Anyone know why, if Johnny could be black, Sue still had to be blonde?

Opening weekend of which movie? RotJ premiered in '83.

So their cuteness invalidates their defeating the Empire?

When exactly did the RotJ backlash start?

So are hackneyed metaphors, apparently.

Agreed; I can see how people would find him annoying but I thought he was fun in that movie.

I think both of those movies are great; I'd say 5th Element is the good version of Jupiter Ascending.

Anyone else notice that SNL hasn't had any Canadian cast members since Norm left?

The Onion was created at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Anyone know if Geddy and Alex are as into sci-fi as Neil is?

Tommy.

I think Roots is a good enough story to work just as fiction.

I hope they make a gratuitous reference to Brett Favre playing for the Vikes.

I'd be for a remake if they got rid of the Alex Haley connection, since it's been shown that his claim that the story is based on his actual ancestry is false(and parts of the novel were plagiarized as well), and have it just be historical fiction. Unfortunately, even though reportedly they are including new research…

Seems like pundits in general aren't as relevant as they were a decade ago. I believe O'Reilly's still doing well ratings-wise too but he's also not as relevant as he once was. Glenn Beck was huge for a time but he fell into irrelevance with meteoric speed. The left's most prominent pundit, Keith Olbermann,…

Remember when Republicans used to say that Franken was just a bitter nobody who was jealous of Rush's and O'Reilly's success?

One joke from Big Fat Idiot that I really like was this:

In order to lighten the mood, I think we should have a thread about people famous for being good who really do deserve their reputation.

Have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?

I noticed the same thing, with old-timey cop lingo like "She's a fast filly."