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Is the movie actually titled Ronald Fuckin' Reagan? And if not, can someone make a movie that is?

Thirded. These reviews are the best thing TV Club has offered since Donna wrapped up her NewsRadio coverage. Erik hits just the right balance of technical analysis, narrative critique and fanboy geekery.

My charitable guess - and lord knows why I'm bothering to have an opinion about this - is that visiting the museum brought home the idea that Anne Frank was a normal teen girl just like the ones that endow Bieber with adoration every day. It can be difficult to connect with the concept of "Anne Frank: Holocaust Icon,"

I'm cool with MF, but let's hear it for Jake One. White Van Music is unimpeachable.

I think that's about right. The term always flashes me to a night of drinking a few years back, when one of my acquaintances randomly began grabbing items from his apartment and hurling them at the wall. The debris narrowly missed another guy's face. This made the first guy calm down and apologize, to which the second

No idea. It was an extra-divey joint, too. All the other TVs were tuned to college basketball, but the one nearest me was on ABC Family. Honestly, it only enhanced the experience.

Any mention of The Gatlin Brothers flashes me to that clip of Norm MacDonald and Adam Carolla parsing Kenny Rogers' "Coward of the County." The bit with Kenny's manager trying to talk him out of naming the song's gang-rapists "the Gatlin boys" is pretty grand.

They were guests on an episode of The 700 Club I recently saw at a local bar, for whatever that's worth.

Heck, even the lady from What's Eating Gilbert Grape looks far less impossibly huge than she did back when that film was released. It's concerning.

That's great. I love when shows have fun with dubbing without going full-on What's Up, Tiger Lilly? I have an anime-obsessive niece and the only one of her shows I ever genuinely enjoyed was some Scooby-Doo-ish inanity where it was clear that the dubbed dialogue was much more clever and meta than the original.

Chiming in on the Murray love-fest. I've seen maybe a couple of half-episodes of Hogan's Heroes and never had much interest in deepening my knowledge of it beyond a Simpsons punchline or grist for Auto-Focus, but reading this has me fascinated by the show. I want to learn more about it, and this isn't the first time

I very much want to read the book. The movie was on my watch list for years before I got around to it. George Segal was pretty amazing in the lead. So much sleazy charisma.

I wish I wan't able to tell you that the internet houses a considerable amount of Ryan Stiles/Colin Mochrie Whose Line is it Anyway? slashfic, but there you have it.

Aw, I can't stay mad at Lowly Worm.

Same here. I had no idea what Hogan's Heroes was when I first found the parody in my dad's old stash of MADs, but that last page horrified me and made me angry that the show ever existed.

Every time Stalag 17 comes up, I feel obligated to throw in for 1965's underrated King Rat. It's another WWII POW film (albeit set in the PTO) with an excellent balance of humor, pathos and tension. Richard Dawson even turns up in a small role.

And then a vision came
And I knew it was Bob Crane
And Bob sang
"Life is shit. Life is shit. The world is shit. The world is shit."
"This is life as we know it. This is life as we know it."

It's just unfathomable to me that the person who wrote and recorded "True Dreams of Wichita" - all of Ruby Vroom, really, but especially that song - could feel anything but immense pride in that fact.

I always wonder if those acts need to be performed in that specific order.

Liked for you liking his name alone.