Maurice Sendak was involved in "Little Bear" and the show, while definitely for little kids, retains a lot of his sensibilities so it's a great deal better than you'd think.

There's a part of me that needs to see the rest of that episode immediately, but there's a larger part who knows that the context could never be as incredible as what my imagination is coming up with.

It makes more sense when you realize it's basically "The Passion of the Scientologist Who is Just Better at Everything Than Everyone".  Note especially the scenes with the psychologists.

"I just wanted a movie about a dancing penguin!"

I have to say, I'm a little sad that the Narnia film series passed out so soon into the Chronicles and under such strange and convoluted circumstances.  Would have been fascinating to see how Disney would have dealt with "The Last Battle".

The scene where a bunch of sentient cartoon cars torture another sentient cartoon car to death is what all of western Animation had been leading to up until that moment.  That's why Windsor McCay invented this stuff in the first place.  So that we could all see the most deeply and uncomfortably bizarre onscreen death…

@Magic Xylophone  I would watch "The Matrix Holiday Special" until my television melted.

Goodness, yes.  Who "created" them?  If they're meant to be powerful saviors, why do they "cancel each-other out" when they're together?  And if that happens, then how in the nine blue hells did they have that epic battle in the middle of the city?!?

If you had told my family five minutes prior to us sitting down to family movie night that we'd be God-damn inconsolable about halfway through "Noises Off", we'd have laughed.

(Goes and checks.)  Oh, well of COURSE somebody has detailed every little thing that happens in "27 Dresses" on TV Tropes (meanwhile, I could not tell you what the plot of "27 Dresses" is aside from probably dresses are involved).

There's one almost at the very end of "Coming to America".  Look at the billboards on the subway.

"Jurassic Park 4: Here's Another One, F*ck You!"

That's the part that gets me about this controversy.  "Yes, Under The Dome is aware they did that in The Simpsons Movie and never anywhere else ever in the history of fiction."

Didn't SPAM also pitch a fit when they learned there was going to be a villain named Spa'am in "Muppet Treasure Island"?

Holy shit, "Oliver and Company"?  The one Disney movie nobody remembers, even though my sister has a ton of misaimed nostalgia for it?

"I'm so glad I never got rid of those tapes, despite my wife bitching me out for being a dinosaur."

He could have begun and ended the answer to the question, "Why do you hate 'Mambo #5'" with, "Because I have functioning ears."

Honestly, that "Eight Crazy Nights" scene is the only time I can think of when an animated film made me physically ill.

@avclub-f0a25fc22f6198ce61fe90730dc075e1:disqus  Man, if any one movie begged for a muckraking, nobody involved in the making of the spectacular debacle is spared, everyone is called-out on their what-the-fuckery, "How the hell did this even happen", "What were they THINKING" Final Cut/Devil's Candy/Monster-style…

Fun fact (well, really the opposite of "fun").  My Dad still kind of half-heartedly continues to watch "Glee".  So he and I watched "Shooting Star" together just to see what the fuss was about and how tasteless it could possibly be.