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This is a photo of Hugh Boneville, who plays Lord Grantham on Downton Abbey, wearing a t-shirt that says FREE BATES at the TV Critics Association panel presentation whatever those even ARE. They happen every year and for a week there are all these blog posts and entertainment media reports about it and I don’t even know what it is. Do you? It’s, like, the stars and creators of TV shows sit on a carpeted stage with lapel microphones and answer questions from…TV critics?! What for? “Will the show be on TV this year?” “Yes.” What a weird dog and pony show to have to do. These are shows that people are already watching and nobody reads television criticism (sorry television criticism) and so what are we even talking about? Whatever. IT’S LORD GRANTHAM! Wearing a FREE BATES t-shirt! Under his suit! Caption it somehow! #FreeBates #TrendingWorldwide
Winner will receive special mention in this week’s Monsters’ Ball. Upstairs downstairs! (Thanks for the tip, Chris. Image via NPR.)
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Man, that was a crazy opening ceremony, wasn’t it?
my bates are already free
Do you just use your neighbor’s wi-fi?
“andrew brietbar?….oh wait. he’s dead.” – me
Me too.
Hugh Boneville, shows his support for Jennifer Love-Hewitt and The Client List.
I just realized that makes no sense. CXR, my bates upvote goes to you.
Good day, Guvnerd.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s super…..Lord? Nah, I got nothin’.
let’s help him and get this woman out of jail!
ENACT HARRY’S LAW!!!
It’s a little too late for Norman Bates, Hugh.
The actress who plays O’Brien also had a shirt made for the occasion:
#commentsfrompeoplewhohaveonlyseenthefirstepisode
“this shirt is an invitation to come original”
He was actually advocating the closing down of an animal testing lab that experiments on bats, but he’s a terrible speller.
*hem-hem*
The actor’s last name is actually spelled “Bonneville” but I must admit that “Boneville” seems far more appropriate for this caption contest. Because if Master Bates is living anywhere, you bet it’s Boneville.
with these guys:
This man is truly a master of bates t shirts.
#jokesfor12yearolds
#jokesfor12yearoldnerds
all so it doesn’t end like Shawshank….
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(not pictured: the 45 seconds of awkwardness immediately preceding this, as he unbuttoned the shirt and the room reverberated with microphone noise, making the eventual reveal of the t-shirt kind a polite-laughter-generating anticlimax)
argh. “kind OF a polite-laughter-generating” etc. etc.
Freebates. Is that like a groupon or something?
You could do it in a group, if that’s your thing, sure.
He’s going to be a lot busier than he was when he wore the shirt that said “Bates: $5.”
With Bates in prison, Lord Grantham has no one to dress him.
he really knows his audience
Because free handjobs was just too obvious.
“Who is Bates?” Dowager