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AFFotD’s 2025 Oscar Guide – All the Non-Picture Wins

Posted on March 2, 2025 | Leave a comment

“Oh they’re cutting it close today”

~You

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)

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AFFotD’s 2025 Oscar Guide – Best Picture

Posted on March 2, 2025 | Leave a comment

“So this website only writes once a year now?”

~You

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.

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Ranking the Post-Arrested Development Careers of the Stars of Arrested Development

Posted on October 25, 2024 | Leave a comment

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.

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AFFotD’s 2024 Oscar Guide – All the Other Categories That Aren’t Best Picture or an Acting Category

Posted on March 8, 2024 | Leave a comment

“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.

AFFotD’s Academy Award Predictions

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AFFotD’s 2024 Oscar Guide – Best Picture

Posted on March 1, 2024 | 1 comment

“Oh God, we’re doing this again?”

~The Entire AFFotD Staff

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!

And we put more work into our predictions than, hmm, some multi-million dollar entities that decided to rely on AI. And we’re not gonna take our foot off the gas. Here’s our rundown of the ten Best Picture nominees for the 2024 Academy Awards.

The Official AFFotD Guide to the 2024 Academy Awards (Best Pictures)

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If Variety Can Cheat and Use AI to Write Their Articles So Can We

Posted on February 23, 2024 | 1 comment

“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?

Variety.

Let’s Talk About Variety’s Embarrassing AI-Written Oscar Feature

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Let’s Review the Wikipedia Page Describing the 2019 Logan Paul Film, Airplane Mode

Posted on July 7, 2023 | Leave a comment

“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

The Definitive Ranking of Every Ted Lasso Character (Season 3)

Posted on June 12, 2023 | 1 comment

“Be Curious. Not Judgmental.”

~Ted Lasso

Ted Lasso, the little show that could (win 11 Emmys), aired its (theoretically) final episode recently. You know the show. You have at least one friend who is like all of our staff members who will gladly talk to you about it without warning, most likely leading to a long, unwelcome conversation.

It’s the story of a college football coach brought over to England to coach a team owned by a spurned ex-wife who hires him to tank her former husband’s favorite team.

What ensues is a heartwarming ensemble sports show that also deals with heavy topics like mental health, divorce, and self-harm. It also is, by far, the most popular Apple TV+ intellectual property. It has a devoted fan base, hundreds of accolades, and is so great that even though it was planned to end after the third season, they won’t rule out a spinoff.

We love it.

For the past two years, we’ve done the aggressive work of ranking every. Single. Character. If they had a name? They got an entry!

We wrote about 61 characters who had a named role in Season 1. By Season 2, that number blew up to 121.

According to the Ted Lasso wiki page, by Season 3 we got up to over 300 characters.

Politely? Fuck that.

We’re changing the rules for this final entry to this series, which might diminish the impact of how different certain characters’ rankings are compared to last year, but no one reading this wants to deal with 20,000 words mostly filled with entries that simply read, “Oh, this is Amy, she was Jamie’s partner in the reality TV series he did at the start of Season 2.”

You don’t want to hear that! You want to see where we ranked Nate now! His journey has been a roller coaster!

So instead of ranking every character who has a line or a name, we’ll start with an honorary “you were on the show good for you” list before ranking characters who have actual impact on the show. This should save you all about 20 extra minutes of reading, so you’re welcome.

Every Ted Lasso Character, Ranked (Season 3)

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Every Comic Actor in the Star Wars Universe

Posted on March 28, 2023 | Leave a comment

“Haha holy shit, this involved a lot more research than I assumed it would need.”

~AffotD Editor-in-Chief, Johnny Roosevelt

Listen, we’re not new the the concept of writing very unnecessary Star Wars articles that require a lot of research that doesn’t have a real audience. Do you, the reader, really care how many Academy Award nominees have been in Star Wars movies? Of course not. But we still wrote 4,500 words on that topic.

Since that article, the Star Wars universe has expanded greatly, after Disney bought the rights for Disney for $4 billion (if you want to get a sense on how much money doesn’t matter, that is 1/10 of the price that it cost to purchase Twitter, a product that has never made money, while the movies made since the acquisition alone has grossed $5.5 billion in the box office).

Anyway, with all the TV shows and new movies that have come out, we’ve noticed something. There are multiple generations that grew up with the dream of being a part of the Star Wars universe. And there seems to be one way to increase your chances to find yourself cast in a galaxy far, far away.

You have to be a comedian.

Or at least a comedic actor. We went through all of the Star Wars properties, and compiled every actor that we’d deem “a comic actor” who has played a character in that universe. Now, the definition of a comic actor is purely subjective, so we likely missed some people who you might believe should be on this list, while including people you might not view as comic. We don’t care, there’s no ranking, we’re just listing people, and 90% of you will (rightfully) just skim through this. And you should! Spoiler alert, this is going to be longgggggg.

Anyway, here are come funny folks who can officially say they have a Wookipedia entry.

Apparently the Easiest Way to Get a Star Wars Role Is to Be a Comedy Actor