Respect, Jordo.  I had a similar incident, though it didn't involve a TBBT reference (but it did involve public mockery at the hands of several young women).  I have a great wife, three amazing kids, an education I'm proud of, and a successful career (and I'm well past the age where what happened in high school should…

Oh, I think a free market of AV Club grammarians will decide whether O'Neal's sentences are wildly convoluted, thank you very much.

I lost to TV55??  What the hell is that?

James Hibberd is history's greatest monster.

TUSK!

I wasn't aware Leonardo had fanboys.  This really is getting out of hand.

What shall we do, MaxFreedom?  What shall we do?

Two arthritic thumbs up to your strategy of ranting about old people and then anchoring your point with references to Jim Morrison and Elvis.  Well played, you delightful ragamuffin.  Now I'm off with 199 of my closest friends to the Belgian Congo!

They didn't have white onions because of the war.

No kidding, eh?  I was just thinking the same thing.  This comment section reads much more like CNN.com than the AVClub.  And O'Neal crushed it out of the park.  What the hell?  Come back, zinc!

I think that's a very good point.  I saw this when I was eleven, and I remember it vividly.  I don't remember being disturbed or upset, but I sure remember it.  I grew up in a household where there was absolutely no discussion of sex, so as batshit crazy as it sounds, this was my introduction to this topic (along with…

Agreed.  No contest.  If there's a more disturbing hour of television, I haven't seen it.

According to my memory (and The Wiki), 1983 was also the year we lost Tales of the Gold Monkey and Bring 'Em Back Alive.  A bad year for young boys still intoxicated by the awesomeness of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Yep.  I will often use my grumpy old man voice when explaining that to my kids.  'Back in my day, we didn't get to pick the videos we watched.  We watched whatever came on FNV and we liked it!'

Now what we need is a real bastard…

Fuck yeah

Just missed H3 by one year; that would have taken this list to a new low.  There might not be a film series with a greater gap in quality between film #1 and film #3.

My memory is a bit hazy, but didn't the final sequence with the giant computer use sound effects from an Atari 2600 game?

@avclub-0597cbcd1a3ba547c1ef58a6358b5b66:disqus That's a good point about the premise of the first movie.  I like both movies, but what stands out for me are the visuals.  Hellboy II is one of the most gorgeous movies I've seen in a long time.  That sequence with the plant monster in the city is completely stunning.…

Wasn't just Oprah, though clearly she had the biggest platform.  I distinctly remember Robert Kennedy, Jr. on The Daily Show talking about thimerosal and autism.