Cleaning Up
Wait… $8.95 for 250 ml?! They’re Robin us!
TV/Movies
A Modern Stone Age Family
The Great Gazoo from planet Zetox, pictured to the left, was voiced by Harvey Korman, later to become famous on The Carol Burnett Show and Blazing Saddles.
Don’t Call Me
“A hospital? What is it?” “It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now.”
The Producers
“I was number one five years in a row at the box office. But what’s really stunning is that no one until me had ever gone from number one to number 38 in one year.” —Reynolds in 2005.
Life Lessons from Princess Bride (#5)
#5 of 5. Grandpa was played by Peter Falk, best known as the Emmy-award-winning title homicide detective in the TV series Columbo (1968–2003).
Life Lessons from Princess Bride (#4)
#4 of 5. Rob Reiner had to fight off other directors make the film, including Francois Truffaut and Robert Redford. Reiner prevailed thanks in part to financial support from Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family.
Life Lessons from Princess Bride (#3)
#3 of 5. The movie — released this week in 1987 (31 years ago!) — is #88 on The American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest film love stories.
Life Lessons from Princess Bride (#2)
#2 of 5. The movie — released 31 years ago today — was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2016, being deemed as “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”
Life Lessons from Princess Bride (#1)
#1 of 5. The movie — released this week in 1987 (31 years ago!) — was based William Goldman’s 1973 book. Goldman adapted it into the screenplay himself. This meme is adapted from one I saw online. The four more which follow are original to me.
Now That You Think of It
Plus, “ET-The Extraterrestrial” would be abbreviated ET-TE.