Actually (again, this is according to Steve Manfred over at gallifreybase.com) Gaiman lost what there was of the original, Victorian-Clara-and-children draft when he left his laptop behind on an airplane and never got it back. Shortly after that, Moffatt informed him that he'd actually have to use modern-day children,…

Here's the link to it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

When 9 8 7? Wait, that's not right.

The comedy lies in the fact that the castle is actually not at all comical. It's a highly-advanced form of future comedy which our 21st century minds can't comprehend any more than a terrier can make sense of Who's The Boss.

Over on gallifreybase.com, Steve Manfred, who is apparently the person who helps Neil Gaiman make sense of 50 years of Who mythology while he's writing, and who has read all the drafts, tells us that the story was meant to have Clara from the beginning - although, interestingly, it was originally going to be Victorian…

I'm pretty sure I'm actually disappointed by this. Three seasons of one of the best comedies ever and a half season of complete mediocrity still makes for an extremely good show overall. Add a second season of complete mediocrity, and you're approaching Simpsons levels of destroying a once-proud legacy.

That reminds me of the time I banged Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom.

The NRA

This isn't the film I've loved longest, since it's not even out yet, but for some reason tonight I was thinking of old avclub memes and, well, I came across this film poster.

A lot of people do, but I'm not one of them. Hell, one of my favourite characters in the show is Holly, and she wasn't even introduced until the fourth season. For me, the real drop-off in quality is the sixth season.

@silkolay:disqus
Thank-you! I wouldn't normally even bother to ask, but this meme is unusually opaque if you've never watched or even read about the show, and I've been seeing it pop up everywhere.

Apart from the general shittiness of the episode, did anyone else find it really distracting how much Evil Jeff sounded like Will Arnett?

The only decent one was Herstory of Dance. After that, it's only a matter of which episodes were the worst.

Now that it's been used somewhere where I know a lot of people will see this, can someone please explain to me the origin and significance of this meme?

That's slack that the actual season one didn't need in any way whatsoever.

Oh man, this is so hard. Let's see:

By "weird", I assume you mean "entirely in character".

It figures that the venue would welsh on letting him see the show after he'd paid for a ticket.

Well of course they'll know. The review  always goes up on Thursday night.

Nick realizes that Gatsby's treasure wasn't gold, it was knowledge. Knowledge was his treasure.