I feel your pain.    I went through this with both Futurama and 30 Rock

no points for making me use my imagination. Nwgative points for making me type this out.

I didn’t believe in the Ghostbusters claim of coining “is toast” as “is dead” either, so I went to the OED hoping to find some 19th century usage. But to my surprise, it read:

Sonny’s penis should be larger and angrier.

You joke, but Alex and I seriously reserve A for potential best-of-the-year-grade all-timers. For grades to have value, you have to manage them like an economy; we’re conscious of inflation.

But most of that character development came much later, and it was clearly an attempt to make Apu more than just a stereotype. That’s admirable, for sure, but the fact remains that he was created specifically as a one joke character, and that joke was “Ha ha, the convenience store clerk is Indian.”

hahaha SO TRUE. A pyramid scheme is how people treat me when I tell them about movie pass .

As somebody who has been using it for a while, I gotta say that it’s pretty great.

I don’t know what my sophmore high school English teacher was thinking assigning us that book. He assigned cool fun adventure stuff from Verne, Wells, and Dumas along with the usual Hawthorne, Brone, and Dickens, and those alternative choices got me into reading classic lit, but Cooper was not any of those things. I…

Heh, “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” is one of my all-time favorite essays, so that is one definite upside to all this.

I don’t remember if it was the confusion over which sister was speaking (to the extent it matters) because Cooper refers to every woman as “a/the female,” or the really floppy consistency of the dialogue that was my first inclination that something was wrong, but I did make it to the attack on the retreating civilians…

Jaws.

I would add The Godfather to this list. Mario Puzo’s book is great and all but 1) the movie is a masterpiece and 2) at least the movie knew better to cut the whole subplot about Sonny’s huge dick.

Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie - the novel by Norman Mailer just isn’t nearly as good as the movie.

Cut them some slack. Not many people realize that Die Hard was an adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

“Accountability is at an all-time low in our country.”

Probably the butler has one of those hamster water-dispensers in human size, designed so that Trump can’t accidentally drown himself.

It’s the worst kind of yellow journalism.

Urine for a rude awakening if you don’t think it’s true

That headline takes on a whole new sinister meaning if you happen to be in Flint.