@blyan is nominal too?: Well, to be fair, it sounds like its a very vertical show. That might have just been the only way to frame it when things were happening both at nearly two stories high and at stage level.

@StupidPopMediaReference: Well, it probably would have just been another mediocre cash-in Broadway show if they hadn't picked a superhero that requires the show to also be essentially a high-wire act. Those are always dangerous, and not to be entered into lightly- the professionals who do regularly put on those shows,…

@MTVAH: It looks like the rope snapped off on the edge of the platform when it took his full weight. You can kind of see the other end of the rope still resting on the edge of the platform.

@badasscat: I was going to say like something by Heinlein. That's definitely a Heinlein-esque corporate name.

Nice reference to the SWHS with the purple Jefferson Starship skit. I'm surprised they didn't throw in a digital porn fantasy chair joke, though.

@Arken: Well, that was probably one of the objectives, yes- but a lot of people also criticize the advice as being useless, whereas it is actually totally valid, when you boil it down: "the blast is probably going to be 20-50 miles away at the closest, so if you hear the air raid sirens, treat it like an earthquake or…

Lots of people completely miss the point of "Duck and Cover". Most of those school kids who were watching these shorts were suburbanites, who would be relatively far away from the primary blast zones of military targets and industrial centers. They weren't supposed to get under their desks to shield themselves from a…

@cletar: And the producer on a speakerphone ranting about giant spiders. Don't forget about that.

@spiderweb1986: Superman Green is the middle brother, so you don't hear about him much.

@truthtellah: I bet it would look great on ice, with a bunch of fog.

@Rahll: On the other hand, I would love to see Johnny Depp play superman, and for all the wrong reasons.

@amazingmao: I think more like Batman and Robin. Also, to be fair, it wasn't any stupider than what they were doing with the character in the actual comic books at the time- Red Vs. Blue electro-supermen, anyone?

@Brodka: regrettably: Oh man, now I'm wishing that Superman sung opera while fighting crime.

I'm not even going to touch the biology on this one.

@Yoshinari-san: Remember that scene, from the Star Wars Holiday Special, where Itchy is in the Mind Evaporator watching his weird interspecies holographic sex fantasy...

@VincentGrey: ... I'd pay to see that version of the Star Wars trilogy. Hell, even the prequels.

@GunFlame: Digivolve into Wargunflamemon: Faulty scuba regulator they found.

So does this mean that the urge to vote for Palin is going to show up in the DSM-5?

@Se7en_speed: Suddenly I'm flashing back to "Westworld"...

@xhedgehogx: Oh, its ok though- AT&T will introduce a new plan where they take that extra hundred dollars off if you sign up for one of their experimental new 5-year contracts.