Well, maybe I meant "PanAm" (the defunct air carrier), but last I checked, NASA was a wholly owned subsidiary and fiduciary dependent of the Federal Gummint.

Bah, don't get your reality in my fantasy; it leaves an awful taste on the roof of my brain.

Actually, I was referring specifically to the Kubrick film (viz.) that predicted commercial space flight and moon bases by 2001, which as I recall, never happened.

Almost 2014 and still no PanAm shuttle to the ring station on my way to the moonbase (the US one, as the Sov one is still off-limits, doncha know?) ...

Yeah, who would ever suspect that this lovable old fraud with the amazing voice was once a mumbling detestable excrescent hack actor like James Franco?

Dang. The alien pod-people won.

Let me think about that. I should have an answer in 200,000 years or so.

These.

Get a bigger monitor.

I guess the umpteen billion didn't include a budget for "pressure wash."

I agree. I always describe it as 2/3rds of a great Hulk movie. If it could have ended after his reunion with Betty in SF, and skipped the whole "glowy cloud daddy" thing, and the scene chewing hanger scene, it would have been brilliant.
Jump from the streets of Frisco to the ending bit in the jungles of Central America…

This one is actually very good!

Good point.

Did someone have an "accident"?

Babies with rabies. Yes, yes.

Aunty Em, Aunty Em ... Ahehhehahhhehehhehehahahha!

For the one television program that ever (I mean EVER) had me change the channel because I could not take the terror:

I was always partial to the theory that laughter was a displacement mechanism that allowed us to experience uncomfortable and threatening events without shrieking, running away or throwing our dung at it.
Most humor, when you parse it down, is about experiencing present danger, danger threatening or danger averted. It…

Wow, someone steal your candy bar again, Otis?

Sensible characterization, plot points that built on the season, events that follow logically from their precedents, decent special effects (heck, some of that fence zombie slaughtering was hilariously out of synch ... one of the female bashers even missed, but still managed to brain her target), interaction between…