»Hey, if I were a gigolo, how much do you think I could charge a night?«

»Kramer's coughing message to the police is a parody of Lassie's saving the day by warning of danger or trouble.«

Cinematch has, in fact, become a video-store roboclerk: its suggestions now drive a surprising 60 percent of Netflix’s rentals. It also often steers a customer’s attention away from big-grossing hits toward smaller, independent movies. Traditional video stores depend on hits; just-out-of-the-theaters blockbusters account for 80 percent of what they rent. At Netflix, by contrast, 70 percent of what it sends out is from the backlist — older movies or small, independent ones.

I'm like a sexual camel!