Steve in TRaffic

Artist seeking community and ridiculous riches.

#Artist #Filmmaker #VanPilot #FilmLover

[Steve in TRaffic @Soda_Burger]

Episode #13 💸🏚🚚🫏🦒💸
CAP'n SAVE'em CASH!!

Alot of my job is saving clients from themselves... I was working overtime in Atlanta. 😂

https://t.co/3VVAsyBrwa

[RSM #NAFO fellas @Rod_dk]

😂

[Steve in TRaffic @Soda_Burger]

Your moment of zen...

[Cake Drake @CakeDrake]

PAUSE FOR PAIN

[Mamdani Source @sourcemamdani]

🚨BREAKING: After 6 months in office, Zohran Mandani has consistently proved that if your politicians wanted to help you, they absolutely could.

[Steve in TRaffic @Soda_Burger]

Yogi Bear ass type shit 😭

[Epic Clip Vault @EpicClipVault]

A guy dressed up as a bear purely to prank his coworkers 😭

[Steve in TRaffic @Soda_Burger]

"Get back in the goddamn ground, you unorganised grab-asstic gob of teleplasmic shit!"

- R. Lee Ermey

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Incredibly, R. Lee Ermey wasn't the first choice to parody himself in The Frighteners, which is 30 years old today.

In one of the best callbacks in cinema, R. Lee Ermey playfully parodies his legendary Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from Full Metal Jacket. But it only happened because Peter Jackson couldn't find anyone good enough to emulate the role Ermey created.

Jackson held auditions to find someone who could imitate Ermey’s raw intensity, but no one could. Realising he'd never find anyone good enough, Jackson went to the source and contacted Ermey directly, who immediately agreed to fly out to New Zealand.

Jackson made the smart move and allowed Ermey to improvise around the basic plot points and deliver his signature Full Metal Jacket vibe, adding dialogue like, "Get back in the goddamn ground, you unorganised grab-asstic gob of teleplasmic shit!". At the same time, Jackson mirrored Kubrick's framing, giving the audience an up-close-and-personal nostalgia hit.

What makes it so amazing is that it weaponises the psychological abuse, which was genuinely terrifying in Kubrick's war movie, abuse that drives a man to end his own life, and transforms it into a full-on comedic performance. Yet it's delivered in exactly the same fashion.

The Frighteners was released nine years after Full Metal Jacket, but Ermey's unforgettable performance was so iconic that the parody is instantly recognisable the second he appears on screen. There is absolutely nothing subtle about it, and it hit the perfect note.

What this story proves more than anything is that there was no one quite like R. Lee Ermey.

[Steve in TRaffic @Soda_Burger]

Probably one of the coolest to ever do it. 😂

[Erin 🦕 @DocOldFossil]

forever grateful for the existence of this silliest ray of sunshine :')

[Cinemagic Universe @cine__magic]

Kevin: Did you have any kids?

Bird Lady: No. Oh, l wanted them. But the man I loved fell out of love with me. That broke my heart. And whenever the chance to be loved came along again, I ran away from it. I stopped trusting people.

Kevin: No offense, but that seems like sort of a dumb thing to do.

Bird Lady: I was afraid of getting my heart broken again. You see, sometimes you can trust a person, and then, when things are down, they forget about you.

Kevin: Maybe they're just too busy. Maybe they don't forget about you, but they forget to remember you. l don't think people mean to forget. l think it just happens.

Bird Lady: I'm just afraid if I do trust someone, I'll get my heart broken again.

Kevin: I understand that. l used to have this really nice pair of rollerblades. l was afraid if l wore them, l'd wreck them. So l kept them in a box. Do you know what happened?

Bird Lady: No.

Kevin: I outgrew them. I never wore them once outside. l just wore them in my room a couple times.

Bird Lady: A person's heart and a person's feelings are very different than skates.

Kevin: Well, they're kind of the same thing. lf you aren't going to use your heart, then what's the difference if it gets broken? If you just keep it to yourself, maybe it'll be like my rollerblades. When you do decide to try it, it won't be any good. You should take a chance. Got nothing to lose.

Bird Lady: A bit of truth in there somewhere.

Rest in peace, Brenda Fricker (1945-2026) 🕊️

🎞️ Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
🎥 Dir. Chris Columbus

[Princella D. Smith @princellasmith]

Hal Williams wanted positive representation for Black fathers on television, and I would say that he definitely accomplished that goal. I love this tribute from his 227 cast mate, Jackee Harry. Rest in power, Sir. 🕊️

[Steve in TRaffic @Soda_Burger]

Leopard:
Hey, buddy. Whatcha got there? Woah! Jesus! Calm down! Hey! Ow! Let go!! Aaaaaaaaaaaah!

[The Honey Badger @Nance726]

I don’t give a shit…
If ya don’t know, now ya know🍯🦡

[Dj Cobreezy @DjCobreezy]

RIP Officer Smitty 🙏🏾

[BET @BET]

Today we remember Hal Williams, best known as Officer "Smitty" on Sanford and Son and Lester Jenkins on 227.

Before Hollywood knew his name he was working as a corrections officer and postal worker in Columbus, Ohio. He bet on himself in his 30s and gave us nearly six decades of warmth, humor, and authenticity across some of the most beloved shows in television history. Williams reminds us that it is never too late to become who you were meant to be.

Rest well Hal Williams. 91 years of a life beautifully lived. 🖤

[Steve in TRaffic @Soda_Burger]

He's been that funny, solid, dad-dude, for my whole life. Tv Legend. Rest in peace, friend.

[80sThen80sNow @80sThen80sNow]

Born Halroy Candis Williams on December 14th 1934 in Columbus, OH, This Legendary Actor Appeared in 40 TV Shows and Movies Since 1971.

80s Wise, Halroy Appeared in the Following:
Sanford (1980)
Knot’s Landing (1980)
The Waltons (1973-1980)
Private Benjamin (1980)
On the Nickel (1980)
Nevis Mountain Dew (1981)
TJHooker (1982)
The Escape Artist (1982)
The Dukes of Hazzard (1984)
Webster (1984)
The Jeffersons (1984)
Gimme a Break (1984)
227 (1985)
Hill Street Blues (1986)
Magnum P.I. (1988)

*Other Honorable Mentions Outside the 1980s Include:
Sanford & Son, The Jimmy Stewart Show, That Girl, Kung Fu, Quincy, M.E., Roots: The Next Generation, What’s Happening, Night Court, Moesha and (Most Recently) Matlock.

#halwilliams #actor #sanfordandson

[Ognjen Sporin @OSporin]

Moon Transport, now in color!

[tahra @tahraart]

Feint 페인트
photoshop
#tahra #tahraart

[Sam Neill @TwoPaddocks]

Yes, I know things can look a little glum at present. But , for now cheer up. From us.

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

Comedian Ali Siddiq said Netflix turned down multiple comedy specials he submitted. After those rejections, he told his manager to stop pitching his work to them.

He bet on himself in 2022 and decided to independently produce his comedy specials and release them on YouTube.

Seven comedy specials later, he has accumulated over 300 million total views while doing his comedy show in arenas and is now promoting his new special like this:

“No subscription needed.”

I respect the pettiness 😂

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

How many people could even conceive of doing THIS, let alone do it & pull it off so brilliantly on a primetime, entertainment TV show.

ORSON WELLES transforms himself into ‘Falstaff’ on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW in 1968.