And yet, he didn’t play Dr. Henry Killinger on the Venture Bros, despite being a clean parody of himself!

I miss Mallory, sure, but I disagree that Zara is pointless. She is Millennial/GenZ while Archer and Lana are GenX. She brings up the fact that neither Archer nor Lana are really at their prime (professionally or sexually) which is a valuable lesson for them to learn (I say this as a GenXer in real life),

Is it just the picture or does downtown Nashville look more fake than New York, New York in Vegas?

With DeNiro (and his mole) phoning in his performance!

“It turns out that all the monsters are dudes. Even the big scaly one.”

McMuffin? Is that an “eggcorn” for MacGuffin or is it intentional “for hysterical raisins”?

You are right! My 1970s movie trivia card is hereby revoked.

You are forgetting that there is where the Children of Atom were introduced. It actually makes a lot of sense -- nuclear bombs are powerful like gods, amd have the advantage of actually being real.

I mean, it literally has Mutt killed off between the movies! That wins Dial points right there. I mean, they could have dealt with the character not being there by having him off having his own adventures, but they basically did a “Poochie died on the way back to his home planet” on him!

And the joke doesn’t really hold up because now the general consensus is that Eyes Wide Shut is pretty good actually. But yeah, the interview is clearly breaking the fourth wall. Christopher Guest made a number of pretty good mockumentaries, often with some of the cast of Spinal Tap, but notably without the…

Maybe they can hire him to write a script which they then won’t use.

He’s going to marry (and divorce) Jane Fonda?

While I’m not optimistic about this, it could actually be good. Just as The Sarah Connor Chronicles was probably the third best thing in the Terminator franchise after the first two films, it’s possible that a Aliens show could be likewise.

Fun fact — the first movie remake (by Melies, the guy Scorsese’s Hugo was about) was in 1896. He remade Lumière’s Playing Cards.

I have no idea what that is, but I kind of want it to be like Iron Sky, with a Confederate moon base instead of a Nazi one.

I wouldn’t worry about it. Napoleon will escape from his exile and reign for another hundred days.

And the writers of the show included major SF writers of the time like Larry Niven and D.C. Fontana. There was a lot more thought and effort put forth (well in the first two seasons anyway) than you’d expect for a children’s show.

They’re just a flash in the pan. Or more appropriately for J.J., a lens flare!

Also shown (appropriately as the story was cyberpunkish as well given the future evil corporation angle), 1981's Outland, the Sean Connery movie where he plays a Marshall trying to clean up a notoriously corrupt space mining facility.

I wonder how those will turn out. Babylon 5 was famous for not using expensive SGI workstations to make its CGI of spaceships but rather consumer-level Amiga computers. It worked surprisingly well, but that was on the small CRT televisions we had then.