The first friend I had who was openly gay had a very dark sense of humor. Like, you know how dark mine is by now probably- his made me uncomfortable. Like going to a party at Andy Dick's house.

I'm not sure what I'd prefer at this point: an adaptation of Stephen King's actual "Running Man," or a modern remake of the B-movie version. It's strange- I feel like the blend of toxic patriotism, lowest common denominator politics and quasi social media aspects have made the film more relevant today than the book.

If you're going for the full FULL stereotype, you don't sleep with them so much as sexually harass them.

Ray Wise as the voice of Salem! (Nick Bakay is classic, but a little too chill bro for the vibe this show has.)

Does Riverdale or Greendale have a brothel? And how long will it be until Betty goes undercover there?

Between Peaky Blinders and Scream, I think that song is the national anthem of postmodern crime.

"She also SUPPOSEDLY musicalized Secret Garden; but everybody knows it's 90 percent Jeanine Tesori, 10 percent her. Shh…"

Related: I have for years labored under the impression that U2 covered "Heroes" at the Concert for 9/11. They didn't, but I can hear it so clearly in my head.

She's Rape Trauma Ethel now, and implied to be a little bit bi at least. (Then again, you can count on one penis how many of the girls on Riverdale aren't implied to be a little bit bi.)

Erica Goldberg may be a pretty high school girl, but she's also a shambling wreck of a human being and a member of the notorious "crazy family." High school may be hormone heaven, but Erica might as well be marching down the halls waving a red flag.

Manny out and admitted he has a troubling incest fetish earlier this season in the episode with his crazy aunt.

What, no "Kakumei?"

The comic priests are a very Stephen Schwartz element- he loves including silver-tongued, vaguely comedic sub-villains he can write songs for.

Dum de dum de dum
*ching*

Reminds me of "The Suicide Shop," a similar mix of depressing melodrama and saccharine comedy onscreen.

There was cut material, referenced in the stage play, that tied back to the "compensating for something" joke earlier in the film. In a riff on Hitler, Farquaad was half-creature himself, with his father having been a dwarf, and everything in his life was an attempt to repress and deny that fact, rather than embrace…

It always felt like three different movies- the romantic comedy musical of Anastasia, the funny animals like Bartok the bat, and then a reanimated lich of Grigori Rasputin having been the secret mover and shaker behind the Russian Revolution. I LIKE that plotline in theory, but it did not tonally fit the movie it was…

Prince of Egypt isn't an attempt to ape Disney as much as it is an attempt to outdo Disney's attempt at a serious prestige animated musical, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."

I know it's a Bryan Adams song, but just that line made me flash back to playing "DDR Max! Two!" in my living room in middle school.

*straps on kneepads and fake legs, prepares for ten painful minutes of knee-dancing as Farquaad*