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    Family Circus movie (facepalm)

    I haven't really noticed there being more Peanuts merchandise than there had been in the past decade, though I do notice the Peanuts merchandise.
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    The Official Top 10 Anything...

    The reason it wasn't higher on my list of the best comic strips is because when I think of the Muppets, I usually don't think of the comic strip (as far as licensed products go I very likely think of the Palisades figures and Boom comic books before thinking of the strip). Also, I didn't grow up...
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    The Official Top 10 Anything...

    Top ten candy bars (or.. type of candy, as some I'd barely call candy "bars"): 10. Milky Way 9. Zero 8. Snickers 7. peanut butter flavored M&Ms 6. Three Muskateers 5. Hersey's Cookies and Cream 4. York Peppermint Patty 3. Cadburry's caramel cream eggs 2. mint-flavored M&Ms 1. Reese's Peanut...
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    Family Circus movie (facepalm)

    I haven't really noticed much Garfield merchandise in the last year (only books and DVDs). I haven't neccessarily been looking for Garfield merchandise, but if the strip was over-licensed I should have seen a lot of stuff without looking for it. When I read about Bill Watterson's lack of...
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    Jim Henson's Early years of success

    Sam and Friends was only seen in the Washington, D.C. area. The Muppets' first national television appearance was on The Tonight Show. Not sure how they got to become national. Maybe it was word-of-mouth popularity from Washington, D.C. I don't know what led to Jim being offered his own...
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    The Official Top 10 Anything...

    The character was recently revived for a new comic strip series simply titled Opus, but he'd originated in a comic strip called Bloom County. I think the newer Opus strips feature other characters from the Bloom County strip, which ended a long time ago (I want to say 1994, but I'm not sure)...
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    The Official Top 10 Anything...

    For a long time I thought the comic strip was called "Opus n Bill". I guess part of that has to do with the "A Wish for Wings That Work" special starring them (I think they were billed that way).
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    Where exactly did Doc live?

    I've wondered that as well. I think in one of the animated episodes he gets ready for bed and goes out the front door of the workshop. Especially odd since we only see one room of the workshop and no other parts of his home.
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    The Official Top 10 Anything...

    Well, I don't really care for "What's Opera, Doc?" too much, aside from the "kill the wabbit" song (though in recent years I've come to appreciate the animation better). I was never too fond of the short when I was a kid, and since growing up I feel it's overrated (I know, "and Duck Amuck, Duck...
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    Family Circus movie (facepalm)

    I wonder if the makers of this movie are going to research the few Family Circus TV specials for reference on how to handle the movies, since a half-hour special can develop the characters personalities better than a short comic strip.
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    That Guy with the Glasses' "Demo Reel" trailer

    Had he still been doing those during the last few months of The Nostalgia Critic (well, we know that during the time he was editing To Boldly Flee he was only making Nostalgia Critic and the occasional Bum Review)? While I've seen some of them, I don't ever remember seeing anything on the main...
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    The Official Top 10 Anything...

    I'll say that the majority of my choices was based on how often I read the strips (especially for anything that wasn't my choice for #3-1). I read the comics section of the newspaper quite regularly (almost every day) from 1995 until about 2003, currently I tend to only read comic strips if...
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    Pre-Order Sesame Street Old School Volume 3 (1979-1984) coming to DVD 11/6

    I wonder when an official trailer will come out online. Interestingly, I recently watched the trailers for the last few Sesame Street releases, and noticed that the upload date on both trailers was a day before the DVDs came out. I could have sworn those trailers were online longer before the...
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    The Official Top 10 Anything...

    Top ten favoirte comic strips: 10. Bloom County 9. U.S. Acres 8. Fox Trot 7. Muppets 6. Dennis the Menace 5. Family Circus 4. Ziggy 3. Calvin and Hobbes 2. Garfield 1. Peanuts
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    Family Circus movie (facepalm)

    I first saw those images before I read the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip (at the time I wasn't reading newspaper comics at all).
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    The Official Top 10 Anything...

    Here's a list that can be seen as both "out there" and self-fullfilling: A list of the top ten videos I made and uploaded to YouTube: 10. It Came From Where It Was Supposed to Come From 9. Werm: This is Me 8. The Ain’t Show 7. Drawer-Opening Remote 6. How to Make Sense Out of Dead Doughnuts...
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    Audio: CeeLo Green's "All I Need is Love" with The Muppets

    I've only listened to a little of this... And it doesn't sound like the best Muppet production ever. I assume the music video will be better (hopefully it'll be more like OK Go's "Muppet Show Theme" video and less like the Weezer video). I was expecting this to be a cover of the Beatles' "All...
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    Old Nick Appreciation Thread

    I assume there's a poll limit. I voted "don't care" because I have so many favorites that aren't options (as well as some favorites that are). It's interesting, I know of a few people who are at least five years older than me, and yet they seem to have grown up on many of the early-1990s...
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    That Guy with the Glasses' "Demo Reel" trailer

    I know that comment's not from you, but he didn't just leave the Critic for Demo Reel (I've never heard of "How It Shoudl Have Ended"), he also left it to do a nostalgia-based talk show (has a trailer for that come out yet?). As long as there's material to parody it can't get old. When Weird...
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    "A Special Sesame Street Christmas" coming to DVD and CD November 6

    Isn't it sad how this special is getting an official audio release yet there's never been an official audio release of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, The Muppets Go to the Movies, A Muppet Family Christmas (would the music rights issues affecting the video releases pertain to a commercial...
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