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    My favorite note about Stackenblochen and other random bits is how they were silly one-note gags that never talked down to the audience. Conan explains the premise and then TRUSTS the audience to groan when the lady just barely messes up the angle. Other shows would say, "Haha, she barely missed it, that's not 90

    Season Four is the last "good" season and also its most overrated, because even glancing at the show without Lithgow's performance reveals the same type of garbage that made the show bad. Things like…

    He can disappear entirely for all I care. Make County just another line of "Quick Hits" with the featured guest. You don't need parasites like Van Kirk on the show at all.

    I still like this show, but it has become increasingly defanged the more popular it has become. I think it is because they actually allow their favorite targets to appear on the show and defend themselves. I want to say this started with the atrocious, never remotely-entertaining Wendy Williams and has gotten worse

    I want to imagine that he got word of how Giant Bomb's community took the video (notably Frakes' bizarre monster tongue) and ran it into the ground. He seems at least somewhat privy to things done about him on the Internet.

    WWE, and there have been checkups in the past for milestones. (Raw's 1,000th episode, for example.) I'm not entirely sure a weekly summary would have the readership each week and there's also not a lot you can say about the current product other than…

    Nick would show episodes in the evening and oftentimes before SNICK, something I found especially odd. They even threw together a new "intro" of sorts.

    I also liked MST3K's swipes at him. The one that comes to mind immediately is during Overdrawn At The Memory Bank. A lady with glasses is hit by a car. The camera then cuts to and focuses on a pair of broken glasses.

    Using fans/nonfans can go several ways. I'll use Amazing Race as an example.

    Has anyone actually SEEN Captain Planet recently? A lot of children's TV from that era and earlier is really messed up. Over-the-top speechifying, gruesome scenes for no reason, plot contrivances…it was a bad show at its time but it is something special bad now.

    The second movie was a clear attempt to transition into the Turbo TV series, which in lore is the show that almost got the series cancelled. (And in terms of Power Rangers, yes…that season was dreadful!) I also enjoyed how the movie/series tried to make suits/robots relating to cars REALLY SERIOUS. The original

    I always remember her for being absolutely outclassed in every way (and the other commentators REALIZING THIS) on one of those MSNBC roundtable shows. So this is perfect for her.

    I really don't understand this idea that miserable failures with terrible ideas who should not be in the public eye continue to get work. This goes for celebrities, fatuous political hacks…anyone really! But mostly the first two.

    CROSS-FIYA!

    I misread "Police Academy" as "Police Squad" at first, then my head nearly exploded because in that delusion I thought the latter had seven movies! And the reality set in and oof. To be fair, diminishing returns would have hit the Naked Gun movies hard if they kept going after 33 1/3.

    I've never listened to a single Comedy Death Ray/Bang Bang for that exact reason. Comedy impersonations are lazy are best and unbelievable torture at worst. Most of the impersonations are…fifth-rate at best and then there are zero jokes to go with it. I really, really wish for example that the Sklar Brothers would

    Frank's problem is that he is way overbearing about his opinions. This is from someone who mostly agrees STRONGLY with Frank on his politics. But it got tiresome to just hear him fling off angry one-liners about the news of the day, especially when sometimes you just want to forget how absolutely terrible the world is

    Leave Robert Denby alone!

    It is clear that no one else even comes close to subscribing to Mike's opinions either, which makes it even stranger. Mike is also the least fun of the RiffTrax gang to follow on Twitter for that reason and others, he just seems grumpy and really vindictive toward other people. Get off his lawn, apparently.

    I don't think current Hollywood movies, no matter how bad, work for the MST/Rifftrax formula because 9 times out of 10 any film featured will at least look and sound like a quality production. (Professionals ARE working on these movies, no matter how bad the movie turns out.) Part of the charm of MST3K was seeing