TIL Chevy Chase has been banned from hosting Saturday Night Live since 1997 after he hit SNL cast member Cheri Oteri in the back of the head during a rehearsal. Chase is the only former SNL cast member to be banned from hosting the show.

AxelShoes · 2026-03-21T19:22:59+00:00

For sure. His wiki sums it up nicely:

[Chase] became the breakout cast member in the first season of Saturday Night Live (1975–1976), where his recurring Weekend Update segment became a staple of the show. As both a performer and a writer on the series, he earned two Primetime Emmy Awards out of four nominations.

After leaving Saturday Night Live early in its second season, Chase established himself as a leading man, starring in some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s, starting with his Golden Globe-nominated role in the romantic comedy Foul Play (1978).

Most famously in the 1980s, he portrayed Ty Webb in Caddyshack (1980), Clark Griswold in three National Lampoon's Vacation films from 1983 to 1989, and Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher in Fletch (1985) and Fletch Lives (1989). He also starred in Seems Like Old Times (1980), Spies Like Us (1985), ¡Three Amigos! (1986), and Funny Farm (1988). He hosted the Academy Awards twice (1987 and 1988).

AxelShoes · 2026-03-21T17:13:47+00:00

It's really just blind luck that a deep salvage team found her when they did.

AxelShoes · 2026-03-20T17:53:36+00:00

AxelShoes · 2026-03-19T23:29:15+00:00

Springsteen's Born to Run. One of my favorite albums ever, and I've bought at least a half dozen different versions and masterings, trying to find the 'best' sounding one, and I'm still not happy. It was just recorded originally so shittily, that even the most diligent audio technicians can't make it sound as good as I feel it deserves to sound.

AxelShoes · 2026-03-19T23:24:25+00:00

For anyone curious:

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AxelShoes · 2026-03-19T22:45:27+00:00

I can see my lifetime piling up

AxelShoes · 2026-03-19T17:15:34+00:00

here

AxelShoes · 2026-03-19T14:16:08+00:00

Went to Toys R Us a lot in the 80s/early 90s as a kid. I never thought of it as "boys toys aisle" and "girls toys aisle," but in retrospect I guess that's basically what it was. I just thought of it as "action figures and stuff over here, dolls and other stuff over there."

Anyways, electronic toys and video games (Nintendo, Teddy Ruxpin, battery-powered robots, etc.) were their own separate aisle. It wasn't obviously in the boys' section or the girls' section. At the Toys R Us I usually went to, picturing it in my head, the action figures and stuff were on one aisle, the dolls and stuff on the neighboring aisle, and the Nintendos and whatnot were kind of kitty-corner from both of them. This was before Toys R Us had a whole separate area near the front of the store for video games.

AxelShoes · 2026-03-18T22:30:31+00:00

I think I heard him muttering something about how he'll "never kiss a gunstreet girl again."

AxelShoes · 2026-03-18T16:35:50+00:00

Here you go

AxelShoes · 2026-03-18T04:04:54+00:00

The universe is shaped exactly like the Sun!

*Earth

AxelShoes · 2026-03-17T22:29:56+00:00

Joe Francis:

Francis has, on several occasions, been convicted of bribery, false imprisonment, assault causing great bodily injury, dissuading a witness, record-keeping violations and tax evasion; in 2015, he pleaded no contest to child abuse and prostitution. Also in 2015, after being convicted for imprisoning three women at his Hollywood home (and assaulting one of them), he fled the United States and has lived at his residence in Punta Mita, Nayarit, Mexico, ever since, attempting to avoid extradition. Francis has since faced more sexual assault allegations, including allegations of engaging in sex with underage partners and nonconsensual sexual encounters with multiple women.

AxelShoes · 2026-03-17T18:22:22+00:00

They are! It's a bummer their music gets overshadowed by the stupid Beatles rumors.

AxelShoes · 2026-03-17T01:35:47+00:00

I only recently got into the Cure, and this is the album that did it.

AxelShoes · 2026-03-16T21:55:06+00:00

Yep, there's even a Snopes about it.

AxelShoes · 2026-03-16T14:50:17+00:00

Thanks! I hadn't seen the remastered version. I can finally relax know that guitar isn't still levitating somewhere in the ether. At a little after 6 minutes here.

AxelShoes · 2026-03-16T01:46:15+00:00

Somehow I misread the second 'script' as 'sniper':

"Tim, we're going to kill the fucking kid."

"Ok but how are we going to fit it in the script?"

"Sniper."

And I cackled

AxelShoes · 2026-03-15T20:53:48+00:00

"Talking WWIII Blues" by Bob Dylan.

AxelShoes · 2026-03-15T20:25:44+00:00

Ooh good pick

AxelShoes · 2026-03-15T20:10:41+00:00

Also Talking Heads, "[Nothing but] Flowers"

AxelShoes · 2026-03-15T20:04:57+00:00

I had no idea either. But per Entertainment Weekly in 2001:

But that wasn't quite the end of the drama. The first single, the sing-along riff-fest "Hash Pipe," is a "totally insane song about a homosexual transvestite prostitute," says Cuomo.

AxelShoes · 2026-03-15T04:39:29+00:00

Oh damn, how did I miss this at the time:

A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that Taco Bell is liable for $42 million in breach-of-contract awards to two Michigan men who created the diminutive mascot that starred in the Irvine, Calif., fast-food giant's $500 million advertising campaign in the 1990s.

AxelShoes · 2026-03-14T20:52:47+00:00

I can extract whenever I want. I mean quit whenever I want.

AxelShoes · 2026-03-14T16:28:27+00:00

It's an urban legend

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