Here's a thing I'd like to know: when did doing a split become known as doing "the splits"? It used to be called a split. That's what everyone called it. Then, apparently, everyone decided, en masse, that it's now called "the splits". How does this happen? Are there meetings I'm not being invited to?

The train scene near the end is one I always point to when I'm trying to explain why I love The Warriors. When Deborah Van Valkenburgh goes to fix her hair, and Michael Beck grabs her hand and pushes it down, and neither of them ever takes their eyes off the prom couple across the car…yeah, it's a beautiful scene.

"Good Queen Bess" was the nickname of Elizabeth I, not Victoria. Other end of the spectrum, dude.

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There's a store next to the Buy More called Underpants, Etc. This show kills me.

Immediately following the reference to The Warriors there was one to An Officer and a Gentleman (the desperate, repeated "I got nowhere else to go!") and then to Animal House (double secret probation), all in about 30 seconds. That's got to be some kind of record. Is there a site that indexes these?

Is Clint Howard known for playing bad guys? I haven't seen him in many roles, so to me he is eternally Corky Macpherson, good guy best friend to Charles Martin Smith in THE GREATEST TV MOVIE EVER MADE, Cotton Candy.

On the gay tip, I thought it was weird when Jay was talking to Mitch and referred to Cam as "your boyfriend". I mean, they're in a committed relationship and they have a child. Surely some other term would be preferable. I fully expected Mitch to say as much, but then…he didn't.

Oh man, Amy on the Letterman show in that red dress…her breasts were like two enormous, perfectly round scoops of pure, sweet vanilla ice cream.

Wasn't it the Picts rather than the Gauls who are supposed to have painted themselves blue?

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That's right I said STOKED.

Music and Lyrics wasn't terrible. It didn't have much going for it other than the combined charm of Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore, but that will get you surprisingly far. Sarah Jessica Parker, on the other hand, effectively negates anything Grant might bring to this movie.

It's the same royal house, but they changed the name to Windsor during World War I because "Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" was uncomfortably Germanic-sounding.

"Hold On, Hold On" doesn't hold up to overplay? Man, I could listen to just those arpeggiated chords and Kelly Hogan singing "ah" on infinite repeat and not get sick of it. Add in Neko and….

I for one have never screamed "I love you, Neko!" at a concert. I do my pining in dignified, Jack Daniel's-soaked silence.

My favorite scene is all of them, but also the pet shop fire. Pee-wee keeps going back in and rescuing all of the cute animals but passing by the snakes. Finally he comes running out, clutching all of the snakes and screaming, then faints dead away.

The other goof I always notice: at the beginning of the basement briefing, there's a shot of Speck, and you can see Dottie's legs. Unfortunately she actually arrives moments later.

I have E[lizabeth].G. Daily's Wild Child on cassette, and I still listen to it occasionally. "Say It, Say It" is a terrific Madonna knock-off, and "Love in the Shadows" is cheesy but also really kind of awesome.

@La Pipe: It may be a generational thing, but I find it hard to think of CD covers as "majestic". Blah blah vinyl blah blah good old days blah blah you kids get off my lawn.

I find that when someone on the internet misspells the fancy word they're attempting to use (e.g. "peurile"), I immediately dismiss their argument and move on. Does this make me a snob?

As a Springsteen fan since the cradle, I can assure everyone that Born to Run is without doubt superior to Born in the USA, and is in fact one of the top five records ever made.