I’m just glad others here are also old enough to get the reference.

I have great affection for this show. For one, I loved the original as a little boy and this, in some small way, let’s me be that young again. Also, family television isn’t normally my bag but it used to be the backbone of the medium and was like the audio/visual wallpaper of some many homes. It has been such a rarity…

Jesus Christ. If the internet had been around for the first Star Wars they never would have made a second one.

animated Fast and Furious you say?

The Pentastar was always a fantastic engine. The ZF 8-speed is maybe the best automatic transmission ever made. The whole LX platform always had average or better overall reliability. You’ll never please the Internet. Like the 300? Get one.

The Focus ST wagon is literally the perfect car for my needs and wants as both a daily and sporty fun car. Now I need to go find one of the hundred-plus Escapes we have clogging our lot to go cry in.

Are they really that different though? We have a 2016 Fusion, and my parents have a 2014 Taurus, and I could almost swear there’s more room inside my Fusion.

Ford and GM customers went for cars like the Hyundai Kona, Jeep Compass, Subaru Crosstrek, Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, or Kia Forte

That’s just, like, your opinion, man. They are actually my favorite games of all time. Are they Indiana Jones rip-off? Sure, but for me that’s a feature, not a bug. Also, some of them have Claudia Black in it, which automatically improves them by 200%

Good for Mitsubishi.

Damn it, I don’t care what anyone says — I’ve been head over heels in love with Episode IX since the first teaser and the title reveal (and, I guess, the announcement that it would be Abrams rather than the snide, soulless automaton who made those horrible Jurassic Park sequels).

A Corvette with a good interior would be far more revolutionary than making it mid-engined.

Ah...So he was in Tokyo Bay on another ship when it was signed on the Missouri.

My grandfather fought in the Pacific and was nearly killed by a Kamikaze direct hit (The plane burst into flame and hit the water directly in front of his AA gun). Despite this, he went home, got a great job as one of Texaco’s head corporate lawyers and eventually bought a Toyota 2000GT, (2) Celica GTs and a Supra.

I’d go for a show that was just Cousin Cora and Lady Grantham bickering about things.

Not only did they have their place, they had employers who really cared about them. Who promised to take care of them when they were sick. Everyone was family.

So here’s my theory as to why Downton has its appeal. I think one cannot underestimate the important of WHEN it debuted. It came out in 2010, a period when much of the world was still shaken by economic instability and deprivation.

No, it wasn’t a attempt to frame the “upper class” as empathetic. It was an attempt to frame Robert Crawley as empathetic and he is. He’s a decent man, despite his position and they started showing us that from the beginning. 

I discovered Car Talk one Saturday morning as a 16 year old while hunkered underneath a 1953 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight (my dream and my curse in the form of the 3 on the tree transmission produced that one year because the original manufacturer burned to the ground) and became a lover of the zen of car wisdom and off…

“The show’s most frequent listener these days might in fact be Ray himself. He said he still listens to the show “all the time,” mostly to hear his brother’s voice and remind himself about times they had together. To remind himself of the jokes they shared. To remind himself of the good times.”

Thanks Erik, I didn’t…