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Eight Movie Moments That Messed Me Up As A Kid
compiled by Dan Meth
- Final Shot of “Sleepaway Camp”
- Twins from “The Shining”
- Bear from “The Shining”
- Mouthless Girl from “Twilight Zone: The Movie”
- Zelda from “Pet Sematary”
- Dwarf from “Don’t Look Now”
- Alien behind the door in “Communion”
- Donald Sutherland’s screech in “Body Snatchers”
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Military Ranks of The British Invasion
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When the Royal British Army drafted all their nation’s greatest pop acts for the mid-1960’s invasion of America, it was one swinging’ surprise attack. Ready Steady Go!
By the way, did anyone else play that board game Stratego as a kid?
Futuristic Movie Timeline
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No one really pays much attention to what year sci-fi movies take place. I thought it would be interesting to arrange some classic films about the future into chronological order and see what we’d find. I’ve also charted the years in which they were released as well as the current year. This is by far the geekiest thing I’ve ever done.
* I only included movies in which Wikipedia knew the exact year.
Early Beach Boys Hit Song Topics
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Jeff Rubin is a fellow College Humor writer as well as a fellow Beach Boys fan. He suggested this idea to me after seeing my other charts and discussing our favorite band. Back before “Pet Sounds”, drugs, and mental breakdowns, Brian Wilson pretty much only wrote about three things: Girl, Cars, and Surfing.
USA Sitcom Map
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Click here to see a larger version of the map.
Yesterday’s NYC chart got such a great response and I didn’t want the rest of the country to feel left out. And, yes, I know some of these shows aren’t exactly sitcoms, but it helped to fill out some of those lonely blank spaces.
NYC Sitcom Map
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Here’s a handy map for the rest of the world, pointing out the exact location of NYC sitcoms. Oddly enough, these were all probably filmed in California.
The untapped Williamsburg Hipster sitcom setting is plain to see.
Sit-Com Houses
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All we can really conclude from this data is that I used to watch slightly more sitcoms featuring kitchens on the left side of the soundstage than on the right side.
My Trilogy Meter
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I know other movie geeks are going to have disagreements and that’s fine. And yes, I know some of these movies went more than 3 sequels, but none were ever meant to.
These are rated purely on my enjoyment level of each film and nothing else. Frankly, I’m surprised by how many sequels were better than the original. And I’m not surprised that the 3rd movie is never the best.
