Recent content by Christopher Jay

TV.com shows the dentist sketch as part of Episode #50, guest starring Ethel Merman & Tim Conway, first airing 03/03/69. FWIW, that episode(or any episode before '73 for that matter) isn't on any of the 31 volumes of The Carol Burnett Show released on DVD by Columbia House.

That's the way that bit has always played out. Matthew never actually asks a question, and the humor stems from Dave having anticipated that a ridiculously left-field topic would come from Matthew - to the extent that he already has a visual aid to answer it. I can say that scene is definitely...

James Horner's score for The Journey Of Natty Gann has exists on CD as a composer promo(or it could certainly be a boot disguised as a composer promo). I imagine copies of it fetch a high price among Horner collectors. Other than it being 17 tracks and about 38 min., I don't know much else about...

I've just noticed this today and have posted my findings elsewhere, but here's the breakdown: The end of "H.O.B.O-OPs" as broadcast(per DVR recording of original and recent marathon broadcast)- Mother and son walk by deranged homeless vet. Son: "Mommy, who is that man talking to? Mother...

Assuming you've enabled the Closed Captioning on your monitor - you might have to make sure your player is outputting interlaced. It isn't often noted that CC is effectively disabled by progressive scan(which is why I think player-generated SDH should be included whenever possible, but that's...

Yes, I noticed that very effect and found it a bit hard to get used to. I have the 3-disc DTS version and there are certain scenes - all focusing on the General Meng character - where the film appears squeezed vertically. It's also mentioned in the DVDBeaver review of the two-disc set. It must...

I'm also hoping we'll get to see the version of "Injury" that was broadcast in syndication with all of Bill and Dave's exchange regarding the "penis" fines ("Total?" "Per penis.") and Bill's final word on the subject.* What would be wonderful is if the April Fools' Day '98 "Pop-Up Video" version...

That's certainly possible, but it looks to me judging from the spacing of the text that "biological mother" fits in the balloon and "good mother" looks awkward in the same space. I found a mention of the change on this blog, which seems to suggest it would have to be Watterson's decision to...

One of the strips reprinted in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes has been altered. In the last two panels of the 11-25-88 strip, the phrase "biological mother" has been changed to "a good mother" and the strip's punchline is now different. The strip now ends with "Yeah, right. Let's see your...

Does this indicate DVD-ROM content? Would this be a Criterion first?

. Ultimately the movie tries to be more than mindless action, with the two leads spouting impossibly concise speeches about the responsibilities of government. For a few moments when the punches stop and the posturing begins, it feels like an episode of Dragnet.:) But it's still a crackerjack...

I liked it.:) I'm not the biggest Thurston Moore fan in the world, and I don't like Dredd Foole(the vocalist)'s stuff, but that had some good moments. If you're not big on improv-noise, though, it could certainly seem too directionless. YMMV.

The Albert Ayler release is called Albert Ayler Live in Greenwich Village: The Complete Recordings. Amazon has it credited to "Cal Jr. Cobbs, Albert Ayler, Sunny Murray" for some reason; the ASIN # is B00000DD1S and it's $18.99. Now as for the quality of Japanese mini-LP packaging, it seems...

Marco- Those paper strips (generally called "obi" - which translates as "belt" from when, as Todd described, US LPs released in Japan were encircled with a band of paper that contained info in Japanese so that the original album art remained intact) are only affixed to jewel cases on occasion...

I don't have a contribution of my own, but reading this thread reminds me of Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: "Margret doesn't like to watch films on the TV. No, hold on - let me make sure you've got the inflection here: Margret doesn't like to watch films on the TV. She says she...