Yeah, I caught that, too.

35% Dumb Fun, 65% Just Plain Dumb
"The A Team" packs a little more "America! Fuck, yeah!" than I was expecting or can stomach. Opening scenes are set "just before the American withdrawal from Iraq," where we were, of course, welcomed as liberators.

This one racks up a bit more of a body count than you would have seen on the TV show. B.A. gets an attack of conscience and embraces non-violence at one point, but, Hannibal talks him out of it by using a quote from Gandhi to support ass-kicking. True story.

Netflix & Hulu
I usually watch TV a season at a time anyway. I read the news online. I haven't had cable TV since 2001.

Sir Oinks-A-Lot-

hmmm…
One the one hand, the world does not need another "Pirates of the Caribbean" installment.

The Misfits - "Rat Fink"

Clueless-

My kids went through a Xanadu phase recently - I think they watched it 20 or 30 times. So, it remains relevant to 10-year-olds.

I'm going to make a wild guess and say that being 91 was a factor.

Damnit, Tasha.

Anti-semitism awareness fail.
Am I the only one who never realized, nor would have cared, that David Lee Roth is Jewish?

What?
I mean, really…. what the fuck?

It's Nathan's theory that Brando started taking career advice from the Great Gazoo, not that he was the Great Gazoo. That might have worked out better than some of the other roles he chose, actually.

Couldn't decide…
Can't pick between Barrowman and NPH. Had to cast my vote for George Takei.

re: Barrowman's accent. He is Scottish, but was raised in the US. He's able to do a pretty much flawless American accent, but, his natural accent is Scottish.

Kevin Smith once wrote a long, four part blog about what a drugged out mess Jason Mewes was (or is, not sure).