(checking for onion recalls after not seeing any sausage, onion & poison pizza) 020
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Back in March 2017, they rotated "Assy McGee" into the 4 a.m. "infomercials" slot...apparently just to cue it up for the annual April Fool's Day prank, which that year was swapping out soundtracks, pitching characters' voices up/down, etc. All of Assy's dialogue that night was replaced with farts. 041
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I will never, ever stop looking for excuses to share this Archies-themed post. 020
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026JUMBLE, That Scrambled Word Game TOOTH PILOT SCENIC COPTER Cartoon: The burned-out wreckage of a clothing store. Human Torch: "But you said they were unstable molecules!" Clerk: "No, I said they were unstable CUSTOMERS." Johnny Storm flamed on inside the mall because it was a --- HOT TOPIC 010
Reposted by Brian SmithHunter Felt 🏳️⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"Can you imagine if Howard Zinn happened to have Jared Kushner as one of his students? How he would react to him? I think it would go something like this." 2153
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I never get tired of telling people that when TNG had made as many episodes as TOS had made, they called the tying episode "Remember Me." When they had made 80 episodes, surpassing the original series by one, they called that episode "Legacy." 010
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The second season of Newsreaders has one of my favorite ever throwaway jokes: "Author Edwin Salmon Catcher discusses his latest book, 'The Eagle and the Breeze,' which describes the war between two classic rock stations." 030
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"I worked with Sandy Duncan on Broadway! Eight shows a week! Do they call me 'Chris Hewett, the Captain Hook guy'? No! I was Lawrence opposite Ricardo Montalbán's Mr. Roarke for a whole SEASON! Do they call me 'Chris Hewett, the "Fantasy Island" guy'? No! "But you sit on your Balls ONE TIME..." 130
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026One of my favorite special credits was on "Raising Hope," the 2010s comedy that clearly INTENDED to only have Cloris Leachman make sporadic appearances, then realized she was important enough to get the last spot in the opening credits: "and introducing Cloris Leachman as Maw Maw" 110
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's a cheap way to give status to a performer who's not the actual star. In the case of Tom Bosley, he was a Tony Award-winning actor who played the father on a family sitcom, yet WASN'T the top-billed actor (a very rare situation in those days). So he got the extra credits to show his importance. 140
Reposted by Brian Smith🖖🏳️⚧️T'Lynn🦇David🦇Cooper🏳️⚧️🖖 @awholedamntown.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"I am a cipher, a cipher wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce," is a Jimmy James line I use fairly regularly, I can't lie. Stephen Root is My Boy.static.klipy.comNewsRadio: Jimmy James & the Pyramid SchemeAlt: NewsRadio: Jimmy James & the Pyramid Scheme 2224
Brian Smith @onemorebrian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I desperately wish that "Sounds like we've got a LEAKY COPTER, Dave" were applicable to more situations, because I would use that line for EVERYTHING. 051