The 2008 version of the Thanksgiving box office weekend was a wild ride.

Previously on the Amazing Race, four teams started the leg and four teams finished. None were eliminated. Kill us now.

Unlike some years past, this Thanksgiving weekend serves up at least one box office winner instead of the usual leftovers.

This week: Artwork inspires nudity and Axl delivers. Also: a divorce that surprised no one and a marriage that surprised everyone. We hope you enjoy our review of the last seven days in popular culture, presented in a pleasing quiz format.

Umbrella Academy is back. This is great news for modern society.

This week: Mickey Rourke lays the smack down, Kate Beckinsale gets locked up and Renee Zellweger falls over things.

The hypercharged November box office has seen three straight weekends where the number one film at the box office earned more than the previous week's, and earned over $60 million.

This week: Freaks and Geeks breaks the bank, 24 finally resurrects from the dead and, well, so does George Carlin.

In my mind, there's no greatest living actor debate. It's Sean Penn. Nicholson and De Niro are mired in self-parody, while Pacino hasn't picked a decent project in a decade.

Here's Part Two of Monday morning quarterback, where we discuss Bolt and our most anticipated movies of the rest of 2008.

It just wouldn't be Thanksgiving without the Peanuts. From the giant Snoopy blimp that floats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to specially prepared Beagle dinners, the Charles Schultz creations all hold a special place in our hearts. You've watched the show a hundred times, but how well do you know A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?

The under-appreciated WKRP in Cincinnati provided audiences with one of its signature moments in Thanksgiving-themed episode. Turkeys Away has gained cult status among fans, and its singular catch-phrase has seeped into pop culture lore. How well do you know Turkeys Away?

From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex!

Believe it or not, I never even heard of Twilight until last summer.

With Twilight in theaters, it's only natural that Book vs. Movie should return. Even better, though, we have dueling Book vs Movie columns this time around.

We continue our all Twilight all the time theme of the day as we discuss the box office results from the weekend. Today we bring you part one, and tomorrow's edition will include Bolt's performance.

What better way to prepare for Turkey Day then by taking a quiz about one of Hollywood's best Thanksgiving-themed comedies? It's Planes, Trains and Automobiles, which paired up Steve Martin and John Candy as two men who just can't catch a break when using any method of transportation. So before your feast, take this quiz. How well do you know Planes, Trains and Automobiles?

Here's the news we've all been waiting for. Twilight, the new film aimed at teen girls, opened to a very loud $70.5 million, from Summit Entertainment, the distributor no one has heard of.

The difference between the haves and the have-nots this season is remarkable.

Up in the Air

The Hero of Color City

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Jonah Hex

The Book of Eli

Arrested Development

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

The Bourne Legacy

Best Man-A-Thon

Legions of teenage girls flocked to theaters for the adaptation of the love story with vampires, Twilight.

Bolt is a wonderful family film and a delight for all ages.

We begin the show at the Nobag camp after Tribal Council. Randy tells us that he's shocked that Charlie was voted out.

The Quickfire Challenge opens with Padma telling the 15 remaining chefs that they're going to do their own version of a New York classic.

Air #4 hits this week. BOP's staff will be busy for the next 20 minutes.

Scott Lumley believes horror films generally suck, and musicals tend to be even worse, but he thinks Sweeney Todd is actually a great horror musical. Go figure.

Bruce Campbell fans can live vicariously through Joel West.

A scorching November box office campaign should continue thanks to two high profile titles.

Fur hags? Check. Celebrity death hoaxes? Of course. More bad news from the Aniston Romance File? Why not. Dancing With the Stars goes topless? Yup (sort of). The last seven days in pop culture were nothing if not entertaining. We hope you were paying attention.

When a ginormous asteroid is coming straight for Earth and there's only 18 days until all life on our planet ends, what do you do? Well, if you're Michael Bay you hire a team of oil drillers, shoot them into space and get them to drill a relatively small hole in its surface and blow it up, all served with great lashings of cheese. How well do you know... Armageddon?

Slumdog Millionaire is a rousing and beautiful masterpiece, a heartfelt story of survival and endurance, brotherhood and love.

This week: Beyoncé follows up Dreamgirls with another musical, the Wayans brothers pen another disaster and J.J. Abrams puts his alleged $150 million budget to good use.

Rarely has it been as much fun to see a character squirm as it was in Meet the Parents. Ben Stiller gave his signature performance as Greg Fokker, a man completely undone by the harsh glare of his father-in-law to-be. You may be planning an operation in Ko Sumi for the day after the wedding, but how well do you know Meet the Parents?

The Most Annoying Man in the World

Suicide Squad

X-Men: First Class

War Monkeys

Ironbow: The Legend of William Tell

Captain America: The First Avenger

I Love You, Man

The Soloist

Love on a Bet

Nutty Professor 3

The Host

The Lucky One

Control-Alt-Delete

This week: A janitorial robot looks to score with a chick bot, Robert Downey Jr. goes prima donna and Werner Herzog films some cold things.

Quantum of Solace, the 22nd James Bond movie, did $67.5 million in its opening weekend.

Long before Alan Ball boarded the vampire bandwagon with True Blood and amazed audiences with his ambitious Six Feet Under, the screenwriter took Hollywood by storm in penning 1999's American Beauty, a film that earned over $130 million Stateside and five Oscar wins, including Best Picture. The Academy may have loved it, but how well do you know it?

Monster A Go-Go this week. Enough said.

Quantum of Solace bears the burden of having to live up to its refreshing predecessor, and while this new movie ranks high in the action and energy departments, it loses out in story, character and depth.

We'll give you two actors, you have to pick the film in which they both appeared. If you're thinking that it probably sounds easier than it will prove to be, you're right. How well do you know People Working Together?

With last year's writers strike affecting this year's pre-holiday movie choices, some believed we were in for a slower November than usual, especially prior to Thanksgiving.

We're back in Delhi, India once again, and to start off this leg of the race, Nick & Starr are instructed to fly to Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The Tempest

The Grackle

Pet Robots

The Summoner

Capitalism: A Love Story

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Measle and the Wrathmonk

Motorcade

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa has everything a little kid could ask for in a movie - talking animals, bright colors, action & adventure, caricatured humans and slapstick comedy.

I may as well begin this by answering the number one question that's bound to be on your mind at this very moment. Is Quantum of Solace better than Casino Royale? No. It is not.

The 22nd title in a movie franchise that dates back to 1962 will have the series' largest opening weekend by a long shot.

Enjoy a double bill of BOP's examination of interesting films available on DVD.

In news that pleases BOP's webmasters oh so much, Jason Lee has agreed to recap our favorite reality program (sorry, Survivor) this season.

It's a big weekend at the box office, as all studios move aside for the 23rd edition of James Bond.

We begin this episode in an unusual place, Kota camp after Tribal.

The 1992 comedy, Sister Act, had all of the ingredients to make a smash, summer box-office hit: a great script, an unbelievably talented cast and an ingenious plot that would have made any aspiring screenwriter gnash his/her teeth in jealousy, wondering to themselves, "Now, why didn't I think of that?!?!" Sister Act still stands to this day as one of the most enduringly funny films in recent memory . . . but how well do YOU know Sister Act?

This week: The Greatest Singer of All Time, The Most Popular Song Ever Downloaded, and the Lamest Movie Remake Ever. Plus: Who went from Hooters to Hollywood Fame? The last week in pop culture was the hot asphalt that smoothed over the potholes in our lives. We hope you were paying attention.

This week: Michael Rapaport develops some superhuman abilities, Steve Martin stars in yet another disappointing release and Star Wars' biggest fans show off their geeky selves.

Fables is a magnificent, ambitious, sprawling tale populated by fairy tale characters who live in our real world.

DreamWorks Animation seized an opportunity to add another chapter to a previous hit.

The Bond franchise was re-booted in 2006 with Daniel Craig playing a brash, arrogant version of Bond who is new to the service and doesn't realize how much he has to learn about life, love and misogyny. Despite initial fan furor over playing with Bond mythology and the casting of a blond Bond, the result became Bond's greatest success yet, critically and commercially. How well do you know: Casino Royale?

This week: Tony Sopranos lives on, Firefly goes high-def and the Star Wars universe keeps expanding.

Role Models suggests a new breed of comedy is upon us - one that's lewd, crude and sexual, but also intelligent, heartfelt and direct.

Let's address the elephant in the living room. Ocean's Twelve was...regrettable. One Topher Grace cameo aside, the movie was a disaster, putting the franchise on shaky ground. Fortunately, Ocean's Thirteen more than redeemed its predecessor by proving itself to be a sleek, worthy successor to the brilliant Ocean's Eleven. It was one of the best movies of 2007. How Well Do You Know It?

Big ups to the people at TiVo customer service this week.

The practice of showing films at midnight dates back to the 1930s, and reserving that timeslot for B-movies (at best) dates back almost that far

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa opens big, while Role Models is a pleasant surprise. Find out what the staff thinks about the box office news of the week.

The Bond producers finally agreed with Roger Moore that he was too old to continue beating up men half his age and seducing women who were two generations removed, and decided to go in a grittier, more intense direction by picking Timothy Dalton to play Bond. Unfortunately they forgot about having interesting villains and more than one Bond girl. How Well Do You Know... The Living Daylights.

Previously on the Amazing Race, the impossible task of ironing(?) shocked the frat boys, the allure of flirting snared Starr and Dallas, and the constant strain of marriage destroyed Ken & Tina anew.

After what was a crazy Halloween weekend with highs and lows of the most ridiculous kind, the box office bounced back sharply as it appears many moviegoers took last weekend off.

Captain America: The First Avenger

By virtue of being both a sequel to a hit animated film and the best family option in months, a second Madagascar film is a big hit for DreamWorks Animation, opening to $17.5 million on Friday.

Previously on Survivor, Sugar screwed Ace - and not in the way he expected.

At long last, we've escaped the evil clutches of October and have moved full on into November, generally a month full of promise.

This week: Celebs weigh in on the election, wear goofy Halloween costumes, insult millions of Hindus and make goofy commercials. The last week in pop culture ran the gamut from silly to sublime. We hope you were paying attention.

Mother and Child

Dali

Once Fallen

13

Gulliver's Travels

The Other Side of Innocence

A Little Help

Virgin on Bourbon Street

Carjacked

Making Jack Falcone

Die Bad

The Expendables

Kerosene Cowboys

A Single Man

Yes, we're on about Watchmen again. We won't stop until 100% of you own it.

This week: Danny Boyle makes millions, Kate Winslet goes Nazi and Zac Efron distances himself from all that High School Musical business.

Cinematic cousin to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and The American President, Ivan Reitman's Dave tells the tale of a good-hearted Everyman swept into the Oval Office. The Oscar-nominated screenplay gets you to cheer for an average Joe who makes good on his opportunity to do good. You may have a thing for "patriotic" secretaries, but how well do you know Dave?

Kevin Smith is obsessed with sex, masturbation, genitals and cussing.

This week: Futurama releases another movie, Jack Black kicks some Kung Fu butt and William Hurt kisses a dude.

Forget Obama vs. McCain! The real excitement is in elementary school, where the Linus campaign is trying to overcome that regrettable pro-Great Pumpkin stance. This student body president campaign is more serious than anything in Tracy Flick's world. You might know your Joe Cool from your Red Baron, but how well do you know You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown?

From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex!

We wrap up our discussion of summer box office with a discussion of the many, many, many August releases.

Our staff discusses the deep black hole that will forever be known as Halloween Friday 2008. It was not a pretty day for box office, and it dragged the whole weekend down to a large degree.

There are really only two questions about Recount. Who won the election and why didn't this get a theatrical release?

Previously on the Amazing Race, a team lost by what seemed like three weeks. Suffice it to say that the drama was...muted.

Studios and theater owners must have had a huge black mark circled around this weekend, or maybe a poison symbol.

Quantum of Solace

The Adventures of Tintin

Season of the Witch

The Boondock Saints II: All Saint's Day

A perfect storm of box office negatives led to a truly nightmarish day at the movies for new releases as well as the most famous of last weekend's titles.