Chili would be good for dinner.

I remember someone on SNPP was SERIOUSLY disgusted by "Nightmare Cafeteria".  Like, "I'm never watching this show again, the writers are sick" disgusted.  Was it that Joe Clark guy?

I know it was just for the purposes of the All the President's Men parody, but Springfield has a hell of a reading room for their historical records office.

There has to be a George and the Bushes out there somewhere.

I love it when Jimbo shakes his fists with enthusiasm when he says "mystical journey".  It makes it 100 times funnier. God I love this ep.

Glug.

That picture of Grampa makes that joke.

"Toddlers Topple Mayor"

In lieu of an acceptance speech, Bob stands in front of his Charles Foster Kane-esque portrait and lets loose with the maniacal laughter. It’s chilling, and brilliantly captured by Mark Kirland’s direction and Grammer’s vocal performance. "

"This leash demeans us both."

My mom, (not an ex-hippie, but a Boomer who loves CSNY) would always make a point of saying "I HATE this song" every time it came on the radio.  I would say it was for feminist reasons but then "Under My Thumb" and "Brown Sugar" got a pass.

I still have to give them credit for choosing "Huck Finn".  It would have been much easier for them to have the Keatons advocate for "Catcher in the Rye" or something.  They picked one of the few books that some left-leaning people feel uncomfortable about (at least as part of a high school curriculum.) They did dance…

My family's original last name was super Czech too.   God bless those Ellis Island guys for adding a few vowels.

"Things you say to a guard!  Things in a prison! Pass!"

"Blame it On the Bellboy": four stars.

That one came up a lot when I was watching Drive.

Shut up, man!  Zep is NEVER wrong!

"Ooh. They did NOT like that."

You know that they're probably going to try and shoehorn in some sort of cool Legolas thing that'll top the oliphant stunt in RotK.  And they will fail because it can't be done.

Eh, I went in with low expectations so I left happy. (I was basically in it for Gollum and Cumberbatch so I was only disappointed on one front.)  You are totally right that the there was a real lack of danger in this one, though.  I remember being really moved by FotR because I was convinced that maybe 2 characters…