Well, Belushi did flatly say that women weren’t funny. And by most accounts he actually believed it. Today he’d probably get fired from the show for saying something like that, let alone most of his other behavior.

Well, supposedly in its day Rocky and Bullwinkle was audacious and irreverent. Watch it now, and it’s just kinda cute. You have to remember that when Animaniacs debuted, it was kind of a revelation. Obviously, The Simpsons was in its prime in 1993, so it’s not like “smart cartoon show” itself was a totally…

For some, it’s just nice to get out of the house and be somewhere else for a while. The darkened room helps with the sensation of leaving life as you know it behind for a while. I watch a hell of a lot of movies at home, but I have to admit it really isn’t quite the same. Before this all started, I would routinely go…

Well, perhaps we’ll start to see more interest in reviving the concept of drive-in movie theaters by that point. That, and perhaps exploration of other forms of outdoors screenings. Of course, winter puts kind of a damper on those plans. But seasonal cinema is better than no cinema.

So, I’m kind of baffled how this idea developed that roles can’t be recast when an actor dies anymore. I mean, I get not doing it when it’s something like Fisher/Leia. If you’ve got 40+ years of that actor being associated with that role, it’s going to be a bit jarring if they suddenly throw it to Meryl Streep or…

Collectively, sure: The prequels are worse than the sequels. On a movie per movie basis, it’s a tougher call. When weighed individually, Rise of Skywalker is worse than any other Star Wars film. Why? Because while the prequels are inept yet original, ROS is uninspired, cowardly, cynical, derivative rubbish. It’s the…

People applauded a logo. I’d never seen that before. When the word “Lucasfilm” shimmered across the screen, my entire opening-weekend theater lost it.

It was just the wrong venue for him. He always did better in a smaller venue, where he can focus down on little things, like how certain names or words sound funny. I never cared for Leno, but candidly I thought “Late Night,” with it’s smaller studio and lower wattage vibe, always seemed to suit him better than his…

“As I sit here with my blu-rays...” Get your physical media copies while they last! Studios are trying to phase them out as quickly as they can. They’ve always resented the fact that they can only make you pay for them once.

As Gilbert Gottfried, a casualty of what is perhaps the show’s worst season ever, once opined, it’s like a restaurant in a good location. For parents with newborns who won’t get to sleep, middle schoolers and teenagers confined to their rooms while their friends are out partying, shut-ins of every stripe, and folk who…

“I am less and less convinced that Americans like democracy at all... We like winning things, and elections are contests to win, but it doesn’t seem like the principles of democracy matter so much.”

Indeed, one of the best descriptions I’ve heard for the state of America in the 1970s (which you could easily apply to today) was, “One damn thing after another.” You had:

It actually closed at the end of 2019, which turned out to be auspicious timing.

I do sort of have a soft spot for “Master Thespian,” as well as his depiction of the Devil. Of course, he wouldn’t hit his stride until the arrival of Phil Hartman the following year. Now there was a comedy team for the ages.

[W]hich is a big part of why late sixties nostalgia has never been as big a thing as fifties, early sixties, seventies and eighties nostalgia. No one wants to relive it. I honestly feel sad for anyone who was a teenager or adult at the time.

I have not seen this movie from start to finish, so it would be nice if somebody could explain this plot point from the Wikipedia summary:

I mean, it’s not like (if you look at his performance in isolation) Biden seemed all together fantastic. And if Trump had restrained himself even just a notch, he probably would’ve walked away with a win. But as we all know, Trump doesn’t do self restraint. So he basically engineered a Biden win, because most of us…

We know that Trump is down in nearly every swing state, so the only question we need to ask is whether last night helped him in any way change the momentum of the race or claw back undecided voters. And if you watched more than 30 seconds of the debate you’ll know that the answer to that is heavens no.

Of course there were plenty repeating sketches from the very start - The Killer Bees, or Land Shark, or Samurai [fill in the blank], or Nick the Lounge Singer, or the Olympia Cafe. With regard to the first, the cast members more or less detested it because the costumes were uncomfortable, and they thought it was a…

I’m gonna go ahead and say it: For most of the late ‘90s, MadTV was better than SNL. I think peoples’ current perceptions of it are really colored by later seasons, when it was basically just endless permutations of Michael McDonald’s “Stuart” persona. But from ‘95 to about ‘00, I would earnestly click over from Mad to…