It’s time, once again, to delve into the mixed grab bag of what people have been tapping into google in order to end up here over the last fortnight.
Just in case you hadn’t realised: people scour the internet for some odd things. Have some Coasters to ease you into the randomness:
And now to the search terms! Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome to the latest Search Term Sunday! Take a peek at what people have been googling to end up here in the last couple of weeks, sit back, and giggle away.
dean in supernatural cars
Supernatural‘s Dean ended up in a truly supernatural car when his brother was transformed into a Chevy Impala version of Knight Rider. Good times:
matilda the movie pancakes
How very topical, given that it was Pancake Day not long ago! Read the rest of this entry »
They really are, you know. Check it.
kristin bell penis
Totally.
scooby/daphne fanfiction
She must have gotten tired of being Fred’s beard.
This Search Term Sunday comes to you from the addled mind underneath my brand spanking new haircut. I now look eerily like Nick Drake, and let’s face it, who wouldn’t want that?
Since the last track on his second album, Bryter Layter, is an instrumental piece simply titled ‘Sunday’ it’s clearly appropriate listening on the last day of the week.
I don’t understand what’s going on with this video, or why it’s claiming to have lyrics, so I suggest you just shut your eyes and listen instead.
Lay back, lounge around, and let me insist that things will get better and brighter later. Spring’s a-coming, and there’ll be sunshine and petals and frolicking bunnies all around soon. And if you need a reason to smile before that’s actually upon us, then have a gander at some search terms! Read the rest of this entry »
It’s the first day of 2012, which means it’s entirely respectable (for once) to be nursing a hangover and lounging around in bed all day.
But it is a Sunday, and the sun is quite firmly set beyond the horizon, so it might be time to shake things up a bit and get on with the first Search Term Sunday of the year. (And then to collapse back into an exhausted heap again immediately afterwards.)
example paper that describes beyonce’s character of in the film obession personality in the terms of the big five personality traits
I’ve got enough essay stress to contend with, I’m certainly not taking on anyone else’s on top of it. Plus you didn’t even explain which film you were talking about.
Denied!
The outside world looks rubbish these days. The skies are grey, everything’s blowing around in the wind, and there’s not even any snow to make up for it. Pah.
This is definitely the time of year for insisting on staying in. You can avoid the long night/short day problem if you ignore it hard enough, and mulled wine can’t get you into quite as much trouble if you never leave the house.
So get comfy and snuggly inside! Draw the curtains against the evils of the external! Make yourself all nice and warm by lighting a fire or applying several glasses of wine!
And, of course, entertain yourself with this latest batch of search terms. Hopefully giggling at them will ensure that you don’t feel the winter gloom at all:
I understand why someone might be scared to take a peek at the search terms that lead people to Pop Culture Playpen. Quite frankly they can get freaky.
But there’s no need to worry, even though it’s an ostensibly spooky time of year right now. I promise to guide you through this Search Term Sunday safely. There might be shocks and scares along the way, but you’ll come out safely (if somewhat curious about some really weird stuff) on the other side.
how tall is christina hendricks
Seriously, her height is the measurement you’re interested in?
…but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need.
With those Rolling Stones lyrics in mind (and really, who wouldn’t want to take Mick Jagger and Keith Richards’ words seriously?) I’ve decided to use the Search Term Sunday this week to dispense some helpful advice.
Depraved googlers might not have realised that they were participating in a Dear Abby-esque scenario, but the searches people perform in order to end up here are as weird, if not more so, than ever. And I’m not just talking about the appalling spelling.
My first suggestion would be that you eat an apple a day, and try not to end up looking like these guys. Read the rest of this entry »
No, I’m not in a particularly heretic mood. But it is a Sunday and I’m on fire. At least, my back was, and now it resembles a lacy red lizard, a lasting souvenir of my recent trip to Spain. (Part of the reason PCP was taken over by Emmas last weekend.)
You’re all on fire too – but in the good, non-peeling way. I’m liking you weirdo Googlers this week, because you have given me the chance to think about all kinds of pop cultural goodies and stare slack-jawed at sexy scantily-clad men and women, in the name of “blogging”. Keep it coming!
french kiss jensen ackles
This is a weird time of year- betwixt and between seasons. A few summer shows- like Breaking Bad and Weeds- are still airing, but they’re winding down. The True Blood and Damages season finales have already aired, and other shows, such as Leverage and Pretty Little Liars are on hiatus for a month or two.
Other things are coming back, and some new shows have already started. The first episode of Ringer, Sarah Michelle Gellar’s much-hyped new show, already happened, and next week there’ll be new How I Met Your Mother, Glee, Community, Supernatural and much, much more.
But what are you supposed to do up until that deluge?
DVDs may well hold the answer. Not only can you prepare for the upcoming seasons by rewatching episodes, but you can also discover hidden delights amongst the DVD extras.
For example, an oldie but a goodie, the Community season one cast evaluations: Read the rest of this entry »
As you may be aware Pop Culture Playpen has been taken over by Emmas.
There is a theme to this week’s Search Term Sunday, see if you can guess what it is. The title might give a you clue… Happy GAY Sunday!
No gays were hurt in the making of this article, and this really wasn’t hard to do as most of the terms people searched for involved either something gay or pornographic. (We count naked Jensen Ackles as fitting into both these categories.)
And dragons. No gay dragons as yet though. Disappointing. Upsetting. I demand to pet a gay dragon right NOW.
There’s some rather unorthodox means of getting to Pop Culture Playpen (and I ain’t talking about railways and caravans and carpet rides).
I don’t always understand the odd things people search for to end up at this website, but I always enjoy looking through them.
Come on a whirlwind tour of this week’s with me, cos you obviously already got here. Somehow.
buffy porn
This does not star Phoebe Buffay, no matter what you might hear to the contrary. Read the rest of this entry »
♪ if you live with me, I’ll die for you, and that’s a compromise ♪
Eh, I’ve just about had enough of serious questions, and the resultant discussions, this week. So let’s bring on the levity instead!
Round here that means that it’s time for another Search Term Sunday- looking at, and mocking, the things people have googled that brought them here this week.
promiscuous harlot
Well alright, that titular Buffy quote was from a vampire called Sunday (pictured above) and not- at least as far as I know- an anthropomorphic version of the last day of the week. But when you think about it, it’s kind of true. Sundays practically do kill you sometimes.
You’re liable to be horribly hungover and terribly tired from your weekend activities- whether they’ve been wholesome or debauched. Or, if you- like quite a few of the PCP crew- spent your Saturday night entertaining a baby while necking booze, a bit of both.
So you’re all tuckered out- and you don’t even get to really relax because another week is just around the corner demanding your attention and energy. Sundays are hard.
However they’re also they day of search term sifting- I’ll be perusing the things people have googled to end up on PCP. And possibly flailing around in confusion.
pics of dean winchester with a little girl
That sounds borderline inappropriate, but the show does feature a lot of creepy kids- many of which like attacking poor Dean: Read the rest of this entry »
Last week Miss Penn sweetly tried to remove the smut, and create a family friendly Search Term Sunday.
Well, let’s have no more of that! I say let’s shun the smut-less, and instead fully embrace the strangeness (and often inappropriate sexual nature) of the search terms that led people here this week.
gay corner time
It’s time for another Search Term Sunday, and this week I’ve wrested back control from Ms Elaine E. Ouse who likes to tell you lies about my birthday.
(Or maybe she’s just not available to bully into doing it for me. Whatever.)
Anyway, it’s certainly time to investigate the strangeness of the search terms which led people to the site this week:
supernatural jensen no clothes, jensen ackles naked, jensen ackles, jensen ackles naked gay, naked jensen ackles, jason ackles nude, jensen ackles nudo, jensen ackles full nude, jensen ackles+naked and jensen ackles but naked
With persistence like that, you deserve some topless Ackles at the very least: Read the rest of this entry »
Hello dear PCP fans!
HAPPY SUNDAY! I am Ms Elaine E. Ouse- Miss Thropist’s little sister- and I am writing my very first Search Term Sunday in celebration of Miss Thropist’s birthday! As it’s her birthday I am giving her the day off. That’s just the kind of great little sister I am.
Oh, I can’t lie to you. It’s not really her birthday. The Queen gets two birthdays, right? Is that true? My sister would know. Anyhow, my my you search for shocking things. What is wrong with you people? I love you anyway, you awful humans (no judgement). Ok, let’s go…
homer eat
Also works for the person who searched for National Doughnut Week 2011, which the pop culture queens celebrated by writing really difficult quizzes.
The random things that people have typed into google to find this site have been wafting along all week, and amusing the hell out of us. Join me in the eye of the storm as I examine- and mock- this lot.
jensen ackles cowboy, sexy jensen ackles and dean supernatural cowboy
Our mascot cowboy Jensen can take care of those:
But sadly not jensen ackles naked, naked jensen ackles, nude jensen ackles, jensen ackles and jared padalecki naked, jensen ackles porn, jensen ackles gay porn, jensen ackles fotos pornos or jensen ackles nude. Read the rest of this entry »
Sundays always seem to come too soon, and with them the sad knowledge that the weekend has to end. Nonetheless they can still be a day of fun, and of pouring over the search terms that lead people here of course.
jared leto dawson’s creek foto
This I cannot provide, because he was never in Dawson’s Creek.
eliza dushku lesbian
There was rather a lot of lesbian subtext in season three of Buffy…
Supernatural- a CW show, perpetually on the bubble and under threat of cancellation- has been renewed for a season seven.
It’s one of me and Miss Penn’s favourite shows (and contributed splendidly to our stockpile of images of the site’s mascots, Cowboy Jensen and Jared) so there’s plenty of excitement over the news in this little corner of the internet.
Now of course I enjoy the emotional drama and angst, the horror and despair, the blood and gore, the ghosts and demons… it’s all integral to the show. Arguably, however, my favourite aspect is the humour.
It started off with witty one liners and brotherly banter, but very soon Supernatural was pastiching the genre, every other genre and itself.
So I though a top ten of the crackiest, most ridiculous Supernatural episodes was in order- and here it is in chronological order in fact. The only problem I had was whittling it down to a mere ten mad episodes.
Sadly all the best clips seem to have had embedding disabled, but I strongly suggest following the links to watch them on YouTube. If you enjoy fun, that is.
Hell House
Happy Easter Sunday y’all!
I must admit that Easter celebrations have never really made all that sense to me, but if you’re into pretending that rabbits lay eggs and enjoy hunting for melted chocolates in apparently unlikely places then I hope you have an enjoyable time doing so.
The stuff that I’ve been searching for- silly search terms- are far easier to find. It’s much like looking for hay in a haystack, as soon as you take a look at the searches people have performed in order to bring them to this site you’re sucked into a wildly weird world.
Let’s give it a whirl:
jensen ackles cowboy
Have you seen the ‘Frontierland’ episode of Supernatural yet? You neeeeeed to, it’s chock full of our mascot, Cowboy Jensen, and comes complete with plenty of cowboy Jared:
We really are getting on for summer, the sun is genuinely shining and the weather is sweet.
It’s nice to be able to enjoy the weekend out on the grass, rather than being holed up inside piling on the layers just to feel like you’re not turning into a person-shaped icicle.
I hope that you’ve all been having hot fun in the sun, but when you eventually make your way back inside (the evenings aren’t yet quite as warm as I’d like them to be, let me tell you) there’ll still be a Search Term Sunday for your perusal each week.
Join us as we try to puzzle out what exactly it is that people are looking for when they end up here- and whether the weirdest googling can be blamed on sunstroke or daytime drinking.
Happy Sunday all! Hope you’re enjoying yours.
As far as I’m concerned, Sundays are usually for relaxation and recovery. It’s also a good day to check in with your friends- preferably in person with piles of greasy food and lots of liquid.
Sundays are the perfect day for everyone to share their stories of debauchery from the latest week (or, more likely, the weekend) and to swear that they’re never making the same mistakes again.
But if they didn’t, then we’d have nothing to talk about the next Sunday. So mostly the quitters quit quitting, and life goes on with its circular motions.
Since it’s Sunday, it’s time to go through the sinful and strange search terms of the week.
I’d ask everyone to promise to bookmark some stuff instead of abusing google in this fashion, but where would the fun be next weekend if that happened?
Why am I always hungover when it’s my turn to do the Search Term Sunday? Life is wildly unfair. Despite that, or perhaps because of it, it’s time again to air people’s dirty google laundry in public.
The search terms that lead people to Pop Culture Playpen are often wacky, wonderful, wild- and perplexing. But however you got here, sit back and enjoy us discussing this week’s batch.
perfect jawlines
Comes complete with ridiculous cheekbones:
how to distract yourself from porn
Well you could let Ms Elaine E. Ouse dictate your Lent- she suggests giving up misogyny, and part of that is a pledge to set aside Disney porn. Or you could do like Miss Penn and read a load of books, that’s pretty distract-y.
I’ve just returned from a weekend in Brighton and should be shattered, but Ms Elaine E. Ouse’s girlfriend has kept me alive by pumping out pop punk and hip hop on the drive back, so I’m hyper enough for another Search Term Sunday!
It’s time to nose around and look at what search terms have led people to Pop Culture Playpen this week… And then to mock them.
misfits nathan in suit
He’s more commonly seen in an orange jumpsuit but here ya go:
It’s time for another Search Term Sunday- where we explore the strange things that people have googled to end up being directed to our site. This week seems especially Supernatural heavy, even for us, maybe because we recently wrote about Sam vs. Dean.
In general if we’re feeling benevolent we might actually try to answer the queries, but given that Sundays are often our hangovers of doom day we’re more likely to mock. And then promptly fall asleep.
So let’s give it a whirl:
jensen ackles british top model
So pretty that he transcends national boundaries.
Supernatural revolves around the lives of two evil-hunting brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester. They’re both witty, handy with a shotgun and ridiculously pretty.
The weight of the show was very much on the actors portraying the brothers- Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles- especially in the earlier seasons, but they pulled it off, in large part due to their great chemistry.
Oh wait. Ahem. That wasn’t the kind of chemistry I was getting at…
I’ve noticed some rather strange casting in television and film lately.
Whether they don’t make sense due to accent, age, beauty or race I want someone to clear them up for me- or at least for writers to learn to defend odd casting choices by including some kind of vague explanation in the script.
Confusion is not a good look on me, I end up resembling an emoticon with appendicitis.
Inception
Inception is a film about dreams which seems intent on trying to misdirect or confuse the audience, so obviously I was trying to pay attention to every detail.
To be honest I don’t really understand what all the fuss is about, the plot made sense to me- asides from one little detail.
Why was Michael Caine (Professor Miles) playing Marion Cotillard (Mal Cobb)’s father?
I already wrote about actors better known for their film roles moving (back) into TV-land, but the ranks of those moving the other way must be almost infinite. It’s normal for actors to graduate from working in television to the movies, and it would be nigh on impossible to make a comprehensive list, or even a representative overview. Nonetheless I thought I’d share some of my favourites.
21 Jump Street
21 Jump Street was an 80s show with a slightly ridiculous premise about young-looking undercover cops investigating teenage crime and imparting PSAs about everything from drugs to sex and back again. The first four seasons starred Johnny Depp back before he started playing against (the teen idol) type in lots of Tim Burton films (Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Alice in Wonderland) and plenty of others (Fear and Loathing, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus). Depp wasn’t the only nascent star on the show either, check out baby Brad Pitt’s guest spot:
Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars starred Kirsten Bell as a student-cum-PI. This was Bell’s breakout role, and she gained more exposure after its cancellation through a stint on Heroes and as the voice of the eponymous- if mysterious- narrator of Gossip Girl. She’s also gone on to star in films like Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Fanboys and Couples Retreat- and has a role in the film I think I’m most excited about for 2011, Scream 4. The first season also featured Amanda Seyfried (who went on to act in Big Love before focussing on films) as Veronica’s dead best friend Lilly Kane. She was only supposed to be in a few episodes (in slightly misty flashbacks) but Rob Thomas, the show’s creator, was so impressed by her she ended up in more. Since then she’s been in Mamma Mia!, Jennifer’s Body and Letters to Juliet- and I’m eagerly anticipating her Little Red Riding Hood, also scheduled for release in 2011.
Young Americans
Young Americans is one of my favourite shows of all time- a short-lived sort-of Dawson’s Creek spin-off about a group of friends growing up in a small town, revolving around Will Krudski (Rodney Scott) a boy from the wrong side of the tracks who wins a scholarship to the prestigious Rawley Academy- that really needs to be released on DVD already. Despite only lasting eight episodes this show seemed to have it all, exploring (possible) incest, social class, philosophy and Calvin and Hobbes. Not only did it give us The Vampire Diaries‘ Ian Somerhalder and The L Word‘s Katherine Moennig, it also featured Kate Bosworth. Bosworth has gone on to star in films like Blue Crush, Beyond the Sea and Superman Returns. Another Young American who’s featured on the big screen as an adult quite a bit is Michelle Monaghan (Mission Impossible III, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Made of Honor) who guest starred in two episodes (or a quarter of the show) as Will’s love interest Caroline Busse.
Dark Angel
I still have no real idea what this show was about, aside from Jessica Alba in leather. Anyone? Anyone? …Bueller? Well Wikipedia calls it an:
American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television series created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee…Set in a post-apocalyptic Seattle, the show chronicles the life of Max Guevara (X5-452), a genetically enhanced super-soldier, portrayed by Jessica Alba as an adult and Geneva Locke as a child, who, after escaping from a covert government biotech/military facility as a child, tries to lead some semblance of a normal life and constantly try to elude capture by government agents, while searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters scattered in the aftermath of their escape.
I’m still lost, but it did seem to launch the career of Jessica Alba (Sin City, Fantastic Four, Machete) so maybe it was doing something right. Plus you can’t really go too wrong with Jensen Ackles (who played twins Ben and Alec, or something):
Supernatural
The stars of Supernatural, Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester and Jared Padalecki as his brother Sam, don’t have stellar movie careers- although they have gained roles in genre films (Ackles in My Bloody Valentine 3-D and Padalecki in Friday the 13th) probably at least in part due to their work on the show. But back before Mark A. Sheppard was in absolutely everything on TV (Battlestar Galactica, Dollhouse, CSI, Leverage, Chuck, Warehouse 13, Supernatural, Dr Who- and that’s just since 2009!) there was Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Morgan had a tendency to play dead guys on TV (Weeds, Supernatural, Grey’s Anatomy), but seems to have given that up for a movie career (PS, I Love You, Watchmen, The Losers). That’s when he’s not too busy being introduced as Jared Padalecki’s boyfriend anyway. [Skip to the 3:30 mark if you don't want to listen to Jared waffling, though I can't imagine why you wouldn't.]
Supernatural’s Misha Collins (who plays the angel Castiel) also starred in Stonehenge Apocalypse, which deserves notoriety for possibly being the worst film of all time.
My So-Called Life
Oh, My So-called Life was so good! It was a 90s teen drama about a group of high school students, narrated (mostly) by Claire Danes’ character, Angela Chase who was, like, so totally in love with Jordan Catalano (Jared Leto). Their romance didn’t necessarily make all that much sense given that they kind of had the same hairstyle and I don’t really see how anyone could look at Devon Gummersall (who played Angela’s hapless neighbour Brian Krakow who was totally crushing on her) and not want to pinch his cheeks until they fell off. Still everything about the show was superb, and it’s not surprising that it launched the film careers of both Danes (Little Women, Romeo + Juliet, Stardust) and Leto (Girl, Interrupted, American Psycho, Requiem for a Dream). And it gave the world the adorableness that is Wilson Cruz, for which I think we all ought to be eternally grateful:
Teresa
There’s plenty of stars who started out on soaps- House‘s Jesse Spencer on Neighbours, Buffy‘s Sarah Michelle Gellar on All My Children and Pushing Daisies‘ Anna Friel on Brookside to give you three examples from three different continents’ lowest common denominator programming. Perhaps the most famous example though is Salma Hayek who rose to fame after appearing in Mexican telenovelas Un Nuevo Amanecer and Teresa, and has since been in films like From Dusk Til Dawn, Frida and Once Upon A Time In Mexico.
I’m sure everyone must have a favourite example or two of actors’ TV roles before they hit the big screen- tell us about them in the comments. Bonus points for videos!
I’ve pretty much lost my concept of days over the festive period but I’m reliably informed that it’s been a week since we last did this. I’m also told that it’s 2011 now, a fact easy to miss amongst all the champagne and recriminations.
So let’s raise a glass to another year of Search Term Sundays- may we never forget to post on the right day!
hot and sweaty cowboys
Given that we’ll take any opportunity to post pics like this I can kinda see why that would bring you here:
sexy neighbor in hot tub
There are probably easier ways to perv on your neighbours than googling. Just sayin’.
harald kloser just to relax myth
As in his claim that he “only smokes to relax” is all a lie?
heroines armpit
Miss Penn has a penchant for photographing my armpits, while Michelle Rodriguez apparently enjoys licking her own:
college wrestling team torsos
There might be torsos aplenty mentioned here, but I doubt you’ll find much about anything as energetic as wrestling. Although now that Lauren has joined the Glee team I guess we might want to talk about her past as a member of the William McKinley High wrestling team…
etchings of a looking glass
We’re literally luring people back to our web-place with the “want to come up and see my etchings?” line. Score.
all the disney princesses birthday party invitation – digital file- princess snow white, cinderella, aurora sleeping beauty, ariel little mermaid, belle beauty and beast, jasmine, pocahontas, mulan, tiana princess and the frog
Points for effort at least.
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I’m not sure what’s most disturbing here- the search term, the spelling or the fact that it would lead you here.
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Wish it were Sunday, cos that’s my funday
In miss thropist, pcp news on January 30, 2011 at 5:56 pmI’ve been having a slightly manic weekend visiting friends who’ve had to pack up and get out- some more successfully than others- in a very short space of time. Not that the talk of leaving through the window or rage induced bike-table battles haven’t been entertaining, but in a way I’m quite glad that the world has somehow reached Sunday, and that things seem to have calmed down. At least for a minute.
Which means that, all things staying sedate anyway, it’s now time for another Search Term Sunday- where we paw through people’s dirty google laundry. If you ended up on this site by searching for an odd combination of words then you’re in good company, a lot of other people did too!
majorvein frizzy
There does appear to be someone with the Photobucket username majorvein with a picture of frizzy hair, but if you were searching for frizzy vena cava then I don’t think we can help you. Mostly cos that’s super gross.
surreal disney image
What’s more surreal than Dali-esque Disney? At this point I’m pretty much bowled over by anything Disney that doesn’t involve porn anyway.
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