"What is this, young man?"
"I'll tell you what it is: it's a box of big black dildos! You and your sister were supposed to put these out last night!"

"Champion," The Drinker is still a career high point for Paul F. Thompkins.

Everytime I see a fridge left open a little too long, I can hear Bob Odenkirk singing "I'm not paying to cool the out-of-doors!"

Has nobody mentioned…
…Bare Ambition/Streakdome 97?

I would kill for an Indiana Silt Basin College t-shirt.

I'm strong…LIKE THE HULK!

The "Screech Cue"
I never stopped missing it.

I go back and read the entire Eschaton match several times a year. It's one of the few sequences in the book that I think could work very well on film.

Oh, there's a gorilla.

Well, Wildcat was written in kind of an…obsolete vernacular?

"Blood Meridian," huh? Why not…
Eli Cash?

Ang Lee
"It's the kind of movie in which you know the acid just kicked in because the background suddenly goes all smeary-psychedelic (really? again?)…"

The Buffy writers tried to have it both ways re: Spike (my theory is that there was a real divide in the writer's room). They totally provided fanwank Buffy/Spike relationship moments while reminding us every so often that a) Buffy was batshit crazy, and b) the relationship was at 'Luke and Laura' levels of…

Wanting Barney to be in a real relationship with another character (in ways that betray the attributes that make HIM a great character) is a manifestation of "Spike Syndrome."

Best Homer line in that Simpsons ep:

Weird, my first sentence got cut off. I was referring to the computer/AI assimilation of the main female bad guy in Superman III.

Superman III
III. That messed me up but good. Never gone back and watched it again, but in my head, it's more graphic than Evil Dead treerape.

I realize this isn't Book v. Film, but…
…how does the tone of the series compare to the movie? For that matter, Leonard, as a fan of the series way back when, how did you like the movie?

I think the phrase is better applied to situations where you're body has failed you in some way.

Osmosis Jones
I'm of the opinion that there's the core concept of a really good movie buried under all of the studio directive-derived crap on the surface. I mean, it's Chinatown in your body. That could play, without the crappy buddy cop dynamic and "hip" lingo.