There was the Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The Raycom Media Camellia Bowl. Hell, now the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl feels downright quaint.
And we get it. For the past years our staff has been not posting much, being busy doing regular stuff, like, learning how to socialize again, or getting really into weird beers. But we with the drastic change to the college football playoff system, the millions of dollars in NIL deals, something we guess is called a transfer window, a lot has changed in the NCAA.
But not one thing. That’s right. Teenagers may be making millions. But you know what also makes millions? SPONSORSHIPS BAY-BEE! And so, guess what, bowl games have only gotten crazier in the last seven years.
We really messed this up, so this will be a pretty quick run-through of acting performances. Should they win? Will they win? Let’s see! (Honestly you don’t need a FULL rundown…so…we’ll just do as much work until we end up with the major categories)
Another year another rushed Oscar rundown of preditions and thoughts of the Academy Award nominated films from the past year. Again we’re getting it done just under the wire.
But enough about us. Let’s look at the Best Picture nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards.
When Arrested Development came out in 2003, it didn’t constitute as a commercial success that you might associate with sitcoms like Friends or Fraisier or [insert another comedy that starts with F…is there a sitcom called Fuck? No? Anyway].
Its initial run only ran for three seasons, but received 26 Emmy Award nominations, and six wins, including two for Best Comedy Series.
Featuring a writing staff that went on to create iconic shows of their own, and regular appearances from legends such as Ron Howard, Eliza Minnelli and Henry Winkler, the show also featured one of the best ensemble casts of all time, most of which went on to even brighter careers.
So we decided to take the nine primary characters of Arrested Development and rank them based on their post-AD careers.
“No we will not watch all the short live action films.”
~Our Exhausted Staff
We’ve done the work of watching every film nominated for Best Film as well as the additional movies from 2024 with nominations for the Acting Categories, and we spent a good 7,000 words doing so. That’s why, for our staff’s sanity, we’ll not be doing a nomination-by-nomination breakdown for the rest of the Oscars to be awarded this Sunday.
Instead, we’ll highlight our predictions, while offering some thoughts if we have something to say about any particular nominated film in any category.
Some of these will just be a name and a film, and our staff thanks the editors for giving them that rest.
“Why do you make us watch ALL of these movies? We’re pretty sure the Academy members don’t even do that.”
~AFFotD’s staff
After watching all ten Best Picture nominees for the 2024 Academy Awards and ranking them accordingly, we’ve continued our sicko tradition of watching all the Oscar-nominated films and giving our predictions.
We’ll soon go into all the other categories with a little less “explaining the movie” sections, but for now, having seen all the nominees for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, let’s dive right into our next set of predictions.
Who Should (and Probably Will) Win in the Academy Award Acting Categories
Last year, our staff made the decision to do write ups-on the Oscar nominees for Best Picture, Best Actors, Best Actresses, and all the rest. Our results? We were pretty accurate actually!
“Ugh. Jesus. Well at least we’re literally the last website on the internet to write a hot take on Artificial Intelligence”
~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief Johnny Roosevelt
Yes, we used AI to make this image. The prompt was “rich venture capitalist using Artificial Intelligence software to write a bad article –ar 16:9”
It’s been a while since you’ve heard from our staff (our staff holiday party was a booze cruise for Octoberfest that ended up leading to an almost note-for-note Triangle of Sadness situation. Only for us, the rich were okay, and the interns…well we don’t have interns anymore).
Speaking of Academy Award nominated films, friends of the site know we get weird about award season. We gave our predictions for every single major category for the 2023 Oscars (and were surprisingly accurate) and we went through 40 years of cinema to re-distribute Best Picture Oscar winners.
These articles took work. Like, enough work for you to rightfully be concerned about the mental state of our writers. And they received hundreds, maybe even thousands of views, and brought in roughly $3.52 of revenue.
You know who has more than $3.52, a larger staff, and decided to fuck off and do their Oscar preview not with 14,000 words that took 20 hours to create, but with an entirely AI-created article with 15 minutes of edits that is immediately recognizable as being pushed through ChatGPT?
“You’re letting me out? .I’m free? I’m FREE? Wait…wh…what is this for? OH GOD WHAT IS THIS FOR!?”
~[Redacted]
It’s been almost a decade since we’ve last heard from [Redacted] so we’ll give you some backstory if you might not recall him. After we sent one of our finest investigative reporters out to eat at a Vegan restaurant, things went a bit sideways. To save his family the shame of doing such a thing as eating a meal in America without meat, we buried his identity, kept him in a locked broom closet, and forced him to review the worst shit imaginable for us.
A 1980s rap video with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks, a Rodney Danger rap video, a rap video about recycling. These were his only moments outside of the stuffy darkness. But it wasn’t all just bad white-person old-school rap. Hell, we even made him write a Buzzfeed article back when Buzzfeed was a thing that people actually read. Haha, holy shit, remember Buzzfeed? Back then ChatGPT was just called “unpaid interns” and the end result was about the same.
But anyway. Long story short, we totally forgot we hadn’t let him out since 2014. Then during one of our holiday parties (we believe it was for the anniversary of the release of Rocky IV) we accidentally bumped into our broom closet, freeing [Redacted] who somehow had stayed alive thanks to a leak in the ceiling and the 30 years of prepper-grade rations we always keep in every single closet in our compound.
So we put him to work.
We asked him what he wanted to write about, as a way of apologizing for his decade of solitude, and he said, “Well I left off on the hit AMC show, The Walking Dead, shortly before my last assignment. The first season was great, the second was a little slow, but it seemed to be gaining steam. How about I write about that.”
Oh [Redacted]. You sweet, cursed soul.
[REDACTED] Reviews the Entire Walking Dead, God Bless Him.
“Haha, no I think legally it would be a crime if I forced any of you to watch this movie in order to write this review.”
~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief, Johnny Roosevelt, During a Weekly Staff Meeting
We take our role as arbiters of culture very seriously here within the walls of America Fun Fact of the Day. We’ve literally spent 60,000 words talking about Ted Lasso, which increasingly has led to people thinking we’re going dad-core or something, but goddamn it, we still have our finger on the pulse of culture!
So with that, we are going to tell you a movie you have no excuse knowing about. Hell, we have no excuse knowing about it.
This movie was in theaters for exactly one week in a limited release in the year 2019. We honestly do not know if it made a single dollar, as there literally is zero box office information regarding this film. It has a user rating of 1.9 out of 10 on imdb.com, and the only professional review it received basically says, “We, as a society, deserve this.”
We’re not going to review the Logan and Jake Paul “surreal influencer action comedy” that is Airplane Mode. Because that would involve watching that.
Instead, go on a journey with us as we break down the Wikipedia page describing the plot. Trust us…it’s a fucking ride.
We Summarize 2019’s Airplane Mode based off a summary of 2019’s Airplane Mode
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