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Definitely "Barricade Contest", where the four college students build elaborate barricades on their dorm-room doors, and whoever's door lasts the longest wins. The variety of contraptions - and the various solutions - really made this one a standout.

This was back when the intro was a pinball machine, right? Man, they totally need to bring that back.

"Do not be as servants, who serve their Master for the sake of reward; rather, be as servants who serve their Master not for the sake of reward." Ethics of the Fathers 1:3.

The birthday Honk-Honker hikes high up Mt. Zorn…

Or when he's back at the base, having a bullet fragment removed from his neck, the surgeon says "this thing missed your carotid by a millimete - don't move!" and he'e just shaking his head saying "oh, hurry up." Great little moment.

Is this is the one read by radio man and sensitive soul Eric Stolz in "Memphis Belle"? If so, plus 1.

I figured her for a ringer - the way she delivers the last line - "I need a bath" - you can just feel the tired frustration leaking out of her. Pretty heavy for a phone commercial now that I think about it.

I think you're thinking of the Sprint commercial.
"Stop downloading everything! And stop liking everything". Good commercial though, I guess it failed if you associate it with the wrong product…

Wow - Fiona Apple is aging VERY well.

"Pick up a babe, babe!"
"I don't want to pick a babe, Bob."

I think the ending was intended to mimic an actual comic book. The imagery from Bruce Willis's last fight scene with the psycho janitor could have come straight from the panels of a comic book. I believe one the ending title-card's mentioned something about an 'asylum for the criminally insane' - exactly the sort of

The Gizmoduck series ranks pretty high for me too, especially the one where they travel to the all-robot planet. But you really can't top the opening series for world-traveling adventure, dramatic intensity and quality of animation. The image of Scrooge and 400-year old guy running out of the temple as the floor

I remember one shot of LP - towards the end of the last episode of the first 5-part series, the plane just got hit by a volcano of gold and he says "Can't - maintain altitude - Mr. McD!" I just remember he was drawn like a superhero or something and thinking - 'wow, this cartoon is way cooler than it should be."

He was one of the few characters to survive in Ronin, though he may have preferred death to being ambushed by a cup of coffee.
He also survives (barely) in the little-seen but very good Bravo Two Zero, about a British SAS patrol avoiding capture during the first Gulf War.

"The bone protrusion through the skin - that's not a good sign."
[Looks at thermometer showing body temp. below 80]
"Okey Dokey, that just about covers it."

What's our vector, Victor?

The Impossible Spy is an old TV movie about famed Israeli spy Eli Cohen. I understand it got good reviews.
If you're into historical Israeli spy stories, I strongly recommend: Spies in the Promised Land: Iser Harel and the Israeli Secret Service http://www.amazon.com/Spies…
Note - This is about Mossad (foreign spying),

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