You mean LARPers aren’t typically massively wealthy? Well, I guess they can still play in the steam tunnels.

Of course these days the joke doesn’t have the same meaning. Haggard would be overqualified compared to half the bozos on there now, despite having been dead since 2016.

I mean, it is a classic episode with so much that has entered pop culture —Señor Spielbergo (Spielberg’s non-union Mexican equivalent), Burns comparing himself to Oskar Schindler “We both were factory owners, we both made shells for the Nazis. But mine worked, dammit!”, Hans Moleman saying “I was saying boo-urns!”.

I wonder (largely due to LaMarche, although the tapes of Welles’ sessions had  been circulating for years) what Welles would have thought about the fact that in pop culture he is probably better known for these outtakes from his voiceover of frozen food commercials than he is for Citizen Kane.

That’s where Catholicism shines -- they have confession. Assuming you truly repent during confession, you can do whatever you want before it.

There’s even a whole book about it:

Although that’s basically every decent children’s show. Seasame Street was doing that 50 years ago.

The Force is obviously an analogy for duct tape. It has a light side and a dark side and it binds the universe together.

Coruscant is a Timothy Zahn creation

I mean, just look at the guy. Watto has a big nose and wears a broad-rimmed circular hat! He has to be evil and this has absolutely no real-world implications! Honestly between Watto and Jar-Jar did anyone working on the movie stop and say “Um, Mr. Lucas, should we really have these broad stereotypes in our movie?”

So did The Mummy (the good one with Brendan Fraser, not the bad one with Tom Cruise), which was released in 1999 a few days before TPM. That was a way better movie. Why not run an article about that?

We saw Baymax in person at Epcot

Now I’m wondering if Tarantino (or at least the ad agency Miramax used) paid Ebert to reprint his entire review rather than just give a quote or two which would be fair use. On one hand that would seem fair, but it’s a slippery ethical scope for movie critics to take money from studios.

People could read back then. But seriously, even B-movies like C.H.U.D. had multiple sentences on their posters. These days maybe you’ll have a tag line at best.

Yeah! Who would have guessed that the Wayward Pines were actually fir trees instead? (Note: I have not seen the show).

Again, this isn’t true if you take this new trailer as canon. Furiosa is very much from a post-war generation, as was Hardy’s character. He may have been named Max as an in-joke, but he clearly wasn’t the same character as Gibson’s.

He’s not unlike Scorsese in that way. I mean, if you didn’t know, would you think the charming children’s movie Hugo or the Dalai Lama biopic Kundun were Scorsese films?

From the trailer, it is stated that Furiosa was taken from her family as a child 45 years after the collapse — she probably wasn’t born for at least 35 years after the apocalypse. The Road Warrior and Thunderdome are probably 10 or 20 years after the apocalypse, as Max obviously lived pre-war in the first Mad Max. Max…

Which is more than can be said for Beau is Not Afraid, at least not in this part of the multiverse. We just have the opposite.