Questions about anything

[D'Snowth]

Why does Facebook suddenly look like a one-dimensional, boxy, 1990s website?

 

[minor muppetz]

Back in Psych 101, they discussed some people as being "anal-retentive". Usually uptight, bordering on obsessive-compulsive behavior, things having to be in neat and exact order, doing things methodically and meticulously sometimes with obsessive devotion to the most minute detail. You know the type.

But what would you call the opposite? Someone carefree, who goes with the flow, the complete opposite of "anal-retentive", would be what? Oral-retentive? Anal-expulsive? Maybe I should've taken another semester of Psych to find out...

What would you make of someone who has some of those traits (maybe half) but not all of them?

 

[minor muppetz]

There's a TV show that I remember, but can't remember the title. I'm guessing it was short-lived.

The show involved a group of kids who had no parents, so the oldest son took care of his siblings. But since the oldest one was underage as well, he disguised himself as an older woman to fool the authorities. I think there was one social worker who knew it was really the oldest son, while her boss was not only fooled but had the hots for "her". I also recall that the kids were black.

Anybody know the name of this show? I'm pretty sure it aired on ABC, but I could be wrong, and I can't remember if it aired during the 1993-1994 season or the 1994-1995 season.

 

[fuzzygobo]

What would you make of someone who has some of those traits (maybe half) but not all of them?

Apparently "anal-expulsive" would be the opposite of someone who had an "anal-retentive" personality, but SNL hasn't gotten around to making a skit about that yet.

 

[charlietheowl]

There's a TV show that I remember, but can't remember the title. I'm guessing it was short-lived.

The show involved a group of kids who had no parents, so the oldest son took care of his siblings. But since the oldest one was underage as well, he disguised himself as an older woman to fool the authorities. I think there was one social worker who knew it was really the oldest son, while her boss was not only fooled but had the hots for "her". I also recall that the kids were black.

Anybody know the name of this show? I'm pretty sure it aired on ABC, but I could be wrong, and I can't remember if it aired during the 1993-1994 season or the 1994-1995 season.

That was definitely On Our Own, I vaguely remember watching it either right before or right after Full House back in the day.

 

[D'Snowth]

Ugh... why is it everytime you have to update Flash Player, it also has to automatically install both Google Toolbar and Google Chrome? Those should be options. Elmo, it doesn't even make any sense that they would be included when all your doing is updating Flash Player.

 

[minor muppetz]

Have any variety show/sketch comedy actors ever been typecast? It seems being on such a show should save someone from typecasting, since they regularly get to play multiple roles, but I wonder if that's actually happened.

And I'm not talking about actors who started out on variety shows but later took a movie or series role that got them typecast (it seems Rick Moranis got typecast as nerds after leaving SCTV), or actors who were regulars on variety/sketch shows who never exactly "made it" as stars.

 

[D'Snowth]

Just about every single movie Will Ferrell does, he plays an unlikeable sketch show-esque character. Kristen Wiig seems to always play awkwardly stupid or stupidly awkward characters. Fred Armisen is an alien, remember that.

 

[fuzzygobo]

Ted Knight was often typecast as a pompous windbag: Ted Baxter on "Mary Tyler Moore", Judge Smails in "Caddyshack", and having to deal with Jm J. Bullock in "Too Close For Comfort".

 

[minor muppetz]

Just about every single movie Will Ferrell does, he plays an unlikeable sketch show-esque character. Kristen Wiig seems to always play awkwardly stupid or stupidly awkward characters. Fred Armisen is an alien, remember that.

I thought there was something about a lot of Will Ferrell's roles, though I like those kinds of characters (not sure if by "unlikeable" you meant you didn't like them or the characters were supposed to be unlikeable). Though I don't know if he's typecast... He is a big star and has been in a lot of movies, sometimes playing more normal roles like in Stranger Than Fiction and Bewitched. But I meant if they became typecast during their time as a variety show actor, as opposed to after a career-defining role in a narrative. Or maybe he was typecast but gotten loads of roles in spite of this.

And this is the first I recall hearing of Fred Armisen. I know, I should look up the name to see who he is.