This loses a letter grade because of Joel McCrea. He's a pretty weak actor. He ruined the "Most Dangerous Game" adaptation.

Fantasy in movies does affect real life. Hollywood has started to remove smoking from films, because they admit it makes kids want to smoke, yet they still want to claim that guns in movies don't make guns look cool. If they want to make violent movies, fine; they just shouldn't pretend to be liberal progressives…

There is no father. The kid is training to avenge his father's death.

When you sleep alone, you sleep with Hitler.

That was a touching speech. I had to give a valedictory speech once, and I don't remember making anyone cry. Now I wish I could do it over.

I believe I saw this one when it was called Big Stan.

"Old enough to something, old enough to something else," goes the old Maxim.

This reminds me of countless unfunny rap parodies and talent-show raps, many probably written by myself, which invariably began:

There's nothing stopping us from using a Julian calendar. The lunar period isn't terribly critical to our daily lives.

When Euros complain about our system, I like to remind them that they still have 86400 seconds in a day and a ridiculous calendar for which they need a new table every year just to figure out what the date will be 50 days from now. Just to figure out if a day in the future falls on a weekend requires modulo-7…

I always get this confused when reading German, because in German (and probably other Euro languages) "million" means million but "billion" means trillion. I hope they remembered that when they dubbed Cosmos.

They should've at least posted an update on Jared. I have the feeling he's a chub now. In fact, I think maybe he always was.

Jimmy Johns is cheap, but pretty terrible. The amount of sodium is unbelievable, too. The bread alone has like 750 mg.

I never understood the name of this chain. "Submarine" I understand, but "subway"? What's the connection?

Nah, I was sick in bed one day and watched the whole thing. I have no plans to watch the second season unless I'm sick again. Yeah, the science was pretty bad. They sure seemed to work pretty quickly. In the real world it takes years to come up with a cure for something, but they were running animal tests…

I don't get it either. If I don't believe your beliefs, I don't respect them. In fact, I probably disrespect them.

Barney, the engineer on the Mission Impossible team (in the TV series), is black, which is impressive for the 60s. They don't make a deal out of it either. However, it sort of distorts whatever realism there is to see him on these missions in very-white eastern-bloc countries, posing as a Czech banker or Romanian…

That's pretty impressive. I didn't have a TV in high school, but I had an old green-and-black Apple monitor which I connected to an old Beta VCR to use as my tuner and I watched TV on that. You get used to the color after a while.

Yes, it's exactly like the vector display used for Asteroids and those old games. The hard part is converting a rasterized game to a vector one, which probably uses an edge detector. (I haven't read the link.) I'm not sure I get it. Vector graphics are great for lines and wireframes, and bad for anything else. …

I think it's a murder.