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So in other words, you expect the actors and crew of Jobs to die horrible deaths? (The Wayne picture "The Conqueror" was infamously filmed downwind of a nuclear bomb test and many of the people on the picture claimed that was responsible for the abnormally high rate of…

Yeah. I kind of think that's why he rejoined Mormonism — like Cruise and Travolta with Scientology, he probably thinks it can "cure" him.

Re: buggers. That's really, really reaching — you could just as easily claim George Lucas has something against hats as he named his villian Jabba the Hut, and Hut means "Hat" in German. At the time Card wrote "Enders Game" he was a perfectly open-minded guy, with anything, homoerotic urges himself. It was only later…

Yeah — it's along the lines of other Futurama gags like "Madison Cube Garden" given how Bellevue is an actual hospital in NYC.

Don't worry, it's almost a given — I'm actually surprised it didn't come before "Planes" given how so many kids are train-obsessed.

You're such a Fokker!

Also remember that before home video became ubiquitous, novelizations were pretty much the only way to "rewatch" a movie after it had left the theaters or to "see" a movie you missed. At least until it hit television, years (or even decades) later.

That "Some Romantic Comedy In Which She's a Chef" is otherwise known as "Simply Irresistible" and is probably most famous as the movie that killed Gene Siskel (as in it was the last movie he reviewed). It was not very good.

Well, Lovecraft 1) was from a family with a history of mental illness and 2) had some weird inconsistencies, such as making anti-Semitic statements while married to a Jewish woman. And as stated, is dead.

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I don't think adults who admit to watching either Adventure Time or Spongebob have much of a moral high ground over bronies.

@Tristan_99
Did you really not get that, especially in the early seasons, nearly *everything* in Buffy was a pretty obvious analogy for high school problems for girls in the late 1990s? It was practically more anvilicious than Star Trek: TOS was in regards to 1960s politics.

The first couple of episodes (with their Tolkeinesque fate of the world stuff) isn't really indicative of the appeal. But as the series goes on, it's the characters and the witty writing that's the appeal. It's like Buffy that way — Buffy was intended for high school girls, but I bet the majority of the audience was…

Er, maybe because next to Nazi Germany, the USSR probably was the worst nation in history? One that murdered millions of its *own* citizens and prevented others from leaving?

That actually would make sense. I'd like to see a Rubicon comic for similar reasons.

Or even more, "The Hunt for Red October", which was so un-genre-like that it was even published by a serious military publisher.

Realize that Christopher is pretty ancient — he was a RAF pilot in WWII for crying out loud! I think what is more interesting isn't the obvious observation of the fact that he's spent his life riding the coattails of his father, but what is going to happen in a couple of years when he dies — will the next generation…

Well, that's just reality; just like there aren't perfect upper-middle class families out of sitcoms in real life, there aren't the all-demented and evil white trash families out of horror movies either. There's problems in real life in the former, and the latter are still actual human beings despite the poverty, drug…

Of course they exist! There's even a trait for it in The Sims 3! (And one of the default sims who has it looks exactly like Tobias and is named Gobias Koffi as an obvious AD reference)

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What is a "jeans wearing uncle"? I'm an uncle myself — am I not supposed to wear jeans? I don't get it.

I'm not so sure about that. Profanity does change over time. In Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut writes about hearing "motherfucker" for the first time during WWII (although I believe he writes that was only new to white people).