I’d remembered the Tyrone character’s surname once being given as “Thorndyke”. “Horneigh” is, of course, a much better name. They may have changed it, though, for the short-lived animated series, Baggy Pants and the Nitwits, that featured his and Buzzi’s characters.

I’m guessing you didn’t actually have the extensive network of enormous storm sewers featured in the movie? ;)

Some of those lingered longer in the arcades than others. It’s interesting to see some of them that didn’t become classics for a change.

The original Blob is a great piece of ‘50s monster cheese, but I’ll represent for the remake as a better film all-around — It’s singularly harrowing, and a great example of an effective “no one is safe” horror movie.

Indeed. And unlike some similarly more-ambitious remakes like Cronenberg’s The Fly, its totally different take is actually closer to its literary source.

Bruce Joel Rubin’s original screenplay was published, so we have some idea how it could have gone. There was apparently a flat-out surrealistic scene where Elizabeth Peña’s “Jezzie” reveals her true nature and appeals to Jacob to accept his situation.

Here’s an image of him watching Frankenstein murder some people while a naked woman feeds him Cheetos one by one, and it captures his whole arc pretty efficiently.

I thought it was an enjoyable little “Easter egg”.

Seems like the guy missed a real opportunity by not constructing a rail from his friends house/driveway out to the camping area, or around the whole perimeter of the friend’s property. Imagine a country cabin that could “hike” around on its own on rainy days and let you sight see.

And our Netflix passwords.

Interesting that you mention The Twilight Zone, because 1) the show definitely goes in those fantastical directions from time-to-time, as when George starts “doing the opposite” (and really most of his job experiences, for that matter), and 2) I believe I’ve previously discussed in this forum how that’s a fundamental…

The Latex Salesman bit in “The Boyfriend” highlights one of the primary themes of Seinfeld beyond general mundane middle-class somethings. In the Seinfeldiverse, your every irrational social or bureaucratic fear is true — The bookstore will figure out that the book you’re trying to return has been read in the…

“He could have had any woman in the world... But none could match the beauty of his own hand.”

This may be the most Japanese thing ever.

Did you throw toast a the screen, or edelweiss?

“Imperial Battle Cruiser... Stop the flow of time!”

Yeah, I suspect that for a lot of Austrians the Anschluss may have initially just felt like having your little company acquired by a multinational — “There may be some changes to get used to, but at least we’ll have a better benefit package!”

The film opened on the same weekend as Tim Burton’s Batman, which would normally be a bad sign— except that screenings of Batman kept selling out. The PG-rated Honey, I Shrunk The Kids proved an acceptable alternative to parents who had already dragged their entire clan out to the theater, and the movie opened at…

In my mid-20s I was a bit old to be scared, exactly, but I was definitely thinking apprehensive thoughts of Them when the ant showed up. Until they went all family-friendly and turned what should have been a more implacable villain than the shark in Jaws in to a sort of arthropod version of Clifford the Big Red Dog.

The afterlife has to drag on after awhile, so it’d be natural to reread the rules constantly, and rules lawyering and cattiness would just be a given.