"Carol Brown" (Choir of Ex Girlfriends) - Flight of the Conchords - YouTube
"..Paula & Stephanie, Stella & Stephanie; There must be 50 ways that lovers have left me."

This video is a response to Paul Simon - 50 ways to leave your lover

Lana Turner We Love You Get Up
Pretty Little Liars 2-21 recap by jacob | TWoP | p11: Spencer goes flailing over the back of the couch, in a sort of languid, Lana Turner We Love You slide.

To What End??

Pretty Little Liars 2-19 recap - Challenged A -by Jacob | TWoP p14
d n so love this as to copy all here but of course did like refrain "Why? To what end?" and putting here bcs keep thinking that

WINE PATIO
the girls' moms gather during break from leading Truth Up activities

Aria's mom (played by Holly Marie Combs who was on Charmed) Ella: "Have some wine, girlfriend!"
Spencer's mom (who looks like Mariska Hargitay fr SVU) Veronica: "God, I am going to need jugs of the stuff to get through this shit."
Hannah's mom (played by Laura Leighton who was Sydney on Melrose Place, but is so likeable here) Ashley: "I brought actual jugs!"

Ashley: "I think this Truth Up thing is probably a good idea. Lots of secrets and lying and whatnot."
Ella: "I believe Hanna. I don't think she did it. It could very well just be someone trying to make her look bad."
Veronica, verbatim: "Why? To what end?"

I don't know, that just cracked me up. I love how Veronica's this lawyer that is always so precise and firm about everything, and yet she had Ian and Melissa in her house that whole time doing God knows what, and Spencer's just completely lost her damn mind, and she's actually argued more than once that the girls are being framed over and over for this shit, that shit, the stump, the shovel, the fashion show that should have proved it to everybody forever, whatever, but right now she's just sittin' there like, "To what end?"

Ella: "Do you ever get the feeling that our daughters are being stalked by an unnatural force or conspiracy?"
Ashley: "Ever since she lost Alison, Hanna's been off the chain. And I mean off the chizain."
Ella: "That's part of the reason we went to the frozen north, to distract Aria."
Veronica, verbatim: "I don't think the moment was when they lost Alison. I think it was when they met Alison."
Even The Moms: "Well played. She was pretty gross, now that you mention it."

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FLASHBACK

Ali was at Spencer's, doing magazine quizzes and reading about German cannibals as you do, while downstairs the Hastingses were having at it.:

Alison: "Ready for this? Some dude in Germany went on a dating website and advertised for someone he could kill and eat."
(I am like obsessed with that case to this day. I don't even get why people like to get slapped around in bed, much less why you would want to eat somebody. It's not a lateral move, I'm not saying that exactly, but for me they are similarly confusing. Why? How come? To what end?)


DINNER

Hanna: "Sorry I wasn't answering calls, but Caleb has my phone. Hey, is that a huge birthmark on Kate's side? Listen, I've been staring at this photo with my thumb over the nips for like a week now and trust me, there is no birthmark on that picture."
Liars: "Okay but to what end? Why would A go to all that trouble to Photoshop her body, if the aim was to humiliate her?"
Hanna: "You guys, clearly this is Kate's doing. It wasn't A. It's not always A."

LADIES'

Kate: "Hanna, I don't care to hear your apology."
Hanna: "Kate, I don't care to say an apology. I care to say that it was you that sent that picture."
Kate: "Ridiculous. To what end?"

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Hanna: "You know, maybe it's time I really took a picture of you, Kate. Aria, can I borrow your phone?"
(The girls all come out of stalls holding their cameras.)
Aria: "Yeah, in a minute. I'm using it though. To record this conversation."

See, how much better would that have been if she left off the last clause? Always with the extra bit. Always that extra feather :) Aria's outfits & earrings, danglin' from your business. (To what end?)
Anyway, they rehash it and do that delightful scriptwriter trick -- "it's genius!" -- where they explain why the plan was genius -- because she gets sympathy, takes a chunk out of Hanna and gets a free-slutty card where all the guys got to see her assets -- in case you weren't there when this was obvious.

Hanna: "You have to go find Caleb and tell him to stop cracking or hacking my phone, because he assumes Jenna is behind everything all the time."
Aria: "To what end? And why me? I've still got glass in my hair." :) Emily's line, from the greenhouse

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Hostile Noel Kahn: "Looking for somebody?"
Uncurious Aria: "Sorry, I thought Caleb was in here?"
Hostile Noel Kahn: "He's not."
Both Of Them Creeps: "Is he missing? Hope so. Maybe somebody threw him out with the rest of the garbage."
Aria, awesomely: "Yeah, okay. Well, if he comes back here...?"

I love that. Trapped in a dark room with Noel Kahn plus Jenna Marshall? Fuck it. This is the scariest thing that's possibly ever going to happen, so whatever. Stay frosty, Sodapop.

ROOFTOP SHENANIGANS

It's not the plastic sheeting! It's a variety of people. First it is A, then it is Noel Kahn, then maybe Holden. So many boys wandering around on the roof, none of them Caleb. None of them the plastic sheeting. Well, it's not long before Aria loses her shit and just starts climbing up a chimney :) , so Noel Kahn tries to pull her down again.
Roundhouse! Brutal roundhouse! To the abdomen! Noel Kahn goes down! Even Noel Kahn is surprised! Who is even more surprised is: Aria, who has just learned that Holden is some kind of a martial arts master. Just as predicted.

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Aria: "Where did you learn to kick somebody like that? Portugal? Or wait, is this part of the Secret? Your bruise? Did somebody jump on you like that? To what end?"

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- ninjamitts Loyal Viewer:

I haven't been this in love with an episode in ages! Here's what made me get all flustered with delight:

1. The principal. I definitely hope he comes back. Obvs he is a bad guy, they make that clear at like minute 7 when he ominously glowers at Best Girl in the Universe Emily, "You're no saint, Emily." But

1a. Realizing Emily isn't a saint (not that she's a Secret Bad Girl, or that her niceness isn't real, just that it only extends so deep) is the coolest clever-bad-guy signifier I've seen on one of these shows. Jenna did this too! {~"and everyone thinks you're the nice one"} It's so fun!

1b. If you're an avid watcher, you already knew the principal was a bad guy, because at the beginning of the episode, he talks to two of the moms and their daughters the same way - as though they're children. And it works, better on the moms than on the girls, and you're like, "Man I hate when that happens," until you remember what show you're watching, then you're like, "Did the show suddenly decide to suck or is Something Up??" and sure enough.

2. Noel gives that speech guys give. The one where how mean girls are so much scarier than mean guys because mean girls play games and hold grudges whereas guys just have a fight and it's over. I hate that speech in my bones, because it is the biggest lie boys tell everyone, themselves included. While it's true that girls do tend to engage in overt social stuff more openly, I've seen guys go crazy vicious with the psychological warfare without thinking about it. It comes so naturally to some guys, the casual debasement and smug pecking order stuff, they're still able to convince themselves that they're simple and clean. Nobody's safe from being really just awful simply because of their gender. So I made a face while that speech went down, right, but as soon as it was over, like while I'm still making the face, my girl Hannah steals the conch and is like, "The hell, Noel, you are not only the subtlest beast in the garden, you are also the smarmiest! HANNAH OUT."

3. Godawful Aria and Amazing/Probably Also Awful Holden. (PS I am totally down with Holden now and forever -- this must be how Jacob feels about Noel. Kid could turn out to be the very worst and I would still love him truly.) I love that, while Aria is freaking out about Holden's Dangerous Secret, she's too dumb to realize that her mysterious thing is dangerous too. I love that this show is constantly about showing the viewer how stupid Aria is without telling us, and while still keeping her in some kind of weird but-I'm-the-protagonist limbo. It's amazing, they are the very cleverest of writers.

4. Godawfulness aside, Aria is rockin' at closing ranks. It's like her one function besides being the very worst. When Caleb calls out Jenna and Aria's freaked because that this will draw the wrath of A onto Caleb's beautiful and best-boyfriend-ever head, and then Hannah will be the very saddest beautiful girl in the world, and this show loves Hannah and so do we? Aria makes this face like "WHOA SHIT" and huge-eyes at Caleb for a second, and then she makes a second face like "WELP! OK I guess this is happening," which morphs instantly to a third face: that closed-rank nigh-military blank face with the aggressively crossed arms that clique girls sometimes do. It's not so much any individual expression, it's more in the astonishing fluidity. Like the actress breathes this stuff. <3

Other moments to delight:

-- "What is [that mysterious and ominous ambient noise]?!?!" "It's just the plastic." If I ever start a blog, it will be a PLL blog, and it will be called "It's Never Just the Plastic".

-- For the first time in the history of visual media, someone deciding to explore the Abandoned Dark Rooftop Where No One Ever Comes also remembered to prop the door open.

-- Mona is a one-man mafia. This is how girls get lonely, and how lonely girls get. :)

-- I don't know how young ladies can reasonably decide between Caleb and Holden as TV Boyfriend or Spencer and Hannah as TV Girlfriend. I guess we'll just have to root for everyone?

//fast-talking ~exuberant~ loose but articulate style I like, similar? to twop jacob also maybe more to gabe at videogum//


+ Pretty Little Liars - TWoP Forums p438:
-ninjamitts: So, a conversation topic for long-term PLL watchers, while we putter around waiting for another episode or another recap or whatever: What hooked you on this show? Do you remember? Because when it started, this was a pretty silly show with only hints of the awesomeness to come. For me (besides a few of those delightful little moments that would sneak out from Spencer's actress) it was this scene with Hannah, maybe you remember it?
Former Fat Girl/Current Beauty Queen Hanna is sitting in her kitchen, being miserable because she is having issues with Sean, having totally wrecked his car (which is when I *should* have realized this show was so amazing forever, but I am a little slow about things), and how now some thin girl has been driving him to school. Ashley comes home from fancy dinner, bearing lamb chops. Hanna explains the situation, the terrible shame of having allowed skinny girl to drive boyfriend to school. Mom gives Hanna the lamb chops. Hanna is like, *"Why are you feeding me when I allowed this to happen?!"*
In any other show, this is where we would address Hanna's eating disorder. The mom would make a concerned face, realizing that she, in her obsession with beauty and being taken care of by men, has effed up her daughter to the point that a) food is only allowed on good behavior days, b) one should feel personally ashamed if one's man-property is allowed in the vicinity of c) girls who are thin and therefore irresistibly superior to girls who are less thin, and d) one should feel more ashamed of this than, say, the actual act of destroying the property of a significant other. Or, it's possible that she wouldn't, but somebody else towards the end of the episode would address all this stuff, possibly to Hanna or possibly to Hanna's mom. Full House Moments all around. But on PLL, this realization never happens, and you learn more about good parenting by the scary vacuum made by bad parenting, more about the relationship dynamics and history in Hannah's world by this one casual weirdness than by a billion angsty confessional soliloquies.