Now while these two things may seem totally unconnected, let me explain. I was reading about the show Roseanne because I remembered a conversation I had with my mom about how she was a very controversial comedian, and I asked why. Apparently her "shocking" exploit was singing the national anthem poorly. Here's the video:
OH MAN, YOU GUYS! SO TOTALLY CONTROVERSIAL! I guess in the days before the true depths of human infamy were known via the internet, this would've been somewhat shocking. You know, safe '90s shocking. 9/11 changed everything, even our perception of Roseanne Barr's singing.
Anyways, I had said that the show wasn't very controversial. Then I realized that I've only ever seen a few episodes of it, and that was during the '90s when I was a kid (as opposed to my current man-child status, thank you very much).
That leads me to the Wikipedia article about the show. Besides being a testament to the ability of people to go way overboard with pop culture (even old pop culture), reading certain things were just sad. And then I read about the last episode. Now, for a little background here, I have a hobby of looking up information about television shows when they cross my mind (before Roseanne, the most recent recipient of my attention was The Angry Beavers, whose last episode wasn't actually broadcast due to it mocking Nickelodeon).
Holy crap. If you didn't see the last episode, or don't know what happened in it, DO NOT WATCH IT BEFORE YOU WATCH THE REST OF THE SERIES. Some shocking truths (they were shocking to me, and I only knew about the show through the article) are revealed that will alter the way you watch the older episodes all the way back to part way through season 3.
This led me to start thinking about other sitcom's I like, so then I thought about Scrubs, and then my thoughts immediately moved to the janitor. I was wondering if Wikipedia knew his name, but was disappointed that even the article said there was ambiguity.
I then started reading about Keith, played by Travis Schuldt. This led me to the second website. I don't know who its target audience was, but it appeared to be just a collection of men who were wet. It's kind of like how Todd Barry didn't believe that the Container Store only sold containers before he walked around it for a few hours. After looking around the site for a while, however, I came to the conclusion that it really is just a collection of pictures of wet men. This is strangely off-putting. Not in a sexual way, but the idea of it makes me slightly uneasy.
My goodness this was a long post, and so I leave you with just the creepy picture of Travis Schuldt with which I was originally greeted upon entering the site from my Google Image Search for him:
-Dave
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