Breakdowns: President Obama Wants People To Stop Spoiling Breaking Bad

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Beejoli Shah

12/30/13 01:09PM

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He may be the leader of the free world, but Barack Obama knows he's not the one who knocks; none of Matt Lauer's friends showed up for his birthday party; Peter Jackson probably would show up to Stephen Colbert's birthday party; and The Boss is not happy at all.

While waiting for a webpage to load, most people toggle between Netflix/YouTube/porn, so you'd think in the almost three months that the Affordable Care website hasn't really worked, Barack Obama would have finished Breaking Bad. But no, he's still working his way through it, and being that annoying friend who is constantly asking you to please avoid talking about the ending Biden, you know I'm still working on it, don't be a dick. [NYT]
Birthday parties are normally a joyous affair, unless you're Matt Lauer and alienated all your friends, and now nobody wants to throw you a surprise party. Nobody who is currently on The Today Show could be bothered to show up to old Matty's birthday party this morning, so NBC had to invite past anchors (some who didn't even work with Lauer!) Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley to fake smile this morning instead. Meredith Viera Skyped in from bed, because she gets it. [TheWrap]
Officially ruining all future gifts in the Colbert household, The Hobbit director Peter Jackson gave loudly self-proclaimed J.R.R. Tolkien nerd Stephen Colbert the best gift ever: a full-family cameo in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. [Screencrush]
Bruce Springsteen is really not thrilled with Amazon right now, after his latest album High Hopes, set to release January 14th, accidentally showed up available for download on Amazon over the weekend, and is now all over file-sharing sites for free pirated download. On the bright side, he probably just earned himself free Amazon Prime for life. [NYT]

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HiMyNameIsJayAgain Beejoli Shah 12/30/13 01:27PM

Can I make a suggestion re: Defamer — Breakdowns? (JK..I'm not asking permission, I do what I want!)

I think the little "(+)" commenting feature (as seen on Jalopnik) would work really well with the Breakdowns format. That way we could add comments directly to each bullet point.

Owl is lost HiMyNameIsJayAgain 12/30/13 03:22PM

I don't know if that's really a thing you can do but I would love that.

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HiMyNameIsJayAgain Owl is lost 12/30/13 03:28PM

I don't know why they couldn't do it since they've done it on Jalopnik. I'm sure it's just a matter of Gawker getting on board with it. I think it's worked well (enough) with picture tags/comments so paragraph tags/comments could be just as successful.

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Owl is lost HiMyNameIsJayAgain 12/30/13 03:29PM

I never go to Jalopnik. I tried to check it out just now to see what you're talking about but I ran away pretty much immediately.

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RenoTerror HiMyNameIsJayAgain 12/30/13 11:33PM

I am so used to the internet as a whole confusing "board" and "bored" that I had to double check my reading and triple check my brain. Well done.

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HiMyNameIsJayAgain Beejoli Shah 12/30/13 01:14PM

The people who were actually going to buy a Bruce Springsteen album don't know how to download pirated copies so I'm not sure what he's worried about.

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LilMiss_SnuSnu HiMyNameIsJayAgain 12/30/13 01:18PM

You couldn't pay me to illegally download a Bruce Springsteen album.

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xiovuxciuvlkj HiMyNameIsJayAgain 12/30/13 01:20PM

You'd be surprised, that man definitely appeals to a young 20 something male/female demo.

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Stan Sitwell LilMiss_SnuSnu 12/30/13 01:26PM

You could definitely pay me to

So let's discuss my pay rate

loneWolfdeLeGrey xiovuxciuvlkj 12/30/13 01:31PM

what young right wingers?

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Thewalkingdude Beejoli Shah 12/30/13 01:17PM

I haven't seen the end of Breaking Bad yet but my "friend" ruined it for me.

But who cares- it's a shitty ending anyway- After all that happens it ends with Walt getting a "Teacher of the Year Award"? - Lame- I don't think I'm going to finish it. Sad that great shows don't always end right.

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GazesAtShoes Thewalkingdude 12/30/13 01:21PM

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GregSamsa Thewalkingdude 12/30/13 01:36PM

The real shocker was when Jesse was given the 'Protector of the School' award. Dude hasn't even been in high school in nearly a decade.

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Thewalkingdude GregSamsa 12/30/13 01:39PM

Ok stop. Stop! I'm only on S.5 Ep.3! Everyone stop ruining the ending for for me.

It's bad enough that I already know that Walt takes a Meth Cooking gig in Philadelphia so that Skyler can focus on her career for a change.

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GregSamsa Thewalkingdude 12/30/13 01:41PM

Dude. For a novice who hasn't finished the show, you knew to spell Skyler's name correctly.

Thank you.

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Magister Beejoli Shah 12/30/13 03:29PM

Not to be that guy, but somebody is going to do it and it might as well be me... Lauer was the newsreader when Pauley and Gumbel were Today Show hosts.

It was the three of them and Williard Scott.