Random, but re-listening to this now, and I think the composers for “Independence Day” ripped it off a bit for one of the themes in the film. (Namely the one that plays when somber things are happening.)

Oh, just shut the fuck up. I don’t care about politeness - go stuff your opinion. It’s wrong, and you should feel bad. And if you feel like saying something, I want you to go through what I have - losing a parent to COVID - and then try arguing that, at absolute worst, the vaccine is not the lesser of evils. Until,…

I enjoy a good SP takedown as much as the next fellow, but this one felt unnecessarily nasty to me, especially with how they treated Meaghan. It reminded me of the overkill on Sarah Jessica Parker in “Scrotie McBoogerballs” (along with some examples from earlier in the show’s life), but at least in that case it was…

My thoughts exactly.

I mean, if I’d heard “lost ark” without ever knowing the film, I’d be thinking of Noah’s ark before the ark of the covenant. As for dial, personally I’m picturing a sundial-like object, but we’ll find out soon enough.

To be fair, I’d argue that every Indiana Jones movie title is a bad title. We’re just used to them, so they became endearing rather than stupid. (Seriously, if we heard “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” for the first time as a name for a modern movie, would it get mocked any less than “Dial of Destiny”?) They’re…

I’ve never been happier I kept my old Columbo DVDs.

Minaj seems like the obvious choice to take over (though I’ve heard whispers about him being a terrible boss on Patriot Act, which could crop up if he’s tapped), unless they decide to go in a more risky direction and get someone not guest-hosting (Amber Ruffin or Ziwe come to mind). Personally I’d love Robin Thede…

While they’re remastering obscure Gamecube RPGs, could we please get Skies of Arcadia too? Yeah, I know, it’s different because Monolith is owned by Nintendo and SoA was a Sega game, but still. We’ve waited too long already.

#6: Original music. A lot of older TV shows especially didn’t license their music for streaming and re-licensing it is cost-prohibitive, so you get a lot of generic replacements instead. If you want to get the real experience of a show like Scrubs, for instance, you basically need to watch the DVDs (at least for the…

I don’t warm to be an armchair psychologist, but my take on Harmon is that he’s a type of autistic where he has very limited self-awareness in the moment, but once he realizes why and how he’s doing things wrong, he is hyper-conscientious about it. He’s also definitely hard to work with, but I’m guessing (likely being…

Hi there, fellow DC resident! Actually proposed to now-fiancée in Rock Creek Park a few months ago.

::Dr. Lecter has entered the chat::

:-P

I wouldn’t call 20 minutes of class and a bit of homework that day “going deep,” but sure.

I mean, yes, it would be easier if you knew the game, but it’s not like Valhalla is a concept invented by Ubisoft. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Norse mythology has probably heard of it. And even if you didn’t get that in grade school European history like I did, it’s hardly obscure knowledge, since it’s…

Figures - I finally got around to seeing Avatar today. What am I, chopped liver?

(Don’t answer that.)

Not a coincidence though - he’s named after the ancestor (IIRC) that founded the Arm & Hammer company, the name of which was a play on his own name.

I mean, does anyone really think we’ll still have this many major streaming services in 5 years? I don’t know which ones will continue (whether through momentum, merit, or being backed by such large corporations that they can afford to operate indefinitely in the red - looking at you, Disney+), but I’m fairly certain…

Revenge of the Bat?

I’m guessing you were looking for a clip of Jason Mantzoukas’s character changing his name to Dennis Feinstein?