^ You mean Tom Conway, right? Not Kennedy the game show host? You made me do research! 
Ignorance fought!
^ Senior moment? Pull up a chair! 
Hey, I just discovered Tom Kennedy died just last month. At the age of 93! Of course, his brother was game show host Jack Narz. Does this mean Jack and George Sanders are brothers? 
I kid, I kid.
First scary movie I went to in a theater (waaay too young)… Dracula, Prince of Darkness, with Christopher Lee chewing scenery and innocent necks.
The first scene is burned into my brain… a man is murdered, hanged upside down and his throat is slit. Blood spurts down… and the camera pulls back to reveal it’s pouring into a coffin… filled with cremated remains.
As spooky fog and moody music swells, we see the side of the coffin… that’s suddenly clutched by bony fingers reaching up from the coffin.
And… Dracula is ‘miraculously resurrected’ yet again.
I knew that HHGTTG was a radio show before it was a book but I didn’t know that story about the birth of the improbability drive! That’s brilliant!
How were the weasels resurrected? In the movie, most or all of them died laughing.
While Bobby emerging from the shower in Dallas is a big deal, I think the disappearance of Chuck on Happy Days is really the high point of the character dies yet the story goes on. Richie obviously murdered him, yet no one mentions him ever again. What’s up with that?
believe it or not, I’m told the missing brother shows up in the series finale for a glorified cameo but by that time no one cared …
I may be confused, but my impression is that in Jaws: The Revenge a great white shark kills Chief Brody’s son and follows his widow to the Bahamas in an attempt to take revenge on the family of the man that killed it in Jaws.
Not quite. You have to read the novelization to get the back story, but apparently the shark in J4 is being controlled by a Haitian witch doctor using voodoo. He has some grudge against the Brodie family. The doctor, not the shark.
No, the shark in Jaws: The Revenge isn’t supposed to be the same shark. In fact, the original motivation for the shark (and still retained in the novelization) is that a voodoo doctor named Papa Jacques had a beef with Mike Brody and summons the shark to do his bidding. Seriously. Some scenes supporting that were shot but dropped, but there are a few oblique references to it.
In either case, it was never shown to be the same shark from any of the previous Jaws movies.
ETA - Curse you silenus! Looks around for a voodoo doll and some hat pins …
Don’t know. I only flipped through the issue when I saw it on sale, and now I’m sorry I didn’t buy it.
According to the synopsis on this page, one of the weasels was the brother of one of Doom’s gang, and he enlists the aid of other weasels:
The technique of not pretending there is any kind of continuity between episodes works great for episodic cartoons like Aeon Flux, Teen Titans, and similar. If characters die at the end of an episode, or the whole world is destroyed, or whatever, it simply doesn’t matter!
In Dracula, when they put Lucy Westenra down, they stake her, stuff her mouth with garlic, and decapitate her. This sort of implies that just the stake by itself would have been insufficient, although it was probably just overkill on the part of the fearless vampire hunters. And iirc, Slavic vampires were staked not so much to kill them, but to pin them to their coffins so they couldn’t dig their way out.
Of course, that’s different from “resurrect from dust,” but I think the roots are there.
In the Star Wars universe, falling into a bottomless pit is a minor setback. Darth Maul got cut in half and fell into a bottomless pit, and he bounced back from that.
No no no. Darth Maul got cut in half and fell into a bottomless pit after the events in the movie Solo: A Star Wars Story.
The Palpatine resurrection, on the other hand, is an unforgiveable affront on the audience’s sensibilities. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, they couldn’t come up with some other bad guy?
I didn’t watch Clone Wars, but I understand that it establishes that Maul survived the bottomless pit.
Coming back from the dead or surviving things nobody should survive goes back almost to the beginning of the genre:
The [Joker] was intended to be killed in his second appearance in Batman #1, after being stabbed in the heart. Finger wanted the Joker to die because of his concern that recurring villains would make Batman appear inept, but was overruled by then-editor Whitney Ellsworth; a hastily drawn panel, indicating that the Joker was still alive, was added to the comic
Ah. I was not aware of that. They must have amazing doctors in the far away galaxy. I wonder if the Empire provides universal healthcare? 
No, Darth Maul got cut in half well before the events of Solo - like, about twenty years earlier. He got cut in half at the end of Phantom Menace, when the Republic is still in power and Darth Vader is a whinny little 9 year old. Solo takes place after the Empire has taken over and Vader’s developed his asthma problem.
Darth Maul surviving is merely improbable, not impossible. Light sabers cauterize wounds (except in bar fights against walrus people, but that’s an edge case) so he’s not going to bleed to death, and SW medical technology is obviously hugely more advanced than ours. The bottomless pit is the harder sell, but the setting does have cheap and abundant anti-gravity - presumably, there’s an anti-gravity field at the bottom of that shaft for some reason. Maybe that’s what they use in SW instead of hand rails?