Isn't that what kickstarted the phrase "bruised forearm movie"? I'm pretty sure he started using that in several other movies after his review for Temple of Doom

If I'm not mistaken, the Partridge, MN scenes were filmed in Old Towne Orange, self-proclaimed "Antiques Capital of Southern California" when I was a student at Chapman University a decade ago.

You're Satan, aren't you?

I don't know why it resonates with me the way it does, but I love that one of his early movies was titled "I Blow Up"

Does this guy know how to party or what?

Have you ever been to Columbus?  Its the perfect place for nefarious activities because seriously, besides Ohio State students (and the Ohio state legislature…) who the hell willingly goes there for anything?

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Like I said somewhere else, its amazing they still have any sports programs at all and that the NCAA hasn't sanctioned them back to the stone age.

Even as a fan of the Buckeyes, Fat Tony is completely appropriate (OSU is all sports and no academics…frankly, its amazing despite all the illegal shit they do that they still have a football program), but Mr. Burns as Michigan is fantastic.

Yeah, still paying for that mistake and will be for the rest of my life.

Huh. I used to listen to them on my way to work all the time (and I lived in Southern California during the height of American Idol's popularity) and you're right, I don't recall them ever saying anything about Abdul's batfuck craziness and/or raging egomania in relation to Brian's prior relationship with her.

Uh…I think that section of the Berlin Wall in Southern California is still there. It's on the campus of Chapman University in Orange County, IIRC.

Hey now, the Fiero was a pretty decent little sports car…once they figured out how to stop it from catching on fire…

Rush's 2007 Snakes and Arrows Tour in North America alternated between their cover of Blue Cheer's version of "Summertime Blues" (a song I don't particularly care for) and "Distant Early Warning" (my absolute favorite Rush song ever…which goes to show how shitty my taste in music is) each concert.  I bought tickets to…

Steve Nash?

I'd say something about this as a native Cincinnatian, but any rivalry the two cities had died when the original Browns left for Baltimore 15 years ago (also: Indians-Reds interleague games do not make up for the rivalry lost between the Bengals and Browns rivalries from the 1970s and 1980s).

Can we have a do-over on the Toledo War?  I really think Ohio lost in the long run…

Columbus and Cincinnati have pretty robust economies, IIRC.

Test for Echo came out in 1996.  Rush didn't release an album that year (Power Windows came out in 1985, Hold Your Fire was released in 1987)

Metrocenter is in pretty sad shape nowadays, but it always amused me as a Phoenix resident that while the first movie was supposed to take place in San Dimas CA, almost all principal photography took place in Metro Phoenix (Metrocenter Mall, Golfland/Sunsplash standing in for Raging Waters, Coronado High School in…