Eh, it was 1958. Everyone was dumber & aw-shucks trusting back then. And it's not like he was a stranger - he made a point to introduce himself & tell Georgie his name was Bob Gray. Plus clowns were still a legit form of comedy/entertainment then too. So yeah, I mean, sure he was hanging out down in the storm drain…

Exactly. Hence Eddie's only-water-and-a-dash-of-camphor-from-that-asshole-pharmacist-Mr Keene asthma inhaler turns to BATTERY ACID, FUCKNUTS!!!

And the Leper in the house on Neiboldt Street.

Yeah, Vern was probably pretty bad at math. We can infer that, anyway, given that he ended up in shop class with Teddy & Chris & the rest of the retards.

It's where/how I learned the word "squoozed."

Yeah, but cast legitimately and fairly - no more of this blancsploitation crap.

I can see cutting Patrick for time, but man… what a bummer. Such a wonderfully creepy and psychotic charachter. Would be a lot of fun to include. Tough to find a 13-year-old who could effectively pull off (lol) Patrick's glassy-eyed, rubber-lipped, soulless monster, though.

Exactly. He is/was brilliant at writing kid characters. Like Beverly Cleary, but with swearing and monsters and killing and small towns that were just a bit "off."

Yeah, you probably were there when IT was dormant.

A'yuh.

Sure, why not? I read It and The Stand both in 6th grade (or the summer after for the latter, maybe). They were both so good I re-read them both every year on alternating years. So like, I'd read It every other year and The Stand every other year I wasn't reading It. Did that for years.

A'yuh.

I have high hopes for this. It was my favorite book (well, one of em) from 6th grade through… jeez, I dunno, college, I suppose. The first stab at movie-ifying this fucking sucked and is an abomination unto all things. This has to be better, doesn't it? Doesn't it? Please?

Hey! My name is Todd too! Kickass! (does weedily-weedily-weedily air guitar lick)

He looks & sounds almost exactly like my father-in-law, if my father-in-law were a Star Wars galaxy non-human who operated a greasy spoon on Coruscant.

Poor Zuckuss.

Road trip with my mom?

Eh, I think he was just stretched limo-bound. For a while, anyway.

In space pizza just kinda floats.

Tetrammaried.