Is it too much to hope that this reboot gets clobbered by a lawsuit from Harlan Ellison?

What's strange is that, in the original, unaired pilot episode (never released on DVD, but available on YouTube), Edmund is fairly similar to the Blackadder of season 2 onwards - acidic, intelligent, a bit dashing. But when the actual first series was made, it was decided to make Edmund a gibbering moron.

And the "Great booze-up, Edmund!" line was delivered by William Hookins, who not only appeared in Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Batman, but was also interviewed by the FBI as part of the investigation of the JFK assassination.

Anybody else want Alan Rickman to deliver this guy's eulogy?

I'm paraphrasing roughly here, but around the time Curtis started doing The Vicar of Dibley, he said he was sick of doing shows about nasty people and he wanted to do "nice" stuff. I think the crappiest thing he ever did - well, the crappiest thing he ever did that doesn't feature Hugh Grant - was that G8 docudrama…

During a class in my second teaching practicum, back in 2007, I mentioned Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (for some reason). The kids all stared blankly - none of them had any idea who Bill and Ted are. That was when it really hit me that I'm part of an older generation. :(

It's depressing how many leading figures from the 80s UK alternative comedy scene and the Young Ones/Blackadder nexus have become boring, establishment-hugging assholes. Richard Curtis traded in his testicles and made The Vicar of Dibley and countless twee shitty rom-coms. Ben Elton wrote the Queen musical. Jennifer…

I guess there's the right way to carry on when your frontman dies on you (Joy Division/New Order), and then there's the way that Queen, INXS, and The Doors carried on.

None of us will invoke Cookie Monster as adorably as Joey did:

Not that I wasn't expecting to be heartbroken, but the chapter about Henson's death is absolutely brutal.

It seems like there was fair bit of goodwill towards the surviving members of Queen after Freddie's death, but then there was a backlash against their subsequent whoring around (the collaborations with Terence Trent D'Arby and that boy band [5ive?], the jukebox musical by Ben Elton, etc). Dunno how much of this has…

I'm pretty sure Ebert gave it 4 stars which, in hindsight, might be one of Rog's more baffling assignations.

The end of that one is pretty brutal. Bugs abandons those two hungry hapless idiots on the island, and they're almost certainly going to eat each other.

Maybe Morrissey is going to Flint so he can tell the locals to stop skinning rabbits.

"Time! In Quaaludes and red wine/Demanding Billy Dolls/And other friends of mine…"

I wonder if Morrissey wanted Jobriath to open for him, only to be reminded (again) that he's dead.

If a guy who had a supporting role in Die Hard 2 is going to be President, couldn't it be William Atherton?

And they claim that the fax machine is nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached.

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