This is also heavily, heavily mined territory. I can recall which episdoe, but I remember a “Bart Simpson” as the space baby clip. Granted, this is an example of “Simpsons did it” but i feel that particular scene has been parodied in like every cartoon and some live shows.

I understand why he gets so much shit but I love how Lucas would decide the most random things and the story group had to go along with it. It’s just the funniest thing in the world to me. Like the Hutt who he thought looked like Truman Capote so he was like, “Make it a flamboyant Southern dandy.”

GI Joe was set outside Marvel canon but Godzilla, Micronauts, Rom the Space Knight, Shogun Warriors, and a few others were very much a part of Marvel’s canon and some of the stuff they introduced are still reference today (most recently Cable has been getting involved with the Space Knights). I don’t know about…

Again though, he lived in Britain. Unless it was a Dogtooth situation, he presumably went outside of his home and was surrounded by British culture on a daily basis. And he attended a British boarding school.
Then there’s the stuff beyond his childhood like serving in the RAF and being knighted. Which is all extremely…

Wales is a part of Great Britain and its culture.
Someone born and raised in Wales can be as extremely British as someone born in a Buckingham Palace shaped tea cozy, inside of a red telephone box riding atop a double-decker bus at the heart of Piccadilly Circus.
Unless you’re going to argue that Dahl can’t be extremely…

I thought the monkey was still alive. Wasn’t there a big controversy because he was initially cast in Y: The Last Man?

Because 75% of the time Adult Swim is Cartoon Network and targeted at children. And you’d be surprised by the amount of people who don’t seem to grasp that Adult Swim is specifically a programming block for adults only.
There’s a video out there of some redneck, Qanon grandparent losing his shit because his grandkids…

Just to drive your point home - I have no idea why I remember this - but there’s an episode of Captain Planet where Gaia’s ex-husband (?) voiced by Sting returns to Earth from space exile and gives the Planeteers magic gauntlets in exchange for their rings - I’m assuming it’s a play on “rule with an iron fist” - but…

This is a problem I have with The Boys, specifically the scene where they’re singing along to “We Didn’t Start the Fire” because (in a world where superheroes have existed since the mid-2oth Century, that song would be completely different.

This was made for Disney+ though, not exclusively for Japan like The Avengers anime. Also, Disney seems weirdly cagey about calling this an anime. Everything I’ve seen has described it as stuff like “anime inspired” which is bizarre since all the studios involved are anime studios.

Yeah. I just find this whole thing gross. I don’t care if she was a racist piece of shit, this is the story of a woman - who (if you read up on it) was a victim of several rapes - being sex trafficked at 20-years-old and then someone recounted that trauma for the entire world and - as I replied to someone below - she e…

Not really. Just in general, it’s a pretty unbelievable story and it did turn out that a lot of the more outrageous parts ranged from embellishments to outright fiction on King’s part.

Guns bad, severed limbs good!

Dream Works licensed She-Ra from Mattel, but Mattel still owns the rights to She-Ra.
They’re in this situation, so they continue to work together. It’s not like they have a bad working relationship or anything. For all the hubbub, I can’t imagine that Universal will just yank the He-Man toy rights from Mattel when the…

Didn’t she actually go to high school with McCain?

True, but that’s exactly it. There is no more room in Star Wars for non-canon media, period.

Dan Schneider worked for Nickelodeon which is owned by Paramount, not Disney.

The difference is there are a lot of shadowy organizations with floating fortresses in Marvel Comics. Within the last year, the X-Men alone came into possession of two floating fortresses - if you include space stations in your definition of “floating fortress”.
So I don’t think it’s so much Kevin Feige shoe-horning…

I remember when computers were into S&M and shot up heroin all the time. Or maybe I’m confusing computers with Lou Reed again.

I thought Mattel bought out Bluebird Toys and now own the rights to Mighty Max. Wasn’t Polly Pocket also originally a Bluebird product?