LOST Poll Results

The poll ended with 26 votes.

What did you think of the LOST finale - "The End"?

7 - Awesome
7 - Great
6 - OK
3 - Poor
3 - Awful

It seems that most people enjoyed it.

ESB Coloring Book - Part 1

Just when you thought The Empire Strikes Back month was over, here comes some more.

I went to the Hartville Flea Market today and found this Empire coloring book. I'm gonna scan it and (hopefully) share a few pages each day.

Click on the pictures to enlarge them. Then print them out and share with the whole family.

Come back tomorrow for part two.

Lost Lightsaber Stand Off

This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen!


Uploaded by Kram1563.

Some Like It Hoth

There are a ton of Star Wars references in Lost. Especially the episode "Some Like It Hoth". It was the 13th episode of Season 5 and was originally broadcasted on April 15, 2009. 

What you need to know: some of the castaways were time traveling and ended up in the 1970s.

Here are the Star Wars scenes from the transcripts courtesy of Lostpedia --

[Miles's blue DHARMA van cruises down a dirt path cut through the vegetation on the Island. Albert Hammond's "It Never Rains In Southern California" plays on the DHARMA van's stereo. Hurley sits in the passenger seat, scribbling in a DHARMA Initiative brand composition notebook. The logo on the notebook figures an apple on a stack of books. The logo on Hurley's jumpsuit patch shows a chef's hat over a crossed knife and fork.]

STEREO: Got on board a westbound 747...

HURLEY: How do you spell "bounty hunter"?

MILES: What are you doing, writing your memoirs?

[Hurley defensively snaps the composition book closed.]

HURLEY: It's personal.

[Hurley goes back to writing. Later, he looks up at Miles again.]

______________________________________________________

MILES: You want to get into my business?

[Miles snatches the composition book away from Hurley.]

MILES: Let's get into yours!

HURLEY: Give that back to me.

MILES: How about we read your little diary?

HURLEY: It's not a diary! It's personal!!

[Miles gets out of the van. Hurley gets out, chasing him.]

MILES: Let's see what's going on--

HURLEY: Give that--give that back to me.

MILES: --in that piece of granite you call a head.

HURLEY: Give it back!

MILES: "Exterior--Hoth. A little spy robot thingy zips through the atmosphere and crashes into the snowy planet below. That's when Chewbacca shows up and blasts it away with his crossbow laser. He shakes his fury fist in the sky in triumph. Chewbacca--Raaar."

HURLEY: [Embarrassedly] It's "furry." "Furry fist." I need a spell-check.

MILES: What the hell is this?

HURLEY: I'm writing Empire Strikes Back.

MILES: Uh... I'm sorry. What?

HURLEY: It's 1977, right?

[Miles nods.]

HURLEY: So Stars Wars just came out. And pretty soon, George Lucas is gonna be looking for a sequel. I've seen Empire, like, 200 times, so I figured I'd make life easier and send him the script... with a couple improvements.

MILES: That has gotta be the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

HURLEY: Oh, yeah? Well, at least I'm not scared to talk to my own dad.

[Hurley snatches his composition book back and gets back in the van.]

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HURLEY: I used to hate my dad, too.

MILES: Yeah?

HURLEY: He left when I was 10. But the best thing I ever did was give him a second chance. We got to be the best of friends, and although I may never see him again, I miss him. And I know he feels the same.

MILES: My dad didn't leave when I was 10. I--I was a baby. I never knew him. And I don't want to. It's not happening.

[Hurley removes the gas pump and recaps the van's fuel port.]

HURLEY: That was Luke's attitude, too.

MILES: What?

HURLEY: In Empire, Luke found out Vader was his father, but instead of putting away his lightsaber and talking about it, he overreacted and got his hand cut off. I mean, they worked it out eventually, but at what cost? Another Death Star was destroyed, Boba Fett got eaten by the Sarlacc, and we got the Ewoks. It all could've been avoided if they'd just, you know, communicated. And let's face it. The Ewoks sucked, dude.

Gary Coleman, R.I.P.

Gary Coleman has died.

The Diff'rent Strokes star succumbed at 12:05 p.m. (MST) today at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center to a brain hemorrhage suffered at his home Wednesday, a statement from his management firm said. He was 42.

"Conscious and lucid" yesterday morning, per the statement, the former child star was on life support by Thursday afternoon.

"Family members and close friends were at his side when life support was terminated" today, the statement said.

From 1978 to 1986, Coleman cracked wise as perennial kid Arnold Jackson on the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. His timing, chubby cheeks and catchphrase ("Whatchu talkin' 'bout?") helped make Coleman the highest paid child actor of his era.

A one-kid powerhouse, Coleman fronted his own Saturday morning cartoon show, bantered with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, worked with Lucille Ball, and hosted first lady Nancy Reagan on a famous 1983 anti-drug episode of Diff'rent Strokes. He starred in the big-screen comedies Jimmy the Kid and On the Right Track, the latter of which traded on his real-life love of trains, and cranked out TV-movie (The Kid from Left Field) after TV-movie (The Kid with the Broken Halo) after TV-movie (The Kid with the 200 I.Q.). For four straight years, from 1980-1983, Coleman was named Favorite Young TV Performer at the People's Choice Awards.

Coleman's acting career all but ended with the onset of adulthood. He, along with his prime-time siblings, Todd Bridges and Dana Plato, who suffered their own post-sitcom troubles, became the symbol, and punchline, of former child stardom.

Read the rest of the story at E! Online.

Star Wars Action Figures Gone Wild!

Back in the day, my brother and I used to take photos of our toys using our dad's camera. Here's one such photo featuring a bunch of Star Wars and Empire action figures on the kitchen table. Note Boba Fett in the green vase and Han Solo and Walrus Man in the white planter.

Art Linkletter, R.I.P.

From TVGuide.com --

Art Linkletter, who hosted popular TV shows People Are Funny and House Party in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. He was 97.

Linkletter died Wednesday at his Bel-Air home in Los Angeles, his son-in-law, Art Hershey, told the Los Angeles Times.

Art Linkletter's House Party, which debuted on radio in 1944 and aired on CBS from 1952 to 1969, was one of television's longest-running variety shows. One of the show's features was daily interviews with schoolchildren, which Linkletter collected and used to create the best-selling book, Kids Say the Darndest Things.

Linkletter's other well-known series, People Are Funny — which started out on radio in 1942 and ran on TV from 1954 to 1961 — centered on pie-in-the-face slapstick humor and audience participation.

After retiring from daily broadcasting in 1969, Linkletter continued to write, make public appearances and appear in television commercials.

Linkletter and his wife, Lois, had five children together, but in 1969, their 20-year-old daughter, Diane, jumped to her death from her sixth-floor Hollywood apartment. Not long before her death, Linkletter made a recording with his daughter, "We Love You, Call Collect," which won a Grammy for best spoken word recording after she died.

In 1980, one of Linkletter's sons, Robert, died in a car accident, and another son, Jack, died of lymphoma in 2007 at age 70.

Linkletter is survived by his wife of 75 years and daughters Dawn and Sharon.

LOST Poll

What did you think of the LOST finale? Please vote in my poll over in the sidebar. It'll be up for about a week.

I enjoyed it. I'm not one to nit-pick. Of course, I'd have liked to have seen more of the questions answered. But, whatever happened, happened. Hopefully the extra 20 minutes on the Season 6 DVD will answer some of them.

LOST Finale!

I am going to geek out on LOST tonight! A 2 hour recap show, 2 1/2 hour finale and the Jimmy Kimmel special. I took a vacation day tomorrow so that I can stay up late tonight :) In my opinion, LOST is probably the best show to ever be on television. I have never been so engrossed in a TV show like this before.

Caffeinated Joe pretty summed up my feelings about LOST.

Namaste!

Cheers To Major Derlin

I Googled The Empire Strikes Back to see what everyone was saying about the 30th anniversary and found this posted by Jedi Grrrl on Tumblr --

John Ratzenberger

played Rebel Force Major Derlin in ESB

he was born on April 6th 1947

his most recognizable role is “Cliff” from Cheers

he is the only actor to voice a character in all the Pixar movies - Toy Story (1, 2 & 3), A Bug’s Life, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatoullie, Up, Wall-E

Interesting Tidbit: The trading card for his Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) character, Bren Derlin, says that “At the Mos Eisley Cantina, everybody knows his name.” Derlin is never seen in the Mos Eisley Cantina. This is an inside joke about his character Cliff Clavin the mailman, who frequents Cheers, “where everybody knows your name”

From Wookieepedia --

In the Star Wars Customizable Card Game, Derlin's card notes "At the Mos Eisley Cantina, everybody knows his name." The line is a reference to the theme song of Cheers, in which Ratzenberger appeared as "Cliff Clavin."

I already knew that John Ratzenberger was in ESB, but I found the quote from the trading card interesting. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a scan of it.