WordWolf

You had me puzzled for a second. But the expletive was in the comic book and novelizations, too. Me, I preferred "felgercarb" which obviously was a noun expletive. Looking back, it's pretty clever how they got something past the censors. Back then, you couldn't make a regular character a prostitute, but nobody sent letters because someone was a "socialator." :)

Correct. The other was "the Singing Bee", and they premiered in the same season. Low ratings cancelled them, which was a shame. I liked them both- but I liked DFtL better.

If you don't mind, I'm curious- what were you thinking about it and feeling about it when you were constructing and rotating them? (This is even a bit different than we were discussing before, mostly, since this is different from "free vocalization." Still on-topic, of oourse.)

Much more descriptive. Now I know for sure I've never heard of these movies. That qualifies as progress. :)

There was at least one TV game show where contestants needed to identify song titles. There were at least 2 TV game shows where contestants needed to fill in the words in songs. That's 3 TV game shows- name any TWO. (The first one is old, the other 2 are a few years old.)

Neither do I. A lack of following up didn't help. (I rephrased my clues into longer clues when people didn't get them at first.)

Either it's literal or it is not literal. If it is literal, then Baghdad in modern Iraq will be built up as a big deal. If it is not literal, then some other city will be seen as the center of politics and media, and every sort of indulgence will be catered to there-and celebrated all over mass media. Something worse than Las Vegas, Hollywood and New Orleans on their worst days, put together.

Friday the 13th was the first I thought of. Several have figured into "Charmed" over the seasons, and at least one by the end of "Buffy". The only other definite multiples one I thought of was "Level Up." Twilight Zone and Tales From the Crypt, of course, have had single episodes around some mystical item.

Correct. Which also means Human gave the correct name of the show.

Ever think you'd see the day that adults would go on a television show and display they weren't ready to face the challenges that 6th grade students face on exams? Or that Jeff Foxworthy would host a game show?

That's it. In some places where "A Christmas Story" isn't shown, this one has become a Christmas staple. Your turn.

YouTube used to have lots of examples. The running gag is "Celebrity JEOPARDY", with really stupid or really bizarre celebrities. Sean Connery figures in because they keep depicting him as being verbally abusive to a super-polite Alex Trebek and they manage to keep making it funny somehow. ================= Ever think you'd see the day that adults would go on a television show and display they weren't ready to face the challenges that 6th grade students face on exams?

"I made my family disappear!"

The secret society thing is throwing me.

Has SNL done a LOT of spoofs of this show, by any chance? Most of them with a spoof of Sean Connery?

That was obviously a guy named Wolf in the movie... wait, what? Oh. Uh, still haven't sat through the whole thing, but this sounds like "A Christmas Story."

Merry Christmas. Me, I'm going to finish watching my traditional cartoons. (And see about getting the ones that never air so I can show them another year.) I'll watch "March of the Wooden Soldiers" if I can find the time. :)

It is "The Addams Family Man." (Spelling doesn't count. In fact, I may have misspelled it now.) I've found the descriptions seem to flow better, for some reason, when I lead off with the 2nd movie. When I try to reverse that, it seems to be more awkward. Oh, well.

That's it- "Kung Fu" and "Kung Fu-the Legend Continues." Carradine played the same character in both series. Supposedly, there were plans to revive it in the 80 "Kung Fu-the Next Generation"- but that fell through and just became a TV movie. I thought the Carol Burnett spoof was hysterical. "He hates but one man-the man who stole his shoes." With lots of flashbacks to his old mentor, and once he took someone with him INTO his flashback. End of the episode, his old mentor appears. "How did you get here?" "I had a flash-forward." And that was after he fought-but "non-violently- in slow motion."

*thinks* Good guess, and it technically answered what I posted. I was unclear-the sequel was ANOTHER SERIES that picked up after the previous one, not a one-shot movie or whatever. And the main actor did the slow-motion fights. I'd also like to add that the Carol Burnett Show once spoofed this show. In fact, I saw their spoof long before I saw the show they spoofed!

Nicolas Cage plays a Wall Street executive with no social ties who discovers that he could have had a fulfilling life instead as a husband to an elegant, creepy goth chick and parent to 2 altogether ooky children with her.

This 70's show featured a main character who had flashbacks, and fight sequences filmed in slow motion. It spawned a sequel in the 90's with the main character back, played by the same actor.

It sure sounds like Johnny Quest to me. Not that I ever actually watched the thing, but it seems to get amazing amounts of airplay at odd hours wherever I am. =============== This show featured a main character who had flashbacks, and eventually spawned a sequel with the main character back, played by the same actor.

Nicolas Cage plays a Wall Street executive with no social ties who discovers that he could have had a fulfilling life instead as a husband to an elegant, creepy goth chick and parent to 2 children with her.

Yeah, what he said. Blessings upon you from the Deity or philosophical principle of your choice.