It does seem this whole team goes on its missions half-cocked, doesn't it, @avclub-815d8c98c8513891669c2f1af6ca4c27:disqus ? They take the time to get the clothes right, but their period research normally turns to "Ask Abby"….

Exactly my point, @count_erpoint:disqus .

So why bother with nukes, when you essentially own the country anyway, @count_erpoint:disqus ?

Yes, but by then China would be too busy selling us into eternal debt slavery to need anything as messy as nukes, @count_erpoint:disqus !

Okay, @count_erpoint:disqus - Reagan could cover a flubbed line better.

Didn't he end up re-voicing David Niven, not so convincingly, in one of the later Pink Panther movies, @avclub-e56eea9a45b153de634b23780365f976:disqus ?

@Bayouradio:disqus 's right, you know, @avclub-e56eea9a45b153de634b23780365f976:disqus .

Actually, a fair number of conservatives did - or told themselves he just said he was liberal because, Hollywood!, @disqus_g1mssakybo:disqus ! Never underestimate people's ability to deceive themselves….

I remember this show, @avclub-5e5e0bd5ad7c2ca72b0c5ff8b6debbba:disqus ! It was the second "Play For Television" version of Once Upon a Mattress - and at the time, it was really controversial for (wait for it…) admitting Lady Larkin was pregnant out of wedlock! (The 1964 television version had Larkin and Sir Harry…

Hate to break this to you, @Baulderstone:disqus - but yeah, actually, Hellraiser kinda is thirty years old.

Maniac is - a lot more nuanced than you'd think given its utter grindhouse premise, @OhthePossibilities:disqus . A;so a great showcase for Joe Spinell as the sadistic yet somehow pathetic serial killer.

I'm not sure financing your serial/torture killer career is quite what Clive Barker has in mind, @avclub-749a8e6c231831ef7756db230b4359c8:disqus .

Glad to see we're all on the same page about The Greatness That Was Garth Marenghi's DARKPLACE, @disqus_zwqP3XtS0B:disqus , @poprivets:disqus and @disqus_766VZXnc61:disqus .

UPVOTED for Gen. Ripper shout-out, Group Captain Mandrake @avclub-749a8e6c231831ef7756db230b4359c8:disqus .

$300,000? Jeez, you couldn't even do a grindhouse indie for that kind of money any more!

Sorry, Essie Davis is too busy playing Lady Indiana Jones in Egypt to tackle that particular headache, @SerDirtnap:disqus .

Maybe even a bit less, @avclub-5e5e0bd5ad7c2ca72b0c5ff8b6debbba:disqus - but it would definitely be the only major sketch on the show that night!

And @mwfuller:disqus and @avclub-ed0871ac01726144474982051e55c5f4:disqus share Winning The Internet today!

Well, there's a correlation, @disqus_YI5BU4rsZI:disqus - given it's probably Lena Dunham's rabid support of Hillary Clinton that drove so much of America to vote for Donald Trump instead!

No, @avclub-7d640ca825f963b9fc36e0857c0b39e5:disqus - then the show would have been, you know, watchable.