To pre-empt fate, the researchers decided to embed their tracker in a much more appropriate host.

As someone with a Pork Chop Express tattoo, I co-sign this recommendation 100%

One, it swims by means of steerable water spout, like any other cephalopod, and it also has gas chambers in its shell to regulate floating (unlike any other living cephalopod). Two, like any other cephalopod, it is a predator, so it makes sense it would like eating protein.

Mal: OK, she won’t be winning any beauty contests anytime soon, but she is solid. A larva like this, be with you till the day you die.

They really just need to find some serenity.

The 1939 New York World's Fair, with a side trip to the very first Worldcon, which was also happening in New York in the summer of '39

And they can incorporate quite a few censorship gags in the movie.

2001

Rocky Horror Picture Show. Don't forget to dress up!

Porky's..."HAUUWWHOOO"

Police Academy

If this guy can drive stick, there's no excuse for you not to.

I slapped them with my buddies wallet. Yes, he has *that* wallet.

I don't need to be in America to recognize an idiot.

We already have a perfect Trilogy: A Fist Full of Dollars; A Few Dollars More; The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

not always a Whedon fan but the way he folds flashback within flashback at the start of Serenity to get the viewer up to speed is fantastic. Bonus points for using the production company's logo as part of it (ehem) massive dump.

The opening credits to Watchmen

To quote Humphrey Bogart, "If you're going to give me something expository to say, you better have two camels fucking in the background."

So would this then be a "Creatischism?"