"Missed Connections: YOU: Guy who yelled 'Great movie, wasn't it?' during closing credits of 'Galaxy Quest.' ME: Guy who heard you yell that. Tell me what city we were in, and we'll go get a beer and talk about that time we saw 'Galaxy Quest.'"

By contrast, I saw it in a theater that could seat at least 300, but it was just me and another guy. We were on opposite sides of the theater, but we could still hear each other laughing. When the movie was over, he got up and yelled, "Great movie, wasn't it?" I shouted back, "Hell yeah!" and then I never saw him…

How was the sandwich?

Hand to God, sometime in late 1991 there was a story on one of the major network newscasts that started out something like "The hero of the Democratic Party these days must be Clement Attlee. The Democrats are looking to unseat a popular wartime leader in George Bush, and Attlee defeated Winston Churchill in the…

We'll never know what he might have thought about the 48 in the first "Hobbit." In late December 2012 he wrote that he hadn't seen the movie yet, partly because he'd fractured his hip earlier that month. Then he passed away a little more than three months later.

As much as Ebert championed Maxivision 48, I would've loved to have heard his thoughts on the first two "Hobbit" movies shown at 48 frames per second. I saw them both that way, largely because Ebert had touted the idea for so long; I marveled at the clarity of the second movie, but the first one's battle scenes looked…

Seriously, if I didn't say "Burke's Law," it was just going to drive me crazy. In my youth I could understand "What's Happening Now?" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "The New Monkees" and "The New Dragnet" and "The New Adam-12," but I'd never even HEARD of "Burke's Law," and I never understood why someone at…

When I was 16, I attended a really funny hour-long seminar, "Bathos in the Horror Film." Every time I have reason to mention that (generally if I can steer the conversation to "Death Race 2000"), I will have to explain "bathos" to someone who's never heard the word.

The 80s also gave us the Fantastic Four villain Fasaud, best seen on the covers of "Fantastic Four" 308 and 309. The idea was to mash the words Fahd and Saudi together to sound like "facade," but a subsequent letters column acknowledged his "admittedly stereotypical Arab look," which I don't think was ever seen again…

If memory serves, Kurt Busiek had told Wizard Magazine months before publication that he was really looking forward to using that line…then a few months later, the writer of a Wizard preview of "Avengers/JLA" said something like, "You know what would be funny? If Hawkeye called the JLA a bunch of Squadron Supreme…

When the ratings go up, it's like the whole world is made of donuts!

I thought the episode was pretty flat until about 12 minutes in, when it turned into an ominous, sometimes tragic tale of tornadoes barreling across Arkansas. (NOTE: Plot synopsis only applies to Little Rock broadcast.)

I've managed to forget everything about that episode except for when Fox slapped "#gagakissesmarge" on the screen, so yeah, "sheer, active malignancy" sounds just about right.

Don't forget doppelgangers!

It was one of my favorites too, but the thing that haunts me now is the underwhelmed reaction of three of my co-workers (all in their early 20s) after I pulled it up on YouTube and showed it to them. Darn kids, with their dubsteps and the twerkings and what-not.

My first thought was the Supremacy from Alan Moore's issues of "Supreme" from the mid-1990s, but that wasn't so much "Every alternate reality Supreme joins forces" as it was "Reality keeps rebooting, but it's OK, because every different version of Superman since the 1930s is alive and well in the Supremacy, wait, did…

"YOU CAN DOO EEET! LEETLE SISSY GIRLS CAN DOO EET!"

I loved the running gag that everyone perceived Dick as too mean-spirited for prime-time.

I'd swear that at the network upfronts that year, representatives from each network were asked which other network's new show they most envied. The representative from CBS said "A Minute With Stan Hooper," saying it would have been a great fit for the network.

I always loved Scolari's last lines on the finale because they managed to play off Michael's years of patter *and* show how completely insane the show had become: