Aren't most of the supporting characters in Duckburg dogs though?

Oh hush with your reasonableness!

Yeah now I'm suddenly having trouble coming up with offenders of this heinous crime, but outside of those you mentioned there's a Wuthering
Heights adaptation where Helena Bonham Carter plays mother and
daughter.

@avclub-efb3d8be0319721ef751da0b05d9f6a5:disqus also known as van Houten syndrome

Ok, some serious suggestions:

Nemo propheta in patria

This would have been a great series finale (in the American sense of the word)*. Honestly, I kind of regret watching the Christmas special and not calling it quits when the show gave this opportunity to go out on a high note. I just don't see how it can go anywhere but downhill (well, even moreso) from here.

The Paul Schafer reveal actually sounded a lot funnier when I skimmed this review before watching the episode. I thought it would come completely out of left field, but as he had been heavily featured in the episode already it just wasn't as funny to me…

I've read they've been tossing around the idea of a post-mother-reveal-anthology-season, where Ted tells the kids stories from his youth out of chronology. Basically: "And here's a bunch of other stuff that happened…" 

Are there really movie goers who complain about this stuff though? It seems like it's mostly paranoid executives who are behind the edits.

Indeed he did and I exaggerated in my previous post. Still it didn't ring quite true to me, like it seemed a bit too modern. But I'm no historian.

Did anyone else get the sense that Branson was written a bit anachronistically for the sake of  likeability? Really in this kind of situation, wouldn't he have left the baby in the care of the grandparents or Matthew and Mary, at least until he got remarried? But instead he's all like, gonna rent a flat and change…

OT: Has the guy playing Thomas had plastic surgery or something? There's a …Nicole Kidman-ness to his face that I don't remember from season 1.

I like it, but how am I to interpret the little man (cheerfully) preparing to dive headfirst into the floor?

I guess I don't think the third category, "If you're bored", is as relevant for books or video games (I feel like there are more kinds of media, what am I forgetting? EDIT: Music! Right). I'm reluctant to read a book or play a video game that's just barley decent, but for some reason (I guess because it doesn't take…

My local paper used to have that exact same grading system in their tv-section (though it was something like, loosley translated: "Classic", "Worth watching", "In case of emergency only" and "Warning").

Lady Sybil always seemed miscast to me… It's clear from what the other characters are saying that Mary is supposed to be the beauty of the family, and Sybil is more like the cute, spunky little sister. But the actress is a total smoldering babe with a sexy smoker's voice.

The way they're just sort of standing around shrugging in the far side of the room was so weird! If truly nothing could be done to help Sybil they could at least have made the family leave to spare them the sight of her gruesome convulsions.

@avclub-f08b7ac8aa30a2a9ab34394e200e1a71:disqus Ugh, who came up with that branching tree-idea? Yes, it makes it VERY clear exactly who's replying to whom… but at the expense of everything else.

Hm, the Amy's diary parts seem like they would be hard to translate to film?