You're right. Boy is my face red. I should have Googled. Then I would have known about the two installments in the series I managed not to see.

It does seem like the narrator is making fun of her for being into stuff that would have been sort of trendy back when the song came out. Mary Moe (or whatever her name is) apparently goes beyond being delightfully quirky to being kind of annoying about it (she uses alternate transportation that doesn't really work…

Colbert has a YouTube channel where you can watch stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

It does sound an awful lot like a grim and gritty version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." The shamanism is basically a more realistic version of that thing where Santa uses a spell to turn a snowball into a crystal ball.

There is a Home Alone 3, but it is about a different kid and there is a team of highly trained crooks looking for a painting their boss is obsessed with that used to belong to a famous criminal. The new kid's house supposedly contains the painting and a bunch of money.

That's enough about Rabin. What did you think of the movie?

"It is the product (and I do mean 'product' in every form) of animation
powerhouse Hanna-Barbera, whose tacky, lazily written and animated
empire of beloved and non-beloved crap includes stuff like Yogi Bear and the various iterations of Scooby-Doo."

Exactly. Unless there was something I missed in season eight, I never saw anything that justified the idea that she is like Amy Pond cranked up to eleven and somehow really good at fighting the forces of evil without any training or special skills.

The Matrix first came up during Tom Baker's tenure. Along with stuff like the idea that there were Gallifreyans who weren't Time Lords and the Doctor using a gun (he built a disintegrator ray powered by the key of Rassilon).

If you're going to be that pedantic, you could at least be accurate. Lucas was trying to do a Flash Gordon movie before he came up with his own stuff instead. Which is why The Star Wars (the first draft) features a villain who is just Ming the Merciless with the serial numbers filed off.

Even if twelve was the magic number, we've come up with a bunch of people who are at least as worthy as Robert Downey, Jr. and a bunch of people who have been in classic films that should give them more all-star status than being in X-Men: First Class.

It was based partly on The Hidden Fortress and… Just kidding. I shouldn't have gone there. How about the Earl of Dorincourt from Little Lord Fauntleroy, Jacob Marley in Scrooge (1970 adaptation of A Christmas Carol), Pol in The Quiller Memorandum, or Yevgraf in Doctor Zhivago?

I guess that explains the absence of Roger Moore even though he played the Saint, James Bond and Sherlock Holmes.

When Trace, Joel and Frank were still around, they made a lot of semi-obscure geeky references and kept running gags going for no particular reason. So, Joel might say something about those old land of Dairy Queen commercials that seemed hilarious at the time, or talk about the stock footage or something. Sci-Fi…

Probably. This is like Castle of Fu Manchu-level hurting.

Funnier riffs is debatable, but otherwise that seems about right.

I've got a bad feeling about this.

Part of book four "Wizard and Glass" is devoted to that retcon.

That is perfect.

At some point, King decided Walter and Flagg were the same guy. Even though that makes no sense at all (at least based on the original version of the first book). King dropped that bombshell in "Wizard and Glass".