That door
It's a little sad that Peter Jackson built a special door to make himself seem less fat.

Okay, that makes sense.

Venture Bros. special?
I'm puzzled by the description of the VB special as a 15 minute mockumentary. Wasn't it previously billed as a 60-to-90 minute special?

I generally prefer to call it the Innsmouth Look.

Mike and Molly
I hate this show so much, and I think part of the reason is that almost everyone on it talks with this terrible nasal Fran Drescher whine for some reason. It's also not funny, and Reno Wilson's eyes are really far apart.

What's hilarious to me is people who complain about the lack of or the difficulty of the gun elements in Mirror's Edge. With the exception of the absolute final section, it's really not that difficult to do the game without ever firing a gun. The hand to hand combat could've been explained a lot better, but I can't…

Children's birthday parties, basically. It's a major niche industry that props up a lot of apparently doomed businesses. For instance, do you really think enough people are crazy for minigolf to support those places? (I am, but that's me.)

Ellison's demeanor
I think Ellison's reputation as an asshole is exaggerated because he refuses to suffer idiots, to a fault (if that can be considered a fault); my impression of him from watching tons of interviews is that he's a nice guy if you're absolutely straight with him. He really doesn't want to be an…

Miller: And here I was thinking I was the only person who loved the Lucifer comic series. It's pretty much a Sandman spin-off if I remember correctly, although I read Lucifer before Sandman and I think it stands on its own perfectly well (I think it only overlaps maybe once or twice). The basic idea of Lucifer getting…

Actually
The mayor is already a character in the Broadway show, although he may be getting a rewrite for the movie or something. His wife, however, is entirely new.

I honestly think this problem is one that only developed partway through the second season (or thereabouts) and has continued ever since. Maybe this is just optimistic remembrances of the first season or two, but I think the characters were much better written and much less stereotypical back then, especially Leonard.

Sky Captain definitely was released at a bad time given its various elements, but I think its biggest failing was The Transporter Mistake: you take a character that has a particular specialty that would make for really good setpieces and action (being a professional wheelman in The Transporter, or a pulpy fighter…

Did the missus also drag you to Zoolander?

Motherfuck Cake Boss
Seriously, fuck it to death. The main thing Ace of Cakes had going for it was the fact that it was just a nice, calm show about people doing what they (presumably) love without yelling at each other. I tried watching Cake Boss once and the constant yelling and bickering - about cakes, of all…

GWAR is actually pretty good, but their actually good songs are sporadic. Off the top of my head, A Short History of the End of the World, Immortal Corruptor, and The Private Pain of Techno Destructo are all excellent, though.

Santos, I may be totally misremembering here, but I think kid-friendly is a big reason Nintendo isn't as concerned about online as it otherwise might be and a big part of why it does what it does (basically, makes it difficult to contact other people online and basically impossible to interact with them beyond purely…

A note about Nintendo
Or, more specifically, a note about Nintendo and online gaming. In general, Nintendo simply doesn't understand it, or rather they choose not to understand it and start from scratch every time, ignoring the way basically everyone else in the entire world has long agreed to handle online gaming,…

That Pooh movie
Woah, I had no idea about that Winnie the Pooh movie. I've been a sucker for Pooh ever since I read the original stories when I was a kid, and it sort of bummed me out when I saw that horrible, smarmy CGI shit they were peddling to today's kids. This looks like a decent return to form, which frankly is…

As an election junky, I can say that Chuck Todd - for a while - was a breath of fresh air, because he'd come on and basically do a FiveThirtyEight-style breakdown, without talking about ephemeral bullshit like "momentum" and "trends" in an election as if they meant something or affected the outcome.

Netflix's own interface for finding movies blows ass, because for whatever reason there's a huge swath of its own content that will never show up unless you do really specific searches for the title. Their genre listings are miserably bad, especially on third-party devices like the Wii or 360, and lots of stuff is…