Spending time exploring what can be accomplished on a motel bed after dropping coins into the "Magic Fingers" device. In honor of John Houghtaling, inventor of the Magic Fingers, who passed away in 2009.
With another couple days' driving ahead of them, Mia and JJ thought they should hit the laundromat, but nobody else was going to be smelling them in that junker they'd borrowed, so all their quarters went toward some surprisingly intimate huff-tailing on the saggy motel mattress.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.