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Exactly. Punk rock had been dead for years by teh '90's. Its death knell was Repo Man.

When I was young they had a commercial that wasn't much more than their phone number repeated over and over again. I still remember it (It probably dates me that there was no area code).

I've read the books, but I'm afraid to see the movie(s). For one thing, Jack Reacher is supposed to be about 6 foot 3 and 250 pounds, but Tom Cruise . . . not so much.

Yes, the Stephen Mangan version was very good. It's too bad that it got cancelled. But, do we know that BBC America isn't just re-starting that version? It was only cancelled in 2012 for budgetary reasons, not because the leads weren't interested in continuing.

It's true that, pre-VCR and pre-1,000 cable channels, there was a specialness to catching these weird movies at odd times. It made them seem rare and ephemeral. They became built up in our minds and we convinced ourselves that seeing one would be a unique experience that was not to be missed (if you ever go the

♫ Eddie the sen-si-tive ♫
♫ Mis - an - thrope (yeah) ♫

I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht.

Wasn't this called "Red Widow," and wasn't it on ABC in 2013? And wasn't it cancelled rather quickly, depriving me of Radha Mitchell? Yes, yes it was, and it did.

Since the original $6 million man was made in 1973, that means that, adjusted for inflation, he should be the $31 million, 720 thousand man. Give-or-take. But a kid's walkie-talkie set cost $13.88 in 1973 (about $73 today), and due to advances in electronics it costs the same today at Amazon. So shouldn't he still be

It means not eating at an overly-fancy-fied place like the Shoo-Fly in Baltimore's Belvedere neighborhood and instead eating in a greasy spoon like Mickey's Diner in St. Paul (yes, touristy, but still a real diner).

♫ She's a little bit scorn-y
He's a little bit pity-ing ♫

Original Battlestar or remake? I'd go with original (love those roving red eyes), except they'd be led by the remake's Cylon Number Six (of course).

Project Runway missed the boat when they neglected to bring in Jung Ji-Hoon as a guest judge for the Rainway episode. C'mon, people, cross-promote!

Already been done:

One word: Virtual Private Network. Okay, that's three words. Even so, I sometimes use a VPN to watch TV shows from Great Britain on BBC's website, because it makes me look like I'm inside GB (even though I'm in the US).

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! *

Battle of the Planets (7-Zark-7!), Thunderbirds (are go!), and Davey and Goliath (before I realized how lame it was). Greatest American Hero was a favorite, but I was always frustrated that he never went back into the desert to look for the instruction book. It's right there! Go back and get it!

I find it interesting that the Perisphere contained the "Democracity," a World-of-Tomorrow vision of our wonderful future. The Democracity pamphlet says that "Democracity dramatizes the meaning of the [1939 World's] Fair…The meaning is simple: Consciously or not, we are building the World of Tomorrow; creating the

The Future: 1984 or Idiocracy? Or a combination of both? Bonus points for working in Soylent Green.