In Commando, they say he grew up in East Germany under the communists.

The end of it, with John Paul II getting struck by the meteor, is a reference to Maurizio Cattelan's La Nona Hora (The Ninth Hour), which is a sculpture of that exact thing. It looks like it's the exact sculpture.

Didn't make the charts!

The next album was "Bad" - and Spike Lee already did a documentary on that. I think he might be building up to Thriller.

The record labels all originally let MTV show the videos for FREE, because of just this reason - it was free advertising, wasn't it? If memory serves, those lopsided-in-hindsight contracts still stand today, though they're not used much.