I like the Tom Baker opening best, due to my crippling nostalgia, but I agree that the original is fantastic.

This may be the wrong genre, but the Flavia de Luce books. There's a bunch, they're all good, and you can retreat into a childhood world of innocence and poisons.

No Lake Memphremagog monster? For shame.

The ghost of Frederic Brown is knocking.

They were beneath us, too.

One of my favorite songs, which also happens to be pretty creepy:

Well the headaches were only because Athena was born wearing armor. (Which makes me think the 'wise counsel' was just Metis shouting 'EAAAUUUGGGGETITOUTOFME).

Well, technically, he didn't eat Athena, just her mother. And she wasn't so much eaten as inhaled (after which she lived inside his head, giving wise counsel). But still: kind of a dick move.

That is bizarre and horrifying.

It was the first movie I saw in the theater, when I was about five. The red bull was more than my seeing-things-on-the-big-screen-for-the-first-time brain could handle. Although, really, I was scared of my own shadow, so the unicorn/woman was probably more than I could handle, too. Also being in the dark.

The 'spirit of the mountain' haunted my dreams.

I can remember standing in front of the TV, and just asking my parents over and over again, "Why did they do that!? Why isn't the regular music playing? But he's not really dead, right!??" Seriously a traumatic moment. And for the record, I loved Adric, the first run through. As a bratty, obnoxious know-it-all, I…

I really want someone to write the great Charles Proteus Steinmetz novel. Dude was the first to create artificial lightning, helped pioneer the use of AC power, fled Germany to avoid being arrested for his socialist activities, and kept alligators as pets.

I'm thirty-six, and occasionally get carded. In possibly-related news, my husband's nickname for me is 'cheeks mcgee.'

Omg! Here I've been thinking for years that I had She-Ra action figures, when all along I had Golden Girl and Dragon Queen. I would make them elaborate block castles that took up my entire bedroom floor, and it was awesome.

My stepson is 21 and I'm nowhere near the weight I was before he was born.

I totally had this issue. I didn't get a lot of spending money, so I couldn't afford Sassy every month (because some months I'd get Raygun! Or Wired! Or Biblical Archeology Review, because I was a strange kid!). I must have read it cover to cover at least fifty times. That goofy wilted flower hairdo is imprinted on…

If Trollope wrote fantasy:

*Cue unpopular opinion puffin* I actually feel this way about a lot of Gaiman's work. His books are good, don't get me wrong, but often (as with this or Coraline), it's when the book is adapted into a movie that the story really shines.