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Andrew Bloom

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Freelance Culture Writer with bylines at Slashfilm, Consequence, and The Spool. Head full of Simpsons quotes & Mountain Goats lyrics. Email: theandrewblog [at] gmail [dot] com

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Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 9h

I didn't have much in the way of expectations for those Lego Star Wars shorts, but I ended up thinking they were a ton of fun and brimming with affection for all things Star Wars.

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Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 1d

Kudos to Dan Castellaneta, who voiced not one, but two parodies of Jimmy Stewart's character in Rear Window: one for The Simpsons and one for Tiny Toon Adventures. These episodes aired less than two years apart from one another!

A parody of Jimmy Stewart's character in Rear Window on The Simpsons

A parody of Jimmy Stewart's character in Rear Window on Tiny Toon Adventures

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 2d

Yeeeeahhhh, it's taken on a life of its own, for better and for worse

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 3d

I've done it! I've finally done it! I've created a meme scientifically designed to ensure that no single generation will get the entire joke!

On the left is Six LeMeure from the T.V. show Blossom, in a gray hat with a red blower on it, and a white blouse with a black vest over it. On the right is Seven of Nine from the T.V. show Star Trek: Voyager in a burgundy bodysuit with a Borg implant over her left eye.

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Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 4d

"Actually Romantic" by Taylor Swift is the best song Everclear never wrote.

(Though the bridge sounds a bit more like The Toadies to me.)

(Yes, I am old.)

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 4d

What's funny is that Karl Urban came to the closest to doing a straight up impression of DeForrest Kelley, and it still worked like gangbusters. If/when SNW introduces Bones, I'm really curious if they'd try to cast Urban again since he'd still be roughly age appropriate.

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Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 5d

I wish I could bottle this expression of pure joy from Michael B. Jordan in Sinners

Michael B. Jordan dressed in 1930s garb with an open-mouthed expression of joy as his character marvels at the guitar-playing of his young cousin.

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 6d

Homer Simpson saying, "alcoholics, the unemployable, angry loners."

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 9d

Director: So in this movie, we need something to symbolize that the President is causing great harm to the nation

Writer: What if we had him just completely wreck a whole wing of the White House

Director: A little too on the nose, don't you think?

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 12d

This is an actual passage from Paradise Lost, and I think John Milton wants to wish everyone a Happy Pride:

"[T]he crested cock whose clarion sounds the silent hours and th’ other whose gay train adorns him colored with the florid hue of rainbows and starry eyes."

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 14d

Wife: I've reached the point where I don't know any of the people hosting SNL

Me: Who's hosting next?

Wife: Miles Teller

Me: You know Miles Teller

My Wife: Of Penn and Teller?

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 14d

Carell was so good in LMS. I should go back and watch that movie again.

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 15d

2006

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 15d

Pita Pan

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 15d

The Simpsons has you covered!

Homer and Marge Simpson, dressed to the nines, in front of a stand with a sign that reads "Much Ado About Muffins" featuring a pair of muffins with the classic "comedy/tragedy" faces on them.

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 15d

The Bun Also Rises

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 15d

My top suggestions of books to read this World Bread Day...

- The Focaccia in the Rye
- Yeast of Eden
- Flours for Algernon
- The Lion, the Witch and the Warburtons
- Pannetonement
- The Naan in the High Castle
- Leaven Las Vegas
- Pitta Rabbit

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 16d

I'm all for leaving room for fans to imagine. But things like Tom's relationship with his dad, Seven's feelings about going back to Earth, how the Maquis would be received were long-running threads. You don't have to tie them all off definitively but we got NOTHING on them! Storytelling malpractice.

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 16d

See that was part of my problem with the Voyager ending. They set up so much stuff about what it would mean to return home -- how Starfleet would respond to the Maquis and a Borg in the crew, Tom and B'Elanna's relationship with their families, etc. -- that they never paid off! We needed aftermath!

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Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 16d

My crazy idea was that, while they had everybody on set for Picard S3, they should reshoot some of those future-set scenes from All Good Things and release an alternate version of the episode. It would never happen, but it'd be fun!

Though if we never got to see Voyager make it home I'd be peeved.

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Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 16d

I actually think All Good Things does a really nice job of threading the needle between putting a capstone on the end the show while and nodding toward "the adventure continues." Some of that is the fact that they had a movie in production, but I still like the blend of finality and open endedness.

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Kendra, scary version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 18d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 17d

Superintendant Chalmers from The Simpsons looking forlorn and declaring, "My '+' has been stolen! Oh, that's how people know it's a streaming service. What's the point of having a steaming service if you can't show it off?"

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 17d

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Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 18d

To be fair, there's a few highlight episodes for Mayweather, and they're pretty rough. So maybe the writers just threw up their hands at some point. But they also seem to give up on Hoshi at some point too, despite the fact that she got a decent amount of focus early on in a way Mayweather didn't.

Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 18d

I'm so sorry -- wishing solace and peace for you