Yeah, I don’t know how much more loudly audiences can say “NO THANK YOU” to this franchise. The last one bombed so badly at the time that it supposedly killed off the whole franchise, and yet all it took was someone saying “What if Linda Hamilton?” and then in remarkably short time, we’re back at bat with a third…

Fuck everyone at that dinner. You had 22 people in the primary at its peak and not one of them appealed to you? “What Americans REALLY want is a rich white man billionaire to enter the race! No, not that one. No, the other one. No, not that one either. The OTHER other one!”

I like how Jesse calls out that each iteration adds yet another element from the originals back, bombs again, and then it’s on to the next reboot. “OK. OK. This one has Cameron producing, Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong AND Nick Stahl as TWO John Connors, and, uhh, Michael Biehn? How about now?”

The bad news is, it’s almost time to start seeing previews for next summer’s blockbusters, every one of them with a slowed-down pop song intro. Ah, I can hear the piano tinkle notes now . . . “I’m . . . walking on . . . sunshine . . . whoah . . . “

—Scott Aukerman

That might be my favorite episode of the show. Just wall-to-wall, rapid-fire jokes like that.

I was coming here to ask if he comes across as angry about having to be there as he did in the taco episode of UD with Gustavo Arellano. But yeah, the pizza episode, too. I just focused on the bits where Meehan was in Italy. I wound up liking Ugly Delicious in spite of Change, not because of him. 

Well, at the rate we watch shows, she’ll be in college herself at that point. But either way, she’s going in cold like we experienced it the first time too. 

Oh man, Alien/Aliens is pretty high on my “I can’t wait to watch this with her” list. I was thinking fifteen but now I have me wondering if I could pull it off next Halloween season when she’ll be 13 . . . 

My wife and I are having an ongoing discussion about when our 12 year old daughter can start watching Buffy with us. I’m saying when she’s 13, so maybe start next summer. My wife’s a little more conservative and thinks 15. I think that’s pushing well into “GAWD you guys are so LAME!!!” territory.

We Hate Movies has been on a pretty good tear with their October-themed horror movies, but last week’s Human Centipede was an all-time classic. 

Won’t you be . . . my SLAYbor!

“But there are also a number of parks that were planned but never built, including Riverfront Square in St. Louis, which was abandoned in favor of Disney World; WestCOT, Disneyland’s equivalent to EPCOT; DisneySea, a Sea World-type park in California; and Disney’s America, a “patriotic park” in Haymarket, Virginia.”

For me, one of the big, depressing revelations with Weinstein was just how many actresses from that era that I always noted “just disappeared from acting” actually ran afoul of him. I mean, she fits right in that era . . . 

It’s pretty instructive that her and Affleck got together around or shortly after this, with his career in a tailspin after Gigli and Daredevil, and yet he got many more second shots. She basically had one at bat with Elektra and that was it. 

I’m still at a loss why her career didn’t really take off after this. She proved she’s credible as both an action star and then with this, as a comedy/romantic lead. 

Penelope Ann Miller?! Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time. Not since her early 90s heyday.

GODOMMOT

Hodgman also holds the distinction of being guest on one of the very best episodes of the Flophouse podcast (Nothing But Trouble), then for his return appearance, being guest on one of the very worst episodes (1941). 

Well, Erdogan didn’t get to meet with Trump despite being promised to. That’s a play right from the Ukraine scandal, and might be a thread worth looking closer at.