Although bumblefuck covers the incompetence, it doesn't capture the pure malice. I'm starting to use grabassery more (usually in refence to the company I work for)…but bumblefuck and bumblefuckery are perennial favorites of mine.

Sheep Up Wakle!!!1 AV Club beams can't fuel steel melts!!11!1 Investigate 311!!!

Nasim Pedrad would be a welcome addition to any dream.

Some great deep cuts there!

Rummaging around the interwebs trying to remember 1997 music, I think I found my guilty pleasure winner of that year.

Hey, the concept was great, the execution, not so much.

Hmm I was in Mass at the time and I remember them being real cheap (9.99 or 10.99) at Newbury Comics before I moved back to California in 1998. Maybe I just had more disposable income back then. I bought tons of CD's from around that time.

I still have nightmares about Smash Mouth, just like Nasim Pedrad!!

I had completely bailed out of whatever was on mainstream or the new corporatized Alternative radio formats were by 1997. I was really into trip hop, electronica, a wee bit o' swing, just whatever was against what "Alternative™" had degenerated into. I played the hell out of Pulp's This is Hardcore, Underworld's…

My internal memory of the words "I have to go now, my planet needs me" will be forever etched in my mind in the exact perfect passionless intonation of Alex Rocco.

But is Unobtanium easy to obtain???

Skip to the point a good hour and a half or so in where the ship hits the iceberg and then bail before the dumb ending bookend sequence.

When are we going to get to the fireworks factory discussion of 1997 in films other than Titanic?

And no Robert Osbourne to field de Havilland's juicy late night calls. :'(

I loved the Star Wars movies as a kid. In middle school, for some random but awesome reason, my grandmother bought me an anthology of all the Hugo award winning science fiction short stories from the '30's to the '70's (IIRC). The ones that stood out for me were the really original ones…so by high school I was all…

Ok cool! I'll give it a whirl. BTW as far as culture, you mentioned music and television, but did they cover films as well? With the rise of independent films and other genre revivals and reinventions (not to mention the rise in CGI & digital editing technology) I would assume they'd have plenty to cover if they…

I intend to, at some point. I heard it was superb.

Did DVDs really hit that late though? I thought they became popular earlier for some reason, and I was just a little behind the curve, getting my first DVD (1997's LA Confidential ironically being my first).

I was wondering if they actually covered cool, somewhat eclectic stuff I was interested in back then, or stuff that I had no interest in back then, or a decent amount of both?

I'd have to say my favorite movie from 1997 was L.A. Confidential. It was a revelation. I remember the art direction was the best I had ever seen….I remember seeing on the big screen, when Bud White was visiting Lynn Bracken in her bungalow, you could actually see outside her bungalow window, and the street outside…