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lwdlyndale's avatar

The Situation Room: ESPN Zone but for the 2020s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_Zone

lwdlyndale's avatar

See also WWF New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF_New_York, seems like the Arrested Development meme about "but maybe it will work for us!" but in restaurant form, or a sort of imperial hubris moment for companies when they hit there high point right before the downward arc begins: let's open a pointless restaurant that will turn into a giant money pit!

Dane Benko's avatar

Everyone wants to be Ozymandius from Watchmen.

Kevin Alexander's avatar

New ring of hell just dropped:

Deborah Carver's avatar

must be something to be monitoring the situation instead of living the situation.

Drew Austin's avatar

many such cases!

Deborah Carver's avatar

Follow-up question: is the Polymarket bar like the commercial where the adult men avoid the women in their lives and instead parallel play on Chumba? Is that also "dialed into the zeitgeist"?

Stregoni's avatar

Some don't feel that bad for missing out on this zeitgeist. Some don't even fear "missing out".

Patrick Jordan Anderson's avatar

Hilarious title, by the way. Would've gone over my head if I hadn't read Daniel Kolitz's viral Harper's piece a few months back.