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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

IIRC, the Texas Cyclone was supposed to be a mirror image of the Coney Island Cyclone. Of course, in those days, there wasn't an Internets to check up on the urban legends.

Give me a drop over the spinning rides any day. At Astroworld we had the "Barrel of Fun": they spun the barrel so fast that you stuck to the inside and then the floor dropped out so you were there, spinning, stuck to the wall.

Agreed. They phoned that one in, and that's being generous.

He was a major minor.

"And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left:
This species has amused itself to death

"Mr Ling, the Red Chinese agent at the factory?" Dead?
Aah, bugger it. I meant to say cheerio.

Cady lied.

"You're telling me!"
- Patrick Stewart

Well, look on the bright side: at least you don't have to worry about Whoopi Goldberg and Lyle Lovett coming after you on a murder rap.

"Oh, and did we say we're sorry?"

Off topic but OK, it's official: 2016 has Officially Had It In For Us: William Schallert died. For real. God Damn You, 2016.

Stan directed an ep last season as well.

District Attorney Rothko: Where the hell does it say that you've got a right to kick down doors, torture suspects, deny medical attention and legal counsel? Where have you been? Does Escobedo ring a bell? Miranda? I mean, you must have heard of the Fourth Amendment. What I'm saying is that man had rights.

I hardly recognized Riegert the last time I saw something recent of his. He sure hit it out of the park in Local Hero though.

Agreed. He'll probably be best remembered as Dean Wormer, but he was great in so many other roles, like the creepy mobster in Charley Varrick:

My vote for best dialogue of the whole series (from the first—and best—of the five):

I read somewhere that Andy Robinson actually got death threats over that performance: it was that convincing. I saw it in a theater when I was 10, and I can assure you I was convinced. He scared the shit out of me.

I really wanted to see Carly's expression, but for the life of me I couldn't make it past the first 15 seconds of that video.