This article is all true. Yes, Sorkin definitely used the SN finale as a big middle finger to his corporate overlords, but neither the plot nor the finale really feel off because of that fact. The Sports Night (the show within the show) folks were always underdogs. They were third or fourth-rated among sports news…

I’ve always loved this one:

My favorite line on Sports Night:

Miller: “A younger filmmaker who has done very well called me before his first feature and said, ‘Any tips?’ I told him, ‘The day will come on the shoot when you think you’re completely crazy and what you’re doing makes no sense. Just keep going.’ When he finished that film, he told me, ‘Remember what you said?…

If you have a CD handy, pick it up, turn it upside down, and let light shine on it as you tilt it back and forth. At the right angle, you’ll see a rainbow pattern. This is caused by very fine, evenly spaced, grooves on the surface of the CD. Light wave reflect off the surface, and at the right angle, the waves…

In the early 00’s the Swiss army was performing a training wargame in which one company took over a small Swiss town and another would attempt to liberate the town. The villagers, caught unaware, went along with the exercise. When they were finish the Swiss realized they had made a huge mistake, and had in fact…

“character pulls tarp off of something they thought they'd put away for good," be it car, motorcycle, or costume. 

Commando’s armor up scene is so good they stole it for Operation Wolf.

I think one of my favorite examples of this trope is, if not visually, at least in terms of audio one of the more quiet/somber takes on the trope.

Cause Goddamn, the scene near the end of Fury Road with Nux flipping the rig over on Rictus, taking himself out and pulling a John Landis-grade multi-car pile-up on the rest…

When the guy everyone thinks is a joke reveals themselves to be fucking awesome.

No way am I going to name my favourite cliches. Nuh uh. Forget it  Never gonna happen.

Rooted in readings of Lovecraft from an early age, I’ve always thought of the ominous warning as the Cryptic Local (more of a character than an event). Cryptic Locals excel at delivering incomplete exposition. Some Cryptic Locals have nearly incomprehensible accents or are drunks, so the protagonist may struggle to…

Im a massive sucker for the Heroic Last Stand cliché. We’re not gonna make it! I’ll hold them off! Play dramatic music as the hero cuts down as many bad guys as possible before dying.  Whether its a game like Halo Reach or something historical like the Alamo.  I love it.

So it tested my knowledge of 80s music since I grew up then. The results are interesting how it shows how low % of that era is to Gen Z- but there is one assumption I think that’s being made there. We can’t assume because someone in Gen Z doesn’t currently know a song that this means they never will. Gen Z is as young…

Yeah, I was expecting some formic based racism or one of the ants saying that Hitler at least kept his hill in order or something.

Like everybody else my age (39), I love the BTTF films, and I think the biggest part of that is the absolutely effortless chemistry between Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. You don’t question why Marty would befriends with this eccentric old professor. They have an easygoing friendship that just works the whole…

Essentially, the internal workings of an energized transformer.

I got halfway through the article, to the point where you started doing ill-advised experiments on other items, and suddenly I realized I had not read the byline ahead of time and I had unwittingly stepped into The Carruthers Zone.