Bob Mackey
@bobservo
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Co-host of @retronauts, Talking Simpsons (@TalkSimpsonsPod), and What A Cartoon! DMs open, responses not guaranteed. IG: https://t.co/21I1e74qdf
Vancouver (the good one)
Joined November 2008
HI THERE! I host two great podcasts!. - Talking Simpsons, a chronological exploration of The Simpsons - What A Cartoon! which covers a different cartoon every week All this and more on our Patreon!
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unfortunately Pikachu is purposely scheduled for 39.5 hours a week so he doesn't qualify for the health plan.
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while HBO Max deletes all of its content, YouTube is still rich with three-hour essays about survival horror games narrated by people with unplaceable European accents.
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looking forward to hearing a 77-year-old Muppeteer say “Honkai Star Rail”.
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me watching the trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
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all your favorite characters from the 90s are here to tell you that ordering a $13 meal through a delivery app for $38 is activism now.
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i was robbed at gunpoint of over $6000 worth of stuff, including my passport, and a cop talked to me for approximately 90 seconds while acting like i was inconveniencing him. and i never heard back from the police again 🤠
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scully: Epstein died of strangulation by an unknown assailant.mulder: *throws her a file* ever heard of the suicide alien.
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everyone on the right saying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is naive or inexperienced in politics seems to forget that before being elected their President was a full-time game show host and part-time sex offender.
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25% of the replies to tweets about crunch in the games industry are “uh excuse me but i work 84 hours a week at a REAL job and i let my manager piss directly into my mouth (in fact i request it), that’s just called working and we all gotta do it”.
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lots of people have been asking "why is Nintendo still making 3DS games?" well, as a game industry professional with over a decade of experience, let me offer my valuable insight: 70 million people own a 3DS.
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“before he was Andy’s toy… he was in Andy’s favorite movie”. “oh so Lightyear is a fun high-concept sendup of ‘90s action blockbusters?”. “absolutely not, what gave you that idea”.
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i would like to see Tim Burton's darkly whimsical take on something less obvious, like a Denny's menu.
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we desperate need more than two different kinds of movies.
Fans have put up a billboard in LA urging Marvel Studios to bring Tony Stark back to life
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Thank you for 35 years of Milhouse and so many more, Pamela Hayden! . Watch her final performance on #TheSimpsons this Sunday on @FOXTV, next day on @hulu.
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if you were a white straight content creator in the ‘00s you likely (with very few exceptions) engaged in casual racism and/or light transphobia because it was indeed a different time. the correct response to people finding this stuff ISN’T “so the mob has finally come for me…”.
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in the wake of the John K. news, it's important to remember Ren & Stimpy co-creator Bob Camp is immensely talented, as well as blameless and holy. he ran the series for 80% of its production, and made some of the best cartoons. and he takes commissions!
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get ready for all of your favorite toys to say goodbye forever a third time.
Get excited for their next chapter as Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the gang all return for #ToyStory5, coming to theaters Summer 2026! #D23
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the “nobody wants to work anymore!” narrative is extra funny to me because in my 20 years as a working adult, the LAST thing management ever wanted to do was hire anyone.
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he’s doing a bit, but i love that Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds have to play with butt controllers for viral video bait while Harrison Ford’s response to stuff like this is “i’ll kill you”.
Harrison Ford when asked who between Thunderbolt Ross & Indiana Jones is better at handling snakes:. “I’ve always treated these questions with both the utmost respect & complete disdain. I will not answer that stupid question. But thank you for the opportunity”. (Source:
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compare this to when i was stopped for going 7 miles over the speed limit and didn't consent to a car search. suddenly several cops had about 40 minutes to kill in the middle of a subzero Ohio winter night.
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finally found a respectable bar that shows the ALF anime instead of sports
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doing deep Simpsons research and noticing a LOT of notes from MG about removing racist/ableist/homophobic jokes
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the worst part of Universal is the fact that the only way to take home a huggable Skinner doll is to win it in an incredibly crooked carnival game
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i recall an old Adult Swim podcast with Dana Snyder (Master Shake), who claimed to be paid $200 per session as a voice actor for early Aqua Teen Hunger Force. apparently he had the flu once and was so afraid of getting fired he recorded an entire episode while lying on the floor.
It's never fun to be the snark, but it's also never fun when studios celebrate their victories after hosing over the people who made it possible for them. C. Martin Croker died in poverty, and SGC2C creator Andy Merril is an Amazon delivery driver.
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wanna feel old? i just bought us tickets to the beach that makes you old.
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once again i am tapping the sign that says "the movie Galyn Susman saved is the Disney version of Toy Story 2 Pixar threw away before making their own sequel in an incredibly short amount of time".
Someone at Pixar deleted all of Toy Story 2 and the backup hadn't worked for a month, and the only reason we saw that movie was b/c someone on maternity leave had a copy of it on her home computer. Her name is Galyn Susman and she is now the producer for the new Lightyear movie!.
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cartoons today are much better and more inclusive than they were in the 90s, but i do miss when you could interrupt your million-dollar episode with an incredibly accurate four-minute Hello Dolly parody made for absolutely no one
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The Simpsons Movie turns 17 today. if you can't remember how long ago that was, this image will provide some perspective
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overhearing the bathroom code in a restaurant is like living a game of Deus Ex.
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*i log on to Facebook and see all of my old hometown friends having babies, getting married, buying property, etc*. me: i think it’s finally time. time to watch all of Dragon Ball Z from the beginning.
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just finished this pretty good sci-fi novel where the protagonist is pulled into the future, and the first thing he sees on the streets on New York City is a line for a suicide booth. now where have i heard of that before?
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the American way is people with no self-respect outraged by the idea that other people should have some.
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on the 10th anniversary of Roger Ebert’s death, it’s important to note he was so briefly obsessed with the TMNT NES game that he could actually correct misinformation about it
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@BangBangClick the real truth is you should be paying me directly for subjecting me to this awful take.
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Pixar CEO Pete Docter says “it’s essential for us to develop new original stories, which are harder to publicize.”. “The world seems to want the comfort of what they know… But all of these things were original at one point.”. (Source:
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releasing the COVID-19 vaccine would be deeply unfair to anyone who died from COVID-19.
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probably a bad idea to take the dumbest, cruelest people you knew in high school, dress them up like Master Chief, and let them legally beat and kill people.
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Jerry Seinfeld: whines about PC culture every five years ❎. Jason Alexander: was Duckman ✅.
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21 years later, this line originally meant to signify a socially maladjusted man who wasted his life is now understood by most filmgoers
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i was about to see Black Panther but a group of black youths (blouths) went back in time and did the knockout game on the man who invented movies. enough is enough!.
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in response to accusations about his company’s allegedly racist, sexist, and homophobic culture, David Cage said “i know a black and a gay. please pre-order my new game”
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James Somerton is back in the news and this is all i can think of
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2012: boy Mitt Romney sure is boring.2016: a billionaire brony is paying people to post cartoon frogs so Trump can get elected.
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one thing i don't see in the game review discourse is how it's professionally dangerous to dislike games that have a certain level of prestige, and how this affects review scores in some pretty noticeable ways.
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READY PLAYER ONE (2018). DP: Janusz Kaminski.Director: Steven Spielberg
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i’m just annoyed the weird marketing retcon is accidentally pitching a much better movie than the one they made.
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i'm shaken to my core whenever a sitcom shows me the fourth wall
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tomorrow is International Women's Day, folks. just a reminder: don't forget to think up and post a terrible, mean-spirited joke that will ruin your career!.
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if i reported my theft to a villager in Animal Crossing i would've had an experience that was just as productive, but also pleasant.
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once again i am tapping the sign that says "the movie Galyn Susman saved is the Disney version of Toy Story 2 Pixar threw away before making their own sequel in an incredibly short amount of time".
Galyn Susman was the individual who saved ‘TOY STORY 2’ by having a copy of the film at home after someone accidentally ran a command that deleted 90% of the film from Pixar’s files. Today, she has been laid off from Pixar.
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humanity lost its way when we started renaming the start and select buttons.
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my best day of TV was May 19, 1996, when two new season 7 episodes of The Simpsons aired back-to-back.
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since it's now cool to define yourself by the most embarrassing thing you did at your old job, you can follow me at @fartedduringameeting
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signed, someone who started writing edgy comedy articles online in 2006.
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@Neil_Druckmann Neil i will write jokes for your next dog murder game but i won't do crunch, sorry.
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turns out calling Elon Musk a disgusting little freak is better messaging than saying how much you love the Cheney family and guns.
Walz: Look, I won't waste all of the time. I will talk about his running mate. His running mate, Elon Musk. Elon is on that stage jumping around skipping like a dipshit.
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RIP to Akira Toriyama. Dragon Ball obviously rules, but Dr. Slump is worth reading to see how he started as a great gag manga artist until he stumbled into the fighting genre and unintentionally reinvented it
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every right-wing hack suddenly loves The Simpsons, a show that spent three decades making fun of them. seems pretty ideologically sound to me
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Metaverse coverage really reminds me of how breathless every academic was about Second Life in 2007, but anyone with internet knowledge understood it was mostly used to find more elaborate ways to masturbate while pretending you're a Harry Potter person.
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the pandemic might be turning millennial into socialists, but as an older millennial i can tell you what did it for me was being the poorest and most unemployed i've ever been my life during eight years of a Democratic administration.
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this joke was written before a pandemic killed 200000+ people in the United States and it really feels like it.
The Simpsons used to have reactionary weirdo conservative John Swartzwelder and somehow it was way less reactionary than it is now
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using the Wayback Machine used to be "wow i wonder how crazy the internet used to be in 1998," now it's "this is the only way i can read this article posted in 2017".
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the greatest lesson i learned from 2017: the meanest, stupidest people i've ever met have nothing but the utmost confidence in everything they do, so the rest of us should too.
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racism doesn't exist because Asians. i'd stick around to explain more but this rag isn't gonna huff the paint thinner off itself
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New look at Flounder and Sebastian in the live-action remake of ‘THE LITTLE MERMAID.’
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Disney in 2025 when Cars 4 or whatever has a bad opening weekend: “uh Andy liked this one too”.
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going back in time to let everyone know this is going to be happening there instead of E3.
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reading reviews of the American release of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is interesting because every normie film critic had just watched Spirited Away (because Oscar) and that was their only point of comparison for anime
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this is a huge win for fans of e-mails from their insurance providers.
1 in 3 adults in the U.S. has medical debt. By holding medical providers and debt collectors accountable to informing consumers of their rights, the Biden-Harris administration is working to protect consumers and lessen the burden of medical debt on American families.
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my rarest book is a self-published autobiography written by a crazy old man from my hometown. every page is a gift
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