The weeping angel you called ugly? She can’t even look at herself in the mirror. See that unemotional Cybermen? He used to be one of us. The Oods that you make fun of? They get treated as slaves everyday. The lady that you called crazy? She knows all of time and space. See the weird man with the bowtie and the fez? He’s the loneliest man in the universe. Reblog this if you’re against bullying in the Time-Space Continuum.
“If you don’t reblog, you only have one heart.”
Fandom legitimizes everything.
It’s about time one of these made the rounds. Next I want a Sherlock one. Do itttttt
GLOBAL PETROLEUM CRISIS?
HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT BREAKING YOUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL BY RUNNING EVERYTHING ON THE ENERGY OUTPUT OF MY ADORABLENESS?
WE COULD EASILY POWER MOST OF NEW YORK OFF WHAT YOU’RE FEELING RIGHT NOW, AND THIS ISN’T EVEN MY PINSTRIPE BOW TIE.
I can also sort out your Dalek problem.
Variety: “Yates to direct bigscreen ‘Doctor Who’”
“Harry Potter” director David Yates is teaming up with the BBC to turn its iconic sci-fi TV series “Doctor Who” into a bigscreen franchise.
Yates, who directed the last four Potter films, told Daily Variety that he is about to start work on developing a “Doctor Who” movie with Jane Tranter, head of L.A.-based BBC Worldwide Prods.
“We’re looking at writers now. We’re going to spend two to three years to get it right,” he said. “It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena.”
11.11.11
yay
The Eleventh second
Of the Eleventh Minute
Of the Eleventh Hour
Of the Eleventh Day
Of the Eleventh Month
Of the Eleventh Year
We will remember them.
“Same procedure as last year?…”
Something unusual happens in a significant number of European countries, mostly (but not all) German-speaking, on or around New Year’s Eve. The TV stations begin showing the same 20-minute comedy sketch again and again, making it the single most-rerun television program in Earth’s history.
What’s truly unusual about this is that the sketch is in English — recorded nearly fifty years ago in front of a German audience — and has since become a cult classic. For a surprising number of German-speaking people, the words “Same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?” are not only the English-language phrase they know best, but are held in the same kind of hilarious context as the phrases “No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!” or “It is an ex-parrot!”
The sketch “Dinner for One” — the German name of the sketch translates as “The 90th Birthday” — has nothing in particular to do with New Year’s (though one “virtually present” character does say “Happy New Year” at one point). It tells the story of a birthday party. Miss Sophie (played by actress May Warden) is 90, and the table is set for herself and her four friends: Sir Toby, Admiral von Schneider, Mr. Pommeroy, and Mr. Winterbottom. Unfortunately, the ravages of time have taken their toll, and of the five of them, only Miss Sophie is still alive.
Assisting at the dinner is James, Miss Sophie’s butler (played by veteran British comedian Freddie Frinton). It falls to him not only to serve dinner, but to impersonate the four missing persons for a lady who may or may not be entirely clear that her friend are no longer precisely among the living. As part of the act, James has to drink their traditional toasts to Miss Sophie — all of them — and gets progressively more sloshed as dinner progresses. But he just keeps soldiering on, despite that pesky tiger skin…. The sketch is a tremendous showcase of Freddie Frinton’s mastery of comic timing — and of May Warden’s, mostly a business of exuding an aura of blissful calm, and thereby holding the position of the perfect comic foil. (Fellow Whovians / Dr.Who fans: Warden also appeared as the aged Sara Kingdom in episodes 4-12 of the classic Dr. Who story “The Daleks’ Master Plan”, in 1965-66.)
This year, over at EuropeanCuisines.com, between December 27th and December 30th, we’re going to re-enact the epic dinner for those interested in making it themselves. (And don’t think this is an original idea: lots of Dinner-For-One fans across the Continent prepare this dinner for family and friends every year, but this — I think — is the first time it will have been done as an exercise in foodblogging.) We’ll certainly be posting the recipes, with best-guess estimates of what they would have looked like in Miss Sophie’s day, and what they might look like now.
Stand by for further developments!
Meanwhile, for those of you who haven’t seen this comedy classic, behold a YouTube version.
