I want a Sharif Country show where someone portraying the late actor Omar Sharif talks about his time in Hollywood and also tries to get us interested in playing Contract Bridge.

How about Demon Seed (1977) about an evil “smart home” that starts to gets the hots for the housewife living in it? Probably better remembered for the Simpsons Treehouse segment parodying it.

And peeing on a statue of Winnie the Pooh! And shouting at a stage magician that he (the magician) was clearly wearing a codpiece.

Although reality is kind of that way. Many people who get classified as “good” have dark sides to them. Gandhi liked very young girls. MLK jr. was an adulterer.

I hate that movie. Karate and Kung Fu are not the same thing, and that movie just adds to the confusion.

Not all the villains were cartoonish. Indeed, the whole show owes its origin to the observation that Johnny wasn’t really as bad as Daniel-san thought he was. Terry Silver was certainly a cartoon though, although I like what they did with the character on the show.

Which Australian city is the most underrated? Brisbane, Melbourne, or Perth? Obviously Sydney is the most overrated. Fuck Sydney.

See (or rather don’t) the terrible adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in 1998. That was absolutely the wrong time to adapt that book. You could argue that today might make some sense, as Thompson’s early 1970s disgust with America has echos today, but what made people think the 1990s was…

If you like that sort of thing, also read Michael Seller’s John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood (about the making of the flop John Carter movie) and Glen Berger’s The Song of Spiderman (about the fiasco that was Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark).

I’m not sure we ever would given the contempt that John Cusack has for the film (unjustified in my opinion but I’m a guy who throws our lines like “You can wash your hands on your own time” and “French fries with French dressing” and expect people to get the reference).

It’s a cowardly position to claim as Gould did, that science and religion are compatible. To do so requires having one mindset in the laboratory and a contradictory mindset outside it. I’m also a scientist and think JBS Haldane put it best when he said the quote to the effect that if he trusts the equipment in his…

In the legal sense, yes. But it is clear that we are supposed to identify and sympathize with Broderick’s character and find Tracy insufferable. Although the sequel novel (not filmed) corrects some of this and makes her more human.

America is weird that way. People freaked out when Dawkins published “The God Delusion” as if it was some weird position to question religion. Meanwhile people in Europe were like “Didn’t Bertrand Russell write basically the same thing in ‘Why I am not a Christian’ about a century ago?”

And the back story for his last name was pretty boring. I was hoping he got it because he was named after the red cups because of his skill in beer pong.

Well, there is one in this sketch, I suppose, even if the point is to show how out of touch Shangy is.

No, you misunderstand. It’s a snuff film because the characters partake in inhaled tobacco, as was the style in the 18th century.

I get that Fallout 1/2 may seem clunky to people who weren’t playing computer games in the 1990s (where you were actually expected to read the manual before playing rather than jumping in like modern games), but I don’t get how Fallout 3 or New Vegas are any clunkier than Fallout 4/76. Obviously 4 and 76 have better…

It never reached the heights of the original Mr. Show (much as the rebooted Kids in the Hall on Amazon also failed to do), but there were brilliant sketches in it. I particularly liked the “Shangy” sketch (unfortunately truncated here before the best part, but it’s the best copy I can find on youtube). This is is even…

There can be only one! (Queen’s “Who wants to live forever?” plays in the background).

(This is maybe mean, but we can’t help of thinking of this as “pulling a Jeffy,” in the tradition of the weird father-son succession that happened on The Family Circus. But we digress.)