- Help with short film from school, 1970s
- Anyone try Kentucky Fried Chicken's new Nashville Hot Chicken?
- Songs you like by bands/artists you don't
- Science fiction editor David Hartwell is dead.
- How concentrated is espresso?
- Imagine a real life "Mos Eisley Cantina"
- Dopers Predict the 88th Academy Awards Winners: Best Actress
- What's the joke? (Confusing line in Gone Girl the novel)
- What is your favorite Hymn?
- RIP Ramblin' Lou Schriver
- Is all Rock also Pop, or is there overlap?
- Robot migrant worker
- Who makes good midrange pots and pans
- What was this story? (pig impersonator)
- Apparently, Frank Drebin had a daughter
- Clothing Styles in Capt. Jack Aubrey's Navy?
- New Show Rattled
- So what's the point of "Kids Bop" albums?
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan to be Netflix series [now airing]
- The Godfather Epic on HBO (deleted scenes)
- Dopers Predict the 88th Academy Awards Winners: Director
- Identify this book? Dungeons and Dragons novel.
- Arcade Fire: songs not on regular albums
- Inside Out: Is Riley Bi?
- Seinfeld/Breaking News/Challenge to Cecil
- Under Pressure/ Feel Like
- Another Fun with Ramen thread.
- Goodbye, Jason Mackenroth!
- Iggy Pop has Post Pop Depression
- Anybody know this cover artist.....
- DC Comics to reboot-yet again.
- World of Tomorrow is the best animated short I've seen in quite some time.
- Survivor Season 32 -- Is it too soon to care?
- Recommend a FDR Biography Please
- Vaguely remembered Simpsons bit--can you ID the episode?
- OK, help me build a new wecomic list
- The "80s Sound"
- Star Trek: Noonian
- one more Billy Jack thread and I will stop
- Any "Get Smart" fans?
- Oh Lee Abramson, why'd you have to go?
- About broken legs and dancing
- Fun or interesting coincidences in song
- Black Sails Season 3
- What's up with the Joker?
- Trying to find painting of people relaxing on a yacht under a canopy of flags
- Mystery novel
- You’re Making Yourself a Sandwich. Do You Cut It in Half? Why?
- Bad or so-so performances that were oddly effectual
- Any Airfryer experience?
- Did you ever have a band?
- Help IDing a fantasy novel...
- Do you prefer reading books on a tablet or having a book in your hand?
- Bill Maher says it's a "dirty little secret" US Movies lack blacks due to racist Asians
- Internet Dating Song
- Suicide squad
- Saturday Night TV: anything "must watch" for you?
- Recommend me some SHORT novels.
- What is the point of poppy-seed cake?
- Who among us can sing?
- RIP Long John Hunter
- Actors who appear only in photographs
- meaning of Natalie Merchant's "Wonder"
- Movies far worse than you remember
- Hohner Enthusiast series: Same things, different covers?
- Identify the TV show with little data, please! [Resolved]
- Looking for a short cartoon depicting a song
- Essentials for a well stocked bar
- The X-Files Season 10 Thread
- Help ID this late 70s, early 80s, sexy novel
- Sally Field's most iconic role?
- NetDragon headquarters
- Why did "The Daily Show" choose Trevor Noah to replace Jon Stewart?
- Movies far better than you remember
- Bad for Spotify? The ads don't bother me
- What type of jazz is that?
- What makes fish taste...fishy?
- Worst film to get an Oscar nomination
- Nicholas Caldwell of the Whispers has shuffled off the mortal coil
- Stir Fry for Dummies (the dummy is me - help!)
- What was the first instance in movies of the big "screen master control room" set piece?
- Guitar Master Workshop, Jazz: Julian Lage
- Did you know "The New Girl" was still in production!?
- Weaving
- ID this old X-Files' episode.
- New Show: Lucifer
- How Did the Audience Arrive For Saturday Night Live?
- Felipe Fernández-Armesto's history books
- Who's more annoying, Jar Jar Binks or Kylo Ren?
- TV show with fewest locations
- What is the significance of Alice & the Restaurant (in the song)
- I used to like Star Wars....
- Big Bang Theory Annoyance
- Your All-Time Favorite Black & White Movies
- Help me understand Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood" (open spoilers)
- Real Time with Bill Maher
- Picklebacks and other yummy shots
- Abe Vigoda, RIP
- I need to worry about spoiled eggs, really? Is it possible to eat a bad egg without realizing it?
- Why was Julian Lennon left out of John Lennon's will?
- Favorite single line from television?
- RIP Troy Shondell
- Jet's Pizza--Good? Bad?
- So Michael Jackson, Liz Taylor, and Marlon Brando walk into a bar...
- Can someone explain the Julie Mao case from The Expanse TV show? (SPOILERS)
- Jeopardy Online Test this week - Results?
- Pigs is Pigs
- R.I.P. Jimmy Bain, bassist for Rainbow & Dio
- The Flash S02E11: The Return of the Reverse Flash
- Oops, baked the flavor out of my cake. Or essence extraction
- Bomber Kulky?
- I missed my Jeopardy test, can I take it at another time?
- Story Idea: Could a man convicted of murder later sue the "victim"?
- When ad campaigns/characters morph way beyond the original intent
- What kind of cake is this?
- I think the bear in The Revenant might be the best movie monster ever
- What's the BEST Western Movie?
- Joe's of Kansas City BBQ, fka Oklahoma Joe's
- If you survived the 80's...
- National Chocolate Cake Day 1/27
- STAR TREK TOS: Does anybody believe that Starfleet actually had an order authorizing genocide?
- Aretha singing for Carole King at Kennedy Center Honors - why didn't I know about this?!
- Mashed potato flavoring: Where sold?
- Definition of a patty melt..
- Do you consider movies about Zorro to be Westerns?
- Tiny spray paint tool
- Carls Jr - how do they rate?
- Poll: Favorite/most iconic lines from TV
- Of Book Doctors and Editors
- Has Miley Cyrus ever sung Achy Breaky Heart
- Face Off Season 10
- Could any of Plato's Dialogues be produced as commercially successful plays/movies?
- Wentworth - FANTASTIC serial drama show
- Help me find a song?
- Dalek to Chinese translation
- The Americans Season 4
- American Crime Season 2 and male rape
- The most quintessential movies of the 1960's
- McDonald's re-creates the Cheese Shop Sketch...
- Need ID for 80s TV show
- What's the oldest (dry) spice you have in your spice cabinet?
- 50 Songs That Gave Birth to Rock and Roll
- Ripper Street: When will series 4 be available to watch in the U.S.?
- About Sitcoms... Let's use TBBT as an example
- How can I integrate all my streaming services
- "But i wonder will the sun still see all the people going by?" (RIP Paul Kantner)"
- R.I.P Paul Katner
- What movie is this? (Very little info to go on, may be impossible)
- Was the Gemini Space Program pronounced like "Jiminy"?
- Why is Jar Jar Binks Annoying...but C3PO isn't?
- Explain: Monty Python's Church Police?
- TV shows that went on a trip
- and another one... Paul Kantner
- Rocketeer finishes a bison model
- Characters from different fictional universes who would be instant best buddies.
- Dead Singers and Musicians thread
- Desk Set movie question
- Screenwriters
- Iconic lines from TBBT
- Khadaji's Whatcha Readin' Thread - February 2016 Edition
- Eating lots of diet jelly on a semi-paleo diet
- My new favorite candy--Coffee Thins
- If a magic genie granted you a wish to ...
- What was yout first exposure to Ray Charles?
- Commercials Currently Annoying You
- Pay rate for cameo appearance?
- Whatever happened to Gas Station commercials?
- Old Movie Musicals---how were orchestras combined with actors singing?
- Did Woody Guthrie really write "I'm Shipping Up to Boston"?
- Pop gods
- World of Tomorrow. A Short film on Netflix
- Microwave popcorn popper advice please
- Sir Terry Wogan has died aged 77
- Straight Outta Compton
- Who are Sheldon's 9 friends?
- Louis CK just released a surprise web series (Horace and Pete)
- Trying a slow-cooker machaca recipe
- Does your super market sell cookie dough?
- I need advice about Kifto Raw Beef
- Mixed male/female groups
- Government cheese
- Trying to find a Pittsburgh song from the early 80's
- Fixing a leaky harp (harmonica)
- Terminal Lance: The White Donkey
- Best Tropes page title
- I bought a jug of beer. How long will it stay good.
- How many black actors nominated for Oscars in 2017?
- Half-Hour TV dramas
- Turkey on the table
- Death Stars make bureaucratic sense
- YouTube livestream fraudulent search results
- Why do I feel The Book of Eli is coming up short?
- Bromance movies
- Grease Live
- The YouTube implosion of TheFineBros
- Genre/subject matter that makes universally bad films (and their exceptions)
- DC's Legends of Tomorrow - Anyone Watching?
- Mona Lisa in the West, ??? in the East/North/South?
- Doesn't anyone sell diced onion in a jar?
- I'd like to cook bottom round steak in a crockpot but...
- Hearing characters who know sign langauge?
- Question about Shark Tank and royalty deals
- What was Final Jeopardy tonight?
- NOT the Periodic Table
- What Other Musicals Should Get the Network Live Treatment?
- WALKING DEAD (show) fans: what dead characters do you most miss?
- Rhiengold
- Sneaky Pete (
- TV Episodes where two actors who later hit it big guest starred
- What happened to Lady Gaga?
- Anybody into "The Knick"?
- How do you consume upcoming movie media?
- Help identifying a book
- What is the worst TV show decay you've seen?
- What were these two ads that were on TV around 1980?
- Play this really loud, pretend you're into it, and see what people do.
- What If: Aragorn doesn't release the Army of the Dead?
- Potato photo sells for €1 million!
- Best fish roe to make caviar
- Rate Panda Express as Chinese Food - 1 to 10
- The Flash S02E12: Fast Lane
- Do you recall the FIRST movie that ever made you cry? What was it?
- Commercials backfiring
- Grandma's Cookies (Commercials)
- Hybrid microwave/conventional recipes
- Film trilogies with all possible quality orderings
- What happened to David Bowie's money
- Real-life "Alexander Dane"
- ... ly Ballou, signing off.
- Hail, Caesar! anticipation thread (probable spoilers)
- David Bowie - Blackstar: What was the video about?
- Old Martin Guitar - Smashed during filming of The Hateful Eight
- I chase that burrito dragon...
- Identify that film - within the last 15yrs - black female lead - music executive character
- Seinfeld: "The Soup Nazi" Episode
- "Pompatus", "Shamone", etc.
- What big celebrities live in surprisingly "out of the way" places?
- Whatever happened to 'Charm School' entreprneur 'Mister Lynn?'
- Who's got concert tickets?
- RIP Joe Alaskey, voice actor Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, and others.
- what is the actual difference between mild, medium, and hot salsa?
- "Classic" version of Rock Me, Amadeus
- The Big Bang Theory, Season 9, Episode 14 -- "The Meemaw Materialization"
- Any decent books or films about humans in the far future
- Dust to Earth Wind and Fire-- Maurice White has passed away. [-edited ITD]
- Regular Show: Is all the soda consumption really just a euphemism for beer?
- Percolated coffee
- Question about a creature in Moby-Dick
- I just binge-watched the Saw series
- Potluck food that doesn't need refrigeration
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