Don't think any other series did a musical episode anywhere near as well even after all this time.

Interesting that regional pricing for AAA games seems to be dying out while the streaming services tend to remain competitive

A clown musical...called Clown.

I seriously can’t help but think they’re trying to tank the company so that they can leverage a loss against taxes they might have to be paying. The only thing that suffers is the content and, by proxy, our culture. WB can suck a fat one.

A lot of that money is spent on new content to remain competitive. Actual net revenue is more like 1-2 billion annually.

The fact that I have well defined and self examined morals is....ironic?

Yes, in fact, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

It's especially well defined as amoral when the thing you're "consuming" isn't consumable, costs no time money or effort to copy, and the people who had the most impact on making it aren't making the money from the people who are rent seeking on it anyways.

"Harder to sell ads on reruns of things."

Might legitimately be a new idea for a guy whose success was in the old broadcast network and recent unscripted cable models. Both of which essentially ran on the idea that people turn on a channel and will keep it on all evening, even if lots of the night is reruns.

In this call, he also kept playing up how Discovery+ users will stay subscribed no matter what, and HBO Max subscribers will cancel between shows... so obviously, the answer is to make HBO Max more Discovery+-like

Yes, one thing the article didn't make clear was that unlike the Psych, Scrubs or Flash musical episodes (those are the only other ones mentioned that I've seen), the songs in "Once More with Feeling" continue (or finally expose) season-long subplots, like Buffy's feelings after being pulled out of Heaven, or Tara's concern about Willow's use of magic....not to mention having the lyrics sprinkled with Easter Eggs for the fans such as the mention of bunnies or Xander's curse from the Chumash Indians from "Pangs" (S04E08)

This week's episode was a really wonderful love letter to Phil Tippett's work (he actually did some stop-motion work for the episode too which was really cool!)

Because the entirety of human existence owes itself to the fact that ideas aren't physical objects. Copying them, telling other people, and being part of a community of information is what seperates us from animals.

Pretending that you can steal watching a movie makes you dumber than a monkey.

Zazlav caused WBD a $50 billion debt.

Oh yeah it's definitely part comedy and the comedy part is sometimes ridiculous

Alex is trying to calm him down, how could she know? Gets three steps into his appointment "hi honey, I'm home" and pow, right in the kisser.

They basically assigned almost all of Mike's character traits and big moments to other characters, what a bummer that was.

It was barely adapted at all for the movies IMO. There's so much more depth and potential to the story than made it to screen. Everybody just dumbs it down to "in the book there's a space turtle, lol, cocaine amiright?"

Its arguably the best song from an episode filled with greqt music. I always had a soft spot for 'Going Through the Motions '. 'Under Your Spell' is a great little ready ready pop song. And who can forget the bunnies.

And still I RIIISEEE.

Coldest take ever

>It’s a hell of a lot easier to “adapt” a game which contains little to no plot...

That's like saying, it's much easier draw a figure with no model. Unless, what you meant by "easier" is that there're less restrictions and more freedom to come up with something original.

One of my favorite scenes for sure.

“Southern Peru. ‘74, before the rains.”

I love how when Latka finally reunites with Simka (his wife, played by always wonderful Carol Kane) later on, she immediately knows that he “did it with another woman!!”, lol.

Is Disney+ losing a lot as well?

Fun fact: series composer Bob James originally wrote that theme (called “Angela”) as incidental music for the third episode of season 1, where Alex goes on a blind date with answering service operator Angela Matusa. The showrunners liked it so much that they decided to use it as the theme song for the entire series.

As it happens, James is a very accomplished jazz composer and keyboardist outside of the show; several of his non-Taxi works were even sampled by early hip hop artists.

Fuck I’d love to see a 20s pennywise.