Galaga! The only arcade game I ever got a high score on.

I loved horror movies as a kid & teen, and The Fog scared me more than any other, at least until I was older and saw Silence of the Lambs. I don't remember being particularly scared by any of the more bloody slasher films of the 80's.

We actually animated the pirate ghosts in Indiana because we wanted to do it in white and get a sort of swirly, cross-dissolve kind of effect.
Was Indiana somehow renown for its animation special effects in the 80's?

@avclub-6c6094f256f51e83fe02bce6091163e7:disqus I figured you'd be all over that "pasty" comment. If you think about it, Hot Pockets are superficially like pasties, if pasties were made in Hell to torment the damned.

I'm surprised that more 70's kids don't have facial scars from those plastic masks. I'm fairly certain that my mom has a snapshot of me in the early 70's wearing the witch costume (that of course has pictures of witches on the smock).

When my husband and I are driving together we often use "Mind the pedestrian." when there are people on the sidewalk.

The man should be nominated for a Pulitzer! (O'Neal, that is, not Grisham.)

Thank God someone other than me and my family remembers "Tush"! That's where I first saw her, and one of her characters from that show, the female sidekick to a televangelist, is still a pop culture touchstone in my family. We still refer to the "inspirational Winnebago" occasionally, 30+ years later. Nobody portrayed…

Well, that sucks. I have some great pre-SNL memories of her, but I'll wait for the obit to share.

I heard this song on Sirius in the spring and was immediately hooked, but felt a bit guilty about it. As you said, the lyrics are somewhat "cringy". I had to ask my 18 yr old for a second opinion; she loved it, so I'm embracing the cringe. We now have an inside joke about almost any food we see, "That looks tasty,…

I'm an adjunct, so… yeah.

For most students, it's when their Pell grant runs out (12 semesters). I teach at a community college.

There is a Perronville, MI but it's in the U.P., so the geography doesn't really work.

John Green is a human being who deserves every good thing that comes to him.

I don't really get that. I've had BWC on my streaming list for a while, and could care less who sees it. If it was on my husband's history I wouldn't mind a bit because it's better than the third rate sci-fi crap he usually watches.

Coincidentally, earlier today I played "The Elements" to my biology class as an introduction to the chemistry unit!

"Conjunction Junction" has a great groove, but is there anyone between the ages of 30 and 50 who can recite the preamble to the Constitution without doing it to the Schoolhouse Rock tune? It depends on if the criterion is "best song" or "most influential/remembered".

One of my favorites. I have fond memories of running around with my friends as a little kid, singing that song (or at least the "Lolly, Lolly…" part).

Chicago pasties? This Yooper is skeptical.

When my brother and I were little kids in the early 70's, his favorite Saturday morning cartoon character was Captain Marvel, and he'd run around the house with a blanket tied around his neck, leaping into the air and yelling "SHAZAM!".