The thing is, despite made on a shoestring, many of them are worth watching even without the riffing. Which can’t be said for some of the stuff they’ve covered like Manos: The Hands of Fate.

You’re absolutely right. And it was synergistic — Broadway-style musicals influenced Disney animations which led to musicals like The Lion King based on the animations. Which probably gave new life to the Broadway musical. I doubt there would have been things like musicals based on Mean Girls if it weren’t for the…

I wonder if there is a podcast out there with somebody who was in the room when they actually came up with that movie -- some of it had to be sort of like K&P’s sketch in that they clearly came up with weird Gremlins first and then came up with the story.

But that’s not saying anything. Whether you agree with Seinfield and the like or with the kids who don’t like his comedy, both think that’s what’s happening. The issue is whether it is just natural changes in taste in comedy that change everything else — clothes, music, etc. or if it is ideological.

The directing and composition was okay, but honestly, looking at the clip above (I haven’t seen the movie since it was in theaters) shows just how poorly turn-of-the-millennium CGI dated. This looks like a budget PS3 game from 2010, not something from a big budget movie. The practical effects of the original series…

15 years after its premiere, why is Glee still constantly going viral?

It’s an imperfect film to be sure, but it’s a useful snapshot of early 1990s GenX angst. Pretty much all the same problems that Millennials (and now GenZ) face were there then. It turns out that a lot of problems that get associated with “generations” are basically the same problems that young people in any generation…

At least one of them has her thetans to blame though.

I think Winona Ryder’s character should have ended up with his character rather than with Ethan Hawke’s in Reality Bites.

I think you are confusing it with Foxconn (the Chinese manufacturer of iPhones), although even there the suicide nets might just be a rumor. LG is South Korean, where workers have a far better quality of life.

You’ll be able to weasel out of it due to the annoying use of “literally” to mean “figuratively” by Millennial assholes.

But probably not the chimpanzee peeing into his mouth review either. It’s okay to be mediocre -- it’s better than the people who never tried at all.

Why did nobody complain when LG did basically the same ad in 2008? Honestly this whole “controversy” is stupid. It’s obvious what both LG and Apple meant — that their devices contained cameras, musical instruments, and games machines in a compact device. There is nothing sinister about this. With all the real problems…

Maybe with CRISPR we can make gum that really does turn you into a blueberry!

I think it’s fair to ask whether, as a whole, we’ve lost some of our ability to tolerate opposing viewpoints in our media (or at least our ability to give an isolated moment a charitable interpretation.)

“Hello Tomorrow!” (Apple’s retro-1950s future-set series vaguely akin to Fallout) was kind of a miss. Maybe not a big one because no prior IP was involved.

Okay, I was more interpreting it as “look at this loon writing letters to a fictional character and not the actress who played her” but I suppose it could be interpreted your way too.

That’s a typo. The Lippman novel was Lady in the Lake. So nothing to do with the terrible M. Night Shyamalan movie.

On the other hand, perhaps lady detectives in Baltimore *are* a reasonable basis for a system of government!

Pine stars as Darren Barrenman (get it? “Barren Man”?), a “long-haired manchild” who talks and dresses like a fifth grader and writes daily letters to Erin Brockovich (not Julia Roberts) on his typewriter