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Superman, Batman, Ninja Turtles and the almighty…
Golden Girls?
Yes, you read that right. Rose, Dorothy, Blanche and Sophia are entering the super club of superheroes by way of action figure alley.
(Funko)
“The response to our ‘Golden Girls’ products has been wild.” Funko marketing director Mark Robben told ABC News. “We almost weren’t prepared for the excitement. We created these as a passion project initially, and were blown away when it started trending on social media.”
The four-figure set costs $25 or ships to the UK for £21.50, which converts to about AU$35. It’s only available from participating Target stores and New York Comic Con.
–Bonnie Burton, CNET Gadgets
When you consider the Millennial outpouring of a nostalgic persuasion for Betty White (which was a leading driver for her TV resurgence in recent years), molding Ms. White and her fellow “Golden Girls” into pop-culture icons as action figures was inevitable. Perhaps not foreseeable, but inevitable all the same. A sitcom about elderly women living in the same house in Miami, FL has generated enough of a cult following and place in the hearts of those young and old that these four women continue to positively influence our lives 24 years after the show’s series finale on May 9, 1992.
That’s a golden legacy.
Most of all, this toy set is yet another reminder that great friendships impact us forever.
For that, we’re thankful to Rose, Dorothy, Blanche and Sophia.
Laughter is the Best Surround Sound
If you work in any kind of office, you’ll understand.
The second day of the workweek can feel exhaustive if the workload pile looks like an infinitely high skyscraper of papers on your desk or a digital inbox that never stops adding emails. Worst case (not really, but go with it), the week may already feel repetitive. If either of these feelings describe you, perhaps you should buy a small TV and mount it on your living room wall and host an awkward dinner party. For some, just looking at this technological “invention” is enough to throw all your cares away in exchange for uncontrollable laughter.
I’ve always imagined this blooper from The Office was a pretty close reenactment of an actual sales pitch and demonstration by an employee trying to sell this ridiculous TV to consumers as he or she was desperately trying not to laugh.
And now, the same scene that finally made it on NBC.
Hopefully, you’ll watch and laugh at these clips repetitively.
Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s a day when we say thanks, eat a grand feast with family, watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade…
and are reminded that Detroit has a professional football team.
Today is a wonderfully chaotic celebration. Delicious food is eaten and entertaining anecdotes are shared. As my mom would say with a grin, it’s a day for “forced family fun.” It’s also a day for surprise fun with friends.
And yes, that includes everybody’s favourite group of friends.
Here’s to you having a “The One With” kind of Thanksgiving!
Justice is (a) Grind
How good is The Grinder?
Let me rephrase that: The Grinder is how good sitcoms do it.
The freshman comedy on Fox starring Rob Lowe (former TV lawyer “The Grinder”) and Fred Savage (a real lawyer) as brothers is the perfect show for this generation. The concept is outrageous, but it is openly made fun of and advanced in pitch-perfect fashion. Lowe and Savage carry the show, but the supporting actors and actresses (family, law firm colleagues and new characters) bring it all together for a sensational sitcom.
“…the most dramatic way possible.”
–The Grinder
Do you need more? I thought so.
And yes (enter a pause with a dramatic turn to you the reader)…this show will sustain as a hit far into the future.
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