John Ananias
@burtonesque.bsky.social
The frozen yogurt of people: Fine, but no one's first choice. Film person/aspiring filmmaker. @Burtonesque89 on Letterboxd. I blather on about movies and SNL and Futurama/The Simpsons and the Tim Burton oeuvre, and there's very little else to me.
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John Ananias
@burtonesque.bsky.social
· Oct 10
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · SATURDADY NIGHT LISTOMANIA - TOP 50 SNL SHORT FILMS/CARTOONS/MUSIC VIDEOS · 50. FAREWELL, MR. BUNTING (season 41, 5/21/16 Fred Armisen episode)
"The sudden burst of gore and grueso…
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IIIIIT'S 50! Time to start sharing the #SNL lists/rankings I've been assembling, starting with TOP 50 SHORT FILMS/CARTOONS/MUSIC VIDEOS. Tomorrow (I hope), TOP 50 LIVE SKETCHES. More to come after that. Further lists will be dropped as replies to this post.
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It's been fun seeing #SNL writers who aren't often in movies in THREE different movies the last couple months (Jim Downey in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, Conan in IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU, The Herlihy Boy in THE RUNNING MAN) - at this rate, I'll walk into HAMNET half-expecting a Jack Handey sighting.
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
It's been fun seeing #SNL writers who aren't often in movies in THREE different movies the last couple months (Jim Downey in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, Conan in IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU, The Herlihy Boy in THE RUNNING MAN) - at this rate, I'll walk into HAMNET half-expecting a Jack Handey sighting.
Hold the phone...Was "Chuck E's in Love" about Charles Entertainment Cheese himself this whole time? I'M CRACKING THIS CASE WIDE OPEN!
December 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Hold the phone...Was "Chuck E's in Love" about Charles Entertainment Cheese himself this whole time? I'M CRACKING THIS CASE WIDE OPEN!
Couldn't even get through the DOWNEY WROTE THAT doc without a clip of a WU joke about Tr*** (and Marla Maples). The makers of it knew what they were doing there, but....Heaven fucking forbid someone gets AN HOUR away from this perpetual disgrace.
Humbug.
Humbug.
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Couldn't even get through the DOWNEY WROTE THAT doc without a clip of a WU joke about Tr*** (and Marla Maples). The makers of it knew what they were doing there, but....Heaven fucking forbid someone gets AN HOUR away from this perpetual disgrace.
Humbug.
Humbug.
Okay, Mariah, as long as you've thought about what you've done, NOW you can come out.
December 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Okay, Mariah, as long as you've thought about what you've done, NOW you can come out.
Can you be feck𝑓𝑢𝑙?
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Can you be feck𝑓𝑢𝑙?
Well, doesn't ANYTHING I post "count" toward this "Post something random or you'll have an awful December" chain-post kajigger?
Shows whoever started that one, I'LL have an awful December anyway!
Shows whoever started that one, I'LL have an awful December anyway!
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Well, doesn't ANYTHING I post "count" toward this "Post something random or you'll have an awful December" chain-post kajigger?
Shows whoever started that one, I'LL have an awful December anyway!
Shows whoever started that one, I'LL have an awful December anyway!
A movie being under 100 minutes is not itself a virtue and, "That movie is under 100 minutes" is not an interesting or incisive thought.
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A movie being under 100 minutes is not itself a virtue and, "That movie is under 100 minutes" is not an interesting or incisive thought.
No one who I've ever heard talk about Reddit has EVER made it sound like it's a GOOD idea to go on Reddit.
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
No one who I've ever heard talk about Reddit has EVER made it sound like it's a GOOD idea to go on Reddit.
Sometimes your conversation among friends about a movie you MOSTLY like leads with/largely hinges on the stuff you hate, thus it seems like you basically hate the movie when really, it's like a 3/5 kind of a movie with flaws that really undermine it.
Anyway, no, YOU just saw WICKED: FOR GOOD!
Anyway, no, YOU just saw WICKED: FOR GOOD!
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Sometimes your conversation among friends about a movie you MOSTLY like leads with/largely hinges on the stuff you hate, thus it seems like you basically hate the movie when really, it's like a 3/5 kind of a movie with flaws that really undermine it.
Anyway, no, YOU just saw WICKED: FOR GOOD!
Anyway, no, YOU just saw WICKED: FOR GOOD!
Just saw a film school compatriot of mine from a few years back log THE BLUES BROTHERS on Letterboxd after watching it for the first time, and...I was just SO relieved at how glowing he was about it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Just saw a film school compatriot of mine from a few years back log THE BLUES BROTHERS on Letterboxd after watching it for the first time, and...I was just SO relieved at how glowing he was about it.
I've heard some folks say WAKE UP DEAD MAN is their favorite Benoit Blanc movie. I've heard some folks say WAKE UP DEAD MAN is the weakest Benoit Blanc movie. You know what this mixed-in-a-way reception has me thinking?
I don't care, it's a Benoit Blanc movie, just stick it into my veins!
I don't care, it's a Benoit Blanc movie, just stick it into my veins!
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I've heard some folks say WAKE UP DEAD MAN is their favorite Benoit Blanc movie. I've heard some folks say WAKE UP DEAD MAN is the weakest Benoit Blanc movie. You know what this mixed-in-a-way reception has me thinking?
I don't care, it's a Benoit Blanc movie, just stick it into my veins!
I don't care, it's a Benoit Blanc movie, just stick it into my veins!
"Spectre" SHOULD be the proper spelling! Or at least acceptable for the vaguely pretentious!
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"Spectre" SHOULD be the proper spelling! Or at least acceptable for the vaguely pretentious!
Like the holiday itself, this one's not as good or fun as my Halloween or Christmas ones, but...playlist! #SNL
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A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving - YouTube
I'm going out on a limb with this compilation, running afield from how NBC's done it, and NOT just including sketches that involve food, but rather the holid...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Like the holiday itself, this one's not as good or fun as my Halloween or Christmas ones, but...playlist! #SNL
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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If anyone I follow - or in the circle of anyone I follow - is looking for someone to fill a proofreader/copy editor job, especially one who could work remotely/from home...I'm in pursuit of such a thing. Better still if it's a film-related outlet, as I have degrees in the field & can sort of write.
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
If anyone I follow - or in the circle of anyone I follow - is looking for someone to fill a proofreader/copy editor job, especially one who could work remotely/from home...I'm in pursuit of such a thing. Better still if it's a film-related outlet, as I have degrees in the field & can sort of write.
It's come to my attention that the Bowser from the Super Mario Bros. franchise is NOT also the guy from Sha Na Na.
More as this story develops/as I deal with this shock to the system.
More as this story develops/as I deal with this shock to the system.
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
It's come to my attention that the Bowser from the Super Mario Bros. franchise is NOT also the guy from Sha Na Na.
More as this story develops/as I deal with this shock to the system.
More as this story develops/as I deal with this shock to the system.
Not every set of three is a 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦. You can limit your Bond intake to the first three, but that doesn't mean GOLDFINGER's the last in a 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦. I sure hope WAKE UP DEAD MAN isn't the third - and thus, final - of a 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 (narratively, the first two Benoit Blanc yarns sure don't suggest it).
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Not every set of three is a 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦. You can limit your Bond intake to the first three, but that doesn't mean GOLDFINGER's the last in a 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦. I sure hope WAKE UP DEAD MAN isn't the third - and thus, final - of a 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 (narratively, the first two Benoit Blanc yarns sure don't suggest it).
Using "The Human Torch was denied a bank loan" as a vocal warm-up/relaxer after a tongue-twister has turned from "funny quote" to "just by-the-book" for me.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Using "The Human Torch was denied a bank loan" as a vocal warm-up/relaxer after a tongue-twister has turned from "funny quote" to "just by-the-book" for me.
Hi, (fellow-but-not-100%-fellow) Oscars prognosticators?
If you predict it months ahead of time, it's, by definition, not a "surprise" or "shocker."
Okay, see ya again next year.
If you predict it months ahead of time, it's, by definition, not a "surprise" or "shocker."
Okay, see ya again next year.
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Hi, (fellow-but-not-100%-fellow) Oscars prognosticators?
If you predict it months ahead of time, it's, by definition, not a "surprise" or "shocker."
Okay, see ya again next year.
If you predict it months ahead of time, it's, by definition, not a "surprise" or "shocker."
Okay, see ya again next year.
Every once in a while, I'll type a "t" into my browser's address bar, for "Twitter," then catch myself and think, "No, we don't go in there anymore," like a divorced parent telling their kid not to go inside their ex's house.
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Every once in a while, I'll type a "t" into my browser's address bar, for "Twitter," then catch myself and think, "No, we don't go in there anymore," like a divorced parent telling their kid not to go inside their ex's house.
This. Strikes. A. CORD.
This is the one game show I've thought about auditioning for, but ehhhh, I'd just fail and flail, they wouldn't want me to have anything to do with it...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i6p...
This is the one game show I've thought about auditioning for, but ehhhh, I'd just fail and flail, they wouldn't want me to have anything to do with it...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i6p...
Self-Efface Off With Jesse Eisenberg | CONAN on TBS
YouTube video by Team Coco
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November 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This. Strikes. A. CORD.
This is the one game show I've thought about auditioning for, but ehhhh, I'd just fail and flail, they wouldn't want me to have anything to do with it...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i6p...
This is the one game show I've thought about auditioning for, but ehhhh, I'd just fail and flail, they wouldn't want me to have anything to do with it...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i6p...
I gotta listen to "hey, George Clooney's been good friends with Richard Kind for decades, did ya know?!" talk for 20 years, how about we put Richard Kind in the next OCEAN'S I'm supposed to be thrilled that they're making? Do THAT, if ya please!
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I gotta listen to "hey, George Clooney's been good friends with Richard Kind for decades, did ya know?!" talk for 20 years, how about we put Richard Kind in the next OCEAN'S I'm supposed to be thrilled that they're making? Do THAT, if ya please!
I'm just going to leave this here and you can go down the rabbit hole (re)watching the rest of this one's visits to the desk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-q...
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I'm just going to leave this here and you can go down the rabbit hole (re)watching the rest of this one's visits to the desk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-q...
@snlnyc.bsky.social @darincredible.bsky.social @trumbullcomic.bsky.social I just want to say that if someone tells you that you have to cover the upcoming CAT IN THE HAT movie on the podcast once that's out...don't believe them, you don't/won't.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
@snlnyc.bsky.social @darincredible.bsky.social @trumbullcomic.bsky.social I just want to say that if someone tells you that you have to cover the upcoming CAT IN THE HAT movie on the podcast once that's out...don't believe them, you don't/won't.
If anyone I follow - or in the circle of anyone I follow - is looking for someone to fill a proofreader/copy editor job, especially one who could work remotely/from home...I'm in pursuit of such a thing. Better still if it's a film-related outlet, as I have degrees in the field & can sort of write.
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
If anyone I follow - or in the circle of anyone I follow - is looking for someone to fill a proofreader/copy editor job, especially one who could work remotely/from home...I'm in pursuit of such a thing. Better still if it's a film-related outlet, as I have degrees in the field & can sort of write.