@avclub-7b66e8931c93da8c88a0a8b6dec62f9e:disqus  In the 80s Ice Cream Cones cereal ads had an animated ad featuring a singing dude with an ice cream cart who identified himself as "Ice Cream Jones." Only instead of real ice cream cones, Ice Cream Jones sold a cereal that looked and tasted like ice cream cones. He…

I can believe it. Suicide as a punchline was popular in old cartoons — Warner Brothers in particular used the suicide "now I've seen everything" double take, where a character would be so flabbergasted, they'd take out a gun and shoot themselves in the head.

Actually, he tried to SHOOT himself: http://ridz.sg/blog/2008/04…

Don't forget the cassingle! I had a lot of those, partly because I only wanted the hit single, but mostly because my allowance sucked.

Don't ever let something like that happen again. Go into space right now!

@avclub-a93a879594c13c12a83fd45ab289a022:disqus  Eno did the Windows starting and closing music. The Mac start-up chime was created by an Apple programmer named Jim Reekes.

I always thought "Right There, Right Then" would've been a good name for a Jesus Jones "Best Of…"

Money City Maniacs?

Did "Spun" have more than one animated sequence? I remember a scene with animated pig intercourse, but maybe there was another scene that used animation to show us that meth was, like, so intense, maaaan.

It had three scenes I can think of, off the top of my head: creepy cherub creature steals uvula; cliffside fight scene; volcanic eruption.

Bachmann says that the Obama administration will make party rocking mandatory.

I wouldn't take a child younger than 10 unless he or she is a bit on the nerdy and calm side. It's a 2-hour movie about old-timey technology, giving up on one's dreams, and dead parents with very few hijinks. I somehow managed not to know much about it going in and was surprised that the movie poster in the theater…

I don't know whether to feel vindicated or disappointed to read about the historical, public hatred of Tom Arnold in this review, since I somehow assumed over the years that my searing hatred of Tom Arnold was idiosyncratic. If I were in a bad TV series, that'd have been my thing: the chick who hates Tom Arnold.

There are more people who care about the Muppets than people who care about Woody Woodpecker.

I laughed at a more than a few of the one-liners, but at the same time, didn't like either story. At the risk of sounding like the Comic Book Guy, they were rehashes of stories in better episodes: Bart beats Lisa at the science fair in a style-over-substance upset / Homer triumphs over a self-declared enemy at work…

I have thought the exact same thing — it may be especially depressing for viewers of a certain age, because when the show started, I related to Jim and Pam as smart people in their late 20s stuck in stupid jobs that paid the bills, but that otherwise didn't fulfill them in any other way. That's how I felt about my job…

What are the odds that the part of Woody is played by Seth Green?

I agree. I don't really remember myself or other kids really enjoying this show. Even in the early 80s, the Walter Lantz cartoons were what you sat through because your local independent TV station would run a half-hour of Woody Woodpecker at 5:30 in the morning, before showing the Hasbro cartoons. You wouldn't enjoy…

Any news on the Heckle and Jeckle live-action film?

I never got around to seeing the film, despite being in the target market when it came out and enduring roommates with the soundtrack. I remember Boomers thinking Big Mountain was an "alternative" band popular among us "grungers," which is actually true: I loved to sit around in my flannels and slack off to Big…