Having re-watched it recently, I think it's far superior to Superman II.  The two movies are equally cheesy with equally ridiculous, insulting-to-the-audience plot holes, but the third movie just embraces the goofiness and is fun, while Superman II tries to be as serious and important as the first film and ends up…

Everyone knows Smokey chases the bandit.  But what this movie asks is.. what if he doesn't?

Trading Places is on my regular Christmas rotation, along with Die Hard and Christmas Story.  It wouldn't be yuletime without those three.  And Gremlins, though my wife doesn't enjoy that one as much so it doesn't have quite the same status in our house.

Agreed.  I don't actually enjoy "Psycho" that much — I recognize it as a great movie for its impact and its influences and certain technical points about it, but it suffers for me from two problems:  1) this is one of those few movies where spoilers really spoil — it's just not as enjoyable once you know the twist (at…

Wow, I feel like the basic cable stations (and local affiliates etc.) must share your opinion, because I've been catching Friends reruns in syndication for years now and I do not remember EITHER of these!  Total blanks.  They just never re-air. 

Prout in his first book wrote about, wrote about, Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about. . .

I am certain — CERTAIN — that the conversation between her and her husband looked exactly as you have described it.

True, I knew I was forgetting some.  I also wasn't sure about Combo — I remembered his mom being hispanic, but I wasn't sure about him.

My wife, whose whole family is from New Mexico, gets really annoyed that, for all its use of Albuquerque, the show doesn't actually make that much use of actual Albuquerqueans.  There are very few actual New Mexicans in the show, and given the characters at its center (a nurse, a cop, a high school teacher) it's…

Huh.  The flashback-revision thing actually sounds neat to me.  Otherwise, you've either got the ugly glamorization of something horrible or a Lifetime movie-of-the-week walking us through familiar steps.  Either way, we've seen it before.  This sounds like a novel kinda idea.  Even if the "shock value" of revealing…

Why doesn't Walt Whitman, the largest of the poets, not simply eat the others?

"Taking the letter back also feeds into the episode’s main Christmas message: We can attach a lot of meaning to them, but presents are just stuff in the end."

I was saying "Boo-urns."

I don't know, I think it's a bit unfair to characterize it that way.  Not everyone actually goes back and checks the interviews, and I've seen it repeated often enough that the character of Jesse was doomed to die until the writers' strike changed their minds.  It may not be a sourceable rumor, but it IS a rumor. …

It's amazing how funny the first season is.  When my wife and I started watching it, we were wary because we weren't really in the mood for a bleak show.  But it was so thrilling and so funny, we were instantly hooked.

Haha!  Both my kids (3 and 5) love Cash.  They call "Ring of Fire" his "party song" because the horns are so upbeat.  And hearing my 5 year-old son in the backseat singing "burns, burns, burns" makes me smile every damn time.

"It’s the group’s first performance on U.S. television this year, and the group’s first performance at all since 2007."

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in Time. 
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Time is a teenage Colombian hooker. 

I'm picturing a whole series of sketches now.  Kinda like Chappelle's crackhead charcacter, but with a rich white douchebag instead.  "What would you doooooo — for a giant pile of coke?"  "Would you — blow this German tourist?"  "Would you — pawn your grammy awards?"  "Would you — gamble away your kid's college…

This was such a great show.  Maybe the first real original "fanboy" show after Star Trek, if I can make a bold and totally groundless off-the-cuff declaration.