Though, if you don't know who those old movie stars are supposed to be, the caricatures of them can look nightmarishly grotesque, as this comic strip indicates.

Yeah, when you don't get the reference being made, the joke can still be funny because, divorced of that context, it can read as surreal humor.

Well, those, and "Can't sleep. Clown will eat me."

Given that shooting Daffy in the face only did easily reversible cosmetic damage, doesn't that make Elmer's hunting trip sort of futile from the get-go?

See, I don't get that. Fury Road felt like it was trying to make its action scenes gritty and brutal, while ALSO trying to make them wild, over-the-top, and epic, and splitting the difference between the two meant it didn't do all that great a job at either.

Oh my god, watching "Lost in Translation" was one of the most boring experiences I've ever had in a movie theatre.

I personally find the difference between standard definition, high definition, and the ultra-high definition that Blu-Rays to be so small that it's rarely worth spending money to upgrade to the next level.

My favorite thing about Chardee MacDennis is the fact that asking questions about the rules is against the rules. That's some Franz Kafka shit right there.

"The brave knight is killed by the evil king" is far too broad to be copyrighted, yes. However, if you give names to the knight and the king, then a story that has a brave knight killed by an evil king, and they both have the same names as in your story, THAT could be grounds for a lawsuit.

The network's claim is that the people in question haven't been making educated guesses, though, that they actually have insider knowledge of the show's production.

Technically, "Ned Stark will be beheaded at the Sept of Baelor by order of King Joffrey" IS copyrighted. If, back when George R. R. Martin was still writing Game of Thrones, he let you read what he'd written you so far, and you made a comment about Ned being decapitated by Joffrey at the Sept, you'd have grounds to…

I love the episode where Jerry realizes that everything always evens out for him, so if one woman breaks up with him, he has absolutely no problems, because another, equally attractive woman will come around momentarily.

And he never did get to feel Teri Hatcher's breasts. :(

I'm pretty sure "the Virgin" was in multiple episodes.

They didn't realize it was such a sensitive issue.

"I didn't go to Vietnam just to have pansies like you take my freedom away from me."

Did Seth Rogen and Seth McFarlane get into some sort of Freaky Friday body-swap situation?

I don't know of a way to get hard data on that, but why wouldn't they be?

Movie-going is in decline, in the sense that people are physically going to the movies less, but that's just because there are so many options for watching them at home now. I doubt the amount of actual movie watching is any lower than before (and is probably higher than in the past if you count TV and movies as the…

Action movies in general have been dominating the box office since at least the 80's, possibly the 70's. When do you expect them to go into decline?