WordWolf

Even in a thread that only spans 5 years, there can be some repetition. You might find this one solvable this time around.

1."Hello, and welcome to "TV Car Trivia!" First question, who was the driver of a '73 Firebird? Uh, Otto?" 2."Uh, Jim Rockford, "Rockford Files"." 3."Gimme "Columbo"." 4."A Peugeot convertible." 1."What color?" 4."Gray." 5."How do you know that?" 4."'Cause I love that show." 5."Man, I got three words for all of y'all: Get a life!" 6."What's on Magnum P.I.'s license plate?" 7."ROBIN-1" 4."Wait, wasn't Robin that faggoty guy that always hung with him?" 8."Naw, that was Higgins. That was Higgins." 2."Hey, hey, ten points for our fearless leader. Sway, how about giving us the Bill Bixby trifecta?" 3."Drove a Corvette in "The Magician", a Ford pickup truck in "The Incredible Hulk", and in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", he walked. " This remake did well enough in the box office, but I can't help think part of that was due to the advertising. One supporting character was made to look like a main character with most of the screen-time. This is one of the appearances in media of the "coroner with an iron stomach" type of thing. When one character answers the phone, he's at work in a crematorium. He puts down his sandwich- on the corpse- to answer the phone.

"I'm looking for Mister Dunbar." "That's playing in the theater down the street." "I said 'DUNBAR', not 'GOODBAR.'" Must be "Looking for Mister Goodbar." Anyone know if it's any good?

"Thor"???

"Dream on!" is an expression that is synonymous with the expression "You wish!" It's a reply that someone has an unrealistic expectation.

In the already-retconned "Trials of Shazam", we got Billy as "Marvel", the guardian of the Rock of Eternity who replaced the wizard Shazam, and Freddy Freeman, who completed some mixed-quality challenges by "the gods of magic" to get their powers. Freddy ended up dressed as a traditional Captain Marvel and called "Shazam", but able to determine whether or not he was calling the lightning with a change of intent when saying the name. Then came the "Black Lantern" fiasco. The old wizard returned from the dead. This should have meant NOTHING since his office/authority was now held by "Marvel" (who was able to change Black Adam's magic word to one Adam didn't know) and his powers were no longer granted by his own 6 patrons (he no longer had access to the magic lightning with the power of Vlarem which made HIM a superhero,) The writers disregarded that, and he immediately took away the powers and office of Billy and Mary. He planned to "deal with" Freddy- but had no ability to remove HIS powers since the Trials ended with them bestowing the powers directly and not through Shazam.) Should have been useless. I mean, if, say, George Washington rose from his grave and told the Secret Service to put the current sitting President into custody, they wouldn't do it because they obey the current sitting President. Washington no longer holds that office. (And so on.) The comics also have 2 villains that can't say their name- IBAC and SABBAC. (Although I had a comic where the writers forgot, and Ibac said his own name and didn't change that time. Shazam vol 1 Number 29, "Ibac Meets Aunt Minerva." https://comicvine.gamespot.com/shazam-29-ibac-meets-aunt-minerva/4000-17408/ Great splash page. Ibac and Cap fightning. AM cheers them on and says she'll marry the winner. Both: "I LOSE!" ) Spy Smasher once tricked IBAC into losing. SS flipped Ibac, and said he had no hope of winning. "Back down!" Ibac: "NEVER! I BACK DOWN FOR NO ONE!" And Ibac's transformation began as soon as he said "I back" ' :) Very clever, Armstrong! https://comicvine.gamespot.com/justice-league-of-america-135-crisis-in-eternity/4000-16742/

History lesson as to why (which you probably know): Fawcett Comics made a kid who became a superhero. DC Comics made a superhero who became an adult man. Kids made Captain Marvel more popular than Superman. So DC hit Fawcett with nuisance lawsuits until Fawcett went bankrupt. Marvel Comics discovered that the trademark on "Captain Marvel" had lapsed, so they made their own (Kree Captain Mar-Vell, aka "Captain Marvel.") He later became the first superhero to die of cancer, and was first of several "Captain Marvels" of DC (Monica Rambeau, Genis- Vell, later Linda Danvers went from Ms Marvel to Binary to Warbird to Captain Marvel.) Later, DC bought up all the Fawcett characters like they did Charlton (Blue Beetle, etc.) They could no longer call the comic "Captain Marvel", so the title became "with a magic word- SHAZAM!" Which also became the title on the live TV show with the Winnebago. As a small child, I had no trouble keeping track of the hero's name. However, plenty of people DID have that problem. So, a lot of people have thought of the superhero (not just the old wizard Shazam) as "Shazam", Especially with the "Captain Marvel" movie out, DC's given up on calling the Marvel Family "the Marvel Family", and made them all Shazams.

I'm slightly behind on Gotham (about 2 episodes.) I'm about that behind on LoT and Flash, a bit more on Arrow, about a season on Black Lightning, and more on Supergirl. I'm probably going to just give up on that last one. The others, I watch when I catch up on one thing or another. (We watch Flash and LoT together.) I'm not happy BBT will end, but it has to end sometime, so that's that.

Next song. "Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away..."

You can take it, but I'll get to it eventually otherwise.

Any chance you're thinking of "Roots"?????

Since you don't know, I was obviously way off. Ah, now it must be one of the principals from "Les Miserables." I'll go with Jean Val- no, Mrs Wolf said Geoffrey Rush didn't play Valjean, so I'll go with INSPECTOR JAVERT.

If he's browsing the page with javascript off or flash blocked, he might not even see a placeholder for the video. I browse here with 2 different browsers. With one, I get all the displays, the other shows placeholders. That's why I used to ask people to post a title even if they posted the hotlink.

Should Sean Young be mentioned here, somewhere? Or maybe Greg Ham with some help from Men At Work?

The fast-sung lyrics meant that one phrase was often mis-heard--- as a "chicken cherry cola" and similar. It's "a DRINK OF Cherry Cola." This was Savage Garden's breakout hit, "I Need You." I liked it a lot, but liked their other 2 hits better, "Truly, Madly, Deeply" and "I Knew I Loved You".

I'm not going to re-link "the Lost Boys", so I'll go with Parenthood Steve Martin the Three Amigos

In fairness, since Raf is a guy he ALREADY.... no need to get up, I'll see myself out, everyone. ;)

Adam Sandler Pixels Kevin James

Jamie Gertz. Selah. Ok, on to the next round. Corey Haim The Last Resort Zelda Rubenstein (aka "the munchkin")

Ok, I've heard that song. Amazing I'm so clueless about the lytics. BTW, my internet access for the next several days is going to be spotty, so don't be surprised if you don't hear much from me.

I obviously did not see them.

How confident are you that Kurt Russell was in a movie called "Sally Field"? I think you had a movie in mind, but didn't type out the name. (In other news, congrats.)

Apollo 13 Clint Howard Tango & Cash

I've heard of the Temptations, at least. (But not that song.) Still trying to get a bead on the new song.

You cannot catch a break! Every time a major crime goes to trial, you're stuck in court forced to try for a perfect attendance record.