Are there accounts of adults fighting over toys from before “Tickle Me Elmo,” or was that a first in modern history? I see this as being a cousin to that event.

I’ve heard it said that pineapple is the only fruit that eats you back.

I suspect this is happening because the military has publicly acknowledged a vulnerability. It could have been anything. UFOs are just sensational and honestly, a bit nostalgic—I’d rather wonder if the government is covering up UFO info than think about most of the big news stories since 911 (which, not-so-ironically,…

I would have got that in verbal conversation. Honest. 

I kinda wish Conan could just go to YouTube and become the late night counterpoint to Good Mythical Morning, but I can think of a lot or reasons that probably wouldn’t work for him. He seems caught between the old way and the new way, so hopefully an old media company’s new streaming platform is a happy medium for him.

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I won’t believe this until a someone tries to impale a dead pig with an icicle made from pigs’ blood Mythbusters-style. Maybe Adam Savage would do a one-off on Tested?

I never saw the Transformers movies but those are valid points. I have other thoughts about what could have been better, but they don’t apply to the Cole conversation.

I don’t know anyone who would argue that Levar Burton is not the perfect next host of “Jeopardy!” I get recommending Ken Jennings because of his impact on the game, but I think they should keep him as a regular alternate for when Burton needs a break. The quotes you grabbed for this article—from a single appearance on…

MMA makes it more current than a martial arts movie star. The movie star made it more relevant in the early 90s when the game released.

How lucky for them ... back home

It seems clear enough to me that the Cole character is the audience—he has to learn about the world and its implications for his family as the movie goes on. It’s easy to lose that in the film, but I think him trying to save his own family gets more of the attention than the overarching threat to humanity. I think…

Did he have to honor someone who he thinks was involved with the botching of the movie? Or was this really random?

We don’t just remember it as a movie in a vacuum; we remember it compared to other video game movie adaptations of its time (Mario) and compared to . . . (shudders) Annihilation.

I think adding a character like that is a writing tool—it forces them to leave in enough exposition that the person who gets dragged along by a fan to at least follow the plot. It seems to have worked based on my research of watching it with a semi-fan buddy and another buddy who was largely unfamiliar with it. The…

Don’t worry about dudes yelling about stuff. I’m a dude and my wife is consistently better at grilling chicken than I am. She also manages to consistently grill burgers without setting them on fire and I somehow turn them into fire magnets the second I stand by the grill. I figure since she’s cooked all sorts of other…

I recommend going for Santa Maria Style Barbecue with it. I grew up on it (in one form or another) and it’s hard not to enjoy it.

Is the ketchup safe to eat if the packet is inflated like a balloon? Makes me a little nervous...

Butter on Carr’s Whole Wheat Crackers was a favorite snack co-oping a freeware version of Wolfenstein 3D as a kid with my best friend. Also on Club crackers. I’ll have to try the Graham crackers thing...

I agree it doesn’t feel right. Maybe it’s just hyper-stylized?