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It's Jerry's favorite superhero.
Who is Superman?
"He's no good to me dead."
Who is Boba Fett?
This book series, lavishly written and illustrated by James Guerney, imagines an undiscovered continent in which humans and dinosaurs live together in harmony.
What is Dinotopia?
Created by Garry Cleveland Myers and first appearing in Children’s Activities in 1940, these two characters eventually moved to, and became synonymous with, Highlights for Children.
Who are Goofus & Gallant?
Wizards, one of Ralph Bakshi’s most recognizable efforts, features voice acting from this soon-to-be-famous Star Wars actor in his film debut.
Who is Mark Hamill?
Bette Midler is set to play the title role in the Broadway production of this "young girl's strange erotic journey from Milan to Minsk"--until she's body-slammed by George in a charity softball game.
What is "Rochelle, Rochelle?"
What do you think, you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that?"
Who is Watto?
The great cowboys-and-dinosaurs film The Valley of Gwangi featured a stop-motion tyrannosaur animated by this protégé of Willis O’Brien—and it was the last film he animated.
Who is Ray Harryhausen?
Arnold Lobel wrote and illustrated a series of books featuring the misadventures of this pair of amphibians (who, famously, “Are Friends”).
Who are Frog & Toad?
This 1985 film, though poorly received, contained a number of firsts: the studio’s first PG rating, first use of computer-generated imagery, first box-office bomb, and first casting of John Hurt.
What is The Black Cauldron?
Elaine is briefly fired from her job with J. Peterman after confessing to hating this terrible, yet somehow Best Picture-winning, movie.
What is The English Patient?
"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause."
Who is Padme Amidala?
Genndy Tartakovsky, best known for Powerpuff Girls and Samurai Jack, recently developed this bloodthirsty Adult Swim series about a caveman and his tyrannosaur companion surviving in an anachronistic prehistoric world.
What is Primal?
Fone Bone and these two cousins star in an epic, humorous, and touching fantasy adventure in Jeff Smith’s comic series Bone.
Who are Phoncible (or "Phoney") and Smiley Bone?
Ming-na Wen, perhaps best known for her appearances in Agents of S.H.I.E.D. and The Mandolorian, played Aki Ross, the lead role in this "first photorealistic computer animated feature film" from 2001 that was such a box-office flop that it killed its production company.
What is Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within?
Crazy to think that modern in-engine game graphics look worlds better than this movie.
It's the magazine George was flipping through when his mother caught him "treating his body like it's an amusement park."
What is Glamour?
(I have an autographed script of this episode. Hilariously, I won it in a contest. Not THAT kind of contest.)
"I'm capable of running my own diagnostics, thank you very much."
Who is K-2SO?
Originally intended for theatrical release, this godawful 1995 buddy cop film, in which Whoopi Goldberg teams up with a suitman Tyrannosaurus, mercifully died on the Direct-to-Video market.
What is Theodore Rex?
The Cheshire Cat proclaims that both of these tea-party-loving characters are “mad” in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (I pity the Dormouse).
Who are the Hatter (or Mad Hatter) & the March Hare?
Atlantis: The Lost Empire, a 2001 effort from Disney starring Michael J. Fox and Leonard Nimoy, was perhaps more notable for attempting to adopt the distinctive visual style of this Hellboy creator.
Who is Mike Mignola?
Though also known from Big Trouble in Little China and Blade Runner (among dozens of other roles) this actor counts his role as the maître d' in the early episode "The Chinese Restaurant," as one of his most popular in America.
Who is James Hong?
"Cover me, Porkins!"
Who is Biggs Darklighter?
Ricardo Delgado, a concept artist who’s worked on Men in Black, Jurassic Park III, and John Carter (among many others) illustrates and "writes" (there is no dialogue) this Eisner-winning Mesozoic anthology comic series.
What is Age of Reptiles?
These crime-solving brothers, created by Edward Stratemeyer, debuted in 1927 and have solved lord knows how many mysteries (they’re still going strong). I’ll need their first names, too.
Who are Frank & Joe Hardy?
This 2000 film, the last directed by Don Bluth, finds Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore trying to salvage the human race after Earth is destroyed by the energy-based Drej aliens.
What is Titan A.E.?