Fanon to Canon 'ugly naked guy'?

[galeandrandy.livejournal.com]

Writing something for Credence, this thought occurred to me. As I'm sure most anyone knows, there are quite a few things that were said or stated in QAF fandom / showtime message boards by fans that inadvertently made it onto the show in one way or another.

Just two of my favorites that I recall are 'Zen Ben' and 'Brian knocked up Sunshine'.

So if anyone can recall, 'the ugly naked guy painting', was this an actual fandom thing before Justin says it when the painting is being taken away, or was this on the show before?

EDIT: FOUND ANSWER. Okay I was confusing myself by thinking too much about it. Justin does not say exactly 'ugly', and you'd think me watching it 3 times before asking would've alleviated this question. But then I began wondering if he said it as 'ugly' elsewhere or if it was purely fanon. It is only purely fanon. Justin does NOT say 'ugly'.

Thank you!

Comments

[xheartrockx.livejournal.com]

I can't comment on if any of these painting are good or not. I know shit about art and I'm one of these people who "don't know art but know what they like". It still seems odd to me that while the rest of Brian's interior design is very sleek, modern and practical, he'd go to a gallery and come home with a 10' painting. He just doesn't seem like the guy for decoration.

Anyways... the lack of continuity doesn't bother me so much, actually. Besides, I'm not sure if someone who is ambidextrous could actually paint (artistically) with the both hands to equal mesaures. I'm left handed and there are a few things I can only do with my right, so...
But that's not what I was going to say. What bothered me even more is the timing on the show. For the life of me, I can never figure out how much time passes within or between episodes. Sometimes it's days, sometimes it's one day and sometimes it's weeks. Like the whole of season 4 seems to span Mel's pregnancy while ep 511 seems to go over at least a couple of days.

[galeandrandy.livejournal.com]

Art is definitely in the eye of the beholder, the I do think that there is a fine line of where something can begin to be called art and when it is just plain ridiculous. But just my opinion.

I actually found the painting very suiting to Brian's taste. He's always one to make a statement and almost all the paintings he has in his offices too are quite large and bold. Just because it was a large painting, it did not take up much space, it had it's own place, as every thing in its home seemed to.

I also find that the subject matter was perhaps something so different from what Brian might've found beautiful in men (though I personally thing the subject in the painting is cuter than some of his tricks), or conversely, what he might've seen looking at the painting was beauty stripped to the core. Maybe it was a message, that no matter how many beautiful men paraded into his home, he'd still be stuck with one damn ugly one. LOL!

Mostly for me, the lack of continuity begins and ends with the timeline issues, no matter how long you dissect it, there will always be the more minor inconstant statements, parts of the set, clothing choices, calendars or a million other things that will contradict any timeline directly stated or one that anyone will try to make up. Believe me, I've tried to come up with a more reasonable one since the show first started messing up when it aired and I've yet to settle on one. It will never happen. Even the actors at different times had stated the timeline wrong in reference to a certain scene or series of events because they too had no idea what it was the writers had done.

But, just think if you had like 30 different people writing 83 episodes of a show, and many who came and went and for the most part, many who had never seen but a few episodes or the episode before the one they were writing for. Sort of puts all those inconsistencies in perspective.

[xheartrockx.livejournal.com]

But, just think if you had like 30 different people writing 83 episodes of a show, and many who came and went and for the most part, many who had never seen but a few episodes or the episode before the one they were writing for. Sort of puts all those inconsistencies in perspective.

That's true. I mean I've made the same experience when writing my own fic and that's only 8000 words and not a whole show. And probably, had I watched it week by week on TV rather than during a week marathon, I wouldn't have noticed a lot of these things. Given the amount of writers, some things are bound to slip but yeah... there are a few things that should have been noticed. I think my biggest pet peeve is when they don't properly end storylines. Like the Pink Posse thing... This whole thing was a bit ridiculous to begin with but they make this humongous deal out of it and then it just disappears. Sometimes it would have taken only one line of dialogue to end things properly.