It is, but he's been mussing up whatever goodwill he gained from it ever since.

That's exactly the reason! Watching season seven is like being Hamlet and seeing Gertrude marry Claudius, only you can't kill everyone in a climactic bloodbath. You just have to sit there while they canoodle and the Ghost of Hamlet's Father deals with his precocious daughter April.

I left in the "Laurelei"!

This is like thinking about delicious cake for several months, then being served the licorice-flavored Chuckle.

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Since this will be the last opportunity to talk about Christopher for a while, I wanted to take the chance to say that my feelings about the character are very bipolar.

Shaun of the Dead: B+
Hot Fuzz: C
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: A-
The World's End: ?

One way or another, you've illustrated that you gave at least as much thought to the construction of that sentence as the screenwriters of Man of Steel gave to the entire plot of their bajillion dollar movie, so that's good enough for me.

"Confusingly arousing!"

"Manimal has had carnal knowledge of my wife Beatrice for the past two years."

Well, there's not a lot of things that she'll take back.

The success of Europe's "The Final Countdown" was no trick.

The saddest story I can think of: One time my dad's boss Moe Vernon emerged from his office at the garage wearing a pair of gigantic rubber novelty breasts and said "Fred Motz has had carnal knowledge of my wife Beatrice for the past two years" as "Ride of the Valkyries" played on his record player.

Why, he can be heard regularly as Samm "The Ma'am" Levine, AKA Lil' Wolverine, on Doug Benson's podcast, where he fills the "heel" role due to his intolarable know-it-all-ishness.

Movie Loft! Dana Hersey! In Boston, the Movie Loft aired on WSBK 38, and as such it was the eternal competition of WLVI 56's 8 O'clock Movie. Where else could you flip back and forth between dirty prints of Hell Hound and The Entity?

Re: the "even more unprecedented 50th-anniversary special": can something be "more" unprecedented? Isn't that like saying "most final" or something? Either something has precedent or it doesn't, right?

The opportunity to talk about Automan comes up surprisingly often on these boards.

For real? With all the original lyrics?

That's a good'un. My personal fave is Prisoners of the Lost Universe starring Richard Hatch from Battlestar Galactica. At one point in the movie a bad guy falls over a cliff, and some brilliant savant had the inspired idea to include the sound effect of Pac-Man dying.

Yor, The Hunter From The Future