Huh. I watched ETEWAAO a few days ago, yes, the darned whole thing. Can you explain it to ME, please? (The extra hour probably didn’t help that much.)
I posted on Facebook that it was the weirdest movie I’ve ever seen, and yes, that even superseded things like “Gummo”, “Eraserhead”, or even “Pink Flamingos.”
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People having neighborhood parties where they’d all go to one person’s backyard and project movies on a blanket at night, or even the side of someone’s house.
Now I know “Movie Night At The Park” exists but I’m specifically talking about a whole neighborhood organizing for their in own private movie night. I’m sure it’s been done, but I remember during COVID I saw a bunch of TV commercials or actual shows have people do “viewing parties” by people leaning out their balconies in apartments and watching a movie playing on the side of the opposing building.
Damn those people on TV! Always having more fun than the rest of us… I mean, if you’re on a sitcom (or, if you just take one little magenta pill a day…), your family will walk across the street to have a full-blown picnic in the park. Big basket, checked tablecloth and all. And not “We’re meeting relatives or another family from across town.” Nope, just Mom, Dad, Skippy and Muffy. And Ralph the frisbee-catching dog. Who does that in real life?
Mid-December, I was on a walk and saw some neighbors hanging hand-made ornaments on a tree in their front yard. A lot of shouting and giggling, and laughing at Dad trying to jump up to reach a branch. I blurted out “You guys could be in an anti-depressant commercial!”
Luckily, they thought that was pretty cool.
Discretion and good taste prevailed, fortunately.
(I grin)
This also answers the age old question why gentlemen-drinkers always sniff on their brandy’s stopper …
(I gin)
I’ve seen “My Blue Heaven” and was trying to find that clip, because that’s exactly what I was thinking of. I knew it was written by Nora Ephron but had no idea about all that backstory. Thanks for sharing that.
Kinda gives whole new meaning to “corked,” doesn’t it? 
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One more, probably already mentioned, but a quick search didn’t show me anything exact.
People in shows can drink a lot, and the effects are plot dependent. Four shots and a beer in less than an hour, and most people are going to be pretty messed up. The people I’ve known who drink that much, and think it doesn’t show, are too drunk to realize nobody is fooled.
Show and movie people drink 250ml (third of a bottle) of vodka or whisky with a friend, so 5-6 shots each, and then just walk around like it’s nothing.
Related to this, people who are supposedly poor getting bottle service at a nightclub, then walking off leaving a third of the bottle left.
Well, it depends on how much of an alcoholic you are. I have a friend who in the depths of his alcoholism saw a 750ml bottle of 80-100 proof liquor as a serving. He’d shown up at our house after drinking two of them, and we didn’t really notice him behaving strangely. He then disappeared for thirty minutes or so while he downed a six pack of tall boys, and returned. We found out about how much he drank when he tried to blow on a breathalyzer he’d bought with the six pack.
My response when I read the numbers he blew was, “Yeah, you’re supposed to be unconscious or dead.” At that time he was walking around and conversing like a normal human being. Heck, he had just driven to a pharmacy and bought a six pack of beer and a breathalyzer, drank the six pack, and gotten back without anyone raising any alarms. We honestly didn’t know he had been drinking when he arrived, and no one else had really noticed the effects of his drinking. He was generally able to keep a job at that point, but he did lose that ability after awhile. Fortunately, he’s several years sober at this point.
Similar to all of that: When my grandfather visited over Christmas break, he was already sitting at the breakfast table with a Seven+Seven and a cigar when I got up for school. He’d move to beer after breakfast, and continue with other alcoholic drinks throughout the day. I never saw him without a drink in his hand, but I only saw him obviously drunk once or twice - in the late nights when he and my grandmother were playing pinochle against my parents.
Short answer: Your and my tolerance for alcohol isn’t necessarily the same as a really dedicated drinker. Similarly, I can smoke strong weed all day long, and I just behave like me. The person mentioned above is one of several people who has marveled at my ability to smoke the stuff and still truck along acting like myself, being the same person as I was before. They actually remarked that it doesn’t seem to change how I behave. My response is “It doesn’t change how I behave, but it does change how I feel about how I behave.” I imagine a hardcore alcoholic feels the same.
Yeah, I knew if anyone responded that is what they’d say. It is true some of the time, but the alcoholics I’ve know were always noticeably drunk. They thought they were hiding it, but were not. Often they weren’t acting like a non-alcoholic drunk—staggering and slurring—but they would get disoriented, and also some slurring.
I’ve known other alcoholics who get drunk like anyone else, just nightly instead of only on the rare occasion.
So for purposes of the characters in the show, not portrayed as alcoholics, just normal people out having a drink.
Yeah, I had a friend that would have a bunch of drinks before going out for drinks with me, and I had no idea.
We checked with your friends… they say that’s the problem.
I chust keeding! Sorry, I tried, but I just couldn’t resist.
Well, I think a lot of shows seem to be trying to show show the characters using alcoholism to cope with their job. But I do agree that the effects of 4-5 drinks in an hour on an average person aren’t well represented in TV and film.
Hehehe, I’d be really terrified about this comment, but one of the other people who’s marveled at the way it doesn’t change how I behave is my wife. She kind of just sees it as a waste, since I’m the same nitwit either way. If she was gonna take a hike, it would have been decades ago. 
This popped up in a movie I was watching recently, don’t know if it’s been covered yet, but small first-aid kits in random locations generally do not have syringes in them.
Alternatively, Otis the town drunk can pour a small hip flask of moonshine into a water cooler, and deputy Barney Fife gets drunk enough to slur and stagger after having two small cups of spiked water from said cooler.
Ok, I’ve not seen that his in real life, but in movies or TV you’ll see people running with their hands cuffed behind them. It seems unlikely that you’d be amazingly agile in that situation.
You would be surprised - I’ve seen people not only run handcuffed behind their back, but I’ve seen them jump over low ( 12-18 inch high) fences.
Did people who didn’t like each other really have to practice kissing to be in a school play that often?
On TV and in movies - search dogs are always barking loudly. You would think that they would be quiet so that the “prey” (not wanting to be found) would not be alerted?