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Ben Soskin
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Lt. Nic Cage, in the middle of shaving his face with an electric razor, reveals himself behind a door to question an elderly woman and her nurse.
December 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Kevin Bacon gaily announcing "Remain calm! All is well!" as chaos unspools around him
December 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Birthright, Part XLVII
Data and Bashir walking down an Enterprise-D corridor together
December 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Yeah, Homer wasn't paying attention.
Homer Simpson is grasping his hand in pain after its thumb has been severed. Marge holds up a roll of tape in hopes of reattaching the thumb to Homer's hand. An incredulous Homer shouts: "Reattach a thumb? This isn't 'Gattaca'!!"
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Gen. Chang asking, in subtitled Klingon: "What's she doing?"
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Sign outside Caesar's Palace announcing: BUDDY HACKETT TINA TURNER
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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The "Seven-Minute Abs" scene from There's Something About Mary
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Similar idea:
A depiction of the carton art for a Cherry Garcia-style Ben & Jerry's flavor titled "Cherry Orbach." (From the very funny Modern Humorist book "Rough Draft: Pop Culture the Way It Almost Was.")
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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And Q still drops in to kibitz.
Q and Toby Ziegler in the Oval Office
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Odo gets around
Kirk and Odo on Boston Legal
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The media's always loved a veepstakes!
Time Magazine cover from June 4, 1984, headlined: "And for Vice President...WHY NOT A WOMAN?" featuring images of "Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro" and "San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein" on campaign buttons.
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Also:
jonathanhoefler • 8/13/24 3/6 - Imagine a client asking for a logo in 24 hours, but not telling you the name of the company! That's what it's like to participate in the veepstakes. Nobody who commented on the Biden/Harris logo realized that Robyn Kanner and I were busy developing *dozens* of possible identities in parallel, completely firewalled from the political side of things, awaiting the news until 40 minutes before press time. → 3/6 BIDEN-ABRAMS BIDEN-BALDWIN BIDEN-BASS BIDEN-BOTTOMS BIDEN-DEMINGS BIDEN-GRISHAM BIDEN-HARRIS BIDEN-RICE BIDEN-WARREN BIDEN-WHITMER
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Relatedly, I enjoyed seeing this item at the Carter Presidential Library — reminded me of the summer ‘04 stories of the Kerry campaign printing up “Kerry/Gephardt”, “Kerry/Graham”, and “Kerry/Clark” signs to cover contingencies before the VP announcement
“The Original Six Choices For Vice President by Jimmy Carter” An arrangements of six campaign buttons: Carter-Mondale Carter-Muskie Carter-Glenn Carter-Church Carter-Stevenson Carter-Jackson
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Riker sends the transporter chief on an EVA to fix the deflector dish, "First Contact" style. Unfortunately, the chief's in his "Out of Sight" tripped-out mode, and does a bad (i.e. fatal) job.
The transporter-chief-of-the-week, wearing sunglasses indoors, as is his wont.
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I'm seein' double here. Four Tildas!!
Tilda Swinton playing opposite Tilda Swinton in "The Eternal Daughter"
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Give us President Social Services!
Tilda Swinton as Social Services in "Moonrise Kingdom"
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Lisa Simpson at a movie theater, walking out of a Star Wars-ish movie clearly intended to be The Phantom Menace. She complains: “I can’t believe ‘The Gathering Shadow’ was Senate redistricting!”
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Ryan Gosling silently obsessing about Avatar's poster font as his wife groans, "Not this again..."
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Reminds me of this one a bit
A 1973 Doonesbury strip. Mike sits in a chair watching TV. From the TV, a voice states: "Today at a press conference, the president lashed out at the television media for what he called biased coverage of the Watergate affair. Said Mr. Nixon, 'In all my years of politics, never have I seen such outrageous, distorted, and erroneous reporting!' He went on to condemn television commentators for 'The vindictive leers and sneers directed at the great office of the presidency.' Most reporters present agreed the president was being his usual, asinine self."
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Or:
November 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I can't believe that Lipton didn't ask him about that episode
Not-James Lipton interviewing Not-Dustin Diamond on Not-Inside the Actors Studio
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Mr. Burns pointing to a "GABBO IS COMING" billboard and announcing, "Look, Smithers. Garbo is coming!"
October 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Also Bergman, incidentally:
A chess game in THE SEVENTH SEAL
October 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM