I never saw it, but I vaguely remember it being on. There was a period in the very early ‘70s when there was much handwringing, and I believe Federal hearings, about the state of Saturday morning TV — advertising, violence, etc. The networks decided to take action to discourage any FCC measures, and somehow it just…

anything outside his strict definitions of “white civilization,”

Honestly I wasn’t as bothered by the stupidity of the helmet-removal and snake-teasing as I was by the overall air of “meh” on the part of all the scientists except the leaders. I thought there really needed to be a lot more fascination and awe associated with a mission in search of not only alien life, but the…

“Worker and Parasite” broadly satirized Cold War-era East bloc animation, but I think it was also referencing what I think was one of the primary inspirations for “Itchy and Scratchy” — The ‘60s Tom and Jerry cartoons created by Gene Deitch. Deitch disliked the Tom and Jerry franchise as “needlessly violent”, and I…

Catherine Mary Stewart, thou art avenged!

I recall going to a “live” appearance of The Banana Splits at Atlantic City’s Steel Pier back during the show’s original run. Being, like, five at the time, I naively thought the guys in the suits performed their actual voices (I think Fleegle was actually voiced by classic voiceover artist Paul Winchell, better known…

Trying to remember the plots would be frustrating, ‘cause I think there barely were any. It was essentially ripping off The Monkees, on an even lower budget (below even the other Kroft “classics”).

Ummm... Ratt.

I do like that party hat.

We dearly needed a reaction shot at the end, of him in the audience.

Hey, man, any excuse for a party!

Traditionally just a coating of tar (as depicted in Game of Thrones/ASoIaF).

Hey, at least it’s anime. The characters aren’t going to age out of their roles.

I suppose this applies to anyone who watched Firefly when it originally aired. I didn’t, and watched it in the correct order on DVD borrowed from the local library.

Well, you know, public executions (often by hanging) were often pretty heavily attended 125 years ago. I think the suicide forest video would be considered crude and lowbrow, but they wouldn’t be nearly as appalled by it as they would the host’s manic behavior and language, and dress befitting a vagrant.

The most publicized clandestine recoveries for scrap have been Allied warships sunk around the particularly shallow edges of the South China Sea/Java Sea. I believe we’re talking less than the normal diving limit of 300' or so.

For many of us. But these scammers deal in volume and screening. Like the “Nigerian Prince” scammers, they sniff out gullibility and desperation.

I hadn’t realized he was that old at the time, but while thinking about it after posting, I kind of figured it wasn’t that physical of a role — “Frank” is kind of a “venerable psychopath”.

Probably his biggest casting against type, but while he’s no wholesome hero there, he’s not a flat-out villain, much less a creepy-sadistic one.

He’s perhaps a bit old for it now, but Hanks could effortlessly nail the Henry Fonda role in a remake of Once Upon a Time in the West.