Both my darling blogchild and the crew at Dean's World have been hashing out a list of movies you can see over and over again.

I have a few of those myself.  In our house they're called "Movies I can fall asleep to".

See I have this thing with movies.  If they get really predictable, or really embarrassing for the main character, I skip it.  Fast Forward, skip, turn off, you name it.  I won't sit through it.  Consequently, there are VERY FEW movies I can sit through more than once without skipping through, let alone enjoy over and over and over. 

The funny thing is, those movies somehow migrate to the bedroom.  I'm a slow-sleep insomniac, and (like everything else with me) contrary to the usual advice of removing distractions from the sleep zone (aka no TV in the bedroom), TV actually distracts my brain enough to let me fall asleep.  Especially things I've seen before.  So we have a rotating stash of movies that live in the DVD player in the bedroom and get pressed into service in conjunction with the 90 minute sleep setting on the TV just about every night.

So, without further ado, movies I can sleep to:

White Christmas
Blazing Saddles
Star Wars
Empire
Return of the Jedi
Fellowship of the Ring (either disk 1 or 2; but not Twin Towers.  I always want to skip the "Sam and Frodo" parts too much)
Return of the King (Disk 2 works better... less Sam and Frodo)
Kill Bill vol 1
Kill Bill vol 2
The Blues Brothers
South Park
Team America
A Christmas Story
Fiddler on the Roof
Disney's Robin Hood

I'm certain there are more, but these are the ones currently in the DVD case in the bedroom.

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Oh hell no.

John Hawkins at Right Wing News has a list of what he says are the top 10 South Park Episodes of all time.

He's wrong on all 10 counts.

Here's my top 10 SP eps of all time (in chronological order... #5 is my favorite):

1. Cartman Gets an Anal Probe:  The original.  Started the world of South Park on TV.

2. Chinpokomon: You have "vewwy lahge Amewican Penis" 'Nuff said.

3. Cartman Joins NAMBLA:  I never knew such a thing existed before this.

4. Scot Tenorman Must Die: Revenge is sweet.  Too sweet.
 
5. Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants:  Matt and Trey's masterpiece.  Summed up the feelings of an entire nation and introduced us to the now world famous "chicken lollipop".  Also my favorite.  EVAH.

6. All About the Mormons?: What a great refrain:  dum dum dum dum dum.....

7. Trapped in the Closet:  Tom Cruise is trapped in the closet!  Plus a send up of the Clams.  Perfect.

8. The Return of Chef:  Isaac Hayes quit over Trapped in the Closet.  In their usual manner, Matt and Trey let the world know what they felt about it....

9. Smug Alert!:  Perfect satire of limousine liberals, their pretensions, their Priuses, and their love of the smell of their own asses.

10. Make Love, Not Warcraft:  What can I say.  We all know these people.

Honorable Mentions: The Return of the King to the Two Towers, Chickenlover, Cripple Fight, and Go God Go (I and II)

You may not agree with all of my picks, but seriously, any list that doesn't include Smug Alert!, Osama, Trapped in the Closet, and/or Scot Tenorman isn't a list to be taken seriously.

h/t Frank J.

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SciFi is showing a FIREFLY MARATHON!!!! until 3pm!

Yes, I own it.  But STILL.

And Flash Gordon starts tonight.

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