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I assumed that Conal tied Robot Ellie down (to help build upon the illusion that she was real)... that way, if Daniel managed to escape his cell and find her, he'd "rescue" her (and end up dead by her hands).

1. Not only did Silver Shamrock pay for an insane amount of commercial ad time, they paid for a fleet of vans to drive through American neighborhoods (equipped with speakers) to remind kids to watch the 9:00 "Big Giveaway." In this universe, novelty items are the most profitable sales items in existence. 2. Doctor Drunk can't spend more than 30 seconds with his family before getting paged (and told to return to the hospital), but he's able to take a long, unscheduled vacation with Ellie Grimbridge? Shouldn't he be fired immediately? 3. When the bad guys capture Doctor Drunk, they slap a flimsy skull mask on his head, tie him to a chair, and lock him in a room with a TV set. The idea is that the TV will eventually melt the doctor's head (during the 9:00 "Big Giveaway"). But they're in the factory where they have the commercial ready to play at a moments notice! Why not melt Doctor Drunk's head immediately? Also, Doctor Drunk would have had an easier time shaking the shitty mask off his head (than bouncing around in his chair and kicking the TV screen). 4. This is just a nitpick from a business standpoint: Why are the skull masks (which need to be mostly white) the only masks made of black latex? I guess the Silver Shamrock company doesn't care how much white paint they need to buy... it's a billion dollar company, apparently. 5. If Little Buddy's father is the most successful Silver Shamrock mask salesman, wouldn't you think Little Buddy would already own all three stupid masks? Why is he so excited to receive a free one at the factory? 6. Paul asked why the robot people were still chipping away at the Stonehenge block (even though the scheme is pretty much over). I'll go further and ask this: Why did they need to steal the entire block? They made all the masks they wanted (enough to ship all over the U.S.), and they had a warehouse full of extras. In addition to the extra (completed) masks, they had even more Shamrock badges in boxes that weren't being used... and yet they only chipped away at maybe 10% of the Stonehenge block! Wouldn't stealing only a small piece have been much, much easier? 7. Why was Marge Gutterman scratching at the computer chip inside the Silver Shamrock medallion? Give her a circuit board from anything (a computer, a remote control, whatever), and what she was doing wouldn't help her identify the chip's function! 8. There are a lot of extra Silver Shamrock masks going to waste inside that factory. If Conal Cockring wanted to sacrifice as many children as possible, why didn't he replace Marge's order immediately? Or why didn't he donate some of those masks to charity (so poor children could also die)? Ugh... I'm thinking too much about this movie.

In case anyone was wondering, the Silver Shamrock jingle in Halloween 3 plays for 8 full minutes! I put all the clips back-to-back and posted the video on YouTube (with some additional text commentary, to try and keep the video from being boring). (The video was flagged by Universal for copyright issues. It had to be removed... but take my word for it, it was 8 FULL MINUTES of music. Ugh.)

Six more days till the podcast, the podcast, the podcast. Six more days till the podcast... and I'll probably still have this damn song stuck in my head.

Have HDTGM episode releases been changed to Wednesdays now?

Captain Munro: "There's the wind." Peter: "I hope it blows us someplace good." Karen: "Me too." Of course Peter (Dylan Walsh) and Karen (Laura Linney) hope the hot-air balloon takes them "someplace good"... because they certainly can't afford to return to the states. Their entire trip was funded by diamond-monger R.B. Travis (Joe Don Baker), and he certainly isn't going to pay for their trip home. Karen thoroughly burned that bridge with a mega laser beam.

Congo! Amazing! Ernie Hudson is in it. "That's a big Twinkie." Tim Curry is in it. "Don't dream it, be it!" Joe Don Baker is in it. "Go ahead on!" It's a star-studded cast, a sure-fire box-office HIT! How could this go wrong?

How does Zevo Toys stay in business? Their merchandise seems incredibly ridiculous and outdated. Put any Zevo Toys product in an actual toy store and you wouldn't sell a single unit. I think kids would have more fun playing with the stereotypical wooden garbage you often see being crafted by elves in Santa's Workshop.

Wow. I just experienced "Toys" for the first time. I'm Traumatized! Checking IMDB, I think the only reason audiences forgave Robin Williams is because this flop was sandwiched between two very popular films, "Aladdin" and "Mrs. Doubtfire."

A suggestion for Corrections/Omisions: When Croc is talking to the ditsy roller skating girl, she asks him if he's "gay". He tells her something like, "Yeah, I'm happy most of the time." Clearly the "joke" is that Croc doesn't understand what the word "gay" means (in modern terms). But later, when Croc and his buddy are exiting the gay bar, Croc says the place is full of "gay homosexuals." So... once again it proves how his intelligence differs from scene to scene.