The 4 Best Dramas Of The Last 25 Years

depends where you're from

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Which is...?

Hogwarts

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2004/02/29/ba_adams29.jpg

Full clemency.

i guess i missed Banana Republic's Harry Potter collection

what are we arguing about now?

i broke my own rule about getting lost in the rabbit hole of iatee's endless pointless devil's advocate act

i think there were fashion tie-ins with it, but it was the British schoolchild look, with blazers and knee socks or whatever

wesley crusher could be a mad men character -- he'd be the most likeable & interesting of the lot of them, too.

i think there were fashion tie-ins with it, but it was the British schoolchild look, with blazers and knee socks or whatever

oh sara, that's actually the Angus Young fashion tie-in.

wesley crusher could be a mad men character

character's name is Pete Campbell btw

Pete Campbell is way way way less annoying than wesley crusher was

Provided there aren't swastikas or pointed hoods involved, dressing up in costumes is dressing up in costumes, afaict.

u read my mind, shakey

what madmen needs is a worf.

what if Don Draper was a wookie?

actually isn't the madmen timeline now concurrent with historical airings of original series? maybe draper and co can visit the desilu studios and have drinkathons with shatner and nimoy

http://screeninvasion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/scvp-mad-men.jpg

too meta ... and the OG star trek wasn't a hit when it was originally on network TV. draper et al would be more likely having drinkathons with the cast of i dream of jeannie or bewitched.

lol the title sequence to mad men could be a fight scene b/w Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker ... with one of them falling into the void.

Done and done.

Oh, never mind. They missed the obvious joke.

but these are manufactured products of mass culture. it isn't like they're talking about folk culture, or its contemporary equivalent

well except they are

But they're not -- they're just, no, it is a different dynamic. Perhaps it's condescending, but it isn't co-opting or appropriation in the way that term was orginally used

The Real Housewives of Buttmunch produced and aired on network television is not folk culture

^^^: an XXX parody

animated gifs are better examples of folk culture today, real housewives is entertainment as a product

lol lamp there is no fucking way that anything that airs on tv - except on local access community channels maybe - is folk anything

LARPing and A.V. Club comments are better examples of folk culture today.

animated gifs are better examples of folk culture today

i can agree with this

I agree w/ dwh also agree w/ sarahell agreeing with me

But they're not -- they're just, no, it is a different dynamic. Perhaps it's condescending, but it isn't co-opting or appropriation in the way that term was orginally used

yeah, sure, its a weak position really. but i mean the folk culture argument is p peripheral and im annoyed that i let bait me into it

"there is no fucking way that anything that airs on tv - except on local access community channels maybe - is folk anything"

america's folkiest home videos!

"there is no fucking way that anything that airs on tv - except on local access community channels maybe - is folk anything"

so would this make tim and eric awesome show folk-art or at least some simulacrum of folk-art?!?

(jesus, this is like i'm back in a 1990s-era 400-level english/comp lit criticism class)

i think tim + eric's stuff is obv very influenced by folk art, but i don't think it is folk art itself

tom goes to the mayor was folk art, at least when it was a crappy web thing by two dorks, though that doesn't violate the "not-on-tv" rule.

once you are a product being sold by a major international corporation to consumers throughout the world, i think you are no longer folk art. if you were folk art before that happened, you have likely being co-opted

been*

i am kinda o_O at a definition of "folk art" that would include Youtube videos like "I Don't Want My Pizza Burning" and anything by wendyvainity (though it makes sense).

It's totally folk art. Whether one's prescriptive and unevolving view of folk art allows them to accept it as such is a whole other issue.

total derail but anybody who likes folk art should go to the Smithsonian American Art Museum to look at the folk art collection especially

http://americanart.si.edu/images/1970/1970.353.1_1b.jpg

^^ mostly cardboard and tinfoil

Nine times out of ten, I prefer folk art to Fine Art.

so much coruscating schizo-religious weirdness

Nine times out of ten, I prefer folk art to Fine Art.

otm so much

yeah me too

can we talk abt decoupage next?

Ugh, I could never take decoupage seriously, what with all of these obnoxious decoupage fans commenting on decoupage websites and dressing up like decoupage to go to their decoupage conventions. This has nothing to do with anxiety induced by a perceived threat to the rickety scaffolding of my precisely-curated Cool Guy identity. Because I can assure you that it will take more than the mere acknowledgement and passive acceptance of that which lies outside of my Sphere of Snobbery to send my sense of self collapsing into the void. I assure you.