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    Yeah, it's really interesting to see the differences in movie ratings over the years. Conservatives like to talk about how entertainment is going into the sewer nowadays, but you could get away with a LOT more then. Me and my wife watched Foul Play last weekend; it was PG in 1978 and would easily be PG-13 today.

    *Harry Crane runs off the bridge in tears*

    "And here's the chicken lady. ONETWOTHREEFOUR!!!!"

    Yeah, there's a difference between enjoying dessert after a healthy meal and living on nothing but Pixy Stix. I enjoy superhero movies as much as anybody, but it's still really nice to watch (and read) something meant for adults. Thank God for the indie theaters in my town…

    I have mixed feelings about The Point. Nilsson is a god and the music is brilliant (I was singing "Poly High" to myself just the other day), but the animation is butt-ugly and you can tell he came up with the story while tripping on acid.

    It's easy to forget now, but the first four Trek films were big mainstream hits (They all made the Top 10 for their respective years.) It wasn't until Final Frontier/TNG that it really became something that played mainly to the niche crowd.

    You can go to Wikipedia and look up the #1 films for every week of the '70s, and it really is sort of staggering. Annie Hall was the top film in America for three weeks in a row. Could you even imagine anything like that happening now?

    Yeah, the stuff thrown at Jefferson and John Adams makes Fox News look like a birthday party.

    Ooooh, dammit!

    Not for long. I'm sure she'll still be able to go to college in a couple of years. The adults in her life aren't going to let her throw her entire life away when there are other options for Bobby and Gene.

    Yeah, I loved the finale. Don dropping out or dying would have seemed trite. He seems to have accepted who he really is, and he's an ad man, dammit.

    My brother-in-law was actually a Stupid Human Trick on Letterman once (he can open a Coke can with his teeth.) He can be a bit boisterous in real life, but was uncharacteristically nervous on the air. Oh, and R.E.M. was also on his show and he didn't really care at all, but we can't be Taylor Swift, I guess…

    I wasn't crazy about The War For Late Night; it didn't have anywhere near the depth or nuance of The Late Shift. Felt more like he was rushing to meet a deadline than really sitting down and doing the story justice.

    Season 4, "The Suitcase."

    Season One picked up steam pretty damn fast, but I'd still pick it as my least favorite. "The Marriage of Figaro" is probably the worst episode IMHO.

    The Rapists.

    I gave up trying ages ago. Look on the shelf where I keep my towels and bedroom stuff and there's this fabric wad in the corner.

    I do, too. Anderson is brilliant at what he does, but nobody seems to hold him to same standards of "realism" that they do Woody. Anderson's films are witty, well-crafted, fun to watch, and totally unnatural.

    I'm not afraid to admit that Woody's had his share of duds (You Will Meet A Tall, Dark Stranger, anyone?), but I still think that his current batting average is pretty damned good. To Rome With Love and Magic in the Moonlight were clearly trying to be nothing more than light and enjoyable and he succeeded at doing

    Look, Woody has his style, and you either like it or don't. The AV Club fawns all over Wes Anderson and he's so "artificial" that he makes Woody like like Frederick Wiseman.