Barsanti was the friends we made along the way.

“The God-damn JOURNEYMEN.”

I actually don’t think it’s that terrible in and of itself, the problem is that it is such a fucking ear worm that it will get stuck in your head for weeks and the repetitive structure will drive you insane. If it could just come and go like a lot of Christmas music you hear in public it wouldn’t be so bad, but alas...

“That’s ‘Yew Ess’!!!!’

“I don’t know what his issues are with my father”

“eight double tequilas”

I will see you one Ghost and Mr. Chicken and raise you Don Knotts and Tim Conway in a spooky old English manor in Private Eyes.

Can’t speak for the overall quality of Trigger Happy TV, but their “learning French” bit is kind of an all timer:

[facepalm]

Fuck yes

Do you mean Mandy Patinkin?  Because have I got news for you ...

TV eye.

“Was.”  The best Chris “WAS” Chris Bell.  RIP.

“the dragons themselves weren’t really characters. They were basically like horses who breathed fire.”

The article was best MOVIE dragons ranked. TV, prestige or otherwise, need not apply. I realize the distinction is increasingly irrelevant, but that was the route AV Club chose to go here.

I confess that having turned 18 in 1994, and having graduated law school and just started looking for my first “real job” in the spring of 2001, I have a hell of a time trying to sort out what’s personal nostalgia and what was actually more broadly true.  As you say, things weren’t great for everybody.

Also a great year, no argument. I clued into the “wtf with all these movies from 1939?” thing in the early 90s when I first got obsessive about film history and started taping shit off of TCM. Then it was thrilling to find myself in the middle of something similar in ‘99, back when I was still in school and still…

This is the correct take.

Agree mostly, but:

“people saw it and liked it”