Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! Now with Bill Clinton and...MLP?

[ericadawn16]

I don't know if you've even heard of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! but it's awesome. It's always funny and has tons of people from Craig Ferguson to Simon Pegg to Dick Van Dyke to Alan Menken.

So, yesterday...

They interview Bill Clinton, talk about Phil Hartman, nothing too awesome for words, then...

Peter SAGAL: So you're a former president, you're a Rhodes scholar, you're famously well informed. What could we be sure that an accomplished person like you would know nothing about? And then the answer came to us: the TV show "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic."

Oh yes...they ask Bill Clinton questions about "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic"

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137386121/bill-clinton-plays-not-my-job

Then, afterwards, they, minus Bill Clinton, discussed Bronies.

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137406751/interview-with-a-bronie

Comments

[madkatstar-pir8.livejournal.com]

LOL, I thought it was awesome that they interviewed Bill Clinton about My Little Pony. xD

And the interview with the "bronie" was a lot more respectful than Fox News' reaction to the whole thing. They were pretty much "Men that like a show for girls!?? God forbid, they must be crazy! Or gay! Or both!"

So yeah, I found those links pretty amusing. :)

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Damn, I closed out the window before I Posted my comment just now and it's 1:30 so I'd rather not write it all over again...hang on...

Let's see, I mainly wanted to make sure you knew that Cars 2 is a more fun, light-hearted movie than Pixar has done in years. I know you and I have disagreed at times about fun vs. dark in movies particularly animated.

Also, it is Mater's movie although he does have a moment in introspection where he has to come to terms with everyone else thinking of him as a moron. I found it to be one of the sadder parts of the film.

However, knowing you and how you prefer the sadder, deeper stuff, I'd recommend KungFu Panda 2 which I can't remember whether you've seen. If you haven't seen the first, it doesn't matter really and this film totally surpasses the first. It's pretty freaking dark for animated films PERIOD.

Basically, it's like you had this cute, cuddly hero who made it against the odds in the first film and then in the second, you find out he's a survivor of the Holocaust, all his family is dead and he HAS TO KILL HITLER!

It was amazing, it had enough lightness for me not to be completely dark but despite being Dreamworks, I think it'd be right up your alley. Plus, the amazing was...guh, the director worked her way up so she knows how to an animated film should look. Every critic was saying how it and Tangled were the only time 3D was worth it.

[madkatstar-pir8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm still not 100% sure either way with Cars 2 if I'm going to see it in theaters or not, but I might give it a chance just for the Brave trailer and Toy Story.
It's not that I don't like lighthearted film either, I'm just very picky about the sort of humor that I like and whatnot, so I'm harder to please on that front.

I only saw some of the first Kung Fu Panda film back in high school while we were watching it in class, and at the time what I saw didn't charm me all that much. I do remember the animation being really gorgeous, and I've been wanting to give it another chance. I'd like to rewatch/finish the first film before seeing the sequel though. I've heard a lot of good things about both, so I am pretty excited for KFP2 when I get around to it.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

So, I told my mom how you wanted to see the first one before seeing the second and she actually went, DON"T!

She did and I agree, I get how you want the complete story but I think it could be misleading. At the time it came out, Kung Fu Panda was like, wow, this is new for Dreamworks and it was definitely their best to date, but then they had How to Train Your Dragon and Megamind that totally upped the stakes on the best they could do...

Kung Fu Panda 2 totally met that challenge but I don't want you to get the wrong impression from seeing the first one first because it would be like seeing the first Toy Story, then seeing the third one and you're wondering how the heck they went from this nice cute film about toys to this film requiring Kleenex...oh yes, I cried at KungFu Panda 2, I did.

The ads didn't help this either. It made it seem like just a continuation of the first film when it was a huge leap. Even the animation in the second film is so much more amazing than the first.

[madkatstar-pir8.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, since I saw about half of it already I'm really interested in seeing how the story wraps up. Are you saying I should watch KFP2 before going back to the first one?

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Well, if you already saw half of it and liked it, then continue but keep in mind that the second is darker.

[aquaseamage.livejournal.com]

So they tried to find a subject the former president knew nothing about... OK. I can get that. And I guess they thought do to his age and with him being a man, he would never watch a cartoon for little girls. :)

Makes sense in a weird sort of way.... but you would think they would ask him a more important question?

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

No, that's the whole idea of the show, they're trying to be informative and humorous at the same time.