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I would add The New Teen Titans #38, "Who Is Donna Troy?" Wolfman and Perez at their best, highlighting and defining the Robin/Wonder Girl friendship, and showing how wonderfully Dick Grayson's character has evolved since his days as "Robin, Boy Hostage". Even that douche Terry Long is treated sympathetically! One of

A valid point, but once you stick the Enterprise into the equation I'm pretty sure you're operating outside canon.

I think it all depends on your definition of "invitation." It's been shown time and again in literature and film the person doing the inviting doesn't have to be an actual resident of the house. The intent of the person doing the beaming would be key, I imagine. So, it works if the transporter operator is actually want

Probably stretching things to call Clue a genre film, but she was the Singing Telegram in that (for all of about five seconds before she gets murdered).

Read it before the movie was even made! Seriously, people, read it, one of William Goldman's best! "This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it..."

Honestly, I imagined an 1890's ne'er-do-well walking down the streets of Bradburyville, USA and twirling his pointy mustache when he found a boarding house with a prominent front porch. "Gads, someone there likes to spoon!"

Oh, good, now I can tell my fiancee I'm "The Restricted Man." Sounds marginally dirtier, somehow.

Thank you for the info! I'm not surprised I got it wrong (my knowledge of chemistry is basic, to put it kindly). I think I read about it in an ancient issue of Discover and somehow or other interpolated lipid "handedness" into the article. No wonder I couldn't Google it! :/

I seem to remember reading an article about "L-sugar", but I may have that name wrong, can't Google a reference. It's a form of sucrose in which the lipids are the mirror image of "natural" sugar, and the body can't process it as "food" so it just goes straight through, as it were. The bacteria that cause dental

Hugh Hefner. (Ba-DUMP-Bump!)

Thanks, I may look into it!

I like that one, too. I couldn't find an actual clip from the show for this one, apparently it was just an album bit (I had it on Monty Python's Previous Record).

I have to do the same thing, they found I had low B12 after some viral-related neuromuscular damage. It does indeed suck.

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Reminded me of one of my favorite Python album bits:

Props for mentioning all of these, especially Animaniacs and Fat Albert! I mean, come on, best line in a theme song ever: "We're the Animaniacs / We have pay-for-play contracts!"

Well, this is exciting news, I must say!

Well, The Director's Cut wasn't exactly a platinum album! But you're welcome—I think the whole album is great, and Mike Patton is a human theremin!

I have a suggestion for another poll: best cover version of an SF/Fantasy theme song. Only you'd have to include movies, so I can vote for Fantomas' "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" - gives me chills every time I hear it!

The chorus to "Turn Around" would work, too.

"Greetings, Starfighter!" Death Blossom ruled!