How come no one talks about the first time it looked like a kid was going to die, but didn't? The drugged out woman's son reaching for the car bomb and being stopped just in time looked like it was telegraphed one way, then went another.

The pre-airing clips can be interpreted however you want, though. Based on one of them, I expected Cole to suffer something horrible. Last night seeing it in context of the show, I was wrong.

Plus if your dad is a figure of authority, there may be an inclination to rebel (see teenage Bobby and Major Briggs).

I started reading that last night (it was the first review posted online). A couple of paragraphs in I was like, "This is tedious." Scrolled up and saw the byline. "Oh, the guy who ruined AV Club." Made mental note to skip vox.com.

I had hoped Becky was Gordon Cole's kid.

Boyle's best performance as Donna happens in the bar when Maddy is killed. The joy of young love morphing into her sadness (along with other patrons) for reasons they have no idea of is incredible.

I thought she was just going to be a musician playing over the credits, too. One, it would be a callback to the original series, and two, she just put out an album last year.

I can't believe it took Emily this long to come to that conclusion.

It's the head of the Experiment/mother who killed the lovers in episode one and gave birth to BOB in episode eight.

I laughed really hard at his "What the hell?!" when Tammy showed him the photograph of the Experiment when he was re-introduced to the series. Cole has the best line readings.

I also thought that for all the amazing sound design in this episode, the piano didn't sound like it was actually part of the ambient environment, it sounded like a recording placed on top of the scene.

I didn't think it was. It didn't really look like him (and he acted in "Mullholland Drive", so it's not like Lynch is adverse to putting him on screen), but there's no credited piano player, and the song is credited as "Composed and performed by Angelo Badalamenti", so people are running with the idea it's him.

Homeless person. It's a woman in "Mullholland Drive".

No way, the TMNT Saturday morning cartoons and toys were really popular in the 1980s, to the point where the 1990 movie seemed like it came out long after TMNT's popularity peaked (and I say this as someone who read the comics before the cartoon series started and saw the film in theatres opening weekend).

Hint: "Iron Giant" was released by Warner Bros, this film is released by Warner Bros.

If you had a ton of spelling mistakes, I would've assumed your response was a cut and paste of a random Rabin article.

I recently learned John Zorn is on Joe Piscopo's "Honeymooners Rap". I did a double take on that one.

I'm legit surprised that it would've sold that many CD copies. I would've assumed it was late-period LP / height of cassettes release.

You could try Tomahawk, which features members of FNM, Helmet and The Jesus Lizard.

Really, no one posted this?