That pretty much all ended thanks to Wayne Williams and Adam Walsh, I'm afraid.

It's still like that in rural areas - your first pocket knife and your first BB gun/.22 that's actually Yours.

Hey, you leave Jim Varney out of this, you son of a bitch!

You forgot Sea Hunt, with Lloyd Bridges! BY THIS TIME, MY LUNGS WERE ACHING FOR AIR!

Because it's hard to throw a shipworthy romance b-plot in when there's exactly one character.

jfc johnny tremain

All the way through a minor in English we read out loud in class. That's just a pedagogy thing.

Strangely, I really really remember the semi-graphic depiction of the pilot's massive heart attack - that he started burping and farting and stunk up the plane and then WELP FUCKIN DEAD

I actually had a conversation with a DJ from one of the Atlanta rock stations about how Guitar Hero/Rock Band had driven the average age of their listeners down from 50-something to 20-something, and now they had all these teenaged kids calling in requesting songs from those games.

HEY ARE YOU IMPLYING THAT SKRILLEX LACKS PERSONALITY?

That story about throwing out autographed records is fucking awesome.

The High is actually probably one of the best collections on the east coast outside of NYC, definitely in the Southeast. Massive collection of American Folk Art.

Definitely an early influence. I put the moment of "critical mass" with the one-two punch of Sonic the Hedgehog and Tiny Toon Adventures. The kids who were warped by that all managed to get internet access shortly thereafter and the rest is history.

Replace all the wrestlers' theme music with the Amok Time Fight Song.

Oh man, that's an amazing story - source?

One of my favorite gaming franchises of all time. I'm definitely on board with this.

OH NO I FUCKIN' SAID FUCK ON THE FUCKIN' INTERNET PLEASE DON'T CALL MY FUCKIN' MOM DUDE

If you're gonna pair off Storm with a prominent Marvel hero, it really oughta be Thor, IMO. They're both weather gods, and she's about the only woman who could bring his party-hearty ass into line.

I think you nailed it - he had simply put up with too much bullshit for the business to be worth it anymore. I *think* he's writing for TV now?

Yeah, you're talking The Canon of Popular Culture here. The characters that, in 500 years, will be studied and discussed like we do Arthur and his Knights.