Meme time!!!
Saw these amazing memes on
krys33's journal, absolutely had to steal them. These are long, folks, meaning that I am really, really procrastinating here.
For each person/show you've really fangirled, try to find whatever it is that made you fall in love with them. Made you see them differently than you had before... like a switch had been flicked somewhere. ;) If it's a video, see if youtube has it, if it was an amazing picture or quote, upload it and post it. Whatever it was - share it. Post your "catalysts" as I like to call them in a new post in your journal.
EDIT: So apparently I suck at embedding vids. Have now just given direct links. I'm just going to do TV shows, since it would take ages to list all the actors/singers/movies that I fangirl over.
So... I might as well start from the beginning. The first show that I really fangirled over (and was aware that I was fangirling over) was Monk, namely because of the Monk/Sharona dynamic. They were just SUCH a beautiful odd couple. She was his savior, his one light in the darkness that Trudy's death left behind. They bickered, they rolled their eyes at each other, they fiercely protected each other, and they loved each other. It was so damn perfect, then the show had to go and ruin it all. >:( But the moment that truly drew me in was from the pilot episode, where Monk barges in on Sharona's date and has no qualms about ruining it for her, in fact looks completely relieved to have revealed that her date was lying to her, and then his heartbroken face when Sharona quit (but he wasn't too heartbroken because he knew that she'd come back like she always does... or did. Again, in season 3 the show completely screwed that up and ruined the Sharona character).
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OMG!!! Watching that makes me fall in love with them all over again. Monk is practically pouring his heart out and she doesn't even realize it. COME ON, SHARONA! *sigh* My favorite episode is Mr. Monk Goes to the Circus. Monk/Sharona banter at its greatest. The original script had Sharona kiss him. SHE KISSED HIM!!! OMG! WHY WAS THAT NOT IN THE EPISODE? Seriously. Not even a deleted scene. By season 3 the writers went in a completely different direction, stopped throwing the shippers some bones and instead tried to force Sharona/Disher on us. Blech. I hate it when shows try to force a ship on me, plain and simple. Especially when you have something as beautiful as Monk/Sharona, where absolutely nothing can compare. Hmph.
The show/ship that mended my horribly broken heart after Sharona left Monk? That would be Daniel/Betty from Ugly Betty. Another awkward odd couple who complete each other. Frumpy girl from Queens, rich/spoiled/shallow playboy from Manhattan, come on, how could I not fall for these two? Classic Beauty and the Beast story, or... Betty and the Beast, I should say. The difference is that Daniel is already beautiful on the outside, but no one sees past the shallow playboy exterior, no one but Betty. They are best friends, they are each other's saviors, they learn from each other, they care about each other, they fiercely protect each other, and one day... one day they will discover that they've been madly in love with each other from the beginning. I refuse to accept the Henry/Betty ship that has been thrust upon me. BORING! And very barf-worthy. Henry could be so much more enjoyable if he was allowed to be separate from Betty. For instance, his chemistry with Amanda is amazing and I wish they had more scenes together. Not saying I ship them or anything, but... I definitely could if I was given the chance. Anyway, I pretty much fell madly in love with Betty from the pilot. The show planted the Daniel/Betty seeds right from the beginning, but most especially at the end when Betty has saved Daniel's ass and he's all impressed and grateful and totally wrapped up in her and looking at her in a new light. That's when I said, "Oh, they are totally going to get together in the very last episode of this thing. It's going to be one beautiful, angsty, drawn-out romance of discovery. LOVE!!!"
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My whole section about The Office disappeared. :'( So... long story short, I fell in love with Steve Carell, which in turn made me obsessed with Michael Scott, then became obsessed with Michael/Dwight, then fell in love with Andy and never looked back after this moment:
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And now, this brings us to Psych. I've loved the show from the beginning, but it used to just be a fluffy show that I watched after Monk (or... before Monk, when it first started). It made me giggle, and everyone is so pretty to look at. The Lassiter/Juliet dynamic tickled my fancy, but I refused to let them take over my heart, because it was nauseatingly clear that the show was going in a Shawn/Juliet direction. But then... then the show went and upped the Lassiter/Juliet-ness and the Shawn/Gus-ness that my heart could no longer resist. I am in this all the way, baby! They went and got me invested, and now what used to just be a fluffy show that I didn't give much thought to has me analyzing every little scene in every single episode. The show has definitely figured out the dynamics that work best, and has clearly shifted the focus of the characters' worlds. My hopes are up so high that they will inevitably come crashing down on me when the show breaks my heart like all of my other shows have. But I am so in love that I can't fight this feeling anymore... I've forgotten what I started fighting foooooooooor. Oh! Right, the moment that made me truly invested. Well, the Christmas ep, definitely, but what really made me believe was the end of The Old and the Restless, where it's just Lassiter standing there staring after O'Hara. This shouted to me, "HE'S IN LOOOOOOVE!" It also shouted, "HE'S DOOMED!" But lately Juliet has been showing interest in Lassiter too, so perhaps he's not as doomed as I once thought. I mean, really, how could the woman resist his unruly cowlicks anyway?
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1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
1. You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny? Goodfellas -
teamkaren
2. I wanna say something. I'm gonna put it out there; if you like it, you can take it, if you don't, send it right back. I want to be on you.
3. Because it's DULL, you twit. It'll hurt more.
4. When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.
5. Clive, it would take me all day to kiss your fat ass.
6. "So anyways, I was standing there waiting to use the pay phone."
"Yeah, he was, seriously."
"And this guy who was on the phone, turns around and tips his hat like this."
"And who do you think that guy was?"
"Emilio Estevez."
"The Mighty Duck man, I swear to God, I was there."
"Of course you were, you were the one who yelled the Breakfast Clubber's name."
"I was like, 'Emilio.'"
7. You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK. Taxi Driver -
tinted_glass
8. In vain have I struggled, it will not do. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth version) -
lianhanshee
9. Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking? Zoolander -
tinted_glass
10. I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. When Harry Met Sally -
teamkaren
11. "Wait a minute... nice boys don't kiss like that."
"Oh, yes, they fucking do." Bridget Jones's Diary -
lianhanshee
12. You didn't get me down, Ray. You never got me down. Raging Bull -
teamkaren
13. Well that's just silly. Have you met everybody on the planet? Two Weeks Notice -
krys33
14. No! I'm madly in love with you and it's not because of your brains or your personality. Little Miss Sunshine -
tinted_glass
15. I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me? Meet the Parents -
teamkaren
krys33's journal, absolutely had to steal them. These are long, folks, meaning that I am really, really procrastinating here.
For each person/show you've really fangirled, try to find whatever it is that made you fall in love with them. Made you see them differently than you had before... like a switch had been flicked somewhere. ;) If it's a video, see if youtube has it, if it was an amazing picture or quote, upload it and post it. Whatever it was - share it. Post your "catalysts" as I like to call them in a new post in your journal.
EDIT: So apparently I suck at embedding vids. Have now just given direct links. I'm just going to do TV shows, since it would take ages to list all the actors/singers/movies that I fangirl over.
So... I might as well start from the beginning. The first show that I really fangirled over (and was aware that I was fangirling over) was Monk, namely because of the Monk/Sharona dynamic. They were just SUCH a beautiful odd couple. She was his savior, his one light in the darkness that Trudy's death left behind. They bickered, they rolled their eyes at each other, they fiercely protected each other, and they loved each other. It was so damn perfect, then the show had to go and ruin it all. >:( But the moment that truly drew me in was from the pilot episode, where Monk barges in on Sharona's date and has no qualms about ruining it for her, in fact looks completely relieved to have revealed that her date was lying to her, and then his heartbroken face when Sharona quit (but he wasn't too heartbroken because he knew that she'd come back like she always does... or did. Again, in season 3 the show completely screwed that up and ruined the Sharona character).
Watch Vid
OMG!!! Watching that makes me fall in love with them all over again. Monk is practically pouring his heart out and she doesn't even realize it. COME ON, SHARONA! *sigh* My favorite episode is Mr. Monk Goes to the Circus. Monk/Sharona banter at its greatest. The original script had Sharona kiss him. SHE KISSED HIM!!! OMG! WHY WAS THAT NOT IN THE EPISODE? Seriously. Not even a deleted scene. By season 3 the writers went in a completely different direction, stopped throwing the shippers some bones and instead tried to force Sharona/Disher on us. Blech. I hate it when shows try to force a ship on me, plain and simple. Especially when you have something as beautiful as Monk/Sharona, where absolutely nothing can compare. Hmph.
The show/ship that mended my horribly broken heart after Sharona left Monk? That would be Daniel/Betty from Ugly Betty. Another awkward odd couple who complete each other. Frumpy girl from Queens, rich/spoiled/shallow playboy from Manhattan, come on, how could I not fall for these two? Classic Beauty and the Beast story, or... Betty and the Beast, I should say. The difference is that Daniel is already beautiful on the outside, but no one sees past the shallow playboy exterior, no one but Betty. They are best friends, they are each other's saviors, they learn from each other, they care about each other, they fiercely protect each other, and one day... one day they will discover that they've been madly in love with each other from the beginning. I refuse to accept the Henry/Betty ship that has been thrust upon me. BORING! And very barf-worthy. Henry could be so much more enjoyable if he was allowed to be separate from Betty. For instance, his chemistry with Amanda is amazing and I wish they had more scenes together. Not saying I ship them or anything, but... I definitely could if I was given the chance. Anyway, I pretty much fell madly in love with Betty from the pilot. The show planted the Daniel/Betty seeds right from the beginning, but most especially at the end when Betty has saved Daniel's ass and he's all impressed and grateful and totally wrapped up in her and looking at her in a new light. That's when I said, "Oh, they are totally going to get together in the very last episode of this thing. It's going to be one beautiful, angsty, drawn-out romance of discovery. LOVE!!!"
Watch vid
My whole section about The Office disappeared. :'( So... long story short, I fell in love with Steve Carell, which in turn made me obsessed with Michael Scott, then became obsessed with Michael/Dwight, then fell in love with Andy and never looked back after this moment:
Watch vid
And now, this brings us to Psych. I've loved the show from the beginning, but it used to just be a fluffy show that I watched after Monk (or... before Monk, when it first started). It made me giggle, and everyone is so pretty to look at. The Lassiter/Juliet dynamic tickled my fancy, but I refused to let them take over my heart, because it was nauseatingly clear that the show was going in a Shawn/Juliet direction. But then... then the show went and upped the Lassiter/Juliet-ness and the Shawn/Gus-ness that my heart could no longer resist. I am in this all the way, baby! They went and got me invested, and now what used to just be a fluffy show that I didn't give much thought to has me analyzing every little scene in every single episode. The show has definitely figured out the dynamics that work best, and has clearly shifted the focus of the characters' worlds. My hopes are up so high that they will inevitably come crashing down on me when the show breaks my heart like all of my other shows have. But I am so in love that I can't fight this feeling anymore... I've forgotten what I started fighting foooooooooor. Oh! Right, the moment that made me truly invested. Well, the Christmas ep, definitely, but what really made me believe was the end of The Old and the Restless, where it's just Lassiter standing there staring after O'Hara. This shouted to me, "HE'S IN LOOOOOOVE!" It also shouted, "HE'S DOOMED!" But lately Juliet has been showing interest in Lassiter too, so perhaps he's not as doomed as I once thought. I mean, really, how could the woman resist his unruly cowlicks anyway?
Watch vid
1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
1. You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny? Goodfellas -
teamkaren
2. I wanna say something. I'm gonna put it out there; if you like it, you can take it, if you don't, send it right back. I want to be on you.
3. Because it's DULL, you twit. It'll hurt more.
4. When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.
5. Clive, it would take me all day to kiss your fat ass.
6. "So anyways, I was standing there waiting to use the pay phone."
"Yeah, he was, seriously."
"And this guy who was on the phone, turns around and tips his hat like this."
"And who do you think that guy was?"
"Emilio Estevez."
"The Mighty Duck man, I swear to God, I was there."
"Of course you were, you were the one who yelled the Breakfast Clubber's name."
"I was like, 'Emilio.'"
7. You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK. Taxi Driver -
tinted_glass
8. In vain have I struggled, it will not do. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth version) -
lianhanshee
9. Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking? Zoolander -
tinted_glass
10. I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. When Harry Met Sally -
teamkaren
11. "Wait a minute... nice boys don't kiss like that."
"Oh, yes, they fucking do." Bridget Jones's Diary -
lianhanshee
12. You didn't get me down, Ray. You never got me down. Raging Bull -
teamkaren
13. Well that's just silly. Have you met everybody on the planet? Two Weeks Notice -
krys33
14. No! I'm madly in love with you and it's not because of your brains or your personality. Little Miss Sunshine -
tinted_glass
15. I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me? Meet the Parents -
teamkaren