the other fun thing about penzeys to keep in mind in the future is that they pretty regularly sell $50 gift cards for $35. they’re good for gifting but also just… keeping. and then when they have a 25% off sale, or free shipping, or “buy one spice get two free” you can pay for it with your gift card and effectively stack the discount
they are doing one of those sales again btw and it ends today (dec 18th)
In time travel movies, when the time traveler asks ‘What year is this?!?’ they’re always treated like they’re being weird for asking.
When in reality, if you go ‘What year is this?!?’ people will just say ‘2024. Crazy huh.’ and you go ‘Wtf where has my youth gone.’
And if you ask ‘And what month??’ people won’t judge you, they’ll just go like ‘SEPTEMBER!!! Can you believe it?!?!’ and you go ‘WHAT?!? Last time I checked we were in May?!?’
That is a great point. Especially if you time travel to a period of Big Historical Events, when everybody’s looking a little wild about the eyes.
“Hey, what month is it?”
“January already, can you believe it? I swear I was just at Pompeii, but no one’s going there again.”
In the same vein:
Stumbling into a diner and asking “What town is this” isn’t weird, the workers will think you’re on a road trip
If you ask them “Where’s the nearest Nano Deck?” they’ll assume it’s a shop they’ve never heard of and say “Sorry, I don’t know where any of those are”
Going into a store and telling a cashier “I need pods for my comm device” will just get you a “Never heard of those, maybe try Radio Shack?”
I think the problem is that people who create sci-fi movies have never had to work customer service jobs
Time traveler stuck in a loop: you there! what day is it???
The problem with line of thinking is that it assumes that Michael Caine wasn’t trying to be funny. He absolutely was. It’s just that the funniest thing he could have done is to play it straight.
The movie would be less funny if he was being a jokester! He’s playing the straight man for all the Muppets. All of them.
And that’s the funniest thing he could have done. And he could do it because he IS that actor, who could do it for real and it’d be very serious and people would clap and say it’s the best since blah blah blah.
But doing that, being Sir Serious Dramatic Actor in a room full of Muppets? Hilarious.