John Rogers, co-creator + executive producer: “Look, if we told you Eliot’s entire timeline or Nate’s entire timeline, you wouldn’t be able to have then have enough flexibility to fold that timeline in with Supernatural in your fanfics because they’d be no space for that. The space we leave is the space for you to write your slash! That’s super important for us to do! We do that for you, people! The fans appreciate the empty space we leave so you can write your Buffy, Supernatural, NCIS, Criminal Minds, Leverage crossovers.”
Geoffrey Thorne, co-producer + writer of this episode: “But don’t do any Doctor Who ones because…”
John: “You’re writing those.”
Geoffrey: “Just don’t do it.”
Chris Downey, co-creator + executive producer: “You’ve staked those out?”
John: “He’s staked those out.”
— Leverage 10 Podcast: 512 The White Rabbit Job
*Kung Fu Monkey blog: LEVERAGE #205 “The Three Days of the Hunter Job” Post-game (August 24, 2009) for the original “I think fanfic is the sign of a healthy show” short essay
i’ve been trying to explain this sketch to people for years
there is literally no way to explain this sketch it’s just a thing you have to see and even then I’m not sure why it’s so funny
“Dear Sister” is the rare SNL sketch making fun of a specific pop culture moment that transcended the thing it is a satire of. No one remembers the OC but the sketch is still wonderful regardless.
So I’m sure the lore is in the notes but here it is reconstructing from the rusty leaking trap of my memory: the Canadian show Degrassi used this music cue when the character Drake got shot. The OC used it in the exact same way the following year in an episode when Marissa shoots Trey. They also used different parts of this same song earlier in the episode at Caleb’s funeral. Actually connecting it to the the running theme of death/endings through the episode.
and SNL finally was just like enough already with the “Hide and Seek”
i’ve been trying to explain this sketch to people for years
there is literally no way to explain this sketch it’s just a thing you have to see and even then I’m not sure why it’s so funny
“Dear Sister” is the rare SNL sketch making fun of a specific pop culture moment that transcended the thing it is a satire of. No one remembers the OC but the sketch is still wonderful regardless.
So I’m sure the lore is in the notes but here it is reconstructing from the rusty leaking trap of my memory: the Canadian show Degrassi used this music cue when the character Drake got shot. The OC used it in the exact same way the following year in an episode when Marissa shoots Trey. They also used different parts of this same song earlier in the episode at Caleb’s funeral. Actually connecting it to the the running theme of death/endings through the episode.
and SNL finally was just like enough already with the “Hide and Seek”
i’ve been trying to explain this sketch to people for years
there is literally no way to explain this sketch it’s just a thing you have to see and even then I’m not sure why it’s so funny
“Dear Sister” is the rare SNL sketch making fun of a specific pop culture moment that transcended the thing it is a satire of. No one remembers the OC but the sketch is still wonderful regardless.
So I’m sure the lore is in the notes but here it is reconstructing from the rusty leaking trap of my memory: the Canadian show Degrassi used this music cue when the character Drake got shot. The OC used it in the exact same way the following year in an episode when Marissa shoots Trey. They also used different parts of this same song earlier in the episode at Caleb’s funeral. Actually connecting it to the the running theme of death/endings through the episode.
and SNL finally was just like enough already with the “Hide and Seek”
i’ve been trying to explain this sketch to people for years
there is literally no way to explain this sketch it’s just a thing you have to see and even then I’m not sure why it’s so funny
“Dear Sister” is the rare SNL sketch making fun of a specific pop culture moment that transcended the thing it is a satire of. No one remembers the OC but the sketch is still wonderful regardless.
So I’m sure the lore is in the notes but here it is reconstructing from the rusty leaking trap of my memory: the Canadian show Degrassi used this music cue when the character Drake got shot. The OC used it in the exact same way the following year in an episode when Marissa shoots Trey. They also used different parts of this same song earlier in the episode at Caleb’s funeral. Actually connecting it to the the running theme of death/endings through the episode.
and SNL finally was just like enough already with the “Hide and Seek”
Had a dream there was a new six hour long HBomberGuy video that starts with him tryingnto debunk Daniel Molloys novel “Interview With The Vampire” as a fun short video. After thirty minutes in and pulling a “so obviously vampires arent real” thing he launches into a three hour tangent bringing up all the weird historical details that are completely accurate when you accounted for stuff like Louis saying the wrong cemetary or church name
Four hours in he breaks down and says “okay so, this would all point to actual pop rock artist Lestat De Lioncourt being a real vampire, and Kate pointed out he was playing in my town a couple weeks from when we were covering all this. So I called and asked him for an interview to see if I couldnt get a better feel for what was going on”
He then proceeded to take out colored contact lenses and remove the gloves hed been wearing the whole video to reveal he was a vampire and the title card just popped up saying “GUESS WHAT FUCKING HAPPENED” and I woke up before the next two hours of video could play
Yall gotta stop stealing. Not for any specific objective moral reason but because you fucking suck at it
Me (contract security): Hello ma’am
Lady: Oh hello sweetheart how are you 😀
Me: I’m doing great, thank you. Hey would you mind kindly taking that waffle iron out of your purse
Lady: How dare you. What the hell are you on about. I’ve never stolen a damn thing in my whole entire life
Me:
Me: Na’am my buddy two towns over called me about you an hour ago and texted me your license plate. We’re in direct view of six live feed CCTV cameras and the box is sticking out under your armpit
Me: I’m not gonna do anything if you walk out but the owner saw you nab it while he was stocking shelves and if he calls the cops I won’t be allowed to go home until I write a three page detailed report about it
Me: I’m fifteen minutes from shift change
Me: Please let me go home
Me: Kid PLEASE
Teenager (like 14-15): I don’t have anything
Me: I know you do. YOU know you do. This is not my first day on the job and you are not the best liar I’ve met. PLEASE put our toilet paper dispenser back
Teenager: Or what? You’ll call the cops?
Me:
Me: Kid your last name is printed on the ass of your volleyball pants and the nearest highschool rang for dismissal 20 minutes ago I’ll fuckin doxx you on fortnite
Me: I’m sorry sir I can’t let you in, the owner says you’re banned for stealing $500 in pork loin
Guy: I needed food!
Me:
Me: I understand, things are tight for me too. But if you’re short on groceries we actually have a lot of great free meal programs around town- my friend actually goes to this one on main street every day before work and she says it’s helped a lot.
Me: Would you like a resource guide? It’ll tell you what time the food pantry is open and how to access other free and reduced things you might need. Have you applied at the food bank?
Guy: Jesus Christ no, I’m not some freeloading bum
Me:
Me: Sir I don’t think I can help you
Me: Sir you have tattoos on your face just put the air fryer back and go
To everyone dropping by my inbox to let me know I’m a narc:
Reporting on theft is actually a very small part of my job, and mostly I like being someone who keeps people safe from violent and aggressive customers, guests, and family members- it’s very rewarding work and I like looking out for people.
There is so much more nuance behind the ethics of stealing than most people understand, even from billion dollar megacorportations, and very few of yall actually see where the impact is shunted off to, cause you know for fuckin’ sure it’s not the fuckass billionaires on top who feel the hurt first
If the owner didn’t hire me to prevent crimes then he’d just call the police and I like to think “yo dude my boss wants to have the cops drag you out so so bad please just go for a walk or smthn come back tomorrow” is better than officer big dick pulling up outta nowhere
TL/DR: Whether or not I’m a narc is open for discussion but if I’m a narc then I’m the narc that will tell you “hey man this place hires narcs”
tags be like “anyone who stops people from stealing is a disgusting fascist and should die tbh”
but like. you’re already on camera doing it. oftentimes poorly. do you think your sheer conviction in the morality of stashing that frozen dinner in your hoodie pouch will conceal how blatantly obvious it is there?
the corporate machine would grind people into mulch for the most minor indiscretion if they could and the security officer that says “hey, that was extremely visible, you should really put it back before someone gets a real cop involved” is NOT the bad guy here.
shout out to harm reduction policies and mediators-instead-of-cops out there
amhrancas 