#674 - Waldorf Salad
Added 2025-12-04 19:09:15 +0000 UTC
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Simon Cowell produced the wwe wrestlemania soundtrack of the 90s and formed spice girls.
Eric The Bed Humper.
2026-02-23 04:34:17 +0000 UTCFawlty is probably considered the best, but OFAH is probably the most popular, even though it's clouded by the pop culture footprint, the negative connotations of the wankers who think Del Boy is a hero. Steptoe has kind of fallen a bit in popularity, while Alf Garnett (who was adapted for the US as Archie Bunker) is persona non grata unlike his US version.
George White
2026-02-11 19:40:27 +0000 UTCAndrew Sachs was actually German Jewish, a child refugee fromWW2, and white actors playing Spanish is still accepted, because they are still white European.
George White
2026-02-11 19:37:45 +0000 UTCI am not sure Fawlty Towers qualifies as THE British sitcom. I will show my age but ‘Only Fools and Horses’ or ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ might have more mass appeal. Johnny Speight’s Alf Garnett was very popular c. 1970. That one’s a good advertisement for the Cleese ‘can’t take a joke’ position (maybe along with Rising Damp). Steptoe and Son probably wants a word, too.
Paul Brewer
2025-12-31 20:28:27 +0000 UTCEveryone else has pointed out that the 2000s revival is alive and well but I want to add that “revival revival” culture is also very real on 20 year cycles, a clear example is that 70s show remake, but lots and lots of “y2k” culture that’s big now is from the 90s boom of 70s revivalism, think Flares, stereolab album covers, powerpuff girls etc. Similarly what is now called “Indie Sleaze” (hipster at the time) was a strip mining of the 80s in the late 2000s, which you see in stuff like Scott Pilgrim, La Roux, Ladyhawke, Skins, Calvin Harris, early MGMT, even Transformers.
Jake
2025-12-07 15:34:02 +0000 UTCFree love on the free love freeway part 2! Brought to you by the Michigan tourism mascot. So glad you also heard that. We all did
James Browning
2025-12-07 04:51:48 +0000 UTCWas clenching my teeth so hard during the Daniels song I thought they might explode out of my mouth. “We needed that. We needed that”
Jeremy Kane
2025-12-06 23:56:59 +0000 UTCI think you guys should do another episode where you just watch some classic Simpsons episodes
Alex Moore
2025-12-06 19:43:26 +0000 UTCHi fellas!! 00s nostalgia is huge for the girls and the gays and it’s been big since the pandemic. There’s especially a big reclamation happening/that has happened around “bimbo culture.” The messy hyper femininity of icons like Britney, Paris, and Lindsey Lohan! Paris is a DJ now too!
olly
2025-12-06 16:00:12 +0000 UTCNostalgia for 2000s is quite big in the UK in music, not in tv or film to my knowledge. There is a big wave of artists who use the noughties futurism aesthetic, like Jim Legaxcy and PinkPantheress. The classic windows XP blue sky and green hill background pops up everywhere. Like in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klPD-stNou0
Michael Rowland
2025-12-06 10:43:50 +0000 UTCAs a Sorkin completist, and having watched the final series of the Newsroom, I can say that Will (Sloan, for clarity) is right that Sorkin just threw everything at the wall in that final stretch. It's way more fertile territory than series 2. Weddings? Check. Deaths? Check. Will (McEvoy) going to prison for the sake of the news? Check. And if you liked Jeff Daniels singing and playing guitar, you're not going to want to miss the series finale.
mymentor
2025-12-06 09:31:27 +0000 UTC
