(Unless I can get loops of the Jon Solomon Christmas marathons, in which case I will blast that and be the only one happy in the store!)

I am a retail worker. If I'm forced to play Christmas music, I will go for The Ventures, Motown or Jackson 5 Christmas albums, or Jazz Christmas stuff since it's... not overtly religious and also pretty good music. If I can convince my boss to lean this way and NOT to Mariah, 100% onboard.

The perfect MST/Rifftrax films (to me) are either the ones that at are least barely watchable (in the "just got home from the bar, what's on?" way, at least) on their own, or just a masterwork of blissful incompetence. Hobgoblins is solidly in the first group, I think.

Oh man, looking for the perfect, side-ending song that was also exactly 3:49 long so it would fit. Also the horror of hearing "Oh, I liked it, but not digging that Jawbreaker band" and dramatically rethinking the crush.

Probably 1987? I discovered Husker Du the summer before Freshman Year, and they led me to like 90% of my music tastes over six months.

Nameless WZBC DJ that played "Chartered Trips" into "Filler" into "Clampdown" into...uh.."Carry On, Wayward Son" - thank you.

"My ass is mildly itchy"

Uh...sure. immigrants.

I see you've never had to do a math problem on the board while wearing sweatpants in middle school.

Like - unwanted inappropriate boners are a fact of life, but most dudes are not reminiscing fondly about them.

Like - there are well-adjusted child stars out there, and I know some kids who badgered their parents relentlessly to let them act/do music, but this....yeeeeeesh.

Agreed entirely, and even with The Linda Lindas (who are relentlessly posi and whom I love dearly) I will always side-eye the parents and think "how much of this is your dreams and not your kids?" - like pageant moms.

If we find like her ancient family photos, is it going to turn out that she's looked exactly like that since birth?

I have largely quit alcohol, but still, there are times when an ice cold slightly bitter fizzy drink is right what I need, so hop water and (some) NA beer hits perfectly.

If it were my wife's old cat, I would assume malicious intent.

You can entirely use "the worst person you know" meme here, and not attempt to portray it as step 1 in a redemption arc, which I'm seeing happen. Horrible people can still occasionally be right, but they're no less horrible.

ADHD and spectrum realization/diagnosis for me came from having kids (both with ADHD, one on the spectrum) diagnosed, and my two smart brain cells rubbing together screaming "have you looked in a mirror lately?" - golly gee whiz, life started making more sense soon after!

Oh Lord - I am in my 50s, and there are absolutely still "Wait, how do I Human in this situation?" moments where you can probably see the beachball spinning behind my eyes.