Mike is my I-just-relate-to-him-for-some-reason favorite, but Micky is my second favorite based on the strength of the two Monkees gags that made me laugh hardest when I was a kid:
1. "I don't like it…it's too quiet around here." (animal noises) "I don't like it! It's too noisy!"
2. "Now 'crayon' I can say."

That jibes with Timothy Zahn's take in "Heir to the Empire," in which the destruction of Vader's Super Star Destroyer was a much bigger blow to the Empire than the death of the Emperor. (All the most talented, ambitious officers wanted to serve under Vader because of the chance for VERY rapid advancement.)

I mean this sincerely: Thank you guys for the maple syrup discussion. The last time I heard this much talk about maple syrup was last year, when the one non-family member to speak at my granddad's funeral went on this weird, bizarrely lengthy tangent about how my granddad once wanted him to buy some maple syrup during…

I hear you.
My dad, yesterday: "So Lester Holt got congratulated on his new job by the National Association of Black Journalists. But the National Association of Caucasian Journalists didn't have any comment about Brian Williams because THAT DOESN'T EXIST."
Me: *nod*

I looked EVERYWHERE for a reference to this. I looked in a bag of cheese puffs, a boot, the bag of cheese puffs again…

Yeah, the one that always made me feel bad for the letter-writer:
Question: "Who created Silver Sable?"
Wizard answer: "Who cares?"

A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly a pirate ship appeared on the horizon!

I can top that: I went to a 7 p.m. showing the FIRST DAY, and the guy in front of me overheard one of my friends complaining about "Qui-Gon's Noble End" and turned around to say, "You're an IDIOT if you thought Qui-Gon OR Darth Maul were going to survive!"

Rob Liefeld was doing "Avengelyne," which…yeah, I wouldn't miss that at all.

Wait, 1996 was an election year, so if the Macarena was still around at the time of the Democratic National Convention, then Al Gore would have tried dancing to the OH NO REPRESSED MEMORIES ARE COMING BACK

I don't think I ever got to play the game, but I fell in love with the TV series in the first 10 minutes, when the question was "Name the first person to answer this question correctly."

I'd get rid of "Congo" because even though I never saw it, it was the source of one of the biggest "uh-oh" moments of my college career during a summer class on journalism and current events:
Student: "Speaking of 'current,' don't go see 'Congo.' I saw that last night and it sucks."
Professor: "I would submit that if…

Am I allowed to just say "The Web" as pop culture? I miss the novelty of sitting down in a college computer lab and randomly punching in www-dot-something-dot-com names to see what came up.

What I always mention to prove that Apollo 13 wasn't universally remembered: Michael Douglas's speech in "Falling Down," which came out in 1993. "It's like when those astronauts got in trouble. I don't know, somebody messed up, and they had to get them back to Earth."

He's still recovering from Bushwhacked Fever: https://youtu.be/zZi7EpwPzWk

Or just check YouTube: https://youtu.be/1R44MvXeEQw

As much as I loved the animatics on "The Incredibles," my favorite bonus feature on that DVD is "The Adventures of Mr. Incredible" (with and without commentary!).

I knew a woman back in 2002 who'd only ever seen the Extended edition of "Fellowship of the Ring," and a good thing, too — the moment that got her to like Gimli was the Extended scene when he said, "I asked her for one hair from her golden head. She gave me three."

Technically, "Dark City" was my first DVD, though I bought "Tron" at the same time (it had "Widescreen" emblazoned across the top) and I made "Tron" my honorary first DVD. Third was "Run Lola Run."

An actual conversation I had with my dad back in the late 1990s, when I was buying widescreen VHS tapes:
Dad: "I don't know why you want movies with those bars on the top and bottom."
Me: "Well, that's letterboxing, and it means that…"
Dad: "Oh, I KNOW what it is. I just don't see why you LIKE it."
Me: "….."