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Oh hey, the Metafilter Card Club swap is still vibing ... continuously for nearly seven whole years now! Wow! Check the thread for how to participate in this ancient tradition. Thank you, Sparky Buttons!!! Also, CMcG is sharing their 2024 Fanfare EXTRAVAGANZA, a place where folks can share their recommended books, movies, tv, music, games, and podcasts from the past year. Nice!🥳

12/29/24
by taz

Miami Vibe

promotional image featuring the Miami Vice logo and a nighttime shot of Crockett and Tubbs looking stylish next to a Ferrari Daytona Spyder

Nose candy, suitcases of cash, T-shirts under luxe European suits, ubiquitous pastels, shoes with no socks, speedboats, fast Ferraris, bikinis, boat life ... and ohhhh the music: There's something in the air tonight, and it's NotMyselfRightNow's most magnificently mega of mega posts on Miami Vice. 🕶

09/17/24
by taz

Dirty Faces

advertising image showing dirt-like palette and illustrated grimy miner with text: The Illustrator, DIRT II, COLOR SYSTEMS FOR THE PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP ARTISTThe Skin Illustrator Dirt Palette professional makeup product

OrangeDisk asks why TV and film characters don't seem to wipe blood, dirt, etc., from their faces any longer, and gets some helpful answers, including this one from nouvelle-personne about the differences between old and new screen dirt. Interesting!

07/20/24
by taz

It's time to raise the curtain

An image showing the Muppet characters Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Kermit the Frog, Beaker, and Animal

"I'm a millennial and I didn't quite "get" what kind of show this was ..." fire, water, earth, air has questions – many, many questions – about The Muppet Show: Tell me everything you know about The Muppet Show!

07/08/24
by taz

Where's the new The Good Place?

promo art for The Good Place showing all the main characters walking through or peeking from a woooden door labeled EARTH

Eyelash would like recs for funny shows with a similar vibe, especially if they have philosophy as a central theme.

05/06/24
by taz

"Yeah, well, the Wasteland’s got its own golden rule"

The tv adaptation of the retro futuristic game Fallout has premiered on Amazon Prime, and MetaFilter is digging it on the FanFare sub-site. Each episode has its own thread to discuss the particular episode, you can subscribe to an RSS feed about the series, so what are you waiting for, come watch it with us!

Driving eyeballs to the station

typical TV news show graphic with white BREAKING NEWS text and blue laser light show style background

"The first Eyewitness News theme was literally lifted from the 007 James Bond movie theme" ... Wow! flug has a fantastic, chewy answer full of background and context for nouvelle-personne's fascinating question, "Tell me more about news music. What is it doing to me?"

04/09/24
by taz

Weird Fiction Sweet Spot

mostly black and white manipulated photo of the entrance to Luna Park on Coney IslandSci Fi Park by Julio A Gonzalez (cc by)

Sci Fi / paranormal shows minus the horror? Member Bigbootay. Tay! Tay! Blam! Aargh... has a big! big! list. Blam!

01/02/24
by taz

84 hours of irreverent Christmas comedy and specials

WatchingWatching by Marcin Wichary (cc by)

Come one, come all and gather around the computer screen for our 10th annual holiday fun of irreverent Christmas comedy and specials! Starting at noon eastern time on December 22, community member JHarris is leading the charge into destressing! It's time to relax and chat, while watching all sorts of movies and fun! This will last for just a little over three days (through Dec 25), so feel free to drop and out as you please!

You Done Messed Up A-ARON!

Jordan Peele / Keegan-Michael KeyJordan Peele / Keegan-Michael Key by Peabody Awards (cc by)

It's Thursday and that means we're "throwing back", this time to 2015 and Rhaomi's spectacular post showcasing highlights from the tv show Key and Peele! Come for the laughs and sharp commentary and stay for the same!

I'm Doctor Frasier Crane, and I'm animated

screenshots from the animated collaboration Our Fraiser RemakeScreenshots from the project An absolutely amazing animation, highlighted by Seekerofsplendor, where over 130 artists have collaborated to recreate a single episode of the American sitcom 'Fraiser'.

TV worth watching!

photo of streaming menu on a television

Kat Allison shared a post about the 40 Best Stand-Alone TV Episodes (Slate) and reactions to it are great. Check out the various and wide ranging alternate suggestions in the comments!

Why do some people call a remote control a clicker?

"...one of the most influential and intriguing buttons in history." Community member brundlefly links to a story of the Zenith Space Command, one of the earliest examples of a remote control for television. Many memories ensue!

#metafilter #bestofmetafilter #retro #remotecontrol #remote #tv #television #history, #zenithspacecommand #cllicker

"laid out with merciless iron-clad logic"

Black and white photo of the cast of Succession facing the camera and posing against a white background

The dread was this mix of "No fucking way, it makes no fucking sense, it couldn't be ... it couldn't," and this deeper recognition that, on some level, it had to be. Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted takes a deep dive on the "Succession" finale in Fanfare.

06/03/23
by taz

"Murder most horrid"

collage style promo for Magpie Murders with characters Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pünd with a flock of circling magpies in the sky, a single magpie on a bare tree limb, and a sprawling Georgian (?) mansion in the far backgroundRecommended: Magpie Murders

In Ask Metafilter, I'm an Agatha Christie adaptation addict, who's run out of Agatha Christie adaptations to watch. Please help. Unicorn chaser is looking for "that Christie vibe."

05/28/23
by taz

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