Eliza Skinner is a comedy writer who has made stuff for The Late Late Show, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, and Adam Ruins Everything, among other things, but she’s also a Twitter monster whose simple and succinct observations are extremely relatable.
Skinner must be home for the holidays right now, because a lot of her tweets over the past few days have been about weird stuff she’s found at her parents’ house and observations about her family.
Annual reminder that my parents once liked my work ID at a summer job enough to blow it up into a poster. pic.twitter.com/T9M9fYAFAG
— Eliza Skinterklaas (@elizaskinner) December 26, 2017
Very late to this game, but yes explaining Game Of Thrones to a family member is a kooky ride. I just described Tywin Lannister as a “powerful country club asshole” and my sister seems skeptical but I stand by it.
— Eliza Skinterklaas (@elizaskinner) December 26, 2017
One such tweet she tossed out on Christmas has gone viral, racking up more than 50,000 “hearts” and counting. That’s because Skinner expressed a universal, hilarious truth about the maddening, hellish experience of watching a movie her parents.
Shout out to everyone trying to hear a movie over their parents questions about the movie.
— Eliza Skinterklaas (@elizaskinner) December 25, 2017
Hitting the theater, putting on something from Netflix, or, let’s be honest, because they’re our older parents, a DVD or VHS tape on a machine blinking “12:00,” just can’t be a simple way to silently kill two hours, can it? Noooooooo. They have to go on and on with their questions about the plot, “who that guy is,” other movies that guy has been in, more questions about the plot because they missed an important development because they were talking, and so on. It’s as if they’ve never even seen a movie!
The internet both thoroughly sympathized and empathized with Skinner’s predicament.