Yes. And damn you for reminding me that Phil Hartman is still dead.

Well I was going to guess that they were made out of fingernails. That would have been way cooler. And seriously creepy.

My pareidolia must be broken.

Wait. That's not good news at all!

Bah. When I was just a tiny bit older than that girl I was obsessed with reading the "Peanuts" comics collections from my library. I'd go through a book in a day or so and then check the next one out.

I never understood that one. The government is either an evil puppet master pulling secret strings to nefarious ends, or the government is an confederacy of dunces who can't even oversee a rocket trip without resorting to fakery. How could both be true?

I agree and would add this:

With the ping pong balls on stalks, it looks like the actual turtle head is going to be higher up and bigger, possibly allowing or a more reasonable ratio of shell to non shell.

Rob, Rob, Rob...

I'll take my shirt off for you any time.

aw c'mon. How many male action stars find a way to appear shirtless in at least one scene in every movie?

Astounded. Astounded, I say, that they lifted a plot device (using a bomb to turn off a volcano) as an old episode of Gilligan's Island.

Didn't the original Battlestar Galactica start with the Cylon attack at the peace treaty signing ceremony?

Somehow whenever someone mentions Michael York, I get a mental image of Dick York, in full-on cartoon mode from the Bewitched opening credits. Don't know why...

Ugh. If I want to see a Blue Man, I will go to Vegas.

No. I didn't and I don't.

"As you talk about it – and I’m the worst one to be talking about it because I do not know Star Trek [canon] as well as I know other"

So the Universe is kind of analogous to a pack of Gogurts?

It's a three-wheeled vehicle for small children, but that's not important now.

Lieutenant Dan! Ice cream!!