Next thing you know she's going to imply that having both your parents murdered at a very young age isn't all fun and games either!

Yes! He actually does scare the hell out of them. Very satisfying.

It's a very silly concept, Pythonesque even, and Hanks commits to it so fully. If you have a taste of that kind of thing, it's fantastic.

We lived in Staten Island. Nuff said.

Schneider was The Fonz for all we single parent latch-key kids.

Ebert wrote great nonsense. Too bad he didn't do more of it.

1971 were the pre-Kung Fu grip days (A quick search told me Hasbro introduced the KFG in 1974). I got a few Joes with the kung fu grip later on, but their fingers kept falling off from overuse so I'd usually end up playing with the old-school, rigid-finger models.

My parents were progressive (for the 1970s), but in a more practical, middle-class type of way.

Who could be upset with a GI Joe in all its circa-1971 12 inch glory!? They didn't like that I had a negro one.

I have fond memories of Wildwood. Atlantic City is the real shithole, IMO

That's how we felt about One Day At A Time in the late 70s. I honestly have no idea if it was any good (haven't/won't revisit it) but it was nice to see a struggling single parent household like ours on TV.

I refuse to believe that! In my mind 60s Hollywood parties were like Beyond The Valley of the Dolls, but with better dialog. That's a hill I'm prepared to die on.

Back in 1971 my parents bought me a "negro" GI Joe (this was 1971, remember) and ended up getting confronted by several angry parents of my neighborhood friends, who didn't like their kids being exposed to That Sort of Thing (which was weird because we lived in NYC at the time, which has actual African Americans all…

It's just like my family… but with actors instead of abusive alcoholics!

Fucking great, Now every AVClub smartass is going to rush to pachyderm every crappy pun they can into this thread.

I've sworn by the Move To The Midwest Where Everyone Is Fatter And Makes You Look OK By Comparison Diet for decades now.

And that little city that no one liked grew up to be… Roycohnsberg

The killer bit for me was when these rich, powerful men were one-upping each other on which rare animals they've snuggled, and in what order.

And I'd argue you're more of a nitpicker than a hair splitter.

Sounds like a really long and intricate ringtone, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's not for me.