The Worst New Show Titles of the 2012-2013 Season

xargham11 · 2012-05-25T22:47:04.653038+00:00

Honestly, if the show is good, the name won't matter. After a few episodes you barely think about the nuances or cleverness of the title and it just becomes part of tv lexicon. Many great shows have silly or boring names if you start to think about them, Seinfeld being a good example. Or ER, when there had already been a relatively successful show called E/R which of course is pronounced exactly the same. The IT Crowd, Community, Modern Family, *House, M.D.. . . even Arrested Development is s pretty hokey name when you think about it.

But just like the friend with the unusual name, after awhile you don't think it's all that unusual, it's just who threy are. Like my classmates growing up, Garvin, Larcombe, and Noblet, for example, or like my dad, whose actual given name is Stobie: their names are just the sound i make when talking about or to a person and the person outshines or sometimes overcomes their name. I don't think Stobie is all that weird a name, even if it's rare. It's just my dad.

I was this close to being called Stobie myself, even though i'm a girl, but my parents decided they didn't want to deal with forever designating "Big Stobie" and "Little Stobie" or whathaveyou. I kinda wish they hadn't changed their minds.

I guess my point is, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and a tv show by any name will only be as good as its writing and acting. I'd watch Community wether it was called "Winger Goes To School" or "Wing It" or or "Not Saved By the Bell, Dammit" or "Diverse Ensemble Show" or "Troy and Abed in the Morning".

Brownt0wn_ · 2012-05-25T20:55:10.599129+00:00

Does anyone else have a really hard time on those staircases with open specs between each step? It's not even a height thing, exactly, mostly it trips me up visually.

Brownt0wn_ · 2012-05-25T20:52:19.913387+00:00

Imagine standing on a loosely woven mat like that and it's 20 stories high. That shit is scary and trippy as balls. I've encountered grate, mesh and glass floor panels you can stand on and just stare down, contemplating just how high up you are, and just how lucky you are that the grate/mesh/glass is perfectly safe . . .right. And you keep looking down until you convince yourself "the floor panel i'm standing on is about to break. Just this one, that i'm standing on, this minute. It's about to go" and then panic and scoot off in high-pitched, slightly off-key giggles.

funkeman · 2012-05-25T13:41:08.021067+00:00

A woman can still need to clean up down there, even without your contribution. However, it's not as sticky a situation, so, since it's best that she go use the restroom afterwards to help prevent a UTI, she can clean up her own mess then. She still might need something more substantial than TP to do the job. That is, if you did your job particularly well.

funkeman · 2012-05-25T13:27:59.515430+00:00

So how much was it? What did you pay for your "fancy" cum rag?

massivecoiler · 2012-05-25T06:58:25.494245+00:00

Quick, somebody get some audio of this!

Giant__Robot · 4 days

It actually looks more like the original swastika, the peace symbol, not the Nazi version. Still, that symbol's been forever Nazified so one can assume it's not intended to be the old peace symbol.

Edit: Way to go me, not reading the comments first and seeing this thoroughly discussed. D'oh!

darkreef2 · 4 days

Your definition of racism is dangerously incomplete. Racism is not hate. Examples of racism involve hate, yes, and often. And racism is partially defined as "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race or belief."

Millions of people confuse themselves or convince themselves that if something does not express "hate" then it's ok, it's not racist.

Look up the various definitions of Racism. The top definition is "The belief that all members of a race possess the same characteristics or abilities of that race, especially so as to distinguish it superior or inferior to other races."

You are "presenting facts about weaknesses and drawing conclusions." Do you not see that is racist?

To put it another way, let me ask point-blank: are you arguing that black people tend to be lazy, and white people are more motivated? And that this traces back to our adaptability and vulnerability, i.e., dark skin and light skin? Because that's how it sounds. And that is racist.

I'm not using "racism" as a magical word to discredit your logic. I see what your logic is. You were trying to explain, via skin color, why the Industrial Revolution occurred in white Europe and not somewhere full of black and brown people. Why you picked the Industrial Revolution as the measuring stick for cultural motivation is a bit hazy.

So you're right to remove your argument from its original context and apply it to the Stone Age. Because the Babylonians, Egyptians, and many others come in between, and they are the innovators who first developed language, our numbers system, as well as mathematics, science, medicine, architecture, art, music, etc.

To disregard the millennia and civilizations between the Stone Age and the Industrial Revolution would be a grave oversight. Which you committed in your previous post. But you corrected yourself.

So now you're essentially talking about adaptation. Darwin addressed it pretty neatly. I'll grant that your stripped-down argument is much more benign. But I still maintain that your original assertions were racist.

What reason would I have to try to magically destroy your logic? I am pointing out a common misconception about what constitutes racism. Of which your comment was an example. We all get tripped up by it now and then. What you said seems to be more outrageous than average.

Edit: Accidentally a word. Intentionally added another. Fixed typo. Now, since it's after 3 a.m., I ought to go to sleep, and I sincerely hope this holds up to 3 p.m. brain function.

darkreef2 · 4 days

I am even now still in awe of what I think I just read this guy try to argue. It's just...wow. You're right, probably best to follow the safety rules of stumbling across potentially sincere racism: don't touch it, leave it alone, go find an adult. Or is that if you find a gun? Either way...

darkreef2 · 5 days

Wait..wincing is a point deduction?

What else do they lose points for? How does one fail a porn audition? It sounds like a job that's yours to lose, and still, my question would be, how do you lose it? Aside from obvious STDs of course.

darkreef2 · 5 days

Also don't bad sunburns make you feel really sick in general, kinda flu-like? I remember that from a bad burn on my shoulders at age 9. The burn hurt, but I also felt like shit, with body aches, chills, nausea, headaches, all that great bonus stuff.

darkreef2 · 5 days

Is. . . Is this racist? Am I reading this right?

Your theory boils down to "if we didn't have the problems, we wouldn't have come up with the solutions." And furthermore, "our solutions caused more problems so now we have to solve those, but in working to find our solutions, we developed the technology to solve those problems, so that's good." Something like that.

I don't see where laziness is relevant at all, except that you're suggesting that people who don't have certain problems, and therefore wouldn't need to develop solutions to those problems, are therefore lazy. And you're definitely talking about black people versus white people.

I don't have a bicycle. So I haven't learned how to fix a broken chain. Am I lazy?

Tmeesseman · 7 days

"Where's your hand?"

"Between two pillows."

"Those aren't pillows."

DontHateMasticate · 7 days

Thank you for this info! The whole kroket concept simply sounds amazing, whatever the shape. I am very big on savory foods with slow-cooked beef. Sometimes I get wild cravings for a simple pot roast, but unbelievably, it's next to impossible to find a place that serves it. Pot roast!

Of course I realize kroket is different from Yankee pot roast but I see it as a (presumably) delicious version of Hot Pockets. If that were readily available around here I would eat it at least once a week. The pics don't look very appetizing at all, but I know I love a thick beef ragout. It's certainly a novelty finger food, too!

Unfortunately I don't see how I'll ever get to enjoy this delicacy, even though one would expect deep-fried meat balls would be a huge hit in the land of deep fried Coca-Cola. I'm sure I can find a modified recipe for at-home, but I could never get it to look like that first picture.

Gosh this really ought to be served at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. They could even come up with a chili version! It would sell like... Hot cakes! Hot meat cakes! If only I had the means to do it myself.

Kunpapa · 7 days

That's ice cream dripping off the sides of your mouth, right, not a super frown. :p You know what sucks? (And is a perfect example of a first world problem, I know.) I have both vanilla and chocolate ice cream, and even green tea ice cream But I don't have any salty caramel to go on it. So even if I had a glorious, calorific bowlful, I'd just be wasting the ice cream, moping about the salty caramel.

sumsh · 7 days

Should have gone whole hog and changed his name to Marty. Just for the sake of that line.

sumsh · 7 days

Hmmm, my husband is Italian. But not very macho I guess.

sumsh · 7 days

Embryonic Rockabilly Polkadotted Fighter Pilots

yarnicles · 7 days

Here's an example of anal uniform codes:

Our uniform for upper school girls included a plaid skirt, solid red skirt, white Oxford blouses, long sleeved or short, white polo shirts, navy polo shirts, and khaki walking shorts (which nobody wore.)

My friend wore a plaid skirt with a navy polo, and got slapped with a violation because apparently, according to the book, the navy polo could only be worn with the shorts. White polos were ok with the skirts. But the navy polo was strictly for pairing with the shorts. PUHLEEZE. it should be common sense mix-and-match! I won't say the navy polo looked very good with the plaid skirt, which is why nobody had previously showed up in that combo, but still. Geez.

yarnicles · 7 days

"In transit" became the key phrase for the delicate line when it came to non-uniform outerwear on really cold days. I grew up with uniforms for my entire college prep education, from pre-k on up, and that was the most annoying rule of 15 years of uniform codes.

In upper school we had the stupidest rule about outerwear. Our uniform did include fleece jackets, but on super cold days, one just has to wear more. The rule was we could wear non-uniform jackets to school and home from school, but during the day we had to do without.

However, it is impossible to navigate campus on any given day without going outside several times. The rule changed to: we could wear our non-uniform jackets but only strictly in transit, as in, we had to be walking. If we stopped to chat, we could get slapped with a uniform violation. Unless we took off our jackets every time we paused to pick up a dropped book, tie a shoe, have a word. "In transit" is the most anal concept of our already anal and arbitrary uniform code.

Kunpapa · 7 days

Anyone thinking of breaking up with someone take note: claiming "it's not you, it's the evil thing inside me getting stronger" is an excellent reason that both lets them down easy, and ensures they will never, ever pester you about getting back together.

Unless they react with "that's ok, sweetheart. The evil thing within me is growing stronger as well - in my womb. We must nuture this evil, however way our souls desire it, however we may cry out, we must be the very roots of the almighty darkness as it grows and thrives while it feasts upon our own humanity."

integ3r · 7 days

Not to pry too much, but did you get deferred from Early Action to regular descision with Stanford? Or does Restrictive Early Action mean if you don't get in early, you don't get in at all (going "balls Annie" in my lingo). Or wait is that Eary Decision. I'm many years out of the applications game and forget.

More details on how you first learned you got in, please! Someone must have told you, since you weren't at home to get the Big Envelope. I have a pretty cool story about finding out I was in, but it deserves more time than I have to give it right now.

My grandfather was the Sports Information Director at Rice for 36 years. He was long retired and the victim of several strokes by the time I got there, and I'm not entirely sure he ever understood that his granddaughter was at his beloved Rice. To me, it was his, it had been my entire life.

It was extremely emotional and poignant for me at first, especially at my first football game as a student, hearing what had literally been my lullabies: the fight song and Alma Mater, now my Alma Mater. I had to make Rice my place as well as Grandad's.

And I was determined to leave a permanent mark, just as he had, though I can never beat the barber's chair in the press box in his honor: Bill "The Barber" Whitmore, who could always talk with anyone. (It used to drive me nuts when I was a kid. Couldn't go anywhere with him without him striking up a 20 minute conversation with total strangers, from waitstaff to the people in line behind us at the movies, etc.) My grandfather knew everyone. I met freakin' Granpa Munster through my Grandad!

He passed away the first week of my senior year, so he didn't see me graduate. His memorial service was at the Rice chapel, where I was married 5 years later.

So you can see why I'm so utterly devoted to Rice. It's in my blood.

DontHateMasticate · 8 days

TIL there is this dish called poutine.

DontHateMasticate · 8 days

Yeah, I've had it in NE. But I suspect it's Langostino lobster, like the "lobster bites" at Long John Silver's. Is LJS's nationwide? I don't even know. But anyway, Langostino lobster posses me off.

DontHateMasticate · 8 days

If you're being sarcastic, I want to up vote you. I think you are. "Internet tough guys" is the clue.

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