Red Dwarf saw this coming. They said we’d go back to videotapes because it was harder to lose them.

How did you guess?

In an episode in which the protagonist’s family members have all died in an horrific accident when their flying car ran into a guy on a jetpack.

He also reused a lot of elements of “City of Death” for Dirk Gently, which did not have the excuse of not having been shown to the general public at the time.

Any of the family, really, his mother, his sister, his sister’s husband, his mother’s almost age-appropriate boyfriend (“What is his name? My sister and I call him “boytoy” but you can’t put that on a Thanksgiving table, can you?”)

The worst adaptation was a 2001 made for television movie with Alfred Molina as Hercule Poirot. They set it in the present day, which means that Poirot could have gone online and solved the murder in five minutes. They also had Vera Rosakoff in the movie as his hot young girlfriend. (In the novels, she was his age and…

“I know I’ve said this before but I really mean it this time —- let’s put leaves in our underwear!”

And no matter what’s gone wrong with his life, Neil can always look in the mirror and say to himself, “Well, at least I didn’t do Zardoz.”

The classic Lucille Fletcher thriller starring Barbara Stanwyck, Sorry, Buttdial.

“You’ve been reading too many novels by Fleming.”

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage was also an adaptation of an American novel, Frederic Brown’s The Screaming Mimi.

The neutral pocket dimension beneath a shapeless time void just happened to be unguarded? Michael can blame it on good being stupid all he wants, but my theory is The Good Place knows exactly what Michael is up to and is letting him do it to see if he can become a better not person.

But the author of SCUM

The tenets of Dogme 95 don’t allow the director to be identified [as a sexual harasser] , so we’ll just call him “Depressatron Van Der Nazipants.”

“It’s pronounced OLD YELLOW.”

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E.B. White??? Confused with C.S. Lewis? Not even T.H. White, which might make some sense. I notice you got J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin correct. This is NBG, DP. Fix PDQ. TTFN. Yrs, HGJ

You didn’t quote my favorite Dumas anecdote:

Can we smother Evan Romansky as a mercy killing? I mean, he’s clearly already been lobotomized.

The kid was played by Gary Coleman. The detective was played by Don Adams. So yeah, massive wacky. The Dortmunder gang was the only good part of the movie and they were cut so as to give Coleman and Adams more time to mug. (Of the mind boggling list of Dortmunders, (Robert Redford, George C. Scott, Christopher…