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COMMENTERS: What goes in your cultural time capsule? Please chose 3 movies (1 comedy, 1 drama, 1 dumb action), 3 TV series (1 drama, 1 comedy and 1 British), 3 music albums (1 you love now, 1 you loved when you were younger, 1 you are uncertain as to why you ever loved because it’s truly terrible), and feel free to toss in some books or whatever.

Comments (38)

Matt· 100 weeks ago

Movies: A Fish Called Wanda, Synecdoche New York, Die Hard
TV: The Wire, Seinfeld, Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Music: Haunted (Poe), This Year’s Model (Elvis Costello), ???
Books (drama, comedy, nonfiction): House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

@TheBrokenReal· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Life of Brian, Big Fish, True Lies
TV: Luther (though I would also accept Sherlock), The Daily Show, Doctor Who
Music: Last of the Great Pretenders (Matt Nathanson), Ride the Lighting (Metallica), Issues (Korn)
Books: The Name of the Wind (reading it now and loving it), The Phantom Tollbooth, Where the WIld Things Are (with the Blu-ray – i dont care if it’s cheating)

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geekygirluk· 99 weeks ago

🙂 The Name of the Wind is great! The Wise Man’s Fear is even better. 🙂

@Resheph42· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Blazing Saddles, Taxi Driver, Commando
TV: The West Wing, Red Dwarf, House of Cards (1990)
Music: Abra Kadavar (Kadavar), Quadrophenia (The Who), N/A- I regret nothing
Books: Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein), Hitchhiker’s Guide…(Adams), Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond)

Chris· 100 weeks ago

Movies:
Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Following, Punisher: War Zone (you did say dumb)

TV:
Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Spaced

Music:
Marcus Miller – Renaissance, NOFX – White Trash Two Heebs And A Bean, Korn – Follow The Leader (I may have to listen to this today to see why I don’t listen to it any more…)

Ali· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Fight Club, Marvel’s The Avengers

TV: The West Wing, Arrested Development, Downton Abbey

Music: Led Zeppelin IV, R.E.M. – Automatic for the People, ‘N Sync – No Strings Attached

Books: Sandman, American Gods, Ender’s Game, Hitchhiker’s Guide, The Hobbit/LotR

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Ali· 100 weeks ago

Now that I look at it, those aren’t representative of my taste in TV at all. Throw in some BSG and DS9 as well. And RTD’s DW.

Candace· 100 weeks ago

American Gods is an awesome novel, as is everything from Gaiman!

Ceri· 100 weeks ago

Hoh boy, this is gonna be tough…

Movies: Plan 9 From Outer Space (unintentional comedy, but hilarious and should be preserved), Once, Demolition Man

TV series: The West Wing, Pushing Daisies, Doctor Who

Music albums: Florence and The Machine: Between Two Lungs, Four Non Blondes: Bigger, Better, Faster, More!, and (I can’t believe I once liked this crap) Backstreet Boys: Backstreet’s Back.
(Disclaimer: I don’t buy/listen to a lot of albums, I just have an eclectic collection of songs from all ages on permanent shuffle.)

rowjimmy· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Dr. Strangelove, No Country For Old Men, Die Hard

Shows: Lost, Seinfeld, Doctor Who (duh)

Music: Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks, Metallica – Master Of Puppets, Genesis – Invisible Touch

Books: Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums

@_neverwhere· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Anchorman, The Fountain, True Lies
TV: Battlestar Galactica, Better Off Ted, Sherlock
Music: Middle Cyclone – Neko Case, Boys for Pele – Tori Amos, Poe – Haunted
Books: Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley, House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski, Collected Sherlock Holmes – ACD.

doko239· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Usual Suspects, Pirates of the Caribbean

TV: Firefly, South Park, Dr Who

Music: Dark Side of the Moon and that’s about it (never been a big music buff)

Books (long list): Ender’s Game, Lord of the Rings, Shogun, Necronomicon, Neuromancer, the Game of Thrones series

Andy· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Super Troopers, Whats eating Gilbert Grape? and the greatest dumb action movie of all time – Demolition Man

TV: Game of Thrones, Buffy and The Young Ones

Music: Andrew W.K – I get Wet, Godzilla the Original Soundtrack and another copy of Godzilla the Original Soundtrack.

Books: The Wheel of Time series, Redwall series and a handful of Discworld books.

Gretchen· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Shaun of the Dead, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Mummy (the Brendan Fraser version – I am not ashamed)

TV: M*A*S*H, Scrubs, Doctor Who

Music: Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons, Let it Go by The Clarks, Dru Hill/Sisqo (the early 2000s were a bad time)

Books (drama, comedy, nonfiction): World War Z by Max Brooks, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, On Writing by Stephen King

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Candace· 100 weeks ago

Brenda Fraser was totally hot in the Mummy movies – you should certainly not be ashamed!

Gretchen· 100 weeks ago

He was hot, and those movies (the first 2, at least) were fun popcorn flicks.

Bouncing Boy· 100 weeks ago

Movies: The Producers(The original), Casablanca and Flash Gordon (I’d say Hot Fuzz, but that’s more a smart action movie)

TV: Does MASH count as Drama? if so, I’ll say MASH for the Drama and Gilligan’s Island for Comedy…British is a tough one but I think I’m going to have to go with Monty Python’s Flying Circus (runners up for British include Blackadder, Black Books, QI, Green Wing, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Spaced, Jeeves and Wooster, The Catherine Tate Show and A Bit of Fry and Laurie)

Music: Young Frankenstein (Original Broadway Cast Recording), Even Worse by “Weird Al” Yankovic, and It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman! (original Broadway Cast Recording)

Books: (since you didn’t give us categories I’ll make them up) Comedy: The Myth-Adventures of Skeeve and Aahz series by Robert Lynn Asprin, Drama: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and Science Fiction: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Katie· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Clue, Eternal Sunshine, Point Break

TV: Firefly, Cosby Show, Red Dwarf

Music: Bat for Lashes-Two Suns, Tori Amos-Under the Pink, Ace of Base-The Sign (I actually don’t think it’s terrible, I just wanted a fun one in there)

Books: (non-fiction) Joseph Campbell-The Power of Myth, (fiction) Kurt Vonnegut -Slaughterhouse Five, (other) Robert Frost poetry (or Emily Dickinson, can’t decide)

furrbear· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Bedazzled, Blade Runner, Ready To Rumble

TV: Babylon 5, The Kids in the Hall, The Tomorrow People

Music: …I just can’t decide, and there’s simply nothing in the third category.

Books: The complete Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes and Girl Genius. (Hey, you didn’t say they had to be non-illustrated books…. 😉

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Candace· 100 weeks ago

I’m crushing your head – I’m crushing your head! 😀

furrbear· 100 weeks ago

I own all 5 seasons on DVD and when I do a re-watch I’m just amazed at their collective brilliance. Not every sketch worked, but the ones that did – O. M. G., the laughing and the sides hurting!

Gretchen· 100 weeks ago

Oh, Babylon 5 is a great choice! Love that series.

furrbear· 100 weeks ago

I honestly don’t understand SF fans who don’t get it, but….

YoYo_lax· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Young Frankenstein, The Lord of the Rings trilogy (just Two Towers if only one is allowed), DOOM
TV: Any/ All of Joss Whedon’s shows (or Battlestar Galactica), Adventure Time, Trigger Happy TV
Music: Blackwater Park (Opeth) (alternatively any Dream Theater album), Poodle Hat (Weird Al), whichever Das Racist CD has “PIzza Hut and Taco Bell” on it.
Misc: Some Terry Pratchett, D@D rulebooks, and A Song of Ice and Fire (even the not yet written ones)

@StewWars· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Clerks, Shawshank Redemption, Die Hard: With a Vengence, T.V.: NCIS, Firefly, and Doctor Who, Music: Daft Punk: Random Access Memories, Pearl Jam: Ten, Metalica: St. Anger, Books: Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonegut

@joescreenwriter· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Shaun of the Dead, Fight Club, Die Hard
TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, How I Met Your Mother, Doctor Who
Music: Metallica–Death Magnetic (now), GnR–Appetite for Destruction (then), The Civil Wars–Barton Hollow (why?)
Books: The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, all Stephen King, The Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking (surprise!)
Misc.: The complete Calvin & Hobbs, DVD copies of a handful of Broadway musicals, a complete set of 12″ Army of Darkness action figures

Wes· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Monty Python and The Holy Grail, The Third Man and Predator.
TV: The Wire, The Venture Bros. and Fawlty Towers
Music: The National – Trouble Will Find Me; Rush – Moving Pictures, something by the Bee Gees

@JonS253· 100 weeks ago

Movies: The Avengers, Airplane!, xXx (don’t judge me!)

TV: Star Trek (original flavor), The Red Green Show, Doctor Who (*all* of Doctor Who, from the very first adventure on)

Albums: Rush, “Grace Under Pressure”; Emerson Lake & Palmer, “Works Vol. I”; Triumvirat, “Spartacus” (seriously, why did I listen to that album so many times?)

And so many, *many* books – perhaps especially “The Way Things Work”, if only so our distant descendants can laugh at our primitive grasp of technology…Movies: The Avengers, Airplane!, xXx (don’t judge me!)

Candace· 100 weeks ago

Movies: “Monty Python’s Holy Grail,” “Highlander” (the first one), Lethal Weapon (the first one); TV series: Star Trek (TOS), Doctor Who (all), Saturday Night Live – original cast, and/or the Carol Burnett show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers (or was that Farty Towels?); Albums: Abbey Road (then and now), Super Taranta! (Gogol Bordello), Shaun Cassidy eponymous (I blame it on pre-teen hormones); Books: The Three Musketeers, Jhereg (Steven Brust), Nine Princes in Amber (Roger Zelazny), LOTR, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

There are actually a ton more albums, books and movies I like – the above is just what came to mind first.

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Candace· 100 weeks ago

Actually, for favorite dumb action movies, I should have said almost all pre-Daniel Craig Bond movies – especially the Roger Moore period.

Salvador· 100 weeks ago

Movies: Airplane!, Clock Work Orange, Tango and Cash. TV: West Wing, Scrubs, Red Dwarf. Music: Antifogmatic by Punch Brothers, The Wall by Pink Floyd, No Need to Argue by The Cranberries.

prkantor· 100 weeks ago

Movies – (comedy) – History of the World Pt 1, (drama) – Godfather Pts 1 & 2, (action) – Die Hard

TV Series – (drama) – ST-TNG, (comedy) – South Park, (british) – Doctor Who

Music Albums – (love now) – Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the moon, (loved when younger) – DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince – He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper, (uncertain why ever loved, cause truly terrible) – Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water

Books – LotR trilogy incl Hobbit (JRR Tolkien), Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein), Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut), The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), and a copy of the Torah

tzeentchling· 100 weeks ago

Unrelated, but Eli’s faces in the last two panels are fantastic.

IltmanIain· 100 weeks ago

Films: Some Like It Hot, because nobody’s perfect. Kiss Me Deadly, What’s in the box? And dumb action film, Die hard 4.0 because we’ve all aged with John
Tv shows: as aBrit they will all be British so comedy; Ab Fab sweetie, drama; Dr Who of course, and finally The Avengers, the Honor Blackman years.
Music: Elephant by the White Stripes, the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack and The Kinks Collected singles
Books: Right Ho Jeeves, the Lord of The Rings, and the complete Sherlock Holmes stories

Chaucer59· 99 weeks ago

Hmm. Hey–uh, Joel? I’ve only just finished catching up on your webcomic. I’ve been pretty busy but I’ve spent every free minute for the past two weeks learning the ways of the Fancy Bastard. I gotta wonder, though, did something really bad happen that I missed? This was a really popular comic with a sizable following–maybe not as big as Willis or Corsetto, but big and cheerfully active. Somewhere around April of this year, the number of comments dropped considerably. This particular comic has been out for over a week, and mine is the first comment. WTF?

Also, I miss the photo comics. I thought the complainers were dead wrong on that score. In jokes or not, they were funny and provided genuine insight into webcomic artists’ mindsets.

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Ali· 99 weeks ago

You’re the first comment? Lawl, what universe are you operating in? Scroll up. I count 33 before you.

yodanic· 99 weeks ago

The Ref, Serenity, Lethal Weapon 4 (drive thru – need I say more?)

Doctor Who (all of it), Coupling (British version), Sherlock (Cumberbatch), can I also have all the Star Trek series if I give up the music?

geekygirluk· 99 weeks ago

Films: Blazing Saddles, Serenity….action is hard because it’s my favourite genre….RED/Die Hard/Commando/Kung Fu Hustle – the list goes on!
TV: The Wire, Firefly (there’s enough comedy to justify this!)/South Park, Green Wing/Blackadder
Music: Essential Ella – timeless, Use Your Illusion 2, Hangin Tough – I was a 14y/o girl!
Books – I would have to throw everything else out and fill the capsule with books. The Gone-Away World (seriously, READ IT), the Name of the Wind. Every. Single. Terry Pratchett. All the Douglas Adams……can I have a bigger capsule?

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Eli’s plan suffers from one fatal flaw. Can you guess what it is? Spoilers: It’s Eli. “Let’s all orbit the lobby…”

COMMENTERS: Have you ever had to convince a friend or coworker that an overly complicated plan was… overly complicated? 

Comments (14)

Ceri· 101 weeks ago

I hate to do this, but it’s “zoetrope”, not “zoatrope” (panel 3).

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Tom· 99 weeks ago

I think both are used depending on where you are from.

deadrobot· 101 weeks ago

My friend was going to get into a fight. He knew this was going to happen. After a long and elaborate explanation on how he was going to win this rambuncitous mid-teen fisticuffs, he explained: “If you kick a person in the left, he falls to the right.”

I couldn’t argue that.

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hijinksensue· 101 weeks ago

he’s got science on his side. his left side.

nonbeliever93· 101 weeks ago

This plan is like the product of a torrid affair between Georges Melies and a squirrel.

Larry Queen· 101 weeks ago

Wait! What are we gonna watch in the fall? And what about Anime? Will there be subtitles, like in the roots or something?!?

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hijinksensue· 101 weeks ago

Logic would only dictate that, yes, there would be root subtitles. Duh.

tudza· 101 weeks ago

Need more leaves to encode the sound. You could hear it in space if you have the proper optical receiver, oh and some air of course.

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hijinksensue· 101 weeks ago

well now we’re talking shrubs and shrubs is a whole different kind of science.

Lynn· 101 weeks ago

While this is a very dumb idea I can’t help but have a deep appreciation for the elaborate and almost childlike logic behind it. How did you even think of this?

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hijinksensue· 101 weeks ago

not to be crass but I thought of it while using the bathroom… which is where i get nearly 100% of my ideas.

DuckAmuck· 101 weeks ago

My friends are always good at spotting overly-complicated plans. I never need to convince them that a plan is overly-complicated.
The problem is, it’s really hard to convince them that overly-complicated plans are either good or bad ideas.

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Don Guthrie· 100 weeks ago

My friends are too smart to avoid or turn down my overly-complicated plans. And you know, you don’t have to convince them, theyll just know it.

Chaucer59· 99 weeks ago

Are you kidding? I was the tools expert for a documentation department at IBM for ten years. ALL I DID was explain why stupid and overly complicated plans wouldn’t work.