December16th
Sarah Baker (“Louie,” “Go On”) joins Cole and Vanessa to chat about Saint North, movies that tanked, Mary Kate Olsen’s wedding, Christopher Guest, Mascots, an Oscar bait sci-fi film, all-brown eyes, Muppets, The Kids in the Hall, puppet interns and memorizing that monologue for Louie.
Leave your answers to the firsts question (the first gift you ever received that the giver didn’t QUITE get right) on our website for a chance to win a comfy Pop My Culture T-Shirt!
Comment by Carl — December 17, 2015 @ 10:15 am
I live in New Orleans. I’m not into sports, but of course the Saints are popular around here. A few years ago, my grandmother have me for Christmas a Dallas Cowboys snuggie. I assume that they had a stack of them at Walgreens or someplace like that, and she figured a snuggie would make a good gift without even thinking about the football part.
Comment by Allen Williams — December 27, 2015 @ 7:11 pm
When I was in eighth grade, I was going through my Marilyn Manson/Nine Inch Nails/Tool phase. This was 1996. Obviously I hated anything to do with sports OR sweaters but, in lieu of this, my aunt got me a blue Rams sweater. Maybe she was thinking that the sweater was the key to changing me around entirely. Almost as if I would open it and go shake my head back and forth real quick with a cartoon sound effect and pop my eyes open and say “Whoa! Where have I been? What year is it? Why do I have all these goth/industrial cds?” It didn’t work.
Comment by Alwin — January 17, 2016 @ 2:40 am
Breathing>ANYone. Guess I’m hypothetically taking the shock death at some point. Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam!
Comment by FellHarbor — July 12, 2016 @ 2:48 pm
Mine was also Game Boy related. I asked for a Game Boy Color for my birthday, which was just a few months after its release. (That was the first GB to have a colored display.) My parents are very attentive and definitely make sure they ask store clerks etc. when making a big present purchase, so I know they did their best. However, what I opened on my birthday was a colored Game Boy – a standard Game Boy with a colored casing. I was SO disappointed, but I didn’t want to hurt my parents’ feelings – it was an honest mix-up, and they were so proud of it (GBs weren’t cheap even in the 90s). So I smiled and did my best to be happy. It wasn’t until a day or so later that my Mom asked how the GB was, and I explained it wasn’t quite what I had wanted. Happily, we were able to exchange it for the right one – and I still have it to this day. Internet links DEFINITELY help a lot with gift-giving!
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Cole Stratton
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