The part can be pure, until they mix it.

The jive/jibe thing irks me too. But just wait a couple years and Webster’s will officially accept “jive” in this usage.

And, of course, just because you have contacts in the intelligence community doesn’t mean that what they tell you is more reliable than the rumors you hear from anyone else.

Indeed. It remains unclear to me whether that was just arrogance on the part of CBS management, or whether there were marketing/demographic justifications that weren’t clearly data-justified, simply because there wasn’t as much audience data to be parsed back then.

And Snorky, who never spoke anyway.

The animatronic thing is probably the most clear indicator that this was conceived of as a Five Nights at Freddy’s movie.

But it got right that the Orangutans are the cynical manipulators puppeteering all of them. ;)

I was speaking strictly from a modern perspective, but “camp” clearly applies. And I don’t normally think of Rob Zombie as shooting for that, wherever he might actually land.

I was going to ask about that. I’d never had the impression that he was doing a shtick, and yet so much of that reminded me of the old MTV Liquid Television live-action bits like “Art School Girls of Doom” and “Brickface and Stucco” — Manneredly weird in the most elbow nudging sort of way.

I have only the barest awareness of Zombie’s musical ouvre, and while I actually like “Dragula”, I’d never actually seen the video. Good Lord, there’s so much hipster irony in there I was doing “air quotes” through the whole thing in time with the music.

Weirder still when you figure it was he who placed a large part of the action in the first prequel right back on Tatooine. “Sure, I went back there again, but they didn’t have to go back there again again.”

And, of course, Crispin hasn’t always lived in his castle, because the previous owner mysteriously disppeared!

I have some sort of weird condition where, if I trim my nose hairs, some of them end up getting turned around and growing through the side of my nose. I develop what looks like a zit on my nose, but when I pop it, it has a fairly long, dark hair inside that can be pulled out with tweezers.

That was a running gag with my crowd for some years — that the Rambo films should have kept stacking their titles. Rambo: First Blood Part II should have been followed by, say, Electric Boogaloo: Rambo II, First Blood Part III, and that by Rise of the Lycans: Electric Boogaloo II, Rambo III, First Blood Part IV, and…

Definitely suffers from the same tactical-nuclear-arrowhead problem, but it’s at least a little less conspicuous with a human than a helicopter.

I’ve only ever seen the first three, and I tend to rate II more highly than III personally, chiefly because the third crossed a certain cheesy pulp threshold embodied by the scene where Rambo fires one of his explosive tipped arrows at an attack helicopter and the pilot screams in terror...

Ever since they retooled it to remove the burning-down-each-others-houses part in favor of more guessing of survey answers, yeah.

And if there’s one ghost you don’t want to be on the wrong side of, it’s Andre the Giant’s.

Sounds like he was sort of Hell’s Production Assistant...

I’d have kept my kids away from the Bruce Dern of 45 years ago, much less the current model.