Even though Reagan was going full cowboy in terms of rhetoric, we were still coming out of detente, and it looked as though cooler heads were capable of prevailing. Plus it had been 20 years since the last major nuclear shit-your-pants dust-up. I remember the threat of nuclear war then as being not unlike terrorism…

And the closing of each episode, when Jamie would toss his sweat-filled beret to screaming female fans.

"This is where we store… uh, old VHS tapes."

It's kind of a cliche to say about someone who's cold, but Jamie genuinely does seem more comfortable with machines than with people.

Tater's Gonna Tate

Too Many Dicks

I confused him with Jim Contusion.

Good first draft, but you're missing a random, out-of-context reference to Newton's Laws.

Like The John Larroquette Show!

The new shop will be built in the Chum Chum Room.

What's odd is that I recall a story a few years ago that said Jamie and Adam got the rights to use the name Mythbusters on basically anything except another TV show. (Their stage show, for instance.) Maybe they cashed out that deal once the show was over.

There have been so many Mythbusters imitation shows over the past decade, I don't see much point in yet creating another and slapping the name Mythbusters on it. Especially since they seem to have run out of genuine real-world myths years ago.

It's a little more than "we don't hang out together." Hate is probably too strong a word, but Adam has acknowedged that they genuinely dislike each other on a personal level, and he doesn't give a shit if anything he's said has ever hurt Jamie's feelings. They just don't let that get in the way of the respect they…

For a movie that was a salvage job on an unproduced TV series that was itself a salvage job of an unproduced film that was spun off from another TV series, and had to restart its visual effects work virtually from scratch after most of the film had already been shot… yeah, it's not that bad.

In fairness, while Penn can be strident when he's surrounded by like-minded people or coming up with a terse line for a book, he's usually pretty reasonable and calm when having a genuine discussion about religion.

CORAL!

My wife can cry on cue. It's genuinely alarming, and before we got married, I made her promise she would never use that power against me.

China is killing us, lemme tell you!

I think his crying is just Duckie.

I thought The Apostle was great. Not a proselytizing picture, but you probably need to have some familiarity with evangelicalism to fully appreciate it. I first saw it in a college church youth group. The minister, to his credit, liked it a lot and wanted it to spark a discussion. But about 70% of our group hated…