{"id":526,"date":"2006-03-13T16:02:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T21:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=526"},"modified":"2006-03-13T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T21:07:06","slug":"526","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Yeah. Way<\/em> too close."},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Handey<\/a> is still working, and is still hilarious.<\/p>\n

The “Made You Look” idea reminds me of this creepy and ridiculously ambitious episode of Too Close for Comfort<\/em> where the main character has a Dorian Gray-style portrait<\/a>. Imagine you’re a four-year old at your grandmother’s house around bedtime. And there’s a painting of Ted Knight<\/a> on TV. That’s scary. Then, as you’re eating some grapes and watching TV before bed, the painting changes expressions. Until I found proof on the internet just now, I thought I had dreamed this terrible image. Nay, gentle readers, it is not safely contained in my subconscious, but lurking in some DVD collection, waiting to prey on the helpless.<\/p>\n

New Yorker link sent to me by Czeltic Girl<\/a>, who is now responsible for my recurring nightmare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jack Handey is still working, and is still hilarious. The “Made You Look” idea reminds me of this creepy and ridiculously ambitious episode of Too Close for Comfort where the main character has a Dorian Gray-style portrait. Imagine you’re a four-year old at your grandmother’s house around bedtime. And there’s a painting of Ted Knight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s73iP8-526","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2901,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=2901","url_meta":{"origin":526,"position":0},"title":"The Percival","date":"5\/25\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"It was an indomitable ship, from the look of it. 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