Cliches

In an otherwise excellent piece criticising the Ottawa Senators for their collapse in game six against the Penguins, Wayne Scanlan remarks that the pressure was building as the Senators “set out to defend what Don Cherry always calls the worst lead in hockey: the two goal advantage.”

A new documentary chronicles the absurd misrepresentation of native people onscreen

Every so often I get to wondering about the origins of annoying clichés, and the one I’ve been wondering about lately is the use of the record needle scratch in trailers, commercials and and other promotional videos. This cliché started not long after scratching actually became an accepted effect in popular music, but when did they start using the needle scratch for “comic” effect in TV and movies?