Pekin duck.

Speaking of David Lynch, Twin Peaks went on too long.
Nobody cared about James the motorcycle boy.

Nope, never seen it. My sidewalk Brooklyn Italian never included "goomah." Goomba, all the time.

Cutty Sark schoonery?

Then why do the black women in Perry's movies have to subsume themselves to the black men who are nice enough to love them? Why can't they stay strong and independent and still be loved?

goomba—you left out the m
goo-mah—really; I ask you

Once wasn't enough?

La Pipe—exactly. Her books are regular reading in folklore classes. She was quite ahead of her time and got a lot of criticism for not being a "respectable" black woman, but she got the job done.

I guess, then, that Tyler Perry plays Martin Luther King to Spike Lee's Malcolm X? In his own mind, at least.

But Tootsie is one of the really fine movies.

Wasn't Spike Lee the first to explain the concept of the Magical Negro? For that alone, he should get much credit.

Uncle Miltie in a dress never counts.

I was on a vacation trip with my parents back when, in French Canada at the time, and Sarrazin was in an episode of a show called …….. the Coroner. Obviously I can't remember the coroner's name, but I always remembered Sarrazin.
Later, when he started making movies in the US, I remembered him immediately, he'd made…

I loved the old Caddy or Lincoln they restored and then the Old Man commandeered. It was such an old mobster's car.

If classes like that exist, they won't be 100-level.
Nowadays, at least, 100-lvl writing classes are basic composition and argument, if you're lucky and can keep them off their phones.

I disagree not only with your opinion but with the "untouchable" modifier in the OP. If you know what I mean and I think you do.

The Fugitive was years before Rockford Files. Did Jannsen ever do anything else?

What about IES Dave Chang?

Best books
The Boy Scout's Handbook, seriously.
A good farm mechanics textbook.
A good guide to edible/poisonous wild plants.
First aid manual.
Gardening books.
DIY books on electrical wiring, plumbing, carpentry, etc.

Another of Wyndham's novels has aliens who come to earth and go under the sea, then come up in attack units to harvest humans. Cheery.