Music
Boy, you're gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Carry that weight a long time
—The Beatles, "Carry that Weight"
The numbers are intimidating, it's hard to give a fresh new start
When everyone's anticipating another masterpiece of art
When everyone's anticipating another masterpiece of art
—Gabe Newell, in The Chalkeaters' "Count to Three"
Pro Wrestling
"Because no-one could top that! And in good conscience, we didn't want anyone to try."
—Paul Heyman on ECW trying to discontinue Barbed Wire Matches after Terry Funk vs Sabu at Born to be Wired 1997
Webcomics
Apparently the entire ["Enjoy the Ride"] campaign was sold on the anticipation of running [the Barbie] ad
because Nissan was never able to top it; each subsequent "Enjoy the Ride" ad carried diminishing returns. Their Super Bowl spot was a flock of pigeon puppets trying to catch a Nissan so they could poop all over it — it got mixed opinions. Eventually Mr. K's dog took over the campaign and the slogan sort of changed to "Dogs Love Trucks." And from there it withered and died.
because Nissan was never able to top it; each subsequent "Enjoy the Ride" ad carried diminishing returns. Their Super Bowl spot was a flock of pigeon puppets trying to catch a Nissan so they could poop all over it — it got mixed opinions. Eventually Mr. K's dog took over the campaign and the slogan sort of changed to "Dogs Love Trucks." And from there it withered and died.Web Original
[Upper Ranks 4 and 5] just really felt easy for them, whereas last season, it took everything every character in the fuckin' cast had just to keep up with Upper Rank 6. They had to dig deep into their soul and go Plus Ultra 50 times and pull out a thousand Spirit Bombs just to get close to killing Upper Rank 6. And that was the entire cast there fighting, basically. You had Tanjiro, Nezuko, the Hashira Tengen, Inosuke, Zenitsu, all of them having to go way past their limit in order just to fight the brother-sister combo which was Upper Rank 6. THAT felt like "Holy shit, that's a big villain. That's a very strong villain." Here, it's just a nuisance.
It seems like there will always be new Batman cartoons and new movies offering up new approaches to the character. And DC Comics will keep doing crazy new crap to Batman like pretending he's dead when he's really back in caveman times. The sad truth is that the pinnacle of Batman storytelling has already been reached, and anything that follows has been and will be but a shadow of perfection. The perfection of which we speak is Batman: The Animated Series''.
And Gwen Stefani's case is an astonishing thing. When we met her in 2005, the release of her first solo album placed her in the absolute A-List of the stars of the time even though, by then, she had been active for a decade with No Doubt. But Love. Angel. Music. Baby sounded refreshing, effervescent, fun... placed her halfway between the pop artist with a sense of humor and the person capable of convincing those who listened to urban music through undisputed bops.
She introduced herself, in fact, alluding to ageism with the frantic What You Waiting For?, but single after single -and that album had lots of them-, she made clear that her project could give us a Cool and a Hollaback Girl. And all her creativity was left there, by the looks of it. In a perfect first album that never had anything worthy of taking the baton from it.
She introduced herself, in fact, alluding to ageism with the frantic What You Waiting For?, but single after single -and that album had lots of them-, she made clear that her project could give us a Cool and a Hollaback Girl. And all her creativity was left there, by the looks of it. In a perfect first album that never had anything worthy of taking the baton from it.
Web Video
"Before there was Frozen, relive the peak of Disney animation, followed immediately by its downfall."
"Number 9: Ghostbusters II. Whenever this movie comes up in a conversation, everybody's quick to dismiss it. It's definitely not as good as the first, but that was a tough act to follow. There's no way they could have matched the same level of charm and delicate humor a second time around. It just couldn't be done. But they sure tried."
"When I see these figures together, I can't help but ask myself: Why does this even exist? I'm all up for more Megatron toys, official or third party. But if you're not even gonna try to top this figure, or at the very least learn from it, ...what the F**K?"
—Jobby the Hong, on Bold Forms Gladius vs. Masterpiece MP-36 Megatron
"My biggest problem is that it's called Sonic the Hedgehog 4. I'm not kidding, my biggest problem with this game is its fucking name. By making it a sequel to these gems right here, I think you're creating massive shoes to fill, and, in my opinion, it doesn't come close to doing that."
"Though the presenters and mainstream media alike may continue to insist that the show is finally out of the shadow of its predecessor, the cold hard fact of the matter is that it isn't and never will be, for one simple reason. At its core, Top Gear remains a carbon copy of what it always was, but with softer edges. It doesn't seek to push boundaries in the same way that Top Gear used to."
"Okay, so it's not the worst animated film out there, not even by the studio's standards. So, why does it have all this hate? Well, you have to keep in mind about Shrek's popularity before Shrek the Third came in. His peak was at the level that only very few animated franchises ever achieve. Shrek 3 was possibly the most anticipated and hyped-up film of 2007. So, when audiences would discover that, between 2 and 3, Shrek would go from being great to mediocre, they were beyond disappointed; I would even say that they were betrayed. I can speak, as a witness, that it was at this point that the Shrek craze as 'the beloved animated film series' was pretty much dead."
"Let’s put it this way: it would even be more enjoyable and pleasurable if I had announced my retirement from the business, but, since I want to go on and do other things after this, human nature being what it is, you think "How am I going to top this?". Really, the odds are I’m not, ever."
— Vince Gilligan on the critical success and widespread popularity of Breaking Bad
I sometimes consider going back to making webcomics, but AMD would always be hanging over my head. Even when I did Zombies of the Living Dead - which is only like twenty comics - I had people yelling at me every day because I was wasting my time with that and not with finishing AMD.
— Sean Howard on A Modest Destiny
"My first big break was getting into The Beatles. My second was getting out of the Beatles."
"The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark."
"There will never be another (add a popular figure here)."
— Popular quote
