Couldn't have said it better myself.

They also mention that Jennifer Lawrence was in "Winter's Bone" without noting that "Winter's Bone" is, itself, an adaptation.

That's the one where I realized I was done with conventional superhero movies.

I saw him in the role on stage in '86 or '87 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, when I was in high school. Absolutely incredible. It was a stark version of the original (not the '30s fascist update). Virtually no set, and a pillar of blood that would light up and screech with each death. All I knew about him at…

"The Alaska Experiment" came to mind, but I guess they retooled it as "Out of the Wild" and it got a third season (in Venezuela) so it's disqualified from this list. I loved the dad and his two daughters and their constant (usually loving) passive-aggressiveness. It aired in early 2008. Something happened not long…

I love Slither, but don't begrudge it being left off the list. I can see how it just wouldn't work for some people. My wife doesn't like it and hates when I quote it.

I saw Fargo opening night at the Uptown in Minneapolis. Packed house, fun night.

I was a huge Yes fan back in the day and bought Tarkus mostly based on the cover. I must have listened to it, but can't remember it at all. On used vinyl I think it was a dollar, so it doesn't really count here.

I met Moe Williams' mother a few years back (in an utterly non-football related circumstance). I was kind enough to recall that play and not that other more embarrassing stuff.

The new version of Chrome is supposed to be a lot better about chewing up memory on all those abandoned tabs. And no autoplay on inactive tabs, yay!

It's been 30 or so years since I've seen it. I liked it when I was in my early teens, interesting that it holds up. It seems like it would be a fairly particular artifact of the early Reagan era of military movies. My memory is that the central leads are, indeed, strong, but was overall weakened by some serious plot…

How about "The Chocolate War?" It's not anything as over-the-top as most of these, but it's clear the Vigils run the whole damn place. First Brother Leon asks for a little help with the chocolate sale, and before you know it, they've set up a boxing ring in front of the school bleachers with the entire student body…

"I got my eye on you" from John From Cincinnati, no idea why it stuck. Must include hand motions:

Good call! I wrote that post between sips of gin myself.

I was in a Trader Joe's a while back when Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" came on. About half the staff whistled along, it was pretty fun.

I never thought of Happy Days as depicting the *recent* past. When I watched them new, '59 seemed really far back. Of course, culturally, the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution and much of the civil rights movement had happened in the interim, '59 *was* really far back compared to '74. It's still weird that a sitcom…

Yeah, the early '80s were mostly a wasteland for sitcoms compared to the 70s. Cheers, The Cosby Show, and a couple others were there in the mid-80s, but it's pretty late in the decade before we saw stuff like Seinfeld, Roseanne and The Simpsons.

I live in Washington state in the US and have my GPS set to use the Australian accent for voice directions. She occasionally identifies WA state highways as Western Australia. It's very cute, but kind of insane, given a GPS's primary purpose is to know where it is.

Ah, good to know! When I'm in a White Castle situation in Australia, seek out Hungry Jacks.

I watched this episode when it originally aired and had no idea now it came so early in show's run. It was indelible enough that when I first heard the phrase I knew exactly what it was referencing, though. Mork showing up ahead of the half-way point is pretty surprising, too.