Palin always struck me as too manic, and Chapman always struck me as too stiff. Cleese can portray that weary, resigned bafflement that I always felt was Arthur's hallmark.

John Cleese and Eric Idle as Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, respectively.

Please don't group "Cumberbatch" and "Khan" under the same heading. Please.

The product names on that vending machine are, like, the greatest thing in the history of things.

"I'm a devious degenerate, defender of the devil
Shut down all the trash compactors on the de-tention level"

"[Lucas] famously spliced scenes of aerial dogfights into a rough cut of Star Wars to inspire his special effects team, and the trench run is arguably the most recognizable and memorable battle in all of Star Wars."

"… the moment he and his band take the stage to play the only song they know."

"But in that brief interim between obscurity and ubiquity, Willis had what remains one of his best roles, using his motor-mouthed delivery, somehow articulate and rhythmic even as it goes on like a verbal deluge, to create a character who’s as funny as he is frustrating."

And of course, Louis Cancelmi (mentioned as the shooter in the 2007 episode "Talking Points") is the brother of one Anne Marie Cancelmi — better known as the fabulous Annie Parisse, who played ADA Alexandra Borgia in 33 episodes of L&O.

GODDAMMIT. Hoisted by my own petard.

Great piece, but I'm contractually obligated to point out that "mediums" isn't a word.

JFC, her name is Leigh! Am I the only person in the world who watches TV with the subtitles on?

It is my sincere belief that Jennifer Beals is criminally underrated in the pantheon of beautiful women in American media.

Wow, I had completely forgotten that movie existed. "The Roommate" (2011), says IMDB.

I assumed not, unless one is playing the other. Hey, there's an idea — a show in which Minka Kelly plays Leighton Meester and Leighton Meester plays Minka Kelly!

What, you couldn't come up with a vehicle for Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly?

"… thanks solely to the Blu-ray innovation of using the same equipment to maintain playability for the outdated format …"

C'mon, he couldn't even figure out the rhymes on "I'm the Man." "Yo, watch the beat."

I actually had to look up his name, but "the drummer for Death Angel" was already in my head. I grew up in San Francisco, and I was in my late teens during Death Angel's salad days, so I saw them play live a bunch of times — usually at The Stone (RIP).

Lombardo, Travis, Menza, Bostaph, Hoglan … just the first few who spring to mind. Tom Hunting was heavier, so were Andy Galeon, Louie Clemente and Perry Strickland … hell, even Charlie Benante, one of your bigger meatheads ever to pick up a pair of sticks, is cleaner and more imaginative. Then you've got a guy like…