Sure there are. Maybe they are all person-shaped, but the show has established that there are non-intelligent ones that don't count as people and can be used as food (Becca/Chicken4Days)

Peter Dinklage in The Station Agent really showed that a little person could work as a lead in a serious dramatic picture that didn't use short stature as either a source of comedy or pity. The character just happens to be a little person — this is acknowledged but doesn't define him. Unfortunately even Dinklage has…

But unlike Rush, we'll count red sportscars as technology rather than make an exception for them!

Yeah, this and the first Rocky are actually semi-serious films that for some reason became cartoonish in the sequels. Stallone can actually be a pretty good actor — he just is in mostly terrible movies.

It turns out that the dog was the killer all along? (No, I haven't seen it; the Friday the 13th series just seemed like Halloween rip offs and I've accepted John Carpenter as my personal savior).

Exactly. Minus the adult content, that's something that Mabel would say.

Well, it's kind of obvious that his marriage is doomed, but he'd get over that in time. He's had at least three wives after all.

Don't put it past him. That actually sounds like something he'd try. For like a week. And then try to figure out if there's a return policy for orphans.

I'm disturbed that you know the legal age of consent for deer.

1970's Disney was weird. Especially their live action stuff. Anyone else remember "The Apple Dumpling Gang" (1975)?

Portland is Portland, right?

As the AV Club's older sibling wrote about the previous scary virus:
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He's one half-Joe Camel and a third Fonzarelli. He tells us himself with his horrible rap song.

Growing up I would still see games like this when I first started going to arcades in the late 1970s — really until Space Invaders hit in 1978, pretty much all arcade games were electromechanical. You can see what a late 1970s arcade looked like in the original Dawn of the Dead.

Yeah! It's not like severely disabled people have been using letter boards to communicate for decades.

Really? Granted it was basically a version of Rip Van Winkle for the Cold War, so maybe not the most creative thing around, but the various misunderstandings were humorous enough, I thought.

Not in this episode but another the same year:
Lisa: "It’s one of those campy ’70s throwbacks that appeals to Generation X!” Bart: “We need another Vietnam to thin out *their* ranks!"

I played the Starkeeper in our highschool's production of Carousel (but even earlier in the late 1980s). Still, "was a god" was on my resume.

"There go the piano lessons!" as the exposed-brain monster is pummeled on the head.

Was that particularly unusual? I seem to remember that most years pre 2000 were like that — sequels were rare and usually were awful. and what remakes existed were mostly remakes of foreign films which at least had the justification that general audiences weren't big on reading subtitles.