It seems very easy to dumb down. Since the short film above has basically no plot, so Sandler has a blank slate to write whatever sort of hack plot he wants to fill feature length.

I think the praying one is probably a direct response to the peeing one, rather than being based on the comic directly. Christians see the peeing one, feel that that's not an appropriate thing for a cartoon boy to be doing, and instead have him devoted to prayer instead.

100% of what I know about Tito Puente I know from that episode of The Simpsons.

I saw plenty of "not very educational" films in history classes, Django would probably be pretty informative in comparison.

Breaking Candy: A chemistry teacher gets diagnosed with terminal cancer and decides to enter the confectionery industry in order to get some money for his family. Things get just as deadly as in Breaking Bad.

Pixar's early animation seemed heavily based around the realization that plastic and metal are easy to render and living things are hard. But then they had to step outside that comfort zone and make that horrifying baby anyway.

As pointed out in the article, the idea is how it's broken up. Netflix has its own ISP who it pays to get access to the Internet, and presumably it pays per bandwidth. And then end-users get Internet access from companies like Comcast. The catch is that now Comcast also wants to get paid from Netflix, in addition to…

Now I want to see Conan do that scene.

I don't think they called them triggers back then, just shoulder buttons.

It's my job to be repetitive. My job. My job. Repetitiveness is my job.

Let's not pretend most Americans know the difference between a southern English accent and a northern one.

It's annoying that Men in Black 3 had Will Smith and Jemaine Clement and they got Pitbull to do the promotional song.

I don't know how many people actually look fondly upon Space Jam. It's more that it's such an obviously ridiculous movie on so many levels that it has camp value.

I don't really like calling her a mathematician. She did some undergraduate math research and graduated summa cum laude from UCLA and published some popular mathematics books, so she's certainly quite good at math, and good for her for working to promote it, but I feel like the word mathematician should be reserved…

If an ear is all that's available, you should ask questions, because something has gone awry.

The nature of the LEGO brand is that you can tell all sorts of vaguely related stories in it without them needing to share any actual continuity, it's just that there's a bunch of bricks and figurines with very limited articulation and then stuff happens.

Bitcoin is stupid but it works in a fundamentally different way from a Ponzi scheme. With a Ponzi scheme, you have a centralized schemer who takes people's money claiming to be investing it in something productive when you're just using other people's money to make the illusion of profit while you keep much of the…

You know, I need to lose some weight, so I should really get Marvel to hire me to be in one of their movies.

I don't think people really should care too much about who creates the characters. DC/Marvel-style comics are a collective effort. (As are films, for that matter.) Everyone's building off the work of everyone else. In a sense that's true of all creative endeavors everywhere, but it's especially true within the…

"Joe Montegna as Fat Tony."