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Lords:
* Abby
* https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/10813
* Pat
* https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyperheartcom/gotchacards
Topics:
* The pear scene
* Capsule machines vs. claw games
* Designing UIs for TV
* This be the Verse, by Philip Larkin
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse
Microtopics:
* My Brother the Car.
* A card game that is not totally random.
* Deciding to focus on something else in 2020.
* Rock Paper Scissors vs. Rock Scissors Paper.
* Which of the twins to take a kidney from
* Committing to a bit that breaks the rhythm of what people expect you to say.
* Making a game where people get crushed by debt but making it fun.
* Everybody Loves Raymond.
* Sitcoms that have plenty of opportunity to disappoint you.
* A show that lives and dies in the performance.
* Nine years to stop trying.
* The most profitable sitcom of all time.
* Adapting Raymond.
* Ray Romano explaining the concept of having parents to a puzzled audience.
* The kind of argument where both people make sense and are both trying to be nice.
* Trying to be nice but failing.
* 'Til Death.
* The demeanor of a revenant.
* Whether Brad Garrett listens to this show.
* Hitting 100 episodes and going into syndication.
* Musicians needing a body that can strike.
* Writing an increasingly ludicrous sitcom for an audience of nobody.
* A son who is always on the wacky tobacky.
* A sitcom husband who notices that his wife has been recast and realizes he's on a sitcom.
* Continuing to give Brad Garrett chances to star in sitcoms because he's so tall.
* A sitcom that made you feel seen.
* The workplace sitcom vs. the domestic sitcom.
* Aimlessness in a post-Seinfeld era.
* Abed Ghaith's striptease.
* Is that Abed Ghaith's penis in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
* Claw game skill issues.
* A billionaire trying to figure out how best to do good in the world and who decides to operate several generous claw machines.
* Decorating a desk space with a pocket full of miniature delights.
* Mona Lisa Breakdancing.
* The rice cooker that King Piccolo was trapped in.
* Rubik's Cube but all the faces are Mahjong tiles.
* The coolest and most popular racial atrocity.
* Ramen Man vs. Kikko Man.
* A bowl of ramen in the shape of a tube.
* Homer Simpson: visual ripoff of Kinnikuman.
* Seeing an aquarium fish that looks just slightly too human.
* Reading a book about bugs and itching like mad.
* Worrying that you are ruining eyes for yourself.
* Famous JAV title "Reincarnated as a Spider"
* Conveying the idea of receiving a DM on social media to a television audience.
* My face in a tube dot com.
* Saying "youshmoob" really fast and hoping nobody notices.
* Wanting to put a Russian Roulette scene in your TV show but being unable to negotiate the rights to Russian Roulette from ELORG so you need to hire Alexey Pajitnov to design a replacement game.
* A joke that is very funny when you explain it but impossible to convey in any known medium.
* The flag that says "bang!"
* The Joker not being confident enough in his jokes so he has to use laughing gas.
* Silent Comedy Joker has to work a bit harder.
* Naming a difficulty level after a pop culture allusion to babies.
* The ending of a Clockwork Orange in the UK depicting the protagonist as deciding to renounce violence and become a better person, but in the US they omitted that chapter because it's unrealistic.
* The UK edition of A Clockwork Orange depicting the protagonist renouncing violence and becoming a better person so he joins the police force, whereas in the US edition the protagonist decides to remain brutal and violent so he joins the police force.
* Where's the bridge, Larkin?
* This be the verse you grave for me.
* Poets being jerks to all different kinds of people.
* Kefka creating a tower of garbage in Final Fantasy while everyone tries to convince him it's worthwhile to have a family.
* Which kids inspired Lord of the Flies.
* Suggesting that your mom read Chainsaw Man Part 1 so that you can talk to her about grief.