New Yorker, here, and I do think of them much more for their coffee, which I used to drink quite frequently, since the company I used to work for ordered it for most meetings. Unlike most brands, it never made me feel sick—even when it had been in the fridge for a few days. On the other hand, I’m not sure I’ve eaten a…

“It represents all character’s points-of-view except, not just Dan’s.”

I was going to say, that can’t be right, because I remember in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, they say Nagilum was named after the actor who played him, Richard Mulligan (from Soap and Empty Nest)—but I guess Mulligan was only the actor they originally wanted to play him. And you have to admit, “Neob”…

I don’t think it was that bad an idea, in the context of the story. Conan Doyle believed in heightened instincts—superficially “lucky guesses”—but he understood that readers wouldn’t need to completely buy Sherlock’s explanations if they were willing to accept Watson’s words as those of a relative simpleton. Have you…

It’s absolutely absurd. I brought up the video for the “Baby Boomer Santa” song (which I was reminded of by another thread), and I can’t think of a show with a musical episode that feels even half as organic. It’s always looking for ways to surprise us.

I think that just proves that New Jersey’s flagship university is crap. 

(As a native New Yorker, I may be contractually obliged to do one of those obnoxious “FIFY” comments. Be right back!)

That may be putting it strongly. It’s true I’m not a big follower of superhero comics (and never was—even as a kid), but as a fan of the Penguin Classics imprint (who’s known some outright loyalists), I considered the possibility that I (and the OP) were being a bit snobby. And, sure enough: a moment’s research proved…

If it was as creative an enterprise as you’re suggesting, would we even call it a “meme”?

He once wrote a very lively song about—get this!—“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”

Oof. Somehow I forgot how pretty she is.

This makes it sound like it was a Josie and the Pussycats movie, or something. What (or with what) was she rocking while in the leather suit? (Not necessarily our attentions, it seems—or, not uniformly, anyway.)

He’s the thinking James Cameron’s James Cameron.

Colgate-Palmolive don’t give half a shit.

Just don’t let these crypto guys know you’re about to freeze them in carbonite, or you may need extra storage space for their hardons.

Literally the only thing I know about that song is that it’s about LSD. “She said she’d always been a dancer / She worked at fifteen clubs a day / And though she thought I knew the answer / I knew, but I was much too busy enjoying a big bowl of LSD.” Really makes you think.

If these guys are boomers, their parents must’ve paid a visit to the Guardian of Forever after conceiving them.

They weren’t in the car. They were...jaywalking.

That is treating your audience like children and making a film like designing a kindergarten level morality lesson.