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Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013
G-Fafif Jan 01 2013 09:36 AM |
The 2012 thread is here. A survey of Mets Pop Culture in 2012 can be found here.
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The Second Spitter Jan 04 2013 12:57 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Futurama is set in year 3001 -- the good news is Shea will be rebuilt at some point in the future (and demolished again). The bad news is the Mets will not another World Series until at least 3001.
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Mets – Willets Point Jan 04 2013 01:33 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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Cheapass Wilpon heads in a jar.
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Lefty Specialist Jan 04 2013 07:31 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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If I'd been in a car while reading this, I would have driven off the road.
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metirish Jan 07 2013 06:52 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
The guy from Glee
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Edgy MD Jan 07 2013 07:42 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
That's more of a MLBS post than a MPCS post, no?
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metirish Jan 07 2013 07:44 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Oh, my bad.....
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Edgy MD Jan 07 2013 07:54 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Well, certainly not bad.
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Ceetar Jan 07 2013 08:02 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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no no, This was pre-conception of Citi Field. In that world the Mets kept Shea up as a museum when they moved to Citi Field where they won numerous championships. That's my story, sticking to it.
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MFS62 Jan 07 2013 09:42 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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Continuing that thought, it is preserved as a shrine by the Jerry Seinfeld financial group that bought the team from the Wilpons and turned it into perrennial Champions. Later
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G-Fafif Jan 18 2013 09:57 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Now this is some detective work.
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Edgy MD Jan 19 2013 07:52 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
You don't have to be the world's greatest detective to see that
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Ceetar Jan 19 2013 08:43 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Learned a new word from that article, chyron, which is apparently used wrong since it's meant to represent the _bottom_ graphics on screens, and is a company name (so it's the Dumpster of rubbish bins)
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 19 2013 10:09 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Jan 19 2013 10:55 AM |
Meh. The BBC update it rips from might be a better place to start. (Elementary:Sherlock::Mets-Era Bay:Old Bay)
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Ceetar Jan 19 2013 10:17 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
been intrigued by Sherlock via Doctor Who commercial breaks.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 19 2013 10:55 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Cumberbatch and Freeman are individually good... and work beautifully together. (Plus, the whole thing's only a few filmed "episodes" long.)
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Vic Sage Jan 19 2013 12:18 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
SHERLOCK kicks serious ass; ELEMENTARY is eh.
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Frayed Knot Jan 19 2013 12:46 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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I've been giving it a try but, like Vic said, it's pretty much eh. It's essentially the Holmes story as filtered through 'HOUSE' -- which, when you consider that HOUSE was itself a re-ordered Sherlock Holmes, kind of brings it around full circle. Problem is that in the attempt to model this version of Sherlock Holmes on Greg House (right down to the self-centered obnoxiousness and the constant unshaven look) they've exaggerated the weak parts the earlier show while not hitting the high notes. Like if you think House pulled conclusions out of his ass wait'll you see this guy; but yet the show doesn't have near the humor of the early years in HOUSE.
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Edgy MD Jan 19 2013 01:22 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Well, if the inning sequence depicted there isn't "right out of his ass," then I don't know what. What kind of idiot would write in a bases-empty-intentional-walk when down by one in the ninth? What kind of lousy Mets fan must Lucy Liu be if she didn't flag it?
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Lefty Specialist Jan 19 2013 03:35 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
I'm impressed that somebody would devote such an incredible amount of time to dissecting 26 seconds of a TV episode.
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Farmer Ted Jan 23 2013 10:15 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Noticed last night Vincent Irizarry as Corporal Fragetti sporting a Mets blue cap (with blue button) in Heartbreak Ridge.
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G-Fafif Feb 27 2013 05:41 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Just been told that in the novel Heft by Liz Nelson, one of the characters is a high school senior being scouted by the Mets.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 28 2013 12:00 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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In this discussion of the new documentary "Kink" and BDSM/roleplay's progress in the culture... a weird, proud little Metly connection:
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Mets – Willets Point Feb 28 2013 07:14 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Cacao!
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G-Fafif Feb 28 2013 07:48 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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That's kind of a cool word... [youtube]ldQGPwuHhkM[/youtube] (NSFW-ish.)
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G-Fafif Feb 28 2013 09:34 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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[youtube]MLwzmtuxP1c[/youtube]
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G-Fafif Mar 11 2013 12:58 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
From Girls, 3/10/2013:
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G-Fafif Mar 17 2013 05:30 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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Opening this Friday, festival favorite Gimme The Loot, in which the Apple takes center stage:
Key plot point revealed early in this trailer.
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G-Fafif Apr 01 2013 05:33 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
New reality show, Anybody Here Can Play This Game, that promises one lucky fan a chance to be a New York Mets outfielder. You'd be foolish not to try out.
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Mets – Willets Point Apr 05 2013 08:40 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
The latest Tom the Dancing Bug comic strip has a Metly theme. Looks like Louis is a member of the SBS.
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G-Fafif Apr 26 2013 07:25 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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G-Fafif Apr 30 2013 02:21 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Metstradamus features Jons Hamm and Stewart trading baseball barbs Monday night, as Cardinal and Met fans will do. Note JS slipping in a Cleon Jones that nobody in his audience or at his desk gets but probably everyone here will.
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Swan Swan H Apr 30 2013 02:39 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
In the QA thread I asked who should play Atticus Finch in a remake of 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' Edgy went with Viggo Mortensen, but Jon Hamm would be my call.
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Zvon Apr 30 2013 02:51 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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This was priceless.
One of my all time favorite movies. Tough shoes to fill. Peck was perfect. Hamm could be.
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Benjamin Grimm May 23 2013 08:15 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
On Showtime's Nurse Jackie (starring Mets fan Edie Falco) this week, a drunk and ranting Mets fan was brought into the Emergency Room after smashing his face against the side of a bus. He was enraged by the sight of a Yankees logo on the bus, so he bashed the logo with his face.
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G-Fafif Jun 11 2013 08:07 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
"I get baseball tickets -- mostly the Mets."
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 21 2013 12:40 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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'Mad Men' mocks Mets 45 m ago By Neil Best Linda Cardellini as Sylvia Rosen and Jon Hamm as Don Draper in a scene from "Mad Men." The season finale airs June 23 on AMC.
http://www.newsday.com/sports/media/wat ... -1.5541258 The Mad Men discover the dead body of Lane Pryce; in the background, a Mets pennant, circa 1965
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G-Fafif Aug 02 2013 09:56 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Two very Mets-heavy episodes of The Newsroom, though maybe not exactly airing on HBO.
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SteveJRogers Aug 02 2013 11:21 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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I miss having the White House Deputy Chief Of Staff hoping against hope that he'd be able to share a bromance moment with Mike Piazza during a batting practice in Port Saint Lucie...
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G-Fafif Aug 05 2013 04:29 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Minority Mets owner Bill Maher offered guest Jay-Z a blinged-up black Mets cap on Friday's Real Time. Jay-Z declined not, he said, because it's the Mets, but because it was too sparkly. Mr. Carter added when his uncle took him to his first baseball game as a kid, it was a Mets game...but that he was lured to dark side anyway.
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G-Fafif Aug 20 2013 04:41 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Throwback Mets Pop Culture Sighting from Season One, Episode Six of The Odd Couple ("Oscar's Ulcer"), first aired October 29, 1970: Felix (enters restaurant, approaches Oscar): "You said you wanted your freedom. Freedom to you means either a hot tamale or a night baseball game. The Mets are out of town."
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Frayed Knot Aug 31 2013 08:11 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Saturday NY Times Crossword
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Edgy MD Aug 31 2013 08:27 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
That bmfc-starring reality show clip is cash money. Go, bmfc!
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bmfc1 Aug 31 2013 03:38 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Thank you Edgy.
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themetfairy Sep 03 2013 09:06 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Mr. Met was a participant in Jon Stewart's return to The Daily Show this evening.
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G-Fafif Sep 03 2013 10:36 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Mr. Met made sure what had to go down went down. And as has been the case in his myriad popular culture appearances, Mr. Met brought to this role an incredible amount of versatility and believability for someone who doesn't speak and wears the same expression at all times.
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Edgy MD Sep 04 2013 07:17 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
I'm still coming out against Conan turning him into a hooker.
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bmfc1 Sep 04 2013 08:29 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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G-Fafif Sep 24 2013 05:56 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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Not exactly a pop culture sighting, but this caught my Metsian eye, from The New Republic's profile of estranged Clinton retainer/handler Doug Band.
Unless research on this article began five or more years ago, that's a pretty nifty allusion for 2013.
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G-Fafif Sep 25 2013 06:27 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Spotted in the audience at The Colbert Report on September 24 as the Emmy-winning host thanked his staff (filling all the seats for the occasion): Mr. Met.
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Edgy MD Sep 25 2013 07:48 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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I think a little footwork and you can probably definitively name this un-named former senior aide outright.
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seawolf17 Sep 27 2013 02:23 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
How is this guy a Mets fan? This whole thing reads MFYs.
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G-Fafif Nov 01 2013 10:40 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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G-Fafif Nov 07 2013 09:25 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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Go To Hell, Mike Piazza, a Ben Stiller (and Mike Piazza) vehicle has existed in script form since 2001. Premise: Ben Stiller believed his life had been ruined by Mike Piazza.
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Edgy MD Nov 07 2013 09:41 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
I'd kind of be disappointed NOT to see this script resurface as Go to Hell, Giancarlo Stanton and Go to Hell, Bryce Harper and Go to Hell, Travis D'Arnaud as the years pass, maybe finally seeing the light of day in 2037 as Go to Hell, Anesh Vanu.
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Mets – Willets Point Nov 07 2013 09:46 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Go To Hell, Matt Harvey might work. Move it from Pennsylvania to Connecticut. They're going to have to find someone younger than Stiller for the Slider role.
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seawolf17 Nov 07 2013 09:52 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
I'm already tired of everyone bashing the Wilpons over the Vanu deal. NOBODY thought he was going to be a big-time player, and we did get 150 productive at-bats out of Anthony Recker II that summer in return.
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Frayed Knot Nov 10 2013 10:35 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
NY Times Sunday Crossword: 18-Down -- First Mets manager _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Ceetar Nov 10 2013 01:17 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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I never came close to finishing Sunday's anyway. Actually, I miss doing crosswords. The times app is only for iPhone for some reason, and the app I used doesn't get Newsday's anymore. I'm not attached to any others..recommendations?
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G-Fafif Nov 11 2013 03:11 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Vince Vaughn wears a Mets t-shirt in the commercial for Delivery Man.
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Frayed Knot Nov 11 2013 03:25 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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Buying a newspaper?
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Ceetar Nov 11 2013 03:31 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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They still sell those?
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 12 2013 06:49 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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You beat me to it!
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themetfairy Nov 25 2013 09:03 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
On this evening's episode of How I Met Your Mother, Ted reads a newspaper headline that says, "Mets Mathematically Eliminated."
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HahnSolo Nov 26 2013 11:19 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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Was that a repeat from May?
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 26 2013 11:29 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
OH SNAP!
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G-Fafif Nov 26 2013 12:10 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
On Raising Hope last Friday (a series Sandy Alderson clearly wants nothing to do with), a character who is making a viral video in which different kinds of fruit represent different famous athletes needs to come up with the name of a baseball player that he can use to turn into a Strawberry-related pun...and after thinking long and hard about it lands on "Strawberry Bonds".
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Frayed Knot Nov 30 2013 09:21 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
NY Times Saturday XWORD
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G-Fafif Dec 30 2013 12:09 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
The second annual Oscar's Caps, FAFIF's recognition of Mets pop culture sightings from the year just about gone by, both contemporary and vintage. (Much of it tracked in this here thread.)
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Zvon Dec 30 2013 08:11 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
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I had to view the Godzilla cartoon and see how they treated Shea. Not bad, could be worse. I won't bust em for the scoreboard placement and whatnot cause it is Shea, and they call it that. And the dialogue near the end about how the Mets suck (that's why the guy dreamed up a monster to attack Shea, cuz the Mets sucked, lol. He was a fan.) makes it a classic. In this shot the stadium looks most like Shea. These? Not so much. The back of the scoreboard looks close enough. They both knew better than to destroy the scoreboard. That's respect. And then they take it outside and mess with my favorite rendition of our globe on the globe, the Unisphere! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! He broke it. gah! You can't throw anything at Godzilla. He'll turn it into a global weapon of dream creature destruction! Episode on youtube has the wrong name. It's listed under the ep Leviathan. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW4tJK75H1E
Gotta make the list. Unless these appearances are all supposed to be in the past. [url]http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/ynqt7p/futurama-giant-fight Futurama ep is called Anthology of Interest I.
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themetfairy Jan 14 2014 10:25 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
Tom Seaver on the cover of Wine Spectator magazine
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Edgy MD Jan 14 2014 10:44 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013 |
I would have loved to adapt the unisphere --- or a reasonable facsimile --- into the nu ballpark's design.
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