This is among the most perfect self-contained 3 1/2 minutes of comedy ever.
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I always find it funny that they put her in those ruffled shirts to (mostly) hide her, um, ample-ness. It was that episode where she's in costume as a witch that you're suddenly reduced to a Dan Fielding-like "a-oooooo-gah!" *pant, pant, pant* cartoon character. https://images-na.ssl-image…

I'm not sure I can agree that the writing on NewsRadio was SUPERIOR, mostly because, though the two shows shared an absurdist outlook, they were doing very different things. I will say that the degree of difficulty of what NewsRadio pulled off was much higher, where they'd have a gag that would escalate throughout an…

"Ooooother pooooocket."

I love this show. It was an unapologetic excuse to slap a bunch of cheesy vaudevillian jokes into a sitcom and it was beautiful. Much like The Muppet Show, a weird throwback to a different kind of aggressively cornball comedy that's just so damned enthusiastic you've got to laugh.

I travel for work all the time and the whole "joy of the open road" thing is long dead for me. Give me a self-driving car and let me spend those hours reading a damn book.

Ugh, I prefer somebody watching Google Maps rather than arguing with some jackass taxi driver over whether getting on the freeway during rush hour in Chicago is a good idea because he thought I said "Congress Parkway" (how is that a destination?) instead of "Congress Theater".

God, I HOPE the taxi permit is more strenuous than a gun permit. That's like, "are you breathing? Yes? Maybe? Eh, fuck it, here's your assault weapon."

I started using Uber (and now Lyft) because actually CALLING for a cab was a pretty consistent nightmare, and my neighborhood at the time sucked for catching a cab on the street. The cab companies must have changed by now, but even just a few years ago you'd call and they just say something like, "They'll be there. .…

I loved the little mini-Spartacus reunion. Crixus, Mira, and fuckin' Ashur sharing a screen again was definitely squeal-worthy.

In retrospect, I kind of adore the opening of this movie. It scared me for a minute, but it ended up being a pretty damned funny feint at old-fashioned action movie sequels that repeat themselves beat for beat. Now it's the BROTHER of the villain of the last movie sitting and explaining the whole Baba Yaga, John Wick…

"Don't overlook MY butt. I work out, and reaping burns a lot of calories."

Case in point: Gheri Curl.

God, George Lucas and his 30 years of "original vision" nonsense.

God, I love it when moral absolutism is applied to fantasy epics based on medieval history and lore.
Don't forget Ned Stark, he executed a dude in the first episode without due process. Clearly a monster.

There's your finale. The White Walkers finally defeated in the last breath of the last dragon, all of Westeros barren and covered in the bodies of the dead. Ser Pounce hops up on the Iron Throne and licks his ass.
THE END.

I suppose there are more than a few examples outside of that decade. But I think I will always associate "Comic Superhero Misery Porn" with the 90's.

I think so, absolutely. I think the trick would be to pick ONE of the King Arthur legends and just make the HELL out of that movie. Then, if you make a mint, you can do the whole sequel/prequel thing to fill out the full, decades/generations-long story.
The problem with those I've seen is that they usually try to…

The Arthurian legend is freakin' awesome, though, and aside from "kid takes a sword from a stone" and "something about Lancelot and Merlin and Maid Marion . . . oh, wait, she's in Robin Hood" most people don't know the specifics.
I think the mistake these days is to put some new "twist" while stripping out the crazy…

Add that 2004 King Arthur movie and you've got the trifecta of fun legends stripped of all the fun stuff.
Might as well just make a word-for-word adaptation of Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English (and no subtitles) and find a way to spend 200 million on it.