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Who would have predicted at the time that two of the most revered and beloved musical acts to come out of the 80s would be the Beastie Boys and Weird Al?

Every joke in Wayne's World 2 had been in at least a half dozen movies, including Wayne's World.

You know, nobody actually needs to be that guy.

And of course we all remember what turned that trend around: The Cosby Show. So clearly what TV comedy needs right now is another Bill Cosby.

And yet some of us still feel like that movie raped our childhoods.

Pedophile Frankenstein

And if you want to expand the definition of "porn star" to anyone who has performed explicitly pornographic scenes in a movie, then Kristine DeBell would qualify as well.

Come on. You only made this comment because you wanna be startin' somethin.

And beyond just needing the character, you need to have the right actor in it. And Harrison Ford gets waaaaaay too little credit for why the original trilogy works as well as it does. I'm sure at the time people looked at the success of the movie and thought, "Wow, such a huge hit, and with no movie stars." Well,

Bear Grylls Bare Grills Grilled Bear

Heresy alert, but I was fairly close to jumping ship on Breaking Bad before Gus showed up. Not like I hated it, but it started to feel a little like a slog. A lot a grim unpleasantness, and a deficiency of sizzle. Then Gus showed up, and the sizzle was on motherfucker. Every time he wasn't on screen, I was

Wait, it's not? I thought it was a Simpsons screen cap.

Hey, he's all sorts of appealing, loaded with big screen charisma, and I really like the guy and I'm rooting for him, but Indiana Jones he ain't. Indiana Jones worked because Harrison Ford was able to do two things. Have credibility as an academic, and never wink at the role. While I concede he's probably the

You're getting it all wrong. It's going to be set on the comet.

Tea Time of the Living Dead

Clark Duke.

I think you mean Derble McDillet.

What's worse; commercials with talking food, or talking toilets?

It would be much easier to do the other way around: Sitcoms that eventually completely sold out any trace of their characters' humanity

Barney Miller is a very rare example of a sitcom where the characters became less broad as the series progressed.