i think they realized she can't be that one-dimension AND stay the main character, it's like if "Friends" was called "Phoebe"
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Thursday, 9 February 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
one-dimensional
Yeah, I don't think she's stayed exactly the same either. She's much less awkward and doesn't randomly burst into song nearly as much. I feel like she even dresses differently but maybe I'm misremembering.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 9 February 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
She doesn't seem to dress quite so hideously as she does in the opening titles and did in the first few episodes, when she wore clothes that seemed specially designed to make her look gawky and terrible, like Harrison Ford's clothes in Mosquito Coast.
― trishyb, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Now I feel like creating a Harrison Ford in "Mosquito Coast - damn, damn, damn does this man look good" thread but I will abstain.
― A funnier, sunnier (Nicole), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
they really need to ditch those opening titles
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
or at least play the whole thing so it's clear the guys are very obviously being put upon
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's the thing: the show initially seemed to be making the bold move of casting a popular attractive actress as a fairly unattractive character who was almost painfully awkward. ("Bold" != "fun to watch") The character seems much more comfortable and conventionally feminine in some ways now, more of a 'cute girl who likes ribbons and cupcakes'. (And it happened too fast to fall into an 'ugly duckling' narrative arc.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
awesome photoshop action, folks:http://www.rimmellondon.com/uk/sites/rimmellondon.com.uk/files/imagecache/rimmel_products_new_product_shot/PRODUCT_NewProduct_LastingFinishLipstick_UK_2.jpg
― stet, Monday, 20 February 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
wtf
― Number None, Monday, 20 February 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
ahhh!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 20 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
why would they try to make her less attractive?
― Number None, Monday, 20 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
LOL
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 20 February 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
hire a celebrity to pitch yr wares then render them unrecognizable, advertising genius!
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 February 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
From her website. GTFO.
http://hellogiggles.com/item-of-the-day-252
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
websites very much in character
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Alessandra Rizzotti is a former child model who currently works for the R-rated cartoon show Family Guy. She’s written for Smith, Heeb and Neave's online magazines, and has been published in two Harper Perennial books. Alessandra lives in Silverlake where she makes terrariums and spends time with her five animals, Maude the dog, cats Hunter, Max and Princess Bunny Buttons, as well as her boyfriend, who she affectionately calls "Bear". You can see more of her work here and there, but maybe just follow her everywhere.
I can't.
― Nicole, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
i know! i too was terribly bothered by the missing animal. maude, hunter, max and princess bb = four, only four!
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
slipshod imo
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
the fifth animal is her boyfriend
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
"Bear"
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
It's confusing.
I would say "...spends time her five animals: Maude the dog; cats Hunter, Max, and Princess Bunny Buttons; and her boyfriend, whom she affectionately calls 'Bear.'"
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
what a surprisingly horribly formed joke from someone who thinks it's funny to name their pet "princess bunny buttons"
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
can I just say, byline photos like hers are one of my biggest pet peeves
like, if that's what you're going to go with, why don't you just put up a picture of smiley face and rainbows wrapped around a unicorn and call it day
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
i like adventure time, am not above "princess bunny buttons"
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls9grrYC871qbccqbo1_400.jpg
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
lol the text box that pops up if you scroll your mouse over the picture is 'AlessandraRizzotti_childmodel_familyguy'
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
"Alessandra lives in Silverlake where she makes terrariums"
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
Why point out that Family Guy is R-rated?
― Like a Leppard Messiah (Michael White), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
especially since it isn't
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
b/c she's "naughty"
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
it kind of is
i mean TV 14 is probably the closest analogue to an R rating if we're comparing TV content ratings and movie content ratings (xpost)
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
there's nothing on non-cable network television that wouldn't appear in a PG-13 movie
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
where she makes terrariums
How does someone 'make' a terranium? You fling a load of soil and plants into a fishbowl, that's it!
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i've always been bothered when people say they "made" a painting or drawing. you didn't make shit. you just put some crap on some other crap. you put a painting.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
It's like the horticulture equiv of Sandra Lee.
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
if every terrarium came with a matching theme cocktail, the world would be much improved
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
how can people make anything if the atoms already existed, really only god can make
― iatee, Friday, 24 February 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
xp The cocktail would have to be green. A pint of Absinthe served with a twig and sprayed with pine air freshner? "I call this my Forest Glade cocktail"
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
I really want to make a terrarium but I keep forgetting to get the stuff I need. It's a standing item on my to do list. It says:
terrarium!succulents!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
earth!
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
tiny ceramic skeleton!
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
I actually already have earth! it's the one component I have. I also need a container but I'm still shopping around for one of those.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
This is the one I want but it's insanely overpriced: secret forest
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
nice. my gf has been researching terrarium containers recently...
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
$160 yargh
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
This is the dawning of the age of terrariums, apparently.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
that $160 seems like a bargain compared to the "large danish terrarium" at $225
this is why i can't have nice things
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link