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Wait what: a fleeting clip of Aqua Teen Hunger Force on Sealab 2021! Delving deeper into the crisscrossed animation zeitgeist, Captain Murphy (the 2021 version) was voiced by Jon Hamm in Archer.



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Mo-Larr :D (San Diego Comic Con 2010 exclusive)



Trompe-l’oeil (forced perspective)



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Robin Williams , Conan O’Brien , Robot Chicken – mocking improv overload



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I’d earlier thought, mistakenly, that Rudyard Kipling was one of the first to use ‘methinks’. It’s the Bard of Avon, himself! (Hamlet is where I’ve currently run across the word.)



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Sanskrit is a small part of La Dolce Vita. Intriguing. Also, Roger Ebert wrote his first film review for this one.



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Libethrides = the Muses of Greek antiquacy



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Paraprosdokian



The Exorcist has a movie-within-a-movie: Crash Course



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Appulse and syzygy



Peter Dinklage’s film debut: Living in Oblivion, influenced by Fellini’s 8 ½.



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Jane Leeves, Daphne of Frasier, was in the Seinfeld finale.





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Parochial, vacillation, vex – find a place in A Life Afloat



On to 2019! J

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