seriously, just close your office door or make a cardboard fort and enjoy this.

Charybdis or Scylla? There is no other choice.

5 minutes of frustrated grunting followed by an hour of crying?

Although I have plenty of issues with Tolkein’s weird writing style and his priorities, if anything, LOTR makes a lot more sense when you read it as an adult. There are a lot of smaller bits of storytelling that I never picked up on when I read them in the 8th grade.

I was watching the news this morning when the news-reader said, “He’s in a black sedan,” and showed the picture. I turned to my wife and said, “Why can’t they say it’s a black 1999-2000 Hyundai Elantra?”

LOVED the touch by the very end, when the car passes a black stallion.

This is where John discovers the truth about Isildur and the One Ring.

Good point. He’ll be resurrected, if for no other reason than he’ll some day be the lone member of the Swiss Comedy Hall of Fame.

Need a six-word story:

The real prestige is in Jalopnik Brown

allegedly fell in love with a Female Other,

I kind of knew it as soon as he sent Davos away. That was Stannis sending his conscience away so he couldn’t stop him.

Tread lightly, she is near

And AWD, since we’re talking Outback-type stuff.

And then they fight corrupt oil barons and Mexican gangsters.

Great. Now I’m going to hear the haunting Torgo Theme whenever Theon’s onscreen.

How could you fail to mention the best visual pun of the episode?

As soon as I read “New York City” I thought of Ocean Parkway. No one really does 25 anyway, except for permit-wielding me.