I think “Awakenings” is an underappreciated gem. Penny Marshall dirercted Robin Williams and Robert De Niro in understated, warm, down to earth performances. Not everybody was able to do that with those larger-than-life actors. It’s a heartfelt, ultimately heartbreaking movie that deserves more attention.

I always liked this.

I went back to revisit the Great Christmas Pants Crapping Comment Thread, as is my holiday tradition, and found those comments missing from the Kinja archive of that articles’ comments. I found some other classic comment threads similarly cleansed of some of the more “unseemly” comment threads.

I’m old enough to remember watching the “Love American Style” episode that “Happy Days” was spun off from.

Night Gallery was very hit-and-miss, but it’s best episodes rival anything TZ ever did. I think the best of the best is “They’re Tearing Down Tim Riley’s Bar” If you just don’t see what the big deal is about it, if you don’t feel for William Windom’s character, give it another 20 or 30 years and you will. It might be…

I can’t believe that nobody has mentioned Welles’ amazing Halloween radio dramatization of “War of the Worlds”, which was broadcast 80 years ago tonight.

There is a Pagliai’s in Charleston Il, and there used to be, and may still be, another in Urbana, both college towns.  I loved the one in Urbana when I lived there.

Buster Keaton is an absolute, underappreciated genius. I have heard he was given the nickname by Harry Houdini, after seeing Keaton as a child tumble down a flight of stairs or something. He was doing amazing work right up until the end.

“How can you love a rock in your shoe?”  

I came here to mention how weird and wonderful and underappreciated Rustler’s Rhapsody is. So many great bits.

For a long time I thought it was Don Deluise co-starring in Skullduggery before I figured out it was the Harry Mudd guy.

I saw “Schlock” in our local theater back in the 70's. (I had a crush on a girl who worked in the concession stand, so I watched almost everything they played there for a while). Aside from the guy in the gorilla suit running around a lot, about the only thing I remember about the movie is “Schlock Boogie”, a pretty…

I have a Roku box, and have the Adult Swim channel on it. I haven’t checked in the last couple of months, but for quite a while they were streaming the entire series, in order, in a loop in their “marathons” section.  That’s how I got back into, and caught up on, The Venture Bros.   

Boyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

Another classic example of this is Phantasm’s Tall Man. Although his presence permeates the movie, he appears in only a dew scenes and speaks, I believe, only something like 12 lines.

If they’re willing to consider an installment plan, and accept payment in goats and firewood, maybe we can work something out.

Undercoating? Honestly, we don’t even know what that is.

http://tolerabilityindex.freeforums.net/ is full of AVC refugees. I hang out there quite a bit.

One of my favorite Harlan Ellison interviews:

 The Grandaddy of “What the Hell Did I Just Watch?” TV, checking in at over 50 years old now, is, of course, “The Prisoner”. I’ve watched the series multiple times, still have no real understanding of what the hell is actually going on a lot of the time, and thoroughly enjoy it.