I've adamantly refused to eat Johnsonville brats for the past thirty years. Their ads in the 80s pissed me off so much I vowed never to give them any money. "Charlie Murphy's grilling Johnsonville brats!!" Yeah, and they're his fucking brats, so fucking stop stealing them, assholes! Did he invite you to have some? He…

I always wanted a Sinclair Spectum! Never got the chance to check one out.

This, completely this. EA's magazine ads included fancy photos of their game designers, with blurbs about which games they wrote. They were one of the first companies I recall that worked hard on making interesting, eye-catching box art for their games because they thought they should "be like album covers." And…

I think you're right; nobody could deny the impact the C64 had on computer gaming in the 80s. They were outselling IBM PC's! I think the C64 (and the Vic-20 and the Atari 8-bits and the Amiga, and so on) are included in the term "PC gaming."

The C64 was pretty much the computer to have if you wanted to play computer games in the 80's. The possible exception being the Apple II series.

Hmmm. That "whatnot" could cover a lot of things. Not sure if I should upvote. —Oh, what the heck.

Shields is on IR. Last week, he posted on social media that he hoped to be the "return" player in 8 weeks. So… December 11? That's one heck of a concussion right there.

I agree about The Witch, but I found Silence of the Lambs absolutely scary. It builds suspense like crazy and then pays that off with scares on a semi-regular basis. Starling raiding the storage garage, slowly making her way through a bunch of weird stuff—then the sudden discovery of the severed head in the jar made…

This is the one I'd nominate too. I appreciated what they were doing and it's well done (I liked Farrow's performance more than you did), but it just didn't scare me. The final scene is a little scary and stuck with me for a while. And the idea that a bunch of nice elderly neighbors are actually evil incarnate is…

Glad I wasn't the only one!

Poltergeist was much scarier when it first came out—to the 80s audience, the affects looked top notch instead of dated, and a lot of the scares felt inventive instead of cliched. It was also one of the first movies I can recall where the haunted house was a recently-built, normal suburban house instead of an aging…

I understand where he's coming from, but I completely bought into the affects in 1982—the scenes definitely played as straight up horror to 80s audiences, no laughter involved.

So true! Thanks for the kind words.

Aw, c'mon. I totally LOL-ed at "She’s even done some funny stuff outside of butts, like that time she believed mankind was capable of world peace."

My wife and I are going through the same thing—she's 39 and I'm 46. We've been trying for two years with no luck. It's tough to deal with. I wish we had met earlier in life but we didn't. This summer I found out my sperm count is low so now I'm on Clomiphene Citrate (Clomid), and it's worked extremely well (except for…

Relevant because… hilarious?

Oh crap, now I'm getting Veronica's Closet flashbacks. Just when I thought I'd wiped my memory completely of it and The Single Guy!

Totally agree with you on Denise. I'm still surprised they did away with such great storytelling potential. They seem to think it's better if there isn't a character who knows anything about medicine or how to operate on people—they repeatedly kill off that character! Hershel stuck around the longest, but he also knew…

99 times out of 100 I'd agree with you about the cliffhanger thing; it keeps anticipation and discussion going until the new season starts. But here, the showrunner and actors built up how brutal the season ender was going to be while the season was progressing. Once it became clear the last episode was going to…

After a while the bitchbitchbitchbitchbitch factor is about as miserable as the tone of this episode.