Mikhail Gorbechev, as portrayed on The Simpsons, to George H.W. Bush: "I come with house-warming gift. Instead I find you grappling with local oaf."

Blitzer seems like the kind of guy who would be eliminated at the end of Double Jeopardy.

Well, a substantial portion of the Internet seems to have turned on him. That's something. Interesting times.

No one is persecuting you, Mr. President. Get over yourself.

I remember being impressed with how shiny all the leather looked.

I'll drink to that. L'Haim!
(guzzles kosher Listerine)

Natasha was amazing. All those bands were/are excellent, though I never heard of Black Russian; will have to check it out. That QotSA lineup with her and Johannes remains the best one (though many will disagree). I was very sad when she died.

I always got the sense that Justin Roiland or whoever voiced Gazorpazorpfield came to an awkward line break in the script at the "white guilt" part, and they just ended up using that take for the show.

Eh. He's slightly better than the "DJ Jazzy Hodor" alt I made a few months ago and then promptly forgot the password to.

Captain Janeway is relieved no one has marketed Bun of Steel Spinster Hairpins. Yet.

So, a Zack Snyder movie.

I'd like to know what his reasoning was for that. He didn't knock all the light bulbs out. Was he hoping the bikers would get crippling migraines from the eye strain?

Legendary doesn’t want anyone unclear on the fact that, if you purchase a ticket to Warcraft, you won’t just be seeing CGI orcs swinging massive hammers—you’ll also see a lot of lovingly rendered sorcery, here represented in standard
bolt-of-blue-lightning-style depiction.

Paging Dr. Wertham….

Frank: "Look past these dull cow eyes and see, uhh … oh. Sorry."

all you have to do is look at the arguments for open carry gun laws to
see how Frank’s view of vigilante justice plays out in reality. People
want guns so they can protect themselves from other people with guns,
and what we end up with is a country plagued by gun violence, and very
little of it committed in the name…

What about TDKR did you find got better with age? I haven't seen it since it was in theaters, so I'm wondering if it's worth the price of a rental to re-watch it. The only part I remember liking was Batman to Gordon out on the ice: "Light it up."

Yeah, but the ending was still shitty. The reveal in the infamous Architect scene in Matrix 2 — "The One is the ultimate form of control" in so, so many words — was such an awesome downer, approaching Empire Strikes Back levels, that I felt severely ripped off when the third movie says, "Nope, he really was kung-fu…

But the super-pretentiousness is why I like it so much! It's like, "Here's a long, talky scene about free will. NOW here's Larry Fishburne kung-fu fighting a guy atop a tractor trailer while wearing a pair of purple alligator-skin shoes!"

I love that scene. I especially like where The Frenchman says, "It's like wiping your ass with silk." I had never thought to try that before, but god damn it if it's not now on my bucket list.