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Left to right:

  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus as live-show Liz
  • Beth, Jamie's mom from "Cougars"
  • Rick, the roller skating drag queen from "Christmas Attack Zone"
  • Sarah Palin as Liz from 31 Rock a parody video she made for some reason. Also, DotCom is in it?!
  • Liz's identical new best friend Amy from "The Ballad of Kenneth Parcel"
  • Frank when he turns into Liz in "Dealbreakers Talk Show No. 0001"
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[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

See also:

Pornstar Liz, S4E2 "Into the Crevasse

Staged Queen of Jordan Liz, S5E12 "Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning"

Amy Poeher young Liz, S6E19 "Live from Studio 6H"

[–] MeatCat@dubvee.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nice catches. I remembered porn Liz after I posted. Totally forgot about staged reaction shot Liz and that Amy Pohler played her in the second live show.

Also, I'm just now remembering butt-double Liz:

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago

Speaking of body doubles, there was also the time Liz jumped over the table in S4E22 "I Do Do"

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On a similar note, here are all instances of a different actor portraying a young Liz:

URL Episode Actor Role
S1E11 "The Head and the Hair" Michal Antonov Refusing to sit on Santa’s lap
S2E1 "Seinfeldvision" Michal Antonov Marrying her stuffed animal
S2E4 "Rosemary’s Baby" Marcella Roy Watching Rosemary Howard’s show
S5E9 "Chain Reaction of Mental Anguish" Marcella Roy Calling Santa a fat fraud
S6E6 "Hey, Baby, What’s Wrong?" Marcella Roy Getting rejected on Valentine’s Day
S6E14 "Kidnapped by Danger" Marcella Roy Being “The Blocker” on her parents’ anniversary
S6E17 "Meet the Woggels!" Marcella Roy Having “The Talk” with her grandfather
S6E19 "Live from Studio 6H" Amy Poehler Watching telethon
S7E7 "Mazel Tov, Dummies!" Marcella Roy Marrying her stuffed animal
S7E7 "Mazel Tov, Dummies!" Alice Richmond First ever eye roll
[–] MeatCat@dubvee.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there a tool that helps with making tables? I know the markdown to do it, but it's still a confusing mess to work with.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All that I can think of is this tool that someone posted recently:

https://thisdavej.com/copy-table-in-excel-and-paste-as-a-markdown-table/

You copy a range of cells from somewhere like Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc, etc., then paste into this website, and it reformats it as a markdown table.

But myself, I am comfortable enough with markdown to just type it out manually directly into a Lemmy comment. Though for a markdown table that is relatively large (like the one above), I generally create it from scratch in a separate text editor program and then copy/paste it into Lemmy. A text editor is just a larger space to work in and has things like find/replace to make things go faster.

If you have any specific questions/problems, I am happy to help!

[–] MeatCat@dubvee.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks! I'll bookmark that tool for later and give it a try.

Usually I do okay-ish typing them in directly, sometimes I use the table template button the app to get started, but when putting in long text like image links, it gets ugly fast and stuff starts to break.

I generally create it from scratch in a separate text editor

That's what I do, and turning off word wrap helps a lot.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

when putting in long text like image links, it gets ugly fast and stuff starts to break.

In that case, I think that tool should prove very helpful. Starting off in a spreadsheet program like Excel is great for keeping things neat/tidy/readable, then you would use that tool to convert to markdown when you are finished and ready to post the table to Lemmy.

That is sort of how I manage my GIF todo list and the markdown list that I publish on Codeberg. I have a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet that I use as my todo list, adding new ideas to it as they come to my attention and then marking them off as I complete them. Then, when I am done for the day, I have a custom Python script that I run that reads all the cells in the spreadsheet, rearranges things a bit, and outputs it as a markdown table into the file you see on Codeberg.

EDIT: @ptz@dubvee.org could possibly even build that functionality right into Tesseract, allowing you to copy from Excel and paste directly into a Tesseract textbox as a markdown table.

[–] MeatCat@dubvee.org 1 points 23 hours ago

I think my main use-case would be a 2x4 (or 2x6 or 2x8) table with images and captions so I don't have to use an image editor to make custom scenes. Basically I wanna take some of your gifs and mash them together into something like a 4-panel comic / scene.

could possibly even build that functionality right into Tesseract

Oh that would be cool. I'll ask!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wait, are we just going to skip over 31 Rock? This is the first I'm hearing of it. I need waaaay more details. Is that 1 minute clip all that was ever made? Or did they actually make a full on show?

Because yes, I would totally believe they made at least one episode of this parody show. It's easy to believe when you can't believe this concept exists at all. So at that point, what barriers could POSSIBLY exist?

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

From reading a few articles, it seems the clip was simply a spoof, and no full episode was ever intended to be made. I gather that it exists for two reasons:

  1. As a lighthearted jab at Fey, who (for the first time in eight years) had reprised her famous SNL role parodying Palin a week prior
  2. More importantly, as marketing for Palin's new book that we hear Dotcom complimenting here
[–] MeatCat@dubvee.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think the whole 1 minute "trailer" is the whole thing. The article I found on it mentions the same things as the other comment, so that's probably right (promo for her book + jab at Fey).

I didn't even know it existed until I was sourcing images for this post, and the one of Palin as Liz was a thumbnail for a YT video, so of course I had to click on it and probably ruin the already terrible recommendations on the homepage 🤣

The worst part about it is....I didn't totally hate it.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How could you leave out el tejón?

[–] MeatCat@dubvee.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nice catch.

How could you leave out el tejón?

Because I didn't think of it. 🤷‍♀️

[–] HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I’m sure you did your best.

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Is this c/30Rock or c/GILFisland???