"NIXON'S NOT BRINGING THE SMOKES!!!"

How about the New Justice Team episode? "Less Than Hero" is the nadir of the series. It's still hysterical, but it just doesn't do a whole lot with the hackneyed superhero plot

Yeah, yeah, I'll admit "Strutter" too. That one's good.

@Zilcho: Stranger in a Strange Land holds its place as the single most awful book I've ever read. I don't dismiss genres out of hand, but if that's the best SF has to offer, then fuck it with a pitchfork.

Much of my childhood was wasted watching "AYBS?". I have no idea if it would hold up now. My guess: only a little.

"Top Gear" and the periodic "Kitchen Nightmares" are all that's left for me on BBC America. And yes, the hosts of TG are complete douches. But they're funny douches, and I don't have to live with them, so who cares?

But my favorite Kiss song genuinely is "I Was Made for Lovin' You". In fact, I'd argue it's their only good song ever. Unless you count "New York Groove".

"Transformer" just about half sucks. The whole b-side, except "Satellite of Love", is just unbearably awful limp-wristed minstrelsy. Fuck it up the left nostril. And go listen to "Coney Island Baby". Or, "Sally Can't Dance", which never pretends to be anything but a sleazy, sick joke.

Lobsters 1 is right about one damned thing: those two Johnny Thunders albums and the first David Johansen solo LP are some killer…uh…post-glam? But honestly, the two Dolls albums have always left me cold. Maybe just because they sound like absolute shit no matter what, but I rarely muster above a "meh" for much about…

@Victor Mature: The only thing anything about the "David Live" album did to my rectum involved violence. There's nothing worthwhile about that fucking album.

The Rick Nelson reference sold me too. Although I've heard what was mentioned up-thread about The Terror falling apart in the last 80 pages or so pretty frequently in other places. Still, opium-addicted crazed writers in filthy Victorian London in this one!

@Clarence Carter: I'd say you've won the username derby. Good on ya.

"Hey Banner, how's it hangin'?"

"Vicious economy" is a phrase I'd use to describe "Harrison Bergeron". I haven't read any Vonnegut since high school, and I'm not 100% certain he'd hold up now, but "Harrison Bergeron" is still hilarious. That's such a tightly constructed little story there. It's almost terse.

Seasons 2-8 (yes, I cast a wide net - you gotta include Frank Grimes, a joke-free episode that still manages to be one of the funniest half-hours of TV ever) are probably the single most consistently funny and brilliant television oeuvre in the history of the medium. The idea that there was such consistently biting…

I was under the impression that she had the reality show locked down before she brought her bundles of love into the world. I mean, why the fuck else would you do that if not to get your own reality TV show? Of all the bad reasons, that's the one I'm most likely to grudgingly, cynically accept.

When spaceage martini was mine, I used to let him wear all of my clothes.

Todd Rundgren's too good for this shit. His '90s work is a fabulous argument against that, but Liars was really good. And supposedly Arena is too, but I've yet to listen particularly closely. Still, if we're doling out lifetime passes…Something/Anything? and A Wizard, A True Star go first. Plus the second Nazz album!

@Hamburgers:
How's it sold? Good and cold.

Fireproof II: Cruise Control ON THE ROAD TO HELL