That whole "no white until (after?) Labor Day" thing always confused me. When does it end? It's like, when am I allowed to start feeding these Gremlins again?

Are you telling me to give you back your son, or…are you my father?!

this is a profoundly bad idea

I haven't gotten that far in the series yet, but I can speak to that other spoiler. In Do The Right Thing, Mookie (Spike Lee) throws a trash can through Sal's (Danny Aiello) pizza shop window (not a barbershop! :P) because he, like everyone else in the community at that moment, is enraged by the death of Radio Raheem…

My World of Flops is out; newswires about politics and videos about cooking with SPAM are in

Sure Marvel can do that, it's called a lawsuit. It doesn't matter if it always had that title — Marvel can argue in court that it might tend to confuse potential customers into watching some non-Marvel entertainment.

Is The Crew a reference to the early-00s Christopher Priest team, or totally a coincidence?

If I was Marvel, I would have maybe strongly suggested that Netflix — which is at least partially known for having a five MCU series and counting — should maybe not name its new series War Machine

I did not know this was a thing! https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I think you were all actually watching the end of Buckaroo Banzai and got confused

Yes! I like to listen to the ones from the 80s and 90s, where I know all the songs in the top 20, but the bottom half is filled with surprises. Like, 'the "Electric Avenue" guy did an unused themesong for Romancing the Stone? How do I not remember this?' Or songs that I do dimly remember, like "Justified and Ancient",…

I listen to a lot of old American Top 40 broadcasts, and the ones from the 70s are hotbeds of terrible story songs, the worst of which is "My Girl Bill" from 1974. As you listen to it more than forty years later, it at first sounds incredibly progressive — it seems to be a song about two men experiencing the extreme…

Here's the concert that "The Bird" comes from if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Well they're both retons then, because originally it was just the drugs

Not true! Jesse Johnson played guitar on "Jungle Love"; the released version of "The Bird" was recorded live and features the whole band. Thats just the first two songs I looked up…the Time was legit

in my house we've banned all talk about Moana

"what — what is this, a helicopter shot?!?"

I used to work in local broadcast news, and there's this weird rule that you don't report suicides. They tell you it's because more people will kill themselves if they get publicity…but then of course they rush to report mass shootings. And, since suicides are unreported in the news, people have no idea what a massive…

Netflix is quaking on their boots, nobody's ever pirated their shows before, this could totally destroy them

Cloak and Dagger appeared all over the place, but I always thought of them more as Spider-Man guest stars. Namor…I know they called him a mutant to explain the stupid ankle wings, but it's pretty obvious he shouldn't be considered X-related.
Firestar is too complicated to guess at. She first appeared in a (non-X-Men)…