This could mean a comeback for him…

I haven't compared translators either, but Jay Rubin wrote an outstanding book demystifying elements of the Japanese language that can be problematic for its students.

A punnier answer:

Better coaching? Eye on the ball, type of thing?

This reminds me of that YouTube clip Conan showed with some under-10 kid crying because "[his] teenager didn't win!" This letter is the same thing, just wordier.

Thanks, DPS. Roseanne would be interesting to rewatch after the intervening decade or two. That, and, as someone else mentioned, Trailer Park Boys…the already considerable awesomeness of Netflix increased by several orders of magnitude just in the last few weeks.

I have just discovered that Kids in the Hall is finally on Netflix (as is, to a slightly less exciting degree, That Mitchell & Webb Look 3, which I hadn't seen). Netflix WI might just be the one of the top 3 things ever.

…but is cancerAIDS a good way to end it? Think before you first!

Whatever. I only watch The Vacant Lot. You've probably never heard of it.

Also my first viewing. Something about the feel of it reminded me quite a bit of UCB, so it's interesting to see them mentioned (even just in relation to one sketch).

No, YOU wallow, fatty.

But I just want to be worthwhile, like you! Look at you! Only you can teach me!

You're totally right, DUMMY. I resolve to become a better commenter today by doing nothing but randomly insulting people about the worthwhileness of their comments. But first I'm going to go look up "irony."

I'm not even remotely fanatical about Akira, yet this news makes me unreasonably upset. I think maybe it's just that the constant remaking/adapting/remaking adaptations of everyfuckingthing is so far beyond a joke that each new story just hurts me now.

Also, I haven't read much Stephen King, but aren't magic autistic children kind of a fixture in his books?

That happens 8 years later, when the movie based on the video game based on the tv show based on the comic book gets remade.

Telltale makes dialogue-driven graphic adventures, so if anyone was going to make a zombie game that's not just a shoot-em-up, it'll be them.

A piece of the terror suspect he just had flung into the air, skeet-style, and shot with an RPG.

I am only posting this comment by way of grinding. 2000+ comments, and I still don't even have [random-contributor-as-mount gag omitted for tackiness]

I really need to stop putting off watching that on Netflix. Every time I glance at it on the list, I think of how I don't actually know the first thing about wolverines that don't happen to be X-Men.