Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

It's totally worth it.

No hate. Just a big, big sigh and a slight, befuddled shake of my head in dismay.

And I have only one thing to say to you, sir.

Kingpin? Or THOR IN DISGUISE?!?!

When I lived in Boston in the mid-90's, there was a free paper they put out called "The Weekly Week"—it was basically a local version of The Onion. To this day (and I still have all the issues), my two favourite headlines were these back-to-back ones:

Long lives, sure, but productive?

Some of the executive monkeys, however, went on to lead long and productive lives. In fact, I have a meeting with one in about ten minutes.

PNIS-HARD

Happy Tree Friends http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Tre…

Secret of Nimh. ARRRGHRHHH THAT OWL MAN

This was my first one.

The Simpsons. It just really woke me up to the adult world in a lot of ways, and is single-handedly responsible for exposing me to classic 60s and 70s music.

Watership Down. Of course, I fell in love with it when I was still a kid, so I guess it was for kids after all. Or at least one kid. Me.

Logically, the dragons decide that the whole green-eyes thing is complete bunk, and choose to go find the douche-canoe who told them in the first place.

Yeah, I've since read the solution to Munroe's "blue-eyes" puzzle. I like my answer better, but it's a lateral solution and not a logical one.

They don't know what "green" is.

No peasant huts in the city. Every building's luxurious stone, and it's a buyer's market; Minas Tirith is severely underpopulated in the time period the LotR takes place.