I saw that without any prior warning. Holy shit.

Nobody mention this to Abed.

It looked terrible and the cast refused to do another take (they didn't feel safe due to the explosives involved).

Easy mistake, it's revealed in a brief post-credits scene. It's really just an intentionally ludicrous joke twist.

Terry Jones was only able to save them because a friend of his who happened to work at the BBC knew they were scheduled for wiping and warned him. A few years later they called him and asked to borrow the tapes. Their complete lack of understanding what cultural treasures they had on their hands is baffling.

People still believe they were. I blame the Bible.

Russia just needs time. They experienced centuries of totalitarianism followed by a chaotic period of nonfunctional democracy in the 90's, followed by better times with the more totalitarian Putin . Of course they have their doubts about true democracy at this point. This is common in countries with little or no prior…

I'm taking this too seriously, but the concept of the benevolant dictator does not make sense. A dictator will always meet opposition within his population due to the simple fact that even a popular leader can never even come close to pleasing everyone, which necessitates brutality to subdue said opposition. You need…

The moon landing would have been so boring without all the slavery.

Not to mention the execution of every blood relative of his inluding underage children and grandchildren.

I watched a documentary about ordinary and not so ordinary Russian people recently, and they all agreed Russia is impossible for any outsider to understand.

They would and should not cover a show they have already done a One Season Wonder feature on.

That was the subject of the very first One Season Wonder article: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

I may be misinformed, in which case ignore that part.

Making the special editions and doing everything in your power make the originals unavailable is worse.

Those were always too obvious and way too long. We get it, they will fight and then act like nothing happened. I saw Life of Brian too.

Wow, I just happened to watch this scene literally five minutes ago before I took a little break. It struck me how bizarre it must have been for an unsuspecting audience back then. Also the Looney Toons intro. What a great movie.

A friend of mine (yes, a friend) was so disappointed when the movie just ended, sans penises.

What an absurdly terrible idea.

Which is exactly why other people think it does work.