Can’t believe we had two awesome Nileses in 90s sitcoms. We were truly blessed. 

I look forward to the rational and grounded comments this article will generate.

I don’t want to go all factchecker here, but Hoover died in 1972, so I’m not sure he took any retaliation for something that happened in 1973.

ER had a bad habit of tanking great actors with really bad characters, particularly during the Ming Na years. I think they recovered nicely with the addition of Neela and Sam, and the last season’s writing had a nice zip to it (one day pop culture historians will write about how Lost inspired shows in every genre to…

Well that’s swell, Uselessbeauty, but your little brother is STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF AFGHANISTAN!

Did you watch Flintstones cartoons? Because if you did, you watched the Honeymooners. 

I mean, i’m 50 and i know who these people are but mostly know Chaplin and Marx thru various parodies/homages. Have seen plenty of I love Lucy though.

For me, going back to my wife she knows about all of those, but the only one she really cares about from roughly that era is Buster Keaton. Loves Buster Keaton films and actually turned me on to them.

Do you know who Charlie Chaplin is? How about Groucho Marx? How about the other Marx brothers that didn’t really get a solo career? I’m half being snide, but I’m also curious what other icons of comedy have been lost to the youth if they don’t know who Lucille Ball is.

While I didn’t like the movie, and there are problematic parts of the character (such as the fact Carter was a Confederate veteran), I think it could have worked if they had done it differently. Steampunk was big in the late 1990s/early 2000s. So if they had focused on that (weird vaguely Victorian Martian tech) it…

Fu Manchu

I’m starting to think that the kids just aren’t down with Edgar Rice Burroughs anymore. 

Interesting. My wife is 47 and she knows about “I Love Lucy” and it’s cast, but she has no emotional connection to it at all and would probably never voluntarily watch an episode. It’s just a really old and dated show to her.

Agreed. And that’s a huge problem within that industry and medium: grown men trying to relive the era they have nostalgia for, with no concern of characters that took root before those long gone characters.

John Carter

Same. I'm hooked now. 

No no no. Part 2 absolutely should have been Now You Don't.

And on top of that long list of atrocities Dany commits, there’s the fact that throughout the series, she nearly always favors conquest through indiscriminate bloodshed, which her advisors are always trying to talk her out of. She views ruling as her birthright and when anyone refuses to immediately bend the knee on…

The original “Released in the summer of 1993 for some baffling reason”

The Snyder Cut, while unnecessary, still serves a purpose. It’s really long and overstuffed, but it does hold together as a coherent story far, far better than the Whedon version.