Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

Jorge wrote:Boom.

Not convinced you can pull this phrase off

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

wease wrote:

Stickman wrote:at a previous trivia, we were stumped on 2 questions:

What were the names of the soups on the wall of the Soup Nazi's kitchen?

All of them? God, there were probably 10-12. Let’s see…

Mulligatawny
Jambalaya
Mushroom Barley
Crab Bisque
Split Pea
French Onion

That’s all I can do. I do remember a small being not that much cheaper than the large and the large being a better value. Like small at $1.99 and large $2.50 or something like that.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

CopperTom wrote:

wease wrote:

Stickman wrote:at a previous trivia, we were stumped on 2 questions:

What were the names of the soups on the wall of the Soup Nazi's kitchen?

All of them? God, there were probably 10-12. Let’s see…

Mulligatawny
Jambalaya
Mushroom Barley
Crab Bisque
Split Pea
French Onion

That’s all I can do. I do remember a small being not that much cheaper than the large and the large being a better value. Like small at $1.99 and large $2.50 or something like that.

I played Seinfeld trivia once. The question that eliminated me was, "In The Lip Reader," what soup did Kramer love and what soup did Kramer hate?

Stickman wrote:

CopperTom wrote:

wease wrote:

Stickman wrote:at a previous trivia, we were stumped on 2 questions:

What were the names of the soups on the wall of the Soup Nazi's kitchen?

All of them? God, there were probably 10-12. Let’s see…

Mulligatawny
Jambalaya
Mushroom Barley
Crab Bisque
Split Pea
French Onion

That’s all I can do. I do remember a small being not that much cheaper than the large and the large being a better value. Like small at $1.99 and large $2.50 or something like that.

I played Seinfeld trivia once. The question that eliminated me was, "In The Lip Reader," what soup did Kramer love and what soup did Kramer hate?

damn, I have no idea. Do you remember the answer?

lvc wrote:I think the trouble with the Susan/Susan's parents/Trust stuff is that it became just about the only stuff George was allowed to do and it grew tiresome. I didn't really love the Susan character because she didn't have any quirks or neuroses. Whether it was the actress or the writing or both, the character was way too flat in comparison to the rest of the cast and supporting cast. To put it in perspective, compare Susan to David Putty (the unavoidable romantic trap for Elaine). Putty felt like a much larger character than he actually was (only like 8 episodes) because Patrick Wharburton made him unforgettable.

Susan's parents were amazing characters (could drop them right in the middle of Arrested Development and nobody would even notice). As distinct as the Costanza parents.

The whole trust plotline was just beating a dead horse, but it could have been saved by having Susan's parents stay directly involved.

TL;DR, all the stuff around Susan was pretty solid. But Susan herself just didn't work for me. A big ol' dollop of beige in the middle of an acid trip.

lvc wrote:I think the trouble with the Susan/Susan's parents/Trust stuff is that it became just about the only stuff George was allowed to do and it grew tiresome. I didn't really love the Susan character because she didn't have any quirks or neuroses. Whether it was the actress or the writing or both, the character was way too flat in comparison to the rest of the cast and supporting cast. To put it in perspective, compare Susan to David Putty (the unavoidable romantic trap for Elaine). Putty felt like a much larger character than he actually was (only like 8 episodes) because Patrick Wharburton made him unforgettable.

Susan's parents were amazing characters (could drop them right in the middle of Arrested Development and nobody would even notice). As distinct as the Costanza parents.

The whole trust plotline was just beating a dead horse, but it could have been saved by having Susan's parents stay directly involved.

TL;DR, all the stuff around Susan was pretty solid. But Susan herself just didn't work for me. A big ol' dollop of beige in the middle of an acid trip.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

lvc wrote:I think the trouble with the Susan/Susan's parents/Trust stuff is that it became just about the only stuff George was allowed to do and it grew tiresome. I didn't really love the Susan character because she didn't have any quirks or neuroses. Whether it was the actress or the writing or both, the character was way too flat in comparison to the rest of the cast and supporting cast. To put it in perspective, compare Susan to David Putty (the unavoidable romantic trap for Elaine). Putty felt like a much larger character than he actually was (only like 8 episodes) because Patrick Wharburton made him unforgettable.

Susan's parents were amazing characters (could drop them right in the middle of Arrested Development and nobody would even notice). As distinct as the Costanza parents.

The whole trust plotline was just beating a dead horse, but it could have been saved by having Susan's parents stay directly involved.

TL;DR, all the stuff around Susan was pretty solid. But Susan herself just didn't work for me. A big ol' dollop of beige in the middle of an acid trip.

I think that's kind of the point of her character, though, right? We know instantly that that relationship is doomed because she's way too normal and stable for George. That's where the comedy comes from for me: George trying to fit into that "healthy human" box, always knowing it can never work, and not being able to escape from the box he trapped himself in.