And it’s not necessarily easier on the actors, either, even if the stuff is there right in front of them—I remember reading that, due to the limitations of the puppet, a lot of scenes with Audrey (especially the musical numbers) were filmed slower and then sped up with dialogue dubbed in—and Rick Moranis was such a…

Yeah, I’m surprised there isn’t more love for the director’s cut’s ending (this was the case when it was The Dissolve’s movie of the week, too)—it’s ten minutes of absolute mayhem, with such an infectious, apocalyptic joy in the music and singing. I know Oz has tried to get away from being just a Muppets guy, but it…

And he hired Louis Tiffany to redecorate the White House!

“M as in Mancy”

Those are all mistakes, @avclub-6ffc79f9decf633c29b09e6c25621195:disqus , I looked them up.

Not much for me—original plans fell through so I’ve mostly been doing errands/electronically catching up with people from afar. But in the background I’ve been doing another dive into electronic music. Earlier this week I was delving into some early Orbital when I heard Michael Dorn’s voice being sampled, talking…

I actually thought the fig-eating donkey/he could use some wine thing to be pretty funny, but it does seem a bit like a “smooth move Ferguson”-type situation.

Urquhart was a translator of Rabelais (and evidently his remains highly-regarded, and I remember reading something where Urquhart’s creative Scottish vulgarity was compared to a super-erudite Malcolm Tucker), so if anyone were to die laughing it makes sense it would be him.

This was the perfect mid-afternoon pick-me-up. Many thanks!

IV and O’Neal tend to do pretty great GJI—one of the advantages of going to avclub.com/recent rather than the homepage is that you get to see the author.

I don’t think Pence is kinky enough for Marmaduke.

Wrong sort of medical degree—you couldn’t get through the vetting process.

Granted, it looks like the kind of style of comic character I could see
on some yellowing piece of paper taped up at my dentist's receptionist's
desk that's been there since they opened

I thought of this:

#Downvoted

Upvoted you now, but when the page refreshes the ability will probably be gone.

The shovel plate is not bad, actually. Also is anyone else not able to upvote things? I wouldn’t have a problem if upvoting were gone, actually, just curious whether it’s just a me/Firefox identifies upvotes as evil thing or whether it’s website-wide.

I went on a little music-buying binge on Amazon yesterday (thanks, O’Neal—now I have Vangelis’s Rosetta on pre-order) and the CD market’s in a weird place. On the one hand we’re still not out of the ultra-cheap “I need to get rid of these useless discs!” era—I bought The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast for 1¢…

Gas actually is a Dutch/Flemish transliteration of “chaos” (the Greek spelling is χάος—“χ” is rendered as “ch” but it’s really the “ch” as it’s pronounced in German or Yiddish; in Dutch and Flemish “g” makes something like that noise). Χάος in ancient Greek myth is a bit like “without form and void” in Genesis,…

Terminator, on a computer screen, during a blackhot in hot, hot weather