I went to a Catholic boarding school where a cinephile monk (who the faculty called The Televangelist) correctly realized that the Marriage and Family class he was assigned to teach was bullshit and turned it into a de facto film class. I was introduced to Wise Blood, Harold and Maude, Brian's Song, Ordinary People,…

I would be okay with a diluted Wheadon show. This feels more like a generic network appeal-to-the-widest-possible-audience blandfest. It's closer to that Michael Chiklis and his Super Family show than it is to a Wheadon show.

You've clearly never been within a one mile radius of Stinky Tofu.

Damn, now I might have to watch Supernatural. I watched most (all?) of the first season back when it first aired and thought it was ok in a CW kind of way but not quite appointment tv. Clearly it gets weirder than I would have expected.

After finding $80 million dollars buried on a Nazi compound, Skinny Pete is hit by a car and decides to change his karma by correcting his past mistakes. This fall Badger and Skinny Pete are Makin' Good on NBC.

I still haven't seen this, but for years I was under the notion that Spielberg's first movie was some kind of roller skating disco train movie.

I have a vague memory of somebody explaining that one of the guys was a barista at Starbucks and the name came from what he would say when giving people change. That's an incredibly stupid story so I assume it's true. I refuse to google it.

I just picture a really frustrated and confused Justin Timberlake trying to clean up after his dog with the business end of a number 2 pencil.

I log into Facebook maybe once every 6 months so this is new to me, and kind of neat. I wonder if that's genius or just coincidence. In the song the girl's name is spelled Fileena so I'd have to guess that at least the anagram was intentional. And if there was an Emmy for special achievements in episode naming, the…

He's always got his sweet box-making skills to fall back on.

I've gotta imagine Uncle Jack and the Hitler Bunch would've destroyed the tape after they watched it. The continued existance of that tape has no advantage to them and potentially could cause them lots of problems.

My thoughts exactly. It's a good thing the article itself is a pretty decent read that has almost nothing to do with the overblown, misleading title.

So true.  I don't know how many times an old movie or a phrase or a piece of classical music seems familiar and I realize I know it from Looney Tunes. It feels like we're falling into a pattern where all kids know about is the current thing and whatever their parents are nostalgic for.

Slowpoke Rodriguez remains missing and is presumed dead.

Exactly what I thought. If you want Barney without Andy, go to just about any small town in the South and see if you don't change your mind about not-so-bright, insecure blowhards who get off on power.

Same for me.  We would usually get up to the Civil War and then the rest of the year was watching Ken Burns. Could be worse, but I do remember flipping ahead to the last chapter which I knew we'd never get to and trying to figure out what the New Deal and Watergate were about.

So did anybody catch Baz Luhrmann on Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me a few weeks ago? I only caught part of it but I got the impression that Peter Sagal thought he was talking to a woman. When Baz said something about his dad, Sagal made some out of the blue comment about a daughter and then a few minutes later made a joke…

AIDS.

Yeah, that last line should be something like, "The film will begin shooting next year, but don't bother getting excited about it because fucking Jay Roach is directing it for some reason."

Best case scenario, SHIELD is a hit and after a few seasons we get a Damage Control sitcom spinoff.