Capra shot the plane crash sequence in Lost Horizon (1937) in a meat locker for the same reason. The actors look like they're freezing their asses off because they actually are.

Whenever I'm in Culver City, it blows my mind to look at the older sound stages on the Sony (former MGM) lot and think that the actual Yellow Brick Road was set up inside there. It's the weirdest feeling of dream and reality intersecting.

A lot of sports stars attempted to cross over into film during the silent era. Jack Dempsey even appeared in his own daredevil serial.

The Hunger Games is just Mouse Trap writ large, anyway.

I read it as 'garlic balls', and it was greater still.

"He's back! In Pog form."

It's like they just go to that Pitch Generator on tvtropes.org and go to town.

I think that's where I got confused, too - they did the real life Kwik-E-Mart stunt for the movie, and the real life Simpsons House in the 90s. Amazing to think that it was only two years after 'Who Shot Mr Burns?'

She was great in Beautiful Darling, too. Worth tracking down if you haven't seen it.

Right? I clearly remember that whole gimmick and thinking it was pretty tired.

OK, you win this round …

Was Ann-Margret rolling around in the beans supposed to be sexy?

"THATS IT! BACK TO WINNIPEG!"

Please, name me the novelty Christmas song that got better with age.

Extremely. She was your stereotypical hot blonde cheerleader.

Also Jayne County and Gerald Malanga.

That was Candy Darling.

I'm pretty sure Amber Heard doesn't really exist, she's just Johnny Depp's mid-life crisis fever dream.

The Ballad of Pistol and Boo.

[Quote from that awful Australian Simpsons episode that everyone seems to worship but actually was one of the least funny of the classic era]