Even better, McRonalds won't even hire him full time because he has no job experience. Hence, "part-timer".

No show about the devil leaving hell to live a mundane life topside will ever hold a candle to The Devil is a Part-Timer, an anime where Satan flees his dimension from a war, winds up in present-day Tokyo with no powers and no money, and has to get a job at McRonalds. Hijinks ensue.

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The first thing that comes to mind is when I saw Peter Fischli and David Weiss's The Way Things Go. The 30 minute Rube Goldberg device involving mostly trash and chemicals changed the way I look at art and science (which, as a scientist who likes art, was a big deal). I judge all other kinetic art relative to The Way…

If we're going for the brightest-sounding Mountain Goats music, this is missing two of the happiest-sounding depressing songs-

Excellent news, not enough people have seen this movie! I live in a college town, and there is high turnover in friends (fellowships, defenses, new jobs, people switching labs and bringing new people around), so every six months or so I try to get all the new people together tocome over for Belgian night, featuring…

The entirety of the A Town Called Panic movie has me constantly in tears. However, my two absolute favorite scenes are when the undersea people are holed up in Steven and Janine's farmhouse and they're launching farm animals into the house (can't find link), and Steven eating the breakfast that Janine makes him: https:…

For me, it's the MST3K "Future War" when the protagonists are walking through a basement/tunnel lined with an unrealistic amount of interconnecting pipes. Servo quips "That's the most complicated trombone in the world!"

Wow, they missed so many movies that better illustrate this trope. The Crow, Se7en (they only have some audio at the very end), The Proposition (2005), Last House on the Left…

My grandparents' house was on a well, and the water tasted like eggs and smelled like farts, so it was very hard to drink. I was a kid at the time, so of course I interpreted it literally. Maybe they had similar well water in parts of Australia as in Washington.

Wow, thanks. When I watched the video they've got in the article, I was thinking a) I don't remember the song being this bad (actually, I loved the shit out of this song when it came out) and b) where's the pig?

Obviously, that's just movies and TV. As for music, it's a little more complicated. It's not just artists who are FROM Seattle-ish, it's artists from Seattle-ish whose music has deep roots in local politics and the feel of certain areas during certain times… I love Jimi Hendrix, but he doesn't really embody Seattle to…

Seattle: those parts of 10 Things I Hate About You that were actually shot in Seattle (Gasworks park, the Fremont Troll- which they defiled, but it's still cool…)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: leprechauns; also, Xander's magnetism for demons.
Lost Girl: "Toothpaste?" "Footlocker."
House: "It's never lupus."

The Earthsea dragons were supposed to have been pretty damn big.

I disagree that it's a double standard, or has anything to do with "having your cake and eating it too." Using it as a tool to look at large groups of films (ignoring each individual entry- Gravity - for the moment), the point is that over half of the Oscar nominees for best picture don't portray women interacting…

I question your reading comprehension. Consider the following excerpts from the article:

Rupert Giles. Then, Daria and Jane.

The Lovin' Spoonful- "Summer in the City"

PJ Harvey- "Under the bridge"