At the end of a post about how Texas Senator John Cornyn's insistence that Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty do everything in his power to keep Al Franken from taking the Senate seat previously held by Norm Coleman is draining Pawlenty of political capital, Your Geeky Boyfriend Nate Silver makes the following comparison: "The whole thing is increasingly starting to resemble the Coen brothers film Fargo, with Pawlenty and Cornyn playing Carl Schowalter and Gaear Grimsrud to Coleman's Jerry Lundegaard." Poor Minnesota! Everything that happens there is eventually compared to Fargo. Would it kill someone to use a "Mary Tyler Moore Show" reference instead just one time?
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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Too bad Northern Exposure was hopelessly liberal. If they'd played it straight, those re-runs would be a gold mine today.
It's about to become Phyllis and Bess Lindstrom driving the Impala with Lars in the trunk into Lake Minnetonka.
Governor Pawlenty: Hey Prince/Senator Cornyn, you got a towel? It's kinda hot in here.
Prince: Why don't you purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka?"
A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants
I might be pushing it trying to get that to fit in the current scenario, but it's such a great line it should be applied to most life situations.
How about a The Mighty Ducks analogy, with Franken's Gordon Bombay, redeemed alcoholic, faced off against Cornyn as the dirty coach of the Hawks and Coleman as his goon? You know, for the kids.
What?! Am I the only one who doesn't understand that comparison at all?
Everything that happens there is eventually compared to Fargo.
Sadly, so true. What is promising, however, is the lack of any mention to Bachmann in this post.
well the whole thing does beg for a MTM chuckles the clown episode with Michelle Bachman somehow casting herself as Mary. Or the dead clown.
So this is what it sounds like when doves cry?
Love is all around, people. Love is all around.
A MTM and Hüsker Dü reference
For The Win.
The Replacements are more apt for this unsatisfied (see what I did there?)situation.
All for nothing/Nothing for all included the song "Election Day."
I got arrested and tossed in jail once in North Dakota.
It was quite a lot like Fargo.
The venison stew we got served for dinner in jail was delicious.
Hellllloooooo??? I still don't understand why that comparison makes any sense at all....