Yeah, you can definitely tell that's the unique flavor Frank contributed to the writing.

I believe it was Muppet writer Jerry Juhl who said "a joke that is not good enough to tell once may be bad enough to tell three or four times."

I didn't realize the second was a thing, but I do remember either Action Comics or Superman #650 announcing its number with a cabbie telling someone "Hey, that'll be SIX FIFTY!"

Also MST:

Except any kind of compensation as we make money off your name!

MST3K could go really deep for some of their runners. I'm fond of "Zack Norman is Sammy in Chief Zabu!", an apparent reference to an old Variety ad that they would bring up frequently.

It started as that and kind of mutated into what it is now, since WB has been impatient to do a Batman/Superman movie.

Of course, if anyone else calls you "Beast", I'll rip his lungs out.

A book by C. J. Cherryh called Chanur's Legacy. It's an interesting sci-fi novel about the crew of an alien tramp freighter- so far there's not a single human character in the book, it's all aliens interacting with each other. It's a little bit tricky at times because the cultural interactions and such are a little…

So is this going to be some kind of subscription service, a la the WWE Network?

"Not Dwelling on the Past Fridays" killed me. This was some high quality stuff.

Weeeeellllllll it's the Big Smo…

Hearst helped screw with the film's release, but I'm not sure how much he had to actually try to get Kane snubbed- it was just that a lot of people in Hollywood were friends with him, and viewed Welles as an arrogant upstart who had been given way more freedom than he deserved. There was a lot of resentment over his…

It was actually something of a flop, but Fox gave it such a gigantic push that it got some nominations just from studio politics.

Let's see, musicals with anything to say about the human condition- Sunday in the Park With George, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, isn't Chicago about the media making murder trials into circuses? Naturalism is far from the only way to get at emotional truth, just ask Lang or Murnau.

Took you three months to come up with that riposte?

Finished off my revisit of the Heisei Godzilla films with Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, aka the one where Godzilla dies. (Not a spoiler- this was a huge focal point of the advertising.) The film has some pacing problems and the "microoxygen" technobabble really doesn't bear scrutiny, but there's a great funereal…

I find this article in flagrant violation of Space Corps Directive 195/B.

I'm just sad that we never got to visit Ygritte's home of Tralaladidale.

"Somebody wake up Hicks."