yeah, i get why they decided to name drop POLTERGEIST 'cause of the whole Spielberg aesthetic but it seemed like Will would have been way more excited to go see a movie like ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK or THE THING. (but we do get a poster for The Thing in Mike The DMs basement, so i guess that's a solid nod.)
having Joyce…

i was kinda pissed they didn't manage to work in some early Huey Lewis and the News - Picture This was out in '82 and is a great album with plenty of solid jams. plus, you just know Sports is gonna be right up fuckin' Steve;s alley when it drops in another year or so. (spoilers: Steve kinda redeems himself in the end…

when i was growing up (in the 80's, whippersnappers) we had grocery stores that sold "generic" foods which were basically what all the grocery chains now sell as the house brand - but back then generic meant it came in an all-white (or, rarely, yellow) container with black bold-faced type that would simply say…

the Taco Johns chain has weirdly spotty distribution and their tacos are only okay but i will almost always try to stop at one when i chance upon one during a road trip, just so i can get some of the Potato Oles! - i know in my head they're just tater tots sprinkled with seasoned salt but, in my heart, they're a…

the Doritos taco (spring for the supreme version - the sour cream is always worth it) was a crowning achievement in junk food technology… but they treated the poor schulb who came up with the idea like shit, so i always feel guilty when i treat myself to one.

i have, not recently or proudly, dumped salsa into a cereal bowl, ripped open a bag of Cheetos or the generic local grocery store equivalent and dumped them in before proceeding to eat with a spoon while watching a movie or a cartoon.

it always astonishes me that the John Sayles who did Lone Star and Matewan was the same John Sayles that worked on The Howling and Piranha.

Quatermass!

while packing Nilla Wafers and Pringles in their rations.

i always thought the spielberg who did Raiders and Jaws would probably have given us a pretty phenomenal MISERY and could probably knock out of the park any number of king's short stories. most of the rest of the novels, tho, he'd probably go too big and the result would be something dazzling but forgettable, like…

replace the bologna with turkey, add tomato, mayo, bacon, hamburger dill pickle chips, a slice or three of swiss cheese and some kalamata olives. then put it in a panini press (or a george foreman, same diff). i want that sandwich.

let loose the… (BOOM!)

he was also the one most obsessed with the way El almost undressed in front of them and whether or not she slept naked so i'm guessing that when his front teeth grow in he'll probably be the player of the group too.

i gotta nominat PM Dawn, the Sundays and Toad the Wet Sprocket as well. plus the Beastie Boys, who had a great decade.

if you're serious about getting in touch with the other crews, you could start with some of the episodes where they interact with characters from TOS - TNG met up with Bones (briefly) Scotty (an entire episode) and Spock (a two-parter) while DS9 sent the whole crew back to appear in The Trouble With Tribbles and…

that's what i was thinking but maybe it is designed to dock with a wheelchair or something, giving us our first disabled active-duty captain (Pike was basically on permanent medical leave after his accident, right?)

yeah, i was really hoping for the angela basset-captained, rosario dawson-ed second in command idea and it doesn't sound like that's too likely anymore either… but i'm still crossing my fingers for a crew that includes a gorn, a horta and maybe tom fuckin' riker. (if there has to be time-travel to get him onboard, i'm…

DS9 was about as heavily serialized as Star Trek has ever been, especially in latter seasons and they found plenty of time for episodic storytelling even in the midst of a seasons-spanning intergalactic war. jake and nog trying to find sisko a baseball card or an impromptu baseball competition between the crew and…

i always liked the Miranda-class myself but i prefer A-wings over X-wings too… also, i suppose a smaller ship might create a lot of questions about where all the red shirts are coming from, unless they're able to stop at a starbase regularly and re-up on disposable cast members of the week.

during one of the Deadman serials in Action Comics Weekly, Mike Baron wrote a version of the devil who masqueraded as D.B. Cooper and had an air of lazy insouciance that was just delightful.