I had to change my last name after a Monty Python sketch ruined it.

"What About Bob?" is a really fun movie, and Bill Murray's "Bob" is a goofy, justly enduring character. But for over two decades now, I'd say close to 50% of every single person I meet in a social setting hears my name and immediately says, "hey, what about Bob?" then gives that shit-ass grin that says "get it?" Fuck…

He's even better in Mamet's "Spartan."

When it first showed up on home video, I insisted on renting "Do The Right Thing" one weekend. We got maybe fifteen minutes into it before my parents (led by my dad, who swore more per hour than anyone I've met in my life) demanded I turn it off because of all the swearing. For months, I couldn't nominate a movie for…

But on the plus side, they're distorted enough that you only catch every fifth word!

You're right that both songs have a lot more going on than their chorus' would suggest, but it's tough to get past the downright oppressive message of "Single Ladies'" refrain. Lyrically, its verses suggest a different song, one about empowerment and feminism: a woman post-breakup starts asserting herself again. Then…

Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"

There's just such goofy joy in his delivery, like he himself is tickled by the jokes and is barely keeping it together enough to tell the audience.

It was for charity!

Yeah, and there's plenty of stuff I loved as a younger kid that I'm fully aware was just absolute shit (Transformers tv show is a great example.) I think one of the reasons I lamented over "The Lion King" is because I thought I was old enough by that point to know better…

I'd kinda like to see "Lion King" again for the first time, if only to remember what I liked so much about it in the first place before I started disliking it. Shit, that sounds incredibly douchey. Let me try again.

This has become known as "the 300 effect."

Check her out in Sam Rami's "A Simple Plan" from the late 90s. It's a nice little crime tale with Bill Paxton, Fonda, and Billy Bob Thornton all giving good performances.

Trust me, Obama had that election in the bag before he even started campaigning. He was groomed for the position for years by Paul (not the singer/songwriter) Simon, and had the full support of Simon's decades-long foundation of political networks behind him.

I always saw the robot/bear argument as a meta-metaphor on Tracy's entourage, which quickly shrank down to two from the half-dozen of the first few episodes.

Shallow Grave is a good bet. I'm not a big fan, but it carries a terrific retroactive pedigree, both in front of and behind the camera, so there's plenty of room for discussion.

I dig Minaj, but MST3K already made this song, and they did it better:

A little of Column A, and a little of Column B. I also really like ol' Bob's approach of taking 30 minutes out of your day to just not worry so much. He never pretended that life isn't tough or complicated or even painful; his laid-back show wasn't meant to be a solution to the viewers' problems, merely a nice…

"The Joy of Painting" with Bob Ross

Funny how the Tour existed for decades before EPO and blood doping, huh? (not that greenies didn't get passed around by some of those guys in the 60s and 70s)