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Two
Whiteout and The Haunting of Who Gives a Fuck (at least, that's what my girlfriend calls it). Both of them were part of drive-in double features. Whiteout was after Surrogates, and makes Surrogates look like a pretty decent film. The Haunting of Who Gives a Fuck was before Quarantine, and makes Quarantine look

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Agreed on both counts, scotteb.

That is so accurate that I'm dying a little inside.

Thanks, Nebusj and Eponymous. I think maybe I'll skip watching the unadulterated version, as it were, and skip straight to the commentary and then the RiffTrax. Of course, per Pizza Monster, I am crossing my fingers for a Commentary Tracks of the Damned.

He was lying in bed filing his nails with a pink emery board. That registers extremely high on the Douch-O-Meter.

For an advanced-level Latin class, I once translated a section of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the style of Edward Gorey. With some of Gorey's own illustrations cut-and-pasted in. What prize do I get?

@Hanley: I listened to the commentary tracks for II, III, and IV, and I agree: they are pretty good. No - pretty damn good.

Right on the money
"While this is actually a terrible, terrible episode, there's something wonderful in finding out for yourself just how bad it gets."

The music in the drinking contest scenes seemed to have been at least partially recycled from the mischievous-hallucinatory-Irishman theme in "Shore Leave."

Agreed. When Kirk's plan does involve allowing himself to get the crap kicked out of him, Spock is the one doing the kicking. And who doesn't enjoy that?

Wait a minute, what am I thinking? Of course there were others. There was, for example, that chick in "The Deadly Years" who radioactively aged to death. (Although if memory serves—which, see above, it might not—her shirt was actually blue.) I guess I was thinking that it's not a true redshirt death if they aren't at

I agree - they're more effective than you'd think. I guess the fact that you don't know which person has been powderized helps; and I gotta say, the fact that it was the woman was surprising. We lose female crewmembers of their own volition from time to time, but does anybody know if this is our first female redshirt

Psychomania! is brilliant. In addition to an inexplicable frog and a gang which does less damage than my old Brownie troop, it features bikers with names like Hatchet, Chopped Meat, and—most terrifying of all—Bertram.

I wondered about that, too. You'd think that for someone watching and feeling a planet implode at the same time—well, the sensations could be conflated. But how many of the estimated 10,000 survivors were evacuees, and how many of them were actually elsewhere at the time, and how did the latter experience the

The recurrent use of the ol' story-from-far-away-becoming-our-entire-culture convention in TOS is one of the many things that makes Galaxy Quest so fun.

I heart you, Gentle Herpes. Don't ever stop.

Patty Duke and William Schallert were reunited for one episode of the totally forgotten Disney sitcom "The Torkelsons." She played the widow (or ex-wife? can't remember) of his son.

William Schallert? I've met that guy!
He is a gentleman and plays a mean honky-tonk piano. I saw him in an episode of My Name is Earl a couple of years ago and was very pleased to see that he was still working.

Prairie metal…you mean Slipknot?