I generally grade on a curve for lists like this from US websites.

I guess the caveat for the title is “that Americans know about”.

How could you leave out Fridays?

Also, shoutout to Four of the Floor, who don’t belong on this list but should be given honourable mention for giving us Canadians (and probably many Americans in the more northern states) Mr. Canoehead.

Would have liked some separation between SCTV and SNL, but otherwise a pretty good list. In Living Color was a great show, certainly above SLN quality wise, but .. 4 seems pretty high imho.

(Oppenheimer pulls his pants down)

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No Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner from Zacharias Kunuk? No Jesus of Montreal or The Barbarian Invasions from Denys Arcand? Not even a mention of the most glorious Canadian movie of them all from Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis? Buncha hosers!!!

I hate how relevant this statement is for me. Granted, Tron is barely a franchise in terms of movies, but watching Disney continue to squander the potential of this world across most media platforms just crushes me.

This is such a weird-ass project. So you’re Disney, and thirteen years ago you release Tron: Legacy, and it’s a pretty good movie. Its story was nothing new, but the production design and soundtrack is still chef’s kiss. The movie doesn’t exactly light the box office on fire, so they’re apprehensive to make a sequel, b…

Thanks, asshole, now everyone who reads this will probably die before then. I hope you’re happy.

Came here to say pretty much this. I’ve been making sun tea for decades and never once had bacterial growth. Use a clean jar, clean water, don’t add sugar and you’ll be all good.

The risk is effectively zero (worth noting that tea solids are, in fact, anti-microbial), and this kind of institutionalized overcaution is both ridiculous and detrimental.

This is actual nonsense. Sun Tea is brewed before any sugar - necessary to fuel any bacterial growth - is added. Unsweatened tea is simply not a viable growth media. There is one professor that cites one patent (not even a scientific study) that is regularly quoted here. The patent is public record, there was no…

This list shows some pretty severe recency bias; there was a wave of imitators in the 80s, many of which were low-budget exploitation pictures, that get overlooked here. Several people have mentioned Romancing the Stone, the Chamberlain Quatermain, and Tales of the Gold Monkey, but there was also High Road to China,…

The literary Quatermain, sure. But the movies starring Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone didn’t happen until after the success of the Indiana Jones films made movie execs go “Hey, what do we got that could compete with that?”

Yes! and I’d even include the old TV series Tales of the Gold Monkey!

man, these ai-written slideshows get worse by the day...

No Alan Quartermain or Romancing the Stone?

So, as you asked me for a story about angels and demons...