This was the height of the "animation slump" — the period when there was just no good cel animation in theaters (or on television) at all. Disney had gotten into an awful rut — a period of complete creative and technical collapse — that wouldn't end until the Katzenberg era and The Little Mermaid. Pixar was decades in…

What about about Bob and Judy from Talking Heads' "Found a Job"? (Last we heard they were "as happy as can be.")

I thought the whole point of "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" was that there's no overt connection between the Brenda/Eddie section and the framing first-person-to-second-person romantic overture, because Joel is blatantly mimicking a Beatles "Day in the Life" song structure.

Oh, God, I love that song. "I could have been someone." "But so could anyone!"

And he screams, "Who is this 'Jolie' woman? Have you people lost your minds?"

Indeed.

Do you think Han Solo knows what a "falcon" is? (This has always bothered me.)

It's either emphasize the subtitle (like the The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi logos, which flank the titles with the original typography) or emphasize the episode numbers (which is the weird choice that the prequels made with their graphics)…or emphasize the actual Star Wars logo, which we've actually…

The brutality of that sequence seems like it can't be matched…until you get to the brutality of the very next sequence.

You are a kindred spirit!

Is it one of those amazing 1970s Honda Civics?

I keep hearing that in the voice of Eric Idle's "American tourist wife" from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (the one who, with her husband Michael Palin, orders a conversation from the John Cleese waiter in the "Middle Age" section).

For space to be at that much of a premium you'd have to be living in a car. (A compact car.)

I just can't understand this. What was running through your head in the instant that you threw them away?

According to J. J. Abrams, the numbers are meaningful.

The versions on the Entertainment Weekly site are a little higher quality; you can see all the trading card crap much more clearly. I love the badly-drawn black lines (by some fictional bored artist at the Topps office), and the fact that there's even a slight overlay of halftone dots on the photos.

Those animations were all designed and executed by Dan O'Bannon! Show some respect. (He even used the Milton Glaser typeface.)

I love that he hasn't even seen it. I want him wandering alone on a beach like Nixon while they make the movie.

No it isn't. For example, one-man "snub" fighters needed an outboard hyperdrive section that you parked in orbit in the prequel trilogies; by Luke's era, the hyperdrive's built in. (And, notice that, in this new trilogy's timeframe, you apparently don't need an R2 unit any more, either.)

"Think I would die…"