Yeah, the Lucas quote in Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays where Lucas says of Brackett, "Unfortunately, it didn't work out; she turned in the first draft, and then she passed away. I didn't like the first script, but I gave Leigh credit because I liked her a lot"? That bit about magnanimously awarding her story…

I was one of the ones who thought there would be more to the Palpatine/Sidious reveal than "Palpatine was Sidious all along, and these powerful Jedi hanging out in his office never picked up on it." NOPE

The one I always remembered is from the summer before Cheers. I don't think I've ever seen a network lean so hard into their skid. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Heck, even sometimes in the later seasons. I point you to episode 159, "It's Just a Joke," when Harry forces the Andrew Dice Clay analogue to do his stand-up routine in a brightly-lit room where he can see everyone he's mocking.

And then we find out that Dan's real first name is Reinhold, and everybody gets to be flabbergasted about what a crazy name that is.

By all accounts, the conservative outfits were her choice; she believed that's how a public defender would dress, and it made sense for what the character became.

My dad still finds reasons to quote anything from the episode when the Wheelers buy the newsstand with their life savings and then have to charge hundreds or thousands of dollars for basic snacks:

I would happily restart the old Usenet argument about whether the lyrics are “pay or play,” “pay for play” or the very rare “pay or pay” if it’s one of those Somewhere in Time deals where I can go back to 1994.

Lil Wayney!
David Blainey!
Water mainy! (fwoosh)
Adams, Amy!
Mixed-up namey! (Idina Menzel looks exasperatedly at John Travolta in a joke already well past its expiration date)

The movie is called The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Valance was a thief and a bully who threw in his lot with wealthy landowners trying to thwart good government, and he was defeated by two people: Someone willing to stand up to Valance, and someone willing to fight the good fight from the shadows with no thought of…

TRUE YET BORING STORY: One of my all-time favorite letters page exchanges was in Yeah!, when someone praised "the zaftig Woo-Woo" and the reply was "Hey! This is a FAMILY comic!"

"Oh, hi, Dr. Villain."
"(sigh) It's WILL-hane. It's French."

My dad took me and my brother to see it in the fall of 1977 (I'd thought for years that my mom hadn't seen it, but it turned out my parents went on a date night weeks before without the kids, then only under relentless pressure did my dad bend his "never pay to see a movie twice" rule and took the boys). So my…

That talk the other day about how Rian Johnson asked that the Episode VII script be tweaked so that Artoo goes with Rey and Chewie, instead of BB-8…I'm amazed that no one until that point really grasped that having Poe survive meant that of COURSE BB-8 wouldn't stay with Rey. That was so obviously a holdover from the…

My alcohol-free town in Arkansas had one in the 1980s. It lasted for I think 18 months, then closed for maybe a year or two before reopening as, hand to God, a farm-supply store.

Watch yourself, Finn. The guys who use the antidote up here are notorious for being…smooth posers.

Twelve boys! One stage! Twelve outfits, each one bursting with boy!

She may LOOK younger, but she’s actually more than a year older, per Google.

Honest question: Is there a term (other than just “pun” or whatever) for words that are just dumbed-down, hat-on-a-hat versions of words that are already insults? Like “libtard,” after “liberal” had a pretty good run of being a toxic insult? Or how Sarah Palin didn’t realize that “mainstream media” was already…

It just now occurred to me: Imagine if in 1978, Trump, not Hillary Clinton, parlayed about $1,000 into $6,300 overnight by investing in cattle futures, then turned that into $100,000 over ten months. Republicans would hail him as a business genius, and the media would be excoriated for questioning how he could make so…