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I wouldn't necessarily call KISS's comments about rap "nasty," but rather making a point that rap and rock are different art forms, and rap artists should not be in the Rock HoF. And as Dave Marsh has admitted that he kept KISS out of the HoF for years, it can be safely assumed that he or others have kept other worthy acts out as well in favor of their pet bands.

The nadir of this trope was reached in 2013 on Sons of Anarchy where we discovered that the entire prison staff enables (either actively or passively) the nightly gang-rape of certain inmates by guards, all because a former Federal Marshal asks them to.

Between the four characters who spanned the length of the show (Hawkeye, Margaret, Klinger and Mulcahy) the time stretch is most obvious with her: someone's hair will not normally change from dirty blonde to gray to white in two years' time.

Only on TV can you ask a suspected undercover cop "Are you a cop?" and they have to answer truthfully or it's entrapment and you get off scot-free. *(A Law & Order episode brilliantly subverted this trope when a prostitute asked Sgt. Greevey if he was a cop and he denied it. Later when she was arrested, she yelled that he'd denied being a cop and he replied with something like "So I lied. Lying's not entrapment.")

I thought The Mist was a respectable adaptation of the novella...right up until the ending (which deviated from the book significantly). Driving until you run out of gas, then committing mass suicide? THAT WAS YOUR MASTER PLAN??? It's closest I've ever come to literally throwing a movie DVD away, and I'll probably never watch it again.

The character's death was handled well (including a hilariously awful wake), but the producers' attempt to bring her back one last time via CGI was terrible. James Gandolfini bravely tries to carry the scene opposite a computer-generated Livia whose clothes and hairstyle change with every shot and every generic insult. OTOH, Dallas managed Larry Hagman's death much better. They'd filmed enough scenes with him on a phone giving generic "Yes" and "Uh-huh" responses that the other character's carrying the conversation themselves wasn't too obvious. And after JR's death, they constructed the rest of the season around his master plan of framing Cliff Barnes for his "murder" (which turned out to be an assisted suicide-by-gunshot to an avoid an agonizing cancer death).

Apparently, a CSI investigator can simultaneously be an expert in blood spatter, gas chromatography, sound recordings, hair & fiber transfers, DNA, ballistics, anatomy, physiology, knife wounds, explosives, photographic records, AND be able to interrogate suspects. I learned all this from CSI: Miami.

Six Feet Under taught me that you need to stuff formaldehyde-soaked cotton up a corpse's ass to prevent anal leakage during the funeral. Enjoy your dinner, folks!

Two shows whose entire premises were affected by outside events before they even debuted: Father of the Pride was an animated sitcom about Siegfried and Roy's white tigers. Roy Horn's maiming by one of those tigers pretty much killed the show before it had a chance. Eight is Enough was originally a show about Tom Bradford, his wife Joan, and their eight children. Diana Hyland died after only two or three episodes had been filmed, first forcing the producers to write her off as "away" for the rest the show's first season, then as having been dead for a year when it returned in the fall. Tom's romance with and marriage to Abby soon followed.

Tobias Funke on Arrested Development. In a show filled with weirdos, he goes out of his way to be aggressively, unpleasantly weird. I ended up quitting the show midway through season two because I couldn't stand him. Jeanie Boulet on ER. She'd go after her husband Al every chance she got for his cheating on her, while conveniently forgetting her own affair with Peter Benton. Hypocrite Alert! Speaking of ER, let's not forget the joyless shrew known as Jennifer Greene. Claire Howell on Oz. Unpleasantness personified, with never a good word or kind gesture for anyone. Steve Billings on The Shield. In a show filled with believable characters who all had their good points and bad points, Billings was a useless tool 99% of the time. That the other characters recognized this and commented on it doesn't make him any less annoying.

Margaret Houlihan in M*A*S*H. She went from a hypocritical martinet who doubled as the Blowjob Queen of Korea to a strict-but-fair humanitarian. Example: One of the early season episodes has Frank putting in for a Purple Heart because he slipped in the mud and threw his back out. When Henry questions it, Margaret prissily explains that as the injury happened in a war zone, it was combat-related. The latter-seasons Margaret would have been offended as hell by anyone trying the same thing.

By the end of the episode, I was actively hoping David would be killed by the hitchhiker, simply for the crime of being too stupid to live.

Surprised nobody's mentioned Oz: The first season was brilliant, somehow managing to cram 13 episodes' worth of plot developments into 8 episodes with nary a wasted scene or conversation. The second season was almost as good, introducing Chris Keller and a few others, and ending with a devastating one-two-three punch (Sippel being crucified on the gym floor, Alvarez blinding the guard, and Keller's bone-snapping betrayal of Beecher). Season 3 was where the show turned from a gritty prison drama into a prison-based soap opera. The dividing point for me was the second time Alvarez was sent to solitary permanently, only to be let out again a couple of episodes later. Season 4 and beyond were garbage, saved only by the occasional good plotline (and O'Reilly was always interesting to watch).

I can think of one more dramatic film that had no women at all: All is Lost. It's just Redford, his sailboat, and a very unforgiving ocean. And three films with no female speaking roles: Reservoir Dogs, Gray Lady Down and My Dinner with Andre.

Disagree. Christopher Lee and Liam Neeson were typically excellent. Ewan McGregor did a very good job in Parts II and III of channeling Alec Guinness (I just rewatched the series using a recommended sequence and went from Part V to Part II; it required zero mental adjustment to see the young Obi-Wan in McGregor's performance). Samuel L. Jackson did what he could with a woefully underused part, and Natalie Portman was mostly solid.

One of the big problems with most adaptations of Hamlet: The actors playing Hamlet are usually in their 30s. This makes no sense at all, because a man that age would just take over the throne if his father died suddenly, no matter who his mother married. The 2000 modern-setting Ethan Hawke version, for all its flaws, got this right. Hawke's Hamlet is in his late teens and would not be trusted to head the Denmark Corporation. I saw Roman Polanski's Macbeth in high school and loved it, but I won't buy it (or any Polanski film) while he's alive. NOTE: I realize that denying 50 cents or so of DVD royalties to a multi-millionaire is ridiculous, but it's one of the few legal means I have for punishing that baby-raping scumbag.

IIRC, Halloran's death was a late addition to the film because Scatman Crothers was so miserable during the shoot. There's a story about the hyper-obsessive Kubrick making him do 100 takes of a scene until Crothers broke down crying, asking "What do you want from me, Mr. Kubrick?" It fell to Nicholson to nicely ask Kubrick to take it easy on the guy.

One of each: Worst Oscar Loss: Al Pacino for The Godfather Part II. A nice-but-ruthless guy turns into a complete monster throughout the film, and never loses believability. Honorable Mentions: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Traffic both losing to Gladiator for Best Picture. Worst Nomination Snub: Jack Lemmon's awesome performance in Glengarry Glen Ross.

The Godfather Part III: Sofia Coppola's terrible acting almost ruined the movie. And if Robert Duvall's salary demands could have been met, Tom Hagen would have added a ton to the film. The Godfather Part II: Despite Michael V. Gazzo's awesome performance as Frankie Pentangeli, his arc was originally meant to have been Clemenza's. Network: Less Max Schumacher/Diana Christensen romance, even if their breakup scenes rocked. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Short Round can stay. Kate Capshaw can leave. PLEASE. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith: Hayden Christensen can play bratty and angry very well, but struggles with any subtle emotions. Surprising that Lucas didn't get a better actor. Outbreak: Great Act I. Great Act II. TERRIBLE Act III.

I may have made the common-but-avoidable mistake of thinking one person's (my SIL's) life experiences and opinions were the same for an entire group. I think some of it may have been that my SIL ranks a solid 9 on the Big Boo Butch Scale (she used to regularly shave her head and she ALWAYS dresses like a construction worker). I apologize to anyone I've offended, and will try to avoid the butch/femme thing (except when it's Boo-level blatant).

And despite the annoying Ramos clan, Pambecca and Harris Ryland are two Cidre creations that IMHO are as good as almost any character in the original series (Yes, I know Pambecca was technically an original series creation, but she was just a little girl the one time we saw her, with NO indication she'd become what she did. That was all Cidre).

It's also not nearly the quality of the other books. The other books were heavily ghostwritten by Laura and Almanzo's daughter Rose Wilder Lane to the point where some critics have said she basically wrote them based off stories her mother told her (others dispute this, saying she merely "polished" what her mother had written). The First Four Years was found in Laura's papers after she died and published completely unchanged; apparently, Almanzo's death shortly after she finished the first draft caused her to lose interest in the project.

Pretty much the entire It's Alive album by The Ramones.

If you're a fan of great guitar playing, Frank Zappa's all-instrumental Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar trilogy (Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar, Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar Some More and Return of the Son of Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar) has some awesome, awesome stuff. He's remembered for his wacky persona and weird songs, but he could be a phenomenal guitarist.

"Boogie Oogie Oogie" by A Taste of Honey "Finally (extended mix)" by CeCe Peniston "Funkytown" by Pseudo Echo "Men Without Shame" by Phantom, Rocker and Slick The entire debut album of The Vinnie Vincent Invasion