Sorry for having my head up my own addendum…but I just thought of a joke, RE:  Trump starring in the CitiKane remake:  "If this happened, what would Donald call the fantastic, over-sized construction that is his remarkable and artful hair?  …Xana-do!"

The fever pitch and the aggressive "It's really REAL, really!" tone of the Trailers made it feel like a Patriotic Snuff film.  "It's so authentic, you'll swear we actually killed people!  (And maybe we did.)"

Yeah, this actually seems more likely.  (They used the same "lesson story" once on King of the Hill.)  But the aftermath in the American Dad plotline is so muddled, that, again, I can't be sure if this was the intent.  Good call, though; if Stan would have plugged the "delicious berry" experience into his "revelation…

I don't see what it could possibly be referencing from Ice Age.  When did Scrat do anything comparable during his slapstick action?  Was there a musical-cue/sound-effect reference I'm missing?  Did Scrat ever EAT the nut he was chasing in slo-mo?  And why use berries if the joke is about nuts (—hey, watch your…

Just a nagging question:  If the "hex" was supposed to be real…what was the deal with Stan, during his epic mountain fall, eating some kind of berries in slow motion —as if they were part of his cure?

Is it fair to call those scenes you talked about "cutaways"?  One was a flashback/unreliable memory (complete with "wavering screen" dissolves)…and the other was just something playing on a TV in the adjacent bar.  You wouldn't call those testimonials from the bastards-saved-by-Jay's-oil "cutaways" as well, would…

But let me ask you THIS:  When you say "a historic," do you pronounce the "a" as "long A" or "uh"?  If you say "uh," it's no wonder the correct pronunciation strikes your ear weirdly —you're used to casual "street" linguistics.  If you use the "long A," what you're saying sounds like "ahistoric" —an incorrect version…

Zomglie

The Grave-Full Dead

"Somebody somewhere is looking at the huge numbers for Walking Dead and the Grammys and is quietly contemplating a show where the zombies sing."

Just saw the film last night…and I have severe reservations about its "greatness."  However, here's what I believe answers your "plot problem."  Standard thought he was robbing a Pawn shop for, say, $50,000 / $100,000.  The moment he realizes he has a bag with a million bucks in it —well, that's the moment he'd most…

I couldn't take this incestuous Algonquin Clown Table until even the first commercial, as I didn't find as much as 30-seconds of their trivial, chatterboxy, brotastic, rambling nerdy disquisitions anywhere near as funny or insightful as they themselves seemed to —and seemed to quite heartily, I must say.  But I did…

Just a stupid non sequitur:  Among the click-headings in the TV Club's front page box, I at first misread the possible reviews to include the portmanteau show:  "Grim Supernatural Spartacus."  Ahhhh; one can dream.  

Chevy Silverado's Atruckerlypse:  Actually, the Apackadix:  This womanless survivor's hellscape should have ended with the Human Centipede buttfuck that will be the nominal "heroes" fun-filled future until they almost certainly resort to carnnibalism.  (Fuck this fear-mongering commercial; it was far too "real"…

Jesus F. (below):  Just as all politics is local, ALL empathy is individual —and therefore counts for much more than shit, if as nothing more than a teaching tool, exemplar, or rallying cry.  As I understand them, I agree with all your points, however.  But I don't think it's fair to say that all ceremonial traditions…

TO: forget-it-jake: Empathy does seem to be the central issue, and that’s a connection to existence that may not even be POSSIBLE except on a one-on-one (or at least SMALL) scale.  That is, as empathy requires recognizing “the other” as being filled with the same vastness of feeling as “me,” one would be overwhelmed…

Wow!  You just made me remember that they changed the title of Ace in the Hole TO:  The Big Carnival.  (That sure seems to have a rhyming connection to Big Miracle.  Maybe they'll eventually combine ALL these approaches, and someday re-release this political Whale Circus movie as Barnacle & Bailey on Ice.)

The original title of this film?  I would have thought:  "Preachy Ice Holes"

I'll probably see this…although the plot/theme progression in the Trailer makes it look like a better-made version of the second Star Trek pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" —minus goils.    

Also, specifically, the term relates to:  "A depiction of Jesus wearing the crown of thorns."  —Hence, the screencap picture above of the performer in crucifixion pose.