The bigger question here is when and why did we lose interest in the Food Fighter franchise? Because watching that commercial absolutely made me want to mash anthropomorphic pizzas and hamburgers together to determine the superior foodstuff and I am a 31-year-old sitting at work with only one beer in me. This is…

I would watch a Heavens Gate-length film of Jay Johnston as Choo-Choo the Herky-Jerky Dancer.

NO NO NO! THIS is the Newswire for HITS! If you wanted to talk about Alvin and the Chipmunks, you should have commented on the LAST Newswire, when discussions were about Arrested Development, but Sean was writing the Hits Newswire, which is running NOW! WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT?

You said honestly what I was trying to say snarkily. It's his career, the guy can do what he wants, but I miss sarcastic asshole Bill Murray. I watched Moonlight Kingdom recently and liked it quite a bit, but the scene where Murray and McDormand are stoically driving along, lost in their own miseries, made me want to…

Huzzah for lunacy! If the war in Afghanistan has delivered us from stone-faced sad sack Bill Murray movies, then we can call the venture a success.

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus please don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing for boundaries as barriers in a Roman-esque way. The question in your second paragraph is definitely a better metric for determining whether to read a story than hard vs. soft sci-fi. Lines are made to be crossed, I just don't think nebulous lines are…

Heh, it would've been funny if Cheers had stayed on well past the series finale, becoming more and more incoherent and belligerent as network promos told it to just leave already, before being cut off midway through an episode.

@avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus My favorite example is in Bogus Journey. "You could only be beating us if you win, but we'll win, so you won't beat us!" Cue the cage. God I love that movie.

"Science fiction's questions are as much about what we don't know now
as what we do. The point is to take the world as we experience it,
change something important about it, and say, "There, imagine what that would mean.""

Evan Dorkin's Hectic Planet.

Hmmm. I went into this above, but I don't see science fiction defining Groundhog Day in any significant way. It's a fable where the cause of the situation is not important to the ethical and spiritual questions it poses. A science fiction fable might be something like Vonnegut's "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,"…

There's a bunch of stuff up there that uses a science fiction device as the springboard for comedy, Repo Man for example, and Bill and Ted is the same way. Yes there is time travel, but the first one mainly relies on historical contrast for the comedy while the second one explores metaphysical terrain. I don't think…

I remember Winfield knocking in the winning run for the Blue Jays in the 1992 series and going completely bonkers, I think he was running around going "Give me the MVP!" He later calmed down, of course, but I didn't blame the guy. "Mr. May" has to be one of the harshest slams by a person who theoretically should be…

But each ballpark seat is unique and once purchased, unobtainable, as opposed to a Hold Steady album. A scalper purchasing a seat removes it from the market and denies me the opportunity to purchase it legally. So I see no problem with making them take a bath when they are no longer able to exploit the market they…

@avclub-6258e285eeb51b21d01ffe9cb9f9c1d1:disqus much like my mental audio of John Kennedy talking is based entirely on Joe Quimby, Orson Welles can only sound like LeMarche's version on the Critic (or Brain) in my mind.

Weird Science? My Science Project? The Simpsons episode with BiMonSciFiCon?

I don’t know. You try to find the bright spots.
We’re obviously not going to make the playoffs!
You try to play little games with yourself to keep yourself interested and,
truth be told, at this time of the year,
I usually give myself a National League team to pick.

I spent some time trying to figure out if "asshole-magician" is correctly describing magicians who are also assholes or magicians whose focus specifically on assholes in their performances, but then I decided just to enjoy the contempt of "just in case people have run out of matches and can’t actually set their money…

Preposterous, like the UN would ever recognize Freedonia.

Is Kif's disgruntled sigh the most underrated of Futurama "lines?" It really has endless applicability, moreso if your job involves dealing with morons.