Of all of these, this may be my favourite read. Keep up the good work!

Started rewatching this. The captain of the Titanic is King Theoden from LOTR. Hey, neat!

Hey, perhaps. Separately, I was impressed how well a lot of those Happy Gilmore clips hold up. It’s probably the only one I would still like, even though I’ve never gotten the reaction to the Bob Barker fight. Everyone thought it was just the funniest thing ever, and being a kid I probably agreed, without understanding…

I agree entirely, and maintain that his charm is that he doesn’t want to be a serious actor. He could be. He’s the Regular Joe in Hollywood.

Isn’t Sandler’s schtick essentially that he doesn’t want to be a serious actor, and just basically wants to kick around and make mediocre vacation movies so he can hang out with his friends? If that’s true, I not only have no issue with that, I find it kind of charming. I could be wrong, but from what I’ve heard he’s…

Agree on both points. Jason Kenney strikes me as a scumbag, and Alberta is its own thing, but the difference between Canadian and American conservatives is (sometimes, more often than not) enormous. Our Conservative MP was openly gay and female, and that wasn’t even a blip. The former is only pointed out when someone…

I just thought the joke was meant to be that Randy caused coronavirus by having sex with a different animal on top of a bat. 

Launch me, boys!

You’re correct, and I misspoke. The Pacific Theater, then. It wasn’t a series about the Navy, is all.

I have seen Happy Gilmore more times than I remember, but not since seeing Modern Family, and did not know that she was in it.

The Pacific is an ocean, and I understand a writer’s need to complete a phrase, but the author realizes that The Pacific was about land warfare in Japan, right?

Is that the same fly from Breaking Bad?

Mine wasn’t a musical one, but the ‘no brown M&M’s’ story. I had heard variations of it for years as the ultimate diva story. When it finally came out that they had only included that demand as a test to see which venues had actually read the technical clauses that were sent to them - failure to do so potentially…

Is “Oklahoma” the musical referenced at all in the book? I ask because the book either takes place in Ontario, or is at least inspired by it (The author is Canadian). 

Jesus Christ, Dante’s Peak was an unpleasant slog of a movie. That scene with the elderly woman getting out of the boat to walk through boiling volcanic water while slowly burning internally is about how much fun that movie was. In terms of disaster movies like that, I remember Vertical Limit being very similar, and…

My memory of Godzilla was the friend’s dad who took us enjoying Hank Azaria’s line, “They trashed the [Madison Square] Garden! Now I’m pissed.” That, a shitload of torrential rain, and that running “It’s ‘Tatapolous’” mispronunciation thing. Oh, and the blatant Siskel and Ebert caricatures, which I thought was odd…

One thing I remember hearing about that movie is how much was riding on that White House shot going right, because they were fucked if it didn’t.

“A real man makes his own luck.” Billy Zane, Titanic.
- Dwight Schrute

A friend of mine and I were just talking about this. I watched (at least most of) the first episode, and just found it far too much. The hotel/motel manager who won’t leave their room and starts watching TV and scratching himself, and it’s just played for dead laughs. And then Eugene Levy mutters an F-bomb, for no…

Jesus, am I high? When was it on The Office? Community and W/Bob and David, instant recognition to those scenes. The show I’ve seen more times than those? I have nothing.