Original Harmony Salad

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is a blast from start to finish with the pairing of Paul Reubens and director Tim Burton a match made in Toys 'R' Us. Reubens wrote the screenplay with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol. Danny Elfman channels Raymond Scott’s percolating rhythms and Victor J. Kemper (Dog Day Afternoon) provided the cotton-candy cinematography.

Sufjan Stevens - "Fourth of July (Version 4)" (Official Lyric Video)

To answer all these questions and more, step inside the pitch meeting that led to Supergirl. It’s super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Songs featured: Jackson - "Jackson" (Johnny Cash) - *this should be TN not MS Boston - "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" (Dropkick Murphys) Houston - "Houston" (Gatlin Brothers) Austin - "Texas In My Soul" (Willie Nelson) Dallas - "Dallas" (Alan Jackson) Ft. Worth - "Does Ft. Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?" (George Strait) Chicago - "Chicago" (Frank Sinatra) San Diego - "San Diego" (Charlie Walker) Cleveland - "Cleveland Rocks" (Ian Hunter) Portland - "Dream of the 90s" (Portlandia) Compton - "Straight Outta Compton" (Hank Williams/There I Ruined It) Beverly Hills - "Beverly Hills" (Weezer) Miami - "Miami" (Will Smith) D.C. - "Washington, D.C." (The Magnetic Fields) Nashville - "Down on Music Row" (Dolly Parton) Denver - "I Really Like Girls" (Hank Williams, Jr) Wichita - "Wichita Lineman" (Glen Campbell) Memphis - "Walking in Memphis" (Marc Cohn) Tulsa - "Take Me Back to Tulsa" (Asleep at the Wheel) San Francisco - "San Francisco" (Scott McKenzie) Seattle - "Hello Seattle" (Owl City) Philadelphia - "Streets of Philadelphia" (Bruce Springsteen) Raleigh - "Wagon Wheel" (Darius Rucker) Las Vegas - "Viva Las Vegas" (Elvis Presley) St. Louis - "St. Louis Blues" (Natalie Cole) San Antonio - "San Antonio Rose" (Bob Wills) San Jose - "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" (Dionne Warwick) San Bernardino - "Route 66" (Nat King Cole) Detroit - "Detroit vs Everybody" (Eminem) Omaha - "Omaha" (Counting Crows) Baton Rouge - "Me and Bobby McGee" (Janis Joplin) Los Angeles - "Los Angeles" (Blink-182) El Paso - "El Paso" (Marty Robbins) Tucson - "Get Back" (The Beatles) New Orleans - "New Orleans" (Louis Armstrong) Kansas City - "Kansas City" (Wilbert Harrison) Amarillo - "Amarillo By Morning" (George Strait) Baltimore - "Hungry Heart" (Bruce Springsteen) Oklahoma City - "Route 66" (Chuck Berry) Atlanta - "Living in America" (James Brown) Jacksonville - "Jacksonville Skyline" (Ryan Adams) - *this should be NC not FL Phoenix - "Rock n' Me" (Steve Miller Band) Columbus - "Swag Like Ohio" (Trippie Redd) Bakersfield - "Streets of Bakersfield" (Buck Owens/Dwight Yoakam) Boise - "What's Your Name" (Lynyrd Skynyrd) Santa Fe - "Santa Fe" (RENT) Little Rock - "Little Rock" (Reba McEntire) Pittsburgh - "Six Days on the Road (Dave Dudley) Cheyenne - "I Can Still Make Cheyenne" (George Strait) Minneapolis - "Escapade" (Janet Jackson) New York - "New York, New York" (Frank Sinatra) Albuquerque - "Albuquerque" (Weird Al Yankovic)

Undergound-comics legend Daniel Clowes (EIGHTBALL, GHOST WORLD) sits down with his friend Ari Aster to discuss the movies that shaped his brilliantly cracked sensibility in this episode of the Criterion Channel original series Adventures in Moviegoing.

Reece Shearsmith joins us for a conversation about his lifelong relationship with horror cinema, exploring how comedy and horror intersect as genres, the cult legacy of The League of Gentlemen, the acclaimed anthology series Inside No. 9, and his love of the anthology film format.