I blame the separate beds on Rob Petrie having restless leg syndrome.

If someone had told me in the mid-1970s that Asner would outlive her, I'd have thought they were crazy. He was only about seven years older, but really showed his mileage more.

And that, given the scale of the thing, the equatorial trench would be a lot wider than the trench in the battle.

Nick Cage as the math teacher, and I'm in!

Supposedly she intended it to make amends for dropping out of Godfather III.

It'd be worse if she was wearing a striped dress.

It'd work better with a sofa.

Great legs, but that mustache is a deal-breaker.

The Senators were just puzzled when they heard Triple H was there, 'cause they all thought Hubert Humphrey was dead.

An episode of the old NBC Unsolved Mysteries show featured what is apparently known as the "Guardian" case —
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The UFO there looked to me like a hoax, and yet one so elaborately mounted as to have required a pretty huge budget and resources to mount. The videotape received by the UFO…

I agree with your skepticism in the "massive cover-up" sense, but a lot of the evidence I've seen over the years leads me to believe that some group in the military or intelligence service may have been hoaxing UFO sightings, and even abductions, as a means of covering up other activities while discrediting witnesses…

I'm betting it was "lost" intentionally in some kind of insurance scam…

It was arguably foreshadowed in MP&HG as you say — though I saw the bits with the historian not as breaking the fourth wall so much as just parodying the pomposity of historical "educational" drama. I felt the ending there really just derailed the narrative and ended the movie with a shrug.

As sharp as Brooks still is at 90, your personal timeline has to be a bit telescoped at that age. I know mine is at a little over half of it.

The ending of Blazing Saddles has been argued here on the A.V. Club before. I maintain that those sort of fourth-wall-breaking "we couldn't think of an ending" endings are generally annoying and disappointing (Monty Python and the Holy Grail being my primary exhibit), but Blazing Saddles somehow manages to keep its…

I am pretty good with trivia challenges, but a bad run of questions outside your particular specialties can bring down anybody.

Prior was always "the guy in over his head" in his roles. I can almost imagine Blazing Saddles reconceived that way, but I think the "You know: Morons" angle works much better with the protagonist as an unflappable matinee idol type like Little — Comically more of a Bugs Bunny type.

I did that once in AC myself circa 1990. I didn't find the first round especially tough, but the second round — done in a ballroom with a video of Alex Trebek — was quite enough to stop me.

The mammals never did pay for that wall…

It does provide a sense of perspective…