BEN AFFLECK as HOLDEN MCNEIL Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) Dir. Kevin Smith

On July 5, 2002, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was screened at the Filmquart Film Festival.

The greatest ending to a movie

Blu-ray Review: Unlawful Entry

Box office draw is anything but predictable, but Hollywood sure likes to hedge its bets. From Scream's teen slasher revival to Paranormal Activity's found footage trend to Marvel's superhero craze, a novel concept that over-performs is almost guaranteed to yield similar projects until audiences tire of the fad. Fatal Attraction launched a cycle of racy thrillers in the early '90s that included the likes of Basic Instinct, Single White Female, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Sleeping with the Enemy, and Cape Fear.

While not as well remembered as the aforementioned efforts, Unlawful Entry remains an effective entry in the subgenre from journeyman director Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused, ER). Lewis Colick's (October Sky, Charlie St. Cloud) script may traverse familiar tropes, but Kurt Russell (The Thing), Ray Liotta (Goodfellas), and Madeleine Stowe (12 Monkeys) gracefully elevate the material with their performances.

Bookended by tense home invasion sequences, the 1992 film opens with a burglar breaking into the upscale home of recent Los Angeles transplants Michael (Russell) and Karen Carr (Stowe). Although ultimately unharmed, they're left shaken up by the ordeal after Michael is forced to watch helplessly as the assailant holds Karen at knifepoint. Responding officer Pete Davis (Liotta) goes out of his way to help them feel safer.

Pete presents himself as the sincere lawman at first, but it quickly becomes clear to both the viewer and Michael that he's unhinged. He grows increasingly obsessed with Karen, invading not only the couple's home but also their lives as he does everything in his considerable power to take Michael out of the picture. The third act is exactly the suspenseful thrill-ride you'd want from a movie of this ilk.

While a lesser film would pit Russell and Liotta against one another in a testosterone-fueled stand-off, Unlawful Entry takes a more interesting approach. Although their conflict is not without machismo, their personalities repel one another on a granular level. Beyond coveting his wife, Pete has no respect for Michael. In Pete's mind, he is the alpha male getting his hands dirty and protecting the streets, so he deserves Michael's prosperous life.

Liotta is effectively disarming at first before unraveling into a deranged stalker. Russell is as charming as ever, but he's not afraid to show vulnerability. Stowe brings a cleverness to the damsel in distress. The cast also includes Roger E. Mosley (Magnum P.I.) as Pete's level-headed partner, Ken Lerner (The Goldbergs) as Michael's lawyer, Dick Miller (Gremlins) as an impound clerk, and a young Djimon Hounsou (Guardians of the Galaxy) as a prisoner.

Unlawful Entry is now invading homes on Blu-ray via Scream Factory exclusively on ShoutFactory.com. While the company's limited releases are typically reserved for titles with a more narrow appeal, Unlawful Entry's allotment of 1,620 units sold out in a matter of days, prompting them to increase the run to 2,600 (which brings into question the point of limiting it in the first place, but I digress).

The film is presented in high definition from an existing transfer with 5.1 Surround DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 Stereo DTS-HD Master Audio options. The quality is aggressively fine; it certainly won't win any competitions against a modern 4K master, but it's a welcome improvement over the old DVD.

Despite its limited status, new special features were produced: a 28-minute interview Kaplan, who sets the stage by highlighting his genre-hopping career before focusing on Unlawful Entry; an interview with cinematographer Jamie Anderson (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Small Soldiers); and an featurette in which music historian Daniel Schweiger breaks down the score by James Horner (Aliens, Avatar).

Archival special features include: a DVD commentary by Kaplan, who notes how he learned how to reflect the subjectivity of human experience in film by watching Alfred Hitchcock and details how the Rodney King riots impacted the movie; a vintage EPK-style featurette with snippets from Kaplan, Russell, Liotta, Stowe, and more; the theatrical trailer; and two TV spots.

In a time when police misconduct is caught on camera on a near-daily basis, Unlawful Entry is all the more relevant over 30 years removed from its original release. Coupled with a severely underrated performance from the late Liotta, the '90s thriller gem begging for rediscovery.

Unlawful Entry is available now on Blu-ray via Scream Factory.

Is It Really That Bad?

It’s hard to deny that in the 2000s, Will Ferrell was the comedy star. Starting off with minor roles in stuff like Austin Powers and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Ferrell hit it big in 2003 with the Christmas classic Elf, and then followed that up with the wacky newscaster comedy masterpiece Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. From there, the hits just kept coming: Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, Blades of Glory, Stranger Than Fiction, Curious George, and even a hilarious one-scene cameo in the Wedding Crashers. The man was on top of the world!

But then came 2009’s Land of the Lost. Based on a campy 70s sci-fi series, the movie was a pretty big bomb coming from such a massively successful actor; on a budget of a hundred million, it only managed to make about sixty-nine million back. Director Brad Silberling was relegated to producing TV after this, and poor Ferrell’s prospects as a leading man completely shriveled up overnight. After this, he basically has only co-starred in stuff like The Other Guys or done voice work for films like Megamind and The Lego Movie. Any attempts to get him back on top have been pretty middling, to put it lightly; does anyone remember Anchorman’s sequel? Does anyone want to remember Holmes & Watson?

But come on, it’s a 2000s Will Ferrell comedy! He was in his prime back then! Surely this wacky spoof of some goofy show from the 70s couldn’t honestly be that bad, right? Well, that’s what we’re here to find out. Was it justice that Will Ferrell’s promising leading man rep was lost harder than a Sleestak’s skin during sex, or is this a hidden gem unfairly judged because people didn’t understand it was meant to be a parody?

THE GOOD

The Sleestaks are easily the best part of the film, at least when they don’t have those awful CGI mouths transplanted on them. The suits look great, they’re weirdly adorable lizard people, and they mercifully didn’t go with the awful, edgy redesign from the 90s reboot. These guys are pure goofy 70s camp. 

The score of all things is solid too. Michael fucking Giacchino did the score! And it fucking rocks! Unbelievable!

...Yeah, that’s all I’ve got.

THE BAD

Oh where do I even fucking start? How about with Ferrell himself?

Look, I’m a big Will Ferrell apologist. His comedies tend to be absurdly lowbrow, especially something like Step Brothers, but he has a certain manic energy that makes him fun to watch. Here, though? All of the negative aspects of his acting are cranked up t eleven. He’s shoutier, he’s douchier, he’s just obnoxious and ridiculous… He’s just utterly unpleasant in this role.

It’s not like anyone else is remotely pleasant, though! Danny McBride especially is obnoxious in this film, and Anna Friel is boring and forgettable, but as bad as they are neither of their characters hold a candle to Chaka. Played by Jorma Taccone (of all fucking people!), he is an obnoxious chattering monkey man who is basically treated like a servant and who is played so obnoxiously that I swear to God he feels like he’s racist somehow. I don’t know what race this would offend, but it just has some sort of rancid vibes that only a racist caricature does.

The CGI throughout this film is just utterly ass. Like there is an awful CGI dinosaur antagonist, and at one point Will Ferrell vaults into its mouth, and at another he slides down its back, and both of them are effects so bad they make Sharktopus look like Avatar in comparison. I’m guessing that hundred million mostly went to Ferrell’s paycheck and the Sleestak suits, because it sure as hell didn’t go into the visuals.

Truly the worst thing about this movie is that its very existence feels cruel and mean-spirited. I have never watched the original show at all, but this parody is absolutely barefaced with its contempt for the source material. It just oozes a lack of care, passion, or respect beyond surface level stuff like the Sleestaks; do you know how much the characters are mangled from the show to the screen? The big bad of this movie is a fucking ally on the show! Imagine if they made a movie based on Scooby-Doo and they made oh, I don’t know, Scrappy a villain, wouldn’t that fucking su—wait.

At least in that movie’s case it was one singular lame element. This movie is just an excruciating exercise in being as lame and unpleasant as possible. It genuinely feels like it was just made because they had the rights to Land of the Lost and then they remembered the name of Ferrell’s character in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and decided they needed a Ferrell vehicle.

IS IT REALLY THAT BAD?

Look, I know absolutely nothing about this series. I have no emotional attachment to it at all. I’ve never seen a single episode. But I don’t think you even have to watch a single episode to know that this movie is a slap in the face to fans of it. The entire thing just feels spiteful, and coming from a place of sheer malice. Yes, this film is that fucking bad, I can totally see why it blew up Ferrell’s career, and honestly it should count itself lucky that it has been forgotten because I say this film deserves even more hate. This is The Love Guru levels of bad. That 5.3 up there is beyond generous; this is easily a contender for the bottom 100 of IMDB, but I guess that would require anyone to give a shit about it.

But hey, as a non-fan, maybe my opinion doesn’t hold as much weight as what a truefan of the series would say. Thankfully, I have one of those on call, and here’s his summation of this film’s quality:

Hey, it’s me, @unadulteratedpiratepizza​, and I’m here to take you on a journey back in time! Long before streaming services, TV shows aired their new episodes on different designated times and days of the week, and Saturday mornings were the slot for new episodes of children’s programming. Back in the 70’s, long before me and Michael were born, the brothers Sid and Marty Kroft were the kings of that time slot, with their bizarre plots and expert use of their low budget, bringing us classics such as H.R. Pufnstuf, The Bugaloos, and the subject of today’s review, Land of the Lost.

Land of the Lost was a high-concept soft Sci-Fi series exploring the adventures of Rick Marshall and his children Will and Holly, as they explore a bizarre world full of danger and mystery. They must survive hungry dinos, aggressive lizard people, and even time-displaced humans, as they search for the truth of this world and a way to get back home.

Unlike the high energy upbeat shows the Kroffts were known for, LotL was more serious in tone at times, with a pretty consistent world and strong stories. LotL had a team of prolific Sci-Fi writers, a number of which worked on the original Star Trek, which had the effect of some of the stories feeling like TOS episodes. No jokes, “The Stranger '' is such a strong episode with heavy Star Trek vibes, written by Walter Koenig, the actor for TOS’s Chekov.

When I said the Kroffts knew how to use a low budget I meant it, using stop-motion for all the dinos and reusing that footage constantly, cheap costumes and goofy special effects, this show had it all! But, you could have the best special effects in the world and that would amount to nothing without strong acting, and boy does Land of the Lost deliver on that. Everyone is bringing 110% to this show, which is so surprising given that child actors aren’t usually considered the best for serious roles, but when I hear these children scream for their lives as goofy costumed lizardmen shamble towards them, by god I feel like the Sleestak are the most terrifying creatures in the world.

All and all, Land of the Lost was a strong and fun show that took its world seriously, but still had plenty of room for light-hearted fun. It is unfortunate that by the 3rd and final season, most of the writers had moved on, and the actor who played the dad had also left, leaving it the weakest of the three, but I can still say this is a show I highly recommend, especially if you like old Star Trek.

The 2009 Will Ferrell led remake sucks.

And I think that’s all that needs to be said about that. Anyway, here’s a picture of a nightmarish, terrifying predator with a couple of Sleestaks. 

Whats your favorite Eliza film?

Hello @blazinwolve, thank you for the ask! Here's a long response! (I'm super close to having seen everything she has done, so the timing of your ask is great.) All answers are spoiler free!

It's a cliche for a reason:

Bring It On! (2000)

The movie is solid, and way better than the description sounds. It has also aged decently. To me she is the star of the movie, more than Torrance (Kirsten Dunst). Also Isis (Gabrielle Union) is excellent. She and The Clovers should have been in the movie more. This is currently free on TUBI in the USA. Various Bring It On gifs via Eliza Dushku Daily. (I like it even though I don't like her hair.) I mean...

Since that's not the most interesting answer, I'll give a few more. (Also bc I can't shutup about Eliza.) Bring It On is part of Eliza's BTVS to Tru Calling era. She made a slew of movies: Bring It On, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Soul Survivors, The New Guy, City by the Sea, Wrong Turn, and The Kiss.

Eliza's best horror / scary movie:

Wrong Turn (2003)

I like horror / scary movies and she's done several. This one is her best IMO, not just of this era, but of all time. This movie came out 10 days after the BTVS Series Finale (7x22 Chosen) aired May 20th, 2003!! Jessie is a born leader. Various Wrong Turn gifs via Eliza Dushku Daily.

Eliza's most under-rated movie of this era:

City by the Sea (2002)

Her character Gina is super interesting but sadly she doesn't get enough screen time or lines. She is super believable as a struggling single mom. She holds her own with DeNiro (who plays her baby's grandfather) in a great scene. The downside is the movie has James Franco and focuses WAY too much on him (and DeNiro) but if you're an Eliza fan check it out! Not much but check out City by the Sea via Eliza Dushku Daily.

(via IMDB)

(ranking Eliza Dushku movies and shows)

ppl on letterboxd will say “who even thinks snootchy bootchies is funny” in their review of jay and silent bob strikes back and it’s like. i have something to tell you about the target audience of this film

Clerks #3: "Leonardo is Caught in the Grip of an Outbreak of Randal's Imagination and Patrick Swayze Either Does or Doesn't Work in the New Pet Store" | ‎February 20, 2001 (DVD) | Unaired

Due to a misunderstanding involving a chimp at a nearby pet store and some rancid burritos that Randal is irresponsible about, the US government orders Leonardo be locked down. They believe an outbreak, similar to the one in the motion picture Outbreak has occurred. So it's up to Dante and Randal to advance the plot and eventually save the day. For some reason, it ends with Dante being browbeat into saying he's gay on the news.

It's funny to think about what qualified as edgy around this time. The show opens with a fourth-wall-break where Dante and Randal address the audience. They condescend to various women writing in (including a "Jennifer Schwalbach", shout out to Kevin's wife!!!) to complain that there are no women on the show. They do address the fact that there are no black people on the show and introduce Lando. Lando is seen throughout the episode in various fake-outs, where you think he might impact the plot or have a line but doesn't. It's funny, but man, it would not play the same way today.

This one features Gilbert Gotfried as Patrick Swayze, who seems to be working at the pet store but acts like he's studying for a role. Word has it they tried to get Swayze to portray himself and they were told by his people that he wouldn't do it and has no sense of humor about himself. And now he's dead!!! This is sorta evocative of James Woods on the Simpsons, working at the Apu Store. Hey speaking of Woods, he's in this. Like the gags about inclusion, he also plays differently today.

Lots of inspired jokes in this one. A gag involving Dustin Hoffman's likeness being portrayed by Al Pachino to avoid a lawsuit, the reveal that Alec Baldwin's Odd-Job-like assistant is secretly a robot, the gag about the mayor being stuck in a Mayor McCheese costume (and the police chief being Big Mac, delivering the memorable line "Nothing can kill the Grimace"), and the inside joke involving a photo of Leonardo Leonardo at Studio 54. This is apparently based on a real photo; the tall man is respected comedy writer Ian Maxtone-Graham who was a friend of Dave "Thanks for Watching!" Mandel. Dave ran across this photo in a book about Studio 54 of Ian Maxtone-Graham hanging out with Andy Warhol. I did a cursory google and I'm not sure if this photo is readily available online.

This one also ends with an educational segment where Jay & Silent Bob brutally wallop Charles Barkley for trying to host the segment himself. This whole thing is a shot-for-shot parody of a scene from The Godfather. There's also an eyebrow raising joke in this where the little girl seems to be discussing prostituting herself for 20 dollars. There was another gag like this in the last episode I didn't bother to highlight, where it's implied she wanted to film a porn movie with her little boy friend.

Askew connections: The pet store being named Gerbils Gerbils Gerbils is from Mallrats. The offscreen "kid in the helmet" would later appear in a deleted scene in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back.

I am well into a Buffy rewatch and am quite enjoying it. It's a show that means a lot to me for lots of reasons, as it does to many people my age I think. It's also a fun show to share with others and this rewatch was sparked by @kat-eleven finally deciding to watch Buffy. In the past she was worried it was "too focused on women" and she said she wished there were more shows about men and what men want. I assured her there were at least some scenes where women talk about men, which got her to give it a chance but she still wasn't entirely on board with the idea of a woman with power and agency. I am pleased to announce she mostly has come around though and torn through the first 2 seasons and we are well into season 3, when Faith shows up. Who I predicted @kat-eleven would like a lot because she loves the number 25 and Faith is always "five by five" this and "five by five" that. So far I have been wrong as @kat has not posted her on her other blog @girlcrushart. I happen to find Eliza Dushku attractive but this all makes me feel very old because in my mind, there was a stretch when Eliza Dushku was an inescapable star. Maybe not an A lister but that type of star who is much buzzed about and seems to be everywhere. Yes, she was Faith on Buffy, which got people talking about her but I looked it up and from 2000 to 2003 I saw every movie she made somehow. I didn't seek them out because I was looking for Eliza Dushku movies, it's just that she was in that many very successful movies. Bring it On (unappreciated classic), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith was once a film maker of some renown, not a podcaster), The New Guy (not very good but somehow very much the embodiment of the revival of sex comedies of the era), Soul Survivors and Wrong Turn (ok, one isn't big but one was a GIANT horror movie). Anyway, she was sort of inescapable and it was big news when she did Tru Calling because there was so much buzz about what would she do after Buffy because she was such a big deal, or a potentially big deal that whatever was able to land her was sure to have a huge hit on it's hand. None of that really happened. I sure did like Dollhouse later one but you now, she had her brief moment in the sun and now people don't know who she is if they haven't seen Buffy. Which is kind of wild. Luckily I am here to spread awareness that Eliza Dushku was and is smoking hot. Also pretty charming on screen. Today I want to fuck Eliza Dushku.

Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You The American Actress Of 1990s and 2000's as a  Rising Teen Idol & Popular Sex Symbol

Born in 1973

She was born in Houston, Texas, to a father of Lebanese and Syrian ancestry, and to a mother of German, English and Irish ancestry. She was raised in Waco, Texas, from 3rd grade through high school. She graduated from Waco High School in 1991. In high school, she was a member of the tennis team and at one point considered a professional tennis career. She worked as a model for Ford & Elite models before she began a career in film.

She is an American actress, conservationist, animal activist, model and poker player. A popular sex symbol and teen idol of the 1990s and 2000s, She is best known for her roles in the films American Pie, Tomcats, Scary Movie, and Love Actually. She also starred in the films Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Thirteen Ghosts, Cursed, and Night of the Demons, and played a recurring role in the sitcom That '70s Show and was a series regular in Cuts.

She splits her time between Cape Town, South Africa, and the USA, and runs her non-profit organization, an animal rescue turned conservation organization she co-created in 2001—previously Animal Avengers. The org is currently working alongside SANParks and Brett Barlow to care for Munu the Rhino and build him a sanctuary and breeding program. The Foundation has also launched One Woman's Legacy, a scholarship program that helps African women break through the glass ceiling in conservation studies.  She is a professional poker player, and in 2006 was named "one of the leading celebrity poker players."

Please wish this 90's, 2000's Sex Symbol Of A American Actress A Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

MS. SHANNON ELIZABETH FADAL AKA SHANNON ELIZABETH

HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU MS. ELIZABETH & HERE'S TO MANY MORE YEARS TO COME #ShannonElizabeth #AmericanPie

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BEN AFFLECK as HOLDEN MCNEIL JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK (2001) | Dir. Kevin Smith

Space Ghost Week

Space Ghost Coast to Coast #64: “Rio Ghosto” | September 18, 1998 | S05E07

This is a really significant episode for me, and I’m gonna get way too personal to explain why. Yes, this is a memoir-style post where I get nostalgic about my childhood VCR. Don’t worry, I hate when I do this, too. Feel free to skip around.

Space Ghost has written a very bad screenplay (I can relate!). So, he lines up three sophisticated cutting-edge indie directors as his three guests. After a Dick-Dale sounding opening and some Moltar title-card mischief, we get to our first guest. It’s… Ben Stiller?? Well, he does have bleach blonde hair. That was pretty cutting-edge in 1998.

Space Ghost also has a bit of a chat with Kevin Smith before he had the stink of Dogma all over him (or the stink of Chasing Amy, but that’s more of a retrospect thing). Kevin and Zorak have a moment where they shout each other out, only to have Space Ghost interrupt it by shouting out his own name. Very funny! Maybe the funniest thing Kevin Smith ever did (other than [spoiler alert] k*ll D*nte)

This episode more-or-less represents my becoming an actual regular viewer of Space Ghost. I think we had JUST gotten Cartoon Network on our cable system earlier in 1998. I was in high school, and was taking a sincere stab at being social and hanging out with girls I had crushes on and stuff like that. Luckily that didn’t take. I haven’t spoken to or even really want to ever see those people again. I am watching this episode of Space Ghost probably for the 23rd time in my life.

The entire reason, more-or-less, that I tuned into (and taped!) this episode of Space Ghost was because Kevin Smith was on it. I was fanatical for him at this time, and remember anticipating Dogma so rabidly that I actually did the unthinkable: I downloaded the script from the internet and read it before the movie came out. The movie in my head turned out to be way better than the movie we currently, uh, I guess we don’t actually currently have Dogma, do we? I guess that one fat rapist has to die first?

I don’t really wanna turn this into a Kevin Smith post. I write way too much about that guy. I still watch his movies even though most of them leave me cold. But: I basically remember a few moments in which Kevin Smith appeared on my radar: I’m pretty sure I saw the trailers for Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy attached to various VHS tapes I rented. Also, I distinctly remember seeing Clerks reviewed by Siskel and Ebert, and being fascinated by the idea that a rude R-rated comedy could also be a black and white art film.

Austin Stories, a faintly remembered MTV Show starring Laura House, Chip Pope, and Howard Kremer (second place only to Freaks and Geeks as my favorite one-season TV series of all time) was getting enough buzz that it merited an article in TV Guide that compared it to other burgeoning slacker-related media. They listed the films of Kevin Smith and Richard LInklater. I remembered those names.

The first Kevin Smith project I ever saw was either Mallrats, or Jay and Silent Bob’s Video Stash on MTV, an hour long special hosted from Kevin Smith’s famous comic book store. The purpose of the special was to show the collected interstitials Smith directed for the network which starred Jay & Silent Bob. But these things helped me understand the idea that films had directors, and those directors had a particular style, and if you like a movie by a certain director it’s a good idea to seek out their other movies. Clerks came next. Chasing Amy after that. Dogma was the first one I got to see in the theaters. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was the second. I leveled off after that one. What a pair of stinkers.

Space Ghost also talks to Jim Jarmusch, who also made funny black and white movies about slackers just like my “hero” Kevin Smith. If I only I knew that then! This episode didn’t really serve as any kind of introduction to these guys, sadly. The episode, like many episodes of Space Ghost, sorta rely on you already knowing who these guys are. I had no live for Jarmusch from this episode. Stranger Than Paradise is so wonderful. I should really go through the guy’s filmography sometime, I think I’ve only seen like five of them.

This episode got me into watching Space Ghost pretty regularly. I remember taping this to the beginning of a tape. Then, I transferred a recording of Mystery Science Theater to the tape so I could edit the commercials out. For some reason I decided to do this after the Space Ghost episode, making it sorta like a theatrical short that plays before a feature film. I liked the pairing of the two shows so much I began simultaneously recording Mystery Science Theater and Space Ghost and filling up the ends of edited-for-commercials MST3Ks with Space Ghost reruns (also SCTV repeats from NBC’s Later). Man, I would love it if I had all those tapes still. I still think that’s a killer combo. I paired down when they were coming out on DVD.

Favorite bits: Ben Stiller’s exchange with Zorak where Zorak is echoing Ben’s descriptors of him “yeah, I’m ribald”. “Yeah, I’m ribald” was in the running for my favorite Zorak quote for a very long time. Ben Stiller talking about Cable Guy 2 (wow, he’s so self-effacing!). The brief video clip of Andy Merrill (I assume) rolling around laughing that played during the break (was there actually commercial breaks for this season? I forget!). The cut to Zorak, now a Squirrel, saying “Screwy, Ain’t It?” which was a then-current reference to Cartoon Network’s on-air branding, which used that tagline over clips of particularly goofy cartoon moments.

At the end we get a very brief clip of George Lowe in a Space Ghost costume, with a holster at his side, looking serious. This is, I assume, taken from this footage from a live-action shoot, where George Lowe loses his marbles with a dwarf pony. This brief tag seems to be the only remnants of this shoot, which is why it became a DVD Easter egg on the volume four DVD (as well as a series of anniversary bumpers that aired on Adult Swim). The resulting use of the footage is comically unspectacular, so much so that I remember almost cutting it out of my tape because I thought it was a Cartoon Network bumper or something. I really wonder if the writers thought this live-action sequence was going to be a huge pay-off for the episode.

A landmark episode! For me! And me only!

MAIL BAG

tell that other commenter they already brought Lewis back, he's Mario's nemesis in The Mario's Movie. It's the same voice actor and everything, look it up. "Lewis Lectures, here we come!" i couldn't agree more!

What couldn’t you agree more with?

oh please don't edit out my slur. I'll be nice!

Nice girls don’t slur

you badmouthed HBOMax and then the next day they added SG to the Leaving Soon list.

Yeah. I guess you catch more flies with funny and boy, isn’t that funny?

The Best of The Noughties

The 100 most-perfect films of the first decade of the 21st century, in loose order of merit, ranked and rated high-to-low:

1. Memento (2000) ★★★★★★★★★★ 2. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) ★★★★★★★★★★ 3. Lost in Translation (2003) ★★★★★★★★★★ 4. Mulholland Drive (2001) ★★★★★★★★★★ 5. The Dark Knight (2008) ★★★★★★★★★★ 6. No Country for Old Men (2007) ★★★★★★★★★★ 7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) ★★★★★★★★★★ 8. Adaptation. (2002) ★★★★★★★★★★ 9. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) ★★★★★★★★★★ 10. Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) ★★★★★★★★★★ 11. Lars and the Real Girl (2007) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 12. Let the Right One In (2008) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 13. Tropic Thunder (2008) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 14. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 15. Zoolander (2001) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 16. Shaun of the Dead (2004) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 17. The Piano Teacher (2001) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 18. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 19. The Prestige (2006) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 20. The Departed (2006) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 21. The Darjeeling Limited (2007) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 22. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 23. Timecrimes (2007) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 24. Amélie (2001) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 25. There Will Be Blood (2007) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 26. The Village (2004) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 27. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 28. Gladiator (2000) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 29. Cold Souls (2009) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 30. Hannibal (2001) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 31. Hot Fuzz (2007) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 32. Ratatouille (2007) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 33. Monsters, Inc. (2001) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 34. Up (2009) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 35. Atonement (2007) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 36. The Chaser (2008) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 37. Finding Nemo (2003) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 38. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 39. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring  ★★★★★★★★★☆ 40. Secretary (2002) ★★★★★★★★½☆ 41. X-Men (2000) ★★★★★★★★½☆ 42. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 43. The Bourne Identity (2002) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 44. Songs From The Second Floor (2000) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 45. Zombieland (2009) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 46. Collateral (2004) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 47. Malena (2000) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 48. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 49. Punch-Drunk Love (2002) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 50. Moon (2009) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 51. Cast Away (2000) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 52. Burn After Reading (2008) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 53. Unbreakable (2000) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 54. Brick (2005) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 55. Snatch (2000) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 56. Donnie Darko (2001) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 57. The Way of the Gun (2000) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 58. Death Proof (2007) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 59. Chopper (2000) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 60. Intacto (2001) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 61. Interview with the Assassin (2002) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 62. In Bruges (2008) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 63. Intolerable Cruelty (2003) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 64. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 65. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 66. Hellboy (2004) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 67. Red Dragon (2002) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 68. Apocalypto (2006) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 69. Gosford Park (2001) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 70. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 71. Triangle (2009) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 72. The Hangover (2009) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 73. Shrek (2001) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 74. The Quiet American (2002) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 75. Enemy at the Gates (2001) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 76. Spirited Away (2001) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 77. The Incredibles (2004) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 78. The Rules of Attraction (2002) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 79. Minority Report (2002) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 80. American Psycho (2000) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 81. World's Greatest Dad (2009) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 82. The Lives of Others (2006) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 83. Kung Fu Panda (2008) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 84. Oldboy (2003) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 85. The Life of David Gale (2003) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 86. 11:14 (2003) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 87. Bolt (2008) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 88. Dogtooth (2009) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 89. Paranormal Activity (2007) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 90. Catch Me If You Can (2002) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 91. The Centre of the World (2001) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 92. Iron Man (2008) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 93. Fermat's Room (2007) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 94. The Cuckoo (2002) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 95. A History of Violence (2005) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 96. Gangs of New York (2002) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 97. School of Rock (2003) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 98. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 99. Inside Man (2006) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 100. Something's Gotta Give (2003) ★★★★★★★½☆☆

Let me tell y’all: nothing makes me happier than being high and watching stoner films like Dazed and Confused, Friday, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Cheech and Chong…