Bowser definitely had the most extensive solo career — he turned up as a variety show and game show guest frequently into the early ‘80s, as well as a lot of nightclub and amusement park shows.

...or some other white, granular substance.

Yeah, I’ve heard tell of kids in marathon South Korean arcade sessions ending up dehydrated or dead from heart failure, but at least they seem to have been sitting down while they wasted away.

Or the “Thunderbird Photo”.

Only zombies drive Alfa Romeros.

It’s great that the theme song/intro subverted the convention of encapsulating the premise of the show — While the intro makes it appear that Oliver is the one joyfully embracing rural life, and Lisa resisting it, in fact on the show it’s she who ends up adjusting pretty casually to the insanity of Hooterville, while…

Reality may have changed, but I’m not sure stereotypes have. It’s not like Green Acres was some sort of gritty and nuanced look at rural American life.

Well, it’s not like like the movie invites you to sympathize with Noah Cross... He’s a pretty satanic figure, all in all, which makes Polanski’s thought processes even more interesting to consider.

Pity this is “no parodies”. I’d love to see him perform “Amish Paradise” there.

Indeed. I recall actually playing a game once where the nukes never flew. We all had pretty sucky initial population draws, and somebody won with propaganda cards. It was striking — the only pure “Win” I’d ever seen in the game, and yet kind of anticlimactic.

And if the jughandle is at a four-way intersection, you have to cross a lane of traffic to make your left anyway. I agree they have benefits in a lot of cases, but if the cross street is busy enough, they’re just trading one back-up for another.

In fairness, most of us aren’t careful enough about consent when it comes to masturbation, and too often I just go along with it out of pity, or not wanting to seem like an ingrate, or a prude. Nevertheless, it’s inappropriate to just assume that I really want it and am just playing hard to get. We all need to show…

Did the movie incorporate her apparent head trauma-induced narcolepsy? It seems like a good dramatic/humorous vulnerability for an action hero (akin to Indiana Jones’ fear of snakes) but potentially a difficult directorial line to walk as far as seeming too absurd.

Whatever the background marketing considerations might have been, and the heavy use of then-familiar brands in the original, it doesn’t seem that odd to me to go with Peugeot as a directorial choice specifically because of its unfamiliarity. “Brand dissonance” is a pretty common SF trope — and sometimes its own gag,…

Well, Voyager’s is a Jerry Goldsmith theme, so its awesomeness shouldn’t be terribly surprising.

I’ve done what I can.

I’m afraid that mocking chuckling you’re hearing is Kinja itself.

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Telescoping legs. Like Inspector Gadget.

Years ago, in a 1E AD&D game, I played an evil fighter who pretended to be a Paladin. Before the issue of my not having actual Paladin powers came up, I “confessed” to having been defrocked for some technical infraction, such that I had to work really hard toward getting reinstated.