the below trailer makes him look like a bonafide hard-ass,

Yeah, I’m with you on The Electric Company. I liked it more than Sesame Street back then. I had no idea Paul Dooley created it.

I think Von Sydow knew exactly what he was doing. I mean, this guy was Ming the Merciless in “Flash Gordon” a couple of years prior to “Strange Brew.”

I wish I could’ve been in the room with the SCTV guys when they started discussing the story for Strange Brew. “Hey, we want to make a movie out of Bob and Doug McKenzie.” “Damn, what kind of coherent story are we going to tell with those two knuckleheads?” “I dunno, Hamlet?”

“Just because I don’t know what it is . . . doesn’t mean I’m lying.” 

I think that might be the joke, but maybe Max didn’t get the actual joke!

Okay, I was today years old when I learned Paul Dooley basically created The Electric Company. After watching it I even remember that “fish” sketch they embedded in the article from when I was a wee lad. Holy carp.

I watched it for the first time last weekend oddly enough, and liked it a fair amount. It’s a little bit uneven, starting well but then dragging a bit for 20 or so minutes, before the second half really ups it’s game and is laugh out loud funny most of the time. Paul Dooley’s really superb in it too, though Max Von…

The one problem of the movie is that the opening with Bob & Doug’s home-made sci-fi movie is so hilarious that there’s no way the rest of the film can top it. But it’s good dumb fun. 

Heh, no one I know is a devotee to that movie like I am, so I can’t trade quotes but “I could crush your head ... like a nut!” pops into my brain unprompted fairly regularly for reasons I’m not entirely clear on.

So glad he mentioned Strange Brew. How they got both him and Max Von Sydow to be the heavies in a goofball Canadian retelling of Hamlet with two morons in the lead I will never know, but I’m glad they did.

I’m Jewish, I loved his books as a kid, and unless someone can point out to me anywhere where these ideas actually showed up in his work, I don’t have an issue with them continuing to be available for future generations. 

You coulda gone down to, like, the good donut shop, where if you buy a dozen, you get another one free, and then thirteen for the thirteen days of Christmas...

Okay, the song’s over

Please tell me the trailer will be nothing but a cardboard box sneaking into a facility, Oscar Isaac pops up, smiles, and then the name “Metal Gear Solid” flashes on the screen

As someone with over 20 years bench experience behind him, I question the short sleeved lab coat in the first picture. Everything else down to the sticky note on the cluttered bench checks out though.

uh, albums...

Okay fine, we’ll give the lead role to the Asian guy. But make sure there are no other Asian people, ‘cos that would be one too many.

Always loved the theme music.

Grab the trashcan (hopefully it’s empty, or not filled with disgusting things) Fill it with the hottest water you can, and put maybe a tablespoon or so of hand soap or shampoo (dish soap would be best).