My favorite is Andrew on Family Ties, the kid who went from “toddler” to “5 years old” between seasons.

My sis and bro-in-law make a trip here to Chicago every year for a St. Pat’s pub crawl, and I always make sure to have a pile of garbage freezer food for when we return. This year I included these things.

Yeah, I mean, have you seen Black Snake Moan? Ricci doesn’t have a problem with nudity or sexual content. If somebody pushed past her comfort-level it had to be pretty fucked up.

I know part of the original run was that it was super cheap to produce. No standing sets and a single location for each episode.

It’s weird, I’ve got Paramount+, but half the time I turn on the Pluto Star Trek: TNG channel just so I don’t have to PICK what episode I’m going to watch. 

I’ve recently become a big fan of Tubi, which is basically the crappy discount VHS spinner rack of streaming services.

In retrospect, it’s appropriate that the car chase was evenly matched between a DeLorean and 70-something VW bus.

Is the Nike joke really any different than the Perri-air joke in Spaceballs?

This will always crack me up. Amy Yasbeck’s reaction shots are what put it over the top:

Yeah, the specific Prince of Thieves references (“Unlike some Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent . . .) are solid and not too far off from “RANDOLPH SCOTT!!” from Blazing Saddles (which means nothing if you’re not familiar with Western movies and is REALLY funny if you are) and it’s still a damn funny…

Walking in? No. It looks like a fast food place with a 50s fetish and not enough registers. Also, the drive-through.

Steak & Shake always lived in a weird dead zone between “fast-food joint” and “full-fledged restaurant”. I’m positive 95% of the people who’ve been to a Steak & Shake had absolutely no idea that they had table service.

mantitaur–whatever the hell that is

I do the same thing when I watch Justified. “Holy shit, Chadwick Boseman!!” 

For me, the drop-off for Brooks was when he started trying to be current with his references.

Jupiter Ascending is a weird one. I’ve got a soft-spot for anyone willing and able to spend that kind of money to make a movie so ambitiously bonkers. I mean, I hated the movie, but I respected the hell out of the effort and quite liked most of the ideas behind it. 

Hook is a fun movie with a ton of great bits and fun performances. Everything with Hoffman’s borderline-suicidal Captain Hook was great, and somehow sneaking in a Glenn Close cameo as a bearded pirate is one of those weird details I love.

I like that the author of that Popeye section obviously never saw the cartoon the movie was based on, and complained that Williams mumbled his dialogue. Like, yeah, dude, that’s what Popeye does. 

I think the worst thing about Miami Vice is that the source material is so indelibly associated with that extremely specific 80s aesthetic that it made a set-in-2006 remake pointless. The movie itself is fine. It’s a solid Mann crime/cops movie that has zero reason to be connected to the 80s show. 

For our next trick, Warner Bros/Discovery will compile all of their offerings into a new streaming service called “GO FUCK YOURSELF PLUSMAX” that will cost 300 dollars a month for the ad-supported tier and a complimentary kick to the groin by Zaslav himself. What a deal!!!