Wide right
Of course losing the Super Bowl in 91 because of Norwood's kick hurt pretty bad then, this film came out at the appropriate time, after four consecutive Super Bowl losses, when that kick became emblematic of not just the suffering of Bills fans, but of the economically-depressed city as a whole. Gallo,…

"So Captain, how long shall we STARE at each other across the Neutral Zone?!"

Plus there's a good moment in the end which Picard orders Worf to escort Bochra and Geordi to the transporter room. The action speaks for itself, and I was glad that Picard didn't have to engage in any speech at that moment, or later in his ready room, about how we can put aside our differences and cooperate.

Good Charlotte
I think the last time I ever watched an MTV Video Awards ceremony, Good Charlotte had just finished performing their set. While they were probably still on stage, host Chris Rock then quipped, "Good Charlotte? More like mediocre Green Day." I thought it was a hilariously ballsy dig at the band, but…

Or some good commentary on the awfulness of that Good Charlotte song,but I guess some things speak for themselves.

I'm listening to Exile for the first time - I had to see what the hype was about after all these years. It's pretty good, although nothing really stands out to me except for Divorce Song, which I think has good storytelling lyrics that accurately capture a failing relationship. Nice tune, too.

I thought it was clever in that it showed some awareness of what the original lyric represented. Without Don Henley singing it, however, The Ataris' cover, divorced from sounds like a typical mope about a lost love (that the singer just lost at the end of the present summer), and the "Black Flag sticker on a…

This year we can rightfully call it a rebuilding year.

Paper Hearts was a great episode. Long-time viewers by Season 4 are caught up with Mulder's mission and belief that his sister was abducted, so the episode effectively toys with pulling the rug under our beliefs with a more mundane, yet even more horrifying alternate possibility.

I gotta watch this again. As a kid, I remember the camping shenanigans very well and I thought this was the best Simpsons episode of that first season. I have no memory of the RV sale, although back then, I wasn't really capable of appreciating subtle verbal humor.

The end of In Theory was similar to the end of The Ensigns of Command, although in the latter I felt more bad for that Ardy character than Data.

Unsolved Mysteries
Maybe they seem corny now, but some of those dramatic recreations they had, plus their recreated ghosts whenever they featured "the unexplained," scared me as a kid. And of course as a seven-year old, I thought all their reports about ghosts were totally real. Plus they had this tendency to…

Never watched old Twilight Zone until I was adult, but occasionally I get a little creeped out if I'm driving alone a long distance at night, particularly country roads. It's mainly because of the Hitchhiker episode, where the woman keeps driving, but keeps passing the same hitchhiker every hour or so. And the…

Of course they say it's you're mind playing tricks on you, plus the effect of your eyes adjusting to the dark and slowing seeing your own reflection, but vaguely, like a ghost. The variant of the game my sister told me had no candles, but you had to walk in, press both of your hands on to the surface of the mirror,…

Referenced below, but one episode, "Elegy," fed into my fear of mirrors. In one scene, I think Scully is in the bathroom and sees through the reflection the ghost of a recently killed girl, pale skin, with her throat slit, and the mirror is covered in blood saying "She is me." Ugh. That whole episode was creepy.

Mirrors
That reference to the X-Files episode reminds me that I never liked mirrors as a kid, although I'm over it now (in that episode I think some kids are playing the Bloody Mary game).

Not authentic, certainly, but they are often praised for bringing a kind of heartfelt sincerity and earnestness to their very catchy rock music. Murray described it best in his write-up on them in his Popless Epilogue.