That actually makes more sense… all these years I thought Cameron said "…the look on ol' Morris' face." Which had me baffled. Was there a deleted scene where the screenplay established Cameron's father's first name?

For a few years we only had the TV-edited version of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It included such censored and dubbed-over gems as: "Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight if you took a lump a coal and PUT IT IN HIS FIST in two weeks you'd have a diamond." It took me many of my formative years to comprehend this…

I think the best part of this movie for me was to include a more modern soundtrack (like RATM), as I don't I could have handled another 90-120 minutes of 1960s folk songs over footage of pigs beating the shit out of protesters (as is the case of far too many 60's docs).

I once had five hours to kill in Chicago between trains. I was gonna do it up, Ferris Bueller style! First stop, the Sears building or whatever the fuck they call that skyscraper now. "How much is it to go to the top?" as there was a plate glass window I was definitely going to lean over and press my face against.
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The chain mail he was waiting may have given him an Armor Class of 5, but was useless versus piercing attacks of thrown pipes. (Why the fuck was he wearing chain mail?)

Ooh, can Mega Man be voiced by Steve Urkel too?

Congrats on remembering one of the most hilarious batshit insane ATHF throwaway lines of all time.

Growing up in a near-total fundamentalist christian household, describing the premise of Beetlejuice nearly put me on TV restriction… until I confirmed that the zany dimension that the title character inhabited was in fact the "Neither-world" and not the netherworld aka in league with Lucifer. So it was a go after…

"The Road" could have easily been a 20 part episode dealing with all the OKCs and the Kansas City's of the USA, where club owners insist on fast paced fart humor to sell over-priced drinks quick and simple, versus comedy where you actually have to use your brain. Just chill with your quaint notions of pigeonholing…

I've got a few props and a puppet with a catchphrase if that can help you understand the points I'm making.

I mean, god damn, you don't have to be Noam Chomsky with an occasional dick joke to be comically "pure", but at least advance the craft beyond lighting your goddamn farts on fire on stage. (Which is hilarious as a house-party stunt, but as a professional… that's just dumbing down a nation and its culture. But if you…

I've seen these same jokes told by Louis CK at NYC & LA (etc) and get hearty laughs from the audience. This episode went out of it's way to have the jokes get a smattering of half-hearted laughs. Sometimes audiences suck.

To be clear, it's a pretty fucking amazing way to spend 14 hours.

Also, anyone who hasn't watched Ken Burns' series "The Civil War"… just imagine that exact same forlorn fiddle tune in the OKC flea market play for 14 hours over an assortment of 150 year old grainy sepia photos.

I thought this was a pretty brutal takedown of Oklahoma as a stand-in for all of "flyover America" where comedy isn't respected as an performance *art*, but as a simple bar-trick to enable the country's best hack fart-joke tellers. Which is either depressing as fuck, or a call to action. But the hack dies in the…

I specifically said the 80s because it was clear by that point he was coasting on past success and was transitioning into more "family friendly" preaching, aka bullshit. And while I'll admit to laughing at his standup albums from the 60s/70s as a kid, I will deny he's one of the best standups ever. (Our family had a…

If that wasn't an actual joke there were thousands of others as corny or cornier. The Simpsons bit of having Bleeding Gums Murphy introduced on the Cosby Show as the kids 4th or 5th grandfather was an excellent early 90s takedown/pushback of Cosby's hack-mugging schtick.

I thought the Jabbar-esque skyhook of the pudding pop to the judge nailed home the Cosby trial scene. That and playing an excerpt of the Cosby Show: ~"Theo did you get your ear pierced? So why does it look like Swiss cheese?" is an excellent little reminder that for all the descriptors like "comedy legend" RE Bill…

Great interview. I was also a ~10 year old geography nerd when Carmen Sandiego came out, but I remember feeling very sorry for the kids who got Africa in the final round, which was basically the producers way of saying, "Haha, fuck you kid, you're gonna lose so PBS doesn't have to foot the bill for the airline ticket…

I'm going to call bullshit on that severely under-inflated murder number of 1960. How many unsolved missing persons reports? Or just never reported period? Or lost in the arcane paper filing? Or people sleeping with the fishes that didn't get in the obits. NYC of 1960 wasn't all gentlemen in fedoras escorting…