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After years of brutal practice and many reshoots, the executives decide to cancel the Billy Elliot remake.

Timmy is forced to do the same with opera, with similar results.

"When people say America doesn't have a culture, they're usually referring to the homogenized and mass-produced aesthetic designed to be as comforting and inoffensive as possible to its presumed audience of middle class white people.

America, like any sizeable country, doesn't have a single culture so much as it has a wide panoply of them drawn from different Regional social and cultural influences but when we talk about cultural developments that are uniquely American, we're often talking about contributions from its marginalized populations.

For example, jazz, gospel and Hip-Hop originated in Black communities, while country (at least before it went all "Flags trucks and Jesus") is a conglomeration of working-class folk music from various sources.

Music Theater, meanwhile, owes a lot to Jewish creators (also Black writers, read up on Shuffle Along for more info), as does the development of American humor in the 20th century."

Computer: No one. No one can send it back!

Z-Sabre: Could you… be more specific?

Computer: Uh…

Z-Sabre: Well, when you say “no one”, do you mean there’s literally no way anybody can stop me? Or do you mean no one person can stop me but MULTIPLE people can? Is there somebody going by the NAME of “No-one” who can stop me? Or perhaps you mean my brother-in-law, Nō Wan? I mean there’s—

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Credit for my character stills goes to my good friend, @gem-among-gems. If you would like some stills for yourself, she can make some for you and can do it in any style.

Also, go check out these AWESOME videos from @musicalhell, especially since it was her review of the 1978 movie adaptation that got me to check out the original stage version, which is one of my favorite Broadway shows. Especially if you want to learn a little about the history of the show.

The treatment of female characters here rubs me the wrong way.

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She just finished watching the Dick Deadeye ep. I sent David Copperfield next.

Friend: Does this have as much distasteful tits and ass? I just need a warning before I dive right in.

Me: No, but it does have a vaguely oedopoidal 90s rock ballad.

Scrooge: "If you think MY name sounds silly, you should meet my contemporaries. Betsy Trotwood, Daniel Quilp, Mr. Polly..."

Past: "There's no Charles Dickens character named 'Mr. Polly.'"

Scrooge: "Would you really be surprised if there was?"