“Bonkers”: The Cartoon that Made Me Into the Swaggering Wonderfuck I Am Today

Sometimes I look back on my life and wonder what forces have shaped me into the galavanting ball of electric spunk I am today. Why do I cream my jeans every time I look in the mirror? Why does my blood boil with the vigor of a billion murdergasms? Why do I transform into a wily trickster whenever I am around fat, depressed people? Well, today I realized that I owe it all and more to the 1990′s Disney cartoon show “Bonkers.”

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“That 70′s Show” Aftermath: A Report Card

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Topher Grace  Stupid name, stupid face.  As Eric Foreman on That 70′s Show, Grace nerded his way into America’s heart with his twitching, snarky effeminacy.  But upon jettisoning the show to focus on his movie career, Grace has managed only supporting roles in two eminently gay blockbusters, (Spider-Man 3, Predators) as well as the lead in the ultra-turdy Take Me Home Tonight and a minor role in the ‘tarded Valentine’s Day.  When the highlight of your 2010 was appearing waste-deep in a Garry Marshall afterbirth, things probably haven’t gone the way you planned.

 

 

GRADE: C

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Danny Masterson  Masterson, a highly-successful child actor prior to his role as “Hyde” on That 70′s Show, has continued to find work much to the disbelief of everyone.  Parlaying his gruff but ultimately lovable demeanor from That 70′s Show into such hot-ticket roles as Kevin” in The Bridge to Nowhere, and “Douchebag Friend” in Yes Man, Masterson has assured the appearance of the word “Hyde” in the first sentence of his obituary.  Case in point, D-Mac has recently begun DJing professionally under the name DJ Mom Jeans, and is reportedly planning an album.  I, for one, look forward to downloading the album illegally, not listening to it, deleting it, then crafting a savage, dickish review.  Oh, and he’s a Scientologist to boot.

GRADE: D

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Ashton Kutcher  Kutcher transitioned saavily from the bumbling Michael Kelso on That 70′s Show to Ashton Kutcher, the bumbling producer of mildly successful shows such as MTV’s Punk’d and Beauty and the Geek.  Following a forgettable string of movie roles such as Just Married, and Dude, Where’s My Car?,Kutcher hit pay-dirt by landing an advertising job making those Nikon camera commercials everyone hates.  Further, in a kick to the nuts of talented people everywhere, Kutcher has signed on to replace Charlie Sheen as star of the hit comedy Two and a Half Men for a reported $20 million a season.  Kutcher also rocks the Kabbalah so hard it would make your dick sting, and were his career to one day turn south, he could always spend time fucking his awesome mom, Bruce Willis.

GRADE: A+

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Laura Prepon  As Donna, the freakily red-headed and mannish on-again-off-again love interest of Eric Foreman, Prepon seemed to be pre-ticketed for Lifetime Original Movie stardom as “the bitch you want to see get hit.”  Instead, Prepon helped perpetrate a few crappy indie films before settling into the role of “the bitch you want to see get hit who’s guest staring on shows about to be cancelled. ”  Despite all this, Prepon still found the time to date Danny Masterson’s homosexual brother Christopher, who sucks, before moving on to Scott Michael Foster, who also sucks.  Things are looking up however, as Prepon has landed the role of  “Chelsea Hanson” on the show Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, a show that, by all accounts, has a chance to be a show, on television.

GRADE: C-

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Mila Kunis  Oh, Mila.  Mila, Mila, Mila…  Playing the role of stuck-up rich girl “Jackie Burkhart” on That 70′s Show, not to mention fueling 11% of my teenaged-masturbatory fantasies, Mila Kunis would later turn out to be a rather decent actress.  Nominated for both a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the enthusiastic manner in which she went down on Natalie Portman’s muffin in Black Swan, Kunis seems to have what it takes to avoid the infinite sadness of  a That 70′s reunion show.  Voicing the detestable character “Meg” on Family Guy as well as showing some skin in the surprisingly excellent Forgetting Sarah Marshall ensures Kunis the creation for her, by me, a new word crafted from segments of two other words, and that word is “Jewlicious.”

GRADE: A++

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Wilmer Valderrama  Playing the gang’s flamboyant, lisping, somehow-not-homosexual foreign friend “Fez” may have damaged Wilmer Valderrama’s career going forward.  Case in point, the films cruel fate has allowed him to appear in, such as From Prada to Nada and The Dry Land seem to give Valderrama the look of a man destined for a particularly nasty E! True Hollywood Story.  “I knew I had hit rock bottom,” Valderrama will bravely report, “when I had to start sucking pre-dicks prior to sucking dick for blow.  Life mirrors fiction, and just like in real life, everyone secretly hates the  fair, foreign friend and finds him intolerably annoying.  The pre-dick road is a long and arduous one, Fez.  We wish you the best of luck.

 

GRADE: F

No, Fuck YOU, Susan

Today’s television sitcoms, aside from being universally terrible, seem to all employ an ex-husband/wife dynamic that exists nowhere in real life.  Much like the myth of the respectable homosexual character foisted on viewers in the 90s, TV’s portrayal of formerly married but now lovably-combative superfriends leaves a lame, clichéd taste in most mouths.  And just as real-life homosexuals can’t actually go twenty minutes without singing a flamboyant ode to last night’s glorious pinksocking, real-life ex-spouses don’t actually sit around playfully riffing one-liners about their marital indiscretions or lack of love-making prowess.  In real life, divorcees will fight each other in gladiator-style combat, tooth and nail, never yielding an inch, never allowing a good petty squabble to go unengaged in for the sake of adorable little children named Billy…

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Holy Shit Did Sarah Silverman Get Savagely Zuckerburned on “30 Rock”?

It’s taken me about a week to process this emotionally (Or maybe I’m just lazy? I’ll never tell!), but now I can finally start to wrap my head around it.

Did my favorite non-Jewish comedienne just drop a monstrously harsh Zuckerburn on my favorite Jewish comedienne? If so, does this constitute a hate crime? And most pressingly, did we just enter Bonertown, population: me?

In case you missed it, 30 Rock episode 516 featured a female comedian named Abby Flynn (which is an anagram of Sarah Silverman — just trust me on this), who callously manipulates men by using “sexy” baby talk and generally acting like a retarded sorority girl. She looks like a blonde-haired Silverman, and acts like the most savage parody of her possible.

Abby trades in the same kind of “it’s so unexpected to hear such a sweet-looking girl say that” one-liners as Sarah, delivered with the same kind of bouncy schoolgirl voice and attitude. Abby is completely aware that she is not funny at all, that guys just respond to her apparent sexual attention. She’s a committed performance artist to the point of attempting to make out with Liz just to please a homeless guy. And she is ridiculously touted as a feminist comic for some reason.

Then Liz finds a video from early in Abby’s standup career and it’s suspiciously similar to this video from early in Sarah’s career:

Here we find Sarah being hilarious and just looking like a nice young woman, not playing up her sexuality as she did later on (see below). Could it be that Tina Fey is belatedly taking a sort of mother hen approach to Sarah and saying, “You’re plenty funny without the schoolgirl act, honey”? And was the twist at the end of the episode perhaps Tina’s way of saying “Maybe you have some valid reason for acting like this, but I still hate you”?

The answer is probably “No” to all of these questions (except, yes, we are in Bonertown). But if Tina Fey did intend to Zuckerburn Sarah Silverman through the Abby Flynn character, it will go down in history of one of the most hardcore, knock-down, drag-out bitchfights (no sexism intended!) ever captured on videotape.

One final question, this time for Sarah Silverman: How interested are you in dating younger dudes who are much less funny than you and who would probably be too intimidated to get an erection in your presence?

Much like Jesse Ventura, I just like to ask questions…

There is an actual person named Gugu Mbatha-Raw! And she’s hot!

This morning a seemingly pointless, non-news item set me off on an inspiring, soon-to-be-televised emotional journey from “Who gives a fuck?” to “Holy FUCK!” You see, a lame-looking TV show created by overrated hack J.J. Abrams called Undercovers was cancelled. I accidentally clicked the link for this sure-to-be-stupid article but came across that rare bit of factual knowledge that is more precious than tears on Turkish Delight: the show’s lead actress is named Gugu Mbatha-Raw! “Is this the most ridiculous name of all time?” I wondered.

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The Accidental Genius of “Dexter”

Great start! Now, can everyone else except Dexter die, too?

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A note for those of you without Showtime or some other means of watching Dexter‘s fifth season: COME ON!!!! Also, spoilers follow.

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Hipster Andy Dick