I know "Sesame Street" has a veritable army of child psychologists and educators in their creative team.  I know they go over every single episode questioning whether a six-year-old could follow it or get anything worthwhile out of it.  I know they edit segments for reasons most adults would never think of, and…

So did anyone almost have a full-on panic attack during the entire running time of "Take Shelter"?

What in the flying f**k is a visual like that doing anywhere in the same orbit as "Sesame Street"?!?

Coming at this from a different direction: "A Visit to Anthony".  Up until that moment, that was the most insane thing I'd ever seen.

"Dark Harvest"

"…turning it off partway through so that image was stuck in my head the rest of the evening. "

But how often do you really see stuff like living furniture or pink elephants or dancing mushrooms or whatever in dreams?  I mean, without having experimented with Peyote…

I watched "Gnomeo and Juliet" out of sheer morbid curiosity.  There is a scene where one of the lawn ornament characters imagines another lawn ornament character naked surrounded by rose petals a la "American Beauty".

Having seen the Tom Green episode, which is very much like watching someone have a psychotic break on live television, I would like to see how the Milton Berle episode could be stranger.

Oh good God, those Saturday morning preview shows were amazing and bizarre in the best/worst ways.  It saddens me that there's nothing like that today.

"Has there ever been more unpleasantness unwittingly packed into 22 minutes of TV?"

Got nothing to add except that I remember all of these series except for "Danger Team" and that a "We need our own 'Simpsons'/'South Park'" Inventory would be excellent.

And this is why I am sick and tired of people bitching about the "fake endings" in Return of the King.  People, that's all from the book, except the book has *more* endings.

And yet that scene still didn't ruin the character as badly as the live-action "Casper".

Back in the good old/bad old days of my city having but one Blockbuster in a busy neighborhood that was reliably always out of new releases by the time dad and I got their on Friday Family Pizza-And-A-Movie Night, I was usually left checking out something unpopular and hoping it'd be good.  One such night, I found…

I, too, am extremely selective when it comes to movies in theaters and I even have a hard time giving up on a film on DVD/Streaming.

You know who is a girl and is maybe the only person who was hoping there would be MORE "history of the Universe"/dinosaurs in "Tree of Life"?

My awkward "Epic Movie" story, reposted here for your enjoyment:

The world is a ball of fur.

Yeah, I listened to this while reading the week's worth of AV Club articles I'd missed out on while on a family trip and it was strangely compelling.  I can see why the record execs expecting a conventional children's album wouldn't know what to do with it.