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Which is funnier? Like picking a favorite kid, I know. But, pick you must.
I don't mean Raffi or the Smurfs theme or stuff that you chose, but what music did your parents or other family members listen to? We lived in Austin, TX during the time of my first memories, so the first music I was exposed by my parents were...
This thread is in celebration of the new Futurama episodes starting in just 11 days. So let's discuss our favorite episodes! If you haven't seen every single Futurama episode you should watch them all immediately or, better yet, kill yourself. My...
But what the hell. ETA: I mean that I can already predict that the rest of y'all will spit on it, with maybe one exception.
Guess which they are. This isn't exactly a football song but it does have a footballer in it. T1urq4Vb0XM An Irish on from 1990, still makes people go mental when they hear it. I5PT65I2ny8
I am not a Scotty fan. Doohan's personal vendetta against Shatner has forever colored my perception of the character Scotty. I watch him playing the Scots with a twinkle in his eye and get mildly nauseated. That said, this is a strange episode....
Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood or Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart or John Wayne or Paul Newman or Marlon Brando or Henry Fonda or Harrison Ford?
A good, solid episode. Kirk, while on a routine landing party mission for tritanium deposits, smells a sickly sweet odor, like honey. He alerts his team to be ready to fire with deadly force if they see a gaseous cloud or detect dikironium. The...
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Ok, I thought that most right-thinking people pretty much agreed that 1970s-era Elton John is pretty great. Yellow Brick Road? Tiny Dancer? Daniel? Rocket Man? But the crazy people in chate right now say that he sucks. What is the Mellophant...
The movie God released in lieu of his son's second coming, The Blues Brothers--the most entertaining two hours in the history of commercial entertainment--turns 30 this week. Was it really three decades ago that I took public transportation to...
And, of course, what made them inlfluential on other shows? A little housekeeping: By artistically speaking, I mean to restrict the discussion to shows that had an impact on the creation and development of shows that premiered later. It...
If yes, why? If not, why not? If it depends, on what? (I'd go into more detail I weren't triple tasking and will say more after work.)
All replies must be in the form of dirty limericks. Well, not really.
Ok, discussing whether in this day and age, any film or tv show can be "cult" is for another thread. At least one film that I recall was taken by many as a "cult" film when in fact it was a big budget, mainstream release. IIRC The Matrix did ok in...
Those of you who are also old will remember that before about 15 years ago, It's a Wonderful Life was on every. channel. several. times. during the Christmas season. You could easily catch it a dozen times a year. I have loved this movie since I...
And, of course, tell us why.
And explain why, of course. Please restrict yourself to persons both real and living. Jed Clampett is not eligible because he's fictional; Buddy Ebsen because he's dead.
Congrats to now svelte John Goodman. I love this guy. Happy for him. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/06/john-goodman-slims-down-/1
Ok, I'll just say it. Ick. This is one episode I will not willingly watch. We have an officer with a major Daddy complex, officious desk jockey and a physically failing Kirk AND Spock. :( The competency hearing is just awful (unlike the...
I was going to stipulate that we should restrict ourselves to books that have not already been given the cinematic treatment, but I figured no one would listen and it was just a waste of electrons. In fact, I don't even care if the book you bring...
It's aged really badly hasn't it. :( From the glorious epic I saw in the cinema several years ago to watching it at home this weekend, my only thoughts were what went wrong. The effects looked awful, the dialogue seemed hammy and it was just not...
We get a bit of backstory on Bones in this episode. He spent some time with the Capellans, a harsh, warrior people. The Federation needs their cooperation for a mining contract (for topeline). The Capellan customs are alien to Our Crew and the...
Nanny and the Professor is my #1 choice for this. Thankfully Hulu rescued it from the trash bin. I would like to find "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir" but I recall it was not very good. It was only on two seasons for about 50 shows but was shown in...
Vote for as many choices as you like, write-ins are encouraged. Bonus topic: Haldir is hot.
For Captain Thingy. Beeb
I had the pleasure of watching the last Terry Pratchett adaption over the Bank Holiday weekend of Going Postal. Its also a step up from the other two adaptations done of Hogfather and The Colour of Magic. Excellent acting all round and they...
In TNG and later series, it seems as though it is reasonably common for civilians to own warp-capable shuttlecraft. Even relatively skeezy Han Solo-type ruffian characters might own an off-brand shuttle. Clearly not everybody has one, but it's not...
The Enterprise is seen fulfilling her role as a flagship as the crew hosts several hundred delegates to a conference. Tempers flare, deals are made and intrigue re the future votes to include the Coridan system into the Federation. Spock's parents...
Yes, one of THOSE threads. I'm bored. The B-52s "Good Stuff"
It's here this Saturday. The biggest kitsch event in the world live from Oslo. It's the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 39 participants from across Europe battle to avoid nul points and take their place in history I had completely missed it...
Sir Paul McCartney! No question in my mind.
Here I have selected a few videos to present you a freak show hall of fame of some of the great hits of German Schlager music. Bill Ramsey (a genuine American!) Mimi never goes to bed without a crime novel eQzTIQHXhjs Gitte Haenning I...
Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Nancy Hedford, a top notch diplomat who now has Sakuro's disease, are returning to the Enterprise in the shuttle when they are drawn off course by an unknown force. Miss Hedford's illness worsens to critical as the Big...
I know this film is a number of years old and may have been talked about over across the water in the SDMB but I only just saw it. I watched it last night as it was shown on the local channel, RTÉ. I had heard it was really good and it certainly...
Have you ever been lucky enough to drink: a) Vodka mixed with red wine b) Whiskey and Red Bull c) Cider and JD d) tequila, blackcurrant, whiskey and vodka e) Scotch mixed with Irish whiskey aka the 'dal riada' ?
I just have to ask this question of The Universe: Why do we have Rod Stewart? Are we still being punished for our granny eating that bloody apple?
Obviously in a film you get less exposition so some of the things below that I list are less important. Things I'd like to see more of in film and tv shows. 1. Non-humanoid aliens. I know budgetary constraints have always been a factor in...
Is he the first openly, explicitly, self-professed atheist protagonist of a major network TV series?
A case has started in Belgium asking for the book "Tintin in the Congo" to be banned on the grounds of racism. It has already been removed from most places in Britain on the same grounds. The book was originally published in 1930 and reflects the...
Once again the Earth is in peril, and you have been charged with assembling a team of TV & movie characters to save us from the forces of darkness. For various contrived reasons I'm too lazy to make up, you have 12 jobs to fill: Field leader...
Moderator's note: I watched the second episode of the season last night, and was so amused by the basket ingredients I thought I'd start a discussion thread for the season. Thought it would work best if I split the posts discussing the first...
The only two parter (there should have been more, IMO), and one of the best. Sure, it was merely a vehicle for them to use the original pilot footage (and gain time to get ahead on scripts according to Bob Justman* in an interview), but the damned...
Harcourt Fenton Mudd the First! A rogue if ever there was one. And lots of lovely ladies (well, some of them are not so lovely at all, but the Alice series is cute). The males series is nothing at all to look at, even Norman is unattractive in an...
Domebo Film Critic's Club - Film Schedule and Nomination Thread My Favorite Year I am a little weird in that I not only tend to be a tough reviewer I am also effusive in my praise. This is one of about 100 films I have rated as a 10 on the...
I just got to Forbidden Planet, the 1956 pulp sci-fi classic, on my Netflix queue. Not sure what I was expecting but damn, that was a pretty good flick. The SFX were decent considering the era, and they obviously went all out with the sets and...
Well, here we are again. Kirk shows his leadership prowess once more when he refuses to leave 2 crew members, Scotty and Sulu, behind. He, Spock and McCoy beam down despite the curse relayed by a dying redshirt. This episode has a great deal of...
Once I would have written a long set-up. I'm too lazy now, though. Let's just say that the madman plans to torture, rape, murder, and eat you, not necessarily in that order, but that there's someone ahead of you on the menu and it'll a week before...
OK, the rules: - Has to be live-action media. No animation or rotoscoping. - The actor has to be portaying someone younger than themself. After all, making someone look older is easy; look at James Woods in Ghosts of Mississippi. - I'm...
Disclosure: I've never watched a full episode, and the last time I even watched part of an episode was probably one of the first 4 or 5 eps. I'm trying to understand the attraction. Because I do watch House regularly, I'm subjected to a high...
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