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I only knew a few of these, and I started watching Trek in 1966! I am mortified that I never noticed Floyd's in City!!

Well, there's a volcano on Mars the size of Missouri, I always thought that was fairly impressive...

Of course there's an Oort cloud, that's where the Heechee Food Factory is! Frederik Pohl tolded me!

Yeah, I think they took that "pig out" stuff directly from Mike Baron's reboot, he had Wally having to do that. I loved the TV series, too, and I wish it had been given a longer run. That show was the first thing I saw with a convincing depiction of super-speed (and on a limited budget to boot).

I actually think Fishburne is an excellent choice (he doesn't play "soft-spoken" in all his roles). And Perry in the comics (at least after the Byrne reboot) was a bit more complex than the guy who just yelled "Where the hell is Kent?!" all the time. Just as long as they don't inexplicably morph him into a corn-fed

No, that's just misinformation so the Norms won't know what they're missing out on—didn't you get the memo?

Bill Compton was in Lost Boys?? (Sorry, had to Google the name, not a True Blood watcher; but if that's who you meant, boy, would that be a weird mashup! Maybe Gramps could run into him with a truck-full of lumber leavings?) But I agree, that movie rules! :)

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You made me choke on my coffee! They're gonna have to implement Green Clovers and Blue Diamonds soon, 'cause I can't heart you anymore!!!

Anything with two Coreys in it would be at home on this list. (Well, not Lost Boys, but that had Vampire Bill S. Preston, Esq. for counterbalance.)

My personal Heinlein pick would've been The Door Into Summer on sentimental reasons alone (it was the first RAH I ever read), but it would've definitely been too obscure for this list.

Several on your list duplicate mine, and the ones that don't were "almosts". I had to make myself pick just one Heinlein, one Dick, etc. (I went with Stranger and Castle, respectively).

You are entirely correct, I should have read the article more closely!

I just voted earlier today for their Top Ten. It was really hard to narrow it down to just ten choices, there were so many good ones! But yeah, some of the stuff on the Top 100 surprised me (the Shannara books? Seriously?)

I've always thought all these body-swap comedies were really missing a bet by not going R-rated (I'm thinking male/female, but it would work same-sex, too, if that's your preference). Because, to be honest, my first thought in that situation would be, "Hey, y'know what would be a really good idea?"

My personal opinion is that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind redeems all Carrey's sins and then some.

That other one where he was the grown-up spawn of Satan was pretty funny, too. What a cut-up!

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Dang it, have to be quicker on the draw finding stuff on YouTube! Yes, this:

Knightfall wasn't all that bad, I agree (I especially liked Jim Gordon's "That's not the man I know" line). But I was one of the people who was really ticked Bruce didn't ask Dick first. (Although I think the writers planned that all along, just for the tension and awkwardness later.)