Damn, lots of birthdays coming up...
It's amazing how great Pantene makes my hair feel. :)
Yup, I opened this entry with a conditioner endorsement.
I really don't have much else to say, actually... I just felt LJ needy. ;_; *glomps everybody* I wanted to work on my fic tonight, but for some reason, I just didn't have the gumption.
Celly's Top 10: Weird Shit I Saw Today.
10. A 14 year old girl on LJ admitting that a bunch of entries she posted about an abusive girl at her school were fake.
9. The ensuing chaos.
8. The 6:00 episode of M*A*S*H, because I can't remember what it was. O_o;;;
7. Danakszoul and Anne Marsh... I'm so fucking confused. They ARE the same person, right??
6. The Smallville episode today... crawling with scathing wit and not even too much Clark/Lana "I know we were meant for each other" angst.
5. Larry Linville's name on the M*A*S*H credits. Not so much weird, but... dude.
4. Frank really really drunk and dancing with a pigtailed Nurse Kellye. FUGGEN. CUTE.
3. The M*A*S*H credits of the second episode ended at Jamie Farr. I'd never seen that before.
2. What WAS the 6:00 episode, anyway? Shit, that's gonna drive me crazy until I get it.
... OH! Wait, now I remember. The one with... that guy whose name I can never remember. Who played Zephram Cochrane in First Contact. Cromwell.
And the #1 Weird shit thing I saw today...
1. WTF??! The credits of the 6:30 episode was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen. Call me a virgin of the older episodes, because it's true. They talk of the mythical theme song that ended with that final "da!", and I took their word for it, because I had no proof either way. Oh, except that MP3 I have of one of the older versions. And the Trapper-era episodes I have seen.
Anyway, it was Bizarre as all get-out. I'm sure all you more seasoned M*A*S*H fans are laughing at me right now, but it was an experience I won't soon forget.
Okay, older episode. Radar's head. Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan. Nothing unique there.
So, blah blah, the nurses run, the guys run up the stairs, the choppers land, blah blah...
...and then, I'm expecting to see either BJ without a moustache bent over a patient and talking to someone, or BJ WITH a moustache just looking at something and nodding.
I see neither.
Instead, I see BJ running toward something with some people behind him. AAAAAHHHHH!!!!! *spasms* It definitely made me blink.
And it's just... astounding how much smoother the pacing is in the later episodes compared to the earlier ones. With the credits for this particular episode, I felt like I was going to have a seizure. Just, BAM! Hawkeye! Bam! BJ! Then, BAM! Loretta Swit's name. And the fade-out began even before the final "da!". I felt like that final "da!" was just kinda thrown in as an afterthought. Either that or the WB23 cut to commercial too soon again.
But either way. I mean... those older seasons credits are a trainwreck sometimes. That 1st season episode I saw out in North Carolina gave me chills. That weird, too-orange font... and the names were so small, and... I don't know. The pacing was just so screwy.
Yet another reason why the later seasons need to bear my children. They played that theme song like their lives depended on it, and the pacing was so nice and leisurely. It was like, "You really need time to READ these names. And you need a rendition of 'Suicide is Painless' that's gonna make you cry. But it's okay, don't worry if your vision is blurred, David Ogden Stiers' name is still up there. You didn't miss anything. Okay, niiiiice and slow.... heeeere we go, Jamie Farr. Ohhh yeah. I have time to grab a beer before they get to William Christopher."
They LOVED their opening credits in the later episodes. They just adored them. They wanted to engage in indecent acts with those opening credits. And that's what I love.
So, back to the credits I saw today. Just plain weird. How is it that BJ gets 3, *3* different shots over the course of his time on the show, but they keep on using those same first season nurses and guys running up the stairs and that shot of Hawkeye up until the very end? It can't just be the moustache. Hawk's HAIR COLOR CHANGED, for crap's sake!
Ah well... you know... I fucking love opening credits. They are so damn much fun to analyze. I am still the same person who used to play the MMPR season three credits over and over again 20 or more times and weep every time out of sheer joy, after all. THERE WAS A REASON WHY THEY SHOWED THE VILLAINS AT THE BEGINNING, GODDAMMIT. /time warp
That's why TV today sucks. 9/10 of the shows don't even have opening credits anymore. The fuck, man. I don't wanna read everyone's names during the first scene, thank you very much.
Okie. I have done.
Yup, I opened this entry with a conditioner endorsement.
I really don't have much else to say, actually... I just felt LJ needy. ;_; *glomps everybody* I wanted to work on my fic tonight, but for some reason, I just didn't have the gumption.
Celly's Top 10: Weird Shit I Saw Today.
10. A 14 year old girl on LJ admitting that a bunch of entries she posted about an abusive girl at her school were fake.
9. The ensuing chaos.
8. The 6:00 episode of M*A*S*H, because I can't remember what it was. O_o;;;
7. Danakszoul and Anne Marsh... I'm so fucking confused. They ARE the same person, right??
6. The Smallville episode today... crawling with scathing wit and not even too much Clark/Lana "I know we were meant for each other" angst.
5. Larry Linville's name on the M*A*S*H credits. Not so much weird, but... dude.
4. Frank really really drunk and dancing with a pigtailed Nurse Kellye. FUGGEN. CUTE.
3. The M*A*S*H credits of the second episode ended at Jamie Farr. I'd never seen that before.
2. What WAS the 6:00 episode, anyway? Shit, that's gonna drive me crazy until I get it.
... OH! Wait, now I remember. The one with... that guy whose name I can never remember. Who played Zephram Cochrane in First Contact. Cromwell.
And the #1 Weird shit thing I saw today...
1. WTF??! The credits of the 6:30 episode was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen. Call me a virgin of the older episodes, because it's true. They talk of the mythical theme song that ended with that final "da!", and I took their word for it, because I had no proof either way. Oh, except that MP3 I have of one of the older versions. And the Trapper-era episodes I have seen.
Anyway, it was Bizarre as all get-out. I'm sure all you more seasoned M*A*S*H fans are laughing at me right now, but it was an experience I won't soon forget.
Okay, older episode. Radar's head. Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan. Nothing unique there.
So, blah blah, the nurses run, the guys run up the stairs, the choppers land, blah blah...
...and then, I'm expecting to see either BJ without a moustache bent over a patient and talking to someone, or BJ WITH a moustache just looking at something and nodding.
I see neither.
Instead, I see BJ running toward something with some people behind him. AAAAAHHHHH!!!!! *spasms* It definitely made me blink.
And it's just... astounding how much smoother the pacing is in the later episodes compared to the earlier ones. With the credits for this particular episode, I felt like I was going to have a seizure. Just, BAM! Hawkeye! Bam! BJ! Then, BAM! Loretta Swit's name. And the fade-out began even before the final "da!". I felt like that final "da!" was just kinda thrown in as an afterthought. Either that or the WB23 cut to commercial too soon again.
But either way. I mean... those older seasons credits are a trainwreck sometimes. That 1st season episode I saw out in North Carolina gave me chills. That weird, too-orange font... and the names were so small, and... I don't know. The pacing was just so screwy.
Yet another reason why the later seasons need to bear my children. They played that theme song like their lives depended on it, and the pacing was so nice and leisurely. It was like, "You really need time to READ these names. And you need a rendition of 'Suicide is Painless' that's gonna make you cry. But it's okay, don't worry if your vision is blurred, David Ogden Stiers' name is still up there. You didn't miss anything. Okay, niiiiice and slow.... heeeere we go, Jamie Farr. Ohhh yeah. I have time to grab a beer before they get to William Christopher."
They LOVED their opening credits in the later episodes. They just adored them. They wanted to engage in indecent acts with those opening credits. And that's what I love.
So, back to the credits I saw today. Just plain weird. How is it that BJ gets 3, *3* different shots over the course of his time on the show, but they keep on using those same first season nurses and guys running up the stairs and that shot of Hawkeye up until the very end? It can't just be the moustache. Hawk's HAIR COLOR CHANGED, for crap's sake!
Ah well... you know... I fucking love opening credits. They are so damn much fun to analyze. I am still the same person who used to play the MMPR season three credits over and over again 20 or more times and weep every time out of sheer joy, after all. THERE WAS A REASON WHY THEY SHOWED THE VILLAINS AT THE BEGINNING, GODDAMMIT. /time warp
That's why TV today sucks. 9/10 of the shows don't even have opening credits anymore. The fuck, man. I don't wanna read everyone's names during the first scene, thank you very much.
Okie. I have done.