- Anheuser-Busch Parks
- Cedar Point
- Coney Island (of the West - Ohio Grove)
- Kings Dominion
- Kings Island
Comic
Electronic Games
- Abandonia
- Atari
- Chess
- Civilization
- Colonization
- Electronic Arts
- Final Fantasy
- Lemmings
- Lucas Arts
- Nintendo
- Pogo
- Sam and Max Hit the Road
- Sim City
- SC4D
- SimPeg
- Simtropolis
- Super Mario Brothers
- Tetris
- Twenty Questions
- Ultima
- Ultimate Arcade
- The World's Hardest Game
- Zelda
Games
Internet
- A.L.I.C.E.
- The Best Page in the Universe
- B3TA
- Fark
- Happy Tree Friends
- Homestar Runner
- I Am Better Than Your Kids
- I Do Dog Tricks
- The Onion
- Patently Silly
- Stuff White People Like
- Stupid Videos
- Subservient Chicken
- Super Mario Brothers: Communist Propaganda?
Movies
- Alien
- The Big Lebowski
- Blade Runner
- Bringing Up Baby
- Casablanca
- Chicken Run
- A Clockwork Orange
- Doctor Zhivago
- Empire of the Sun
- E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
- Forrest Gump
- Gallipoli
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Gladiator
- Gone with the Wind
- Groundhog Day
- Hail the Conquering Hero
- The Incredibles
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Lion King
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- The Matrix
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Pixar
- The Princess Bride
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Ratatouille
- Secondhand Lions
- Spartacus
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
- Toy Story
- Toy Story 2
- Toy Story 3
- The Truman Show
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Up
- Vertigo
- La vita è bella
- WALL-E
- West Side Story
Television
- Absolutely Fabulous
- The Adventures of Pete and Pete
- Are You Being Served?
- Battlestar Galactica - New Series
- Comedy Central
- Doctor Who - Classic
- Doctor Who - New Series
- Fawlty Towers
- Firefly
- I Love Lucy
- Keeping Up Appearances
- Lost
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Merlin
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- The Muppet Show: Muppet Central
- Once Upon a Time
- Seinfeld
- The Simpsons
- The Simpsons Archive
- South Park
- The X-Files
Toys
AtomFun
There is need in human life for levity. So, enjoy your time here in leisurely frivolity, where no Puritan can condem you (except in the comments section, of course).Humor
Man is the laughing animal
Friday, September 16, A.D. 2011
Awesomely Bad
To end this week of scholarly chagrin, I suggest that you look over “Awesomely Bad (and Funny) Student Responses to Test Questions.” I can sadly assure you, though, that there are much worse answers in the annals of grading hell—much worse.
on Friday, September 16, Anno Domini 2011
Thursday, September 15, A.D. 2011
The Humanities
Given this week’s theme, I thought that this deserved to be reposted:
“. . . and death.”
Tuesday, September 13, A.D. 2011
Simpsons on Graduate School
Continuing the theme from yesterday’s post, 100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School, here is a Simpsons video suggested by that site:
Smile, even though it might hurt.
Wednesday, September 7, A.D. 2011
Conservative Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson performs leftist mockery of the Right so well, it delights even my reactionary soul. From Not the Nine O’Clock News:
This skit might be one of those creative pieces that pleases different sets of people for different reasons. If only the Conservatives really supported “realism and responsibility.”
Monday, September 5, A.D. 2011
Restaurant Sketch
On our cultural calendar, summer comes to a close. Enjoy your Labor Day, and be happy that we Americans have distanced our celebration of honest toil from those feverish Commie demonstrations of foreigners. If you are unemployed, I wish you luck in finding a job. If you are earning a wage, count your blessings.
Relevant for the day, here is one last Monty Python video to cap last week’s theme:
Happy Labor Day, especially to those in the restaurant business. Please don’t spit in our food, and we’ll try not to complain about the dirty flatware.
Friday, September 2, A.D. 2011
Michelangelo and the Pope
For Friday of Monty Python week, here are Cleese and Idle in “The Last Supper” live at Hollywood Bowl:
Superb. Wikipedia states that the sketch was based on Paolo Veronese’s Last Supper. After a hearing before the Inquisition, Vernonese renamed the painting The Feast in the House of Levi. Fiction cannot trump history for comic fodder.
As for Michelangelo and the pope, it seems that they had good relations when it came to art. Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, though the work’s execution occurred during the papacy of Paul III. Michelangelo decorated the chapel with nudes, which annoyed several clerics in the Vatican. When the Master of Ceremonies Biagio da Cesena complained about the nudity, the artist painted him in hell with the ears of an ass, having his genitalia bitten by a serpent. Incensed, the official protested to the pope. The pontiff said that he could have done something if Biagio had been consigned to purgatory, but the successor to Peter has no authority in hell.
Thursday, September 1, A.D. 2011
The Mouse Problem
One of my favorite Month Python sketches is “The Mouse Problem”:
Clever.
Wednesday, August 31, A.D. 2011
Rhetoric in Court
Eric Idle’s best Monty Python sketch might have been his day in court (please excuse the Hungarian subtitles):
The comicially absurd is but an exaggeration of absurd actuality.
Tuesday, August 30, A.D. 2011
Village Idiots
Monty Python week continues with the “Village Idiots”:
I love to watch John Cleese. Like Tom Baker, Lucille Ball, and Dick Van Dyke, his mere presence on the screen makes me smile.
Monday, August 29, A.D. 2011
Rich Men Talk
This week, Arimathea celebrates Monty Python, starting with some class based one-upmanship:
They were good.
