This is a easy upvote for me—almost shamefully, panderlingly so. But fuck it, I don't care—fuck these guys sideways.

I'm glad this sounds as fun as the preview looked—a lark with a heart is what I need right now.

"everything is what it once was.”

GODDAMN IT, do not let Pittsburgh get to name this whole state!

Wildcat…

Rowlf would definitely hang at City Lights.

For some reason, I got it into my head that this was a remake of the 1927 film Wings, and so when I saw that film, I wasn't prepared for an actually great film, full of WWI ACTION, daring dogfights, boisterous young men, and Clara's Bow's breasts.

When I was a kid in the 80s, my dad's idea of babysitting was to take us to the corner bar while my mom was taking weekend classes down at the community college. So we'd sit in the bar, him with his beer, and me and my sister with Cokes and cheese crackers, while the old men watched Batman reruns. (In the fall and…

That and Ackroyd was (is?) a notorious cocaine user.

Yep! That Robbins commercial played well into the mid-80s, from what I remember.

Yes! I'm just old enough to remember the Brigantine Castle commercials, and when it burned down.

NYC and Philly—we have them down here, and man did Tom Carvel sound exactly like my uncle who lived with us.

This is essentially how they were written in the High Middle Ages—the romance of Lancelot, of the Grail, of Yvain, they were all separate stories in a shared mythos. It wasn't until Robert de Boron tried to synthesize the entire Grail story into one book (of which we only have the prose version, and not his original…

Nope, I love that insane, scenery-devouring buffet.

Nicol Williams' Merlin—much like the rest of the film—rides a very tough line, sometimes hammy, sometimes grand, sometimes funny, in the way that any good wizard should.

Ugh, I'd rather hear Les Moonvest's ideas.

…wait, are you *sure* WWII was just about The Ring Cycle? That there wasn't a whole lot of other stuff going on, like Japan invading China, or the Versailles Treaty?

What boardwalk is this? This is gonna drive me crazy. For a hot second I thought it was Asbury Park, because of the large building in the background, but that's definitely not the old convention center, so does anyone know where this is?

Man, Liam and his invisible best friend are an absolute highlight.

I thought Gary's voice was weird and off-putting, and then I heard an actual squirrel that sounded like that, only obviously without making words, but it was that same screechy gravel, and I thought, "well, I guess Gary really does just sound like a squirrel, for better or worse."