"Are you an Alien?"

Maybe the Harry Potter movies?  It's one continuing storyline without the stand alone movies but they are pretty unprecedented in their own right for using so many of the same cast & characters.

That is actually a great point.  My biggest complaint about the Tobey-era was it never quite got the smart ass quotient right.

I would say they are all worth seeing, with the possible exception of Iron Man 2, which is more unnecessary viewing than unworthy viewing (Black Widow is handled way better in Avengers than in Iron Man 2).  I'd say @avclub-61e626641b507015d1d403d2ecdd02fb:disqus is about right; Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor are…

I really liked Thor and I've liked it more upon revisiting it.  I feel like those stories can have a tricky tone, especially when it's trying to play nice with Iron Man and Captain America, but I thought they pulled it off pretty nicely.  I'm hoping that we get a more strictly Asgard story for Thor 2 but I like what…

Yea, Marvel's definitely operating on another level, but Kevin Smith did create a cinematic Universe that his characters inhabited across several movies.  What's funny is I'm pretty sure he would say himself that he's indebted to comic books for that idea.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is what came to mind for me; for animation-heads, seeing Daffy and Donald Duck on duelling pianos, or Bugs and Mickey sharing a scene was quite the unlikely accomplishment.  I was young and loved it when it came out but I think I appreciate what they were doing even more watching it now.

Your thinking of Paul Rudd in the Clueless DVD review.

@avclub-42763705844bf5e2af4abd6c898f8dcb:disqus I thought that Black Widow was done much better here than in IM2, but, with Whedon's rep for writing female characters, it seemed like Cobie Smulders' Maria Hill was just kinda there to me.

Yes! I saw it last Saturday and thought it was great. Fun, exciting, great characterization, well-balanced, true to the spirit of it's sources, and just awesome.

Raising Hope is another working class sitcom that I think is pretty great. I've been watching reruns lately and it's actually really funny.  Martha Plimpton is awesome and if your looking for 'older people' representation - Cloris Leachman (tho she's mostly regulated to being confused and doing things wacky, inappropri…

I'd also like to include a bit about not being "part of the nagging buzz of self-satisfied snark that pervades our culture today", from the ninth paragraph, for flavor.

Well…except for Michael Jackson (with Rod Temperton and Quincy Jones implied), the Olodum troupe on Obvious Child, Stevie Wonder, the Temptations with Uriel Jones, Richard "Pistol" Allen and Benny Benjamin all noted, Bell Biv Devoe (with producer Dr. Freeze implied) or James Brown and Clyde Stubblefield.

Hip Hop might have been tough since so many iconic beats were samples; maybe they didn't want to split hairs over whether to include the sample or the original, or like @avclub-5d213468da8857324393c707fb3f6f67:disqus says, how many times to reference James Brown?

That's a good call  @avclub-ac5c482277858d6fe45065d0a3f92b0c:disqus .  My Dave phase came and went, but this is one of the few omission suggestions I've seen that could be considered "iconic".  For better or worse, I guarantee there were more people on campus while I was in school who could identify Ants Marching by…

I went through and wrote down in order the ones I knew for sure, leaving space in between for the ones I didn't.  Then I realized they were using all the songs in the Inventory, so I marked down all the songs on the list I hadn't gotten on first pass, listened to them and fit them into the open spots on my list. I…

I don't want to put anyone off of sending in an entry.  I felt good about mine but it's no guarantee.

I love Archers and "Web in Front" is classic in my book.

According to paulsboutique.info/ and the DJ who breaks down the samples in the video below, "the main drum roll is from "Funky Snakefoot" by Alphonze Mouzon and the beat is from Harvey Scales's "Dancing Room Only"."

"The first reader to correctly name the song order…"