The main thing about the Phantom for me is that I was working at a movie theater in college in 1996 when that movie came out. “SLAM EVIL!” posters everywhere. They gave us a box full of replica Phantom skull rings to give out as prizes or something. (I think I still have mine somewhere.)

Aw, no mention of the bizarre Wheel of Time pilot he was in?

She also did that: the Honest Company, which manufactures mainly cosmetic and bath products. The company’s worth half a billion and she’s one of the cofounders.

Oh, like you weren’t already doing that.

Geez, really? I remember reading Bloom County (or maybe it was Doonesbury) comics, when I was a kid in the 80s, mocking Trump. I remember pointing out in 2015 that he’d already been a punchline for 30 years.

If Dunkin’ doesn't do a cross-promotion with this show, it'll be a huge missed opportunity.

C’mon, there’s only 512 possibilities (256 for x.10.23.26 and 256 for 10.23.26.x). nmap could scan all those in a few seconds!

“driver hasn’t had a hit since 2018's blackkklansman”

Here’s a weird one: When we watched season 2 of Extraordinary on Hulu, there were rapid fade-to-blacks in the middle of scenes, followed immediately by fading back in a moment later. It’s like someone concocted a mechanism for inserting a relatively non-disruptive ad (rather than the “abrupt pause” method) but then…

Oh man. By sheer coincidence we didn’t have commercial TV (broadcast or cable) in the house when our kids were young. As a result they spent their formative years not being bombarded by TV advertising, and so they weren’t constantly begging us to get them toy X or fast food Y. They don’t even really care about getting…

He’s the design model for Megamind.

I’ll second that opinion. Crowe is one of the few movie-star-handsome actors that I would just forget is an actor while watching his movies. Like, I never forget that Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise (except maybe in Tropic Thunder), but Crowe somehow just becomes his characters. It’s eerie.

Have you checked out his brother Kevin’s books, such as The Rural Juror?

GIMME FOO GIMME FAI GIMME DABAJABAZA

Another fun easter egg: The on-screen credits for the episode of The Pink Opaque we see are the same font that Buffy used for its credits.

I thought he was only susceptible to borax.

“Baby it’s cloudy with a chance of meatballs outside”

I’d heard of Bernardo O’Higgins before, but TIL that the (prominent, Irish) O’Higgins family had all their land confiscated by Oliver Cromwell and his goons, so they fled to Spain, and then onward to various countries in Latin America, including Chile, which is where that branch of the family flourished.

According to the Cube Rule, Die Hard is a calzone.

Eventually, Christmas decorations will go up so early that they’ll be just in time for the following Christmas.