That sounds fun. At nerd school, drinking night was mostly only Fridays and Saturdays. Mostly.

I'd really love to see a decent, longer adaptation of It (and already discussed the problems with the miniseries that was made below).

It's weird how much difference a few years make. Pretty much everyone watched Seinfeld in college for me, it seemed, the dorm's public TV rooms were always packed when it was on, and a lot of people watched in groups in the rooms of the kids who had TVs with cable (or had one with an antenna and were on the one side…

Huh, I had always figured he just vanished from acting like so many sitcom actors, particularly those who just play supporting roles, do when they're show is cancelled.

It's just so weird that that was made, considering how perfect the Kubrick movie is, I think there's only one person who ever saw it and didn't love it.

The kids never even fought the (disappointing) giant spider, just the clown, never truly confronting the creature until they were adults. And then they defeated it with the Power of Love, realizing they had to work together as true friends to rip the spider's heart out.

Because after actual realistic holograms are created, everyone will actually become Reginald Barklays, and humanity would shortly go extinct as no one would ever leave the holodeck to interact with other human beings again.

But then, instead of his usual very brief cameo, Stephen King actually plays a minor character who appears in a good number of scenes in parts 3 and 4 - oh god those are gonna kill our livers.

One bit I love from the book (that's included a bit in the miniseries, but they don't go into detail) is how all the highways are clogged, and very few people know how to get gas from a pump without power anyway, so most of the characters end up find riding bikes is the fastest way to travel cross-country now.

As bad as the It miniseries was, I don't think anyone was disappointed that it dropped that bit.

It also suffered a lot from network content restrictions, which were probably stricter back then than they are today. The book is very gory and violent, but that's largely sanitized and bloodless in the miniseries.

It was one of those shows I used to often watch just to have something on, and quit as soon as I went to college (in fall of, uh, 1994) and started watching much, much less TV than in high school.

That kind of thing just wasn't done back then, though. TV series were always 20-25 episodes per season, and designed to keep on going indefinitely until cancelled (or, much more rarely, until the cast & crew got tired of making it). Miniseries were a special event shown several nights in a row, and had a maximum…

It didn't help that she was rather obviously way too old to be a college student at that point; but her apparent lack of emotions was the real disaster.

Yeah, that's the one. And that was an awesome, and creepy, chapter; but I can see why they skipped it, being a series of vignettes featuring characters who only appear for a few paragraphs. At least they kept the bit with the one guy who had joined Stu's group dying of appendicitis, which is in line with that.

Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis (who were married in real life, though I don't think their characters really interacted) did really well too; in general, I think most of the middle-aged and older actors had very good performances, but most of the younger ones were pretty shaky.

The Lost creators have acknowledged it, and in fact showed a logo for Nozz-A-La Cola, the soda from alternate worlds used in the Dark Tower series (which I think first showed up when they visited the Earth of The Stand).

People died slowly, but they wouldn't have turned everything off; most wouldn't think to unplug their refrigerators while dying, for example, and it was the middle of summer and they were suffering from extreme fever so I'm sure most would have the AC running.

Or let's play the Steven King drinking game!

That's also the part of the Bible that tells us that cheeseburgers are an abomination.