Definitely the under-appreciated dark horse in the ZAZ canon.

Oh Michael…oh Jesus… you know I'm not to blame…
You know my reputation… for playing a good clean game.
Yeah I love that one too.

Yes, American military involvement overseas. Never relevant after the 1970s, for sure.

Ah, 90s NBC. Um…something something something Caroline in the City. While we're at it, let's discuss the failure of Union Square to maintain the coveted 8:30 bridge spot between Friends and Seinfeld. Go!

"I'm kind of daunted to start watching Cheers."

I just peed a little.

Let's remake Reservoir Dogs with an all-Asian cast! Then we can call it City on Fire, like it was in the first place!

So you did indeed acheive the "critical mass" part…

Note to self - remember to get some ASS cream for the dry eel on my ASS.

Note to self: remember to get ASS WART cream for GIANT WART on my ASS.

Such a great show, and truly…anarchic. I rewatched some of the eps awhile back and realized they were doing non-sequitur cutaway gags (the bugs on the wall in one ep come to mind) like 20 years before Family Guy.

Have the Rolling Stones killed.

"Bambi made a video nasty…"

I am the Wizard Master!

Yeah that camp line seriously killed me. And the "redundant torso material" line. (Come to think of it, that'd make a good Fake Band Name: "Redundant Torso Material"…)

Val Kilmer IS John Chunnel in "Chunnel: A Young Girl's Erotic Journey From Milan to Minsk"

Although it may not be strictly set in a dystopian future, the '70s Phil Kaufman remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is sorely missing from this list. Seems ridiculous to make a list of (mostly) thoughtful, downbeat 70s sci-fi films and leave that one out: it hits all these marks and then some, and has one of the…

Yes, one of the Ewok movies was called Ewoks: Battle for Endor. Wilford Brimley is in it as an old guy who lives inside a tree trunk. When I was very little my parents made me watch these instead of the actual Star Wars trilogy because they were "less scary". But Wilford Brimley living inside a tree is "less scary"…

I have to second Tom S's recommendation of late-period Huston and since no one mentioned yet, add 1972's Fat City to the list. It's Huston doing the kind of downbeat character study the '70s excelled at. Stacy Keach and young Jeff Bridges as small-time boxers in the blue-collar dive hell of Stockton, CA. (Are you sold…

Yeah, I thought that too. Urban did a great job; he seemed more McCoy than the original McCoy character at times (in a good way.) That first scene he and Pine have on the shuttle is the first time that movie starts to feel like TOS and it was a great moment.
It's too bad he didn't get more screentime. Maybe in the…