Listening to Howard Stern this morning, I heard him discussing TV Shows with the guy who runs the website entitled JumpTheShark.com
What is JumpTheShark.com you ask? Well remember the episode of Happy Days where Fonzie jumped over a shark on his motorcycle? Well that symbolized the peak moment of the show, and from then on everything was downhill.
In keeping with this moment JumpTheShark lets people vote on when and even if there favorite tv shows have jumped the shark...There are tell tale signs, like "The Special Guest Star", or a new wacky character. And I'd be remiss in not mentioning the websites King of shark jumping...yes thats right, if you put Ted McGinley on your show, you just Jumped The Shark.
Check it out... www.jumptheshark.com
Jump The Shark
Justin, 2/27/2003 10:35:22 AM
Add Comment PermalinkBest Job
Mike, 2/26/2003 12:32:34 AM
At crucial times of your life like these, you need to choose some sort of career path to keep you in sweet dvd money. What are the best jobs in today's waning economy?
My picks:
1. Movie industry - people never stop going to the movies
2. Skateboarder - Extreme sports is one fad that will never die!! Except motorcross, how did that whitetrash sport slip in there?
3. Elevator / Escalator Repairman - No matter how bad things get, fatass Americans will always need some machine to lift them from one floor of the mall to the next, and those things always break
4. Writer for Maxim - You guys read this magazine, it's abundantly clear that they write every article off the top of their head and people keep buying it, citing 'hey it has really great articles' (me included)
5. Concert promoter - now that's the good life
My picks:
1. Movie industry - people never stop going to the movies
2. Skateboarder - Extreme sports is one fad that will never die!! Except motorcross, how did that whitetrash sport slip in there?
3. Elevator / Escalator Repairman - No matter how bad things get, fatass Americans will always need some machine to lift them from one floor of the mall to the next, and those things always break
4. Writer for Maxim - You guys read this magazine, it's abundantly clear that they write every article off the top of their head and people keep buying it, citing 'hey it has really great articles' (me included)
5. Concert promoter - now that's the good life
I thought long and hard about putting down rock star but I decided it is a risky field... I feel like rock is gonna be phased out completely by mindless rap and hop hop (except in New Jersey). And then if you do manage to rise to fame and power in the punk rock scene, the last bastion of rock and roll, you're thrown on your ass by the time you turn 25 and replaced by bands filled with 12 year olds like The Early November...
So in conclusion, I wish I was a rock star
Add Comment PermalinkSo in conclusion, I wish I was a rock star
Animated Combat
Mike, 2/26/2003 10:09:13 PM
My Top 5 Animated Fight sequences in Cartoon History:
1. Peter Griffin vs. Giant Chicken - The most epic of all fights, Peter remembers the disasterous results from the last time he accepted a coupon from a guy in a chicken suit, the battle spans across a city and lasts 5+ minutes
2. Homer Simpson vs. Bart's 'Big Brother' - Homer takes down Bart's big brother from the big brother program in a battle through the springfield aquarium
3. Hot Rod vs. Galvatron, Transformers the Movie - I gave this the edge over the opening Optimus Prime vs. Megatron fight because of the fantastic Van Halen-esque song sequence when Hot Rod opens the matrix
4. Cripple Fight - Timmy vs. Jimmy, nothing finer on basic cable
5. Fry vs. Zoidberg - From the episode where Zoidberg goes to his planet to mate, this fight always makes me chuckle: 1. Because Zoidberg is so funny and 2. Because Fry is so lazy
Note the absence of DBZ fights on this list
Add Comment Permalink1. Peter Griffin vs. Giant Chicken - The most epic of all fights, Peter remembers the disasterous results from the last time he accepted a coupon from a guy in a chicken suit, the battle spans across a city and lasts 5+ minutes
2. Homer Simpson vs. Bart's 'Big Brother' - Homer takes down Bart's big brother from the big brother program in a battle through the springfield aquarium
3. Hot Rod vs. Galvatron, Transformers the Movie - I gave this the edge over the opening Optimus Prime vs. Megatron fight because of the fantastic Van Halen-esque song sequence when Hot Rod opens the matrix
4. Cripple Fight - Timmy vs. Jimmy, nothing finer on basic cable
5. Fry vs. Zoidberg - From the episode where Zoidberg goes to his planet to mate, this fight always makes me chuckle: 1. Because Zoidberg is so funny and 2. Because Fry is so lazy
Note the absence of DBZ fights on this list
My Top 5 Animated Fight Sequences In Cartoon History
Justin, 2/26/2003 10:35:43 PM
My top 5 Fights Sequences in Cartoon History
(Note, Mike picked his list first, and picked three fights I was going to select, Cripple fight, Simpson's and Family Guy...so to get a bigger selection in, I'm not picking any of the same battles):
5.X-Men VS Sentinels - This is the epic season finale to the original and far superior fox cartoon which ends when Professor X blows up the Master Mold Sentinel with the Blackbird jet!
4.Buzz Lightyear VS Emperor Zurg - Toy Story 2's funniest sequence saw Lightyear fight a newly freed from his package and not realizing he was a toy Emperor Zurg, Lightyears cartoon nemesis...and the Darth Vader-Luke Skywalker spoof made it that much better!
3.Battle Of CobraLa - From G.I. the movie, the big colossal finale featuring Don Johnson and Sgt. Slaughter kicking some cobra ass as Cobra La was destroyed around them...YO JOE!
2.Abe Simpson VS Mr. Burns - Another Simpsons classic, with the two oldest characters going at it on a speedboat with a priceless are collection at stake...DEL MONTE! Enjoy them old man...for they will be your last.
1.Dante's Little League Team VS The Thuggee Cult - One of the high points of perhaps the greatest spoof episode in the history of television...straight out of Temple of Doom, except instead of Indiana Jones and a whip, we got Jay, Silent Bob, and the Kid In The Helmet...pure comedic gold. YEAAAA RIP HIS HEART OUT!
Add Comment Permalink(Note, Mike picked his list first, and picked three fights I was going to select, Cripple fight, Simpson's and Family Guy...so to get a bigger selection in, I'm not picking any of the same battles):
5.X-Men VS Sentinels - This is the epic season finale to the original and far superior fox cartoon which ends when Professor X blows up the Master Mold Sentinel with the Blackbird jet!
4.Buzz Lightyear VS Emperor Zurg - Toy Story 2's funniest sequence saw Lightyear fight a newly freed from his package and not realizing he was a toy Emperor Zurg, Lightyears cartoon nemesis...and the Darth Vader-Luke Skywalker spoof made it that much better!
3.Battle Of CobraLa - From G.I. the movie, the big colossal finale featuring Don Johnson and Sgt. Slaughter kicking some cobra ass as Cobra La was destroyed around them...YO JOE!
2.Abe Simpson VS Mr. Burns - Another Simpsons classic, with the two oldest characters going at it on a speedboat with a priceless are collection at stake...DEL MONTE! Enjoy them old man...for they will be your last.
1.Dante's Little League Team VS The Thuggee Cult - One of the high points of perhaps the greatest spoof episode in the history of television...straight out of Temple of Doom, except instead of Indiana Jones and a whip, we got Jay, Silent Bob, and the Kid In The Helmet...pure comedic gold. YEAAAA RIP HIS HEART OUT!
Food Critique
ChefMagnoliaFan, 2/26/2003 10:54:54 PM
Ah tonights dinner was surely one to behold so sit back and savor...
The Menu:2 Blueberry Ego Waffles with Butter
A finer meal has seemingly never passed through these lips. I'm sure I coulda gone for a full 5 course meal, but why go through the trouble, when the toastable equivalent of Gold was all ready to jump into my mouth?!?!?!?
The Rating:Just kidding. This one gets a Quarter Pounder...no cheese here though kids. Not even a side of fries.
Add Comment PermalinkThe Menu:2 Blueberry Ego Waffles with Butter
A finer meal has seemingly never passed through these lips. I'm sure I coulda gone for a full 5 course meal, but why go through the trouble, when the toastable equivalent of Gold was all ready to jump into my mouth?!?!?!?
The Rating:Just kidding. This one gets a Quarter Pounder...no cheese here though kids. Not even a side of fries.
Food Critique
ChefMagnoliaFan, 2/24/2003 05:31:38 PM
After submitting a 100 word essay to WhatWeSayGoes.com about Lobsters stuffed with Tacos, I was brought on board as the new food critique here. So I hope you come to love me and my scathing reviews, and that you even learn a little something about taste!
For my first review I've quite fittingly chosen my lunch for the day, and oh what a lunch it was. If your ever in the Princeton area of New Jersey, do check out the food court in Shop Rite. They have a surprisingly large array of foods to choose from for the working man.
THE MENU:Today my dishes consisted of a nice hot cup of a slightly tangy Lobster Bisque that titillated my taste buds. The crackers I crumbled up and put in made for an extra treat. For my main course I turned to the California Rolls, made fresh in Shop Rites sushi shop. Quite tasty for a supermarket If I might say so, but they need a less salty brand of Soy Sauce. Kimlain was just too harsh for the light, airy delicacy. I finished it all off with some water I had sitting in my car. Do try to bring some company along for this dining experience, as sitting in your car all alone being watched by the guy putting all the shopping carts back is kinda sad.
THE RATING:My scale will consist of a 5 star comparable system of meats.
1 Meat = Tuna (my most hated of all foods)
2 Meats = Mickey D's Quarter Pounder (It filled me up and let me live until my next meal)
3 Meats = Grilled Chicken (Average run of the mill meal...I eat grilled chicken probly once a day on the norm)
4 Meats = Prime Rib/Steak (pretty damn good, but slightly lacking)
5 Meats = Lobster (an orgiastic feast for my taste buds)
This lunch got a 3 Meat rating...pretty good for a super market meal I chowed on in my car...Until next time, BON APPETIT!
For my first review I've quite fittingly chosen my lunch for the day, and oh what a lunch it was. If your ever in the Princeton area of New Jersey, do check out the food court in Shop Rite. They have a surprisingly large array of foods to choose from for the working man.
THE MENU:Today my dishes consisted of a nice hot cup of a slightly tangy Lobster Bisque that titillated my taste buds. The crackers I crumbled up and put in made for an extra treat. For my main course I turned to the California Rolls, made fresh in Shop Rites sushi shop. Quite tasty for a supermarket If I might say so, but they need a less salty brand of Soy Sauce. Kimlain was just too harsh for the light, airy delicacy. I finished it all off with some water I had sitting in my car. Do try to bring some company along for this dining experience, as sitting in your car all alone being watched by the guy putting all the shopping carts back is kinda sad.
THE RATING:My scale will consist of a 5 star comparable system of meats.
1 Meat = Tuna (my most hated of all foods)
2 Meats = Mickey D's Quarter Pounder (It filled me up and let me live until my next meal)
3 Meats = Grilled Chicken (Average run of the mill meal...I eat grilled chicken probly once a day on the norm)
4 Meats = Prime Rib/Steak (pretty damn good, but slightly lacking)
5 Meats = Lobster (an orgiastic feast for my taste buds)
This lunch got a 3 Meat rating...pretty good for a super market meal I chowed on in my car...Until next time, BON APPETIT!
Supermarket food courts are definately on the high end of low end food eateries. I recommend next time you buy one of those whole chickens for $6 then bring it back and eat it in the office at 4:30 to torment all of your coworkers waiting for dinner.
Mike, what would be considered the "low end" of low end eateries? I'm curious.
That's a tough question... I'm thinking Old Country Buffet or even better White Castle. White Castle's burgers are like 25 cents, they gotta be mostly sawdust and horse rectum
Where's Justin's comments on this? I wonder who this mysterious ChefMagnoliaFan really is...
Add Comment PermalinkSaturday Night Live Review
Justin, 2/23/2003 09:40:58 PM
Here's a new one...as an avid Saturday Night Live watcher I feel its my duty to review it for those who are out partying saturday nights and don't know how to work a VCR properly.
Anyway, this week a taping would have been well worth it. Featuring the always hilarious and crazily haired Christopher Walken hosting and the hard rocking Foo Fighters as musical guests.
The faux debate opening skit featuring Walken as a Frenchman was pretty hilarious, followed by an ok monologue that saw Walken dance with a chorus line. Then of course he went on to do the always funny "The Continental" skit, and some neverending skit with a joke about the word Cunnilingus (Colonel Angus). Thats when weekend update started and the magic happened...First Steve Martin decided to do a walkon cameo, featuring him saying "I'm just doing a cameo" and standing there for a minute...then WILL FERRELL made his triumphant return! And not only was he back...but he brought his "new wife" BRITNEY SPEARS. And there sat the funniest and hottest celebrities respectively together. After Ferrell rehashed the worst of his recurring skits (Lovahs), the Foo's played a smoking All My Life. Later they were joined onstage by none other than Jim Carey, guitaring on his leg to their new single Time Goes By or something like that.
All in all a great show, host, and musical guests, but it just makes me yearn for the earlier incarnation of this cast like the departed Norm MacDonald, Jim Bruer, Tim Meadows, Gasteyer, Oteri, Shannon...and of course Will Ferrell.
9 out of 10 (Superb for this season's cast.)
Add Comment PermalinkAnyway, this week a taping would have been well worth it. Featuring the always hilarious and crazily haired Christopher Walken hosting and the hard rocking Foo Fighters as musical guests.
The faux debate opening skit featuring Walken as a Frenchman was pretty hilarious, followed by an ok monologue that saw Walken dance with a chorus line. Then of course he went on to do the always funny "The Continental" skit, and some neverending skit with a joke about the word Cunnilingus (Colonel Angus). Thats when weekend update started and the magic happened...First Steve Martin decided to do a walkon cameo, featuring him saying "I'm just doing a cameo" and standing there for a minute...then WILL FERRELL made his triumphant return! And not only was he back...but he brought his "new wife" BRITNEY SPEARS. And there sat the funniest and hottest celebrities respectively together. After Ferrell rehashed the worst of his recurring skits (Lovahs), the Foo's played a smoking All My Life. Later they were joined onstage by none other than Jim Carey, guitaring on his leg to their new single Time Goes By or something like that.
All in all a great show, host, and musical guests, but it just makes me yearn for the earlier incarnation of this cast like the departed Norm MacDonald, Jim Bruer, Tim Meadows, Gasteyer, Oteri, Shannon...and of course Will Ferrell.
9 out of 10 (Superb for this season's cast.)
Joe Millionaire
Mike, 2/20/2003 03:22:53 PM
Since The Practice wasn't on Monday night (thanks a lot Michael Jackson), I ended up watching the gripping finale to Joe Millionaire. What can I say? What a lame, predictable surprise ending. I was holding out for him to announce, "I did not inherit $50 million and I'm a gay male model" but no such luck. That one million dollars from Fox should just about cover the cost of the plane trip home and the cost of psychiatric treatment for any overspring of Joe and his new girlfriend if they ever get married and have kids. Fox's love-oriented reality shows all go down the same: blah blah, I thought we made a real connection, blah blah blah, it's over, they stay together. Why do they always stay together? Because people don't want to look like jerks/bitches on national television. Here are my ideas for reality tv:
1. Stop making it and put on a sitcom! Preferrably one that isn't copying off Malcolm in the Middle, but I'll take what I can get.
I implure you America, stop watching this crap... don't you see it's just a soap opera with bad actors and worse stories?? It doesn't matter if they are real people or not, you don't know them!!
Add Comment Permalink1. Stop making it and put on a sitcom! Preferrably one that isn't copying off Malcolm in the Middle, but I'll take what I can get.
I implure you America, stop watching this crap... don't you see it's just a soap opera with bad actors and worse stories?? It doesn't matter if they are real people or not, you don't know them!!
Welcome
Mike, 2/19/2003 12:00:00 AM
Welcome to our new website, whatwesaygoes.com. Insightful stories, reviews, news items, and ideas to follow this uninspired post...
I'd also like to welcome everyone here...Me and Mike of course are the ones saying what goes, but we might just be accepting new staff members. If you want to be the one that says what goes, please type up a 100 word essay submission telling us why you should be telling it like it is. And remember, don't let the man hold you down.
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1.Rock Star (Who wouldn't want to sleep on top of a big pile of money at night with lots of hot naked broads...be able to rock out entire arenas...and most importantly, who wouldn't want to be like Scotty Allister?)
2.Photographer at Maxim (I wouldn't mind photographing those hotties on the beach wearing nothing but a smile and some ass floss!)
3.Cat (My cats have a kickass life! they get to sit around my house all day eating, sleeping, and also they may or may not be doing each other, we're not sure. They also can vomit anywhere in the house and don't have to clean it up!)
4.TV/Movie/Music critic (You get to tell people how good things are based on if you like it or not...sort of like our website except you get paid for it!)
5.Taste Tester (Hey it may not pay much, but I wouldn't mind tasting the new flavor Cap'n Crunch and risk blindness for a few bucks with no thinking involved...)