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Pulp Fiction? No.
Okay, Sam Jack's character is black. And, if I remember correctly, a man. But that's about as close to the MBM role as he gets. In what way is he a one-dimensional cutout who exists only to help white people? His character has more complex motivations, and is far more compelling than Travolta's,

The RIAA? Again?
Back in 2002, the RIAA (via its lapdogs in Congress) set a royalty rate for internet radio, and made it retroactive to 1998. Now, this wasn't royalties going to the artists - we already paid that via BMI and ASCAP. This was a fee going directly to the labels "for the use of the sound recording,"

my favorite thing about local news
Immediately following 24 is the 10:00 local news. Without fail, they have a heavily-promoted "news item" about 24 EVERY SINGLE WEEK. "This week… find out what deadly secrets loom on 24, when we talk to the assistant key grip!"

you could also title this
Contents of Tarantino's Head To Be Projected On To Movie Screen For Eight Weeks.

Manservant Hecubus!!!
I believe we have a winner! That was my placeholder baby name when my wife was pregnant. We kept joking the kid would say, "I love you, mommy… aaaand Satan!"

Whaaa?
Ace Frehly did something with his life? Was he doing cancer research when KISS wasn't on tour and I didn't hear about it?

sarcasm… is a thing that exists
Um… I think that Chevy Chase suggestion may have been in reference to his talk show, which bombed like Osama bin Laden at a Bush family picnic.

the nucleus, duh
Also, I forgot to add the blond kid from Rushmore. He's a sidekick's sidekick, both in the sense of Schwartzman being Bill Murray's sidekick, but also in that he's like 9 years old and takes dictation. That's at least as awesome as a talking car.

some more
Huggy Bear
Michelle Yeoh in Supercop
Any non-Hannibal member of the A-Team
KITT (come on - what's cooler than a talking car? Nothing!)
Hawk (Spencer For Hire)
the mace-wielding schoolgirl from Kill Bill
Dick Cheney
Gleek (the Wonder Twins' space monkey)
?uestlove
the moon
ketchup
electrons

Just have the Masturbating Bear host from now on
Actually, they should give Late Night back to Andy Richter. He already knows the commute, and two years is plenty of time for NBC to unfairly cancel his new sitcom before it's time.

Now I'm afraid of bamboo
The holdup with getting Spaced on DVD is the music rights, which are easier to obtain and cheaper in the UK than over here. WKRP always had similar problems, and Nick and Nite reruns and VHS releases replaced unavailable songs with cheap filler, which really brought down the episode quality.

I don't think the Daily Show's biased at all
The role of a satirist is to speak truth to power. When conservatives control the White House, Congress, the Supreme Courts, the federal courts, most of the governorships, most major corporations, the churches, the voting machines, the media, and apparently Jesus, that's

Santana
The restaurants will actually be owned by the guy from Matchbox 20, and Santana will just fuck around in the kitchen for a few minutes, then slap his name on the thing and take all the credit.

they're like the unwitting subjects of a Daily Show bit
Stewart and Colbert have backgrounds in standup and sketch comedy, so they know how to present themselves and connect with an audience. These two look like their comedy background comes from bantering during the last 15 seconds of the local news in Dubuque.

Let her?
I'm sure she's real disappointed.

Dr. Romano was in it, back when he had hair
For those of you who haven't seen Fame, "arts high school" is a New York thing. We have a handful of elite specialized high schools for the smart kids who actually give a shit. The three science high schools - Stuyvensant, Brooklyn Tech and Bronx Science - are for the

Whale Rider?
I don't remember Desperado being in that film, or any pop music for that matter. Could you be thinking of In America?

The Viewers' Cut
The Viewers Cut is a pretty common phenomenon - just Google "Star Wars prequel rewrite" to see how many geeks out there have their own ideas about how those awful movies could have been good.

Magnolia?
Can you do a feature that's the opposite of "Secret Success," about movies that are critically hailed but are in fact big, steaming turds? Because Magnolia's your first feature. Shril, unlikeable characters Anderson sets up solely to show us how pathetic they all are, whose storylines are connected in

what is a 'pirate smile' anyway, Elton?
In the director's cut, Billy Crudup has a line about how he loves Kate Hudson because she "knows all the words to every song ever. Even the bad ones. Especially the bad ones." The idea is, having been stuck on a tour bus listening to bad AM radio, they can't help but not only