I am thoroughly outraged at Potakis' bet adding up to $110. (Pretty much ok with the article, though.)

"Uh, levee?"

Late to this, but Modelland apparently had its own theme song, composed by Tyra Banks herself (at least, there's… little other explanation for it):

Several comparisons have already been made to different titles, but I haven't seen the one this reminds me of the most: the 1953 EC comics short story "50 Girls 50", which was also recently re-published in an anthology of its artist (Al Williamson) under 50 Girls 50 and Other Stories. Same basic backdrop: giant,…

Sorry for mild thread necromancy, I've been intermittently lurking at least a few days behind AVC threads lately…

It's just Conway and no Korman in this outtake, but his adlibbing (and Vicki Lawrence's) to keep the others breaking is amazing here:

Though that is the version around which the story of Greta Garbo (or Marlene Dietrich, or…) seeing it and lamenting, "Give me back my Beast!" at the end has thrived.

A few years ago, I found out there was an interview/Q&A with him in Brooklyn when I was in NY the day of and immediately caught a subway. I arrived to a room absolutely packed with fans of all stripes and ages and basically hung out in the open doorway with more people behind me, just listening to this amazing,…

I remember reading that bit as a teen in the anthology series "Action Girl Comics". The girls go on a picnic and decide to go swimming in their underwear, which the boys take pictures of, and it turns out the girl who suggested swimming in the first place did so because the boys paid her to and maybe it was her idea…

Incidentally, last year the Art Institute put up a rather sweet video with the retiring director recreating said traipsing with coworkers — it does make me want to do a comparison sometime:

She does look like acute little thing, but she can get pretty obtuse when it comes to others' willingness to fight.

I agree, except (mentioned above too), I did hear about thigh gap being aspirational for my high school-aged sister's friends when I was in elementary in the early '90s when said sister vented about it to me (she took dance and was on the school dance squad too — this definitely wasn't the only body image thing she…

It was a non-online, pre-household-mainstream Internet idea when I was growing up — I remember being told "if you have a gap between your thighs, it means you aren't fat" as an older elementary student by my high school-aged sister, who was apparently frustrated by the notion, and my best friend and I checking each…

There was a live-action Sailor Moon series, actually. From what little I've seen, it relies a lot visually on cheesy/goofy cgi, but I get the impression campy fun is what they were going for.

For photos, I try to imagine seeing someone I genuinely want to in the general direction of the camera. This can be a close friend, lover, or pizza deliveryman, as suits the situation.

I've mentioned before on AV Club but Alison Bechdel was very nice. I found out last-minute about a talk she was giving and couldn't find my autograph book so grabbed an old sketchbook. There was a small blank part for her to sign but she started flipping through it (as I mentally screamed). And then she sincerely…

In the MILF joke, Ellie Kemper's "I am restraining myself from physically fighting you" body language and timing is just absolutely perfect.

I'm only passingly familiar with Rocky and Zelda (as in, flipped through a Rocky book and brute-force translated a handful of Zelda strips I ran across without knowing Swedish), My best guesses: Rocky reminded me style and seemingly content-wise of Peter Bagge's Hate, which was apparently semi-autobiographical. Zelda……

One word: Homonym.

I actually started watching out of curiosity because "Terriers" scrolled by on the tv listings channel, though my initial thought was "is it a really specific dog competition or something?". It happened to be the first episode, and I was hooked. But it took some doing to convince JergSir to watch, for the same reason…