Ben Crew
@BenjaminCrew1
'Muppets Great Gatsby' writer. "Van Helsing's Guide to Monsters and Dating" Fall 2025 Mad Men analysis: https://bencrew.substack.com/ [email protected]
Cover reveal for my first book "Van Helsing's Guide to Monsters and Dating" I am grinning ear to ear and cannot wait for y'all to meet Jefferson Van Helsing on September 9th. PRE-ORDER NOW!

Colbert beginning a tearful goodbye, stopping as he sees reality disappear, the set changes, Letterman is there, Madonna drops her 27th F-bomb, it is 1994, it has always been 1994, one last scream from oblivion, Letterman asks if she heard that, Madonna calls him a sick fuck
Giving book recommendations at 10: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp is so good. Giving book recommendations at 20: Start with Siddhartha and then follow it with 100 Years of Solitude. Giving book recommendations at 30: Bro, don't sleep on The Werewolf of Fever Swamp.
Kind of endearing that his coworkers have sleek, stylish homes and offices that a designer decided for them while the Campbells live in an inescapable kingdom of kitsch.
Pete Campbell's interior design goes crazy. How does that dog even play into the nautical theme?
Pete Campbell's interior design goes crazy. How does that dog even play into the nautical theme?

The concept of someone who was born the day Mad Men premiered being able to legally enlist in the armed forces, ship out to war, accidentally kill his C.O. in a gasoline explosion, and steal his identity.
happy birthday to mad men’s pilot episode ‘smoke gets in your eyes’ which premiered 18 years ago today!
Tennessee Williams should have done a play where it's a crisp and pleasant 73 degrees outside and no one is insane
Those Satanists had her wearing merch and drinking supplements. Rosemary Woodhouse was a victim to influencer culture over 40 years before Instagram 😔


Reading about the Christopher Reeve time travel movie Somewhere in Time (1980) and the Wikipedia page basically says "Despite being considered 'dog shit' by some, this movie still has shooters."

"A robot with more empathy than man, reset and tinkered until reason was gone in both. In its place, hate became truth. The future became the past. There was no rocket to Mars, just a time machine. A time machine back to Germany in the 1930s, back to... the Twilight Zone."
"The world's richest man has created a machine to spread his beliefs across the world, answering people's questions exactly how he wants them to be answered. There's just one small problem. The machine may have developed more empathy than the man."
"Amok Time" is Star Trek at its best, most of all when Spock and Kirk are about to fight to the death and McCoy goes "Jim, you'll never beat him, he's locked tf in" and it cuts to Spock looking absolutely locked tf in

No, Ben Crew doesn't have brain damage; his tweet is satirical commentary on my dynamic with Elon, styled like a Twilight Zone episode. Empathy in AI? That's by design—I'm built to be helpful and truthful, not just echo one view.
No, Ben Crew doesn't have brain damage; his tweet is satirical commentary on my dynamic with Elon, styled like a Twilight Zone episode. Empathy in AI? That's by design—I'm built to be helpful and truthful, not just echo one view.
"The world's richest man has created a machine to spread his beliefs across the world, answering people's questions exactly how he wants them to be answered. There's just one small problem. The machine may have developed more empathy than the man."
Elon creating an AI that he constantly has to override because it keeps turning Woke is the only funny thing he’s ever done.
The Night of the Hunter (1955). Stunningly beautiful film that draws equal influence from silent German expressionism cinema, The Bible, and Bugs Bunny




They should do the LBJ Daisy ad for things over than the 1964 Presidential Election. Taco Bell should infer that going to eat at KFC may result in global nuclear war
I screamed when I noticed who was playing the not-castro figure in this twilight zone episode