On 3/17/2026 7:53 AM, The True Melissa wrote:
Verily, in article <UBI20260316@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:
What did you watch?
I finished the new Family Guy episodes. As I said yesterday, it's no
longer very funny, but it's watchable. IMO it's better now that they've dropped the pseudoedgy desperation.
One thing about how *long* some animated shows run is that we see them
being several different shows over time. The Simpsons is probably the best-known example.
I gave up on The Simpsons long ago, but I did stick with it for a couple
of decades before giving up. I keep meaning to at least watch the
Halloween specials, but every year I forget.
In spite of my back log, I have no plans to give up on Family Guy any
time soon.
I also watched the new American Dad, which was a real snooze.
On Monday I watched:
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (blu-ray) This came out in 1986 and marked the first time Jason was a full undead killing machine. Although
I don't get how he wasn't already undead after getting an axe in the
head at the end of part 3.
I've been watching the last few movies with the same pair of fan
filmmakers doing the commentaries. This time they were joined by the
movie's director. The fans were talking to the director about this
sequel having a lot of young kids on set and if that was difficult since
the director insisted on having actual children in the movie. The
director said no. The parents were fans and *wanted* their kids in the
movie. The director said he would try to send the kids away at the end
of the day, the parents would insist the kids were fine to stay on set
as long as needed. Later in the commentary the director was asked, "You probably had a schoolteacher on set?" The director said, "No. We didn't
have a schoolteacher, we had parents."
The director also said Paramount, which owned the Jason franchise at the
time, reached out to New Line studios because they wanted to put Jason
and Freddy in the same movie, but New Line had zero interest in that.
The director said he still wanted to do a Jason team up movie and with
Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein as inspiration he suggested to the
studio doing a Jason meets Cheech and Chong movie. He said Cheech and
Chong could be camp counselors. But the studio said a hard no to that.
The studio insisted the horror audience and the comedy audience were
separate and there would be no fan interest in seeing Jason in a comedy.
This was particularly frustrating for the director because he
intentionally made "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives" like a comedy
with lots of jokes and breaking the 4th and yet that somehow went right
over the studio execs heads.
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (4K disc) 1994 Freddy movie, and the 7th in
the franchise. Wes Craven returned to the franchise to write and direct
this meta take on Freddy set in the real world where the cast of the
franchise playing themselves trying to make a new Elm Street movie while
being stalked by a real dream demon. This is one of the better movies
in the franchise.
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