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[apocalypsos]

That Bissell commercial with the restaurant where you eat off the floor and that Truth ad where the girl walks down a garbage alley and licks everything make their points by being two of the grossest things I've ever seen on TV. EW.

So I've finished one whole chapter today and three chapters of mostly dialogue (I tend to construct the bare bones of a chapter in dialogue and finish off by filling in the action) so far. If I can finish another chapter's worth of dialogue tonight (in between watching Love's Enduring Promise on the Hallmark Channel -- seriously, I don't know why, although one of the guys is hot and the other one is MacKenzie Astin, who's playing the straight-laced one so you just know he'll never get any in this movie), I can easily get three chapters finished tomorrow. Also, the Hallmark Channel is having a movie marathon on Thanksgiving Day I actually want to watch. Yeah, I don't get my brain, either. (Although if some channel isn't showing Home for the Holidays, I'll feel deprived. Who needs my family when I can just watch another family behave exactly like them? ;))

My new sweatshirt is awesome. It's entirely possible it has superpowers. Mmm-hmm.

EDIT: Now I know it's the holiday season, because they just played that hundred-year-old Folgers commercial where dorky Peter comes home on Christmas morning and wakes up the entire house with coffee. Shut up, dorky Peter. Your lame hairdo is the only thing seriously dating that commercial.

ANNOYED VIEWER OF EDIT: You know, in the vein of cliches I'm sick of, just once I'd like one of these movies to end with the heroine turning to the stalwart farmer guy at the end and saying, "I'm sorry, you're a very nice man, but I'm in love with the rich guy." And have her not be a bitch for doing it, because the rich guy is actually a real sweetheart.

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[lots42.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if you noticed but the Bissell thing had small print saying 'Flor' wasn't a real place.

First time I saw the commercial, I though they had thin , white plates. I couldn't fathom food touching the floor, no matter how clean it was.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know it's not a real restaurant. It doesn't stop the implication from being gross.

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

There was small print? We didn't notice that. neosquirrel actually emailed to ask if it was real.

Still, the part where the guy spears the meatball off of the floor and eats it? Totally skeeves me out.

[penmage.livejournal.com]

ANNOYED VIEWER OF EDIT: You know, in the vein of cliches I'm sick of, just once I'd like one of these movies to end with the heroine turning to the stalwart farmer guy at the end and saying, "I'm sorry, you're a very nice man, but I'm in love with the rich guy." And have her not be a bitch for doing it, because the rich guy is actually a real sweetheart.

Did you see Sweet Home Alabama? I was inflicted by that movie on the plane a while back, and that was my reaction to it. My sisters were all, "awwww, this is the best movie ever so sweet omg!!1!" and I just wanted her to marry the poor rich New Yorker doormat who's really a good guy and doesn't deserve this sort of crap.

/cynical moviegoer

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, Sweet Home Alabama. I did like Reese Witherspoon in most everything else she did before that, but now I just find I want to throw rocks at her pointy head.

[penmage.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. I spent most of that movie wanting to take a flying leap at her, shrieking, and rip her legally blonde hair from her head. Gyah.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

ANNOYED VIEWER OF EDIT: You know, in the vein of cliches I'm sick of, just once I'd like one of these movies to end with the heroine turning to the stalwart farmer guy at the end and saying, "I'm sorry, you're a very nice man, but I'm in love with the rich guy." And have her not be a bitch for doing it, because the rich guy is actually a real sweetheart.

Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers. '60s parody of '50s sci-fi, brilliant in part because it's played completely straight. At the end, the blushing (and fainting, and repeatedly kidnapped) heroine is struggling to choose between the two All-American Hunks, and she suddenly announces that actually, she prefers the Formerly Evil Black Sidekick. To which they respond... actually, I won't tell you who they end up with, because it's one of the funnest moments in the book. Look it out sometime.