Skywarp!

The Simpsons went down the tubes when the bullseye social commentary themes that underlined the episodes disappeared to ring in the current Simpsons, which is just one big whackyland who's episodes have no point. Also, the show doesn't even TRY to be somewhat reflective of the real world--when was the last time we saw Homer at work or Bart and Lisa at school? But I also have a problem with Family Guy for being derivative to the core. It's the Simpsons with Maggie and Santa's Little Helper talking. They've even stolen some plots (both families end up at Indian casinos, and the matriarchs become addicted to gambling. However, the Simpsons stole the "Grim Reaper visits and is incapacitated, so no one dies until the patriarch takes his job" from Family Guy). But my biggest gripe with Family Guy is that sometimes they think reference alone is funny. Or they'll think that a pop culture reference from the past 20 years, mixed with profanity, somehow qualifies as parody.

Wow. To do a face turn like that, he must have watched the Emperor shooting lighting bolts at his son.

Statements like this are part of the problem, though. They perpetuate a fear culture.

They handled themselves well, though. The writer resisted the temptation to say that there was foreknowledge and 9/11 was allowed. Other writers would be itching for a way to make that assumption possible.

Please. That's so irrelevant at this point. Even if everyone was packing, we can't overthrow the U.S. Army.

BBCNews.com: Battle over Twin Towers insurance The case could have an impact on rebuilding on the site A US federal jury has begun hearing a case to decide whether the leaseholder of the World Trade Center can claim insurance for one attack or two. Developer Larry Silverstein wants insurance firms to pay out for two attacks on 11 September, 2001. The insurance companies dispute the claim, saying the attacks on the twin towers amounted to a single event. Mr Silverstein would receive $7bn for two attacks, as opposed to $3bn if the attacks are classified as one. The property magnate says the attacks were two events because the hijacked aircraft hit the World Trade Center 15 minutes apart. How much we recover from this lawsuit will have an impact on the rebuilding of this site Kevin M Rampe, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation A larger payout will enable Mr Silverstein to build a new tower, skyscrapers and other buildings on Ground Zero within the next decade. The smaller figure could mean years of delays. "Anyone who's in New York knows that how much we recover from this lawsuit will have an impact on the rebuilding of this site," said Kevin M Rampe, president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. Mr Silverstein, who owned the leasehold on the World Trade Center, suffered a setback last September, when a federal appeals court defined the destruction as one event but ruled a jury should decide the case. There is also the complication of the fact that while the leasehold was signed months before the 9/11 attacks, the insurance contracts had not been formally written.

Holy crap, you missed the whole point, then!

Yet you're pretentious enough to make a statement like that. How was that pretentious? Anyway, for some reason people would always ask me to beat "Simon's Quest". I could also beat "Mega Man 2" in one sitting.

Oh absolutely. Her record company rushed to release her new single the day after the Super Bowl.

I'm sure the NFL would pull the same crap with "Inside the NFL," but I'm not sure if HBO would budge.

It's slowed down and reggae'd up. Adam Sandler approached modern bands and asked them to cover '80s tunes with an island vibe to them, because, I'm assuming, the movie is set in the '80s and in Hawaii.

Please take a physics course.

The Streaker

On a somewhat related note, 311 has covered the Cure's "Love Song" as a single for the "50 First Dates Soundtrack".

"Whatever..." is the most fun.

Isn't there already legislation in process to block the information from going public? That, if nothing else, should be most incriminating...

"Arch" Enemy.

I don't know, but my interest in the film is piqued. We all know it's bad, but the lengths of how bad it got were amazing. And it was 3 meals a day.

Would it really even get seen there? Although I wouldn't argue would it be moved to the movies section, since I can see it belonging there, as well.

You got me. Edited.

In the final seconds of the movie, is the audience to take the ending to mean that Ed Norton and his dad are still driving up the West Side Highway, which would mean that Ed Norton is going to jail? Or did they cross the bridge, to mean that he's running for it? Or is the ending just ambiguous?

Not to mention their apparent ignorance of the word "tetralogy".

Coach match-card game -- When you flip over two cards bearing the same coach, he is then brought into the Giants' camp. The Eagles season -- Your quarterback starts with really low attributes and stats, making him hard to use. Then his attributes soar 2 weeks later, then get crappy for the NFC title game. Tailgatin' Royal Rumble -- You're a fan. Try to survive getting out of the Linc wearing the opposing team's apparel. Double Dragon sidescroller. Eye poppers -- As a sports analyst, keep saying things about Warren Sapp that make his eyes bulge bigger and bigger until they actually pop out of the sockets. Also, you must avoid his attempts to put a jersey on you, or else he'll sack you. Phil Simms in the search for charisma -- your ancient treasure map says it was stolen by Parcells in 1990, and is now buried under the Texas star on the 50 yard line.

I met a gay guy that said "I consider myself progressive and liberal, but San Francisco is a little too over the top there for me. Instead of 'handicapped parking,' they have 'equally enabled parking'".

The Toadies have been calling to me recently.