Pew pews actually un-aliving children

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Nine Perfect Strangers is back for season two as nine new strangers come together to undergo Masha's psychedelic therapy at Zauberwald in the breathtaking Austrian Alps. [source]

Hulu giving us the cold weather White Lotus season that Mike White won't – featuring Armond from White Lotus season one!

Francis Ford Coppola is something of an accidental hotelier. In 1993, he took a hunting lodge his family had bought in Belize a decade earlier as a family hideaway and reinvented it as a luxury resort open to the public, the Blancaneaux Lodge. Under the brand "The Family Coppola Hideaways," the Coppolas now have seven hotels, including properties in Guatemala, Argentina, and Italy, all in locations that have some personal meaning to them. [source]

You know how Taylor Sheridan films his shows on ranches he owns? American Zoetrope's White Lotus.

Raising Cane's trying to re-make Los Angeles in its own image.

Disney should update Main Street, U.S.A. in its parks to include a CVS, a Chipotle, and a Raising Cane's.

Oh, and two Starbucks-es.

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20. Being Sully Sullenberger (The Rehearsal, S02E03)

Honourable Mention

  • Syril vs. Cassian fight (Andor, S02E08)

Stray Observations

  • "When I was a child… Oh, fuck y'all." (The Righteous Gemstones, S04E09)
  • "And I think I speak on behalf of all of us when I say that we're proud and, quite frankly, very impressed that you can still do cums." (The Righteous Gemstones, S04E09)
  • "No, it doesn't have anything to do with a nut or getting it on." (The Righteous Gemstones, S04E09)
  • </The Righteous Gemstones, S04>
  • "The only difference would be the smell of the city, which was easy to match by regularly collecting San Jose air using a compressor and transporting it 350 miles via truck to LA." (The Rehearsal, S02E03)
  • "I had to miss the funeral, 'cause I overslept."
    "That's right, your IPO was at midnight. How'd it go?" (The Rehearsal, S02E03)
  • "Let the image of professional ascendance settle your nerves." (Andor, S02E07)
  • "They have no shame, do they? They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation." (Andor, S02E07)
  • "I need to start making my own decisions."
    "I thought that's what we were fighting for." (Andor, S02E09)
  • "Tear the shit out of this place." (Andor, S02E09)


(Andor, S02E09)

  • ♫: Brandon Roberts – "Bix's Message" (Andor, S02E09)
  • "I love you and I love your movie. It's really good. It's not just diversity good." (The Studio, S01E08)
  • "Well, season nine took place entirely in the mind of a coma patient that Kid Cop's evil twin shot in the neck."
    "That was a beautiful season in a coma." (Poker Face, S02E01)
  • "If you keep your bowl on-site, you can…"
    "Why would… He's the best lyricist of the 20th century. Why would he write 'bowl on-site'?" (Poker Face, S02E03)

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Stocked with more than 1,000 of the greatest films from around the world, the Criterion Closet may offer more cinematic inspiration per square foot than any other place on the planet. [source]

Idea: The Penguin Pantry. Stocked with nearly 2,000 Penguin Classics books.

The Viz Vestibule. Stocked with more than three decades of manga.

The Nintendo Nook? Not sure visitors could leave with games from obsolete consoles, though.

The Columbia House. Pick any 12 records for one cent.

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19. Paramount+ Germany (The Rehearsal, S02E02)

Stray Observations

  • "God, bless this cocaine to give me the gas to beat this demon." (The Righteous Gemstones, S04E08)
  • ♫: Idles – "Grace" (The Righteous Gemstones, S04E08)
  • "I recruited a sampling of first officers from all the major U.S. airlines to participate in a massive experimental study. All these co-pilots had one unique quality that made them special: None of them have died in a plane crash, which meant there's a chance that at least one of them may have unknowingly cracked the code to speaking up to a captain without making them upset." (The Rehearsal, S02E02)
  • "I had really done it. I had brought Canadian Idol back to life." (The Rehearsal, S02E02)
  • "Is there like a prize at the end or kinda what's the set-up with it?"
    "Okay, so the winner will get to sing, um, a song of our choice on national television with a full backing band…"
    "Oh, sick."
    "…in a partial recreation of the Houston Airport."
    "Wow."
    "Sounds amazing." (The Rehearsal, S02E02)
  • "They're inexperienced but very eager."
    "How often those attributes align." (Andor, S02E05)
  • "Insurgencies have a long history of puffing up their failures."
    "We were taught it was a systematic execution."
    "Well, that is exactly my point. Criminals love to lie. After all, who wants to die for lawless ineptitude?" (Andor, S02E06)
  • "We vetted it with Lil Rel, okay?" (The Studio, S01E07)
  • "Do we need Jewish representation in the film? Should we cast Josh Gad?" (The Studio, S01E07)
  • "Who cares about stressed-out moms? They don't laugh at anything."
    "That demo is very important to ad sales. They spend the most."
    "Are you saying women be shopping?"
    "Statistically, they do be." (Hacks, S04E05)
  • "Is everything okay?"
    "Emily Blunt doesn't want to do the Gravy Bowl Challenge."
    "Fuck." (Hacks, S04E05)
  • "But everyone in L.A. is just so fancy and so beautiful, and I just feel like such a hoser."
    "We should have brought you to Mid City. You know, there's a lot of ugly people there." (Hacks, S04E05)

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18. Dinner with the Parent (Andor, S02E03)

Stray Observations

  • "A fajita meat? You throw that fajita meat at me?" (The Righteous Gemstones, S04E07)
  • "What the hell are you doing here?"
    "Me? I'm merely shitting." (The Righteous Gemstones, S04E07)
  • "You're being cheugy, bro." (The Righteous Gemstones, S04E07)
  • "Just two single women surveying the prospects. " (Andor, S02E01)
  • "People fail. That's our curse." (Andor, S02E03)
  • ♫: Labi Siffre – "Bless the Telephone" (Hacks, S04E04)
  • </Dope Thief, S01>

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A startup called Sperm Racing said it raised $1.5 million to stage the event at the famed concert venue Hollywood Palladium on April 25.

Eric Zhu, the company's 17-year-old co-founder, said the inaugural event will pit samples against each other on a race track modeled on the female reproductive system.

Zhu said the goal is to have fun while raising awareness about male fertility. "Sperm is surprising as a biomarker. The healthier you are, the faster sperm moves."

Two students from rival universities were found to have "matching biomarkers" and selected to take part.

The event will run three races in front of a crowd of 4,000 spectators, and feature play-by-play commentary, instant replays, and leaderboards. [source]

Lil Jon?

A live video feed, magnified 40 times to display the 0.05mm spermatozoa, will track the samples' progress.

Sperm typically swim at about 5mm per minute, meaning each race will take at least 40 minutes. Whichever crosses the finish line first, as "verified by advanced imaging," will be declared the winner.

Zhu founded Sperm Racing with Nick Small, 16, head of the business management consulting firm Stealth; Shane Fan, chief executive of the NFT pricing platform Waterfall; and Garrett Niconienko, former content strategist for Mr. Beast. [source]


The Sperm Racing team

manifesto

male fertility is declining. like, a lot. it's happening quietly, steadily, and nobody's really talking about it.

we're taking a topic no one wants to touch and making it interesting, measurable, and weirdly changing this paradigm.

I mean, I guess…

A pick'em!

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17. Squish-Gallo (Daredevil: Born Again, S01E09)

Stray Observations

  • ♫: Crooked Still – "Ecstasy" (The Last of Us, S02E01)
  • "Hey, Hayden." (The Righteous Gemstones, S04E06)
  • "My fucking hunks!" (The Righteous Gemstones, S04E06)
  • </Daredevil: Born Again, S01>
  • "Am I crazy, or is that way faster than it looks?"
    "Thank God all I ate today was hard-boiled eggs." (Abbott Elementary, S04E22)
  • </Abbott Elementary, S04>
  • "I'm sorry if I ate too much cantaloupe." (Hacks, S04E03)

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15. Bubbles Jackson Interview (Everybody's Live With John Mulaney, 09 Apr 25)

Honourable Mention

  • Triple Suicide Slide (David Blaine: Do Not Attempt, S01E05)
  • Slicing a 6mm BB gun bullet flying at you at 350kph with a katana (David Blaine: Do Not Attempt, S01E06)

Stray Observations

  • ♫: Billy Preston – "Nothing From Nothing" (The White Lotus, S03E08)
  • </The White Lotus, S03>
  • "The slurping of the holes is burned into our memory, a scar upon the mind." (The Righteous Gemstones, S04E05)
  • "She's attempting to make you a Dateline episode, son." (The Righteous Gemstones, S04E05)
  • </David Blaine: Do Not Attempt, S01>
  • The Americana at Brand (Hacks, S04E02)
  • "You think George Clooney does pranks because they're fun? The man is sick." (Hacks, S04E02)
  • ♫: Marianne Faithfull – "The Mystery of Love" (Yellowjackets, S03E10)
  • "Well, she was desperate for someone to talk to, and you were busy eating your ex-girlfriend's arm, so…" (Yellowjackets, S03E10)
  • "I knew you'd turn out to be boring." (Yellowjackets, S03E10)
  • "Prepare her for tonight. And when it's done, bring me her hair." (Yellowjackets, S03E10)
  • </Yellowjackets, S03>
  • Balatro (Black Mirror, S07E03)
  • </Black Mirror, S07>