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Holy shit, amazing.

That Andrew WK tweet is great. I love it. (And will point out that we haven't seen much to show that Ben is working on being good, bad, or anything at all this season, other than appearing to have mellowed with age, and the time a character told him he was good.)

What did he do to become good in season two? It felt like everything he did had the potential to be a scheme. And because bad things happened to him he's good now? He ran a totally insane and entrenched human trafficking and drug ring. He directly fucked up dozens of human lives and we never really got a resolution to any of that. I appreciate that he let Beverly's remark stand without fully accepting or contradicting it. I don't think he deserves more than that ambiguity. I may have overstepped by saying I wish he contradicted her, but beyond that I dunno. I love Ben Horne as a character, but as a human being I find it hard to let go of his complete history and accept it on faith that he's "good" now. And I've flip flopped on that Tammy smoking shot about a dozen times haha. I don't really know what I think about it.

Chad was a dick to Hawk when he was in the Men's room finding the diary pages. I think in general nobody likes Chad because he is straight up mean to everyone.

I thought Matthew Lilard did a great job in that scene.

I thought those were the same printout Briggs showed Cooper in season 2? I guess not! edit: I can only find this stupid still as part of some conspiracy meme image but is this the same text desk he clipping?

This means something.

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Everything in this post is really good and it makes for a good read - thanks for sharing! - and it also serves as a capsule to explain why "Lynchian" as a word could mean so many different things, that it's dangerous to try and use as a universal shorthand to mean one thing.

That's bleak! I had thought a similarly bleak thing: It's a place to raise monkeys used for medical/drug testing by either that specific university, or many universities.

Get the animator who did the ratatouille "senses" animations to do an overlay.

Apparently the screenplay for this movie is nuts because a ton of that stuff is explicitly called out. I hope that is true and not exaggerated for press tours, and is love to read the screenplay if so.

I couldn't remember if there was a generation gap there or not. Thanks for the clarification!

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This. Also this. I really enjoyed Baby Driver and man it was really well put together, but yeah it didn't stick with me the way any of Edgar Wright's other work has. And it was weird how many people got murdered and then he was given a tiny sentence. I feel like I owe it a second viewing because of how much I let it just wash over me.

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Cant believe you sold the rights to this game and its aesthetic to a major hollywood studio.

You know what rules? When someone is passively condescending to you for no reason.

This makes me so happy you don't even know.

Whoa wait is that actually Earle's old computer??

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Almost like that happens every week with this show. Weird!

Important If True 18: Important If Rhymes With True This week things really hit the fan. If you're finding yourself clogged up with steaming, burning questions, if you're knee deep in problems and need advice, relax: We're here in a pinch to flush out the truth. This week: What are the Russians hiding in Britney Spears' Instagram feed? What are the real motives of a man who offers free liverwurst to children? And what am I going to do with all this garlic? Plus: How many times can we be hoisted by stories about poo? Find out inside. Send us email at questions@importantiftrue.com. If you enjoyed this and would like to subscribe to an ad-free feed, please consider supporting Idle Thumbs by backing our Patreon. Discussed: The triple hoisting, Bristol stool scale, apartment hunting, Britney Spears Instagram comment hacking, garlic surplus, the kindly old neighborhood liverwurst man, Christmas and/or Hoistmas traditions that are definitely real, CRISPR clarifications (browse this Idle Forums thread for lots of fascinating discussion from smart people!), crisper clarifications, sleeptalking, shadow sleep selves, breaking bad habits, the Bristol Goblin Chris' Endorsement: Jurassic Park (Amazon, iTunes Jake's Endorsement: Fartbarf (official site; "Dirty Power" album: Amazon, iTunes) Nick's Endorsement: Earplugs Sponsored By: Quip electric toothbrushes, Freshbooks accounting software Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

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