Be honest fellas…who hasn't jacked off to flirty Scully here?

I like the episode, but it really drove home to me how much of the season both looks and feels like Steven Spielberg—which is fine, but not concentrated in one season.

I like the episode, but it really drove home to me how much of the season both looks and feels like Steven Spielberg—which is fine, but not concentrated in one season.

Carter's euphuistic prose is indeed hilarious here.

Carter's euphuistic prose is indeed hilarious here.

I've always had a soft spot for this episode, probably because it takes place in my home state and half of it in my home town, but yeah, nothing spectacular.

I've always had a soft spot for this episode, probably because it takes place in my home state and half of it in my home town, but yeah, nothing spectacular.

Ball doesn't run Banshee; he just helped get it made.

I wanted Dylan to quote Deadwood and say "I find the pretense to civility in one so brutal to be vapid and grotesque." But I'm a sucker for Milch dialogue.

I live in a city of less than 40,000, and while we don't have a real repertory, we do have an old movie palace that hosts concerts and, about once a month, classic films. I'd guess something like this is what Norma was talking about.

Probably one of the 4 or 5 best shorts Friz ever made.

You mean "perplex this palooka with a powerful pachyderm percussion pitch."

With Ren being the end of the evolution.

It's eerie how pre-existing compositions seemed to be tailor made for these cartoons. Carl Stalling had a hell of an ear.

Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Movie and Yellow Submarine, two cartoons I got for Christmas as a three year old, formed my taste in ways I can't even imagine. To this day the Chuck cartoons are the ones I respond to on the deepest level even though I find the Clampett ones at least as funny and creative, and the Beatles are…

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Beck did indeed update that invaluable guide, but I still prefer the more opinionated original.

That's brave: you're likely the only person in the universe who prefers Rabbit Rampage to Duck Amuck.

Yeah, that's a great one of the handful of early style Daffy shorts Jones did in the mid-40s just before the character started to change.

I love, love, love Looney Tunes, particularly the outings by Jones, Clampett, Tashlin and Avery (although he did his best work for MGM.) I have particular affection for Jones's one-offs like The Dover Boys (which for pure belly laughs probably holds up the best of all these shorts) and One Froggy Evening (and Feed the…