No one wore seatbelts in 1983, especially if your job was to attempt to literally steal children in broad daylight.

I like how he basically bounces off the door.

I'm so glad that they finally referenced that it is kind of ridiculous that her son could have had a girl live in the basement for a week or whatever without the parents ever stepping foot in the basement, heh.

*whistles ET theme motif*

hahah! THAT IS THE BEST "Stephen King introducing a minor character" reference ever.

yeah, CotC is why I could easily explain to my wife how to make a sensory deprivation device and how it should feel to the person being deprived of sensory perception.

USS IOWA HAT 4 LYFE

It's awesome that there is just a cool, know-it-all science teacher available at the drop of the hat.

I'd be curious when your town got 911? My midwest hometown of about 22,000 had it since I can remember (I'm an early 80s baby) but my wife's home town was about half the size and didn't get it until like 1990.

My favorite part is when that light acoustic guitar part intro-ing Peter Gabrial's "Climbing up on Salspry hill" starts playing over the mountain drive scene.

Believe me, in my administration you can bet you'll be allowed to touch the stove. We're going to have the hottest stoves, assembled by only the best American stove technicians, ready to burn your finger tip right off. I hear Bill Clinton once bought a stove behind Crooked Hillary's back. It's a very sad story. I feel…

Yeah this seems like a movie us AV Club nerds could take our more masculine, working class, stoic and quiet fathers.

Nah, his best role was as Arnie in Roseanne. He seemed like a real guy from Ottumwa, Iowa. Just had to wear that Iowa shirt in every scene tho …

What's in the Vox, what's in the Vox!? What's in the fucking Vox!?

"Yes, but only with Massengill vinegar and water?"
"How come only with Massengill vinegar and water?"

Yes! i remember that too. My wife actually asked me "did they say 'douche bag' in the 1980s" and I brought up the ET reference.

I think Karen can actually get over the sex pretty quickly, but she desperately wants to know what exactly happened. I mean, that kind of black hole of doubt knowing that your first born has actually had sex seems terrifying considering she's probably 16, and certainly wanting to make sure it was consensual and that…

New Girl also makes really overt Ford plugs.

I think the responsible thing for them to do (even as teenagers) would have been to realize that this guy is having a really hard time with his brother missing and all, ask him why he took photos of them (hopefully he would have told them the truth - that he stumbled upon their house because of some screaming and…

I think she's willing to do more than just sometimes make out with him …