How does Wilma have every reason to tell him to put the shoes back on? I found that to be the funniest line in the whole thing. Basically an acknowledgement that he needs to put the shoes back on to get the plot rolling again.

My favorite part of this episode is probably Apu berating Skinner for his shitty Jurassic Park knockoff. The fact that it makes Apu so indignant it takes a couple transitions to makes it through his entire screed is fantastic.

Greetings, fellow geodologists!

This man is impossible. My course is clear. This means war!

Gentlemen, we are not getting anywhere!

I shouldn't have implied Vigo didn't care about about the project or his characters. I still think, however, that he wasn't that invested in the actual story. While I'm no great expert on his life and career, it's my understanding that he was much more excited to show things like everyday working life on a ship than…

The comparison is mostly due to the broad underlying story beats in the two films (a young couple shattered then comes back together) that ensures some similarities in the themes they cover. I didn't and wouldn't have expect L'Atlante to be done similarly Sunrise, but I brought it up because I think Murnau's approach…

So I recently just saw this (along with the rest of the Jean Vigo collection) after having seen it mentioned several times as one of the best films ever. I have to say I came away very underwhelmed with the film itself and Jean Vigo as a director.

Seriously, I'd take the hobo waaaaaay before that fucking clown.

Another odd thing about "Five Characters In Search Of An Exit" is that, due to the scale at which he appears, it's actually a toy Rod Serling giving us the introduction.

I love the reveal the Moe spends his spare time reading to sick children and people at the homeless shelter.

The Midnight Sun is fantastic. I too love how absolutely scalding it feels during the episode. So often in film or tv characters fail act like they're really living through some overbearing weather; it's refreshing to see something in which you actually believe it.

That space ant overlord graphic might be my favorite thing in this episode. My thought is that the people behind Brockman's newscast are so inured to his bullshit that they had it ready to go or were able to whip one up in a matter of seconds. Either way, the implication that this isn't surprising to the people who…

Yeah, I really like that scene with the kids quietly picking away at the cake. For all the talk the parents do about wanting to protect their children, the kids are pretty much ignored throughout. That to me is the bleakest aspect of the episode that these people are all so craven and scared that they can't even be…

Glad to hear the reviews are coming back soon! Also an availability note, hulu seems to have the entire series including the hourlong fourth season up for free right now.

As great as this episode is, I think my favorite Swartzwelder penned satire of gun culture is The Cartridge Family in season 9.I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun!

To be fair to Homer, Isaac Newton was pretty big asshole and I'm certain would have made for a pretty awful guardian angel.

Oh Don del Grande, cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic.

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S-M-R-T.
I mean S-M-A-R-T