Shouldn’t the prize be bell-less, by that logic?

I didn’t realize the pronunciation of “Akira” was going for “proper Japanese”. I thought he was supposed to be mispronouncing it as the name of the dog breed.

I think the series always had him pretty firmly in the “good guy” camp, though he would indeed mete out the fantasy you needed, as opposed to the one you wanted, in order to teach the appropriate lesson. The pilot, on the other hand, definitely made him more “be-careful-what-you-wish-for” menacing, and the ‘90s…

Ben was a serious networker. I could see him joining damn near any organization if it had influential people in it and he could charm them.

Eventually we’ll get down to the ill-tempered Sea Bass.

I honestly think you’re on the right track. It’s a fine line between “I’m so racist I think even the Dutch are suspect” and “I’m flat out paranoid about everyone, and everything”. The latter is a pretty legitimate horror trope.

Certainly the aesthetic was established by the mid-’80s, but I wasn’t sure when the name got associated with it. Please do elaborate, though... ;)

I guess that could be another possible “Hellfire Club” angle — Kali’s Season 2 gang being misidentified as a “Satanic cult” or some new crew turning up. Perhaps Eleven gets mixed up with some proto-Goth crowd and bonds with them while getting her powers back, and they slip into admiring and “worshiping” her, while…

I question whether the later ‘80s really represent some sort of “peak Satanic Panic”. Opposition to tabletop RPGs really spanned the ‘80s. Some evangelical groups were probably troubled all the way from its beginning in the ‘70s, but popular awareness and suspicion kicked in with the “Egbert Incident” in 1979.…

I agree. And I could easily see Kali’s gang from Season 2 coming back into the picture to take on the “Hellfire Club” role.

There was something so terribly, horribly off about hearing “Fortunate Son” soundtracking a moment in the late ‘80s instead of the late ‘60s or ‘70s. Clearance Clearwater Revival playing on screen should only mean one of three things for a TV/film character —they’re going to fight in Vietnam, they’re having a…

I thought it had some decent moments of both humor and creepiness, but in the end I enjoyed it mainly as a spectacular trainwreck. I thought the conceit of portraying the robot’s “self-repair” feature as just all of its wiring and parts literally being animated made the whole thing seem kind of arbitrary. A few years…

I expect that if this isn’t just a fabrication or hallucination by the plaintiff, it’s not quite a corporate level action, whatever the financial incentives to frame it as one. I have difficulty imagining an evil corporate master bothering to assemble files of trivia on its employees. But I could see surveillance…

It’s a small Room 101 after all...

And it’s not just a random cliche. It’s a well established arc of fashion obliviousness that Bob has fully inhabited for many years.

Either of those options seems a bit extreme for Gene to attempt.

Well, he seems kind of young to be driving or operating heavy machinery, so go for it!

That was an MAC-10 — and the scene where it’s first demonstrated plays like a short from Ingram’s marketing department.

As great a comic actor as Pryor was, I don’t think he’d be an improvement on Little in this role. Sheriff Bart is effectively a matinee idol heroic type, while Pryor’s a much better fit for “plucky hustler who’s in over his head.”

Did he get to keep the codpiece gun?