If you haven’t seen it yet, the Onion AV Club oral history article about Airplane! is a good read. And the opening paragrap kind of applies to your comment except they emphasize that by the 254th parody movie the imitators were putting very little effort into actually making them funny and we’re just going for the…

I wonder if the bottom ball is hollow with some kind of weight that can settle to the bottom giving it a little bit of stability when it is standing still but not enough to keep it in place when the upper unit starts counter-spinning hard.

That made me think of the classic Monty Python "Scott of the Antarctic" sketch. Wish I could fine a YouTube video. :)

I always heard about that trailer, but never saw it. Thanks. :)

Wrong. Mark Hamill is Nathan Detroit. And pepper steak is the entree. ;)

Thanks for the link. That was a great read. This really intrigued me. Now I want to know what the “strong clue” was. I’ll have to fire up my 2600 emulator and play some Adventure now.

I was thinking about that, too, after I wrote my reply. “How the hell did I find out about that?” It was all pre-Internet. If I had to guess it was in Electronic Games magazine. I used to subscribe to that as a kid. I even won a trackball controller for my Atari 5200 from them in a contest. I wish I still had all of…

I remember hearing about and finding the “invisible dot” in Adventure. I loved that game. :)

Ahhh. I get the distinction. As soon as a muggle's powers manifest he/she would no longer considered a muggle because, hello, powers.

:)

Arithmancy is where you learn to do Block Transfer Computation. ;)

The whole pending approval thing drives me crazy. I've even tried "recommending" my own posts to get them more visible to potentially be "approved" but I don't know if that even helps.

Muggles are not mudbloods and mudbloods are not muggles.

I had a hard time getting into Fringe when it aired because it seemed to me to be an X-Files ripoff, but a lot of people here have posted that it was really good so I've been meaning to try watching it again. I think it was on Amazon Prime at one point and I started at the beginning but forgot to keep up. I've been…

That was a good year for toys. I love that three games that I still have all appear on the same page of the catalog. :)

Ha! Best back and forth, ever. I love these guys. :)

I loved Run Fatboy Run. Not his best movie, but I found it very entertaining. That probably has a lot to do with Simon Pegg and Dylan Moran.

To me, Community and The IT Crowd share a very similar sense of absurdity that I love. I'd like to think they inhabit the same universe. Surely, any universe where people could think a small metal box with a blinking light on it is really the Internet would also be where a community college paint ball competition…

"Yeah, it looks cheap and thrown together, like it should for a guy starting off."

I'm probably in the minority, but I think the US version of IT Crowd could have turned out ok. It's hard to judge just from one episode, especially when it is identical to the original classic first episode, but Joel McHale has shown how funny he is on Community. He was far too good looking to play Roy the dorky IT…