We Love the Internet 2023/38: The 50 worst decisions in TV history edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Hollywood Strike Forces A Reckoning For The Trades
• Where do fonts come from? This one business, mostly
• Why Bill Watterson Vanished

Reference points:

• The 50 Worst Decisions in TV History
• Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links — Check for Yourself
• A literary history of fake texts in Apple’s marketing materials
• Every John Wick Kill, Ranked

Longer reads:

• The Real Cost of Good Movies (And How To Pay For It)

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Feature Films That Began As Shorts: Watch The Originals
• Top 100 Boss Fight 3D Montage
• A Fun Film About a Topic That Scares Me a Lot
• hi, it’s okay to audition kthxbye

Things to look at/read:

• “Going shopping” is dead
• ‘Lost in Translation’ at 20: A Tokyo perspective
• Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?

Animal corner:

• So sheep dog is out of the question for Frankie
• Pt. 2 Yorkshire pudding thief
• “Hot Sauce” and his Sandals!
• My name is Kevin and I will be your dance instructor for today.
• Literal tears being shed
• Klart hunden ska ha chips

Tweets of the week:

• About time
• when you have the signing of the Magna Carta at 5 and David Guetta at 9
• Come get my hoes.
• Honestly Sting looks VERY different without the face paint
• This is the type of video vought would put out when homelander would kill someone

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘At first I tried to be polite, not to hurt his feelings’: how a regular ‘liker’ on social media became my stalker
• ‘Let’s Let the Squirrel Out of the Bag’
• Everything You Never Knew About Competitive Eating

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