The best character in Akira has always been the Colonel. Especially if you've read the comic.

The End - The Doors
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
Just Like Honey - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Tears In Rain - Vangelis
Eclipse - Pink Floyd

I downloaded a "despecialized" version of the original Star Wars trilogy, haven't watched it yet but it's supposed to remastered and all that good stuff.

Flaming Lips - Bad Days
Boingo - Insanity
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changin'
The Cast of the 40-Year-Old Virgin - Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine
? - I'm Gonna Take A Walk Outside Today (from Milo and Otis)

Man, they're establishing the hell out of this building.

Matt and Trey said they'd be willing to do a sequel if they had a good enough idea.

Actually, they made it before the franchise got really good.

I finally forced myself to finish Season 2 of Twin Peaks. Going into the series finale, I was looking forward to see how Lynch would handle a character like Windom Earl, who's over-the-top mad genius antics I was actually staring to enjoy towards the end, but who is nevertheless such a non-Lynchian character in that…

Vin Diesel:
"What would you have me do?
Seek for the patronage of some great man,
And like a creeping vine on a tall tree
Crawl upward, where I cannot stand alone?
No thank you! Dedicate, as others do,
Poems to pawnbrokers? Be a buffoon
In the vile hope of teasing out a smile
On some cold face? No thank you! East a…

Smodcast - "Dark Notions" (featuring a whiny 19 year old Kevin Smith)
Howard Shore - "The White Rider
Karl Pilkington - The Ricky Gervais Show S1 Ep 10
Home of Rock - Steven Wright (reservoir dogs soundtrack)
Early Morning Cold Taxi - The Who

Seeing as The Office was better than Extras, and the XFM radio shows were better than the podcasts, I would say 2002-2003 were the peak Gervais years.

Seeing as I graduated last year, this will be the first year that Summer means absolutely nothing to me. How depressing.

Although I've enjoyed reading everyone's contributions, I have to say that I disagree with the entire premise of this Q and A; that is,  if a piece of pop culture shifts tone or subject matter halfway through, this constitutes a "bait and switch".

And the very next thing Spielberg worked on was a film featuring a Vietnamese child actor who gets kidnapped and forced into slave labor in the pursuit of "fortune and glory"

Hey! I've never attempted stand-up comedy. It's much better to live with the sad belief that i could have been one of the greats than the crushing reality of my own mediocrity.

Fact: The inspiration for that bit was a rant that the Jeff Goldblum character goes on in Jurassic Park (the book). Carlin actually called up Michael Crichton and got his permission to do the bit.

Strange you didn't mention Dennis Miller Live. Didn't even mention him in the stand-up section.

Leonard Pierce, is that you?

The baby from Eraserhead might qualify…assuming it is a puppet.

You'll never be able to hear "Wonderful Tonight" in the same way after listening to Karl Pilkington's interpretation: