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YES! That's an excellent nonsensical Beach Boys track. Another one that hasn't gotten any love is "Be Here In The Mornin' ". Lyrics wise—-it's basically a typical late '60s Beach Boys love song but what makes it so god damn bizarre is they speed up poor Al Jardine's voice ala Prince during his Camille phase and make

To be fair, the remake of "Here Comes The Night" was Bruce Johnston's idea. I'm in a small minority but I don't think it's entirely horrible for what it was…it just drones on and on after a while. The worst thing about it besides the length is the fact that it overshadowed the kickass original version on Wild Honey.

Can't believe I didn't mention that the lyrics for the demo version of Ding Dang are "Hard times. Alley oop! Woo! Big tits! Fuck her!" repeated over and over again for about four minutes. Shockingly salacious and unbecoming of America's good times band.

Other notable exclusions
"Ding Dang"—-Allegedly co-written with Roger McGuinn. I wonder what the writing process was because the demo version I heard was no more than six or seven words long and the one on Love You is just gibberish.

I wouldn't call the Fantastic Mr. Fox a deep cut either. It's not Willie Wonka or James and The Giant Peach but I'd put it on the notability level of Matilda or The Witches. I think I read everyone of his kids books at some point or another during my childhood. His memoirs were pretty good reads as well. Too bad, he

Rocky and Rocky II were '7os but III and IV, which are really definitive '80s blockbusters, came out in the early to mid '80s.

That's right—-five minutes after I wrote that post, I remembered Noel not liking The Pink Panther. He did seem to like A Shot In The Dark from what I remember.

What's the name of the category worse than ugly? Because Teen Wolf Too has got to be in there. You'd think a movie with Jason Bateman as a boxing werewolf and Gomez Adams as a crusty, old dean would be worth watching but it is not.

Only a semi regular reader of this column so I have to ask…
How many Better Late Than Never reviews are less than positive? This is the first one that I can recall though I'm sure there have been plenty of others. Has anybody outright said they wish they'd never seen the movie?

I thought The Simpsons movie was a solid ***ish movie. Whoever said "could have been a lot better, could have been a lot worse" was spot on. If for nothing else, it was good to see (hear?) Albert Brooks back.

Saturday Night Live
I'd have put either the Conan O'Brien hosted episode or the Alec Baldwin/Christina Aguilera episodes on this list but I can see how the good people at the A.V. Club could think SNL is a completely different beast from episodic television. At the very least, both are certainly more deserving than

For Home Movies, I'd say any episode revolving around Coach McGuirk. I love Brendon and the gang but he's one of those secondary characters that really stole the show. If I had to pick one, I'd say the season two episode where McGuirk and Brendon have to go on a road trip to identify the body of McGuirk's Uncle. Maybe

Part psychological experiment/part semi-brilliant reality show parody. It gave birth to Kirsten Wiig's career. Personally though, I think the Hutch should have been the breakout star.

I'm ashamed to say this
but I'd put Kathy Griffin: My Life on The D List on my personal list. See, I don't even like her stand up but there's something inherently fascinating to me about the faux hardships facing a faux celebrity.

How about Hot Boyz with Silkk The Shocker, Snoop Dogg, C. Thomas Howell, and the O.G. himself, Gary Busey! Clifton Powell is in it too!

The Corner was OK but Charles S. Dutton's bookends gave off a real "after school special" vibe. It had its share of moments but it wasn't nearly as good as The Wire or even the early seasons of Homicide: Life on The Street.

It had the black guy from 40 Year Old Virgin as Hammer and former WWF Intercontinental Champion Ahmed Johnson as Suge Knight!

A lot of people like the second season the least because of the focus on the stevedores instead of the dealers and the death of manual work in America but I dug that they were trying to do something different.

The Korean animation switch. From the Judge Reinhold and Patrick Ewing dream sequences on, the episode is non stop LOLs.

I'm not saying that Clerks: The Animated Series deserves a spot on the list (it was pretty hit or miss) but the episode where Jay sues The Quick Stop is some of the funniest television I've watched. That ending kills me.