You could beat it but it was ridiculously expensive to do so. I think I spent like $80 (this was 1983 so that was A LOT of money for a 14 year old kid) before I finally got the steps and the timing (the timing was the tricky part).

I love the range of mullets in the show. Steve has a mix of European mullets- Bono, Duran Duran, Paul Young, The Alarm, etc.

While I don’t want to ride in the Bobmobile (seriously, that’s just wrong) his intentions are good and he’s doing a great job being just a good guy to the family. Never underestimate the attractiveness of a guy who’s just be a good, stable person to a fractured mom.

I loved that part too. He said it with such relief.

Darts lack of flower mouth-face in his young form made this believable to me. Made sense that Will is the one to get it before the others.

considering noah schnapp was pretty much absent for most of season 1 (except for the pilot) i was afraid his acting might not be up to par with the other kids, but holy crap. he brings it every single time.

“Ew, raisins!” *launches the box to the moon*

This episode provided us the only authentically adolescent moment in the show’s run, where the big brother whose name I forget, after extolling the virtues of freaks to his brother, completely ignores a cute Souxsie at the party in favor of playing Duckie (see, I do references too!) to a spoken-for Nancy. Freaks don’t…

Almost as subtle is the fact that Billy’s character is established to the music of Ted Nugent. How’s that for efficient nonverbal characterization?

Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present: “The Worst Take!”

I had no idea Sean Astin would end up looking and sounding almost exactly like Patton Oswalt.

The entire article is worth reading for people who have the stomach. At one point, she confesses that Harvey and his people had spent so much time gaslighting her that she was frightened that even Farrow wasn’t who he said he was.

I think, at one time or another, we were all Heather.

“I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in binge-watching. When opportunity knocks, you don’t want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or syna-gogue.”

It really says something about a show that could just focus on the science teacher for an entire episode and it’d probably be great.

God, Mr. Wheeler sucks more than any character has ever sucked in the history of sucking. He’s like an even dumber, dead-eyed Jerry. You just know he’s the one who planted the Reagan sign in the yard.

Vanessa Morgan’s awesome - she’s also in Shannara Chronicles season 2 right now. I first saw her as the titular character in My Babysitter’s a Vampire (low-key Canadian youth pilot movie/show semi-skewering the late 2000's vampire craze), then Finding Carter and a couple other Disney bits.

I never thought I’d be on Cartman’s side about anything, but Heidi really is the worst.

Disney Channel presents: The Gender-Swapped Jack Nicholson Story