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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.

Was his best friend named after a pilgrimage to Mecca?

Any chance this is "Ocean's 11"?

This is an encore presentation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Quest."

We've mentioned that before, and he doesn't get it. As usual, I've just gone elsewhere for an idea of what's in the video. It's about Ron Wyatt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Wyatt "Ronald Eldon Wyatt (1933 – August 4, 1999) was an adventurer and former nurse anesthetist noted for advocating the Durupınar site as the site of Noah's Ark, among other Bible-related pseudoarchaeology. His claims were dismissed by scientists, historians, biblical scholars, and even by leaders in his own Seventh-day Adventist Church..." "While Wyatt won a devoted following from some fundamentalist Christians, he was not considered credible by professional archaeologists and biblical scholars." etc. etc.

We'll never have enough to be CONCLUSIVE, but we know a lot about what happened. lcm HIMSELF gave the account, when he was applauding vpw and lauding him to the skies in "vp and me." We had the account in the thread "vp and me in wonderland." ""Dr and LCM always fought for people to stay in the Corps. There was an incident of a guy in the Corps who all of a sudden went "gooney-bird". He started to babble and not make sense. LCM worked hard with the guy to help him but he was incoherent. Dr, when he met him, confronted him by asking- 'Son, how come you're letting your mind get all scrambled?' The guy answered unintelligibly and Dr told him that it would be best for him just to pack his bags and go home. The guy understood that. He left. LCM spent many hours and many long distance phone calls trying to make sure the guy had gotten home from his bus ride home safely. Not being able to verify his location, he was concerned. Dr told him to move on. There's nothing you can do, he'll show up at home soon enough. A week later the guy did show up at home." Mind you, lcm had a BA in Psychology, and SHOULD have been able to give some USEFUL description here, but he did not. lcm ATTEMPTED to do SOMETHING with the guy. vpw-whose only background in Psychology was POSSIBLY Jay Adams' book "Competent to Counsel" (recommended to the corps and advocating CONFRONTING people)- CONFONTED a man with an obvious physical problem. He needed a medical evaluation. He could have had a stroke, a critical vitamin deficiency, or any of a number of other things. vpw's answer? "Pack your bags and go home." lcm-like any normal person- worried that he'd get home safely. After all, it was a frighteningly CALLOUS and USELESS thing to take him, get NO medical help, NO medical EVALUATION, then dump him on a series of buses to get home EVENTUALLY. But we have no way of knowing anything but that he got home, days later. We don't know the authorities WEREN'T called. We don't know another passenger didn't take pity on him and talk him through stops for food and rest for a day or something. We know he was able to pack, more or less. We don't know what the problem was or if he was going to drop dead on the bus. (There was no medical evaluation. Even a school has a nurse on hand to do an evaluation and determine if a hospital is needed. A paramedic would have been something. But there was no preparation at the "facility" of any kind.) We know he was incoherent. We do not know why or if it was a symptom of something more dangerous. vpw just kicked him off-grounds and said to forget about him. This was a pretty standard policy with twi. One ex-WOW said they had a horrible incident on the field, and was traumatized. They were put on a bus and told to go home. They took several days to get home as well because they were traumatized and didn't have the clarity of mind to get home safely. They got lost at an early stop and had a SECOND traumatic experience in trying to get home while being mentally incapable. So, MAYBE the guy was suddenly and mysteriously all better and made a tour of his rip home. MAYBE the guy collapsed on a bus and local help was gotten for him. Either outcome is possible because he was put on a bus right after an acute psychiatric incident with no medical evaluation. Any place would be legally liable for placing someone in danger like that. They had a fiduciary responsibility toward the students in their program. But vpw saw all the responsibility go ONE WAY-FROM the students. He never saw all the things HE OWED them-which is why he never offered them. I believe devils can cause problems, but that doesn't mean medical attention is dismissed. Some people believe devils can exploit existing medical conditions and in that case, getting proper medical care would thwart them. But in twi, it was simple-and LAZY and UNEDUCATED- to blame the supernatural for every intangible problem. This added the convenience of giving them the excuse of not offering tangible solutions.

Cannonball Run II Dean Martin Oceans Eleven (the original)

That's it. Go.

Right gender, wrong artist. Think MORE marketing. She's still making money on albums and tours. And, occasionally, MOVIES.

I'd certainly be more interested in reading that than watching 49 minutes of video.

This one's from 1984. "Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me. I think they're okay. If they don't give me proper credit I just walk away. They can beg and they can plead But they can't see the light, that's right. 'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash Is always Mister Right." "Some boys romance, some boys slow dance That's all right with me. If they can't raise my interest then I have to let them be. Some boys try and some boys lie but I don't let them play, no way, no way. Only boys that save their pennies Make my rainy day." "Boys may come and boys may go And that's all right, you see. Experience has made me rich And now they're after me." Think "artist with passable talent and excellent marketing skills".