I was worried that I'd go too long without weekly snark with "The Following" off the air.

"Thank You For Coming"

I have to nominate Amanojaku from the anime "Ghost Stories" (Gakkou No Kaiden). If you've never seen the show, the original American dub is basically an abridged series and is one of the funniest damn things ever.

"The blood flows, but none of it is new."

Actually, I looked it up… the Soup Nazi episode came out a year before "Big Night", so if anything, they took some of the inspiration for Primo from "Seinfeld". That, or it was just parallel character design (in the same way that "Swamp Thing" and "Man-Thing" debuted within a month of each other).

That movie is so creepy in retrospect when you know about what Victor Salva did.

Another good comics example: issue 4 of the revival of "Astro City" featured a telekinetic woman who couldn't weather being a superhero or supervillain, so instead she went into special effects and met other people who used their powers in non-superheroic ways. There's a great theme that in a world of "superheroes",…

I don't know why they keep asking. The fox clearly says "Chaos reigns".

The weirdest foreign flavor/texture combo I've ever had was an Israeli candy bar. There was little indication that this wasn't a normal bar other than a couple of little fireworks on the front. I bit into it… and my mouth started crackling.

@ Evel Kareebel: It wasn't really a filibuster, as he wasn't blocking any legislation. He just hogged the floor for 21 hours without letting anyone else speak. Plus the US Senate rules are different about what constitutes "on-topic", and Davis was in an extremely hostile environment where they were going…

In the same way, Sam Elliott IS Thunderbolt Ross; I wish they would've brought him and Jennifer Connelly back for "Incredible Hulk".

Go watch it with Mike Nelson's Rifftrax; it takes on another couple levels of hilarity since "Road House" is his favorite "so bad it's good" movie.

The "Carrie" remake is coming out soon, so save your "Dirty Pillows!" reactions for that review.

I've heard of having a mantis in my pantis, but a mantis in my Dracula movie?

For fuck's sake, this is the ONE SHOW that would have deserved the "I, Robot" name (since "Caves of Steel" doesn't really work for a TV show title) and Smith had to go and ruin it. I'm not sure if the Asimov estate is refusing to license the name or if they were just never approached…

The closest we've ever gotten to that is "Acts of Vengeance", in which the villains all switched foes. Magneto ended up beating the shit out of the Red Skull before throwing him in a dark pit to think about his life for a while.

So is Cameron Diaz supposed to look like Hillary Clinton in that page image, or were the hair and costuming just a coincidence?

Weirdly enough, we were talking about the "Dragnet" movie over in the Christopher Plummer Random Roles thread. I'd love a "Retro Comedy Central" marathon of that movie, "Airheads", "PCU" and "Transylvania 6-5000".

I'm definitely part of the generation who grew up watching "Dragnet" on Comedy Central at least once a week.

I prefer the other "Ordinary People" porn parody—"Ordinary Peepholes".