The first ten minutes of Hellzapoppin' are one of the greatest things I've ever seen in any movie ever. It might have been impossible for them to sustain that kind of bonkers energy for an entire movie, but it really is disappointing that the rest of it turns out to be a pretty typical Abbott & Costello type of…

I'm sure you aren't. Personally, I really enjoyed it, but it seemed like as soon as the Oscars were over, it disappeared completely from all public conversation.

Also Ernst Lubitsch's The Smiling Lieutenant. That's my favorite performance of hers.

I'd say that if The Apartment counts, so does Marty. It's not a laugh riot, but it's funny, and it's definitely a romance.

I'd say The Artist definitely counts. It's just that everyone has already forgotten it exists.

Mine is much newer than most of these. It's The Jerk, which isn't a movie about a jerk.

It's a reference to/parody of The Philadelphia Story, isn't it? Not a great parody, of course, but I always felt like it was Sturges saying "Oh, you can just name a rom-com after the city it's set in? OKAY, HERE YOU GO."

I really like "Hurricane J," but that's the only song from Heaven I can even remember.

What's amazing about that whole Party Pit bit, in retrospect, is how much is feels like a call-forward to the song of the same name (rather than that song being a call-back to "Banging Camp.")

Favorite lines/passages from the album?

Those are the three, yeah. I like the albums on either side, but those three are all just perfect. I think Stay Positive is probably my favorite, but that's likely just because I usually listen to it last. So "Slapped Actress" ends up being the thing that sticks in my head.

I feel like Longmire's audience doesn't have a subscription to Netflix.

A capital choice!

I hadn't heard that story before, but it certainly sounds like Jim Henson. Do you remember where you heard it?

Jack Pumpkinhead! Who was played, coincidentally, by Jim Henson's son Brian.

I really should get around to read that and the Labyrinth novelization someday. They were just reissued too, so now would be a good time to track them down.

They're kind of similar.

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Scariest thing in that movie, for me, was the Gnome King's living face slowly being carved out of the mountainside.

That's wonderful!