…am I really the first person to say "You're thinking of Huckleberry Hound"?

I had hoped that three decades of reading comics would make this phenomenon easier, but it really hasn't. For me, the tough time was going from "if Julie Power went to MY school, I'd ask her out" to "wow, Julie Power's too young for me now" to "Julie Power isn't old enough to remember the 1980s anymore" to "why is…

Those stories entered the afternoon news too. I know this because my grandmother — 85 years old in 2005, and an avid viewer of Fox News — asked me that summer if I'd seen Revenge of the Sith. She was afraid for me because I'd paid money to see people attack President Bush, but the Fox News coverage left her unclear…

It occurs to me now that "Snoopy Come Home," a story about two unlikely companions headed "home," only to find out that it's not what they thought it was, and turning back to make the most out of the place they came from…well, it's essentially "My Child's First 'Mad Max Fury Road.'"

Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann. It was a search for the best dancer/singer, when everybody involved should've realized that it's very very difficult to find even a third-rate Michael Jackson-caliber talent in both fields. (I would also note that nobody ever made Kelly Clarkson do the Viennese waltz, or expected much…

The local newspaper writer's description of "Transylvania 6-5000" pretty much seared itself into my 12-year-old brain: "With no discernible plot, no script, nothing scary and nothing funny to put on film, De Luca turns out a 90-minute embarrassment whose only interesting moments come when Geena Davis is on the screen.…

I desperately wish I still had a comic strip from my college days which suggested that the easiest route for teenagers to become immortal was to invent their own philosophy. Rene Descartes' "Cogito ergo sum" was juxtaposed with Katie Stephens' "I love ponies," and a philosophy teacher is shown in a class saying,…

Let's all take a minute to imagine how differently the "Star Wars" movies would have unfolded if, every time a stormtrooper yelled "Freeze!" or "Don't move!", he INSTEAD just set his rifle to "stun" and started firing.

My dad generally avoids "The Simpsons" (he gravitates toward college football, TNT dramas and reruns of "The Rifleman"). So I specifically remember the two lines that made him laugh, and it was Bart both times:

One of the creepiest things I ever heard on the radio was back in 1996, starting when an afternoon DJ offered two free movie passes to the 10th caller who could name Debbe Dunning's first professional acting role. After about 15-20 minutes, he came back on the air, audibly irate, offering the tickets to the first…

Upvoted because of "yields," which I choose to believe is not a typo for "wields" but is in fact another deliberate word change:

I'd stopped watching "Melrose" by then — I'd started watching it at my parents' house from the premiere during my summer break from college, but I had to stop when I went back to school because the college was in a part of the country with no Fox affiliate yet. So the first time I saw the Kimberly clip was the next…

I have an oddly complicated history with that song:
Phase 1: Enjoyed unironically
Phase 2: Enjoyed ironically after David Letterman started a monologue one night with, "You know, folks…life…is a highway. And I want to drive it all night long."
Phase 3: Enjoyed unironically again
Phase 4: Got tired of it
Phase 5: Gained new…

Tegna is also often confused with the Tenga, the bird-soldiers introduced in "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie" as the Tengu. You can remember the difference with this classic childhood rhyme:

There've been a number of comics I bought solely because of the cover over the years (I mean, that's what they're for), but generally because they were intriguing ("Green Lantern" vol. 3 issue 25, Hal vs. Guy) or sexy ("Sensational She-Hulk" vol. 1 issue 34, the Demi Moore Vanity Fair parody). But I literally laughed…

That skyline, which is EVERY skyline…I can't think about it without thinking about how *happy* it made Roger Ebert. (This is not a complaint.)

I want you to do me a favor: Google the word Obama and, in quotes, "Elmer Fudd could beat". (Don't Google "Elmer Fudd could beat Obama" because then you'll miss the couple hundred variations like "Owebama" and "Obummer.") You'll note that at about this same point in the 2012 campaign, a lot of people were…

My overriding memory of Steve is that time when he was fooled by a transgender woman and freaked out. In his defense, the actress playing her was a genetic female and a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, and her voice was dubbed with a man's during the reveal.

I assume so, even though the only source I have for the line is that original 1992 newspaper article that focuses entirely on the French version of the film. (Seriously, a search for "You'd look great in a Fiat Uno" in quotes *only* brings up that article.)

FUN FACT AND NOT A RIFF ON "PULP FICTION": Since France didn't have those commercials, Mike Myers' line "Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?" in "Wayne's World" was changed to "You'd look great in a Fiat Uno."