...from what I've ascertained over the years anecdotally, my believing 100% that the whole Knights Who Say "Ni" thing is 100% not funny at all would put me up against about 99.9999% of fans of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 🤷♂️
Sunday, February 08, 2026
The New Yoker Cartoon du Jour
Simply hilarious & hilariously simple, no notes!! 🤣👏🤣👏🤣👏🤣👏
(Except to The New Yorker itself - why do you not put the artist's names next to these?????? 😡 😡 😡 😡)
I'll Say This.
I'm not a real "back in my day!" guy but I will say that back in my day we really did get 90 of these fuckers for $1, so now you tell me.
Oh God Please Let this Be the Only MAGA Bullshit I Post Today
While re-watching Stephen Fry's thoroughly delightful Stephen Fry in America series I was reminded of a Gore Vidal quote, and by "I was reminded of a Gore Vidal quote" I of course mean I watched Stephen Fry say it while re-watching his thoroughly delightful Stephen Fry in America series, I can't help but think this 100% applies to MAGA:
"The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did."
An Open Letter to Podcasters Out There
Dear Podcasters Out There:
Don't make me sit through an hour of some THE BEST 20 BBC SITCOMS OF ALL TIME list while on the edge of my seat only to reveal in the end that not only is Only Fools and Horses NOT #1, but it’s not even on the list at all. I give these particular podcasters credit for thoroughly addressing the issue at the end, since it's impossible to ignore, but doing so only revealed that shows such as Vicar of Dibley/Ab Fab/The Royle Family/Extras etc. weren’t even in the Top 20 either, which should have set off alarm bells and made them just find another list to go through.
ALSO: these podcasters in particular are further dinged for all somehow having the fourth season of Blackadder as their least favorite when it’s fucking obvious to anyone with a brain it’s the best of the entire series, so. 😡
I remain,
Don't make me sit through an hour of some THE BEST 20 BBC SITCOMS OF ALL TIME list while on the edge of my seat only to reveal in the end that not only is Only Fools and Horses NOT #1, but it’s not even on the list at all. I give these particular podcasters credit for thoroughly addressing the issue at the end, since it's impossible to ignore, but doing so only revealed that shows such as Vicar of Dibley/Ab Fab/The Royle Family/Extras etc. weren’t even in the Top 20 either, which should have set off alarm bells and made them just find another list to go through.
ALSO: these podcasters in particular are further dinged for all somehow having the fourth season of Blackadder as their least favorite when it’s fucking obvious to anyone with a brain it’s the best of the entire series, so. 😡
I remain,
Xmastime
I Stand Alone On This OFAH Island (cue dramatic noise)
I've never understood why To Hull and Back is everybody's de facto Top 5 episodes if not their absolute favorite; I understand the excitement of it being the series' first full movie-length & all but
1. the whole "let's not have a laugh track!' idea is fine except in this case it only highlights the fact that there's not a lot to laugh at
2. I understand the whole "let's have three idiots somehow drive a huge steel commercial ship to another country" makes for great storytelling decades later but while watching it strains credulity to the point that you'd hafta be Trigger himself to swallow it
3. I understand the whole "let's film the Nag's Head & their flat ("flat" means "apartment", you fucking rubes") at different angles than we normally do and even reveal a heretofore never-seen fourth wall in the Trotters' flat (again, "flat" means "apartment", you fucking rubes") makes you film like Spielberg but it's only disorienting at best and totally sucks while being disorienting at second-best
It's not near the bottom of my list of episodes, I think I can honestly say it's MY LEAST FAVORITE EPISODE OF ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES!!!
2. I understand the whole "let's have three idiots somehow drive a huge steel commercial ship to another country" makes for great storytelling decades later but while watching it strains credulity to the point that you'd hafta be Trigger himself to swallow it
3. I understand the whole "let's film the Nag's Head & their flat ("flat" means "apartment", you fucking rubes") at different angles than we normally do and even reveal a heretofore never-seen fourth wall in the Trotters' flat (again, "flat" means "apartment", you fucking rubes") makes you film like Spielberg but it's only disorienting at best and totally sucks while being disorienting at second-best
It's not near the bottom of my list of episodes, I think I can honestly say it's MY LEAST FAVORITE EPISODE OF ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES!!!
BUT
APPARENTLY, I am the only Only Fools and Horses fan who's ever thought like this, based on every other fan's opinion about the episode that I've ever seen in my entire life, so 🤷♂️.
APPARENTLY, I am the only Only Fools and Horses fan who's ever thought like this, based on every other fan's opinion about the episode that I've ever seen in my entire life, so 🤷♂️.
And for all my bitching - which I 100% stand by! - this is a pure delight to watch. 🤗🕺🇬🇧❤️
Administrative Note
You may notice that at this moment your favorite blog ever XMASTIME looks like dogshit; for some reason Blogger just flipped a switch to fuck everything up & while it's happened in the past & I've always ended up liking whatever I had to come up with instead more anyway, this time it's waaaaaay more of a hassle & would be even worse without my bff ChatGPT (love you Boo!). On my most recent episode of XMAS YOUR ENTHUSIASM I worried Blogger may go the way of DivShare, though breaking my stupid heart even worse. I can only promise to keep plugging away to make it look better, and not stop posting in the meantime. Because you know, god fucking forbid & all.
Saturday, February 07, 2026
Look People...
...all I'm saying is that if you do have to spill something on your rug, you can do worse for yourself than ground oregano.
What a Total Fuckwad
JD Vance's 100-car motorcade over at the Winter Olympics is causing a stir:
The VP’s enormous motorcade features dozens of Chevy Suburbans that barely fit on the tiny streets of Milan. Video of the motorcade, taken on Friday by the Italian news outlet Local News, shows one of Vance’s cars nearly colliding with a vehicle bearing an Italian license plate.Congrats JD Vance, you just became the first American to go to Italy & think "you know what, the only thing that could make this even better is if I brought my own food."
Vance and the U.S. delegation reportedly flew into Milan on multiple planes carrying staff, security, food, and vehicles.
What a total fuckwad.
NEW XMASTIME SERIES: Petty Album Liner Notes!
People if you don't think I can fall in love with such a low level of pettiness then you do not know me at all, people.
THE KNICKERBOCKERS
NUGGETS: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968
Their lead singer, Jimmy Walker, would eventually join the Righteous Brothers when Bill Medley quit, though it’s not mentioned what he did when Bobby Hatfield would also leave a few months later.
LEVEL OF LINER NOTE PETTINESS: 9.5 I mean how much did Lenny Kaye for some reason have to hate the Knickerbockers to put that out there? 🤣🤣🤣
MY ACTUAL ALBUM SCORE: n/a (doesn't count as much since this is on compilation & not on an actual album the Knickerbockers worked on)
PREVIOUS LINER NOTES PETTINESS HERE
NEW XMASTIME SERIES!!!!
DR. OBVIOUS von XMASTIME VI DOES THE NEW YORKER CAPTION CONTEST
I was gonna call out the bullshit of my beloved cheddar Goldfish stretching out into a million different flavors (like every other snack brand nowadays grrrrrrrr) by dropping a snappy little "these don't taste like mice at all" but I couldn't triumph over my own nagging "well, the originals don;t taste like goldfish" thoughts so that blew up in my face. Sometimes I worry that I'm the only person who's noticed that the visual cousin to my beloved egg foo young in dessert form is....the apple fritter? Has nobody else noticed this? And what are we all gonna do about it? Catherine Tate is Kristen Wiig except she's actually funny. I was noticing how weird it was that Frank Gore ended his NFL career with exactly 16,000 yards rushing and then I realized he also ended his career with exactly 100 touchdown and so now I am officially donezo for the day. 😲🤯🤯🤯 And ffs bow that I'm seeing this I can't believe he didn't knock out another 15 yards from scrimmage so he'd finish with an even 20,000. 
"But fish can't read."
Well This Blew Up in My Face du Jour
Worries. I Have Them.
Anyway, that worries me.
Hot Take That Shouldn't Actually Be a Hot Take
(My recent hot take on how they bungled her time on The Office HERE)
Who'd Have Guessed We'd Be Talking About Frank Gore Today?
Friday, February 06, 2026
Questions. I Have Them.
Why does Abbott Elementary keep putting itself into ridiculous long-term situations? Last season it was all "Janine is now off somewhere else working at the district office oh look for some reason she keeps having to go to at Abbott all the time so what was the point of the whole ‘working at the district office' thing in the first place?" and this season it’s all “the school is shut down for asbestos and so they put the school in an abandoned mall & yet for some reason the individual teachers are responsible for somehow turning this mall that looks like downtown Beirut into a working school with no help whatsoever from the city or state…how is that even remotely plausible?” and I guess I’m starting to wonder do the writers not have any confidence in their ability to make us laugh without having to pull over-the-top stuff like this? 🤔🤷♂️
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