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tenaciouspostfun · 9 months
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Underwood Memorial Baptist Church.
Milwaukee WI.
HOW THEATER HAS CHANGED. Part One.
Robert M. Massimi.
When I look at theater today, I see a different era from what I remember of the 80's and 90's. Gone to a certain degree is the deep writing of yesteryear. Sure we had some great ones like "The Lehman Trilogy", "The Ferryman", "The Doctor" (currently at the Park Avenue Armory) and few others "Some Like it Hot" and "Kimberly Akimbo". But these are to few and far between for Broadway to be the behemoth it once was. In the 80's I could randomly go to a show and be wowed, but not today. It seems that writers and producers are more worried about putting out woke rather than good.
Off Broadway where you could once find really good works that were not big enough for Broadway, off off Broadway where you could find the hidden gems are gone as well. Today it is mostly about a liberal agenda that has taken the fun out of theater (not to mention the slobs that attend theater).
Let me give you a few examples:" Comeuppance", "Bernarda's Daughter," "Misty", "Camelot "at Lincoln Center," Bad Cinderella", "&Juliet", "New York, New York", "Passover". In these aforementioned shows, they all deal with race( with the exceptions of NY, NY and Camelot). "Comeuppance was poorly written and it solely attacks, the back the blue, whites, January 6th ( a huge favorite amongst the woke- never BLM nor ANTIFA burning cities down, though). The writing goes nowhere throughout the show and yet this is what is considered good theater today. "Misty" at Hudson Yards was another awful, horribly written play about the East End of London getting gentrified. The writer has his main character as a criminal and yet it is get whitey time. He argues, weakly, that the area was better when it was crime ridden, that white people have no business being there.
In "Bernarda's Daughter", it is Brooklyn ,NY. Again, the area is getting gentrified. The place is Flatbush, Brooklyn; a hot bed of crime. Once again, the area is getting over run with crime and yet, these girls complain that whites are moving in and making it nice.
In many of the musicals like NY, NY and Camelot, directors are bringing in diverse cast members that cannot handle the lead roles. this is exactly why both NY, NY and Camelot failed miserably. In" Shucked" you have a great comedy about a family in Nebraska. A really good play, however, you have the grandfather and cousin who are black. Regardless of your political beliefs, it just does not fit the audiences eye, it doesn't work. Like "Head Over Heels", the audience rejects it as not believable.
As far as off off Broadway, places like The Theater for the New City produce crap after crap. Politically leaning with radical shows, Theater for the New City is a pit of lousy writing. LA MAMA once a cutting edge theater company has also gone the way of lousy writing. Even in the 80's, LA MAMA was left leaning but the writing (mostly AGITPROP) was mostly good. Today, not so much. Climate change, LGBTQ runs this loony bin today and the shows aren't any fun to go too any more.
Theater in New York City needs to get back to quality. When A Dolls House becomes modern, it is time to rethink how we want to produce shows. If Broadway doesn't stop with the over abundance LGBTQ, the anti traditional theater, it may lose the base of its theater goers, and the young people, the wokesters alone cannot replace the old guard of theater lovers.
Britney Spears, Hamilton, Prima Facia, Sweeney Todd, Ben Platt, Studio 54, Nathan Lane, &Juliet, Hamilton, Shucked, Tony Awards, Kimberly Akimbo, New York, New York, New York City, Once Upon A One More Time, Funny Girl, Parade, Rock and Roll Man, Life of Pi.
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thesims4sarah · 5 years
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SILVER SCREEN SIMS LEGACY CHALLENGE - CLASSIC FILMS - RULES
When Get Famous came out, I wanted to play a legacy challenge that incorporated some of the new things that came with the pack. I didn't see any right away so I decided it was time to create my own. Spending some time considering a direction, it felt like Get Famous naturally followed to a cinema themed legacy. Hence, the Silver Screen Sims Legacy Challenge. Actually, I developed two different versions of this challenge. This one that is inspired by Classic/Golden Era of Hollywood films and another which uses 80's movies. I put that in its own thread. You can find that HERE I worked hard to make sure there is very little overlap of career, aspirations or other tasks between the two. So, you could easily decide to play just one, play both or even have this be one big massive 20 generation legacy if you wanted and not have much repeat itself. The challenges use something from every pack from the Base Game on up to Get Famous. You could probably play around a couple things if you don't have a pack but it is going to be difficult if you have large gaps in the collection. ==== Silver Screen Sims Legacy Challenge - Classic Films Each generation of this legacy is inspired by a classic Hollywood film. Basic Rules: Start with a Young Adult Sim. Either one you created especially for this or one you previously made. They should, for reasons that will play out in the challenge, human. Gender and any other appearance elements don't matter. Don't cheat unless you are told to in the rules. What's the point of that? There is no point scoring here, just the reward of the fun telling the story of your Silver Screen Sims Legacy. Using creative content is up to you as long as it isn't a cheat or it replaces an object required to complete a generation. I don't use any but that's just a personal choice. Unless otherwise stated in the rules for a generation, you can live anywhere you want. Similarly, color outside the lines all you want as long as you hit the action rules for each generation. Let's get started...... Generation One: Grapes of Wrath After your family lost their farm as a result of a great economic disaster, you decided it was time to move west and start again. You have nothing but your knowledge of how to work the land and a sense of right and wrong. You’ll do your best to make sure neither let you down. Traits: Hot-Headed, Good, Art Lover Aspiration: Freelance Botanist Career: Gardner - Botanist Rules: 1. Move into the lot of your choice in Oasis Springs. It should either already be vacant or you can bulldoze it before moving in. Buy a tent and then use the Money cheat to bring your funds down to zero. You don’t have to wait to get a job but you will be building from the dirt up. 2. Give lot three traits. One must be great soil (you’ll thank yourself later). The other two are up to you. 3. Take a selfie on your new property. Hang it on the wall of your home when you finally build it. This should hang in every home throughout your legacy. 4. Master gardener career and freelance botanist aspiration 5. Always do your laundry with the washtub and clothesline 6. Don’t get married until you have mastered the gardening skill. 7. Ask for a large loan at least once in your life. Generation Two: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington You spent your childhood watching your parent struggle against the system. Now you are on a mission to take that system down. Organizing for charity and writing books to expose corruption is how you will keep your parent’s legacy alive. Traits: Ambitious, Dance Machine,Vegetarian Aspiration: Best Selling Author Career: Politician - Charity Rules: 1. Join the after school Scouting club and collect all the badges. 2. Complete the Politician (Charity) career and Best Selling Author aspiration. 3. Win a Dance Battle 4. Marry somebody you met at a protest rally 5. Obtain the Giving Back and Rally Fame Perks 6. Collect all the festival bubble blower bottles Generation Three: Wizard Of Oz Your parents are so proud of everything they and your grandparents have built for the family in the new land. Of course you understand but, if you are really honest, you are bored of living in the same place and doing the same things. You want to explore, meet new people and do new things. Traits: Dog Lover, Clumsy, Music Lover Aspiration: Friend of The World Career: Astronaut - Space Ranger Rules: 1. Get a dog & become companions. 2. Complete Astronaut (Space Ranger) Career and Friend of the World aspiration 3. Go on Vacation to both Granite Falls and Salvadorada at least once. 4. Master dog training and cooking skills. 5. Cook Pet food recipe at least once a week 6. Become friends with Patchy, The Living Statue and somebody in a animal outfit Generation Four: Singin’ In the Rain There was a great deal to learn from a parent that spent so much time time exploring. That was when you actually got to see them. So much time spent alone led to lots of time playing make believe, putting on puppet shows and just acting into the mirror. Anything to feel less lonely. Now all of that is going be pay off as you take your acting to the silver screen. The world WILL know your name. Traits: Perfectionist, Jealous, Goofball Aspiration: Renaissance Sim Career: Acting Rules: 1. Join after school drama club 2. Master singing skill 3. Declare rain to be your favorite weather. 4. Complete Acting career and Renaissance aspiration. 5. Be on the winning Jokester team at the Hijinks Festival 6. Have several jobs before you decide to get serious about acting. Keep practicing though. Dreams shouldn’t get stale. 7. Fall in love with somebody that is already married, get them to break up with their partner & then marry them. 8. Have at least two children. Generation Five: Some Like It Hot Growing up, your home was obsessed with showbiz. So it is no wonder you got bit by the entertainer bug too. Only one problem. Everybody knows your famous acting parent and doesn’t want to take you seriously. Maybe if you go undercover with a bit of a gender bending look it might help you get a fair shake? Traits: Creative, Romantic, Hates Children Aspiration: Musical Genius Career: Entertainer - Musician Rules: 1. Complete Entertainer (Musician) career and Musical Genius aspiration 2. Declare hot weather your favorite weather 3. Master Media Production & Rock Climbing skills 4. Have a haircut and at least one outfit originally intended for the opposite gender. 5. Always have one of your siblings living in the same home as you 6. Wait until you are halfway through your adult age to have kids. Generation Six: The Day The Earth Stood Still Maybe they never said it outright but you always felt like you were an afterthought for your parents. Did they even really want you? You’re not going to let that get you down though. You’ll build your own big happy family and make sure they always know how much they are wanted. Traits: Family Oriented,Outgoing,Slob Aspiration: Big Happy Family Career: Scientist Rules: 1. Master Gourmet Cooking, Handiness and Skating skills 2. Complete Big Happy Family aspiration and Scientist career 3. Marry teenage sweetheart 4. Become best friends with an alien 5. Take photos with all of your teenage children and hang on the wall. 6. Win the Curry contest at the Spice Festival Generation Seven: Mildred Pierce Face it. Your parents did an amazing job. Love was all around you growing up and they raised you to have real belief in yourself. You know you can do anything. Even if that means eating baked goods all the time. Also, now that you think of it, did getting that much love all the time setup impossible standards for your future romantic partners to try to meet? Traits: Foodie, Bro, Self-Assured Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy Career: Business - Management Rules: 1. Master baking, charisma and flower arranging skills 2. Complete Business (Management) career and Fabulously Wealthy aspiration 3. When at home, eat nothing but baked goods you prepared yourself & honey from your bee box. 4. Get married and divorced twice. Have a child with each spouse. 5. Start a club with just your siblings as members. Meet at least weekly. Generation Eight: Arsenic and Old Lace Why is family alway so up in your grill? Surely they can recognize your genius? Then why won’t they just get out of your way and let your plans unfold? Still, keep your enemies close, as they say. Traits: Genius,Self-Absorbed,Mean Aspiration: Public Enemy Career: Criminal - Boss Rules: 1. Master herbalism, mischief and bowling skills 2. Complete Criminal (Boss) career and Public Enemy aspiration 3. Have two of your Aunts or Uncles move in with you, if they are still alive. 4. Buy Dr. June's Weather Control Device 5. Be enemies with a sibling 6. Get married on Halloween 7. Obtain the Play the Villain fame perk. Generation Nine: On The Town Enough with this small town life. Like your your great, great, great, great grandparent, you want to see and do EVERYTHING. So why haven’t you moved to the big city yet? Now is your time! Paint the town red and make the city yours! Traits: Cheerful, Glutton, Bookworm Aspiration: City Native Career: Critic - Food Rules: 1. Skip school at least once 2. Move to San Myshuno 3. Master Athletic and Comedy skills 4. Complete the Critic (Food) career and City Native aspiration 5. Always take the Work From Home option 6. Have a pet of some variety. 7. Marry somebody who works as a food or souvenir stall vendor. Generation Ten: High Society Wow. Your ancestor that first moved to that dusty lot in Oasis Springs couldn’t even have imagined where your family is now. You don’t want for much. The world is at your fingertip. Newspapers report on your love-life. Yet, you have a way of sabotaging your own happiness. When will you ever learn what...or who...is truly good for you? Traits: Insider, Materialistic, Childish Aspiration: Soulmate Career: Social Media - Internet Personality Rules: 1. Complete Social Media (Internet Personality) career and Soulmate aspiration. 2. Master DJ Mixing trait 3. Marry your soulmate, divorce them, date somebody else and then remarry your soulmate 4. Take a yoga class & get a message at a spa 5. Hire a butler 6. Have a lifestyle brand Have fun! I can't wait to see what stories plat out. Share as much as possible! Use #SilverScreenSims in the Gallery and on social media so we can follow each other's progress there too. I plan on streaming a lot of my legacy play on Twitch. I'm Sims4Sarah everywhere.
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calliecat93 · 6 years
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Callie Reviews: TMNT 2012 Season One (Part Three)
(Part One) (Part Two)
Here is where we look at the season as a whole. For this, I will be looking at four things: Animation, Voice Acting, Characters (Heroes, Villains), and Story. I’ll be going more into depths about some stuff I skimmed over here as well. So lets dig in!
Animation
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This is the Turtles first CGI show... okay yeah the 2007 movie was CGI, but that was a movie. When I first heard this, I was reluctant as I felt like 2D was becoming more and more of a lost out. But the CGI was really good! Mind you it looks a tad bit dated now as every season they pushed more and more to improve it. But still, it’s very well done. I can’t recall any point where I thought it looked bad or cringy...aside form when they wanted you to cringe anyways. What helps is that the show does add in some 2D elements, There’s the comic-style flashbacks of course, but even past that. They use these anime-like quirks like the sweatdrop, blushing, wide blank eyes when reacting in shock, vein burst when a character is angry, all these tiny little things that give it a more cartoony feel. I can’t recall any other Nickelodeon CGI shows that were doing this prior, so it helped it stand out among the other shows.
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Another plus side? The character designs. Aside from a few background characters they re-colored, none of the important characters look the same. Like I know that some don’t like April’s design, but at least they gave her and Karai their own distinct character designs. Then there are the Turtles. Something I don’t like about the upcoming show is how much.. accessorizing they add in to make the Turtles look distinctive. 2k12 kept it very simple. Different heights, eye color, shade of green, and of course body build. For example Donnie, the genius who is mroe invested with machines than training, is both the tallest and most slender. Raph, the strongest, is the most buff and Mikey, the youngest, has larger eyes and freckles to show his child-like nature.And even with Raph,a ll four boys have kind of high school athlete-like builds. Nothing over the top like say... the Michael Bay films. Basically, I can believe that these guys can do the ninja-like agility more than I can with the overly buff, giant versions that have been used.
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When ti comes to the mutants, the animators get creative. There are so many unique mutant sin the show. Snakeweed, Spyder Bytez, Dogpound, Fishface, Splinter, Leatherhead, all the mutants have their own unique design that work for them. They also know when to get creepy, like with the mish-mash... thing... from The Alien Agenda. That was disturbing as heck, and it’s not even the creepiest one they come up with! Oh just wait for next season, haha... but yeah, mutant designs are great!
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Now the settings are kinda... meh. I mean The Lair is cool, but it’s mostly just either the the Lair, the New York landscape, Shredder’s lair, or an empty warehouse most of the time. It’s nothing really... creative I guess is the right word. We also don’t explore new York much, mainly settling on skyscrapers as the setting. It’s understandable why since New York is the setting, but still it juts gets kind of boring after awhile. But for what it’s worth, they do try to do creative stuff when they can like in Baxter’s Gambit with the black and white screens.
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And of course, there is the fight choreography. As I said before, it’s fantastic. All the fights in the series are fluid, well-paced, and fun to watch. If I had to give some examples off the top of my head, there’s New Friend, Old Enemy when the Turtles rise form the water. The mix of black and red is absolutely perfect. There’s the first fight against Shredder in The Gauntlet which despite the boys getting constantly knocked down by Shredder, they give it everything they have. It looks freakin’ badass. Then there is any Splinter fight scene. There’s not many, only about three in this season (It Came From the Depths, I, Monster, The Showdown two-parter) but they are excellent. I said that the Splinter vs Shredder fight was the best and nothing after ever topped it, right?
So yeah, if I was going to rate the animation on a 1-5 scale...
Rating: 4.5
Voice Acting
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The series was voice directed by veteran Andrea Romano, so you know that the performances are gonna be solid. As far as casting goes, they got in a LOT of big names both in the voice acting industry and out. There’s of course Greg Cipes (Mikey), Mae Whitman (April), Nolan North (The Kraang), Kevin Michael Richardson (Shredder), Phil Lamar (Stockman), Clancy Brown (Dogpound) and of course Rob Paulsen (Donnie). Rob’s casting was actually a pretty big deal as along with being a veteran with nearly 30 years of experience, he was also the voice of Raph in the original 80′s show. So getting him back even as a different Turtle? Yeah... that’s pretty big!
Then you have more well-known on-screen actors, like Sean Astin (Raph) and Kelly Hu (Karai). Now they both actually have very solid VA-ing careers and still do voice work to this day, but if you’re say... a Lord of the Rings fan and known Sean only for that, this may entice you. The newcomers to voice acting are Jason Biggs (Leo), Christian Lanz (Fishface) and Hoon Lee (Splinter). There’s also guest actors like Jeffrey Combs (The Rat King) and Roseanne Barr (Kraang Prime), so a solid mix of professional voice actors and a few newcomers. The result?
The voice acting is fantastic. Like even as the show goes on and you see more and more mixed reception, the acting is NEVER one of the things you see go down. If anything, it is one aspect that continues to improve episode by episode. All four Turtle actors do an amazing job conveying their characters, able to go from comedic to dramatic in a split second. I’d say that out of everyone, Hoon Lee impressed me the most since he’s the only one aside from Biggs (and... e’ll talk more about him next season) I hadn’t heard of. And he gave a very solid performance. Everyone did. Even for just minor characters like Pulverizer (Roger Craig Smith... yes Pulverizer is Sonic the Hedgehog) or some of the villains like Snake (Danny Jacob who voices King Julian outside the Madacgascar films) or Spyder Byte (Lewis Black), they convey their characters perfectly. Like Black’s character is a rude slob you want to punch, and he does such a great job in making you feel that way!
So yeah, you got a strong cast, a veteran voice director, and a crazy group of characters for them to voice. All of them nail it. And just wait, this is only the S1 cast. Wait until you see who they bring in for future seasons!
Rating: 5
Characters
As I said in Part One, this is the best part of the show. I know a lot of people who fell off TMNT as it went on, but still kept interest because of the characters. To me, this is always the most important part of storytelling. Yes having a good story itself is important, but a good story will be nothing without likeable characters to move it. A cliched story may be annoying, but if the characters are likeable and strongly written, people are usually more forgiving because they care about the cast. This show is no different. To this day, the thing that kept me attracted to the show was the Turtles, April, and Splinter and what they’d get into next. All of them have strong personalities that get you to care about them, or at least see where they’re coming from. I could gush about each of them one by one... so on we go!
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Lets start with Mikey because he is the least developed this season... and most of the show sadly. I’d even say that his focus episodes dropped massively in quality after this season as he was forced mroe and mroe into the comedy relief/designated victim/little brother role. It’s a shame too because this season did an excellent job in balancing out both the comedy relief and the more innocent side of the character. Mikey is the most naive of the brothers and the least serious among them. It’s not to say that he can’t take situations seriously, it’s just that he’s more easy-going and fun-seeking than the other three. His biggest problem is his inability to focus and goof around, which has caused several instances of accidentally setting off alarms. 
While not the best of the four, Mikey is a talented ninja and the best at going off just raw talent. He doesn’t think through fighting moves, he can just go with the flow and be perfectly fine. His strongest skill hpwever is his empathy and desire to make friends. While this has backfired on him before, like in New Friend, Old Enemy, where Bradford used and then kidnapped him for a trap, Mikey is incredibly non-judgemental and open-minded. It’s why he could befriend Leatherhead so easily in It Came From the Depths. He saw that the Kraang were attacking him and decided to simply talk to him like he would anyone else, even pointing out that maybe LH only acts like a monster because that’s how he was treated for so long. Mikey may not be book smart, but he’s very emotionally smart. As I said, Mikey’s character sadly devolves into annoying comedy relief as it goes, but for this season he had a strong start. No meaningful development aside form slow progression on paying attention (Parasitica being the final payoff... also if you’re afraid of wasps then avoid that one), but his character is strong enough to carry him through.
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Raph is the brawler of the group and the quickest to anger. Hie’s the strongest fighter and incredibly confident... unless he has to deal with bugs. His biggest flaws are his both his anger and his jealous towards Leo. The first half of the season has Raph frequently back-talks and argue with Leo all because he got made the leader over him. For example, in Never Say Xever he is unhappy with Leo using mercy because bad guys don’t deserve it. Leo does eventually use the more Raph-like approach when kidnapping Bradford... and it fails miserably. What saves them? Leo’s act of mercy causing the Purple Dragon to repay the favor sand saving their shells. While he does slowly get a better grip on his temper once Splinter tells him of how dangerous it can be (Turtle Temper), it takes until New Girl in Town for him to overcome his jealousy once and for all. It’s very well done too by having Leo finally get fed up and give Raph what he wanted. Ultimately Raph can’t handle the pressure once things get rough and comes to understand both what Leo deals with essentially every day and how his own actions made it worst.
After that, Raph becomes the perfect example of a follower. While he’s still question Leo, he has good reasons for it, like everything involving Karai for instance. But he actively looks out for him more and stops mocking him outside just brotherly messing around. And even during that point, while Raph could be an insensitive jerk, he does love his family and will make amends when he goes too far. When he mocked Mikey wanting friends in New Friend, Old Enemy, at the end he comforted him after the fallout with Bradford and assured him that he’s a good person. When he mocked Donnie’s crush in Operation: Break-Out and led to Donnie going on a mission solo, Raph was worried about him, realized that he way too harsh, and tried to make amends by giving Donnie all the credit once back home. While Raph doesn’t conquer his temper completely, over the season he does get a better grip on it, can admit when he goes to far, became overall nicer, and by the end is a much better person. It was good stuff!
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Donnie is probably the most... divisive of the four. Not because he’s badly written per say. He’s intelligent, but also high-strung and prone to stress. He’s not a bad ninja, but because of his focus on machinery, he’s the least skilled. The two episodes that focus on this are Metalhead and Monkey Brains. Metalhead has an admittedly meh plot where he gets sick of his bo staff and therefore creates the robot Metalhead to act as his weapon. The ‘meh’ plot is IDT it addresses the message of ‘the weapon doesn't make you a good fighter, you do’ very well, ut still Monkey Brains does a much better job, demonstrating Donnie’s tendency to over-think everything and how that is detrimental in a fight. By the climax, he’s able to get himself to rely on his instincts against a mind-reading villain (we’ll get to him later) and kick his ass.
Then there’s The Pulverizer episodes, which are the most interesting but sadly don’t go anywhere after this season. It has Donnie accept Pulverizer as an apprentice of sort, mainly so the kid can have some form of self-defense if he’s going to put himself into danger. It’s ultimately ineffective, but mainly because of Pulverizer wanting to rush and not listening properly. The most important part though is Splinter telling Donnie that by doing this, anything that happens involving him after will be his responsibility. Which we see in The Pulverizer Returns where Pulverizer decides ot let the Foot mutate him to gain awesome mutant powers. Donnie tries to save him, but sadly he fails and Pulverier.. it’s not pretty. While Donnie does still save him after, he’s left with the guilt of ultimately failing his student. I’ll go into mroe about how horribly the writers wasted this next season, but here? It was interesting to give Donnie this plot since you’d expect t to go to say... Leo. I think it really worked for what it was worth and let us see a side of Donnie outside just being the smart one.
So with that said, why is he divisive? Well... it’s because another major part of his character is his crush on April. He doe snot... manage it well, to say the least. He is rather, well... stupid and kinda creepy with it. But I do want to point this out. Yes, it is annoying but I think there’s a good reason for it: he’s an awkward teenager. Yeah him asking her to feel his goosebumps (Metalhead), accidentally calling her ‘his April (The Gauntlet), accidentally saying awkward things when she acknowledges him (pick any episode) are incredibly facepalm worthy at best. And yeah, they should have done better setup than have him just find her pretty when seeing her once. However he does genuinely care about her and int he premiere, he was driven more because he saw an innocent girl scared and was unable to help than his newfound crush. The feelings are genuine and Donnie being awkward about is because... well, Donnie is awkward in general and he does slowly improve. Honestly I’ll have mroe to discuss about this next season cause haha... boy is THAT a clusterfuck. But ultimately while Donnie can be annoying, overall it’s pretty bearable and he has plenty of positive traits to balance it out.
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Finally, we get Leo. He’s the group leader, but unlike the past series where he pretty much grew up with that role, here he gets the role halfway through the first episode. He starts as a goody-two-shoes with a mischievous side who had a very basic view of leadership. He see sit as a position of authority, greatness, and unstoppable. That’s not to say that he doesn’t take the role seriously, he does. He devises plans, does his best to keep his brothers focused, and frequently asks Splinter for advice on how to best do things. But he also frequently uses cheesy one-liners and does his best to be as over the top with his heroics as possible, thinking it’s cool when it isn’t. It gives Leo a more naive feel to him, someone who is serious but also is still a teenaged kid who has a lot of learning to do.
The pressures of leadership are Leo’s primary focus as a character. While he has some doubts, the biggest blow to his confident comes in The Gauntlet after there massive defeat against Shredder. The following episode has him unsure of if he can properly lead the team and feeling guilty when things go wrong. But the ultimate meltdown comes in New Girl in Town where Raph finally pushes him too hard and he quits. He’s realized at this point that leadership is not like it is on TV. it’s unforgiving, stressful, and you’re gonna be the one facing the consequences when things go wrong. His difficulty dealing with this is what attracts him to Karai. She’s fun, does whatever she wants, and doesn’t care about the rules. She offers him a form of freedom that he hasn’t had before. It’s why he tries to get her to change sides, he doesn’t want her to be an enemy. Unfortunately things end badly between them this season, but you can see where Leo is coming form no matter how naive he was about it.
Leo evolved a lot over the season. He went from a naive teenager who quoted old TV episodes to a serious, determined leader who was willing to do whatever it took to get his team through. He never quit being optimistic and he does still have his stress with leadership later down the road. But the season is about him easing not the role an understanding the weight of that role. It’s very easy to feel bad for Leo because he tries incredibly hard, but he doesn’t receive a lot of gratitude or payoff, and he just has to accept that. By the finale, he’s willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to ensure both success and his family's safety... something that becomes a bit of an issue in later seasons (looking at you Space Arc). I’d say that because we got to see Leo actually having to come to terms with the role, it makes this imo the best version of the character. We actually have to see him accept the role and how he hate show it limits his free time, something IDT the past versions really did. And all while having this dorky, idealistic side that keeps him likable and all the mroe relateable. Overall, I’d say that the leader in blue was handeled very well here!
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April is my favorite character in the show, but her writing this season has some issues. Now as a character herself, she’s perfectly fine. She’s an independent sixteen year old and incredibly proactive. Whenever she finds info on the Kraang or about her dad, she looks into it. When everyone is ready to quit in Panic in the Sewers, she’s the only one who actively tries to do something and get everyone else to not give up. When Splinter offers to train her, she accepts it and we see bits and pieces of her progressing. But it’s done realistically as demonstrated in Karai’s Vendetta where it’s very clear that April is nowhere near her level. But it also demonstrates her determination and how she never gives up, getting back up after every blow and at east trying to put up a fight. While she’s forced to sit most things out and does on occasion get kidnapped, she still tries to be an asset and does very well as an intel gatherer. She’s also incredibly stubborn and can get in over her head without thinking things through, like in Metalhead and the finale episodes. But ultimately her proactiveness and need to take action are her strongest traits and what makes her a useful ally.
The issues with April are in the writing of the plot. I already mentioned how the early episodes could have done mroe in having her ease into the group. There’s also after Karai’s Vendetta where despite living with the guys, we don’t see her until the penultimate episode. We see her express hating it in that episode, but we don’t get to explore the fallout of her losing her normal life. In fact we...d on’t see April’s life outside Turtle stuff until next season, and even then not by much. Now of course the show is about the Turtles and you gotta keep the focus on them, but still we get a bunch of ‘show, don’t tell’ problems with April. We’re told things like she’s living with her aunt, but we never see them interact. Hell, IDT April’s aunt is ever mentioned outside the pilot. We also find out that April is the Kraang’s target... and we never see how she feels about it. If she’s scared, if she’s worried. We can assume that she has some stress about it, as indicated when she vents in Karai’s Vendetta, but little to no showcase of how she feels about it. Mind you we don’t with the Turtles either, but still. Still, overall April is a solid character imo.
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That brings us to Master Splinter, the best written character by far. Splinter is the perfect balance of a mentor and a father. He’s firm, strict, and not afraid to dish out punishment when it’s necessary. But he’s also gentle, patient, knows how to give his sons proper guidance, and when to let them figure things out for themselves. He’s also snarky as Hell, so it’s good that he has a sense of humor. He’s also a flawed person. He lost his wife and daughter because of hat is essentially a sibling rivalry that went WAAAY too far and his own inability to control himself worsened things. He lost his family and then his humanity, ending his life as Hamato Yoshi. Since then, he’s hidden int he sewers and tried to focus his energy on raising and protecting his sons. It makes letting them go topside difficult, as it is for any parent whose children are growing up. He can make mistakes, like letting his fear control him and press his sons far too hard in Panic in the Sewers, but he can admit those mistakes.
Splintr’s largest plot in the season, outside mentoring the boys and April, is accepting his mutant status and overcoming his fears. Many epsiodes such as the premiere, Turtle Temper, Monkey Brains, Panic in the Sewers and the finale show how much pain the rat master carries and while he’s move don to a new life, it still haunts him. The episode that best displays this however is a filler episode called I, Monster. In it we get this version of the Rat King, the mind reading villain from Monkey Brains, who uses his power to swarm New York. When he senses Splinter, he proceeds to try and brainwash him too. The episode does an amazing job at showcasing all of Splinter’s fears. The boys outgrowing him, his past tragedies, ending up alone, and the Rat King slowly uses all of it to break him down. Splinter fights back, but the thought of the boys moving on without him is ultimately what defeats him until the boys remind him of who he is. He is Hamato Yoshi, Master Splinter, but most of all their father. They need him and always will. Which lets Splinter overcome the mind control and essentially Airbend Rat King through a wall. It was awesome~
Despite that episode being filler, it’s one of the season's best. It is a strong character exploration piece about a father who has gone through Hell and is faced with the fear of his kids not needing him. It is very relatable and makes Splinter all the mroe sympathetic. And we see Splinter truly embody who he is now when faced with the Shredder again and upon learning that his daughter had survived. He went into full rat mode and gave Shredder the beating that we all wanted. And the season ends on a perfect lead in for the next one. Splinter now knows that Karai is his daughter while she was raised to hate him. It’s any parent’s worst nightmare. He now has to deal with that revelation as well as how he’s going to break it to his students. Splinter has some solid growth int he season, something that a lot of mentor figures in cartoons don’t get, and it’s done perfectly. He has his flaws, but is still a strong father figure to his sons. Add that to Hoon Lee’s absolute perfect performance and you have what is in my opinion the best incarnation of Master Splinter in any TMNT series.
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While the main cast is strong, the supporting cast and villains are... not so much. There isn’t really a supporting cast honestly. The best we have is Leatherhead, who is awesome. He’s a damaged character. One treated like a monster and tortured for who knows how long. It left him damaged and prone to trauma-induced outbursts. But he is a good person who knows that what happened to him was wrong and can be quite sweet when given the chance. He didn’t have to save humanity, especially since most would scream and run if they saw him, but he didn’t want anyone else to endure what he did. It’s best exemplified with his sacrifice in TCRI, going back to Dimension X and knowing fully well what’ll await him there. But he does so to save his friends and give them the chance to save the Earth. LH is freakin’ badass and I love him!
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The villains though are... kinda boring. Most of the mutants, while the designs are cool, are incredibly one-note. Not all of them, like the Rat King is so dramatic and twisted and his VA does such a great job with the delivery that you both love him and want to strangle him. But others like Snakeweed or Spyder Bytez are just... well, evil for the heck of it. The Kraang are the worst though since at least the mutants are only in like one or two episodes. The Kraang are annoying as HELL. They can be dangerous but the redundant speech pattern and all fo them having essentially the same personality (aka none) is so... boring. Min you in Season 4 we kind of get an explanation to why, but it doesn't change how grating they can get. That being said in large groups they can be dangerous and with things like the Technodrome, they’re not to be taken lightly. Still, GAH I HATE THEM!!!
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The Foot are somewhat better. Stockman is pathetic and remains pathetic throughout the entire series. Bradford is a pompous asshole. Xever is a little more interesting in that he kidn of was forced to work for Shredder or go to jail... but sadly after that reveal, he reverts to typical henchman status sadly. Shredder is the Big Bad and a no-nonsense leader. He has no empathy and is more than willing to inflict physical violence on his troops if they fail him. He even threatens to harm Karai, his daughter (kinda...) if she questions him. He is a very single minded perosn, his only goal beign to kill Splinter and his students by any means necessary. Hell. he only starts caring about the Kraang when he realizes that they can advance his goal, but has zero issues letting humanity fall to them. Oh, and there’s his glee when Karai tries to kill Splinter. WOrst? THis isn’t even the worst that he does int he show. Oh just wait for next season. JUST WAIT. Otherwise though, while a powerful fighter, he just mopes in his throne for most of the season, but Richardson’s badass voice acting was nice to hear.
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The most interesting villain by far is Karai, and Thank God for it. While Leo is a good-good, Karai is a bad girl. She’s laid-back, does what she wants her way, and doesn’t play by the rules. She’s introduced as a competent fighter, but unlike the other Foot she’s more interesting in talking to the Turtles than killing them. I think she did become genuinely fond of Leo, but ultimately she’s going to be loyal to what she thinks is her family. She also started off realizing that there were bugger problems, like the Kraang, that required more attention over the vendetta until the Turtles betrayed her. Then she pretty much went ‘screw it’ and decided to go with the vendetta, which only got worst when she met Splinter for the first time. Still, ti was nice to have someone actually question Shredder and try to be sensible. She’s definite the most well-written of the villains, and the revelation about her being Splinter’s daughter means that there is MUCH more to come for her. Like I said, just wait for Season 2!
Okay, this section was a LOOOT longer than I thought. So I’ll just finish by saying that the villains aren't all that interesting, but the main characters are very well written. They have strong personalities, plenty of room for growth, and their interactions always gel really well. Very well done!
Rating: 4.5
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The main plot threads are the Turtles against the Foot, and the Turtles feud against the Kraang. All with some subplots, like Pulverizer and the mutant of the week stuff, and filler episodes thrown in. I say that the plots are handled very well. For example well go with... say two or three Kraang-centric episodes. Then we may or may not get a filler episode before shifting over to the Foot Clan for awhile. It never felt like we got smothered with one faction over the other, which is good. The plots also slowly intertwined and it felt like they came together at just the right time during the last six or so episodes. Hence hwy the finale worked so well, giving some kind of payoff on both ends.
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Many of the episodes were very basic and outright bizarre. Like Cockroach Terminator having a mutant cockroach tr to murder Raph... it’s kinda gross, but entertaining! Every episode normally has at least something small that’ll carry over as the story goes along. For example, Donnie built Metalhead in... well, Metalhead and brought him back in the finale, plus it helped him learn mroe about Kraang tech. In Baxter’s Gambit, April finally gets her own weapon and she attempts to use it in Karai’s Vendetta. The episodes all play a part, even if just minor, in the larger narrative and I feel some of the later seasons kind of slacked on that. This season had a perfect balance.
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That’s not to say that it was perfect. Like at the end of TCRI, we find out that April is the Kraang’s true target which makes us wonder why... and the next episode is about Raph’s fear of bugs! So TCRI was episode 17, we don’t even mention this fact again until Karai’s Vendetta, which is episode 21. Five episodes later, and even then we get one tiny hint (April doesn't get damaged by mutagen-laced water) and... that’s it. The.show has a bit of an issue with not exploring fallout, which is weird because Panic in the Sewers did and id it excellently. Maybe it’s because they have to make episodes to sell toys, IDK. It doesn't do too much damage, but it makes it feel like they both wasted character opportunities and like there’s something missing. But at the very least the episodes remain entertaining, so there’s that.
Rating: 4
Final Thoughts
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You know what I like about this series and why I ran it above the other ones? Well it does something that I feel that the previous incarnations lacked: The Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles felt like teenagers. They felt like a bunch of kids truly entering the world for the first time. They screw up, they have problems to overcome, and they don’t always learn it immideatly. Like their cockiness is a frequent pain in the shell for example. But the reason that I like pretty much all of the episodes aside form Episode 11 is because it feels like we’re watching a group of kids truly starting to grow up and learn about how rough life can be. How they have to change, how they have to fix their mistakes, and just become better people. As a nineteen year old who was just staring to figure my life out, when I started the show, that drew me in. I related to these characters so much. I felt like I was growing with them and coming to understand who I was due to it.
It felt really nostalgic to go back over this season. Imo, it still holds up big time. It’s funny, action-heavy, well animated, and the characters are just as enjoyable as I remember. Would I call this the best season? Hmm... maybe. I still have three more to look over. But it was a really fun ride and it got TMNT 2012 off on the right track. Can they stay on it during Season 2? Come back next week, and we shall see!
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dweemeister · 6 years
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Overboard (1987)
Amnesia and romance are old companions in narrative art. Garry Marshall’s Overboard is one entry in that long-standing relationship beset with clichés and predictability. Overboard, too, dabbles in those same clichés and is also a bit predictable. Nothing about this film is surprising. But what elevates Overboard above many of its 1980s romantic comedy peers is the natural charm of its central performances and its delightful jokes. The film stars Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell in the real-life couple’s third and most recent film together – after Swing Shift (1984) and The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968; Hawn has a cameo) – and, by some distance, their best work together. The screenplay by Leslie Dixon recalls the great screwball romantic comedies of the 1930s and ‘40s (I’m not a fan of humor that combines cruelty and raunchiness, so this approach appealed to me) updated somewhat for the ‘80s. It all combines to comic, even heartwarming, results.
The heiress Joanna Stayton (Hawn) is the arrogant, haughty spouse of Grant Stayton III (Edward Herrmann). While their yacht is docked off Elk Cove, Oregon, handyman Dean Proffitt (Russell) is hired to remodel her closet. Joanna, giving no directions to Dean before he took the job, is furious when he uses oak instead of cedar. The two spout their frustration at each other, ending with her tossing him off the departing yacht without compensating him. Later that night, Joanna falls overboard, is fished out of the water by a garbage ship, and awakens in the hospital with amnesia. Dean, hearing about the news, has revenge on his mind, and seeks to have Joanna work around his house and for his four disorderly sons (Brian Price, Jared Rushton, Jamie Wild, and Jeffrey Wiseman) by posing as her husband of thirteen years. Joanna Stayton becomes Annie Proffitt. But vengeance turns into love, and Overboard handles this as compassionately and as respectfully any film that would attempt such a conceit can.
Overboard’s characters also includes Joanna’s mother, Edith (Katherine Helmond); the yacht butler Andrew (Roddy McDowall); and Dean’s best friend Billy (Michael G. Hagerty). Garry Marshall’s favorite character actor, Héctor Elizondo (who appeared in all of Marshall’s directorial works), has an important cameo as the garbage scow skipper.
Going into Overboard, the opening twenty minutes or so are like something from a Preston Sturges or Billy Wilder screwball comedy. The lifestyle porn might not be as flashy as one might expect from a gazillionaire family (if Overboard had the budget of a James Bond movie, Garry Marshall should have poured half that budget into decking out the yacht with ridiculous technology and 1980s gold-plated Trumpian/Gordon Gekko opulence), but the very fact that there is a yacht, several waitstaff, and a snooty couple always calls for a gate-crashing character. Enter Dean – so repulsive, so horribly dirty to Joanna – as the Sturges-esque everyman given a backwoods twist. As the foil, Dean schemes to exploit Joanna’s amnesia and to humiliate her – as someone who despises unnecessary nastiness in comedies, my internal klaxons were sounding – which may prove to be overwhelming for those who often feel for a character’s secondhand embarrassment Overboard dangles perilously over the chasm of Stockholm Syndrome, only to be saved by what Joanna brings to the narrative (I imagine some readers will disagree with me here, and that is fine).
Leslie Dixon’s (1993′s Mrs. Doubtfire, 2003′s Freaky Friday) screenplay assures that Joanna finds her own goodness by the force of her own nature. Dean hurls personal and physical insults towards “Annie” in the early days they are together, so she is finding very little solace there. The chores are backbreaking at the Proffitt household, with clothes, toys, and appliances strewn across the ground and on the furniture. She receives little to no help there but will become better at these chores she has never had to complete herself. The film’s harshest critics claiming that Dixon’s screenplay is undermining a strong female protagonist by having her endure all this abuse and discover herself through housework are missing the point – Joanna was never a strong character to begin with and housework is not what makes her transform into the woman she does become. Invoking one’s wealth to denigrate others – no matter how wittily, no matter how implicitly – is insecurity epitomized.
Where Joanna begins to find her own sense of belonging and inner strength is when she hears how the four Proffitt boys are being mistreated and talked about by their teacher. The sons have not been very hospitable to their “mother”, either, so one could say that Joanna – amnesia aside – has no obligation to help them. But she finds the courage and the words to stand up for the four boys in a way that their father never has, calling the teacher an, “anal, compulsive Hun”. She continues:
And my children may be rotten, but they’re mine. And I think that they’re bright and sensitive, so I have no doubts whatsoever about their intelligence. 
This is where Overboard turns from its revenge plot and never looks back. She has forgiven her sons (no quotation marks needed there) for their countless flaws. As the film can find the inner beauty in Joanna, so too can Joanna see it in the four rambunctious children she is taking care of. This care, thankfully, is not a one-way street, as the children and even Dean realize that she is setting an example for them to follow, that there will be expectations even in forgiveness and an act of defense. After this point, the charms of Hawn’s and Russell’s chemistry finally pay off and pickier viewers can feel a bit more comfortable at laughing at the slob humor of the film’s opening half. They transform along with their characters as they learn when to give and when to take. The changes come gradually – there is never any instant awakening from Joanna; Dean has zero idea how to be a father to his sons and not just a friend. Where they may have been on different terms and opposing wavelengths before, they now commit to struggle together. When one notices those changes, the film’s sweetness is infectious.
As with any romantic comedy, good times will last (eventually), but there will always be a final interruption before the protagonists can resume with the happiness they have built. Overboard’s iteration of this is unsurprising (as are the entire film’s structure and plot developments), but comes with some concise, considered words from Roddy MacDowall’s character of Andrew (of course these lines were delivered by an outstanding character actor with a lengthy career mostly behind him). Together, director Garry Marshall and screenwriter Leslie Dixon may not have created the funniest – which I have not commented on much here because spoilers in movie reviews set unrealistic expectations on comedies especially – or even the most well-meaning romantic comedy. Do not think too much about John A. Alonzo’s mediocre camerawork and Alan Silvestri’s distractingly dated, banjo-and-electronics blended score and Overboard will be a pure delight.
An inconsistent decade of moviemaking disappointments and successes followed for Goldie Hawn as she became less comfortable with the changing winds in executive Hollywood and would begin to increasingly dedicate herself to her eponymous non-profit foundation. For Kurt Russell, a decade of masculine consistency with films like Backdraft (1991) and Tombstone (1993) helped shape the public persona he retains today. The late Garry Marshall continued to direct and produce comedic films until the end of his career. For Marshall, he considered Overboard one of the funniest films he ever directed. I am not one to disagree as the screwball familiarity of Overboard’s formula is helped by the earnestness of its performances and strength of its (eventual) messages.
My rating: 7.5/10
^ Based on my personal imdb rating. Half-points are always rounded down. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found here.
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punchlinesf · 5 years
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The Punch Line and The Pit Bull
Bobby Slayton: (Picks Up Phone) You're 3 minutes late. It's 2:03. If you're 3 minutes late every day, eventually that's over 20 minutes late a week which is over 1,000 minutes a year that you wasted of my time. I'm a busy guy. I don't have time to waste.
That's actually the abbreviated version of how the infamously sharp-tongued comedian answered the phone. There was no attempt at a compulsory greeting. He was immediately (and hilariously) ranting, raving and calling me out on my tardiness. Slayton is one of the few comics that was both around at Punch Line's inception in 1978, and who has routinely performed here yearly since. Taking his lead, I didn't even attempt to slow things down and introduce myself. I just played along...   
Ronn Vigh: So, is this why you're known as "The Pitbull of Comedy?" 
BS: Well, Alex Bennett came up with that. He was a big SF radio guy in the 80s and 90s. He really was the first guy in the country to have comics on the radio and I was the first guy. Then one day, I lost the radio station a big account they had with McDonalds because I made an innocuous little joke about them. Who even knows what it was. That was when Bennett told me, "Slayton, you're like a pitbull. You bite the hand that feeds you." It just stuck.
RV: And, so you've been-------- 
BS: I don't really like it anymore. I told my people to take it off my website. So, what are we doing here? What's this for anyway? 
RV: Well, this is for Punch Line San Francisco's comedy blog. Since you're hosting our 40th anniversary celebration shows, I really wanted to get the chance to talk to you comic-to-comic and hear about the early days of our beloved club and how things have progressed or regressed over the last 40 years. 
BS: Yea, well when it started, the place was a real dump! There was a big club just next door - The Old Waldorf. Where the Punch Line is now was kind of the back stage area when there was a show. It was a beat up shitty bar with a big pool table. One Embarcadero wasn't even built yet, there wasn't action downtown, it was pretty dead. Jon Fox started doing comedy there first and he used me a lot and Bruce Balm, George Wallace, Elayne Boosler, we were all coming up and around then.... but it wasn't a nice place. I was kind of embarrassed. 
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RV: We're you simply living in the moment and doing gigs at the club because they were available to you? Or, did you recognize early on that the place was a diamond in the rough?
BS: Yea.... I had started doing comedy about a year before that and was kind of the house MC. I was so embarrassed by the joint. There were plastic sheets nailed to the ceiling, old beat up couches with nails coming out of the side, the microphone was mounted from the ceiling and would fall down during the show. The place was a fucking wreck. The guy running the place was such a cheap fuck. So, I went out and bought movie posters, posters of old time comics and tried to make it look decent. When Bill Graham took it over, he finally put some money into it. 
RV: I technically started comedy in New York. However, Punch Line has been highly influential in my development as a comic during the 2000's. It sounds like it was both the infancy of your career and the club when you were performing here regularly. How do you think it has influenced your career? 
BS: When Old Waldorf was next door, they were paying like 25 or 50 dollars a set at both places and Dana Carvey, Kevin Pollak and I worked the rooms the most. You would go up before the band, then over to the Punch Line and back to the band and then back to the club for the late show. By the last show, between the booze and probably the coke too, I'd be on my ninth set and forgot what the hell I talked about already. But, that's what got me good.... getting a lot of stage time. It was kill or be killed. It was really very good training! 
RV: So, your career has spanned 4 decades. Being the "Pitbull of Comedy" that you are, have you found it harder or easier to do your act in more recent years? 
BS: It's really much harder now. You think at this point audiences would be better trained but the attention span of millennials is that of a fucking fly. 
RV: Yes but with the current political and social climate, do you think people tend to have more knee-jerk reactions rather than just listening to the material as a whole? 
BS: All they hear are buzzwords. Holocaust. Autism. AIDS. Then they are quick to judge and get all caught up in a fucking bandwagon. As far as I'm concerned, if you can't name any of The Beatles then you should be dead. And then the millennials will complain, "Oh well The Beatles were before my time." It's like fuck you! George Washington was before my time and I still know that he's on the fucking one dollar bill. 
RV: Do you think social media and sites like YouTube have ruined the live stand-up comedy experience? 
BS: I never liked social media. I tweet once a week and I lose followers once a week. I don't give a shit anymore. The whole game has changed. You had guys like (Don) Rickles and dozens of comics in the 60s who would go on stage in 3 or 4 piece suits, jacket and ties... Now it wouldn't even matter. Everyone is a slob, in dirty shorts. Flip flops. It's disgusting now. It was a different time, a different era. 
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RV: In all 40 years, what are your best memories of performing at Punch Line? 
BS: Robin Williams stopping by all the time and a lot of hot waitresses.  
RV: I've heard stories of Robin popping in a lot. Though, I've also heard this club referred to as "The House That Bobby Built." 
BS: You know where that comes from, right? 
RV: Um. (Long Pause) I'm afraid to tell you no. 
BS: Didn't you say you were from the fucking East Coast? It comes from Babe Ruth. Yankee Stadium. The house that Ruth built. Listen, I don't know if I contributed that much to the long term success. I was certainly a part of it and so was Dana Carvey, Kevin Pollak, Jon Fox, Bill Graham. It really was a big group effort. 
It will certainly be a group effort again as we celebrate our 40th anniversary throughout October. Bobby Slayton is coming back to MC a series of shows featuring comics that have helped shape our club throughout its 40 years of serving up live comedy. 
Bobby Slayton & Friends 40th Anniversary Celebration At Punch Line San Francisco on Oct 11, 12, 13. One show Thursday. 2 Shows on Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $25 - $30.  
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