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Madeline's avatar

Omg have you seen the abbot elementary episode about Bluey?!

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

no i dont have time i only watch bluey

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Madeline's avatar

bluey watches YOU

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

wait really?

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Madeline's avatar

he's a devoted BAT follower

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

BAT HEADS WE CALL THEM BAT HAEDS

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Madeline's avatar

what do u mean "them"

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Madeline's avatar

Omg I love this!!

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Geoffrey Golden's avatar

Spookily relatable! I just watched Bluey for the first time recently and it’s very good.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

BLUEY IS SO GOOD I have been Bluey-pilled it is all I talk about I am gonna write an essay on this soon lolol.

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Dane Benko's avatar

"Watch your partner shower the baby with goodbye kisses, repeating over and over “I am going to miss you so much!” then turn to you, quickly say “k bye,” and walk out the door."

I don't have children yet but I think you just fortold my future.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

there is nothing more haunting than this experience, and it happens daily

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Myq Kaplan's avatar

alex!

it's great!

some specific greats include:

-- You rent.

-- Even though you clean it like really well actually, it reeks.

-- Worse...It’s you.

-- that half-bird, half-human beast: The Algorithm.

-- your homes away from home: Zillow.

-- turning every phrase into an acronym just like your dad. (JLYD!)

-- the babysitter is a better parent than you will ever be.

-- the great puppetmaster Capitalism controls your every move

-- a show about Australian dogs that is somehow also about everything?

-- Happy was always just right here, under your nose, you normal little ghoul you.

love it all! love you! thank you! i halloween you!

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

can't believe i missed the JLYD acronym. I need to do better and frankly? I will

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Myq Kaplan's avatar

i know you will.

ps did you know that DB Cooper is short for Do Better Cooper? starting now?

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

dat's bullshit

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Myq Kaplan's avatar

Dude! Beautiful!

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Sue Ferrera's avatar

What's new? I love this. Nothing new.

But I just want to say how refreshing it is to read/listen to a comedian with a heart, or more accurately, willing to show his heart. It's unique and wonderful. 💟

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

welp consider this heart melted thank you for that Sue truly!!

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Edward Rooster's avatar

This was so much fun, I'm going to go say "spooky" in a bad impersonation of how you did it.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

audio proof or it didn't happen

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Edward Rooster's avatar

I have something better, if only I had posted this yesterday for its holiday efficacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF9O6fne6nE 0:55 to 1:10 and 1:37 to 1:44

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Coline's avatar

Spooky! (Yet strangely appealing... where does one go about acquiring such a wild beast? Asking for a friend)

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

hahaha I am told there is a process by which such a thing can happen. it is both magic and horror and mostly just horror.

here's a useful very current video to help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfWi54Yef5M

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Coline's avatar

Wow thanks! As a sex therapist I’m always happy to have useful, modern, educational videos like this one. AND it confirms my thoughts that one needs to be in a Hitchcock-like movie to get the aforementioned alien/beast/blood-sucking cutie.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

hahaha omg that would be an amazing angle as a sex therapist - ONLY using videos from the 1950s or earlier. Glad I could help

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Jane Ratcliffe's avatar

"The fundamental belief of your life - that you must be special so that you can be happy, is false. Happy was always just right here, under your nose, you normal little ghoul you." Truth. When I fall into this space, I'm deeply content. It's easy to go in and out, in and out. Luckily, it becomes easier to find it again and again.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

I agree Jane I feel like most of life is just trying to find that good place again

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Jillian Hess's avatar

Aging feels like a haunted house! Love the greeting cards. So classy.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

I know!! The whole site - https://freevintageillustrations.com/ is amazing

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Jillian Hess's avatar

Ooooo -- I am going to get lost in this rabbit hole for a while.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

hahah omg i have endless rabbit holes, u just lmk when ready for another haha

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Dobes's avatar

Ha ha! “The bottomless champagne problem…” Oh, yes. What a spooky treat this is!

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

the privilege is haunting

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Anne Kadet's avatar

My favorite part: Cruise through the demented properties as a familiar voice that sounds like your mother but with a faint echo moans “you coulda been a lawyer, look how good you are arguing with us about it - that’s what lawyers do, they argue - “

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

hahahahah thank you Anne lol

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Nicci Kadilak's avatar

More perfection from my good friend, Sasha. YES! Definitely McSweeney’s worthy. If they rejected this, they’re insane.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

thank you Nicci!!

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Neal Bascomb's avatar

Nicely done, and loved the vintage illustrations too!

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

thanks so much Neal!!

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Rachael Rejiester's avatar

That pumpkin head... .is about to eat a pumpkin pie. Cannibal pumpkins??

Also Bluey is the best.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

ok I have spent way too much time googling all the phrases in your comment + Barenaked ladies but have turned up nothing SO THE STREAK IS OVER hahaha

I did find this though: https://how-i-met-your-mother.fandom.com/wiki/The_Slutty_Pumpkin_Returns

Looks like in that episode, one of te characters sings Barenaked Ladies lol

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Rachael Rejiester's avatar

Sorry to disappoint, I didn't have time to work BNL into that one!

Did you know that Barenaked Ladies guest starred in the Peach Pit on Beverly Hills 90210? And I'm old so we're talking OLD SKOOL 90210.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

hahaha I did not know that ! I am slightly younger I think, as I came up in the inter-90210 years, after the original but before the new one. This is why I am so broken

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Rachael Rejiester's avatar

I’m Gen X. We wrote the book on being broken. Or disaffected. Or grunge. Or something.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

assuming as gen xers yall never published that book tho yea?

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Rachael Rejiester's avatar

Meh. We'll get to it. Maybe.

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