Sometimes I feel like Charlie Brown when he runs to kick the football that Lucy is holding but right at the last second she pulls it away and he goes flying into the air. Except that instead of running I am just peacefully trying to live my life, and instead of trying to kick a football I’m just trying to approach the world around me with optimism and rationality, and instead of Lucy pulling the football away it is everything conspiring constantly to remind me that we live in a garbage society with an ever-approaching expiration date, and instead of flying into the air I’m just very, very tired and would like to lay down. But otherwise it’s basically the same. In both instances we’re talking about a surprisingly-depressing cartoon. (Via Dlisted.)

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  1. Being Lucy means never having to say “PSYCHE!”

  2. Is it ok that I sort of love Bristol Palin? I’m sorry, I really am, but I’m just trying to be honest.

  3. Dancing with the Stars more like Dancing with the Barf
    I’ll see myself out now

  4. Didn’t she say she was going to wear only modest dresses? I think I saw her second child crowning.

  5. kate gosselin was on this show last season. i know this because this is a good show that people watch.

    i think the two should go on wifeswap. it’s not what america needs, but it’s what we deserve.

  6. On the plus side, every day that passes brings us closer to 2012, and the sweet oblivion that only the apocalypse can bestow.

  7. Bristol Palin WOULD turn to dancing to support herself.

  8. I love that they introduced her as a “teen advocate.”

    But she and the Situation should get along great! At least at one point she was DTF.

    • I think you are being too harsh here. She was just a dumb teen who got horny. The problem is that she lived under the the misconception that contraception is evil, and for some reason she now advocates that(WTF?).

      That being said she does dances like the easy girl at the party.

      • she doesn’t advocate for contraception, she advocates for abstinence.

        • I meant that she advocates that contraception is evil. Calling her a slut for having sex at 18, kind of sends the same message that pro-abstinence does. But, then again what do I know, I’m just a guy that shits on the Internet all day.

          • ah, i just read it backwards, because my brain is mush from reading so much shit for grad school. i agree with yer point- having someone who obviously had premarital sex tell others not to do it, all while getting paid a shit ton of money to talk about it, it absolutely vile. but i’m not gonna slut shame her, because hey, i have tons of premarital sex, i’m just smart enough to do it safely. no babies, no scabies.

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  10. Last night one of the judge monsters told Margaret Cho that her attempts at being funny during the dance were “inappropriate.” Yes, because that was just “Night and Fog” up there. Nothing to laugh at on that show.

  11. “This song really speaks to me. There have been times when I haven’t listened to my mother. Like that one time I ate all the peanut butter & then lied about it. Oh, and that time I got pregnant at 18.” *Palin Wink*

  12. I can’t wait till she gets voted off.

    “Well Bristol Palin left Dancing With The Stars this week, have you seen this, have you heard about this? Apparently she quit right in the middle of her tango, told everyone it was brave of her to stop dancing, and is now campaigning to replace Bruno!!!! We got a great show for you tonight folks. The Goo Goo Dolls are here so stick around”
    - Your Tonight Show host

  13. They couldn’t get the rights for “Papa Don’t Preach?” Im sure they could have easily changed Papa to Mama, or even Palin if they wanted to keep the “P”

  14. “Star is a synonym for pariah.”

    -Roget

  15. Was she wearing a shirt that said ‘Size Does Matter’? I’m so not okay with any of this.

  16. “this is the craziest party that ever could be/ don’t turn on the lights, ’cause I don’t want to see.”

    - Lyrics to that song/ truest words ever spoken

  17. Is it 2012 yet? It’s not? Shit.

  18. This is the first time Bristol was with a guy who didn’t finish before the song was over.

  19. I like the way she chose a shimmy, the Cabbage Patch, and the Bat-toosie as her personal intro dances. Very Personal, Very Intro.

  20. My housemate watches this show (he’s right in there with the target audience) so I caught some of it. There was one point when Brandy did a butt bump with Bristol Palin. Then Brandy went back for seconds of the butt bump but Bristol didn’t reciprocate and it was so awkward. So I left the house.

  21. I assume she ends the dance with Jizz Hands.

  22. She’s a “public advocate for teen pregnancy prevention”? I can only imagine what her speeches are like:

    Don’t make the same mistakes I did. If you think your life is hard now, just wait until you have to find a baby sitter so you can get glammed up and dance on a nationally televised reality competition EVERY WEEK.

  23. This was my first real exposure to the Situation, because I don’t watch Jersey Shore, and I found him to be charming. I now hate myself.

  24. It’s funny that you bring up Charlie Brown. Have you seen Bristol’s kid lately?

  25. “As long as I don’t embarrass my mother.” Too late!

  26. Bristol’s dancing is as wooden as her acting!

  27. This is so sad. BRISTOL PALIN IS A GROWN-ASS WOMAN. She literally has children. STOP TALKING ABOUT YOUR SHITTY MOM EVERY THREE MINUTES. I have a cool mom and I don’t even talk about her that often.

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  29. ahhhahahahaha i was skipping through this because i couldn’t bear to watch it all the way through, and right before i quit i jumped perfectly to her face and someone saying “for you this is virgin territory”

  30. “For you this is virgin territory.”
    “Just have fun and go balls out.”

    Are they doing that on purpose? If so, bravo creators of Dancing with the Stars, you’re not a collection of human nightmares like I previously thought!

  31. I hate your mom. Have fun dancing.

  32. I mean…I’d do her if she wanted, but i’m still going to watch football instead of her show.

  33. New Wideogum Everywhere: Vote Bristol Off? Guys?

  34. Ugh, sorry I spelled “Videogum” in German.

  35. “She’s only in the public eye because of her mom”- um, and whoring herself out to tabloids and jockeying to be on television shows like “Dancing with the Stars”. Yeah, just a normal girl that isn’t trying to be famous. Totally.

  36. I just puked for reals.

  37. Next week on DWTS: Sarah Palin aerial-hunts the Italian judge from a helicopter.

    They should also make sure to get Bristol to get that awesome Palin wink at the end of one of her dances. That that her whole act should hinge on her mother, right?

  38. Your Mother is sooooo famous! I say, Your Mother is sooooo famous, you’re on a TV show! Ahhh Zing!

  39. Dancing pieces of nightmare human garbage aside, can I chuck in my two cents about the reference to Charlie Brown and Lucy. As the avatar suggests, I’m actually a great fan of that cartoon. This is mainly because – and I think it’s fantastic – I believe it to be one of the greatest vignettes in American literature. It is about ceaseless optimism, the ability to get back up. Charlie Brown is constantly wounded but struggles on. More than a cartoon, it’s an incredibly potent allegory of the majesty of the human condition.

    I’ll end on a joke: this show should be renamed ‘Dancing With The ‘tards’. Amiright?

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