...you know that awesome sculpture at the start of each show that was randomly obscured by Tom Hanks?  Here is an interview with the sculptor.

[As a side note to the DiF d00dz: thanks for raving about FtEttM -- my wife and I really enjoyed it.]

I get Christopher Lee and Vincent Price, Dashiel Hammett and Harlan Ellison, Jamie Oliver, Wild Bill Hickok and the sinking of the Bismarck. Also, Henry Kissinger.

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DorkmanScott wrote:

Although to be fair, I wonder how many laughtrack-based sitcoms that you or I consider actually funny would feel equally stilted and awkward without the laughtrack. I bet most of them.

Weirdly, I found the opposite with M*A*S*H, which was originally shown in the UK without a laughtrack. Seeing episodes now with one just seems odd and wrong.

And Sports Night works better without one, too (although they didn't seem to be able to make up their minds whether the show had one or not).

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Is he holding a penny whistle in his left hand? If so, to what unspeakable end does he put it?

(Cue jokes about "the end you blow", et cetera.)

Eddie: What is the best question anyone ever asked you (apart from this one)?  Can you answer it? Why not?

Would you be surprised if, in the mysterious future, fans of commentaries will make movies that go with whatever you are talking about in each episode?

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Was this before or after he worked with Vincent?

Invid wrote:

So they decided against Down With Children?

My understanding is that that title contained insufficient bastards. (Not to be confused with the upcoming Asylum movie 101 Insuficient Basterds by Tartan Quentintino.)

When you start the inevitable spin-off of DiF for children with your commentary for Mary Poppins, how will you avoid scaring the more nervous kiddies with your trademark suave foul-mouthery?

(Other than in the name of the podcast, Down in Front, You Little Bastards, obviously.)

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beldar wrote:

Well, a couple of WoK clones would've been nice.

Star Trek: Nemesis was, at least in part, a deliberate attempt to clone WoK, and how well did that work out? The phrase "poop on a pencil" comes to mind.

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Why is there a dollar bill on the wall? "Hey, I'd really need to buy something to hang on the wall there, but I only have a dollar...waaait a minute!" At least, now you have a nice rug.

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Well, when I played Myst, I felt I was discovering a story of how the place I was exploring came to be, and the relationships of the characters behind it. I wasn't a protagonist in their story, but that didn't make it less interesting.

Plus, although I didn't get into it, a friend of mine who played Myst really enjoyed all the optional associated material in book form that went more into the backstory of the characters and the worlds they inhabited.

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Down in Front wrote:

Generally, I'm trying to figure out what storytelling can possibly take place in the game-half of a modern game.

Does Myst count as a modern game?

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So, do you think those kinds of movies are made by people who are trying to make Ferris Bueller's Day Off or Election, but who are just untalented?

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It's a quick read as well, not at all a hefty tome.

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Zarban wrote:

I thought a "Finifter" was a measure of depth, like 20,000 Finifters Under the Sea,...

Surely you mean 20,000 Teagues Under the Sea?

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DorkmanScott wrote:

Looking back, I'm willing to admit that I may have gone full Finifter on this one.

So, is a Finifter a unit of measure in the same way that a Goldblum is?

I bet, whatever the scale is, it's logarithmic.

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Trey wrote:

Hackers I haz not seen.  But The Incredibles? I'm so there.

Ba-ra bah! ba-raaaaooh!

Oop, sorry, wrong thread.

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Wesley Snipes (Demolition Man)

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If you're from Scotland, everybody knows you can drink; which is why, if you are, you don't have to.

(Except Irn-Bru, obviously; that's like gaelic Ketracel White.)

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Down in Front wrote:

Anyway. I raise my glass to you sirs.

http://imm.io/media/3K/3Khs.jpg

Clink.

Ah, German beer. It's a beverage, and a shaving preparation. Just like DIF.

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If, by "LA area", you somehow mean "London", then I'm sure I'll find a way to be there.

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TrowaGP02a wrote:

And at Fig and Sub. Holy shit, did Goldsmith score 6723489067289036 movies or what.

No, he did way more than that.

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Is this one supposed to be showing up in iTunes?

Because it's not showing up in mine.

Holden Hill wrote:

EDIT: There will be no iOS version until Apple decides to release a Windows version of the sdk.

Well, that saves you ever having to learn Objective C, then.