This is only kind of related, but I have to say that, for as long as I can remember being familiar with the term, the phrase "banana hammock" has always conjured in my mind the brief scene of a banana with legs and arms, wearing, in fact, a banana hammock and sitting up on a regular hammock strung between two palm trees on a beach, and it stops reading for a second to look up at me from behind sunglasses, and then it puts down the book and puts on a big, toothy smile and makes that cheesy little hand-gun pow-pow greeting gesture, and I have to assume that the banana is probably winking as it does that, and this is what I see in my head every time I'm reminded of the phrase "banana hammock," as I was with that first image.
Law and Order Criminal intent always had some pretty insane plots whenever I watched it (which was not all that often) posted by delmoi at 3:11 PM on July 31, 2010
Whoops. I meant to address that to Gator. posted by argybarg at 3:12 PM on July 31, 2010
This reminds me of (the sadly defunct) Spamusement -- I think it's the combination of bizarre lines of text with hilariously literal artist interpretations. posted by punchdrunkhistory at 3:40 PM on July 31, 2010 [1 favorite]
This is only kind of related, but I have to say that, for as long as I can remember being familiar with the term, the phrase "banana hammock" has always conjured in my mind the brief scene of a banana with legs and arms, wearing, in fact, a banana hammock and sitting up on a regular hammock strung between two palm trees on a beach, and it stops reading for a second to look up at me from behind sunglasses, and then it puts down the book and puts on a big, toothy smile and makes that cheesy little hand-gun pow-pow greeting gesture, and I have to assume that the banana is probably winking as it does that, and this is what I see in my head every time I'm reminded of the phrase "banana hammock," as I was with that first image.
Good job, now half the people reading this are going to see it every time now too. posted by DMan at 4:06 PM on July 31, 2010
The last season/season and a half had gotten good, but then they decided to not renew it so that the insane SVU could continue stuffing monkeys into basketballs. posted by drezdn at 5:50 PM on July 31, 2010 [1 favorite]
At one point in my life I was underemployed and had a lot of time on my hands. TNT was pretty much the L&O channel back then. They would play at least 4 episodes a day (sometimes another 2 or 4 that night). On the weekends it was often L&O marathons. I did little but watch them for nearly a year. After watching each 3 or 4 times it got to where I was living for an unseen episode. Eventually it got to where even I couldn't force myself to watch one I'd already seen, but somewhere in here I developed a mutant power and any 30 second shot of the body and I could tell you how was killed and why and how the court case came out.
I never watched any of the last five, but I bet I could still do this for any of the first 14 years and I haven't seen an episode of L&O in probably 5 years. posted by cjorgensen at 6:12 PM on July 31, 2010 [2 favorites]
If Lisa Hanawalt was the art director, law And Order could go on for at least another ten seasons. Or until the drugs ran out. posted by Kevin Street at 6:21 PM on July 31, 2010
I hate to be one of those I-think-that-thing-started-sucking-even-earlier-than-you-do types, but I think L&O took a sharp turn downhill when Steven Hill left. posted by box at 8:12 PM on July 31, 2010
I don't even watch TV and I'm not sure I've ever seen L&O, but I could tell who the people in the Kate Beaton one were supposed to be and what show they came from even without the explanation.
/not superior-cos-I-don't-watch-TV, just marvelling at the power of pop culture. posted by immlass at 11:46 AM on August 1, 2010
Brandon Bird is amazing. Thanks for posting this; I hadn't kept up with his recent work.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 2:43 PM on July 31, 2010 [1 favorite]