It’s crazy how long that one and the Honey Nut Cheerios A Christmas Carol ad ran. They premiered when I was a child and I swear they were still running 30 years later. I assume I’d still see them if I watched children’s TV.

The ad’s fine. I think you’re reading too much into it to discern a fractured father-son relationship. Not much evidence there. The adult son is slightly embarrassed his dad is dancing in a coffee shop. That’s it. A good ad—not too maudlin, and the dancing is dorky cute—but not the best Christmas commercial.

The greatest Christmas commercial of all time is the one where Santa persuades Fred Flintstone into sharing his Fruity Pebbles with Barney:

As an Old® and because it contains some of my favorite actors, I submit this:

your forgot my favorite - the alternate ending to “it’s a wonderful life” with dana carvey as george. “mary, mary!”

I agree - they are really the same politically/philosophically. The difference is Gender Role - Feminist vs Misogynist.

I mean if it were that easy to do then every single person who stepped in after he died would have just knocked it out of the park, don’t you think? I’ve been hosting local pub trivia nights for five years now and even that’s way harder than people think, so I can’t even imagine what hosting a show like Jeopardy must…

Having seen neither of them on “Jeopardy”, it sounds like Jennings prepares for the “spontaneous” interviews while Bialik simply wings it every time. If I’m right, Jennings’ ability to make prepared remarks seem like they’re off-the-cuff is a rare skill in and of itself.

Tell me you’ve never seen Jennings host on  consistent basis without telling you’ve never seen Jennings host on a consistent basis.

This is crazy. Have you ever watched either of them? Ken’s interaction with the contestants is much better than Mayim’s. After a contestant tells a personal anecdote, Ken will respond with a witty or thoughtful comment. Mayim invariably laughs and responds “That’s great!” She’s slow to confirm answers, and can’t stop…

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God — he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.  Albert Einstein 

Truly, it’s a bummer that she was fired for union solidarity, and not . . . . everything else. 

That’s pretty much my series synopsis. Crusade is barely behind Raiders for me, if only because the first was such a blast of creativity and Crusade followed the tracks it already laid.

That’s somewhat encouraging. I hadn’t seen it because the response seemed to be general apathy, but at least it wasn’t hostility like to the last one.  May as well give it a shot I suppose.

Don’t let the toxic youtuber asshats ruin the fun. Dial of Destiny certainly won’t go down as a classic, but I had a blast with it and it’s at least a very respectable final chapter for my favorite cinematic character of all time.

Lorraine obviously bristled when Tillman initially referred to Dot as his property.  Her response to him was just turning his logic around on him.  I think the scene with the bankers was intended to show that she isn’t going to play along with male entitlement bullshit, and the scene with Tillman was to give her some…

I read the scene as her needing to shut him up before his shouting gets the attention of one of the staff, or he presses his emergency call button.  

She definitely set out to try to make the next “All I Want For Christmas” with this, but all she did was make a poor man’s knockoff.

Wasn’t that Scream 5? And Scream 4, now that I think about it.

As a Scream-head, I find the beauty of the series is in how it’s basically the same movie every time, with incremental differences. Not to get too hoity-toity, but it lends itself to the whole meta theme.