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A poor lab assistant has been transformed into the snake man at the circus, in this classic scene from 1973's Sssssss. And the same fate befalls Battlestar Galactica's Dirk Benedict, in our second cold-blooded clip below. More »
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Science fiction fans are like the bacteria in your stomach: most of the time, they help to keep you healthy. But when the pH balance goes wrong, and the bacteria start running the show, they can make you sick. We've expressed our view that Star Trek deserves euthanasia partly because it inevitably caters too much to its obsessive fanbase. Here's a list of examples of too-powerful fans hastening the death of a franchise. More »
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