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We saw something on Curb the other day that reminded us that it's a great show. Larry starts using the word "fierce" to describe things, which is now pretty much theater slang probably adopted from some exurban star's onetime local lexicon. I hasten to say "fierce" constitutes the zeitgeist of the urban diva language adopted by musical theater culture, in which I have been proto-immersed in for some time now. Though this word, and the attendant lip pursing and hand waving, represents an admirable mixing of cultural and gendered speech patterns - the value of which may be questionable anyway - it may be a less remarkable morphine of the Tina Turner drag queen's language over the preceeding decades. Curb gets right to the heart of the gay actor stereotype by using "fierce" without pause, in the same way Crazy Eyes spewed now-realistic/now-fantastic ghetto slang a few seasons ago. Larry uses these new patterns in a conversation with his manager, the sound of which is the meat of the joke. Obviously, Larry adopting this pattern to his casual conversations carries a lot more easy laughs than had he continued to pick up Crazy Eyes' historically incendiary language. In casual use, "fierce" may actually be a useful respite from the formal "wonderful" or the technical "engaging" and hackneyed "magnetic" superlatives.

Also the crux of Superbad is not that it is a buddy film, but that the characters tell explicitly the story we create from experience and project on others we find attractive. It's a story about their imaginations.

Also, We've been reading fakesteve almost hourly and it's very amusing.