Highpoint of fourth-wall breaking: When the one crew member gets shot during a caper gone wrong, and they dump him in front of the hospital, and later we hear an answering message from him asking if he can rejoin the crew after he gets out, because, even after all that, this is STILL the best job he's ever had.

Oh, yeah, he's been doing this longer than anybody:
http://dangerousminds.net/c…

Heck, he's arguably the star of the movie:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

THIS: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Still the best Alf: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Exactly.
Even some of LOIS AND CLARK or the "Timmiverse" cartoons cross that line into knowing self-parody.
It's a lot less embarassing than "DO YOU BLEED? YOU WILL!"

I've always maintained a flat-out Superman comedy would be gold. (a good chunk of that Silver Age stuff you see on sites like SUPERDICKERY essentially IS goofy sitcom stuff).
Just admit it: superheroes are absurdist.

Try Googling the phrase "female members". I'm sure it'll be safe for work.

And frankly, I think Connery would have liked the slightly meatier role of " aging hero struggling with addiction" than the "old and still kickin' ass!" version in the movie.
(although to be fair: he made it in his 70s, and he was still totally believable kickin' ass)

I literally couldn't say it better.
But I sure could have scrolled down before I posted!

FUN FACT: the X-Men have frequently gone through periods where the female members outnumbered the males.

Actually when asked if he thought ANY of his comics could be successfully turned into a Hollywood movie, Moore said that he genuinely thought Vol. 1 of LOEG would translate pretty easy… at least, in THEORY.

For the record: Moore DID like the "For The Man Who Has Everything" episode of JLU.

The LOEG movie was the "official" breaking point for Moore - not because of the finished film itself (which he claims never to have seen), but because of the behind the scenes legal problems: essentially, the producers screwed over screenwriter Larry Cohen on an earlier, unproduced film that featured some of the same…

suggested AVENGERS episode: SMALL GAME FOR BIG HUNTERS

Season Three is ALMOST worth it just for the single most Ellisonesque line of dialogue Harlan Ellison ever wrote:
DOCTOR (examining Fembot): This cupcake ain't got no spleen!

It's the "Igor" effect: the diversion from the source material becomes what most people think of as the norm. (everybody "knows" Dr. Frankenstein had a hunchbacked lab assistant named Igor… even though that's actually a combination of a couple of different characters from the movies… and doesn't have anything to do…

I've always found the best way to deal with Nigel Bruce's Watson is to pretend it's an alternate take where Watson is an old companion who's losing it with age, and Holmes sticks with him out of loyalty.
(and to be fair, there are flashes of "the real Watson": His medical knowledge is sharp, and he's still a crack…

I believe the deerstalker cap is an element from HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, where wearing such a piece of hunting gear would be appropriate.
But otherwise… well, it's like wandering around London dressed like Victorian Elmer Fudd.

To his credit: Will really didn't WANT to be in it, and basically did it because the director begged him.