Manic Canada Day Fourth Wall--What Canada Thinks That Americans Think About Them...

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In their defense, Mike and the bots were being forced to watch a really, really terribly Canadian movie...

Seriously, we love you, Canada--Happy Canada Day!!

Saturday Surrender

Gang, I'm so verklempt over my lack of proper technology right now...... I'm just going to spend the day watching someone else make fun of pop culture.

Best TV show ever, is all I'm sayin'...

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So, no substantial post today...

I'm wallowing in the greatest television show ever dealing with five--count 'em FIVE--Gamera movies!!

And how many of you knew that Gamera had his own theme song??



Always remember--Gamera is the friend of all children!!

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Well, Marvel 1995 was fairly exhausting, so please pardon me while I take a day to recharge my batteries by wallowing in sniggering goodness:

I'll be back tomorrow, and...well, let's just say I'm going to spend a looong time looking at a particular comic from last week.

In the meantime, here's an epilogue to the madness that was Marvel 1995:

Oh, Peter David, you and your silly feuds!

From Incredible Hulk #431 (1995), by Peter David and Liam Sharp.

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Can't post--busy laughing...

Thing-Ring, Do Your Thing!!

I'm feeling lazy today, so I'll just pass along an...interesting...discussion of what, exactly, the Thing is composed of.

And a reminder: Mystery Science Theater 3000 was (nay, is!!) the best television show ever. And if you enjoyed it, you may want to follow the antics of some of the alum, as the continue to slam bad movies. As The Film Crew, they've got 4 DVDs out from Shout! mocking wondrously terrible movies (Protip: Wild Women of Wongo is, well, hilarious. And bad. And hilarious). At at RiffTrax, Mike Nelson and company sell downloadable humorous commentary tracks you can play along with your DVDs.

This ends our unpaid commercial message.

BONUS PANEL:
Aaarrghhhh!!

Hopping on the Bandwagon

Dudes, I know how to join a meme:


I have no knowledge of the status of the ROM rights, or who has 'em, or what the flipping problem is. But this must end now.

It's not like there's any huge amount of value in Rom's rights, right? So somebody cut somebody a check and let's get this party started.

I'm reminded of a similar situation faced by the best TV show of all time, Mystery Science Theater 3000. They tried to get the rights to riff a terrible 1950 Z-movie, Radar Secret Service. Apparently whoever held the rights thought they had a hot commerical property on their hands, and were waiting for Spielberg or NBC or someone to step up with a big check. It didn't happen, and 3 years later they called up MST and said their movie was available.

So seriously...whoever holds the rights to ROM, really...what are you waiting for? A Michael Bay made summer blockbuster? George Lucas to step forward with a kajillion dollar check? It ain't gonna happen, Rom-rights holder.

Let's take the first step. I personally pledge $1 to the Free Rom fund, one whole dollar towards buying his rights or settling the lawsuit or whatever. C'mon, people, together we can do this...

Now about Miracleman...