I haven't seen it (and have no plans to), but I'd watch the commercials that seemed to emphasize how much the rebels wanted to kill Americans, and I couldn't help but think "do they want the US military to intervene?" Really, I can't think of a stupider thing for rebels to do than to deliberately target Americans en…

Even though I agree with you that those people are bugfuck crazy, I can actually see where this guy was coming from. It's sort of like The Truman Show. If you're convinced that these people are just actors pretending their kids were killed, then I could see why you would confront them to try to get them to break…

It gets worse. At least one Sandy Hook "truther" has confronted one of the greaving parents, letting her know that her child never really existed.

During the summer of 2001, NBC and Dick Wolf talked quite a bit about the huge Law & Order crossover event involving all three shows scheduled for the spring, about a terrorist attack on New York. Needless to say, the crossover was cancelled.

The OKC bombing also caused an episode of The Critic to be postponed. I think it ended up airing as the season (and series) finale.

6 of them, actually. The first one is going to be in Vegas on October 13.

I saw a local production of it last year, without Nathan Lane. While I give kudos to the local cast for doing a decent job with the material, I thought that it was easily one of the worst musicals I've ever had the misfortune to sit through.

It looks pretty stupid, but I will say that I'm surprised that not only is it R, but it's going to be a hard R. With that title and premise, I was fully expecting this to be PG-13.

Exactly. I was in Scouts all the way till my 18th birthday, and I'm pretty sure I never wore my uniform to anything non-official past the age of 10 (and even then, I only wore my Cub Scout uniform to school because den meetings were directly after that). What's more, by high school, those of us who were in Scouts…

Given how weak the Lead Actor in a Comedy field has been traditionally, where Jim Parsons has four Emmys and Matt LeBlanc and Don Cheadle keep getting nominated for shows that no one likes or even watches, it sounds like Stewart should be a shoo-in to be nominated next year.

I suspect ABC has accepted the fact that NCIS will rake in all the old viewers, and will be all right with decent 18-49 numbers. I also suspect NBC thinks a cheap variety show would be a better option in that slot than an expensive scripted series.

This: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

As I recall, Doc Quack was a creepy guy. I remember him having some pretty good discussions about the show. However, if I'm not mistaken, he also had a hobby of drawing Simpsons porn—and not just of the adults, a revelation that led to quite a bit of controversy on alt.tv.simpsons. I think he was an older guy, and…

You forgot where the daughter tells her mom that the hit felt like a kiss.

I'm 5'6". Yes, I know I'm pretty short. No, my name is not Frodo. Yes, while I'm pretty much willing to laugh at every other feature of myself, I really have no sense of humor about my height.

It's been a huge disappointment so far. I was promised martial law, dammit!

But love! Exciting and new!

Don't you remember all the death and destruction that that half-second glimpse of Janet Jackson's nipple caused?

I did, but I wasn't signing my name on there as "MarkInTexas" at that point (if only because, in 1997, I would have been "MarkInMissouri"). I suspect he altered the original signature because he suspects I'm actually the person who originally wrote this post back in 1997, a person who apparently had never heard of…

About 10 years ago, I saw an ad for a Christmas concert at a church in the city of was living at the time. Since I like Christmas music, and had nothing better to do that Sunday afternoon, I went. It wasn't until late in the concert, when the the lead singer of headliner NewSong started talking about this song of…