It’s a bit like how Dave Barry used to make fun of those cereal ads that showed a bowl of cereal next to eggs, toast, and fruit claiming that the cereal was “part of this complete breakfast!” As Barry said, don’t you really mean “adjacent to this complete breakfast”?

Maybe not so proud of the fact that it features Jeffery Jones as the Emperor (who granted does have the classic line where he is giving advice to Mozart “My dear young man, don’t take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It’s quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that’s all. Cut a few and it will be…

Yeah, I looked in their catalog and they seem to have all the DEFA movies (East German state owned movie studio 1946-1992) which are pretty hard to find these days, although back in the early days of Netflix disc-by-mail they had them too.

And could be licensed by them for a commercial! Thinking ahead for added revenue. Clever.

fish-tank-like bathrooms.

I knew not to let the manure go in my mouth, how about that?

I think it’s combined. All the stuff Tubi has is free though.

Is this the gritty origin story for Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco, founder of Slashdot, if you are old enough (and geeky enough) to remember when that was a thing (well, it still exists technically)?

Are you Canadian? The weird thing is when I worked in Canada for about five years I ran into several people who looked like Sutherland -- like it was genetic or something.

And M. Emmet Walsh (whom we also lost not too long ago) as the swim coach rather than the slimy villains he usually played.

Like “Harry Potter” in Troll (1986).

Not exactly, but according to Justwatch, Netflix has about 5000 titles, Amazon about 29,000, and Hulu around 2,500 titles. Tubi, which wasn’t mentioned, has 40,000 and dwarfs them all. Still, the point stands that Scarecrow still has more than all of them combined.

I’m really surprised nobody has done Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell yet. It wouldn’t really work as a movie, but it’s exactly the sort of thing streamers could make a one season show out of.

I like his portrayal of an anti-British Irishman working with the Nazis to kidnap/assassinate Churchill in the Eagle has Landed.

I’ve always wondered why there weren’t conspiracy theories about Garfield’s and McKinley’s assassinations. We get that Garfield and McKinley were killed by disturbed people, for reasons that made sense to them but don’t really make sense logically. But somehow JFK was special for some reason. Lincoln of course was…

There’s three models — a Gracie O’Malley model, an Anne Bonny model, and a Cheng I Sao model! A pirate queen for all tastes!

But apparently one based on real cases. I remember a news story about how a high-end sex doll manufacturer made a custom doll based on a customer’s dead wife. Maybe a bit creepy, but people handle grief in different ways.

No, it’s Mitchell & Webb. Although the girl who gets rescued is (now Oscar-winning) Olivia Colman, who was a university friend of the duo.

Needs the Angel Summoner

I still like the “Sire, the peasants are revolting!” joke where the king interprets it as a description of how awful they are rather than them trying to overthrow him.