74 Comments - Team Sleep - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:01 am: “Hey, Madigan, your pants are too low!” - John-on-the-spot - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:01 am: Hello Frank Costanza creature! - Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:01 am: Pictured: A politician with a less swollen head than most. - 47th Ward - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:02 am: Those pants are way too low to be Madigan’s. - 47th Ward - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:02 am: TS, well played sir. - SMH - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:03 am: This is becoming very very very silly. More governing, please! - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:03 am: Wake Forest called, they want their Demon Deacon head back… - Six Degrees of Separation - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:04 am: With apologies to Anonnin’ - You think HE has a BigBrain! - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:04 am: Props… - Winnin' - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:05 am: Mike Madigan welcoming the IRS to the Illinois Policy Institute. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:05 am: Madigan would never wear that tie with that suit. Never. - IllinoisBoi - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:05 am: The Randy puppet from Pee-Wee’s Playhouse all grown-up! - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:06 am: “Lance… Lance!… Tweet this at Lou Lang… “ - Team Sleep - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:08 am: 47th - thanks. Boi - the mask also reminds me of the door-to-door salesman on Pee Wee’s Playhouse. - wordslinger - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:08 am: At some point, if you’re willingly sitting in a darkened movie theater burning a couple irreplaceable hours of your existence watching IPI propaganda on Madigan, I imagine a little voice in your head says: When did my life go so wrong? - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:08 am: I think if you go “full” mockery, you have to have a “Velvet ACME Gavel” in one hand, a Saputo’s Menu in another. It’s a bit lazy to just have the head. Do better. - Chicago_Downstater - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:09 am: Which will age faster: the Madigan mask or Madigan’s actual face? - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:10 am: “If I don’t eat an apple pretty soon, my head’s gonna explode!” - Earnest - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:10 am: This Madigan is every bit as true to life as the one portrayed in our film. (But don’t tell him why he’s really here–we told him it was for a children’s party.) - Not It - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:11 am: HAHAHA! I LOVE IT! Can I order him for my next birthday party? - Rabid - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:12 am: Goldberg has his head stuck up madigan to far - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:13 am: “Brownie! Tell ‘em I’m not gonna review this unless I get free tickets!” - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:14 am: “My head is STILL smaller than Trump’s.” - Anonymous - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:16 am: Wow, and then they went to tee-pee his house after the movie to really show him good. Of course, their mothers had to drive them since it is clearly a group of 12 year olds behind this. - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:16 am: “You know what they say–big head, big hands.” - 47th Ward - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:18 am: Remember, there is no “I” in “Team America” - Belle - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:19 am: When you cannot get the real Madigan…. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:22 am: (Muffled voice) “… and then I get to be a state Rep when the timing is right… “ - Moe Berg - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:22 am: Some pretty abnormal psychology at play with IPI and its funders. Could you possibly tee up a thread on Diana Rickert’s laughable suggestion that Theo Epstein should manage CPS, published in the Trib a couple of days ago? These folks are just not right. - Stones - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:23 am: You ought to see the size of the apple! - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:23 am: (Muffled voice) “… this is what winnin’ looks like. Take that… whoever… “ - Mr. Smith - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:26 am: ## wordslinger @ 10:08 ## You win ALL the internets today… - Team Sleep - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:26 am: “It’s hot under this thing! Why wasn’t I given a CamelBak?! - @MisterJayEm - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:30 am: “Can I take it off now?” “The governor will let you know when you can show your face again, Sandack.” – MrJM - Boone's is Back - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:30 am: This is really going to help the Gov pass another budget. Good luck pal… - Henry Francis - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:33 am: These guys are really into their costumes. They gave us Quinnocio. They paid some guy to throw on a Blago wig and orange jumpsuit. The Guv gives us the Village People on a weekly basis. Now they give us Big Head Mike. What kind of person does this appeal to? - pool boy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:41 am: Just in time for Halloween. - sal-says - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:42 am: I’d have guessed BigBrainBrucie was inside as a joke. But, nah, an actual Suit & Tie? BBB would never go for it. Bringing back shades of Squeezy, tho. - Commonsense in Illinois - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 10:42 am: …another Scary Clown siting… - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:04 am: “Whew! The last person who wore this head must have liked garlic.” - Rabid - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:28 am: The man the myth the legend bigger than life - Rabid - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:29 am: Obey - Rabid - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:31 am: My head swelled up after seeing this - Rabid - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:33 am: This isn’t the XXX theater? - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:33 am: The mocking of Madigan isn’t “to scale” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:34 am: “Bobble-heads, get your life-size bobble-heads… “ - Jocko - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:34 am: Mike looks stunning on the red carpet…despite contracting gigantism. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:36 am: “No, that’s suppose to be Madigan. If it was Rauner there wild be no tie and some sort of ridiculous costume on the guy too” - Union Man - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:37 am: At Least I am NOT Donald Trump! - Rabid - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:37 am: Sidekick is getting the raisinets - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:40 am: “Are you sure it’s not my Med Mal?… I’m telling you, I see this Mike Madigan standing right in front of me, Doc,… and he has like a huge head… huge… like 30 times the size, and he’s wandering around in a purple haze, and his pants are… normal… No, one in the morning, and I smoked one after lunch four hours ago… “ - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:42 am: “Med Mar” - ugh. “Mardi-Gras, man… Mardi-Gras” - Belle - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:50 am: OW—You are on a roll today. Thanks for the laughs! - walker - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:54 am: Selfie promotion - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 11:57 am: - Belle -, thanks. There’s lots of great ones today, trying to keep up. “Hey, ‘Big Head Guy’, can you stay after to help clean the theatre and close?” (Madigan Head guy gives ‘thumbs up,) - Rabid - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 12:31 pm: Imitation is the sincerest from of flattery - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 12:55 pm: (muffled voice) “… you lift my head and a Pez candy… the size of a loaf of bread!… comes out.” - Rabid - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 1:06 pm: Springfield comic con - Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 1:13 pm: Bob Rohrman approves this film! - Rabid - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 1:21 pm: How long I’m I suppose to hold this hit in for Lou - VanillaMan - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 1:54 pm: Warming up for the seven inning stretch when he races the guy in the hot dog costume and the girl in the chicken costume. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 2:22 pm: Moments before The Mystery Machine gang lifted off the head to find Old Man McGuilicutty has been haunting the theatre to get his partners to sell it to him. And he would’ve gotten away with it too… - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 2:24 pm: “I have to sit behind that guy!?… “ - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 2:32 pm: “Purdue Pete” looking dapper right before Homecoming festivities begin… - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 2:35 pm: (muffled voice) “Chuck Goudie wants a selfie with me… yeah, ok… “ - Rabid - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 2:39 pm: IPA Kool-aid will expand your mind - At what point - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 2:46 pm: At what point does IL Policy become click bait for this blog? Also, Biss’s big dark money ad buy got squeezed in the fight for coverage by the Madigan movie. http://abc7chicago.com/politics/il-democratics-republicans-spar-with-competing-tv-ad-documentary/1552298/ - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 2:47 pm: “(Sigh) He has no shame. Tillman will do anything to keep Rauner happy. He said the head is itchy and smells of cheese… “ - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 2:50 pm: “Awful. Just awful. The shoes don’t match the belt… “ - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 2:51 pm: “There’s a matching pocket square to the tie, but we nixed it, we felt it was too over the top… “ - Rabid - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 2:53 pm: Warning side affects of this film include waterhead… - Rich Miller - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 2:54 pm: ===Biss’s big dark money ad buy got squeezed === Not here. I had like four or five posts on it. Their coverage choice is not my concern. - Arthur Andersen - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 4:59 pm: “If they only knew it was AA under there because he lost a bet to Oswego Willy” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 13, 16 @ 5:29 pm: - AA - Yep. Consider your debt paid. “Caption?” (Muffled voice) “Once the movie starts, sure, I’ll head outside and do that sign juggling thing like the tax places do, but I charge extra for that…” Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.