EricJ

Actually, in the first "Prince Bean" season, Baldrick the First is the only smart-peasant-in-the-room character with rational intelligence. It's only his descendants that had a bit of a problem with their Cunning Plans. And yes, 2&3 (and "Blackadder's Christmas Carol") are considered the classics, whereas the WWI "Blackadder Goes Forth" was considered to be tiring out and off-puttingly preachy, and that "revival" fifth "Blackadder Back & Forth" movie made for the Millennium Dome was...best left forgotten. There was talk of a swinging-60's-London "The Blackadder Five", but Richard Curtis thought the fourth-series humor was already becoming too repetitive. Although Ink and Incapability, where a jealous Blackadder frustrates pompous Samuel Johnson (Robbie Coltrane) shortly before Baldrick loses the manuscript to Dr. Johnson's dictionary, would probably take Sense's interchangeable place.

Oh, you missed Buzzr TV (on PlutoTV, among others)'s "Betty White Christmas", a holiday marathon of her 70's game show appearances on Password, Tattletales, and Match Game, during her days of Mary Tyler Moore Show celebrity: Being married to Allen Ludden made her a near-fixture of the original 70's Password, and frequently on Password Plus.

You do what everyone else does in the cable/streaming age: Go to the library, or take the disks off your shelf, that you bought while the getting was good. "Oh, it's you, Mr. Benny...How are things on the outside?" "Fine, Ed, fine. Here's another movie for the vault." "Oh, good. I was hoping they'd catch the train robbers, in the last one."

Y'know, I honestly opened the thread thinking this would be the first post? (And, umm...no. If, by "Original", you're limiting it to Basil Rathbone, they did use 40's archival audio for the offscreen voice of human Holmes in one scene...Neataroonie!)

For some reason, I was never crazy about "Mad Max: Fury Road", but I never stopped loving Thunderdome: And at least they got to finish their cage match, unlike Ryu and Vega:

People who don't know much about Disney (ahemiger) mistakenly think that it's set before the Civil War, that Remus is a slave, and are upset that he chuckles a little too disturbingly much. It didn't help either that the only scene Disney would show people who don't know the movie most often, is his singing a song about how happy he is. (Actually, a song about how happy the stories are, but most tend not to make that detailed distinction out of context.) History does not allow Reconstruction blacks to look contented and/or non-suffering. By federal law. Also, Clarence Muse in the 40's got into a snit with Walt over other projects, and sicc'ed the NAACP on the movie, so there!

I thought no other actor besides Gordon was born to play Mr. Wilson. (Not even Walter Matthau in the John Hughes movie.) As a kid, the comic strip and the TV Gordon were inseparably linked in my mind.

Still...Redd's very clean, though, inn' he?

"You and me and ABC..." Yes, I remember first seeing The Poseidon Adventure on Sunday-night TV. Parents didn't take me to the theater for that one. And not for "Paper Moon", either, but I always watched the series. Even though that's WHY we no longer have sitcoms.

(heading for the mountain) Bob: "Look at that bread and butter!" Bing: "It's just a mountain." (mountain turns into Paramount logo) Bob: "It may be just a mountain to you, but it's bread-and-butter to me."

Better than me, I'm going back to '05, when the ceremony DARED you whether to care for "Crash", "Brokeback Mountain" or "Good Night and Good Luck". RIP: "Return of the King" - 2004, the Last Good Nominee. 😫

The problem started literally six years BEFORE Netflix or streaming television even existed. Two, if you want to blame the ten-nom rule. First step: Burn the Golden Globes...Kill them...Watch them die screaming and begging. Ricky Gervais is right, they're not a real award anyway, and they only exist to start industry discussion, but nowadays, it never gets any farther than that. Second...Who here is old enough to remember the early 80's, when the industry thought PPV Cable events would change the entire face of home-vs.-theater entertainment as we knew it? (Broadway shows! Local shopping! Movies premiering in your living room the same day as theaters!) Twenty years from now, we'll be giggling over Netflix-mania the same way. Whether Netflix will still be here, however...

And dinosaurically, at that. Yeah, but it was a little bit of a relief: Every year, we have the "Tantrum Snub", where the cult-fan title that thought they would get recognition in the eyes of the world and didn't, and then the gluteally-wounded fans all stage big rallies that "The Academy is outdated, and should be abolished!" Used to be the big ones like "Passion of the Christ" and "The Dark Knight", but in past years, it's been down to niche-fanboy titles like "Creed", "Lego Movie" and "Straight Out of Compton". Frankly, thought it was going to be the "Queen & Slim" factions that were going to raise a ruckus if they didn't get private limos to the ceremony, and heaven knows what the "Us" fans would have done.

Well, the ones we have NOW are, after the three historic mess-ups: 1) The shortened voting period in '04, to try and shut up Harvey Weinstein's non-stop junk-mail spam, which gave busy voters one less month to see and remember worthy movies, and just cheat-sheet off the Golden Globes instead, 2) The Ten-nomination Rule in '08, the one we got in response to "Why wasn't Dark Knight nominated for Best Picture, huh?" and "Wall-E would have beaten that stupid Indian picture if Pixars could be up for Best Picture!" (And now, instead of not being able to think up five nominees, we have voters unable to think of eight nominees, and clutch at more critical-reputation straws.) and 3) The new "ranked" voting adopted around the same time, where multiple Best Picture nominees are given points rather than votes, which means that a universally agreed-upon #2 Picture ends up with more points than a divided #1 contest and takes the prize instead. (Qv. "Green Book" and "Moonlight".) Clean up those messes, and we might have something interesting again. Although, granted, we also had better movies in the 70's, 80's and 90's.

TV was "cute" in the 60's and "pop" in the 80's, but in the 70's, TV was EVERYTHING. We couldn't go to movies, since most were too gritty for the early part of the decade, hit songs were for your car radio, and nobody would dare go to NYC to see a Broadway show. Sitcoms reflected both "relevance" and Neil Simon stage-wit, game shows emphasized Consumerism to the last generation of housewives, talk shows preserved an image of celebrity Hollywood back when real Hollywood thought it was doomed, dramas were self-contained, Monday night turned pro-football into a corporation, movies (especially 007 movies) were a one-night-only event for popcorn and pajamas, variety shows brought Las Vegas spectacle into the living room (back when nobody would dare go to Vegas either), and with no live CNN footage, we trusted Walter Cronkite and Harry Reasoner to help explain Vietnam and Watergate to us. Check out CNN's first two pop-history series, "The Sixties" and "The Seventies": They both deceptively start with a nostalgia-rundown episode of What Beloved TV Icons America Was Watching Back Then, and then proceed to explain all the pivotal events of the decade through clips of the network news coverage, back when it was film of David Brinkley and his microphone following Nixon over the Great Wall of China. That gives you some idea of how we depended on TV to unite the country, back when everybody watched the same show on the same night, and knew we did.

Three episodes, actually--Her mother, Pearl Slaghoople, had remarried several times. ("After all, Wilma, it's no crime to be poor...If it was, your father would have been Public Enemy #1!")

Usually they save the lame traditional gag for the one movie where the actor does a dual role (yuk, yuk!), but Young & Old Will Smith in "Gemini Man" either seems to have escaped their radar, or they let Tyler Perry occupy that placeholder.

At least we found out what happened to the kid who was briefly on Married: With Children...sort of:

So, now you just want them to keep on showing Disney Channel movies to everyone else because it would be Neat, then?

Because shows have different screenwriters, and canon in a sitcom isn't as important as canon in Star Trek. Seriously, ever try to keep The Flintstones facts straight from one episode to the next? (Quick, where did Fred work? What was their address? And the only one they did keep was Wilma's maiden name, and that's the one everyone gets wrong.)

And be glad you're not a DC Comics fan, who've been so raised on having to "apologize" for Superman and Batman, they're militantly enraged if a new Batman/Joker movie ISN'T "Dark, complex and R-rated!" like the last few have been. (And then accusing Marvel of being "for babies!" just because kids can still watch the Avengers and Guardians.)

And I'll just get THIS bit of obvious out of the way quickly:

They don't have that one yet. They have many of the OTHER forgettable made-for-cable Disney Channel movies from the 80's and 90's, though, so he could watch "Luck of the Irish", "Smart House", or "Bride of Boogedy". Oh, and in response to his earlier question, yes, they do have "Fuzzbucket". (BTW, is Leonard Maltin[sic] still able to host? I've seen his Twitter account and he's looking...okay, although it's his daughter that does most of the work and merchandising now.)

Although they didn't even quite understand those, through their Must-See Binge Fangirl filter: When Sarah Jane came back, they try to make it a (yep) dramatic romantic-subplot, as she confronts the Doctor saying "How could you leave me behind all those years?" Uh, I just caught "The Hand of Fear" again on PlutoTV, SJ; YOU left HIM, on good terms, and happily walking out of the Tardis singing "Daddy didn't buy me a pony." And let's not even get into the early smugsy Russell T. Davies years, with the return of "the Tin Disco Dog", unquote...In case you were wondering what I meant by New Britain's need to honor with one hand and hiply slap with the other. (Ie., when there was an early episode in late-50's London TV, I just sat there, gritting my teeth, waiting...waiting...waiting for the obligatory hip nudging in-joke about late-50's Londoners watching "Muffin the Mule", BBC's most popular kiddy-show the week before William Hartnell came along. I did not have long to wait.) Thank you for going to the edge, but not going over, the Fan-Gentrification Mantra: "Sure, the old show was for kids, but this is new and complex, and made for adults!" It's the same self-privileged Gentrification that's singlehandedly destroyed video games, comic books, cartoons, toy action figures, horror movies, Harry Potter, Star Wars and Star Trek, and any other pre-adolescent thrill that high-school kids and adults are too embarrassed to take with them into their later years, without searching for some pretentious "validation" in the eyes of the world...And then, of course, assuming that there's so many of them, the new makers should cater entirely to their discerning niche tastes, and let the new-generation kids either do themselves a favor and keep up, or go play with Barney the Dinosaur like the ungrateful larva they are. Love At First Bite is just one of the great unsung comedies of the late 70's. It's not only funny in the right places (in the way Mel Brooks's Leslie Nielsen Dracula painfully wasn't), George Hamilton is a perfect "funny" Dracula, keeping his charm and elegance, while totally at sea in early-Koch disco-era NYC. I remember the audience always getting a big laugh, and sometimes applauding, at the scene where Hamilton's Dracula discovers a Red Cross blood-bank, and says "Look, Renfield...Only in America!" 😂 (Unfortunately "Zorro, the Gay Blade", two years later, quickly finished off Hamilton's career in non-Brooks movie parodies. He was also a great Zorro, but oh, that script...)

"Finally"? Even if you didn't like Darby O'Gill or Johnny Tremain, the Bill Walsh-produced Robert Stevenson movies are some of the most fun and production-classiest "true" LA Disneys of the post-Walt era! (Although most of those came out after Poppins, like The Love Bug, Bedknobs & Broomsticks, Blackbeard's Ghost, Herbie Rides Again, One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, and yeah, I'll even throw Island at the Top of the World in there, just because I used to have the View-Master of it.)