and so begins the Twilight Zone

the debate – about guns – continues in this opening monologue from the recent reboot of The Twilight Zone: About this episode the Wikipedia entry reads: No. Title Directed by

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Venom is a Normal Symbiote in Search of a Normal Host

In 2018’s should-be-flop film Venom by Marvel/Sony/Columbia/Tencent there are three instances of normal. In the first the supposed genius that is Carlton Drake decides to build rockets at age 24

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HANNA Wants to Not Live a Normal Life

I don’t know anything about this series but I appreciate the trailer’s commentary: Watch the complete ad trailer movie thing:

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Antoinette Harris Likes to “Push Normal” in Her Toyota RAV4 Hybrid

and neither have you too!! Watch the full video ad commercial:

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Steve Martin as “Normal and Straightforward Guy” Roger Stone

Tucker Carlson (Alex Moffat), Jeannine Pirro (Cecily Strong), Ann Coulter (Heidi Gardner), Wilbur Ross (Kate McKinnon) talk about the government shutdown and Roger Stone (Steve Martin) stops by to talk

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Jon Snow knows, “These are NOT Normal Times.”

In Hardhome (S5E08) of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow travels north of the North in an attempt to convince the Wildlings to come south of the Wall – with safe

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Normal People Walk Around Trash – Kevin Wendell Crumb is NOT Normal

In this scene from the movie Split a psych therapist by the name of Dr. Karen Fletcher describes one (of many) of her patients Kevin Wendell Crumb (or was it

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the Not Normal Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan

Michael Moore’s docu-film Fahrenheit 11/9 contains two references to normal and it is no surprise to this author that they are both in relation not to the outright absurdity of

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Charles Grady was a Completely Normal Individual Until He Killed His Family with an Axe

In this gripping early scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 thriller The Shining, Overlook Hotel general manager Stuart Ullman explains to Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) the legend of Charles Grady. The

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are virtual reality modules in deep space normal?

Virtuality is an OK film. Not great – but it does deliver at times. Still, it is probably in the best interest of everyone involved that the series wasn’t picked

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A Boyband Fangirl Story is Totally Not Normal #movietrailer

New Kids on the Block, N*Sync, One Direction and, of course, The Beatles: Bands with big hair, bigger personalities and the ubiquitous screaming fangirls. I Used To Be Normal profiles

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“We’ve had a lot of normals.”

Following a 1+ minute USAgasm human spokesperson for the color orange and POTUS Donald John Trump calls a bunch of previous Presidents an apparently disparaging term when expressing his subconscious

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upgrade to a … … normal life

I mean, everything that’s installed just allows you to live a more… “normal life”

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2010 Was the Normal Year We Made Normal Contact Normal

These days 2010 seems soooooooo long ago. When we had a POTUS who could speak in complete sentences, when 1/3 of Twitter accounts were not Russian trolls, and when we

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for Mutant Turtles, the struggle to be normal or not to be normal

Interestingly in both of these scenes from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows it is Raphael who at first struggles with the desire to be normal, then questions

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‘Not being normal isn’t strange.’

What is normal? #whatisnormal #ThursdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/GQ8gu7Esmo — Steve Zanella (@sczanella) March 30, 2017

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running for POTUS makes people ‘not normal’

From an episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden interviewing Seth MacFarlane, who points out the semi-obvious non-normal nature of the side-effects of running for POTUS, whether you

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‘back to normal’ was the Punchline about a White POTUS

Man how time flies. It was already two years ago that Chris Rock re-emerged to give the opening monologue at the 2014 BET Awards, at that time 5 years since

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‘What Is Your Normal???’ That’s a Great Question!!!

Have you settled so long until now it’s become your normal? Have you forgotten what true happiness is? Do you know how “healthy” feels?

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The ‘Myth of Normal’ with Gabor Mate

This is a clip from a longer segment (link below) which itself is merely a segment of a full-length documentary due out later this year – crowdfunded on Kickstarter in

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Normal by Carl Bessai

Normal is a movie featuring Carrie-Anne Moss of The Matrix acclaim. It’s a pretty good drama, especially if you have any familiarity with – and frankly disdain of – boring

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Everyday Normal Guy

He might be proclaiming to be something that he’s not – for a laugh – but comedian John Lajoie’s YouTube video is a hit regardless (nearly 4 million views already

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this is STILL not normal – ‘Media in the Age of Trump’

Kurt Eichenwald speaks simple truth to power in this short but to-the-point clip during an exchange with Jonathan Capehart & others. What was seemingly a novelty act is now a

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animated instruments register ‘normal’ in ‘The Time Trap’

Another Star Trek reference, only this time animated from 1973! The episode is ‘The Time Trap‘ and in this other-verse all weaponry is registered inert, or rather, normal, by some

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Source Code Normal

A soldier wakes up in someone else’s body and discovers he’s part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train. A mission he has only

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brain function normal

In this clip from the 2013 sci-fi surprise Elysium the badass antagonist Kruger (Sharlto Copley) is hoisted onto a medi-bed by his two henchmen Drake (Brandon Auret) and Crowe (Josh

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Donald Trump is NOT Normal; Keep Reminding Yourself ‘This is Not Normal’

John Oliver tore orangutan-fathered human tire fire a new tire firehole in his latest segment, aired post-election. It includes two momentary clips juxtaposing #Drumpf against that which is absolutely not

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What is Normal? Episodes 1-3

Some guy named Nathan Dalaklis is uploading ‘new videos everyday.’ On top of that self-imposed quota being really demanding to keep up with, one of his series is titled ‘What

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The Imitation Normal Game

The Imitation Game is an excellent movie; I don’t care about historical accuracy, it’s simply a good movie. Not least of all because it contains two scenes that play on

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< scorpion > Geniuses, aka Not Normals < / scorpion >

I haven’t watched CBS’s Scorpion, but the short and long trailers each include mentions of what is normal?; the inference being that the characters portrayed are some of the smartest

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Why can’t Superheroes just be Normal people?

In this clip from Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, Arthur Curry just finished his first battle with Trenchers, and is coming to realize his destiny, with no future to choose

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Hunger Games: Eating Berries vs Starving

Surprisingly, this is the only instance of ‘normal’ through four movies (this is from Catching Fire, the second film) – I wasn’t looking for more, but I figured given the

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Frank Lucas (American Gangster) Disrupting Mafia Normal Business

This is a great clip from Ridley Scott’s 2007 American Gangster. The context is that Detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) and Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) have an exchange about their

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Water Face Splashing in Flint is Not Normal

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan is a f***ing tragedy. It’s a goddamn crying shame and the people in charge of that state are responsible for the future-ailments and deaths

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Taking inspiration from Thomas and Sebastian of Patience Productions and their A Normal Day series, YouTuber Timtastic made his version of waking and getting the day going one trick at

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Leo Johnson Lacks Normal Brain Activity

“Objection to the use of the word “normal” your honor!” Not my words. Rather the demur of the prosecutor in this scene from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, season 2 episode

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Zombies are Pure Motorized Instinct with Remembered Behaviors from Normal Life

Monologue by Dr. Millard Rausch from 1978's Dawn of the Dead opens with a normal question and comments on the notion of normal life.

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Berning Your Enthusiasm is Not/Normal

Watch Larry David play Bernie Sanders as a not/normal human being.

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#FeelTheBern isn’t a Normal Signifier of Cool

Another pol-normal reference this morning, this time about “political rockstar” Senator Bernie Sanders who according to Ezra Koenig, lead singer for Vampire Weekend, “does not have the normal signifiers of

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This Ain’t Your Father’s Normal GOP: Veterans are NOT War Heros

In this quick, few-second clip – part of a longer, l337 segment on last night’s Rachel Maddow Show – Rachel Maddow paraphrases Donald J. Trump for his July 18, 2015

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Mutant X-Men and the internal conflict of wanting to be Normal

In X-Men: First Class (2011) there are not one or two or eleven but three instances of the word normal in the screenplay. The following scenes are shown in sequence,

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A Normal Day

This is a total throwback post. I first caught wind of A Normal Day in mid-2009, when the first two videos were released; #3 came out in November 2010. You’ll

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Normal is Liquid Breathing (Oxygenated Fluorocarbon Emulsion)

The premise of Liquid Breathing has long been a fancy of sci-fi novelists and visionaries who apply the gimmick to space travel (think multi-lightyear stasis or hibernation) as much as

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Quatermass and the Normal Pit Xperiment from Space

A study of the question 'what is normal?' in Quatermass screenplays.

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grand theft normal boring life

Hang on a minute am I playing Grand Theft Auto or ...

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Futurama normal people

Leela and Amy hide out in an alley, and after glancing at how much of life is controlled by the tentacles...

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Joe Bauers has Remarkably Normal Blood Pressure

"Mister Bauers was chosen for how remarkably average he is, extremely average in every category."

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Normal is Two Drops of Cordrazine

In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode The City on the Edge of Forever (original broadcast date 1967 April 6), Dr. McCoy gets accidentally injected with one hundred times

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Normal is Loving the Sound of Guns Going <em>Click-Clack</em>

For the Miracle family 'normal' includes keeping more than 20 guns in the house, not all of them under lock-and-key. "And this is one of how many [guns] in the house?" "Twenty-two I think."

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