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Pop Culture Portmanteau
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My introduction-by-way-of-cover to Joy Division was, sadly, Paul Young's version of Love Will Tear Us Apart.

I mean … is that an option?

Hey, this Superman 2 looks like it's gonna be pretty good. Is Batfleck in that one too?

Speaking for the persnickety comics fans: We will enjoy NOTHING. You hear me? NOTHING.

Come on, get in the boat, fish.
Come on, get in the boat, fish fish.

That's … that's how Wayne Newton always looks.

MSRP of a Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis in 2016 dollars is a little over 600 bucks. … What I'm trying to say is Biggie was a shitty aspirational rapper.

The anemone sequence really gave me an oldschool Pink Panther vibe. (Cartoon, not Niven. Though if there' a movie where Niven plays with anemones, I'm in.)

How many Surge commercials will be airing during this?

Sounds suspiciously like someone who owns an advertising agency and a curiously large amount of unsigned Moby merch.

This is the internet, sir. Your soft-glow fond remembrances, connection with the material presented and general affirmation have no place here. Now please start bitching about why something else would have been a better choice, how much you hate the subject matter in question or, at the very least, what obscure

Jeff Lynne is the Forrest Gump of ruining otherwise perfectly good music.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

The A.V. Club

And here I didn't think it could get any better than that Han Solo snuff film from last year.

"just quietly retire to a cabin in the Adirondacks that’s wallpapered with yellowed Leg Show covers, snuggle up in an afghan"

My family's first VCR had a remote that was attached with a cord. We rented Goldfinger from a Rite-Aid. Onion, belt, etc.

Sure, fine. But how many tubes does this guy have?

Great Escape was so much better before Six Flags came along. When it was still in those just-post Storytown years and was allowed to have its own quirks.

Lake George used to be the tits in the '80s. At least Around the World/Around the U.S.A. mini golf is still kicking.