# We don't talk about that here, thank you. House rule. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 12, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925 "2012-06-12T16:19:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/81 "2012-06-15T14:56:18Z")
Well, I’m not sure how many people besides me will get this one, but: It’s been alleged for some time that Jeff Lindsay wrote a book called **Dexter in the Dark** , about everyone’s favorite Miami serial killer, Dexter Morgan. Some say that the book was a shitty attempt to explain why Dexter was a serial killer by making that shadowy internal voice, his “Dark Passenger”, an actual separate supernatural entity. One idiot even said it was some demonic offspring of an ancient evil god called Moloch. It’s a good thing that book was never written, because it sounds like a real turd. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/82 "2012-06-15T15:39:38Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > [Send him some of this. I’m sure he’ll be appreciative.](http://crystalheadvodka.com/welcome) That’s . . . interesting. I would never refuse a gift from Skald though, plus then I could invite him over. You know what would be really weird? If the ever did a holiday special for Star Wars. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/83 "2012-06-15T15:49:08Z")
I normally don’t do this but Alien 3 was such a betrayal of the first two movies, and such a bad movie to boot, that I just imagine the whole thing was a PTSD nightmare Ripley had due to a slightly malfunctioning component in her cryo-sleep unit. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/84 "2012-06-15T16:03:13Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > As terrible as Austen’s Nightcrawler storyline was, I still vastly preferred his overall run to the garbage Morrison was pumping out in the other X-Men title at the time. That grotesque Beak thing and that hideous fly-girl version of Angel making monstrous babies was something like thousands of times worse than Nightcrawler finding out his pops was the Mutant Devil. Oooh Xorn’s Magneto, big fucking whoop. So glad that got retconned like 2 seconds after he left the title. And I think Cassandra Nova just might be the worst villain ever created. Prof X’s evil twin sister that he murdered in the womb oh and also she’s some psychic alien thingamabobber? What the fuck? Also, why’d he have to go and turn Beast into a cat? Did he watch a certain Disney movie one too many times? I just… I don’t… I mean… Man WHAT? Son, you need to lay off whatever you been smokin’. Austen over Morrison, _really_ now. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/85 "2012-06-15T19:01:15Z")
**Lawnmower Man 2**. **Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2**. Both fell so far from the original movies. From 0.0001 stars to 0.00000000000000000000001 stars. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/86 "2012-06-15T19:23:33Z")
Wait, there was a Lawnmower Man 2? I’m really, really glad that I managed to avoid any awareness of the existence of that one. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/87 "2012-06-15T21:23:57Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Godfather 1 & 2 were so good that a third can’t fail. Waiiiiiiiiit a minute… [Sum Total of Talia Shire’s lines] " Michael ! MICHAAAAAAAAAEL !! " [/Sum Total of Talia Shire’s lines] :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sinisterniik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Sinisterniik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinisterniik)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/88 "2012-06-17T04:19:26Z")
[Here ya go.](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=323909610753051544) You can all thank me later. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/89 "2012-06-17T05:21:47Z")
Do not tell me what happened during the last 10 min. of Lost. I have been trying to forget for years. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/90 "2012-06-17T05:32:15Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > I’m not sure what it is about Temple of Doom that makes it so bad. It could be the racism, but there’s a certain amount of that in Raiders as well. I’d say it was more the reliance of gross-out scenes to compensate for the lack of a coherent story or any likeable characters, other than Indy himself. I agree with this and would add that Willie in particular is a useless, irritating character. (Wikipedia tells me that Kate Capshaw herself said the characters was “not much more than a dumb screaming blonde.”) Every other female lead in the series was more competent and helpful, and that includes the woman in _Last Crusade_ despite the fact that she was actually a Nazi agent. ---
**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/91 "2012-06-17T05:40:33Z")
The Simpsons was the best sitcom ever aired in American TV. I thought it was classy that they pulled the plug after season 10 when it became obvious that it could only go downhill, despite all the money Fox was offering them. > [@Chronos](#): > > I can see why you’d be confused. There _were_ only two Terminator movies, but Terminator 3 was one of them. For some reason, they called the movies _Terminator_ and _Terminator 3_, and didn’t make one numbered 2. You’re thinking of A Nightmare on Elm Street. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/92 "2012-06-17T09:08:45Z")
_The Matrix_ was a groundbreaking movie, not just for the effects but for its engaging story and philosophical underpinnings. I’m disappointed they never made the sequels they were talking about, but I think the movie stands on its own very well and I respect the directors’ artistic choice to leave it at that. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/93 "2012-06-17T13:08:44Z")
The last episode of Deadwood never happened. Milch was so upset that he wasn’t getting another season that thetnjustnstopped filmingn there and then. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/94 "2012-06-17T13:21:36Z")
_Enterprise?_ Never heard about it. Never will. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/95 "2012-06-17T15:33:04Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > Threads fail that need explaining. Good thing this one didn’t, then. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/96 "2012-06-17T16:29:32Z")
Any _Superman, Pirates of the Caribbean_ or _Matrix_ movies after the first. Nope, didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/97 "2012-06-17T16:38:45Z")
X-Files ended after Season 7. Nobody will ever convince me that there were 2 seasons after that. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/98 "2012-06-17T19:17:44Z")
South Park, Oh yeah, that was a great show! Hey, have you ever heard the story of how it ended? Yeah, apparently the writers were 3/4 of the way into writing a storyline about a little hamster named “Lemmewinks.” Yeah, and legend has it that when they looked back at what they were doing, they realized that it was beyond utter and complete crap; this turd they had laid was so foul, so completely without humour or purpose or even discernible plotline, that they looked at each other, stood up as one, and left the show then and there, refusing to write another one again. That show never aired, and there never was another episode of South Park. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/99 "2012-06-17T19:29:17Z")
Which is the Indiana Jones movie that didn’t get made that didn’t have Sean Connery in it as Indy’s dad, who didn’t even appear in screen for the first half of it, and I’m not sure if he ever did because I walked out on it? Or maybe I didn’t because it never really happened. OTOH, The Nick Cage _Wicker Man_ remake was so hilariously bad that I talk about it every chance I get, having had a near death experience due to laughing so hard at it that I almost suffocated. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/100 "2012-06-18T03:55:33Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Well, they shouldn’t even be logically possible. Well, if the story is neverending, then the sequels should theoretically continue on into infinity. Now a sequel to _The Ending Story_ would be stupid. Remember that Donald Sutherland movie, where he and Elliot Gould were army doctors in the Korean War? That would have made a good TV show. It could have been some welcome relief from the usual idiotic sitcoms with moronic laugh tracks that cluttered the airwaves back in the 70’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925.md?page=6)