Australian non-Madonna fan here, and even *I* knew it was a reference to that fall! Goodness me.

Oh god, forever. Even today my main response to any arachnid ever is fuelled by the intense fear that, like the spiders in Arachnophobia, they'll mysteriously be super poisonous super arachnids.

For at least 5 years after I stumbled upon Arachnophobia playing on late night tv as a child, I couldn't go to the toilet or take a shower without extensively checking every nook and cranny for a poisonous spider waiting to bite & kill me. Even once I'd assured myself no danger was imminent, I was still tense and…

From Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as it was still airing every week: "Dawn's in trouble. Must be Tuesday."

If Kathy Bates does not, at SOME point in this season, hobble somebody, I will be super displeased.

Apparently Cordelia's health care covers her for the WORST HOSPITAL EVER. I half expected Fiona to run into Sister Jude and have some kind of "Altered States" show down or something.

An insanely high pain threshold is apparently Myrtle's power.

the real question here is if she eats them, does she absorb their powers? 'cause in that case she's only a few good meals away from being the new supreme.