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Problem!
Spock and Kirk are played by gentiles

when Obama made his clinching speech in Chicago, I hoped he would have ended with "now put a slide in yo glide, a dip in yo hip, and come on board the mothership"

VI Lenin - VLADIMIR ILYCH ULIANOV!

that's not just any soul brother, that's Fred "the Hammer" Williamson baby!

my girlfriend lost her tooooooe.

my favorite Michael Caine story: when someone asked him if he had ever seen that Jaws sequel, he replied "No, but they tell me it's terrible. I have, however, seen the house it bought me, which is lovely."

if I said that you had a beautiful body, would you take your pants off and dance around a little?

There's real-world dumb, which is saying stuff like "Lisa, vampires are just make-believe, like elves, gremlins and eskimos." Then there's cartoon-dumb, which is breathing fire because you drank lighter fluid. The problem with the show is the humor is too cartoony in general, Homer is the most obvious case.

that's anti-semetic!

oh, and what really hits me is the way he ends, cutting himself off and saying "anyway, that's my spiel" in that inimitable way. Just a nut-punch of sadness

hearing that VO of Strummer at the end of The Future is Unwritten - when he's talking about trying to find common humanity and his voice cracks up … so heartbreaking. That one really got to me.

oh man, Maggie's First Word

I didn't cry at the end of Children of Men, mostly because it had scared the living crap out of me for two hours by then. Seriously, I was too beaten and scared to cry. It is definitely one of the most freighteningly plausible sci-fi movies I've ever seen.

Lemmy was the editor of his school newspaper

"Break in here and take it? You must be stupider than you look"
"Stupider LIKE A FOX!"

Stab Squatthrust!

jeez, Charney looks like something you'd see on an Austrian pamphlet is 1932

"No, money down!"

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY

Manuel was by then a miserable depressive alcoholic (and heroin addict? I seem to remember that). Seeing more of him would be unbearable.