As someone who had a collection of Dahl books as among my first non ‘mommy read to me picture-books’ aka pre-adolescent grown up books, but has never seen the movie [any version], the Buckets have always had a Dickensian British poverty-stricken image in my mind.

nja @1:27 made my whole morning. One glance, as if to ask the cameraman, . . ‘you still rolling on this fool?’

More of a saggy hobo bindle, what with the long ball diagnosis and all.

You mean with Maher drinks too much, . . or snorts cocaine, . . . or bets it all on the ponies?

He has it all, yes he does

Emily is adorable, romper or no.

For the longest, Aldi was all about saving penny wherever possible. That is why they charge for sacks and have their cart system with the quarters. Way back, had no bar code readers or credit/debit. Cash only, and the checker memorized all the prices in the joint.

I don’t know if this helps or not, but the structure is similar, though the setting is different [and fictional’ized’].

There should be a law that all gaunt white dudes over 6'3" must endeavor to learn and use Christopher Heyerdahl’s accent in common conversation.

I think The Tick’s gasps of astonishment when the stepdad opened his gifts is when I decided I was totally on board with Serafinowicz’s mix of obliviousness and confidence.

I hear he let slip to North Korea’s intelligence apparatus the PRECISE LOCATION of Japan!!

I was right in ‘prime impressionability’ when it aired, and I’ve never spent a moment worrying about nuclear war. We watched it live and then switched to the local news then went to bed. Soccer practice the next morning. Don’t know if it was suburban life, or not watching TV all the livelong day, or just the…

Just guessing, but think less concussions and more lacerations.

Nice, is this organic?

I’ve participated at AVClub, and I’ve perused content under the umbrella of their new corporate amigos. I thought ‘how bad can it be?’

Wish You Were Here - the industrial sounds at the start of Welcome to the Machine on vinyl are Nirvana.

Wish You Were Here - the industrial sounds at the start of Welcome to the Machine on vinyl are Nirvana.

That’s what I was referring to. If the Pontiac took more of Buick’s cues from the Rendezvous, the Aztek wouldn’t look so hideous. Perhaps I was too ambiguous when I said ‘they’ I meant Pontiac, not GM in general.

I’ve often wondered why they didn’t ‘Buick’ up the original Aztec. Same platform, much more aesthetically pleasing.