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'Pink Sunshine' by Fuzzbox:

"No Gucci haemorrhoids" at 0:32

Yes, but is The Bad, Colonel Mortimer's evil twin brother?

BLADE RUNNER. Never explained properly in the film itself but sounds fucking cool, even when you find out the title was taken from something else entirely.

Do we really want everything spoon fed to us, Gaff & Bryant refer to Deckard as a Blade Runner for a job tracking replicants, what more do you need?

My point, exactly. Hence me (my? Grammar Nazis, feel free to correct) saying 'even when you find out'. Sure, it isn't difficult making the title fit the job description; ultimately, though, it's just a cool-sounding name that's all the more evocative out of (its original) context. It's a futuristic occupation, that should be explanation enough.

BLADE RUNNER. Never explained properly in the film itself but sounds fucking cool, even when you find out the title was taken from something else entirely.

The Secretary has already disavowed all knowledge, I'm sure.

Captain Oveur springing into action (accompanied by the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE theme) in the AIRPLANE! films is pretty much guaranteed to have me laughing like a loon. As a young teen, it was among a growing list of in-jokes (M:I repeats courtesy of DEF II) I understood without needing someone to explain it to me.

'This is a job for . . .'

Well, seeing as no one else yet has mentioned it:

'Because I hate you.'

No bullshit justification and all the more powerful because it's Johnny bloody Alpha saying it. Chilling.

[FIRst]

I'd say the baiting began with the pouting sigh of the 4th post on the FIRst page.

Heh. Unless it's some newbie unfamiliar yet with protocol, the Moore admirers over at Byrne's know their place. The beardie-weirdie-bashing doesn't start proper until yer man Zomberg chimes in.

Also, Rorschach, insane before he became a vigilante?

They're all crazy, according to Byrne. TordelBack, being the Steve Irwin apologist way back when, were you banned? Or did you just stop posting?

Tsk. Standards are slipping at Planetesimal Byrne. The Moore Maundering doesn't kick in until page 2.

Shape and form, shape and form

Has anybody heard of Andrew Koenig?

He was 'Boner' in the US teen show Growing Pains. Suffered with depression all his life - tragic.

There is also THIS.

But does anyone know what a 'Greenie' is? Is it just alliteration or is it a reference to bogies?

Rookie related, I always thought.

That lingering shot of one person staring over someone else's shoulder during a reassuring hug, basically so the audience knows said person staring is a lying sack of shit.

Pretty sure it's a boy, someone the title character (Charlie Brown, say) bumps into every now and then at school(?), dampening the mood. I'm visualizing a three-panel strip with punchline.

Cheers all the same, though!

Trying to find a (minor, in both senses) comic strip/cartoon character who is always accompanied by a rain/black cloud overhead. Occasional appearances only, possibly in PEANUTS (no, it isn't Pig-Pen who's always in a cloud, and one of dirt and dust at that) or perhaps even THE PERISHERS. Definitely NOT Joe Btfsplk (LI'L ABNER), nor is it Bad-Luck Schleprock from whichever Flintstones' spin-offs he appears in.

Ta!

If you worry about this stuff too much, then your head will explode. And no-one wants that.

Well, except Darryl Revok, maybe. Y'know, as much as I've enjoyed the HELLBLAZER I have read, it's almost a shame DC couldn't have just left it hanging with How do you baffle a vegetable?

Must pick up the collections, though, but they're incomplete or no longer available, yes?

I might have a search around on Youtube and Googlevideos for the original and now having searched for it its not available which is disappointing to say the least.

HMV currently has it for £3.99.

Bargain!