Yeah, that opening teaser is one of the best.  It’s pretty ridiculous when you think about it, but it just hits all the beats perfectly.

I’ve always liked Octopussy. There’s the obvious reason- it was the first James Bond movie I ever saw, and the only point of comparison I had was Never Say Never Again. I recall either Showtime or Cinemax airing them back-to-back in a “Battle of the Bonds” and not having seen any others, I couldn’t understand why…

Another commonly mispronounced company name, although they may have accepted what people call them in the Anglosphere: Addidas (AH-DEE-dahs, not a-DEED-us).

I think part of this is a Vermont-specific issue, maybe even moreso a Burlington-specific issue.

To be fair, that statement came from one of the founders who no longer has any direct involvement in the company, even though his name and likeness are still used.

Unlike most Bond allies, his character actually survived in the movie. And he killed the main villain too.

Plus, Stoker’s Dracula isn’t even Romanian (or Wallachian), he’s from a Transylvanian Hungarian minority group.

I guess we’re excluding made-for-TV movies, because I remember seeing that 1970s BBC version of Dracula as a kid, and Louis Jourdan was absolutely terrifying in the title role.  He brought a kind of dispassionate cruelty to the role that you can also see when he played Kamal Khan in Octopussy.

Except, Kevin Bacon made his debut in Animal House.  Not a horror film, but he did get trampled and flattened by a panicked crowd.

I thought Mackey’s pharmacy where I lived growing up was surely the only pharmacy that would rent movies, but I guess I was completely wrong on that one.

I’m glad the article didn’t forget his “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions”. Thanks to him, I added the word “Chutzpah” to my vocabulary at probably age 8 (although I surely pronounced it incorrectly), from his “Chutzpah Is...” series that appeared occasionally in MAD.

No Honeymoon in Vegas? That’s at least mid-level Nicholas Cage weird. May I remind you of this scene?

Yet another reason why this review feels like it was written from within a particular bubble.

And while it’s possible to quibble about the weirdly sci-fi mix of period signifiers (white boy afros exist beside cellphones),

If anything, Bob Ross’s reputation has grown since his death. He was kind of a joke during his PBS run, but there seems to be a growing appreciation of how he changed himself from a hard-nose air force NCO to basically a Mr. Rogers for adults. And, he seems to have genuinely inspired many people to take up painting as…

And Garrison Keillor is very much still alive.

Judging by the track record of most of the Disney live action remakes, any and all controversies will soon be forgotten, because the movie will suck and it will quickly fade into the bottom of the Disney+ algorithm.

I still want to know, though, where the remark about Pennsylvania came from. Is this show actually set in Pennsylvania, and if it supposedly has continuity to the films (a Grease Cinematic Universe, or GCU?), what is the connection to PA?

Yeah, did I miss something? The review casually mentions “If you want to get historically accurate about it, does it stretch credulity that a 1950s Pennsylvania suburb would be this diverse?” No explanation of why this is set in Pennsylvania?  Were the Pink Ladies a girl gang with regional chapters?

Kid of the 80s here. I had to turn to the library to find out why my voice was cracking, why I was growing more hair, why my skin became greasy, why my crotch now had a weird smell, why I would get random erections, etc. because my parents were terrified of any discussions that involved even the lightest hint of…