Wait, what? How was sentence diagramming going to teach you math?

Less of the '"kind of", more of the "exactly", as in "SHIELD's gotten a lot better but still feels it needs to beat parallels from past to present into its audience's brains with a large mallet just in case".

Yes, because I don't know about you, but careful consideration of physical plausibility is always high on my list of prerequisites for giant monster movies.

*someone* pays for all those HD cameras and spiffy lighting rigs. they don't get 'em from George Lucas' garbage.

Peak in the mid-2000s?! godamn whippersnapper. The peak very slightly involved the original, Mark Lamarr Buzzcocks, somewhat more involved the classic Deayton/Merton/Hislop HIGNFY, but *mainly* involved the classic lineup of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. And if you disagree, you can go join your friends in Al Qaeda.

The comedy panel game show is, for audience purposes, a comedy format. No-one has *ever* watched one because they wanted to know who would win. They're not aiming for the 'game show audience'.

True, if you're going to call the scene on anything, that would be it, for me. You'd think someone in Koenig's position should be erring on the side of "NEWP YOU'RE A BAD GUY", not "well, half your replies were highly suspicious, but that last part sounded good, so here, join us!"

Yeah, that's what I meant by Koenig making a bad choice of 'decider' question.

I thought it was a possibility too, but the episode wouldn't have played out exactly the same; all the others were still on the base at that point, and it'd have been pretty hard for Ward to hide what had just happened, so either he'd have had to pull something terribly clever or it'd be a(nother) 'intramural' fight…

So, what you're saying is it would make a primetime action/drama/comedy more fun to needlessly drag out the 'tension' of a very predictable scene, in the style of a bad horror movie?

Uh, I thought Ward's detector test was explained pretty well. He established/discovered during the baseline questions that he was somewhat throwing the machine off by being injured and in pain, and started manipulating that by stabbing himself in the finger with a pin. So his responses were suspicious, but so 'noisy'…

"I assumed immediately that Holly and Slater were throwing Archer under
the bus, and that Malory decided to tell the truth to Lana for a
surprising moment of humanity. But I could be entirely wrong. The ambiguity is there."

"In this episode we have numerous people being brutally murdered, but the
rape of a woman is declared the most shocking and disturbing scene in
the show yet."

I'm not really someone who follows the 'behind the scenes' stuff in music, but I'm fairly sure there's zillions of them - cases where 'known' musicians have played just a single small piece on other people's albums, with or without credit.

I'm *totally* with Aqua Quartz.

man, patton oswalt's delivery of the 'lanyards' line just killed me.

In context, I think it's pretty accurate. He wasn't saying in terms of significance or quality or something, but the context of the kids buying the records at the time. hell, I was one of those kids, and yeah, that's kinda how it felt.

The bottom of the story kinda explains it: he got incredibly lucky by misunderstanding how the 'used letters' board works. So he thought of things with lots of Bs in them, and the answer just happened to have a ton of Bs in it. Makes sense - incredibly lucky, but as you say, incredibly lucky is gonna happen over that…

SPOILER ALERT

It's OK. If you watch either show and you're *not* over 65, it's a statistical certainty that you smoke so much pot that, between now and April 1, you'll have forgotten.