‘Thank you for eating at White Castle. Fill out the survey at the bottom of your receipt and tell us if you’ve seen Sarah Connor to get a code for a free small fry on your next visit!’

So it really IS Horrors Week here at the AV Club, isn’t it?

Carte Blanche like Shane Black got for Iron Man 3 so he ended it with Tony destroying all his suits and giving up the Iron Man life? Then there he is in Age of Ultron flying around and there’s one quick line that’s basically, ‘Nah.’ That kind of Carte Blanche?

I don’t have a joke here, but for the last 20 years, every time I read about Phil Collins I think of this:

Your mileage may vary depending on your love of the show, but as a die-hard Wingnut, I was completely enthralled from beginning to end. When a shot near the end cut from the staged production to footage from the original episode, it was so seamless I didn’t even notice it for a few seconds. Sterling Brown was…

You’re right.  The numbers will be in.  But how long will the lawyers fight over them?  Remember it wasn’t over in the 200o election until mid-December, and I’m afraid this will be WAAYY worse.

Trump is going to crow about the ratings for a few days because the numbers for his town hall will almost certainly top Biden’s. Even though a lot of the people watching Biden will trend younger and be watching on non-traditional forms of TV that aren’t tracked by Nielsen.

Ha!  As if there will be election results by Thanksgiving!!  Good one!

A couple of years ago I started a “Read all of Shakespeare in a Year’ list, and it was going fine for the first two months or so. Then I realized I had stopped reading and was just looking at each word with little comprehension or retention. I threw out the ‘in a year’ part and just followed the list at my own pace,…

Elf on the Shelf comes in a close second to Pumpkin Spice on the ‘Seasonal Things White People Love That Inexplicably Annoy the Crap Out Of Me’

‘...Operation Christmas Drop, which is not, as its title would suggest, a Christmas-themed reboot of the Bill Murray classic...’ I’m assuming you’re referring to Operation Dumbo Drop here, which did not star Bill Murray. However, Bill Murray did later star in Larger than Life, which featured an elephant named Tai who…

‘two complex consumer marketing tie-ins” with McDonalds and Crown Royal,’

Looks like a quick shot of Trashy there with the guy hauling something up out of an underground bunker.  Not a close look at him, though.  

Makes perfect sense to me. The Clamp character in The New Batch was a pretty direct take-off on Trump anyway.

The best part of the book (and also the movie) was Wolfe contrasting the Mercury 7 astronaut’s stories with those of other test pilots who either didn’t make the cut or weren’t qualified to try out in the first place, Chuck Yeager being the most prominent one. This review doesn’t make any mention of that subplot, so…

Love that ad and watch it all the time.  Too bad it was better than the game it was advertising.  

I’m one of those who puts on a vr headset of any kind and becomes nauseous the second it starts up.  It’s really bugging me, because this looks like it would be a ball.  Still, I’m loving the game, and it brings me back solidly to the days of obsessively playing the Lucasarts X-wing sims.

Apparently being an idiot doesn’t preclude someone from spitting some pretty good burns on Twitter.  

Jesus.  Can somebody please go check on Mel Brooks and Dick Van Dyke?

‘While Sorkin wrote Spencers death into the show...’ Sorkin left the show after the fourth season, a couple of years before John Spencer died. People just discovering the show should know that before blaming Sorkin for the god-awful Season 5.