“Why did they have to shoot my scarf/I am the twisted lonely guy.”

Turkey Day has always been a once-a-year anomaly, and the premise of it is “half-watch these episodes you’ve already seen while you kibitz with your family, eat leftovers, and nap.” MST3K works best as appointment viewing (or, in the old days, schedule-the-VCR viewing.)

Really having a hard time with Philipe saying “Calvary” instead of “Cavalry.” It’s not easy out here for us pedantic fussbudgets.

I mean, everyone knows when the Little Orphan Annie radio show was canceled, embarrassing really that we didn’t put this together.

I, too, assumed a 50s setting, and I think it was also probably related to my own father’s affection for all things Jean Shepherd. Mostly the books, but we watched every movie produced from his stories, including My Summer Story featuring a 12 year old Kieran Culkin replacing Peter Billingsly as Ralph, and Charles…

Nah. Clothing is lighter, less inert, more flexible than flesh. Tenting like that would make perfect sense. (I am not, myself, a trained assassin or serial killer, I promise.)

Sorry, Kinja hates when I paste something from another site. Should have said . . .

Eugenics absolutely did not focus on racial differences, but rather on overall “fitness”–physical and mental. Of course, in racist societies like the US, this impacted non-white folks disproportionately, but Buck v Bell, the landmark Supreme Court decision that is STILL used to justify forced sterilization, involved a…

Admitting that genetics are a contributing factor to intelligence absolutely does not make one a eugenicist. Hell, even believing that if “stupid” people are the only ones that reproduce, then the intelligence of the general population may suffer long-term doesn’t make one a eugenicist. Coming the conclusion that we…

Just watch Nora From Queens, and then you’ll love her. It’s easy!

You don’t have to be a backer of eugenics to think that intelligent people are more likely to give birth to intelligent children

Right, because only in a world ruined by the poor, stupid, and obese procreating can an average man be king.

That’s kinda like saying Handmaid’s Tale doesn’t warn against religious fundamentalism and misogynistic public policy, or that Elysium isn’t a movie cautioning against the dangers of rampant environmental catastrophe. The premise of the movie is that undesirable (fat, southern, poor, stupid) people were allowed to…

The only reporting I’ve heard has been along the lines of “There’s a new variant, we know it’s more transmissible than Delta, but it’s too early to say whether it’s more deadly or vaccine resistant.” I wouldn’t call that fear mongering, exactly.

I’ve never been able to enjoy Idiocracy for this reason. From the first viewing, while my friends were laughing at “BRAWNDO HAS WHAT PLANTS CRAVE,” I just kept saying “. . . but this is a pro-eugenics screed.” (Yes, I am frequently a total bummer at parties.)

Jesus, Kinja made a mess of that. Should have said . . .

if they were trying for a throwback to the beginning of their career with a live on the floor sound, it wouldn’t be my first choice.

Nah, just a guy that’s been playing bass in bands with guitar players for 28 years

It’s Paul’s song, but George is the lead guitar player, and the bass player dictating parts to the guitar player all the time fucking sucks. There’s a time and a place for it, and sometimes it works out, but man, for someone who advocated working songs out in their simplest form first, then adorning them with musical…

Paul says if John had to pick between the Beatles and Yoko, he was choosing Yoko. I believe that to be true.