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This Means War
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
McG
Produced by
Simon Kinberg
James Lassiter
Robert Simonds
Will Smith
Screenplay by
Timothy Dowling
Simon Kinberg
Story by
Timothy Dowling
Marcus Gautesen
Starring
Reese Witherspoon
Chris Pine
Tom Hardy
Til Schweiger
Music by
Christophe Beck
Cinematography
Russell Carpenter
Edited by
Nicolas De Toth
Production
company
Overbrook Entertainment
Robert Simonds Productions
Dune Entertainment
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
February 17, 2012 (2012-02-17)
Running time
98 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$65 million
Box office
$156.5 million[1]
This Means War is a 2012 American romantic comedy spy film directed by McG in which two CIA agents who are best friends discover that they are dating the same woman. The film stars Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, and Tom Hardy.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release
5 Critical response
6 Accolades
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Plot[edit]
CIA agents and best friends Franklin "FDR" Foster (Chris Pine) and Tuck Hansen (Tom Hardy) are deployed to Hong Kong to prevent international criminal Karl Heinrich (Til Schweiger) from acquiring a weapon of mass destruction, but the mission goes awry, resulting in the death of Heinrich's brother, Jonas. Heinrich swears vengeance against them. Upon returning to America, their boss, Collins (Angela Bassett) assigns them to desk duty for their protection.
FDR is a womanizer, whose cover is a cruise ship captain, while Tuck, who presents himself as a travel agent, has an ex-wife, Katie (Abigail Spencer) and a young son, Joe (John Paul Ruttan), who believes his dad is a weakling.
Tuck goes to Joe's karate lesson, where Joe loses his match. Tuck tries to give Joe advice but Joe rolls his eyes and asks how he would know since he is just a travel agent. Tuck walks Joe to the car, where he attempts to rekindle his connection to his family, but Katie makes excuses as to why they can't go out for supper together.
After being rebuffed by Katie, Tuck sees a commercial for online dating. He decides to sign himself up and is paired with Lauren Scott (Reese Witherspoon), a product-testing executive who is dealing with the recent engagement of her ex-boyfriend. Her best friend, Trish (Chelsea Handler) enrolled her in the same online dating website. FDR insists on being Tuck's backup for the date and hides nearby, but Tuck and Lauren hit it off right away.
Shortly thereafter, FDR runs into Lauren at a video store and tries to flirt with her, not knowing she's Tuck's date. She surmises that he's a ladies' man and ignores him. Intrigued, FDR crashes into one of Lauren's test groups and coerces her to go on a date with him.
FDR and Tuck soon discover that they are seeing the same woman and decide not to tell her that they know each other, not to interfere with each other's dates and not to have sex with her, letting her instead come to a decision between them.
Tuck takes Lauren on a date to a circus (after hours) where they swing on the trapeze and have a really great date.
The date with FDR does not go well at the start, with Lauren storming out of the club FDR takes her to. After arguing in the street, FDR walks away from Lauren but seconds later, Lauren sees her ex-boyfriend and his fiancée approaching. Desperate, Lauren grabs FDR and kisses him. She lies to her ex that she and FDR are together, as FDR plays along with the ruse. Her ex and his fiancée both seem jealous at the passion displayed, and later move along. FDR demands that Lauren explain what just happened and suggests they grab some dinner at a nearby pizza parlor, where they talk seriously and hit it off.
Later, after dating both men a few times Lauren feels guilty about dating them at the same time, but is persuaded by Trish to make the best of the situation.
By this time both men have bugged Lauren's home and cell phone so they can spy on her when she is on dates with the other one, they overhear her tell Trish that she is going to need to have sex with them both to decide which one is the right one. This leads to both men taking steps to ensure she does not sleep with the other one.
After a few more dates, Lauren and Trish discuss the pros and cons of dating more than one guy, especially since Tuck has told Lauren he loves her. Trish tells Lauren "don't pick the right guy, pick the guy that'll turn you into a better girl".
After a while, Lauren invites Tuck to lunch, while FDR discovers that Heinrich has arrived in town to exact his revenge. He interrupts Lauren's date to warn Tuck but Tuck doesn't believe him. They engage in an extended fight, after which Lauren discovers that they are in fact best friends and, feeling made a fool of, leaves with Trish. At that moment, the women are kidnapped by Heinrich and his men, who are pursued by FDR and Tuck.
FDR and Tuck rescue Lauren and Trish after a car chase, in which they reveal that they are not who they say they are. On Lauren's advice, they shoot out the headlights on Heinrich's SUV, deploying the airbags and sending the car rolling out of control towards them all. With Lauren standing directly in the path of the approaching SUV, FDR and Tuck, on opposite sides of the road, urge her to come to their side and she is saved as she ultimately chooses FDR's side, while Heinrich dies when his car rolls off the elevated freeway and crashes below. Lauren has decided to be with FDR and Tuck makes amends with him, as they declare their brotherly love for one another, and FDR says they're "family, and forever." Lauren and FDR kiss. The car chase is picked up by the news, and Katie and Joe see it. Joe tells his mom that his dad is not a travel agent.
Later, Joe is at his karate lesson with Tuck when Katie comes to pick Joe up. Tuck and Katie reintroduce themselves to each other and she invites him out for supper as a family.
Shortly thereafter, FDR and Tuck go on a mission. They are about to parachute out of a Chinook helicopter when FDR reveals that he will marry Lauren, and asks Tuck to be his best man. He reveals that he had sex with Katie before she met Tuck, but no longer feels guilty about it because Tuck had sex with Lauren. Tuck, however, reveals that they did not go all the way and angrily tackles FDR out of the helicopter.
Cast[edit]
Reese Witherspoon as Lauren Scott, a product-testing executive and the love interest of FDR and Tuck.
Chris Pine as Franklin "FDR" Foster, a womanizer who falls in love with Lauren.
Tom Hardy as Tuck Hansen, a divorced single father who also falls for Lauren, but later makes amends.
Til Schweiger as Karl Heinrich, an international criminal who wants revenge on FDR and Tuck.
Chelsea Handler as Trish, Lauren's best friend who encourages her to keep seeing both men.
John Paul Ruttan as Joe, Tuck's young son.
Abigail Spencer as Katie, Tuck's ex-wife.
Angela Bassett as Collins, FDR and Tuck's boss.
Rosemary Harris as Nana Foster, FDR's grandmother who raised him when his parents died
Jenny Slate as Emily, Lauren's assistant.
Production[edit]
According to Entertainment Weekly, "the initial script dates back [...] at least about a decade," with Bradley Cooper, Seth Rogen, and Sam Worthington reportedly turning down the lead role. Going back even further, Martin Lawrence and Chris Rock also declined the part.[2] Screenwriter Larry Doyle claimed to have read the script in 1998, and that in the draft the protagonists were video game designers with access to guided missiles.[3]
Principal photography took place in Vancouver from September 13 to December 1, 2010.[citation needed]
Release[edit]
This Means War was previously scheduled for wide release on February 14, but 20th Century Fox postponed its opening to February 17, 2012, in order "to avoid a head-on confrontation with" Screen Gems' The Vow, which had been "expected to dominate" the box office on Valentine's Day.[4] Instead, it was sneak previewed that "Tuesday evening at between 2,000 and 2,500 locations nationwide."[5] During its first weekend ending February 19, it opened at #5 behind Safe House, The Vow, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island with $17.4 million from 3,189 locations.[6] The following weekend, it dropped to #7 behind newcomers Act of Valor and Tyler Perry's Good Deeds with $8.4 million.[7] After a 17-week theatrical run, it earned $54,760,791 domestically and $101,730,488 overseas for a worldwide total of $156,491,279.[1][8]
The film was released to DVD and Blu-ray Disc on May 22, 2012 with a rating of PG-13.[9]
Critical response[edit]
The film opened to mostly negative reviews. Based upon 165 reviews, it received a 26% "rotten" score on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 4.3/10 with the consensus saying, "A career lowlight for all three of its likable stars, This Means War is loud, clumsily edited, and neither romantic nor funny."[10] On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 31 out of 100, based on 36 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone found this "action-spiked romcom [...] death-sentenced by a lack of humor, heart and a coherent reason for being. I could say more, but do I really need to?"[11] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times considered the film "an incompetent stupid action comedy" that was "so bad it's nothing else but bad" and observed that Witherspoon lacked the "irresistible raw sex appeal" to be "convincing as the woman [Hardy and Pine] go to war over."[12] Richard Roeper of ReelzChannel called the film "one of the worst movies of this or any other year" and mocked Handler, who looked old, "lost," and "haggard" while delivering "her lines in a kind of flat monotone."[13]
Lou Lumenick of the New York Post ridiculed the film for being "spectacularly awful" and "riddled with continuity errors," suggesting that it "has a script whose sensible parts would fit on a napkin with enough room left over for the Gettysburg Address."[14] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter recommended "the whole picture" be "sent back for a reshoot" as it "manages to embarrass its three eminently attractive leading players in every scene" and disapproved of Handler's performance, noting that she "has no sense of creating a character."[15] James Berardinelli of ReelViews dismissed the film as "a 98-minute music video without the music -- all splash and little heart," joking that "we keep hoping the sleazy bad guy will show up and shoot" the main characters.[16]
Claudia Puig of USA Today opined that "silly action sequences grow tedious and rarely blend with the wannabe madcap comedy" and concluded that McG "can't seem to decide whether he's making a spy action flick with romance interspersed or a rom-com peppered with action."[17] Mary Pols of Time criticized the film's "terrible sense of chemistry all the way around" and declared that "even the pairing of Witherspoon and Handler [...] turns out to be a dud."[18] Peter Debruge of Variety thought Hardy and Pine "are too busy trying to out-appeal one another to make the buddy dynamic click" and wondered if "it's the pic's cartoonish tone that keeps them from doing much more than look pretty, trading on the stars' blue eyes and impossibly big lips in lieu of their proven acting ability."[19]
Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly "enjoyed everything that's all over the place about the finished product" and stated that while it "may have been hammered together by brute Hollywood force, [...] there's this going for it: It's game to throw in anything that'll keep the motor running."[2] Tom Long of The Detroit News characterized the film as "unpretentious goofiness" with "some nice light yuks" and believed "the whole sublimely stupid mess works."[20] Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times warned that "if you can get past the gross invasion of privacy," there "is some bittersweet fun peppered by bursts of sharp patter," especially from Hardy and Pine, who electrified "the screen almost any time they're sharing it."[21]
Accolades[edit]
Year
Award
Category
Recipient
Result
Ref.
2013 Young Artist Award Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actor Ten and Under John Paul Ruttan Nominated [22]
See also[edit]
List of films featuring drones
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "This Means War (2012)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved December 30, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b Schwarzbaum, Lisa (February 17, 2012). "This Means War". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ Why You Keep Seeing the Same Movie Over and Over Again, TIME
Jump up ^ Kilday, Gregg (February 7, 2012). "Fox Delays 'This Means War' Opening to Avoid Box Office Face-Off With 'The Vow'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ Fritz, Ben; Kaufman, Amy (February 7, 2012). "'This Means War' Official Release Date Delayed". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Weekend Box Office: February 17–19, 2012". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Weekend Box Office: February 24-26, 2012". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Weekly Box Office: This Means War". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
Jump up ^ "This Means War". On DVD Releases. Retrieved December 30, 2012.
Jump up ^ "This Means War". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved December 8, 2012.
Jump up ^ Travers, Peter (February 16, 2012). "This Means War". Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (February 15, 2012). "This Means War". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ Roeper, Richard (February 17, 2012). "This Means War". RichardRoeper.com. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ Lumenick, Lou (February 13, 2012). "Straight to DVD: Romance-free rom-com doesn't give Reese a chance!". New York Post. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ McCarthy, Todd (February 9, 2012). "'This Means War': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ Berardinelli, James (February 15, 2012). "This Means War". ReelViews. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ Puig, Claudia (February 16, 2012). "'This Means War' is a losing battle". USA Today. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ Pols, Mary (February 16, 2012). "Who is the Victor in 'This Means War'? Not the Viewer". Time. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ Debruge, Peter (February 9, 2012). "'This Means War'". Variety. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ Long, Tom (February 17, 2012). "Review: Spies employ tricks of the trade in absurdly fun romcom 'This Means War'". The Detroit News. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ Sharkey, Betsy (February 14, 2012). "'This Means War' review: Bromance conquers all". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ "34th Annual Young Artist Awards". YoungArtistAwards.org. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
External links[edit]
This Means War on IMDb
This Means War at Rotten Tomatoes
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Chicken McNuggets
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This article is about the version of the product sold at McDonald's restaurants. For chicken nuggets in general, see Chicken nugget.
Chicken McNuggets
Chicken McNuggets
Nutritional value per 10 pieces (162 g) No sauce
Energy
440 kcal (1,800 kJ)
Carbohydrates
30 g (10%)
Sugars
0 g
Dietary fiber
2 g
Fat
30 g (44%)
Saturated
5 g (25%)
Protein
22 g
Vitamins
Vitamin A equiv.
(0%)
0 μg
Vitamin C
(2%)
2 mg
Minerals
Calcium
(2%)
20 mg
Iron
(8%)
1 mg
Sodium
(60%)
900 mg
Other constituents
Energy from fat
270 kcal (1,100 kJ)
Cholesterol
65 mg (22%)
May vary outside United States.
Units
μg = micrograms • mg = milligrams
IU = International units
Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults.
Source: McDonald's Meal Builder
Chicken McNuggets are a type of chicken product offered by international fast-food restaurant chain McDonald's, which they introduced in select markets in 1981,[1] and made available nationwide by 1983. They consist of small pieces of processed chicken meat that have been battered and deep fried.[2]
Contents
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1 Description and origin
2 Ingredients
3 Sale
4 Criticism
5 McNugget numbers
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Description and origin[edit]
The Chicken McNugget is a small piece of processed chicken meat that is fried in batter and flash-frozen, then shipped out and sold at McDonald's restaurants. It was conceived by Keystone Foods founder Herb Lotman in the late 1970s.[3][4]
McDonald's first executive chef, René Arend, created the Chicken McNuggets recipe in 1979. "The McNuggets were so well-received that every franchise wanted them", said Arend in a 2009 interview. "There wasn't a system to supply enough chicken".[5] Supply problems were solved by 1983, and Chicken McNuggets became available nationwide.[6]
According to McDonald's, the nuggets come in four shapes: the bell, the bow-tie, the ball and the boot.[7]
Ingredients[edit]
As of August 1, 2016, the ingredients within the United States are as follows: White boneless chicken, water, salt, seasoning (yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring, safflower oil, lemon juice solids, dextrose, citric acid), sodium phosphates. Battered and breaded with water, enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, bleached wheat flour, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, dextrose, corn starch. Prepared in vegetable oil (canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil) with citric acid as a preservative. McDonald's ingredients can vary outside of the US. In August 2016 McDonald's announced that Chicken McNuggets no longer contained artificial preservatives.[8]
Sale[edit]
Chicken McNuggets are sold in various portion sizes depending on the country of purchase. In the United States, they come in packs of 4, 6, 10, 20 and 50 (in selected stores).[9] In some markets, including the United Kingdom, they are sold in packs of 4 (as part of a Happy Meal), 6, 9 or 20 (as a "ShareBox").[10] In New Zealand and Australia, they are also available in 3-packs in Happy Meals and Heart Foundation-approved "Tick healthy" meals. In Canada, Chicken McNuggets are sold in packs of 4 (as part of a Happy Meal.), 6, 10, and 20. A 50-piece McNuggets meal deal has been promoted at times for special events such as the NFL's Super Bowl.[11]
McNuggets come with a choice of various flavors of dipping sauce (Pure Honey, Tangy Barbeque, Sweet n' Sour, Honey Mustard, Hot Mustard, Spicy Buffalo, Sweet Chili, Curry, Creamy Ranch, Habanero Ranch, and Chipotle Barbecue). Ketchup is also frequently used as a dipping sauce.
They have recently been introduced by McDonald's in India, first as a part of its "Breakfast Meal" and later in the regular menu in May 2009. A halal version of the McNuggets have been sold at two franchises in Dearborn, Michigan, beginning in the early 2000s, bringing in double the average McNuggets sales.[12]
Criticism[edit]
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In a 2002 lawsuit against McDonald's, a judge commented that Chicken McNuggets are a "McFrankenstein" creation.[13] The judge identified that rather than being merely chicken fried in a pan, McNuggets included elements not utilized by the home cook, including unusual sounding ingredients such as extracts of rosemary, vitamins (niacin, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, and folic acid), and leavening (baking soda, calcium lactate, etc.).[14]
PETA Protestors dressed as chickens demonstrating in New York City's Times Square against how McDonald's kills chickens to make Chicken McNuggets.
The 2004 documentary Super Size Me states that "[o]riginally created from old chickens that can no longer lay eggs, McNuggets are now made from chickens with unusually large breasts. They're stripped from the bone, and ground-up into a sort of 'chicken mash', which is then combined with all sorts of stabilizers and preservatives, pressed into familiar shapes, breaded, deep-fried, freeze-dried, and then shipped to a McDonald's near you." Super Size Me also alleged inclusion of ingredients such as TBHQ, polydimethylsiloxane, and others not used by a typical home cook.[15] This was subsequently restated by CNN.[16] Marion Nestle, a New York University professor and author of What to Eat, says that the ingredients in McNuggets probably pose no health risks.[16]
Before August 2016, dimethylpolysiloxane and TBHQ were listed as ingredients in the McNuggets cooking process.[17] According to Lisa McComb, a media relations representative for McDonald's, dimethylpolysiloxane is used as a matter of safety to keep the frying oil from foaming. A review of animal studies by the World Health Organization found no adverse health effects associated with dimethylpolysiloxane. TBHQ is a common preservative for vegetable oils, cereals, nuts, cookies, chips and animal fats,[18] found in other foods such as Girl Scout Cookies[19] and Quaker Chewy Granola Bars.[20] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sets an upper limit of 0.02% of the oil or fat content in foods,[21] which like other foods, applies to the oil used in McNuggets. Effective use of TBHQ was 1 gram per 5000 grams of cooking oil (1 gram per 11.023 pounds of cooking oil).
McNugget numbers[edit]
Main article: Coin problem § Mcnugget numbers
A mathematical problem, discussed on Eric W. Weisstein's MathWorld[22] and Brady Haran's YouTube channel "Numberphile,"[23] is that of determining the greatest number of McNuggets which cannot be made from any combination of pack sizes on offer. For example, in the UK, McNuggets are sold in boxes of 6, 9 or 20 (excluding Happy Meals). Consequently, the greatest number of McNuggets which cannot be purchased exactly is 43, the Frobenius number of the set {6,9,20}.[22] This means that all natural numbers greater than 43 can be expressed, in some way, as the sum of some multiple of each of 6, 9, and 20. For example, 139 = 5 × 20 + 5 × 6 + 1 × 9.
See also[edit]
List of McDonald's products
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Letterman, David (4 June 1981). "The Tonight Show". Retrieved 12 August 2017. It's June 1981 and the year is just about half over and I believe that, regardless of what happens from here on out, historians will recount 1981 as the year McDonalds introduced Chicken McNuggets. Now, I think so. Let's assume for a minute that there is a portion of the chicken anatomy that can accurately be described as nuggets. Is this something you want to eat, huh?
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"Life on the Fast Lane"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.
9
Directed by
David Silverman
Written by
John Swartzwelder
Showrunner(s)
James L. Brooks
Matt Groening
Sam Simon
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7G11
Original air date
March 18, 1990[1]
Commentary
Matt Groening
James L. Brooks
David Silverman
Al Jean
Guest appearance(s)
Albert Brooks as Jacques
Season 1 episodes[show]
December 17, 1989 – May 13, 1990
"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
"Bart the Genius"
"Homer's Odyssey"
"There's No Disgrace Like Home"
"Bart the General"
"Moaning Lisa"
"The Call of the Simpsons"
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"Life on the Fast Lane"
"Homer's Night Out"
"The Crepes of Wrath"
"Krusty Gets Busted"
"Some Enchanted Evening"
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"Life on the Fast Lane", also known as "Jacques to Be Wild",[2] is the ninth episode of The Simpsons' first season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 18, 1990. It was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by David Silverman. Albert Brooks guest starred as Jacques, a French bowling instructor, with him being credited as "A. Brooks".[1][2]
The episode deals with how Homer's thoughtlessness precipitates Marge's infatuation with her bowling instructor Jacques, leading to a marriage crisis between her and Homer. In the original plan for the episode, Brooks (who improvised much of his dialogue) was to voice a Swedish tennis coach called Björn, with the episode to be titled "Björn To Be Wild". The episode features a parody of the film An Officer and a Gentleman and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) in 1990.
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1 Plot
2 Production
3 Reception
3.1 Legacy
4 References
5 External links
Plot[edit]
Homer, having forgotten Marge's birthday, rushes out to buy her a present at the Springfield Mall. He finds a bowling ball and decides to buy it for her. During the night of her birthday dinner at the Singing Sirloin, Marge is happy with the kids' presents of French perfume from Bart and a macaroni and glue card of her as the Mona Lisa from Lisa. However, she is offended by Homer's gift as it is another demonstration of his thoughtless gift giving history, which her sisters Patty and Selma Bouvier had reminded her of earlier. To make matters worse, as he presents his 'gift', it bursts through its box and squashes Marge's birthday cake. Deeply resentful, Marge reminds him that not only has she never gone bowling in her life, but the ball is also inscribed with his name.
Realizing that Homer only bought the ball so that he could use it himself, she is determined to learn how to bowl to spite him and heads to Barney's Bowl-a-Rama. Marge has difficulty until she meets a French bowling instructor named Jacques, who offers to give her lessons. When he asks about the name inscribed on her ball, she tells him that Homer is actually the ball's name, neglecting to mention that she is married. Homer is faintly aware that something is wrong, but is unsure what is happening. After passing several bowling lessons, Jacques and Marge agree to meet each other for brunch.
Their brunch goes well until they run into Helen Lovejoy, who seems delighted to not find Marge with Homer. After deflecting Helen's interest by pretending to discuss bowling theory, Jacques asks Marge to meet him the next day away from the gossips of the world at his apartment, causing Marge to faint. In her dream, she imagines a romantic fantasy where she dances with Jacques in his luxurious, bowling-themed apartment. When she comes to, she accepts the invitation.
At home, Homer finds the personalized bowling glove given to Marge by Jacques and realizes he may be losing her. It is not long until Bart realizes that Lisa's suspicions are proving to be true about their parents drifting apart and offers Homer some advice in keeping his mouth shut so it does not get worse. At work the next day, he cannot bring himself to eat the sandwich she made for him, saying that it is all he has left of her. Marge leaves for her meeting with Jacques, but finds herself reminded of lifetime commitment throughout the drive. She comes to a fork in the road, one way leading to the nuclear plant, the other to Jacques' apartment. After an agonized hesitation at the crux of the decision, she surprises Homer at the plant and kisses him warmly. An ecstatic Homer abandons his work post to carry Marge away in his arms. His co-workers want to know what to tell the boss. To the sound of their cheers, he says to say that they are going to the backseat of his car and will not be back for ten minutes.
Production[edit]
Albert Brooks provided the voice of Jacques, improvising most of his dialogue
The episode was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by David Silverman.[1] When the episode was originally planned, it called for Albert Brooks to voice "Björn", a Swedish tennis instructor, but Brooks thought it would be funnier to make the character French and so the change was made. The title was originally to be "Bjorn to Be Wild",[3][4] thus accounting for the episode's alternate title "Jacques to Be Wild".[2] Brooks improvised almost all of his dialogue, producing over three hours of material.[5] Marge's laugh during her bowling lesson was an ad-libbed, natural laugh by Julie Kavner, who was laughing at something Albert Brooks had just said.[4] The line "four onion rings!" was one of the many lines that Brooks ad-libbed and when saying it, Jacques loses his French accent.[4] An extended audio clip of Albert Brooks' unused dialogue was made available on Disc Three of The Simpsons The Complete First Season DVD.[6]
The episode features the first appearance of the bowling alley Barney's Bowlarama. The original backstory for Barney's Bowlarama was that it was owned by Barney Gumble. Over time it changed to Barney just being an employee,[7] as the writers could not imagine Barney owning anything.[8] It was later revealed that Barney's uncle was the owner.[4] The exterior of the Bowlarama was designed by No Doubt member Eric Stefani.[4] The episode also marks the first appearances of Lenny Leonard and Helen Lovejoy.[2]
The sequence in which the family throws the pizza box away was specifically designed by John Swartzwelder to look surreal, with the family panning into each other.[4] The moon was designed to resemble a bowling ball in the scene in which Jacques drops Marge home.[8] The restaurant that Jacques and Marge attend is called "Shorty's"; it was originally intended that a chef's hat would be shown moving around in the background, implying that the owner was short, but the concept was dropped as it seemed to be too much of a silly idea.[7] The episode's conclusion is a reference to An Officer and a Gentleman, which David Silverman had to watch first, so that he knew how to set the scene out.[4] Homer's line, "too exciting", when he sees the lingerie store was written by James L. Brooks.[7] During Marge's phone conversation with Patty and Selma, Maggie can be seen sucking her pacifier repeatedly, a concept dropped in later episodes as it was deemed too much of a distraction from the dialogue.[4]
Marge's dream resembles a dance number from The Gay Divorcee.[2] The end scene, in which Marge walks into the power plant, and Homer carries her away, is a reference to the film An Officer and a Gentleman, and features the same music, "Up Where We Belong".[2]
Reception[edit]
In its original broadcast, "Life on the Fast Lane" finished 11th in ratings for the week of March 12–19, 1990, with a Nielsen rating of 17.5, equivalent to approximately 16.1 million viewing households. It was the highest-rated show on the Fox network that week, beating Married... with Children.[9] Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, called it "A very good, very assured episode that has seen some viewers (particularly female ones) tearing out their hair at the conclusion."[2] Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club praised the episode, stating: "There would be many funnier and faster episodes of The Simpsons but few can match "Life on the Fast Lane" for emotional depth and characterization."[10] IGN.com named Albert Brooks' guest performance in this episode, along with his four other appearances, the best guest appearance in the show's history.[11] In a DVD review of the first season David B. Grelck gave the episode a rating of 4/5, placing it as, along with "Homer's Night Out", his favorite of the season.[12] Colin Jacobson at DVD Movie Guide said in a review that it was "another good but not great episode" and added that "Albert Brooks seriously enlivened "Life [on the Fast Lane]" ... Jacques becomes funny not so much due to the lines themselves; it’s Brooks’ readings that make them work."[13] Another DVD review from The Digital Bits called it "one of the first season's best loved episodes".[6]
This episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less) in 1990, defeating fellow Simpsons episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", and becoming the first The Simpsons episode to win the award.[8][14] In a 2000 Entertainment Weekly article, Matt Groening ranked this episode as his second favorite episode of all time, behind "Bart the Daredevil".[3] Entertainment Weekly placed the episode twenty-first on their top 25 The Simpsons episode list, calling it "a showcase for the series' bedrock of character and heart."[15] The Orlando Sentinel's Gregory Hardy named it the fifteenth best episode of the show with a sports theme.[16] The episode's reference to An Officer and a Gentleman was named the 23rd greatest film reference in the history of the show by Total Film's Nathan Ditum.[17]
Legacy[edit]
The March 15, 2004 edition of the Dear Abby column was pulled, as it had emerged that one of the letters was a fake. A newspaper editor noticed that the problem cited in the letter was identical to the plot of "Life on the Fast Lane".[18] Kathie Kerr, a spokeswoman for the Universal Press Syndicate stated that "It did sound too similar not to be a hoax".[19]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c Groening, Matt (1997). Richmond, Ray; Coffman, Antonia, eds. The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (1st ed.). New York: HarperPerennial. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-06-095252-5. LCCN 98141857. OCLC 37796735. OL 433519M. .
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "Jacques To Be Wild". BBC. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
^ Jump up to: a b Snierson, Dan (2000-01-14). "Springfield of Dreams". EW.com. Retrieved 2007-02-28.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Silverman, David (2001). The Simpsons The Complete First Season DVD commentary for the episode "Life on the Fast Lane" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
Jump up ^ Brooks, James L. (2001). The Simpsons The Complete First Season DVD commentary for the episode "Life on the Fast Lane" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
^ Jump up to: a b Doogan, Todd (2001-09-21). "The Simpsons: The Complete First Season". The Digital Bits. Archived from the original on 2007-08-14. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
^ Jump up to: a b c Groening, Matt (2001). The Simpsons The Complete First Season DVD commentary for the episode "Life on the Fast Lane" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
^ Jump up to: a b c Jean, Al (2001). The Simpsons The Complete First Season DVD commentary for the episode "Life on the Fast Lane" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
Jump up ^ Richmond, Ray (March 21, 1990). "Big 3 networks aren't laughing at `The Simpsons '". The Orange County Register. p. L12.
Jump up ^ Rabin, Nathan (2010-08-08). "Life on the Fast Lane". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
Jump up ^ Goldman, Eric; Iverson, Dan; Zoromski, Brian. "Top 25 Simpsons Guest Appearances". IGN. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
Jump up ^ Grelck, David B. (2001-09-25). "The Complete First Season". WDBGProductions. Archived from the original on 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2011-09-15.
Jump up ^ Jacobson, Colin. "The Simpsons: The Complete First Season (1990)". DVD Movie Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-29.
Jump up ^ "1989–1990 Emmy Awards". infoplease.com. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
Jump up ^ "The Family Dynamic". Entertainment Weekly. 2003-01-29. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
Jump up ^ Hardy, Gregory (February 16, 2003). "Hitting 300 - For Sporting Comedy, 'The Simpsons' Always Score". Orlando Sentinel. p. C17.
Jump up ^ Ditum, Nathan (June 6, 2009). "The 50 Greatest Simpsons Movie References". Total Film. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
Jump up ^ "Abby Rode". snopes.com. 2004-03-16. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
Jump up ^ Hollingsworth, Heather (2004-03-10). "'Dear Abby' column spiked after prank". USA Today. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
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Maria
Twelfth Night character
Maria (second from right) giggling while Malvolio demonstrates his yellow stockings to his lady Olivia. Painting by Johann Heinrich Ramberg.
Created by
William Shakespeare
Maria is a fictional character in the play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. She is a servant in Olivia's household. Maria is shown to have a friendly relationship with Sir Toby Belch, and exhibits a witty attitude. Maria also forged a love letter to Malvolio which resulted in Malvolio's condemnation to the madhouse.
Connections with other characters[edit]
Maria is Olivia's personal house-maid
Sir Toby Belch is Maria's lover and eventual husband
Malvolio is the steward in Olivia's household and therefore Maria's supervisor
Performers[edit]
Year
Media
Performer
1869 Broadway Fannie Davenport
1905 Broadway Zeffie Tilbury
1910 Film Marin Sais
1939 Television Lucille Lisle
1949 Broadway Ruth Enders
1955 Film Anna Lisyanskaya
1957 Television Micheline Luccioni
1963 Off-Broadway Peggy Pope
1969 Off-Broadway Jennifer Darling
1970 Television Raph Wolfs
1972 Television Jet Naessens
1974 Television Anne Stallybrass
1980 Television Annette Crosbie
1987 Film Tracy Harvey
1988 Television Abigail McKern
1996 Film Imelda Staunton
1999 Off-Broadway Dana Slamp
2003 Television Maureen Beattie
2009 Off-Broadway Julie White
2012 Off-Broadway Katie Alto
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Guide to Twelfth Night
Analysis of Major Characters in Twelfth Night
Summary of Twelfth Night and Characters
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Songs written or co-written by Ed Sheeran.
Pages in category "Songs written by Ed Sheeran"
The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).
A
The A Team (Ed Sheeran song)
Afire Love
All About It
Autumn Leaves (Ed Sheeran song)
B
Barcelona (Ed Sheeran song)
Bibia Be Ye Ye
Bloodstream (song)
C
Castle on the Hill (song)
Cold Water (song)
D
Dark Times (The Weeknd song)
A Different Way
Dive (Ed Sheeran song)
Don't (Ed Sheeran song)
Don't Let Me Be Yours
Drunk (Ed Sheeran song)
E
English Rose (Ed Sheeran song)
Eraser (Ed Sheeran song)
Even My Dad Does Sometimes
Everything Has Changed
G
Galway Girl (Ed Sheeran song)
Give Me Love (Ed Sheeran song)
H
Happier (Ed Sheeran song)
Hotel Ceiling
How Would You Feel (Paean)
Hush Little Baby (Wretch 32 song)
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I See Fire
I Was Made for Loving You (Tori Kelly song)
I'm a Mess (Ed Sheeran song)
If I Could (Wiley song)
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Lay It All on Me (song)
Lego House
Little Things (One Direction song)
Love Yourself
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Make Me Better (James Blunt song)
The Man (Ed Sheeran song)
Moments (One Direction song)
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Nancy Mulligan (song)
New Man (Ed Sheeran song)
New York (Ed Sheeran song)
Night Changes
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Old School Love
One (Ed Sheeran song)
P
Perfect (Ed Sheeran song)
Photograph (Ed Sheeran song)
Pretty Woman (Robbie Williams song)
R
Reuf (song)
Runaway (Ed Sheeran song)
S
Say You Love Me (Jessie Ware song)
Shape of You
Shirtsleeves (song)
Sing (Ed Sheeran song)
Small Bump
Strip That Down
Supermarket Flowers
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Take It Back (Ed Sheeran song)
Tenerife Sea
Thinking Out Loud
Time of Our Lives (James Blunt song)
Touch and Go (Ed Sheeran song)
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Watchtower (song)
What Do I Know?
When Christmas Comes Around
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You Need Me, I Don't Need You
Young Guns (Lewi White song)
Your Song (Rita Ora song)
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Schitt's Creek
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Schitt's Creek
Genre
Sitcom
Created by
Eugene Levy
Dan Levy
Starring
Eugene Levy
Catherine O'Hara
Dan Levy
Annie Murphy
Chris Elliott
Jennifer Robertson
Emily Hampshire
Tim Rozon
Dustin Milligan
Country of origin
Canada
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
4
No. of episodes
51 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Eugene Levy
Dan Levy
Fred Levy
Andrew Barnsley
Ben Feigin
Kevin White
Producer(s)
Colin Brunton
Running time
22 minutes (approx.)
Production company(s)
Not a Real Company Productions
Distributor
ITV Studios Global Entertainment
Release
Original network
CBC Television
Picture format
1080i (HDTV)
Original release
January 13, 2015 (2015-01-13) – present (present)
External links
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Schitt's Creek (stylized as Schitt$ Creek) is a Canadian television sitcom created by Eugene Levy and his son Dan Levy, that premiered on CBC Television on January 13, 2015.[1] The series is produced by Not a Real Company Productions.[2] On January 12, 2015, CBC renewed the show for a second season.[3][4] The second season premiered in Canada on January 12, 2016 on CBC.[5] It was announced on February 17, 2016, that the CBC renewed the show for a third season[6] which began broadcasting on January 11, 2017.[7] On March 10, 2017 the show was renewed for a fourth season, which aired on January 9, 2018 on CBC.[8] On March 6, 2018 the show was renewed for a fifth season to air in early 2019.[9]
The series has won various accolades, including an ACTRA Award and 11 Canadian Screen Awards.[10][11]
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2 Production
3 Cast and characters
4 Episodes
5 Reception
6 Awards and nominations
7 International broadcast
8 References
9 External links
Plot[edit]
The series stars Eugene Levy as Johnny Rose, a wealthy video store magnate, and Catherine O'Hara as his wife Moira, a formerly successful soap star. The family loses their fortune when their business manager fails to pay their taxes. They are forced to rebuild their lives with their sole remaining asset: a small town named Schitt's Creek which they had bought their son as a joke birthday gift years before. The story revolves around the family's life living in two adjacent rooms of a rundown motel with their pampered twenty-something adult children, David and Alexis, played by Dan Levy and Annie Murphy respectively.[12] Additional cast includes Chris Elliott,[12] Jennifer Robertson and Emily Hampshire. The show is based on a series of situations contrasting the once-rich family and their worldly big-city attitudes with sudden small-town living and the honest, down-to-earth, hard-working residents of Schitt's Creek.
Production[edit]
The series is filmed on location in Goodwood, Ontario, the Regional Municipality of Durham of the Greater Toronto Area, and Mono, Ontario, where the motel scenes are filmed.[13] The interior scenes for the first two seasons were filmed at Pinewood Toronto Studios in Toronto,[14] while the interior scenes for the third season were shot at Dufferin Gate Studios in Toronto.[15]
Cast and characters[edit]
Eugene Levy as Johnny Rose
Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose
Dan Levy as David Rose
Annie Murphy as Alexis Rose
Chris Elliott as Roland Schitt, the mayor
Jennifer Robertson as Jocelyn Schitt, the mayor's wife
Emily Hampshire as Stevie Budd, the motel clerk (and later, motel owner)
Tim Rozon as Mutt Schitt
Sarah Levy as Twyla Sands, the diner waitress
Dustin Milligan as Ted Mullens, the town's veterinarian[16]
Robin Duke as Wendy Kurtz, dress shop owner who employed David (Season 2 only)[17]
Rizwan Manji as Ray Butani, the only real estate agent in town and a member of the town council
John Hemphill as Bob Currie, proprietor of Bob's Garage and a member of the town council
Karen Robinson as Ronnie Lee, a member of the town council
Steve Lund as Jake
Jasmin Geljo as Ivan
Noah Reid as Patrick
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of Schitt's Creek episodes
Season
Episodes
Originally aired
First aired
Last aired
1 13 January 13, 2015 (2015-01-13) March 31, 2015 (2015-03-31)
2 13 January 12, 2016 (2016-01-12) March 29, 2016 (2016-03-29)
3 13 January 10, 2017 (2017-01-10) April 4, 2017 (2017-04-04)
4 12 (+1) January 9, 2018 (2018-01-09) April 10, 2018 (2018-04-10)

Reception[edit]
Schitt's Creek has received mixed reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes the first season has a rating of 59%, based on 22 reviews, with an average rating of 6.38/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "The title is one of the best jokes of Schitt's Creek, but performances from Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara give the writing a comedic boost."[18] On Metacritic, the first season has a score of 64 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[19]
Reactions from Canadian reviewers have ranged from raves to pans. Vinon Minay of the Toronto Star wrote that the show "is not just a welcome addition to prime time: it is one of the best CBC comedies in years."[20] John Doyle of The Globe and Mail, however, sharply criticized the show saying "Schitt’s Creek is droll? Try smug and self-satisfied....There is no edge to Schitt's Creek. It's cozy comedy and perhaps the tightness of the ensemble – bound by family, old alliances – blinds then to the lack of hilarity in what they're doing. Comedy is hard and the show is soft-core comedy." Doyle concluded saying "Many viewers will approach Schitt's Creek with advance affection. They will relish seeing Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara working together again. They will savour the father/son dynamic between Eugene and Dan Levy. That's peachy too. But it will camouflage the fact that the show is as anodyne and polite as the feel-good remarks made by its stars when asked about it. It's nice and it's droll, but it fails."[21]
After being picked up by Pop, American reception has been similarly mixed. The Los Angeles Times described the show as "very funny, beautifully played, sometimes touching and, though its premise is familiar — rich family loses money — quite its own animal."[22] and the New York Post stated that "The Levys nicely develop their fish-out-of-water concept by showing how the family tries to fit in out of necessity."[23] On the other end of the spectrum, Mike Hale of The New York Times called Schitt's Creek "a show that’s drab and underwritten, with potentially amusing (if familiar) situations that never build to more than a chuckle or a nod of recognition: Yeah, that could have been funny."[24]
The series has also been noted for its portrayal of a bisexual character, played by Dan Levy.[25][26]
Awards and nominations[edit]
See also: List of awards and nominations received by Schitt's Creek
In 2015, Schitt's Creek's first season received two Directors Guild of Canada awards from three nominations. At the 2016 ceremony, season one received nine Canadian Screen Awards from 16 nominations. Schitt's Creek's second season has received a total of 13 nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards.[27]
International broadcast[edit]
The series was picked up in the United States by Pop and premiered on February 11, 2015.[28][29] The show has also been picked up in New Zealand by TV2 and TVNZ on Demand.[30] The four seasons appear, though not always together, on different streaming television services worldwide. Netflix UK, Ireland, South Africa and Australia carries all series. In India, the show is broadcast on Comedy Central India.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara are up Schitt's Creek". CBC News. October 21, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
Jump up ^ Cummins, Julianna (February 11, 2014). "SCTV alums Levy and O'Hara to star in CBC comedy". Playback. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Schitt's Creek gets greenlight for second season". CBC News. January 12, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
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