Beth being an alternate version of herself that Rick snatched from another Rick after losing her somehow would add a dark background to Froopy Land, which was a super-safe world where nothing could kill her...

A mad scientist going to another dimension to steal a version of his dead child?

also Rick loves Birdperson!

I mean, Stillwater is a “Trump Voters are People Too!” movie that exploits Amanda Knox’s story. I think that’s worth critiquing.

Yea, it’s less heinous but he still comes off as pretty fuckin’ clueless (at best)

I think the issue is less about whether or not he actively used the slur in his day to day life but that he didn’t realize until this year that it wasn’t ok to say.

I’m pretty tired of all the hair-splitting around “Well, most Germans weren’t actually Nazis!” during the Nazi era. While obviously true, it smacks to me of “The Civil War was about states’ rights” style revisionism.

America Sings, an attraction primarily known these days for reasons Disney would rather you didn’t.

Yeah the Splash Mountain creation is... strange. By the time it finally opened, no kids could see anything with the characters (though they were on merchandise). As already mentioned it was Eisner who gave it the name Splash (and at one point wanted a cameo by the Splash mermaid—I think it had been up to that point…

Fun fact!  It was called “Splash Moutain” because of the movie “Splash!”  Nothing about the development of that ride makes a lick of fucking sense. 

I always assumed that they kept the Song of the South theming at Splash Mountain simply because it had been there from the beginning, and nobody wanted to or had the clout to fight the tradition of ol’ Uncle Walt’s original vision.

Yeah, it doesn’t particularly take a preservation angle (as--in the narrative of the movie--the tree of life is hidden, not threatened by encroaching development) so much as it is generically pro using this discovery for altruistic purposes.

Adventure movies are limited in setting because at a certain point everything has been thoroughly mapped and documented and you want your movie set before that... but the formula could work in a scifi story where some new planet is being explored.

Every time I got to Universal Studios I think, these guys should make movies out of their rides!! Like that old boat ride with the Shark they had. Or the one where you get on a bike with an friendly alien.  Or hell that boat ride with all the dinosaurs in it!!!  Universal is leaving money on the table man!!!

“In my new movie, I play a riverboat captain who is horrified to discover my wacky city slicker passengers are trying to discover a magic tree.”

The ride actually started out as a serious recreation of a tour through the jungle, but it was so impossible to take seriously that they retooled it into a comedy. And somehow they only just recently got around to taking out the horribly racist stuff, long after there’s no longer women being raped in Pirates.

They changed it mainly because they noticed that Ahsoka barely had any chance to interact with other girls of her age in the series. 

That whole first meeting with Trace was weird.

It wasn’t bad by any means, but when there are so few episodes, I think spending half the episode in wild chase sequences is a poor use of time.  If there were still 20+ episodes per season and at least a chance of another season to come, this would have been fine, but I want more character development as the clock is…

Your portmanteau game is strong.