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Jim Traficant
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BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK

I first saw him in the Louie Anderson nightmare "The Wrong Guys" which ran on HBO as much as "BMX Bandits" in the late 80s. That movie has since become a cult favorite among my friends, who give me Louie Anderson memorabilia for Christmas every year. I am the proud owner of "The Wrong Guys" on laserdisc, the "Wrong

The should send one to Trent Reznor too. Down In It was the Born This Way of industrial.

Birds, birds birds!
This episode made me nostalgic for Pudding Pops, and then I learned the sad truth on Google that they don't make them anymore.

At least shes a white Russian.

If they got Oksana Baiul circa 2005 it would have been close.

Paint a Vulgar Display of Power.

Want nightmares? They called him CHARLIE NO-FACE

I'm amazed there's a Wikipedia on him, but The Green Man was the legend all the kids around here would pursue on Friday nights. He was creepy, had an awesome origin story, and was absolutely 100% real. My parents, all of my aunts and uncles and pretty much every adult in town had a story about The Green Man, whose

Now do it for Terri!

Jodorowsky's Dune owns all the Dunes.

Million dollar birthday fries would be so cool to have. Twice.

All the weird stuff like the scene with Ralph and the police car, and Bart hissing like a vampire and running off into darkness … it's all really creepy for a Simpsons. The way they put the commercial together with all the creepy snippets, I can still remember it almost 20 years later.

I was raised a heathen, so this episode combined with last week's Flanders awkward religionorama made me feel better about missing out on church.

Plus it blew the dust off Sherri and Terri.

This episode stood out for me right from the start - Fox took the weirdest parts for the promo, like Ralph and the other children chanting "my eyes will be pecked out by ravenous birds." I was like, what the hell is this about? The whole thing is almost Treehouse of Horror-like in its delightful weirdness. The happy

Trent Reznor was doing parodies of Skinny Puppy on their first album. WOAH

Patty was threatened by many women, like Rayanne's mom, and Graham's brother's girlfriend (played by ER alum Laura Innes) … weird for a former beauty queen.

I like the brief scene with Susan and Carol going up to the roof and coming back down in their sunglasses, ala' Jules and Vincent.