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[MrRoboto75]

Anupodes sounds like a crappy Greek.

*cough*

Probably a real asshole.

Probably better than Testicles (Pronounced like Hercules, Test-ti-clease)

[hector13]

Anupodes sounds like a crappy Greek.

*cough*

Probably a real asshole.

Probably better than Testicles (Pronounced like Hercules, Test-ti-clease)

He’s a good hang though. Shrivels I’ll a bit in the cold though.

[brewer bob]

Anupodes sounds like a crappy Greek.

*cough*

Probably a real asshole.

Probably better than Testicles (Pronounced like Hercules, Test-ti-clease)

Okay, now I need Sam Raimi to produce a crappy fantasy series with that title and Kevin Sorbo starring as the main character. Maybe the side-kick of Testicles could be Anupodes?

[Frumple]

Sorbo's, like... doing weird b-list christian movies nowadays or something, I think? He's gone places since the hercules days. Probably wouldn't be able to cast him for it, for better or worse.

[Lord Shonus]

His hard right turn seems to have come right after an aneurysm caused a series of strokes.

[pisskop]

What even is this thread activity? Is the forum having a storke for everyone, or is it just (for) me?

whoa, dark template, its been a while

[heydude6]

Welp, just got spooked by algorithmic Big Brother again.

I watched a knowledge hub video quite a while ago about the the competition between streaming services, and the guy makes an offhand mention about some old black&white courtroom drama called Perry Mason. The whole point of the remark was that it was a show that nobody remembers in the present day.


Today while using Firefox and browsing Pocket articles (I consider it important to stay up to date on current news), an article about Perry Mason shows up in my feed...

Now what spooks me is not the fact that an algorithm remembered that I watched a Youtube video and decided to latch onto an insignificant detail and recommend me content based off it, it's the fact that someone wrote a Perry mason article in [Current year]!

Either there's some sort of underground Perry Mason movement going on that managed to incept the youtuber with the idea of the show¹, or whoever is in charge of deciding what kind of articles to write somehow saw the unusual buzz in the comments section that remark made (either directly or through something like google trends) and commissioned an article to try to capitalize on something that they thought was going to be significant.

Spoiler: Some example comments (click to show/hide)

6:20 you just watch, there's gonna be a massive surge of kids watching Perry Mason just to spite you.

As someone who turns twenty in less than two months, I think I might watch Perry Mason.

I technically just turned 30 but I like Perry Mason

f Netflix licensed Perry Mason they wouldn’t have lost those 1 million subscribers.

Either way, it's kind of sad nowadays that you can't just have a moment on the internet without worrying about whether a corporation is going to get its hands on it.

¹Sometimes I wonder if they did that with the Sopranos to promote the at-the-time-upcoming prequel The Many Saints of Newark?

[EuchreJack]

...I know about Perry Mason. 

[JoshuaFH]

I mean, Perry Mason is an old show but it's hardly forgotten about. In the recent court trial where Alex Jones gets sued out of existence, Alex himself states to the opposing lawyer something like "I get it, this is your Perry Mason moment." just to emphasize to everyone that, paradoxically, Alex himself is in the wrong and he's about to get his ass kicked justifiably.

[King Zultan]

I also know about and have watched Perry Mason, also I wouldn't think the show was unknown because Ozzy Osbourne wrote a song about it.

[scriver]

There was a Perry Mason remake just a few years ago too

[ChairmanPoo]

Well of course there was. It's obvious Ally McVeal was a gender-flipped Perry Mason remake.

[TamerVirus]

Some goon stole a Beechcraft plane and is threatening random towns in Mississippi right now.
We’ll see how the situation unfolds. It’s bound to run out of fuel soon…

[Rolan7]

Perry Mason is streaming on the service with all the Star Treks, my dad showed me a few episodes at his place.  It's pretty great!  We had honest fun trying to figure out the twists ahead of time, and they're surprisingly unpredictable for a trope-builder show like this.

We've been watching Tombstone Territory from that era too.  More predictable yet still less than I thought.

[Il Palazzo]

Some goon stole a Beechcraft plane and is threatening random towns in Mississippi right now.
We’ll see how the situation unfolds. It’s bound to run out of fuel soon…

Threatening the towns with what? That he'll land there?